ashleyphilly

Thank you very much. There are still too many waiting. Wish all the TSC people with NOA1's in previous months had their approvals as well.

Did the consulate ask for this?

July 1st is almost here!! We sent our application on January 31st, but our NOA1 date is February 4th - July 4th will mark our 5 months!

My fiancé has just drafted a letter to his Senator in Connecticut (Richard Blumenthal), he is a member of the subcommittee for immigration, refugees and border security. We brought up the issue of the discrepancy between TSC and CSC with some of the data on the USCIS website - so fingers crossed for something!

We're going to fax the letter over sometime this week (figured a lot of people won't be in the office as it's a national holiday on Friday, so they'll probably process it next week) and according to his website, we should have a response within 30 days.

I really hope everyone hears something this month!! :-)

What i can advise you to do us get a US education. You can apply for a loan and go for Masters like MBA. I have 6.5 years of work experience in U.S and if I didnt have an MBA from U.S, there was no way I could get a job. Recruiters want to see U.S education.

Hi,they notified me by mail!!!!!

is being two weeks that i send my RFE to the texas center!!!!How many weeks before they reply back?

I can't believe it.. we received our NOA2 yesterday 5months+3 days for TSC

Since you filed i 130 already, doing AOS in US would be considered pre conceived intent, and you might be judged for frauding your B2 visa. This is risky.

Congratsss. Come on TSC. Keep them coming

Vauwww you contacted both senators and a congressman?

Congrats. What is your timeline?

Thats why only a few if my friends and some of my family members of mine know about my situation. I started a new job too. Nobody at my job knows this as well. I will tell everybody when i have my visa. My fiancee wants me to work until i have the visa. We need the money for coming back to u.s,

My I-129F was approved by TSC on June 2, and our case was forwarded to NVC on June 6,

and I just received a letter from NVC saying that they have forwarded our case to China (dated June 19).

So after a slooooooooooooooooooow near 6 months of wait, now it's picking up speed.

Please enlighten me more,

Is background check and security check the same? or security check is another level of check?

I sounded dumb.

I agree that the CO wanted to see more affection from the couple. I also think that not spending time together before the marriage was a big factor in thus denial. If I were the OP, I would try to spend more time with her before I would file anything. The couple needs to know each other better before going to an interview.

Why could you only answer only 50 % of the questions?

change calling habit?

call in - then punch no further buttons on the phone after the first ring.

IN under 5 minutes, a spanish speaker will come on the line.

let them unwind, then say 'English please' then when they unwind again, the petitioner can ask a question. However, the CSR that answers the phone can only see what you can see online.

Yes we are signed on to our account. I just read some cases where the petitioner wasnt notified of an RFE. Even didnt receive a hard copy.

Hi everybody, my fiancee is very busy nowadays and he doesnt have much patience as to being hold on the phone for a long time. I was wondering whether I, as the beneficiary, can call USCIS and inquire if everything is OK , or whether we have any RFE pending. We are approaching our 5 month, and I just want to be pro- active. Thanks

After a scary address change email from USCIS that I didn't request, phone calls with agents, we got our NOA2 approved 7 months after mailing the application! We are beyond happy!!!!

Good luck to the few others waiting!!!

Can you go to Algeria and see him, and even try to go to the interview with him. This is the biggest evidence you can present.

Jon York... I talked to my fiance about it but he's too negative..thinking that if we get too many people involved we can affect our case or something like that. I believe that he didn't send the 2nd senator the consent for after we received a response from 1st senator stating that our case has been pulled out for review and that we would here a response within the next few days ;S ( still waiting). He is a conformist. So if I ask him to get the congressman involved he would flip out. He said he would call USCIS himself on Monday and if that doesn't work I'm going to blow up on him!lol!

Are you guys following Dec and Jan TSC threads? The ball is rolling

I called USCIS again today to try and file another expedite. For anyone who didn't read my other post, I filed a request for expedite two weeks ago and it was denied because it "didn't fit the guidelines". What really happened is that the CSR didn't enter any of my information into the system. Literally.

I've called them 4 times since then and every time I talk to someone they take me through the whole process again only to say, "Sorry but you're going to have to call back on (insert date)."

Finally I called again today and got a really nice lady. I explained the situation and that my expedite was denied because of the CSR's error. She looked up the record and goes, "Oh wow... No wonder it was denied. He literally didn't write anything in the request."

Long story short, she submitted my expedite request so hopefully that will go through and we can continue on with the process. She said that more than likely our expedite will be granted given the situation but she couldn't make any promises. I'm trying not to get my hopes up but I would really like something good to come from this... Cross your fingers!

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Oh yeah... I forgot that I also e-mailed my Congressman again yesterday. They had called on my petition a month ago but didn't have anything impressive to say other than, "Your application is pending." I e-mailed them and told them how other people who have filed at the same time are already going through the interview process while applicants at the TSC haven't even moved past NOA1. We'll see what happens...

Congratssss