CM&KV

1 hour ago, Invisigoth said:

Does anyone have any info/links (even from this page), on how long after NOA2 we'll get our interviews?

My guess for Canadains is about 5-6 after NOA2, assuming no check lists. If you get a case complete before the mid point of the month, then you'll have a good change for your interview being about 45 days away.  Please keep in mind this is what I have seen with that threads that are talking about them waiting for an interview, with in this subforum of the forums on VJ.This is just looking at recent people having an upcoming interivew in Canada. Just keep in mind some people have had their petitions expideted, or just the luck of the drawl.  Someone from Russia that applied 2 months after me is already at the NVC stage.

This is the CR1's for Canada with interivews listedby the soonest.

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?cfl=0&op1=3&op2=d&op3=5&op4=1&op5=5,6,8,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,25,26,27,28,108,110,111,208,210,211&op6=All&op66=All&op7=Canada&dfile=No&adv=

9 hours ago, Adriana & Chris said:

Thank you for your research CM&KV. It is good to see they are starting on the January 2018 submittals.  I am 2 days after you so I'll be looking forward to your NOA2 post as I'll be right behind you!

 

To the best of my knowledge I have not come across any information that suggests one is able to schedule their own interview date.

 

That would frustrate me if my wife was not involved in understanding the process.  This is such an immense process it is going to take us both to execute it successfully.  She has come onto Visa Journey a couple times but begins to get a little flustered with the English.  She speaks English very well but does not read and write so well.  So when she starts seeing the more complex words and legal jargon and acronyms she gets a little anxious.    

English is my husband’s 3rd language, I know he gets semi confused with all this like it did for me a few years back.  Got to read a little at a time. But I guess I'm charge of his immigration papers till now and his citizenship and if any kids come here, theirs too.   I have been trying to get my husband for the last 2 months to connect the lawyer I found to get some paper work that we might need since I think we might get a RFE on one of his divorce certificates. I even connected the lawyer and they told me that my husband needs to talk to them with all his details, also this lawyer can get the police certificate from the country he used to live in, and hopefully can get the right document from the right government agency for us. Our case is.... complicated, I do feel sorry for the officers that get our petition. The country where he was born in was USSR, then it turned into Ukraine, and in 2014 Russia took over it, claimed it theirs, and he got a newpassport for Russia, he’s been married and divorced in that area, and the USA government only accepts documents from Ukraine.I'm  just glad he has no overstay visas or has done anything illegal to that we know of.

He lost his 1st divorce certificate long ago, but this ex-wife photo copied her copy for us to use, which has her name on it for who the document was issued for, and now need or might need one with his name for it..... Even if the USA government accepts it with her name as issued from....He's internalpassport does state when he was divorce from her and when it was registered  he needs one that states his name, and if we get a RFE i think it would be for this reason, didn't find this out till April 2018... As much as I would love to tell my husband to listen to me next time when I'm asking for documents.... I don't want a RFE for this issue. And I guess I know more about Russian / Ukraine divorce laws than my husband does and he's been divorced 2 times. =\

But he knows if the government gives us a RFE, he HAS to work on it the next day after we figure out what we need. He knows a month after the approval he should start getting his police certificates, since I guess in Russia it take a month.

So far no word.... its getting close! Some petitons have been approved from Jan 2nd, like 4 out of the 400 petitions that I scaned today. (not all of them were i-130's)

Husband was asking if we schedule our own interviews since we are planning on having me fly there for American Christmas, we are just hoping that the interview can be around then as well. And I had to explain to him once more the process. I have told him to check VJ out, but his mind is somewhere else. 

Sadly current wait time is about 300  days, my husband's company in Moscow is having a hard time sending their people over to the states becuase of the long wait times.

Go here and typein moscow, or any other office that is open over there, you'll get the same info. Its stupid with what is going on between both countries.... wish things were better.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/wait-times.html

I have only called the number that was on my NOA1.

USCIS National Customer Service Center (NCSC) at l-800-375-5283.

Within the last hour one of my apps let me know a TSC dec 22nd i130 petition was approvaled, but not sure if it's with a state side petition.

Is it possible for you to reupload the attachment with senstive information covered up? I'm just curious as to what it states and what the law says in Pakistan, since someone's comment states that someone is still considered married to their prior spouse.

Thank you in advance.

9 minutes ago, SKB2017 said:

Does anyone know the reason why a permanent resident filing for a spouse has a shorter timeline than a US citizen?

My guess is that there could be a smaller queue compared to the USC queue. On top of it there is no visa number for them yet till their bulletin gets current.  Beyond that, I really don't know.

For the heck of it called the number on the NOA1 last night, typed in my number and case number not found just like the old website....... I wonder if I call while there is a human there if I'll get a different anwser......

