Anna Sif

congratulations!!

Hope the rest of your journey goes really fast!!

My GP here in the Netherlands had no clue what test i was talking about, so she called the National vaccination center and spoke to 4 different people who had no idea either...

in what hands is our health when I'm better informed than the National center for vaccines?

She suggested since i grew up in Spain, that i try to get a duplicate of my records in Spain, but I KNOW back then there was no computer register and i doubt they kept files from 30 years ago, so i think i'm going to need all the shots again... great, that's going to be at least 300 Euros worth of vaccines. fantastic.

sorry, i'm ranting.

yep, that's what i heard too, you get a blood test to determine what you have antibodies of.

I actually have an appointment with my GP to order the test, cause my parents can't find my vaccination records...

I'll post when i know more details about how it works

Congratulations. It does feel great, doesn't it? Speedy rest of process.

in our case, we still have not received any emails, and even though the date was updated on our online case status, it doesn't say it is aproved either. We just got the NOA2 via snail mail and that's how we found out.

My fiance told me the great news last night!!!! He got the NOA2 (dated Sept 5th) this saturday on the mail. I didn't receive the customary email(s) and even though i got what i thought was a touch on Sept. 6th on the online case status, it didn't say anything about the aproval.

So sit tight, it'll come when you least expect it.

Wishing everyone waiting speedy NOA 2s!!!!

Congratulations!!! I'm really happy for you guys. Hope the rest of the process goes ultra fast and smooth!

Does anyone know how strict they are with expiration dates of police certificates?

I'm still waiting for my NOA 2 but decided to start gathering some police certificates to be ready when the day comes (yeah, this process still hasn't stripped me of all optimism). So i sent a Police cert request to the UK which i know generally takes around 40 days and to Spain, a country who's bureaucracy is notoriously slow (specially since i had to request it through the danish embassy), but who would have thought! A week later, the spanish police certificate is in my mailbox, so i was all happy thinking how at last something seems to go fast in this process, when i read: this certificate expires in 3 months!!!

So, it's going to be tight, even if i get my NOA 2 soon, for it to still be valid by the time i get my interview, but if i'm lucky it'd be just a matter of days...

Has anybody been through something similar and how strict/understanding are they at the US embassy about this?

It won't be any fun if i end paying another 100 bucks for another certificate. So much for looking ahead and trying to be prepared.

So anyone from Spain or who's lived in Spain reading this, beware of this 3 month expiration period for the police cert. I didn't see it stated in any of the information I had, otherwise i would have waited a bit, so you know.

My parents can't find my vaccination card, but my mum mentioned this bloodtest method to determine which vaccines i've had, so i'm relieved to read it's possible and valid for the medical, but one question, do you need to ask your regular doctor for it, or at the medical exam for the visa?

thanx!!

NOA 1 May 16th

RFE received at USCIS July 20th

No touches since

You need to be logged in, then go to My Controls (on top right of the page), once there, look on the left column, go to Edit Signature, then enter your time line the way you want it and then click on update my signature. Everytime you post it'll show up.

ta-da!

I'd get a new passport now and do the whole process with that one new passport.

If you explain the situation, it should not be a problem to get a new one before the other expires.

(me thinks)

Everyone, in case you haven't noticed, this Asante character is in every Topic posting flaming messages, without ever contributing any constructive information or feedback.

He/she (though by some misoginist coments posted in the past, I asume it's a he) must have a very boring life.

Ignore him, or else you're just feeding his whatever enjoyment he gets out of upsetting the people who are here for a legitimate reason.

We were trasnfered to California from Nebraska and got the NOA1 (informing us about the transfer) before it arrived there so in our case it was sent from the original center. After that we got an email informing us when our case arrived in Cali.

I also threw in some emails and copies of birthday cards, letters, and notes we sent each other. (you can cover the very personal bits with a marker if you like)

If you still have some airline boarding passes or itineraries from airlines, as well as any train/bus tickets from any trip you've taken together, it won't hurt to include them.

you can add my RFE receipt date of July 20th, unless you're actually noting date of email stating the receipt, in which case it's a day later, the 21st of July...

Anna Sif..............................Netherlands....5/16.... 7/20

Finally an aproval from CSC!!

Congrats!

yeah, as i posted earlier, my fiance mailed back the RFE to CSC on July 11th and we didn't get the email about the receipt til today.

Juts when i was starting to get nervous, I got the email, 3 times.

It took 9 days to get to California and 1 day to get email from USCIS. So don't despair if you don't hear from them straight away!

yay!

On July 20, 2006, we received your response to our request for evidence

or information. However because preliminary processing was complete,

the remaining processing time will be less than the maximum stated in

this message. You will receive a written decision on this case. You can

use our processing dates to estimate when this case will be done.

Follow the the link below for current processing dates.

Congratulations!!! Very happy for you.

Wishing you a smooth rest of process.

We also sent to Nebraska as required and a week later got the NOA1 stating our case had been transfered to California.

Since then we've received the IMBRA RFE and have been touched once... Looks like they're working on March cases now, so... be patient!!

Agree. Be honest without giving the story of your life to the officer.

Last 2 times i've been to the US i said I'm visiting my boyfriend. They then asked how long i was staying for, and for some reason both times they asked me what he does for a living... Can't understand the officers' fascination with how people earn their bread!

But as has been suggested here before, if you are worried she might have problems, make sure she has her return ticket plus a letter from her employer stating she's to go back to work on such and such day, a copy of her rent contract, etc. to show she has a "life" back home she's going back to.

I bet ya that more abusers are that way because they saw their fathers treat women that way. They were "trained" to be that way by a bad example and role-model. I think that is more relevant than alcohol. I doubt that many men who come from warm, loving parents end up being abusers. If they are really looking to weed out the abusers, than maybe a more pertinent addendum to the I-129F would be, "Has your father ever verbally or physically abused your mother?"

There's so many factors that can lead or influence wether someone abuses his/her partner, not to mention each individual circumstances, that it'd be impossible to touch on all of them in one form. It'd probably need a psychiatric assesment of each couple, so cases would take years.

I think we're missing the point that one of the main reasons for IMBRA is so that the foreign fiance(e) is INFORMED of certain aspects of the future husband/wife that may have an effect on their future. And the information has to be irefutable, you could easily answer no to the hypothetical question of "were you abused as a child", but with the criminal past, there's a record, so the petitioner can't lie.

We also have to keep in mind this law wasn't made with us (loving couples who are marrying out of love and we have shared all our life stories with our SOs) in mind. We have to accept the fact that there's men/women out there who might have less than honest intentions when getting a foreign wife/husband and men/women in poor countries who will marry out of economic reasons or in search of a better life and might get caught out in a life threatening situation. The law is made for those cases, so if you want to vent your frustration on someone, why not on the people who prey on the economically disadvantaged for dishonest reasons?

(even though i know we're stuck in this limbo and delays hell due to USCIS plain ineptitude, and believe me, it frustrates me too)

Just a question....

I just checked the Nebraska processing info and it's saying May 29th....could this be even remotely possible??????

#######? that's right! so they send our Nebraska cases to "stuck-in-February-forever-California" and then leap forward to May? I thought someone said Nebraska was not processing K1s any more!

Hi, this might be a silly question, but can I register for a USCIS online case status account to check things and get updates by email, even if i'm not the USC?

Thanx.