MM&CS

Also, just to remind those of you who don’t have your cases dealt with yet, no matter WHI you are or how popular you are, or if you’re a silent lurker..... this is for you all...
 
@Naes doesnt HAVE to be here helping out earlier months with info, she’s an October filet... OCTOBER.  She is here out of the goodness of her heart.  She organises and shares info on how to scan and is the only reason that I am able to do what I do.
 
I know, I truly do know, that we are at the point where we say things and place blame and maybe say or do things we will regret later, but I urge you, aim it somewhere else.  I may not be have gotten to the number of days of Trina or John&Rose but even they don’t get the right (I’m just using names who are well known for the wait time), even they don’t get the right to make others here feel like #######, and I’m sure they wouldn’t want to do so either.
 
Like I said, she didn’t have to help us and she doesn’t have to stick around. Others were here every day until they got their NOA2 and disappeared... I’m still here. Don’t take it out on her, or us, or anyone here for that matter.
 
Stay strong Junies.  

I SENT AN EMAIL TO THE CALIFORNIA FOLLOW UP EMAIL MY CASE GOT APPROVED JANUARY 12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD IS GOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 

So I figured I’d bite the bullet and just give USCIS a call today, since I was done orienting at the hospital early, cause I don’t know when I’ll next get to sit around waiting for them to ring me back will be now that I’ve got a proper full time non independant contractor (that doesn’t satisfy visa requirements because of how my taxes get filed) job. Yay me! XD 
 
Called and got through to a tier I rep, told them I didn’t have my WAC# (which was true since I was still on campus and didn’t have any of my paperwork with me.) He was super sweet, really nice, said no problem, I’ll transfer you to tier II, they can help. An hour later I got a call back from a tier II rep, who got me my WAC, after giving me a heartattack cause she jumped right in with ‘what’s your last name?’ ... ‘i don’t have any files in the system with that last name’
 
OMG
 
But anyway. I was given the standard ‘you may have to wait a few more weeks, we don’t have any sort of timeline anymore, we’re still working on June 1 cases’ so i go ‘omgosh, i wonder how many cases you guys GOT for 6/1, since it says on the site that you were working on 6/1 back on 10/31/17’ and she just goes ‘...yeaaa....we really got a lot. Anyway, give it a couple weeks then try again, but you should be good in a couple weeks.’ 
 
I swear if i get an approval on my phone at work i’ma scare the hell outta patients XD I was trying to save some heart attacks, i swear!!! 

So I figured I’d bite the bullet and just give USCIS a call today, since I was done orienting at the hospital early, cause I don’t know when I’ll next get to sit around waiting for them to ring me back will be now that I’ve got a proper full time non independant contractor (that doesn’t satisfy visa requirements because of how my taxes get filed) job. Yay me! XD 
 
Called and got through to a tier I rep, told them I didn’t have my WAC# (which was true since I was still on campus and didn’t have any of my paperwork with me.) He was super sweet, really nice, said no problem, I’ll transfer you to tier II, they can help. An hour later I got a call back from a tier II rep, who got me my WAC, after giving me a heartattack cause she jumped right in with ‘what’s your last name?’ ... ‘i don’t have any files in the system with that last name’
 
OMG
 
But anyway. I was given the standard ‘you may have to wait a few more weeks, we don’t have any sort of timeline anymore, we’re still working on June 1 cases’ so i go ‘omgosh, i wonder how many cases you guys GOT for 6/1, since it says on the site that you were working on 6/1 back on 10/31/17’ and she just goes ‘...yeaaa....we really got a lot. Anyway, give it a couple weeks then try again, but you should be good in a couple weeks.’ 
 
I swear if i get an approval on my phone at work i’ma scare the hell outta patients XD I was trying to save some heart attacks, i swear!!! 

