chappell09

oh my gosh! I just checked for kicks (figuring no one with scan dates of 27 May have been reviewed yet) and the affadavit of support fee says "N/A"!!!!
OH GOSH! I'm so excited and calling RIGHT NOW!

Congrats! I like the change in pic too!

Congrats! I like the change in pic too!

YAY!! CALL! CALL! CALL!!

Congrats to all of the long awaited interviews assigned today!! and of course to everyone else that has received good news in the past few days.
It seems like NVC is rotating on batches of things. Last week there were a bunch of case completes all at the same time. Then nothing much happened until today a bunch of interviews were assigned. Maybe the same has happened for invoices and forms being available, but I haven't been paying as much attention to those.
So instead of working on everything simultaneously, maybe they are going back and forth between working on all of the different NVC stages? One of their strategies to deal with the back log?

I've tried Google Voice multiple times, even for an entire day one time (100s of attempts) and could never get through to NVC. It always just hung up and said it was busy. I wish it would work because it would be free!
But every time I switched over to Skype, within 20-40 attempts I always got through.
Maybe it has to do with internet speed (it's not so good where I live)? not sure, but gmail unfortunately doesn't work for me either.
Good luck!

Just caught up on all of the June posts, it's amazing how much can happen since I read last on Saturday!
Congratulations to all of the case completes, interviews, and visa approvals!!
I must say that this week's thread is 100 times more uplifting then what seemed like the abyss of May! It seems like the overtime seems to be having an effect on the processing of documents, which is a huge beacon of hope, even though I know I still have a week or 2 until (fingers crossed) case complete.
Good luck to all those waiting at all stages, and hopefully they unblock the poor people waiting for IV fees.

For all those looking for flights (now or for the future), I find the "google flights" has really good fares... the best I've found, at least for us from the Caribbean to the US west coast. At the top of your search results, it will even give you suggestions on how to get a cheaper flight (i.e. leave a day later or leave from another airport nearby). It also has a really awesome calendar that has a graph at the bottom showing which days have the lowest fares for the selected route, which is good for us because we won't have to leave on any specific day after we get the visa, just which ever day has the cheapest flight!
You can find it at https://www.google.com/flights/
Enjoy! I hope it helps someone find a cheap flight!

For all those looking for flights (now or for the future), I find the "google flights" has really good fares... the best I've found, at least for us from the Caribbean to the US west coast. At the top of your search results, it will even give you suggestions on how to get a cheaper flight (i.e. leave a day later or leave from another airport nearby). It also has a really awesome calendar that has a graph at the bottom showing which days have the lowest fares for the selected route, which is good for us because we won't have to leave on any specific day after we get the visa, just which ever day has the cheapest flight!
You can find it at https://www.google.com/flights/
Enjoy! I hope it helps someone find a cheap flight!

For all those looking for flights (now or for the future), I find the "google flights" has really good fares... the best I've found, at least for us from the Caribbean to the US west coast. At the top of your search results, it will even give you suggestions on how to get a cheaper flight (i.e. leave a day later or leave from another airport nearby). It also has a really awesome calendar that has a graph at the bottom showing which days have the lowest fares for the selected route, which is good for us because we won't have to leave on any specific day after we get the visa, just which ever day has the cheapest flight!
You can find it at https://www.google.com/flights/
Enjoy! I hope it helps someone find a cheap flight!

For all those looking for flights (now or for the future), I find the "google flights" has really good fares... the best I've found, at least for us from the Caribbean to the US west coast. At the top of your search results, it will even give you suggestions on how to get a cheaper flight (i.e. leave a day later or leave from another airport nearby). It also has a really awesome calendar that has a graph at the bottom showing which days have the lowest fares for the selected route, which is good for us because we won't have to leave on any specific day after we get the visa, just which ever day has the cheapest flight!
You can find it at https://www.google.com/flights/
Enjoy! I hope it helps someone find a cheap flight!

Try not to stress out about the checklist too much (I know it's easier said than done ). Your docs are in and not much that can be done about it now. Plus NVC is so inconsistent in their checklists, that you never know what will happen. Maybe they will skip right over it. I figure I've done everything that I can and tried my best to do it properly. If mistakes are made and checklists received, then all I can do is move forward from there and continue doing my best.
yes, St. Lucia is beautiful! One of the blessings (as well as the fresh tropical fruits mango, pineapple, etc!) that I'm trying to appreciate during the (fingers crossed) few months that we have left here.
something I just read recently (although not speaking about this topic at all) helps me feel better about this whole process:
"Great and overpowering as these sacrifices may now appear, they will, when viewed in their proper perspective, be adjudged as inconsiderable, and pale into insignificance when balanced against the inestimable advantages" of being with our loved ones for a life time.
I replaced the last part out of the quotations to fit all of our situations and hope that it brings a little solace to you and all others going through this process.

Try not to stress out about the checklist too much (I know it's easier said than done ). Your docs are in and not much that can be done about it now. Plus NVC is so inconsistent in their checklists, that you never know what will happen. Maybe they will skip right over it. I figure I've done everything that I can and tried my best to do it properly. If mistakes are made and checklists received, then all I can do is move forward from there and continue doing my best.
yes, St. Lucia is beautiful! One of the blessings (as well as the fresh tropical fruits mango, pineapple, etc!) that I'm trying to appreciate during the (fingers crossed) few months that we have left here.
something I just read recently (although not speaking about this topic at all) helps me feel better about this whole process:
"Great and overpowering as these sacrifices may now appear, they will, when viewed in their proper perspective, be adjudged as inconsiderable, and pale into insignificance when balanced against the inestimable advantages" of being with our loved ones for a life time.
I replaced the last part out of the quotations to fit all of our situations and hope that it brings a little solace to you and all others going through this process.