Sil

CONGRATS!

hope_and_praying,

It's only been 2 weeks since your petition was approved, and you've got this letter back already from the NVC?

You inquired unreasonably quickly.

Yodrak

The National Visa Center has received your inquiry regarding W*****. After searching our records, no information was found regarding this case. Please contact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS- formerly known as INS) to verify the status of this petition.

You might really want to call and check the status of your case because i send inquiry 2 days after my approval(i know unreasonably quickly) and i got the folowing message:

Dear Madam,

Your inquiry indicates that the approved petition has been forwarded to the National Visa Center (NVC) for processing. The NVC has not yet received this petition from CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services).

That is a great news.

CONGRATS!

Yes,you are right. I will call them.

Congrats!

Thank you guys!

I called CSC today. I give my petiton number and wanted to know the status of shipment to NVC. The response I got was that it is still in the mailroom. The lady said they are waiting for enough petitions to build up to mail. She did not have an expected departure date.

What utter bullshit.

I just finished writing a letter to my Congressman and faxing it to his office. I will update this thread if this should happen to make any difference. Patience ran out today.

Rodney

Do not worry everything in their system is a joke.I just call my fiancee to tell him that we are approved and he told me that he call VSC last night (5:30 pm - they work till 6pm) and they told him that we have to wait 30-60 more days and few hours later at 5am i got an e-mail saying we were approved yesterday.Isn't taht a joke?!

YIPPEEEEE!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I hope you're celebrating wildly where you are! This is a huge moment!!

May the next steps be quick and trouble-free!!

I really hope that it will be quick,i have been waiting too long.

Thanks to all you guys for congratulating me.

I am extremely happy now.

It is very strange.All of you are talking about package 3 and look was says on the website of the usembassy in Bulgaria:

Once USCIS has approved the petition, you and your fiancé(e) will be notified and the petition will be sent directly to the Consular Section in Sofia. Once the petition has been received in Sofia, you may schedule an interview appointment for the Bulgarian fiancé(e) by telephoning the Immigrant Visa Unit at +359-2-937-5100, weekday afternoons from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please note that these interviews are scheduled for Monday through Thursday mornings.

This makes me think that i am not going to get any paperwork from them.

What do you guys think?

Any opinion is appreciated.

Finally! I am approved! I can not believe it!

It feels great!

You will have to create a portfolio on the uscis website but first you have to have your receipt#,so you have first to wait untill you get your NOA1 in the mail.

Good luck!

I am not 100% sure but i have red somewhere that former/present residents of The USA do not need to obtain police certificates.You can check www.***removed***

Is approval without notification happening only in CSC?

Congrats to you TusconBill

I haven't had my interview yet, i even do not have my NOA2 yet, but i red somewhere in the K1 forum that you do not need the approval letter at whole for the interview but whenever you apply for AOS.

I am so happy for you

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!

Touched again and still no NOA2.I am getting crazy.

I was checking obsessively for weeks after my 2nd RFE was received. I had a touch on Oct 5th and again on the 7th. Then nothing. And THEN on the 16th, getting discouraged about no action whatsoever, I received my approval (October 4) in the mail. There was no email and those last two touches were AFTER the approval. Also, those were the only two non-RFE touches I ever got.

A couple of other people have had that happen to them lately too.

So my point is that touches can mean anything or nothing and the USCIS website is not all that dependable.

They still haven't updated my file there.

You could try calling them and see if you might even be already approved, if the phone people even know.

I don't think 3rd RFE's are very common. Also, if they're going to send you an RFE, they'd *probably* say so on that website.

Good luck!

Thank you for the input, but i think that to receive NOA2 by snail mail without update on the USCIS web site is happening only to petitioners from CSC.

Touched again and still no NOA2.I am getting crazy.

Now, I am no expert on exactly how USCIS handles things, but I've said this before from my own experiences... companies often use automated update programs. My own company does so. Usually ours run at 5:30pm in the evening, or at 6:00am in the morning, so either right before people come into work, or right after they leave work.

People have noticed a lot of updates tend to come later in the evening from CSC. Not sure if it's the same at Vermont. Basically, what it probably means is yes, your case got worked on, but the auto-update routine on the computers they use to update the online system probably didn't run until that morning.

I don't know if that's any comfort or not. I don't think all online updates get made in real-time.

So it means that if i have been touched at 7am on the 18th somebody has been working on my case the day before?!

My wife's AOS case was touched 8 times in 12 days including one Holiday Monday (Labor Day), one Saturday and one Sunday and our case was approved soon after that.

Peter Miami

Do you by any chance know what is the difference between CRIS and USCIS-CSSO?For the RFE#1 i got e-mail from USCIS-CSSO and for RFE#2 from CRIS.

The reason for the touches is that they are working on your case and doing updates on the computer you will probably be approve soon.

Good luck,

Peter Miami

Actually i doubt because i have been touched at 7am nobody is working that early in VSC,i think that these touches are some kind of automated updates.I could be wrong tough.

Well, I just said a prayer that it's not a 3rd RFE... click on your case number and see if the status has changed, sometimes the status shows a change before you get the NOA2 notificaiton...

CHECK IT!

Bill

I have been checking my case status every 10 min for the past 24 hours

I have to say that i prefer denial but not another RFE.The 2-nd RFE was just a joke,no need of it at all, so we have decided if we get another RFE to go with DCF after a marriage here in Bulgaria.My fiancee is not trilled that he has to travel for 15 hours(he hates that) but if this is the only way for us to be together......

On dec 07 we will have 3-years anniversary,but since jan we have not been together it is really hard for us.

My case has been touched so many times and now after the RFE#2 3 days in a roll and no approval.Do you guys think that i could get a 3-rd RFE?

Let's hope not! Let's hope they are tying a nice ribbon it on for you!!

It would be nice if they would do a complete review of the file so they would only send out one RFE asking for all the items rather than sending out a 2nd oops we forgot to have you do this...

I can expect anything now.

My case has been touched so many times and now after the RFE#2 3 days in a roll and no approval.Do you guys think that i could get a 3-rd RFE?

No, you are not alone. My situation is the same.

Jetson i wish you luck.

I also would like to ask you is there a special form for that waiver request?

Jetson,thank you very much for your reply,. It is very helpful and complete.I appreciate that.