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Some good news for us also, finace just called NVC and they recieved our petition today, now just to get the case number. 

We were approved on june 29th btw, so a little over two weeks from USCIS to NVC for us.

13 minutes ago, Hello729 said:

Not sure if this is the correct forum to ask this question.  Our NOA2 was approved today, and I am not sure what to do next.  Can someone suggest a good thread to read about the next step after NOA2 approval?  Thanks in advance.  

This is what I was suggested, it has lots of useful info for the next steps:  https://sites.google.com/view/post-noa2/home

@Little_Vixen So you already put in the application for your Netherlands police certificate?  Just asking because I was always under the assumption that they want the most up to date one possible, so I wanted to wait after the embassy gets my application, but if two or three months before the interview is enough, I sure as hell wanna go get my certficate and have one less thing I have to get done 

Upravo cekam da NVC recieve case koji je approved 29-og juna, zanima me ako neko ima informaciju kako izgleda nas packet 3, i sta tacno sadrzi?

I emailed the Embassy in Belgrade asking if I could recieve instructions on their stage of the process (hoping they would maybe send me the packet 3 checklist) but they just replied with saying that I should recieve something from them once my petition reaches them

@Greenbaum  do you know if there is a checklist for Belgrade embassy here on VJ?

I emailed the Embassy in Belgrade asking if I could recieve instructions on their stage of the process (hoping they would maybe send me the packet 3 checklist) but they just replied with saying that I should recieve something from them once my petition reaches them

@Greenbaum  do you know if there is a checklist for Belgrade embassy here on VJ,  like the one you sent saeric for the embassy in Lagos?

1 minute ago, missileman said:

The focus should be on what will it take to put all your "ducks in a row"  for the CO.  In addition, you'll need someone with 125% later in your journey anyway....Good Luck.

Exactly, I know we would need one for AOS anyway. 

Since we are now waiting for our petition to go to NVC, we won't revieve any letter from them? I'm assuming that's why we have to call and ask for the NVC number, in order to get a jumpstart on the medical and everything else, so we can schedule the interview as soon as possible

That's what we will do, my finace really hates having to use one, but that's a pride thing so we shall play it safe

We are currently filling out our affidavid of support, through the rapidvisa's income calculator, we figured out that my fiance makes 123% of the poverty guidelines, now we know we need 100% for the k1, but 125 for AOS, should we play it safe and use a cosponsor for k1 (to bring it to the interview), or do we only need one when adjusting the status?

Question to the approved members, do we have a July 2018 no2 ---> NVC thread yet?

If so I'd love to have the link to it.

My fiance just called and said he is receiving an email from the Department of Homeland Security

Just checked the status on the new site and it still says recieved..

well now the nerves are starting!

If my eyes aren't deceiving me, it seems they have approved a dec 21 petition today:  http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/monthly_filers.php

which means they are still steaming ahead (well not really "steaming" when USCIS is considered lol), and as a dec 22 filer, I am getting very excited 

I gotta say, after we have reached the coveted 180 day mark, and it being 6 months today since USCIS recieved date, the anxiousness is starting to kick in. I was always betting on going 200+ days before any news, but knowing they are so close to starting my date (dec 22), it really feels like the full weight of everything we have been waiting for is showing.

I go on VJ at least 5 times throughout the day (especially during the working hours of the CA processing center) just to see if any new members got approvals today, and I am so happy when I see the progress that has been made.

2 minutes ago, Carito3 said:

Did everyone @ USCIS decide to take the day off today?!

It's been too quiet...

They literaly went to work not even 4 hours ago, so give it some time before worrying.

California is 9 hours behind me, so I check for VJ member updates in the forums when I wake up the next day, to give the service center time to update the site and send out NOA2's 

Can anyone send me the link to the "new" site, since I keep loging into my uscis account and it just shows up the same old one as always.

1 hour ago, Little_Vixen said:

Today we are at day 100 and with the current speed of things I'd say we are over the hump people! Half our waitingtime is over. We can do this!

Finally into the triple digits aswell, I'm thankfull that school  + work is keeping me busy throughout of the day, otherwise I'd lose my mind with the waiting haha 

Can't wait to see daily scans for our month, watching them for september/october is super exciting 

4 hours ago, Little_Vixen said:

Its hard but still very doable. I am very busy tying up loose ends so when that vis comes in I can MOVE! 

I visited him during december and he is coming over in 12 days, 9 ours and 49 minutes.  He'll be staying for two weeks and we'll visit Paris, drive around Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg. We'll go visit some friends in the UK. And I'm going to show him all over the Netherlands. 

Anyway. We chat a lot. Like, whole pages of texts daily. And that's not to mention the phone and video calls (6 hours yesterday )

Its pretty easy going now. But I think it'll get a lot harder once we hit 180, 190 and 200 days. I can see our fellow filers in May, June, July struggle. It's so hard to watch. 

Damn you are lucky, we haven't seen eachother since April last year, and have to wait till the end of June for our next visit. Daily messaging and skyping whenever I can stay up (9 hour difference) is a lifesaver hah. 

In two days we hit the two month mark since recieved date, so I'm excited about that at least 

13 minutes ago, Naes said:

Hellloooooo Everyone,

 

For August, I know it feels like things around the corner.

And it is almost, but to give you and everyone a brief look on how things are going.

