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Public service announcement:
My NOA1 was February 6. I got very dismayed as a saw a flurry of approvals for people with that date and after that date come in last week. I got even more depressed as our VJ timeline date came and went.
This morning, I received an envelope from DHS and opened it to find my NOA2 dated to August 16. I was shocked!!! I had signed up for email and text alerts and had been religiously checking the new and old UCICS websites--none of them ever said that our case had been approved. Even now, the only notification is via snail mail. Not really sure why I was not informed digitally as requested, but maybe other people out there have NOA2s in the mail and don't even know it yet.
Good luck!
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Just a quick question: I see everyone posting screenshots from the USCIS app that show their approval. I don't have the app, and I only remember to check their desktop site every couple of days. If I get approved, will I get a text? (I got a text for the NOA1 since I signed up for text/email alerts). If so, any idea how much of a lag there is between the approval being posted online and the texts being sent out?
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6 hours ago, evapaula said:
just to bring a little balance, we did K1 and we would do it all over again. At the time (2014) K1 was being processed extremely fast at CSC (ours took 4 months total), but even with a few months difference now, we'd still choose to be together a little sooner. I did not want to be married and separated for the first year of our marriage. Sure, it was significantly more expensive and I had to wait for the actual green card to be considered by the employer I wanted (when I was selecting EAD as my work authorization, I never heard back on my applications). But on the other hand, I had plenty of time to get familiar with the neighborhood (I had a car waiting for me), the stores, the completely different products on the shelves etc. - and that was good for me.
Could you provide more feedback on job searching while waiting for the green card? We went with the K1, because when we applied back in Jan, it was still a long wait for the K1 but the green card stuff was only a 3 month wait. It's now shot up to 5-6 months, which is disheartening beyond belief.
It's not that we NEED the money, but my fiancé is not going to be happy sitting around for 6 months waiting for work. I'm hoping that he can at least do a lot of job searching during that period and say that he will have a green card by X date on his applications. I know that will deter some employers looking for someone immediately, but I'm thinking that if maybe there are employers who aren't in a rush, they might consider him and we could even use an offer from an employer to expedite his green card request.
Any advice?
August 2018 NOA2 -----> NVC
in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports
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I've dug around a bit on this thread and others but haven't found my answer--though I'm sure it exists somewhere!
I'm the petitioner and I received the NOA2 8/16. My partner has changed addresses since we filed, so I immediately contacted NVC by email to inform them of the address change. Yesterday they replied saying they had no record of our case, cases can take up to 6 weeks to reach them, blah blah blah.
I was trying to be proactive in doing this address change, but now i'm wondering what to do. Do I just keep contacting them every couple of days hoping they've received it? My understanding is that as soon as NVC receives our case, they will send a letter to the beneficiary with next steps for their home embassy. I just don't want this letter to go unreceived if we don't get the address changed before they process it.