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My husband and I worry too - he is actually choosing to not come to visit me until the visa has been granted just in case. I have been able to see him twice since we submitted but fingers crossed the next overseas trip will be him coming here!

This worries me every single time I travel too. I wanna visit my husband for the Christmas with the intent of going back home but we just may never know the officer we will get. 

Congrats!!! would you mind updating your timeline? it helps a lot.
 

For real. Our PD date is June 1st. This whole process is starting to become more and more ridiculous. The waiting would be half as bad if the travelling to the US would not be made into such an obsitcle too. I always carry a whole folder with documents with me to prove I will be flying back home such as work contract, university examination papers, phone contract, .... just in case I do get an officer in a bad mood not believing me I return back home and let´s not forget to add the cost of having to fly back and forth if you wanna see each other adding to the cost of the process. 

My petition was approved without the website being updated. 

NOA1: 5/19
NOA2 approval: 11/18
NOA2 letter: 11/25
 

I also don't understand why the USCIS site says Texas is processing I-130s for permanent residents before citizens! That makes no sense to me and honestly really makes my blood boil.

yep just did that. Thank you.

If you go onto the USCIS website and put in your reference, under the status of your application there’s a button to press for change of address

Figured out about 1 hour ago, my husband is cheating on me again, and there's nothing I can do, no way to enter to the states for me, and he's definitely not coming to visit me, still wondering if I'm going to need a waiver, not hopes to see him in a really long time, I 130- PD June 22, so I still have a to wait a entire century to receive an approval, just sitting down, seeing my life passing by,  knowing he has someone else and just holding and waiting to the I 130 process to be completed if I want to see him again. Life sucks 😔

OMG Elisa, that is so sad. Why would you complete the I-130 process at all? I would not give up my life for a cheating husband....

Don't overreact dear...hang in there. It will probably not take too much longer. The cases you see on this page are a fracture of the cases they have and I am pretty sure they get sorted also by home country of the foreign spouse and then split up between officers so variation in approval times of anything between 2-3 months should not make you feel to drop it all after already waiting for so long. It's nothing but lost money and wasted time then. Heads up. I know it sucks and it's hard to live on the other side of the big pond especially with the time differnce. But you can make it! We're all strong together that we are in the group here. Heads up
P.S.Called them too a month ago and been told I have to wait about another 8-10months from now and when I referred to cases I know that had gotten approved he acted as if that's all not true so I won't even bother to call them anymore.

Don't overreact dear...hang in there. It will probably not take too much longer. The cases you see on this page are a fracture of the cases they have and I am pretty sure they get sorted also by home country of the foreign spouse and then split up between officers so variation in approval times of anything between 2-3 months should not make you feel to drop it all after already waiting for so long. It's nothing but lost money and wasted time then. Heads up. I know it sucks and it's hard to live on the other side of the big pond especially with the time differnce. But you can make it! We're all strong together that we are in the group here. Heads up
P.S.Called them too a month ago and been told I have to wait about another 8-10months from now and when I referred to cases I know that had gotten approved he acted as if that's all not true so I won't even bother to call them anymore.

Don't overreact dear...hang in there. It will probably not take too much longer. The cases you see on this page are a fracture of the cases they have and I am pretty sure they get sorted also by home country of the foreign spouse and then split up between officers so variation in approval times of anything between 2-3 months should not make you feel to drop it all after already waiting for so long. It's nothing but lost money and wasted time then. Heads up. I know it sucks and it's hard to live on the other side of the big pond especially with the time differnce. But you can make it! We're all strong together that we are in the group here. Heads up
P.S.Called them too a month ago and been told I have to wait about another 8-10months from now and when I referred to cases I know that had gotten approved he acted as if that's all not true so I won't even bother to call them anymore.

Don't overreact dear...hang in there. It will probably not take too much longer. The cases you see on this page are a fracture of the cases they have and I am pretty sure they get sorted also by home country of the foreign spouse and then split up between officers so variation in approval times of anything between 2-3 months should not make you feel to drop it all after already waiting for so long. It's nothing but lost money and wasted time then. Heads up. I know it sucks and it's hard to live on the other side of the big pond especially with the time differnce. But you can make it! We're all strong together that we are in the group here. Heads up
P.S.Called them too a month ago and been told I have to wait about another 8-10months from now and when I referred to cases I know that had gotten approved he acted as if that's all not true so I won't even bother to call them anymore.

Oh that's nice to hear. My husband is moving in November so we're gonna have to go through that too. And maybe who knows we'll have the Interview in Frankfurt around the same time.
Wishing everybody good luck

Little update for all our fellow june filers. We have called Texas Service Center last week due to their processing time still saying they're working on Nov16 cases and rhe response of the person we spoke to on the phone was that in fact they are still working on cases from Nov16 BUT this doesn't mean they're not any further with processing than that, meaning there might be some open cases they have due to wrong filing or still missing documents. He said we should expect worst case 6-12months from now. 
I was so shocked I almost started crying and wouldn't believe it.
However I looked through the other forums of filers up to March17 and they're starting to get their NOA2 letters now so hope's up. Looks like best case we can hope with responses in december...would definitely be a nice christmas present 😊
Stay strong yall. 

Travel.state.gov   (the immigrant visa process)

One thing you should keep in mind is that with Germany you can electronically file to the Frankfurt consulate so that seems to speed the NVC process up considerably.  Most seem to be approved within a couple of weeks so your process could go a lot faster than those who manually file their documents to the NVC and are now stuck waiting a minimum of 11 weeks.

Congrats on the wedding!
 
I would agree that you begin filling out the process now. I'm an American and my wife is from Europe (UK, so I guess soon it won't actually be Europe...). We submitted out I-130 the day after our wedding, and she just got approved at the Embassy today! Unfortunately it is almost 365 days later (About 340 days or so). So the process can take awhile. If you have 11 months, you might as well do it now.
 
Unfortunately if he was still in Germany the process would have been quicker, but since he has moved back you can't do direct consular processing.
 
As to your questions:
 
1) Begin it with "Dear immigration officer" or "Dear USCIS officer" or even just "To whom it may concern" and then essentially give a slightly longer version of what you wrote here. How you met, how you dated etc... Then provide an itemized, numbered list of all the other documents you are submitting
2) That should be fine. We also included "personal evidence". Photos, tickets to things that we booked together that had our names on it. We didn't even have a shared bank account or a life insurance policy at the time. We had evidence of our relationship (1 year, then 2 year engagement) and then the marriage certificate. We also had "Affidavits" from 1 friend each (my best man, one of her bridesmaids) as well as letters from our parents. All sworn affidavits (You can google that, they have to include certain language saying they swear on penalty of perjury etc)
 
Do you have electronic copies of tickets from any travel? Or hotels? Anything you would have booked? Otherwise pictures are fine. We did it all. In the end you will never know if you submit "too much", so we just sent in a lot just in case.