 

Monthly situation;

	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Approved	1398	459	13	6		1		1877
Touched	1050	356	139	129	128	67	28	1897
Virgins	1221	2595	3519	3176	3770	3304	3297	20882
Excluded	372	386	404	287	244	205	184	2082
Total	4041	3796	4075	3598	4142	3577	3509	26738

 

So we do think June is way ahead of what it looks like especially the virgin numbers, but we do have in vj at least 30 people waiting their noa2s in June.

for July I do also believe we have more approvals than it appears, because there were dates that show no approval updated, yet we know people are getting  their noa2s. (we had lots of that today too!)

 

The latest date that barely touched in July is July 24

 

 However,we still have lots of early Julies waiting. So they still do have more to go. 

I personally expect the July overall to be done next week, and then one more week for July to have its fire.

And this would be the time for June to wrap up, so they can move to August. (my expected due date for August is second week of Feb. alllll fingers crossed)

 

In February USCIS is going to update their website, which will hopefully show "July 1 as of November 31" which would be the touch for Juners to start inquiries and them to move to August.

 

About NVC times

With some irregularities still occurring, NVC almost got back to its normal 2 weeks timeline.

If any delays again occur we will again start to track it!

 

For now Good luck to all of us!

Amazing work as always @Naes

It's crazy to think that "just 20.000 more cases and then it's our turn!" haha, but seeing the number of untouched cases drop, and approved cases rise really helps boost the morale.

I'm following so many monthly threads now I can barely keep track of all the new posts! 

Thanks again everyone, you've really put my mind at ease.

I don't think Serbia is considered a super traditional country (as in the parents need to approve of the relationship) so it shouldn't pose a problem even in the slight chance the CO asks, and yea ofcourse I'll tell it like it is, as some of you have said, we're definitelly not the first same sex couple they have had to deal with.

And good look with everyone's journey, today marks one month since our petition was recieved.

20 minutes ago, bakphx1@aol.com said:

My husband is from a homophobic country with religious parents and is here now with his parents thinking he scored a work visa. 

 

It never came up as far as our families' attitudes. He has met some of my family who is supportive. That may have helped as far as pictures are concerned, but I don't know his family. 

 

It likely won't come up, but if the issue is that  you are hiding being gay, you are hiding it regardless of who you are in a relationship with.  Whether someone local or foreign. 

 

Don't worry over it. We did before and it was wasted energy.  

Thanks, the whole waiting has had me just thinking of ways something might go wrong, so I've just been worrying about everything now

I apologize in advance if I chose the wrong topic, just didn't know where to put it exactly.

So, a little background, 

We met online in 2015 and have been in an wonderfull relationship ever since, we have gone on two trips together and planing a vacation to Barcelona this summer while we wait for our k1 to be processed (december filer)

We would both really like for him to accompany me to the interview when it comes to that, and also meet my parents and younger brother, but there's a big catch. He is very big on family and would like to meet them at least once and get a picture with them to have as a keepsake. But, here's the problem.

Coming from a very conservative culture and background, my parents have no idea about me being gay, let alone being in a relationship and engaged to my fiance.

The explanation I gave them (and everyone else around me pretty much) is that I got an internship lined up, and that is why I am moving.

My Fiance's mom is very supportive of us, (we chat over skype often), as are all of his friends and familly. I have felt welcomed by them even though I haven't met them yet in person.

My worry is if during the interview the officer asks me what do my parents think of the relationship (I told them that a representative from the company I will be starting the internship in, will come for the interview)

I know telling them outright isn't an option (I'd prefer not to get kicked out of the house and shunned by my whole family), and I have a 12yo brother who I am quite close with, who I probably wouldn't be allowed to contact anymore if I "came out".

I am basically wondering how do I approach the question if it comes up?  You guys have been so helpfull in this whole process, and I am hoping the experience of some VJ members may help shine a light on my situation.

2 hours ago, Daniel P said:

Update of the graphs comparing May and June regarding the length of time from Received to Approved one month later (as to 01/20/2018), this time including July under the same conditions.

 

As a reminder, in the graphs below I try to compare what happened within the next 190 days after that last day of May, June and July 14th (last day with approvals) received cases. In order to see them clearer I put them together in pairs.

 

In that time, with a total of 1877, 818 and 243 approved cases (after removing some outliers) respectively:

 

• May had a global mean of 175.25 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 14.06 days.
• June had a global mean of 186.05 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 9.16 days.
• July had a global mean of 193.91 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 3.28 days.

 

Even if it doesn't look very good (way less approvals in the same period of time for July and also starting from 185+ days) just remember that, because of the holidays, they haven't worked the same number of days, and more importantly, haven't been very consistent updating approvals, which is why these results only apply to the information it comes from, the unreliable information updated by USCIS.

 

If they keep the rate of approvals seen in the last days, I believe we'll start seeing a clear improvement in the next one or two months. Let's hope!

 

 

Amazing work as always! 

1 minute ago, blackHEBREW said:

is there any way to see if my case was approved , i dont see it listed but it was on July 3   WAC1790383919

Ran a scan on the website and it's still showing as recieved, but with all these approvals it shouldn't be too long now for you to hear something back

Big Congradulations to all the july approvals from a december filer, it's so nice to see all the happiness after I imagine is an unbarable wait.

I can only hope that the rest of us who are just starting the wait will have the same willpower and luck as all of you!