Pebbles1989

Agreed!
I can just tell you what the NCVC service line told us... Kind of annoying. I wish I could see our status... It would feel much better to see at least the old one instead of nothing

Hey everybody,
Just want to share my experience since I've been reading everyone else's. So yes I've collected all my ties back to the UK such as payslips and employers letter.
I was so nervous and felt sick but Thank God Seattle had one of them airports with self machine service where you scan your passport, take a photo and fingerprints. I did that and then went to the officer. He asked me two Q's Are you here for pleasure or business? I said Pleasure and how long i'm staying, I said two weeks! He then said welcome to America and stamped my passport!!! It was that easy my God I was sick for no reason lol. By the way the self machine service is for people with returning ESTA as in not your first
time ESTA, green card holders and US citizen.
Good luck everyone.. Now I'm just going to enjoy my two weeks with my fiancé before going back to waiting and counting down the days!

first of all, you are not in the California Serivce Center. If that were the case, you would have received your NOA2 by now or at least an RFE. You are in the Texas Service Center.

Hi Todd and Camilla
David and I got our NOA 1 on 9th of March as well and we also have the update on the 16th of March. Therefore I do not think that it's an RFE - otherwise we both have on. Our idea was... as that USCIS in Texas forwarded the petition to the Service Center, the update might show the receipt of the petition.
As far as I know we will see an update as soon as they hold our case in their hands. When they received it in California, they might have scanned it and that's why we see an update? I have no other explanation for that.
Camilla,
I hope we both go through the process smooth!
And of course everyone else as well. Let's stay positive

Trublubu,
your plans sound pretty good!
It's not that we want something big or super expensive. As said, we both do not want something huge. For us it's the most important thing to be together. For me it's not important at all. I do not care about the wedding ceremony or a big reception. Not at all. But my fiancé does. He wants us to have the perfect wedding as this is very important to him. And I respect his wish.
Still I do not want something expensive or huge. We thought about a wedding at his aunts farm. It's huge and has many different locations we wanted to check out. But we would not have to fix anything for that. The ceremony would be held by a friend, so we would not have to fix that as well. Still would have to tell him what we want. We would have to think about mainly food and flowers. Both can be canceled by 2 weeks before the "fixed" date. If you cancel a week before you'll mainly lose a 100$ deposit. So we would risk to loose 200$ if it does not work out. Or we could think about an indoor winter wedding which would allow us more time to think about it.