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Ten days since our interview, which happened to be the day after Trump proposed  new immigration rules.

We were told our casse was being reviewed. Nothing from USCIS since then. Their computer still reads "Interview scheduled". 

This is the 142nd day since filing for AOS.

Interview tomorrow morning in San Jose. 134 days since filing 485.

Day 104 Interview scheduled for August, a month from now

Day 92

EAD card was delivered today.

Day 90.

EAD has been mailed.

EAD status just changed to "New card is being produced"

Day 85, filed March 23.

No status change or reply to the service request fiiled online 4 days sgo

Day 81. No change in status for I765.

Filed service request online. Receipt said to expect a response by July 5.

Sigh.

Day 76. Status just changed to "ready to be scheduled for interview."

I filed for my wife's AOS on March 23. My check was cashed today. No NOA yet.

My fiancee had her visa approved a week ago. She asked to have her stamped passport sent to her house by courier, rather than picking it up at a Citic branch. It was supposed to take two working days, but the State Dept computer shows " still in consulate". Has anyone had a delay in delivery and is there anything that can be done to speed things up so I can buy her plane ticket? Thanks for any info

Under a different heading, I posted a message earlier today asking if my fiancee is required to get ANY vaccinations before she is issued a K1 visa, or whether she can get all the shots in the US from American doctors once she is here.

Someone replied that vaccinations before entering the US were mandatory, but I knew I'd seen something different from a State Department website. I found it again. It's at:

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/immigrate/family/fiance-k-1.html#7

and is apparently up to date, because there's a footnote at the top dated 2016.

This is what it says under the header of Medical Examination and Vaccination Requirements:

K visa applicants are encouraged to get the vaccinations required under U.S. immigration law for immigrant visa applicants. Although such vaccinations are not required for K visa issuance, they will be required when adjusting status to that of legal permanent resident following your marriage. Applicants are therefore encouraged to fulfill these vaccination requirements at the time of the medical examination. See Vaccination Requirements for IV Applicants for the list of required vaccinations and additional information.

That link takes you to another page that states the vaccinations required for IMMIGRANT applicants. Technically, K1 is a non-immigrant visa, even though the CEAC website lists it as Immigrant. I saw an explanation of this too on some Government website, but I forget where.

Does someone know the definitive answer to this? Either the State Department website is correct, or it needs to be changed.

Thanks.

Thanks for the reassurance! My fiancee was hoping to be in America by Chinese new years, but the process so far has been pretty unpredictable.

Do these CEAC tags mean anything at all? We were at Ready the minute NVC sent the papers to China. My fiancee just received packet 3 yesterday, and the CEAC computer changed to Administrative Processing. She hasn't scheduled an interview, had a medical exam or even received my financial support papers yet. Why would this be changed to AP? I thought that was only used after the interview.

The Tier 2'woman I talked to at USCIS explained, rightly or wrongly,that they send thousands of approved applications to NVC st the same time. Not just K1s but all the dozens of other types of visa applicationsimmigrat and non immigration. So a k1 application could becsitting in a stack for weeks before its sent on.

Its been 34 days since I received the first NOA2 and NVC has not yet received our papers. I say "first" because USCIS sent me a second diplicate NOA2 on November 23, which they're now using as the approval date.I talked to a Tier2 person who sounded like this was perfectly normal instead of a screw up. The Tier 1 people read a computer message that "it takes up to six weeks" to get from CSC to NVC. In other words, if the papers reach Vermont before Christmas, it will be a small miracle. If it takes another month to process them and send them to the Consulate, we will be waiting till Chinese new years before a visa is even in sight.

Just as I suspected, Immigration put through the Approval papers all over again. Today I got another NOA2, identical to the one I received dated Nov.1, except now its dated Nov.23. So I probably have to wait at least another three weeks until it gets to NVC.

Why can't NVC have an online computer system like USCIS that notifies you when a case number is assigned, linked to your Immigration receipt number,instead of thousands of applicants having to call them every day?

I received the NOA2 notice on November 1 and the USCIS computer has been showing that approval date for three weeks.

Today the computer notice just changed to show the approval date of November 23. Does that mean that somebody just remembered to send the papers on to the NVC?

Apparently, the noa2s haven't always said this. Ten years ago, someone posted a copy of their noa2 which specifically said the papers were going to NVC:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/52523-whats-form-i-797-im-confuse/

Also, I see more recent posts from people whose noa2 said it was being forwarded to a consulate without naming the consulate. There's also a post from someone whose attorney told them some papers do skip NVC.

Seems to be some sort of bureaucratic snafu.

I received the paper copy of NOA2 today from the california service center and was surprised to see no mention of NVC,instead it says the approval has been "forwarded to the listed consulate". Should I be worried? Is this a possible screw up? Will the consulate have to send it back to NVC? Or is this some unexpected manna from heaven?

You had a Friday delivery, so they maybe didn't look at it until Monday. You should be getting an email by this Friday or earlier. Watch to see if your check was deposited. That sometimes happens first.

I went through the same thing two weeks ago, didn't get NOA1 until ten days after mailing. Good luck!

My time frame was exactly the same as the post yesterday from Phoenix, almost as if our files were side by side

Mailed 8/5

Picked up at the Dallas PO on the night of 8/10

Check deposited 8/15 (weekend in between)

NOA email 8/16 around 530PM Texas time

Just received NOA1 by enail. Routed, as expected, to CSC.

(Small yay!)

Check deposited yesterday. No email notification as yet. I put the G-1145 with my email address on top of the pile so I hope to receive the NOA1 soon.

I also put my cell phone number on the form, but I gather it's not common for them to text to a cell phone rather than send an email?

Mailed the I-129F to Texas on Friday, Aug. 5. I asked for Signature Confirmation, which may have delayed delivery.

It was "delivered" - picked up at the Dallas Post Office - on the night of Wednesday, Aug. 10.

So the first business day that it reached the USCIS office was Aug. 11. That was 5 calendar days - but only 3 business days - ago. Hoping to receive NOA1 email today (though already 3:30PM in Texas) or tomorrow.

Twenty years ago, I adopted a baby girl from a Chinese orphanage. It took a year from the first filing through an American adoption agency until the moment my daughter was placed in my arms in China. At that time, hopeful adoptive parents of Chinese babies were completely in the dark about what was going on with the paper chase process. All we could do was wait and wait and wait - and hope. The Internet was still fairly young then and there was no group like this for sharing information and giving mutual support - so I started one. It grew from 200 to over 20,000 readers in 40 countries, with tens of thousands more in spin-off groups.

Waiting is hard. Waiting in the dark is worse. Thanks to VisaJourney and all its readers for shining a ray of light.