lost in the woods

congrats!

patience doesn't begin to describe this, i should learn from you both.

Congrats!!!!!

Well i got 3 emails last night at 10:45pm eastern time telling me the case has been approved.

I am still pinching myself because i couldn't even believe what i was reading when i sat there, i just stared at it.

there really is no rhyme or reason to how the cases are being processed alli can say is that they are being processed, hopefully it will be less painful from here on.

you left out that there is no viable excuse for the ridiculous delays and random nature of approvals combined with refusing to tell you the status.

the page is back up.

after the day's events i think we'll not be seeing approvals sent today, i could be wrong but my little branch of DHS was doing all sorts of weird things all day, so was the State Department.

I imagine USCIS was too.

they do accept saturday delivery, to be honest i would just mail it flat rate.

over nighting, or fast delivery will not speed up the process at this point.

i overnighted to arrive on a saturday just to make her happy, it was expensive and the wait is still just as long.

there is only one thing you are right about, there is obviously no discussion or debate here.

your post is quite good at personal attacks on me, quite weak on points to make.

we'll see in a year or two if i'm right or you are.

i still hold that this law will not protect anyone, it is 'feel good politics' at it's finest.

i'm selfish because i think this is an utterly stupid law, poorly conceived, poorly writen and poorly implimented?

ok i'm selfish.

damn my selfishness, i'm so evil that i have the audacity to demand solutions that actually work without punishing the innocent.

how ignorant of me.

EDIT:

it's almost comical to me that if your time line is accurate you received no delay from this law

the compairison to seat belt laws is accurate.

those are also intrusive, an attempt to protect someone from their own action or choice.

the problem with this law, and it's situation is that it will not protect these women, it will not be effective.

we'll see in a year, but i will bet that the fraud rings will continue, the abuses will continue.

I do not think there is any chance the law will work because it does not address the problem, this law was enacted as a bad solution to a real and serious problem.

but the one high profile case was not part of a fraud ring and many people have drawn conclusions from it, incorrect conclusions.

EDIT:

this law is similar to requiring every car in the country to be retrofitted with a breath testing machine to see if you've been drinking.

if that is a good idea in your mind then ok, you're for this law and that's ok

i'm for writing laws that make sense, accomplish something but do not intrude on liberty, freedom and the right to make choices for ones self.

i am against seat belt laws, but i have used one every time i am in a car since long before there were seat belt laws.

i don't care if someone makes a bad choice, they should be allowed to choose.

creating a law and system to agressively stamp out fraud is a good idea, that is not the purpose of this law.

this law has one purpose, to discourage legal immigration.

i stand by my comments.

the person who compaired it to making murder legal has made my point for me.

they did not make it a crime to abuse the system.

the appropriate response is to create a law where it is a crime to do what the man in the original example did, it is somewhat akin to fraud.

this was not done, instead it is an attempt to prevent the situation from happening.

a noble enough idea, but it cannot work, you cannot protect people by passing a law, it has never worked.

all you can do is create a crime and punish people, in so doing you can also discourage such abuses.

there is no law that can be passed that will ever prevent someone from doing something wrong.

if that was possible then there would be no murders, murder is illegal and it happens all the time.

all we can do is punish the offenders, or in this case punish the honest because we reacted as a nation and were too short sighted to realize the limits of our ability and athority.

the man in the example has not been punished, if he does it again there is no crime he has committed and no jail sentence for him.

at the same times tens of thousands of honest people who do the right thing, the right way for the right reasons pay the price.

what has been accomplished here is that the innocent have been punished for no good reason, the entire process is discouraged.

i would say that the number of people who do not understand what i am saying and think i'm being short sighted is a very large part of what is wrong with society in general and the system in america in total.

i'm going to be bluntly honest about the original poster.

Too bad.

you have demonstrated one malicious individual who abuses a system, that individual has not been punished.

tens of thousands of honest people who try to do it the right way are being punished because of one bad apple.

That is what we have fallen to as a society but it's not acceptable, you cannot punish everyone for the acts of an individual and you cannot punish everyone to try to protect one or two random people from doing something stupid. That last part is a direct reference to the high profile case that inspired this law.

The change is immoral, the way this country sometimes over reacts with far reaching consequences to honest citizens trying to make their way in the world and do things the right way is also totally wrong.

bad things sometimes happen to good people for no reason and the government has no business trying to legislate their protection.

july 5th RFE received date.

not touched since july 12

started getting annoyed around august 5

I wonder if a "clean" case gets approved faster than those with "issues?"

Case in point...I am divorced and applied for a previous K1...later withdrawn.

Thoughts?

I do believe that it DOESN'T matter how "clean" your case is! Believe me, our backgrounds are cleaner that USCIS would imagine AND... still NOT approved

Someone said something I think yesterday that the illegal immigrants are welcomed and doing well, while the ones that would do everything to be legal are considered trash cans good to swallow all the US government garbage. What a crooked world!!!

far too true, doing things "the right way" does not pay in America

i have given up on being an optimist.

Ours was last touched on the 12th of july and has been in a lot longer than some of those i've seen approved.

I'm writing now, litterally i have been working on the letter tonight.

I have crossed over into being angry about the way the process has gone since march 6th.

Well, the lady told you what to do. And that is basically not to call them anymore.

Calculate for your phone call 5 minutes, now add another 11 people who are calling the same hour you do. The result is - 1 hour is gone. 1 hour this USCIS employee could have gone through a few cases. Let that happen at least 2 hours a day and one quarter of a working day is gone without that this employee could do any work, because nagging relatives are bothering them and keeping them away from their work.

Everyone within the visa process wants this process to be short. Many are just waiting. But then there are these who are so selfish that they think about themselves only.

Nagging and bothering USCIS leads to nothing but to a longer backlog because there are employees who have to take care of these people.

The side effect is also that people with serious problems have to wait on the phone for up to 30 minutes or more because other people don't get that the work will get done.

And it gets done faster if the employees can do what they are supposed to do, without any disturbance.

So do all of us a favour and wait. The waiting time will be over sooner or later.

The fact that some are patiently waiting doesn't mean that they are loving their loved ones less.

The same for all the "inquieries" through Senators and Congress people. If it is not a really serious matter. Wait at least the projected time and let USCIS do their job.

That has to be the worst posting on this board i've seen, i've been lurking longer than you've been a member at the moment.

why did you bother? do you just like to be rude and insensitive to others?

do you beat kittens and small children in your spare time?

notifying congressmen is the wisest course of action, they created this mess with a bad law this year and they should see if they can do something about it.

perhaps in your oppinion it would just be better to find a nice message board to post useless comments on and be cruel to others, it might make one feel better.

we;re still left from march.

no touches since july 12