47 minutes ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

In California, when you apply for a marriage license, you can give the surname you want to be knowns as after marriage as any of

• Current last name of the other spouse or last name of either of the spouse give at birth
• A name combining into a single last name all or a segment of the current last name or the last name of either spouse given at birth. (mostly applies to hyphenating)
• A combination of the last names.

It seems probable that if Petrova married Ivanov and wanted to go by Ivanova after the marriage, that would fall under the last case as far as California was concerned (yes, this isn't actually what you'd be doing, but it would look like that to anyone who was unfamiliar with Russian naming conventions). Other states are probably different.

If your county has a section what the new last names would be, then you shouldn't have to worry about this mess. Unfortunately my county has no area what his or my new last name will be, which is why I had to deal with this headache. I'm trying to see if I can look up what your certificate would look like.

5 minutes ago, barashka said:

How did you get the feminine version of your husband's surname in the first place? They allowed you to do that with an "a" at the end?

The people at the social security office asked a supervisor for the okay which granted it to me with in a few minutes. Since my license is an enhance drivers license, which is only given to USC, I had to fight for my "A". I have done college and delt with teachers that were difficult to deal with, never fought so hard for an "A" in my life. What I learned was that this type of drivers licence HAS to match what the social security office has on file. So the DMV was forced to give me the A. (Each person at each step kept telling me that they wont give me the A.) Even my picture has be partly crying since I was so upset. I honestly didn't feel like we were man and wife till all my goverement ids were aline with his last name, per his cultural rules.

My suggestion is to go get the SSN card 1st before getting married (before i-94 expires) so she is at least in the system. After marriage see about the name change with the A to see if they can do it per your culture. And I would honestly wait till you have the new SSN card when you go into the DMV. And use the A on any forms. 

I don't know if me having the A would effect our process, even the noa1 had him with no A and me with the A. I'm currently still waiting in NOA2.

44 minutes ago, barashka said:

As an ethnic Russian, I appreciate your respect. I, too, will wear my rings on my right hand, despite being born and raised in the United States. I am very loyal to my ethnic culture. Maybe this is why I chose a girl from my ethnic motherland, ahaha! I also have the utmost respect for my nation of birth, as well. I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea here.

I was born into a military family and was stationed near the capital of USA. My father did work on for the President and vice president. After I was 1 we moved to Japan for nearly 6 years. During my education there we were taught to be respectful of others etc, we even had culture classes that taught us the history of Japan and their language. It was a great experience that I will never want to exchange for. I do think it helped give me a better understanding of where forigeners felt like in the USA, I had blond hair my sister had red, we stuck out like a sore thumb in the 80s when ever we travelled off base. Everyone was so nice to us and polite, I still see it as my home.

28 minutes ago, Alabamak1 said:

I hope you don't encounter too many problems and find a way on doing all this. As far as i am concerned, it it aint broke, don't fix it. lol. Trust me, we had a long discussion with my wife about all this and if and why i don't mind her keeping her name and what other russians would say. 

Well luckily I'm the USC and have most things with my married name on it I should be fine. I don't have a passport yet, and one bank account is refusing to change my last name with out him physically here, couldn't do that on his last business trip since he left the passport with the transliteration of his name back in Russia. The bank wouldn't even take marriage certificate and both ids ans ssn cards, even when our main bank allowed us.

We are trying to embrace as much of his culture here as much as possible, even our rings are on the right hand, on my left I have an old ring my mom and I brought that matches. (He bought my a heart shape locket as the engagament ring)

He even thought about switching his name to my last name. Or do the combo name. Since I'm an old fashion person that comes to marriage traditions, I wanted to follow his culture rules.

So I want to give you some facts before I tell you my story....

• I have a special type of drivers license that allows me to travel to Canada and Mexico and a few other places by boat and car without a passport. It goes thru DHS.
• My husband has been to the USA a few times before us getting married
• He has two different passports, Ukraine and Russian,

I don't even know what I did was correct, my husband's last name follows your example, and I had problems at the DMV after we got married. Keep in mind I have no ties to Russia besides being married to my husband, to that I know of. When we got our marriage license we put his patronymic as his middle name (because that's how his past visas were setup as). NO WHERE on the marriage license even asks you for new names, I had to fight for my female version of my husband’s last name. I got was "Well there is no "a" on here etc etc. and I can't give it to you etc etc etc." "Where do you plan on living when you are old (I said we were going to work and live here in the USA and retire in Russia)" "This might cause problems later on." It took 5 hours at the DMV to finally leave it with them finally giving me the female last name of my husband. My husband and his family and I choose to go with the female version of his last name and my closest friend and family members thought it was cool that were are trying to celebrate his culture as best as we can. His family understood that if the USA government refused to give me that A.