The noa2 approval expires after a few months (someone else can probably say if it's 4 or 6, I'm drawing a blank) but the long and short of it is unless you can convince the embassy to extend it, you've got a limited window in which you can push the interview back before that approval expires and you have to start again

1800-375-5283 is the number i called, and then 1, 2, 2, 2  I told them i didn’t have my WAC and they transferred me to tier II, which did the ‘automated call-back’ set up, and i got a call back an hour later that showed up as 800-000-0000 just fyi, so don’t ignore that thinking it’s a scam or something XD
I’m the USC  

1800-375-5283 is the number i called, and then 1, 2, 2, 2  I told them i didn’t have my WAC and they transferred me to tier II, which did the ‘automated call-back’ set up, and i got a call back an hour later that showed up as 800-000-0000 just fyi, so don’t ignore that thinking it’s a scam or something XD
I’m the USC  

So I figured I’d bite the bullet and just give USCIS a call today, since I was done orienting at the hospital early, cause I don’t know when I’ll next get to sit around waiting for them to ring me back will be now that I’ve got a proper full time non independant contractor (that doesn’t satisfy visa requirements because of how my taxes get filed) job. Yay me! XD 
 
Called and got through to a tier I rep, told them I didn’t have my WAC# (which was true since I was still on campus and didn’t have any of my paperwork with me.) He was super sweet, really nice, said no problem, I’ll transfer you to tier II, they can help. An hour later I got a call back from a tier II rep, who got me my WAC, after giving me a heartattack cause she jumped right in with ‘what’s your last name?’ ... ‘i don’t have any files in the system with that last name’
 
OMG
 
But anyway. I was given the standard ‘you may have to wait a few more weeks, we don’t have any sort of timeline anymore, we’re still working on June 1 cases’ so i go ‘omgosh, i wonder how many cases you guys GOT for 6/1, since it says on the site that you were working on 6/1 back on 10/31/17’ and she just goes ‘...yeaaa....we really got a lot. Anyway, give it a couple weeks then try again, but you should be good in a couple weeks.’ 
 
I swear if i get an approval on my phone at work i’ma scare the hell outta patients XD I was trying to save some heart attacks, i swear!!! 

The New Zealand Consulate is pretty fast too. I will be booking my medical as soon as we have our number but NVC still has to send it to the consulate who then has to send me packet 3 and I send it back and get packet 4. We have a NOA2 date of Dec 13 and are still waiting for NVC to receive our case. I would LOVE if we had a number by end of Jan and we can close the distance by end of Feb. I'm tired and teary eyed everyday waiting. Haven't seen him since August. Gotta keep being patient a little bit longer. 

@MarksMate @MM&CS 
 
I literally JUST had a lamb-based discussion my fiancé last night...he was telling me how much he was gonna miss leg of lamb and I had to be like "you know we still have that, right...?" I'm a vegetarian myself but I know it won't be too hard to hunt down lots of good meat! I live in Minneapolis so we've got tons of good butchers and farmers who sell here.
 
And I'm the American!  Have lived in NZ for a few stints of our 3-year relationship

Lol I just realized that rereading the last post 😂 I wonder if we ran across one another in the 😂l airport 😂
 
Pri has loads more patience then me, but this whole waiting and being apart thing is really dragging on her. She just asks for updates on how everyone in the forum's doing. I'm the one that likes to research everything online and she's the one that goes 'its the government... We'll see it when we see it, and there's no point in stressing over it till then...' I just hope we get moving on this stuff before the police records she got from the Japanese consulate for her exchange student thing need to be redone... 
 
I feel bad groaning about how long I've been waiting what with people like John add Rose, and the mat and April filers, but there's times where the rugby player I sat next to on my flight back up to Auckland seemed to have the right idea... Why did I get on that plane? Why didn't I stay? Logically? Cause kiwilandia doesn't have any need for my skills so I can't get a work visa lol. But when she had a bad allergic reaction last night to surprise mushrooms in her food and had to get herself home, and I could do was sit on Instagram and wait for her to message me that she was home safe... That was one of those 'wish I'd just stayed' moments! 
 
