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PLOT TWIST!: we've actually been scanning the wrong data all along! 😂😂😂😂

Yes.  The interviews for July filers will be in February.  I'm sticking to that!!!

Unfortunately most statements needed for tax returns haven't been available to me until later than January or early Feb, and the last day to file is in April so I don't think we need to worry about 2017 tax returns.  I requested my summaries from the IRS for 2014,2015,2016 and received them within a week.  I think if it's Feb for interviews if you have pay stubs and W2 for last year that should be sufficient if taxes not filed yet.  But please feel free to correct me anyone if I am wrong. 

Hi all,
 
Another July couple here
NOA1 recd 11 July (California service centre)
I (Alli) am from Australia and can't wait till that NOA2 arrives!! It's been 4 weeks since my fiancé Rich visited and I probably won't see him again till this is all approved and I can move so I'm keeping a positive mind that that day will come soon!
 
Anyway just wanted to introduce myself and say good luck to the rest of the group
 
Alli

UPDATED REPOST  (I'M SORRY)
 
 Seriously One thing I hate about this forum is that you can't edit....
 I made a mistake with the formula so please use these numbers:
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Mainly for June and further months but if anyone is interested:
 
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Hi everyone,
 
This is not weeklies or dailies but an explanation for especially June and forward cases (but I'll put it in May too for information)
 
I have been asked a lot why I think things are getting better, even though it does not seem like it, or what is my evidence..(actually wait let's not even go there)
 
Now I am putting the weeklies, since September for the months April - September.
What April went through and caused this overload is superb, and extremely sad. I am continuously saying May is in better shape and I hope after these number you will also see what I mean. April never had a peak time. The numbers were always low.
 
we don't even know how many cases there are that will never be updated so I would put a 15% on top of these numbers
 Why I believe this 15% is also correct? 
Because there are 1500+ April cases that looks like pending, but the number of people left in the April forum who's still waiting is way less! 
 Think about how many left in May and what is the situation in May right now? Oh so many of their NOA2s are on its way I'm sure!
 
That's why here are the numbers also with the 15% added values...
 
Love you all   Now everybody go out and play!
 
These are only the cases that are touched or approved but excluding the rejected and received cases (especially for september)
 
 
　 April May June July August Sept. Total 15% Added SEPT W1 　 　 　 　 　 　 275 316 09/01/17 55 1 2 2 3   63   09/02/17         1   1   09/04/17 5           5   09/05/17 77   2   4   83   09/06/17 22 1   4 6   33   09/07/17 34   2 6 4   46   09/08/17 37 1 2   1   41   09/09/17         1   1   09/10/17       2     2    
SEPT W2
　 　 　 　 　 　 295 339 09/11/17 91 4 2 1 9   107   09/12/17 16     2 2 1 21   09/13/17 37     2 2   41   09/14/17 61   1 1 3   66   09/15/17 52 3   2 3   60   SEPT W3 　 　 　 　 　 　 336 386 09/18/17 87 2 1 1 5 1 97   09/19/17 40 2 1 1 6 1 51   09/20/17 65 2   2     69   09/21/17 65 1   2 6 1 75   09/22/17 35 2   1 2 2 42   09/23/17       1 1   2    
SEPT W4
　 　 　 　 　 　 406 467 09/25/17 108 6   3 3 2 122   09/26/17 67 2 1   4 5 79   09/27/17 75 2   1 3 7 88   09/28/17 42 7 1 3 2 2 57   09/29/17 33 16 1 1 5 1 57   09/30/17         1 1 2   10/01/17 1           1    
OCT W1
　 　 　 　 　 　 412 473 10/02/17 50 24   5 5 2 86   10/03/17 54 18 4 4 4 2 86   10/04/17 45 37 4 1 2 4 93   10/05/17 40 27 1 1 3 1 73   10/06/17 36 28 2   4 2 72   10/07/17           1 1   10/08/17         1   1    
OCT W2
　 　 　 　 　 　 421 484 10/09/17 2 9         11   10/10/17 54 146 2 1 2 2 207   10/11/17 21 32   1 3 3 60   10/12/17 45 48 2   2 3 100   10/13/17 24 10     1 5 40   10/14/17                                 383 10/16/17 18 34     4 3 59   10/17/17 25 34 1 2   5 67   10/18/17 22 30     3 2 57   10/19/17 9 42 1 2 3 3 60   10/20/17 32 52     1   85   10/21/17   2         2   10/22/17     1 1   1 3    
OCT W4
　 　 　 　 　 　 510 586 10/23/17 43 110 1     3 157   10/24/17 24 59         83   10/25/17 25 38 1       64   10/26/17 28 52         80   10/27/17 36 88 1       125   10/28/17           1 1    
NOV W1
　 　 　 　 　 　 834 959 10/30/17 20 91 1       112   10/31/17 33 125 5       163   11/01/17 40 76 1     1 118   11/02/17 49 108       3 160   11/03/17 45 155 2     1 203   11/04/17 18 54 5       77   11/05/17 1           1    
NOV W2
　 　 　 　 　 　 638 734 11/06/17 39 163 2       204   11/07/17 28 110 10       148   11/08/17 30 102         132   11/09/17 23 90         113   11/10/17 11 28       1 40   11/11/17           1 1    
NOV W3
　 　 　 　 　 　 655 753 11/13/17 3 5         8   11/14/17 61 229         290   11/15/17 34 167 11     1 213   11/16/17 30 91 21     2 144   Future Dated Cases 3 6 　 　 　 4 13   TOTAL 2208 2572 95 56 116 81 5128 5897  
 
