roverdriver

So, we are hoping for a September Interview and an early October arrival.

for everyones info, it took exactly 8 days from NVC sending it to the embassy and my fiancee getting packet 3, i think thats pretty good for our government

Well, I just got off the phone with the NVC (took 3 or 4 tries back-to-back to get someone) and they haven't received our paperwork yet.

Oh well...I tried. Reading through threads since this post I'm not seeing an overwhelming change.

I wish they'd make this a sticky, or one like it.

I wondered the same about the calls. And also wondered if all the calls will end up having them close the other lines as well.

What I did was periodically do a timeline search with criteria matching my case. Same SC, same month (sometimes a month before to get a better average), stuff like that. When we got approval we were in the middle between the shortest and longest approval times, so I felt no need to call.

Please, when quoting someone else's post, edit the quote to what's relevant to your reply.

Some of the threads here are huge PITA to read because of all the extensive quoting.

Some threads that are 80 pages would probably only be 40 pages if folks would go easy on the quoting.

It is ok to edit quotes as long as you don't change the meaning. People won't be offended.

I just called using the RFE Trick, and talked to a man there, that said there was nothing going on with my case right now... so i asked if it had even be assigned yet, and he looked for a minute, and said, "no mam, it hasn't been assigned yet"... i almost cried right then...

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Approved!!!!!

when i read the approval i had a huge grin on my face but tears in my eyes....

I'm sitting here the exact same way.

I was so nervous, for three reasons.

1. Our age difference

2. I was born in Newfoundland, at US Naval Station, Argentia, but all I had was my US passport.

3. There's another mad cow disease outbreak in the UK.

I can't believe how relieved I am!!!!

Yes I can. LOL

Congratulations to the others who were approved. I'm hoping for those who are still waiting.

Woohoo!!! We got a touch today!!

Now it's time to hope for no RFE's and a straight out approval.

Well, I just ran some timeline searches and no one who's filed with the TSC and recieved their NOA1 within a day or two of ours has receive their NOA2, so that makes me less worried. The averafe for TSC filers is 110 days from NOA1 to NOA2.

So if I haven't heard anything by the end of the week I'll be ringing them.

On a down side, Laura just told me Mad Cow Disease is out again in the UK. Apparently this time released from a government lab. I hope this doesn't impact them approving her visa.

Congratulations to all the April filers who've received NOA2. I don't want you to think my disappointment in not getting ours yet means I'm not happy for you all. Besides, it gives me hope there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Still nothing on ours.

Well, we got some great news today, I checked the USCIS site and it said we were approved and our Notice was sent out yesterday, July 26. Of course we are very very excited, Just wanted to come by, update our time line and post here to reassure others to hang in there. We shared the same date as many of you. So you all should be next.

Congrats! Maybe ours will come in 11 days then

I have heard that it does in some cases. Looking at your time line, Rover, you should have had your NOA-2 by now.

From comments in other threads it seems many people got touches using the RFE trick. Just wondering, I don't want a touch unless it's from something they really did. Not just a phone call. Unless a phone call does some good.

I'll give it a few more days before I ring them.

I've seen a number of people use the "RFE Trick" to get a touch to their case status. What I'm wondering does it really accomplish anything of use if you're not past your estimated adjudication date. I certainly understand people being anxious, I sure am. But does it really do any good? Or does it just interrupt people from actually working on petitions?

everyday I hear "so have you heard anything on his visa yet?" "when is he going to be here?" what do you say to these people?

The timelines are only as good as the members.

It takes very few members starting a timeline and then forgetting to fill in information and dates to slow down everyone's "estimates."

But looking at "similar timelines" (same country, same service center) they are averaging 90 or so days from NOA1 to approval. So I'm hoping our estimated date is close. Though the trending charts show the times getting progressively longer in the past month.

Ours was hovering around the 25th of July from the time we got NOA1. About the 3rd week of June it jumped to July 10th or there abouts. Now it's moved to August 8.

Laura keeps telling me not to look at it. I'm practicing for being married though, and not listening to her. LOL

Congrats you folks! I know you're all walking on cloud nine.

You VSC filers are soooo lucky.

Sell the car back to the dealer, I suspect that what it is worth should be enough to pay off the loan.

You guys are all going to hate this, but I swear we've just been super lucky so far...

We received a letter today that stated that the NVC received our petition and is forwarding our stuff to the Vancouver Consulate.

*dances around with glee*

I'm just hoping that everyone's apps go through as fast as ours have!

Our estimated time is still end of July.

In my opinion CSC and VSC both process I-129F petitions consistently .. CSC 90 to 100 days (consistently) and VSC less than a month (consistently) .. CSC just needs to play catch up, and then maybe they can consistently process petitions faster ..

CB

These processing times make sense of course. CSC processes the work from 3 service centers, while VSC processes the work from 1 service center. Thus, I'm not surprised at all to see CSC take roughly 3 times as long as VSC. They should never have split up processing of these geographically....that's just a recipe for imbalance.

Wow! This is shocking!

"Based on timeline data, your I129f may be adjudicated as early as July 24, 2007."

On April 13th the estimated date was July 25th. It actually went down a day.

Woohoo! My check just posted to my account.

Well, that is SOMETHING! Congrats!

Woohoo! My check just posted to my account.