I've got my fingers crossed for you to get through to the next step in the process soon! Bring ALL THE KIWIS TO ILLINOIS! 😂

I hope you get your noa2 soon! You've been waiting for aaaaaaaages then there is a long wait at NVC too.
 
I am the kiwi spouse haha. I am always confused about who is the one on the forums. I still don't know who is the one in NZ and who is the account of @mysticdolphin95 haha. My American lurkes on my posts! He has way more patience for this process than I do.

Hopefully it's an noa2! 😂 I joined the 200+ club on Friday 😥 reading all these 'noa2 showed up in my mailbox today, no updates elsewhere' stories and am cursing the post office for not delivering tomorrow! What if I've got an noa2?! Don't they understand my neeeeeed?! (They're like calm yourself child, all you ever get is junk mail!) 😂

Haha omg you guys are like an hour and a half north of me! I'm sure Pri will be glad to know she's not the only kiwi adjusting to all the flatness of central Illinois! 😂 after visiting her last March for a whole month, I totally understood her concern about what's holding the sky up here! 😋 so many corn fields, so few sheep! 

Hopefully it's an noa2! 😂 I joined the 200+ club on Friday 😥 reading all these 'noa2 showed up in my mailbox today, no updates elsewhere' stories and am cursing the post office for not delivering tomorrow! What if I've got an noa2?! Don't they understand my neeeeeed?! (They're like calm yourself child, all you ever get is junk mail!) 😂

Wooooo, yeah!!!! 200 days. Yeaaaaaah!!!
What do I win? 😬😎

Another kiwi couple here! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that Auckland remains a relatively smooth cake walk after this long as wait for you! Today I join the 200+ day club, but I'm hoping yesterday's activity continues going forward and we all start getting more good news! 

I find it even funnier that you refer to it as "mens under-regions" HAHAHAHHAA
 
Thats cracking me up.

Whats next? Mossy cottages for the ladies?  (Thats what my grandma used to say to my sister!)



 

Got our case number this morning!  I'm on the west coast at the moment, so called from bed around 5am PST - had to scramble for a pen and paper when they asked me for the beneficiary's name (gave them the wrong birthday too, in my sleepy state...)  They must have received and assigned the number yesterday, as they didn't have the file in the system when I called yesterday morning.  48 days from NOA2 notice date to NVC, so at least it seems that they're staying consistently slow from October/November/December and not slowing down further.
 
Wow, can't believe I'm saying this - time for my fiancé to schedule his medical and do the DS-160!  I sent the I-134 back in November in my naiveté, so I think I'll redo it as it'll be pretty out of date by the interview.  I think we're the first Kiwi case to make it through, so I can let all the other Auckland people know how things go  @MarksMate @Kat&Joel (others I'm missing?)
 

We're going to be doing the same thing! 😋 its way too cost prohibitive for her family to all swing last minute tickets to the US for the wedding when we have a limited amount of time to plan things once we've finally got the visa, so it's a marriage here and then ceremony there XD we'll be getting married in Dunedin, how bout you? 

I said just about the same thing in the post right above yours.  Maybe God is doing this to make the transition easier on us!  I have to assume there is some reason and them missing the polar vortex is not a bad thing.

My new family should have experienced their first white Christmas last year.  As an early June filer it never even once crossed my mind that my expected POE in November of 2017 will actually be a POE in June or July of 2018.

I hear you. I'm pretty sure Rose and the kids would've enjoyed a white Christmas with you. I hope you get the news this week.

We're going to be doing the same thing! 😋 its way too cost prohibitive for her family to all swing last minute tickets to the US for the wedding when we have a limited amount of time to plan things once we've finally got the visa, so it's a marriage here and then ceremony there XD we'll be getting married in Dunedin, how bout you? 

We'll be getting legally married in the U.S., of course, but we're going to have a ceremony with people invited next year.