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Canaderp here. Thought I'd share that we got our approval today so if any of you are getting itchy, hold tight.

Canaderp here. Thought I'd share that we got our approval today so if any of you are getting itchy, hold tight.

Canaderp here. Thought I'd share that we got our approval today so if any of you are getting itchy, hold tight.

Canaderp here. Thought I'd share that we got our approval today so if any of you are getting itchy, hold tight.

Canaderp here. Thought I'd share that we got our approval today so if any of you are getting itchy, hold tight.

Canaderp here. Thought I'd share that we got our approval today so if any of you are getting itchy, hold tight.

So happy for all of you!! Seriously, it's almost making me cry just seeing how happy ya'll are!!!! 

Buuuut nothing here for me so still glad I withdrew

99% of my well wishes are sent to John & Rose though. Must be torture.

That is a big + haha.
Curious minds are welcome. Hopefully mid day scan shows some movement for ya'll!

After seeing some November applicants get non-expedited forms approved, my fiance and I reflected on perhaps not cancelling our k1 earlier.
This morning we sent out our withdrawal and have updated our timeline. 

I want to thank you all for everything and I'll continue to hang out here and be a cheerleader for all of you who are brave enough to stick it out. I owe many of you a great deal for all of the support, kindness and work you've done to make this awful process more hospitable. 

Wish you all the best!

 

Either 90DR which will allow us to be together for 90+ days and then asking for an AOS which should take a couple months. Still, we'll be together through the process. Or, file for CR-1, re-up my lease and have her come live here for 6months while we wait. Or, file for a Canadian version of the k1 and have her stay here while we wait (the wait is much shorter especially for US spouses).

Either 90DR which will allow us to be together for 90+ days and then asking for an AOS which should take a couple months. Still, we'll be together through the process. Or, file for CR-1, re-up my lease and have her come live here for 6months while we wait. Or, file for a Canadian version of the k1 and have her stay here while we wait (the wait is much shorter especially for US spouses).

After seeing some November applicants get non-expedited forms approved, my fiance and I reflected on perhaps not cancelling our k1 earlier.
This morning we sent out our withdrawal and have updated our timeline. 

I want to thank you all for everything and I'll continue to hang out here and be a cheerleader for all of you who are brave enough to stick it out. I owe many of you a great deal for all of the support, kindness and work you've done to make this awful process more hospitable. 

Wish you all the best!

 

After seeing some November applicants get non-expedited forms approved, my fiance and I reflected on perhaps not cancelling our k1 earlier.
This morning we sent out our withdrawal and have updated our timeline. 

I want to thank you all for everything and I'll continue to hang out here and be a cheerleader for all of you who are brave enough to stick it out. I owe many of you a great deal for all of the support, kindness and work you've done to make this awful process more hospitable. 

Wish you all the best!

 

After seeing some November applicants get non-expedited forms approved, my fiance and I reflected on perhaps not cancelling our k1 earlier.
This morning we sent out our withdrawal and have updated our timeline. 

I want to thank you all for everything and I'll continue to hang out here and be a cheerleader for all of you who are brave enough to stick it out. I owe many of you a great deal for all of the support, kindness and work you've done to make this awful process more hospitable. 

Wish you all the best!

 

After seeing some November applicants get non-expedited forms approved, my fiance and I reflected on perhaps not cancelling our k1 earlier.
This morning we sent out our withdrawal and have updated our timeline. 

I want to thank you all for everything and I'll continue to hang out here and be a cheerleader for all of you who are brave enough to stick it out. I owe many of you a great deal for all of the support, kindness and work you've done to make this awful process more hospitable. 

Wish you all the best!

 

After seeing some November applicants get non-expedited forms approved, my fiance and I reflected on perhaps not cancelling our k1 earlier.
This morning we sent out our withdrawal and have updated our timeline. 

I want to thank you all for everything and I'll continue to hang out here and be a cheerleader for all of you who are brave enough to stick it out. I owe many of you a great deal for all of the support, kindness and work you've done to make this awful process more hospitable. 

Wish you all the best!

 

Here's hoping !! 

I hear ya. I've always been the strong one of us two but it's just getting harder and harder. And as happy as I am to see everyone else get moving, it can also make things slightly discouraging when you feel left behind. Obviously there are those far worse than me, but doesn't mean that I'm not allowed to feel like a plastic bag in the wind haha.

Having a frustrating mental day. Feels like we're so close but so far. Fearing that we're an anomaly.

Precisely why I'm worried haha. If I knew it was 7 more days, for example, I could sit tight.

I hear ya. I've always been the strong one of us two but it's just getting harder and harder. And as happy as I am to see everyone else get moving, it can also make things slightly discouraging when you feel left behind. Obviously there are those far worse than me, but doesn't mean that I'm not allowed to feel like a plastic bag in the wind haha.

Not sure that's how things work.  We all have different realities/stresses/things to deal with that can make this situation unique to each person. I wouldn't project my insecurities on you, please don't project your standards of coping upon me.

 

Having a frustrating mental day. Feels like we're so close but so far. Fearing that we're an anomaly.

I hear ya. I've always been the strong one of us two but it's just getting harder and harder. And as happy as I am to see everyone else get moving, it can also make things slightly discouraging when you feel left behind. Obviously there are those far worse than me, but doesn't mean that I'm not allowed to feel like a plastic bag in the wind haha.

I feel you, and I'm sorry if I agitated you.
 
I had a real rough go of it last week. I cried at my desk at work a few times and felt like things were going to fall apart if we didn't hear anything back soon. Andy didn't adjust to being back in the UK very well, so almost the entire month of January was very much me feeling like I couldn't help him, and just generally being heartbroken while everyone else was getting their approvals.
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And they kept going right past us. Every day he'd ask me if we were approved, if I had any mail, if I had gotten the text. Nothing. People at the end of July were complaining/cheering about how they hadn't been approved yet, but here I was, a July 6 NOA1 that felt like they'd forgotten about me. I still do. I feel like I screwed us over by calling USCIS and asking for a supervisor. 
 
I still feel horrible about everything, but I'm lucky. He'll be here in 9 days. Maybe we'll get to open the envelope together, if a miracle doesn't happen before then.
 
I guess, at the end of it all, my point is that you're definitely not alone in your misery. My stupid optimism exists if only as a defense mechanism. If I am focusing on how happy I am, I can't POSSIBLY focus on how effed over I feel right now.