 

 

I'll try to update overall all months and will update you guys on the latest numbers. It will show the expedited too(as approved ones) 😊

Yeah me too, it's like... VJ is definitely the place to be when you are going through this process....
definition of my relationship right now : My fiancé+Myself+VJ= happiness hahahha

Good Morning to a Positive Saturday Everyone!!!
 
I wasn't going to do the weeklies because @Shoegum rocked it yesterday!!! (I wish I had my cool graph programs at home  )
Me Loved the ORANGES  
 
But then I was checking the Aprils! and then because I didn't yet had the raw data for 11/3 from Shoegum,
I decided eh why not, let's scan that just to have some fun with calculations.
 
I felt really happy, and hopefully to give hope to most waiting in every month,about the timelines really picking up just like shoegum said!
 
Here goes nothing
 
Monthlies;

 
Weeklies;
And yes we hit 800+ (and this doesn't even include possible unchanged status cases!)
* Extra dates are some cases where a future date is written in some "Document was mailed" statuses these are usually 1 month from the date of status change 

 
In numbers:
The total of cases has been touched (anything but virgin) from April+ (as we do not have data for before April cases) since October 1st is in TOTAL 2651 
970 for APRIL; 1663 for MAY; 18 for JUNE
 
I hope this gives someone / anyone some ease
 
Please keep your happiness strong, nobody here is alone.. No,no I am not even talking about us each other. 
But here everyone is waiting for a partner, your happiness is your other half/ your bae(I just realized I have never used this word in my life )/ your love/ your everything... whatever you want to call is also their happiness!! 
 
 
*Links for RAW Data, 
  Please check it on a computer browser; seems like some cases doesn't show on phone browsers.
  And let me know if I made a mistake or forgot your case
May
 -for the recent May result please check Shoegum's Up-to-date May list!
June
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7Y0dUU2szSVV6UUU
July
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7SGphWmI4blc4ZFU
August
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7RFlBekpGYUExLWM
September
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7UkpONjltVzI0bGs 

Visa approved!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's my two cents.....
I began talking to my algerian fiance last July....we physically met in Germany over Christmas....I met his friends, he met my sister....we traveled to Prague together. It was a great week. I filed the I 129f at the end of January. And then I found this site. The Algiers embassy is also a tough embassy  (albeit not as difficult as Casa from what I have read). If I had found this site BEFORE I filed the K1....I would have done things much differently....I would have visited him at least once more before filing. I visited him in March (after filing) and I plan on being there for the interview...but....at this point  (9 months in....his interview is in a couple of weeks), I feel like I have been trying to play catch up..... 
Listen to what the people here are telling you....visit each other....spend more time together before you file. 

I didn't provide our first chats either. I just 1) printed out the site's Terms of Service (TOS), and 2) contacted the website's support team asking if they were an International Marriage Broker, then printed out the response. I doubt both steps were actually needed, and a couple others who filed around the same time as me who met from the same website did not get an RFE, but that was my experience. It's not consistent if they issue an RFE or not asking for evidence that the site is not an IMB...the adjudicating officer gets to make the call if he needs more evidence or not. But if you provide the info upfront, it can avoid the RFE.

This peeked my interest as well. I met my wife 3 years ago, and we met online on a chat website. We were not excatly trying to cataloging our first meet as, I was just some guy she met and she was some girl I met online (when we initially met). We have changed phones and have lost messages of our first few conversations. How important is it that we show our first interactions. We mentioned we met online in our cover letter but did not elaborate. What kind of evidence will we be expected to provide?

The consulate officers are trained to look for signs of Nikah marriages hidden as an engagement party.  They are aware that some religious ceremonies can join the couple in marriage even without a certificate. If there was no imam present at your party, then you have nothing to hide. Hope this helps.

I am so very tired of waiting for an answer....then waiting for an interview date....all of the insecurity and the unknown ..I scheduled a flight today (for my birthday). I'm going to Algeria  
 

That's great tips, thanks so much @Salty2305!
Great to see you got a letter from the Embassy, I ask because I wanted to make sure you needed it for the medical and also because I require it to get a Hong Kong Police Clearance Certificate, they won't issue it unless they have a copy of the letter by the London Embassy, so i'll have to wait out for that. But glad that you got one and that they still do produce paper documents in a timely manner.
 