Before I even went to the DMV I went to the social security office to get my name changed, the girl that was helping had to talk to her boss to get an okay, which took less than 3 minutes. I left that office with  my card with that A on it. But sadly that card never showed up because I wasn't registered with my new last name on my mailbox...... more than 45 days later I went in and they refused to help since my IDS mismatched... so I had to go to the DMV. DMV told me that my names better match what was on file with the SS office and that my last name with that A could be seen as a nickname.....(like #######?!?!) You would think in a country like this one would have a guide book going in depth of the last names of each country or something. Who do people with many last names do this!?!?!

And yes I was told I could get a court order to change my last name..... Also what we are doing as a just incase is having a will made out with my current legal last name and my birth last name. and we have copies of our certificate to show my ties to him. 

Husband left back for Russia after being in the USA for nearly 4 months on a bussiness trip yesterday.  I'm really hoping the time left in this process goes by quickly or at least get noa2 so we can plan me flying there. Him leaving felt like I was dying, I wish this process was faster.

Also this week feels super slow for approvals that I have saved on my searches and here in VJ. Hopefully next week lots of approvals for Oct and Nov and the rest of Sept.

My husband used his patronymic on his past visas as his middle name, so that’s what we kept doing for our CR1 petition, and probably will be any time there is a document referring to a middle name. His SSN card from his J1 visa has his patronymic name. I think the company he works for told him to do it since it was shown on his Russian passport, but I just looked thru his Ukrainain passport and he doesn't have his patronymic name anywhere. 

Funny thing is, him and I had talked about this the other night. We were trying to figure out what I could be called over in Russia if someone is trying to show respect to me.... of course he used my fathers name and sounded like it ended in nova.

Ugh I hate replying on my phone, too many typos.

Trust me I really wish it was 180 days till noa2. But what I have seen from, at least for the TSC its about 7-8 or more months on average. NSC has catched up a lot in the last few months, most likely due to work loads sent to other centers.

Pretty sure everyone can agree on, this waiting sucks. My husband keeps asking me when He'll get his interview. I have told him at best and IF things go very well and there is no hiccups.... At best with current knows averages... Late December or January. I already expect us to get a possible RFE for his 1st divorce certificate. (Was issued to his ex and not him and I didn't know how they did their certificates since the state gov site stated what the document needed was but not whom it was issued too)

Back in January might had stated mkd August and now it states mid July.

The dates go off of the "average" current time. I'm unsure if it's based off of the last last 365 days or what.  But overall I have seen some i130s around my pd being approved and some sent to the department of state (I'm assuming its nvc). But I'm unsure how many of thise are tied to the i485 that haven't been transfered to NVC. (in state processing) If I am wrong someone please correct me.

So last night I got super bored that I started to search thru about 13000 case number files from dec 22nd till about Jan 2nd in TSC. What I saw was some i130s were approved, wondering if this could be concurrent aos cases since I saw i485. I assume when I see something saying it was sent to NVC its an approved i130, to that I know of no other forms says this. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I oddly saw maybe close to 50 or more numbers stating that...

App still states my number is invaild, but new site still says that it has my file, etc.

Ps. I have a handful of wifi connects I can use when I hit my daily limit on the app.

@beeti23 and @julie11 only things I see in common are texas center and interviewing in China.

Edit: no clue how to tag while on my phone.....

Just now, Andii said:

Que oficina procesa tu caso?

According to time line Texas.

9 minutes ago, Julie11 said:

NOA1:1/19/2018   Got RFE today (at least it seems they are working on January cases  Yay). We paid a lawyer for the application and surprised to get the RFE tbh... thought lawyers should be professional... =(

Oh wow, well that would be great if that was the case for all of us. How were you notified by: hard copy, email, or website ( old or new)?

It's interesting to be honest, I’m wondering why those random 3 petitions got picked up.  Sorry if I sound skeptical, but one person sounded like they filed for K3 at the same time they submitted their i-130. Unless they understood the process wrong, or maybe I have. But I thought you had to have a Noa1 in order to file the I-129...... My husband basically has a job waiting for him when he gets his green card, and been hoping if I could expedite it based on that. He's currently here in the USA, and we have thought about doing AOS.... but in case something goes wrong with our petition, he will still have a job etc. Also for where I live, AOS takes about 11 months and we are currently 4 months into CR1...

Well I know I'm in line for an RFE. I came across this website a few weeks ago and had forgotten about it till just now. I found it on the Canada immigration forums (not vj.com) someone had posted, I had talked to a few people stating they were very pleased with the service of this lawyer. Seeing how much husband feels for his safety of his life if he enters Ukraine to get these documents, I think this might be well worth the money spent. Looks like the lawyer only charges about 89$(5500 rubles) per document he has to get, with English translation, apostille and he emails you a copy and sends you a hard copy for that price. 

I'm currently in the middle of making a request to him for these documents. He also does police certificates. 

https://1-2-get.org/