Great tip about the documents though, on the other hand shame about the ordering hah! 

hello,
please explain me correctly. Are you waiting for your NOA2 or you got it and you they are waiting for a NVC to send you a letter?
On your timeline it says you waiting for NOA2, if that the case  do not rush, wait at least, check regularly on the website  USIC status check and you can have information update about your case.
if you got your NOA2 and you are waiting for the NVC to send you a letter, you have to call the NVC and request the case number with this case number you can procede to booking an appointment and the medical. generally the medical is available and you dont have a problem. vaccins are age appropriate so if your fiance is young normally they request DT Menegitis, Hepatitis B and this you have to do them either in the clinic which I dont recommend or in your fiancee town. your fiance have to go to hospital in his city and look for "centre de prevention " and request vaccination and he can say for travelling abroad. usually the Menegitis is rare to find except for pelgrimige season. but if he talk to them nicely they can help him. and open a Flacon for him. from what city is your fiance? may be I can recommend places for vaccination to go for.
again if you need the phone number of the clinic that I used to book appointment I can give you and usually they will give it to you with the letter from the embassy.
I advice you now to start collecting papers for the Affidavit of support I-134 which require a lot of time.
the best luck to you and to everyone here.
 

I had my medical exam in Tunis. I think that the medical exams are all the same in all countries. I had a chest x ray (looking for tuberculosis) a blood test (checking syphilis and drugs) and a herpes genital (looking for sexual transmitted diseases) I hope this helps

ok, the medical exam in the clinic el-Azhar is the follows:

- when you have the appointment, you have to think of getting your vaccines and this is according to your age (DT- hepatitis B - Meningitis) normally you are required to take them in the clinic and the other no found in the clinic you have to take them at the Pasteur institute. what I advise you to do is go to the library buy an international vaccination booklet and go to the closest hospital to you and do the vaccines normally they are found except for the meningitis is only found during the pilgrimage season. try to be nice to the hospital personal and request them to help you with the meningitis maybe they could. They have to open a Flacon.

ok, now you have finished with vaccinations you have to go to the clinic on the appointed day they gave you and they will do general medical checkup, and blood test and chest x-ray.

when done they give you a receipt that you have to keep it and when they call you back to retrieve your exam result you have to present to the Doctor Aftis at the 4 floor and get our exam (big envelop contain x-ray, the x-ray on a CD, and result on a sealed envelope).

the CD that contains the x-ray you have to take it with you if your visa is approved to the USA and the sealed envelope you have to give it to the embassy when for the interview. my thoughts to you is when the doctor check you up and you finish the check up and blood test go back and ask for a copy of DS-3025 form, this form you will need it for adjustment of status I.E you don’t not need to do another medical exam when in the USA for adjusting your status. The Doctor will normally give it to you without a problem, be nice when asking for it.

so this is my experience with clinic El-Azhar.

wish you the best.

 
 
 
 

Hello everyone, 
 
It sure has been quiet in here. My fiance and I are anxiously awaiting the NOA2. I checked the estimation times today, as we were planning flights to visit, and saw they pushed back the estimations by about a week! This made me even more anxious. On the bright side, I checked my form I-797C today and realized I put the wrong date in for my NOA1 approval by a good 4 days. I had initially put July 31, which was the notice date, instead of the received date of the 27th. Thankfully, this put my estimated time back to where it was, but it's still worrisome that the latest visajourney petitioners are recording longer processing times to where it would push the dates back by a good week. Hoping it speeds up again.
 
Anyway, we're expecting our first child on 2 March, so every day really counts here. I'm hoping we get the visa approved in early February, but I know not to hold my breath. I hope everyone in the forums is doing well. If anyone's in a similar situation as me (baby on the way), I'd love to make some friends to vent and get the stress out with. 
 
Cheers!

Yes you are totally right! so exciting , I am at 60 days

LOL...
It's funny how people see things differently
You are at 60 days and you're happy and excited
but me being "glass completely empty" kinda guy, i'm at 71 days and feeling like even though i'm half way there

Wow, it has been long. I hope you get your appointment soon. 

Well....we made it through uscis and nvc....our case is in Algeria....but we have to schedule an appointment through ustraveldocs.......it's been a month of "no appointment available" 
Just when I thought it was going to be easy sailing.....haha...a new level of hell. 

Hi everyone! We got married Tuesday morning in a nearby park in Plano, Texas. It was just us and his best friend, so it was really nice and simple.  I'm hoping to have my AOS packet sent off in the next week or two. Can't wait to see some more photos from others soon!

My fiancé has the interview today at 11:00 AM Colombia time, I wanted to be there with her but God works in mysterious ways with this Hurricane Irma I was sent before for work to India and that's way I won't be with her but in my plans I was supposed to fly on Friday and that would have been impossible do to the weather. I'm a little nervous but confident. I just wanted to share. Thanks for listening.