roverdriver

I'm envious, most of you folks are much further along in the process than we are.

And our estimated adjudication date just went from July 19 to July 25th

Same here. I even got geekier...I'll get a page when the check posts. Yeah, I know, I'm sad.

How'd you pull that off? You've piqued my geek curiosity

a simple question, how do you check that USCIS cashed the check? is there a website or something depending on the check? I got those Western Union Checks..

I think most of us used personal checks so we could just watch our bank accounts to see when it cleared. My bank allows me to see a scanned image of the front and back of any checks I've written that have cleared.

Not that dissimilar from the story, really. Although personally, that family had it coming, and of course they're from Tampa Bay...there's a reason we call Florida 'The Freak State.' I feel bad for what they've been through, but at the same time, his wife did enter on a K1 when she was already married. Illegal and while maybe a simple mistake, it's still fraud.

I'm guessing my fiancee will be asked more probing questions since I am a lot older than her.

Yeah, I don't think the current wait times are too too bad. The thing that I gripe most about (the difference between I-129F processing times depending on where you live) seems to have an easy solution: send NSC or TSC petitions to Vermont! I think evening out processing times would make a lot of people less grumpy.

Well if you are waiting for your petition to be approved by Texas then you are in for a very long wait.... Texas does not do I-129F's anymore as they are all transfered to California....

Form DS-156k says that she needs "evidence of engagement". She really doesn't want me spending money on a ring, so I'm wondering if anyone else has used something other than a ring as evidence.

We of course did the letters of intent to marry.

The whole benefit of having united States (capitalization not a typo) is guaranteed rights to the citizens of the several states. When VT filers enjoy basically expedited service and CA/TX/NE filers enjoy longer delays, that's unfair.

I rang my Finacee yesterday to tell her I'd just left the post office from mailing the I-129F and mentioned to her the shorter wait times in VT. Her reply was, "Well, of course, no one wants to live in that god forsaken place." LOL But even though I used to live in VT, and love VT, I love her more.

Vermont doesn't only process for Vermont though. It also processes for NYC, so I was actually surprised to find out it was the fastest!

I'm guessing, even assumed this before I mailed it, that they probably get a lot of packets, more than will fit in a PO box, so a notice is left in the box, and the packets are all in a much bigger box in the back room. Leaving a note in the PO. Box is the "attempted delivery".

I mailed ours yesterday, the 4th, USPS Express flat rate. Supposedly it will be delivered by noon today. Now the wait begins.

The whole benefit of having united States (capitalization not a typo) is guaranteed rights to the citizens of the several states. When VT filers enjoy basically expedited service and CA/TX/NE filers enjoy longer delays, that's unfair.

why didn't you save it to your computer and use adobe to type it out?

because my fiance wrote his address in arabic on the second page and there's no way i could write it out myself if i printed out the new one.

the old form is acceptable until feb 18th.

Now see, to me this inconsistency with what they want is what is freaking out so many people, including me. While the actual USCIS site doesn't even request half the things specifically mentioned on this site, there are sporadic cases where they request it. The beneficiary's BC, no photocopied signatures, long form BC...the list goes on and on. One thing that really gets me is that they request ALL pages of a passport. Well i can see the point of the first few with your ID on them, and the last few with the stamps, but why would they need the other 21 pages that are empty? It makes no sense to me.

Sorry, I didn't see this thread until I'd started a new one:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48907

I was going to delete my thread and add to this oen, but I don't have the option of deleting it, so am just linking to it.

In case anyone is interested, the I-129F form here:

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-129F.pdf

has an expiration date of 12/31/06.

I just got a reply from an email saying it's fine to still use it.

From: "Webmaster, USCIS" <USCIS.Webmaster@dhs.gov>

To: <email address deleted>

Subject: RE: Out of date form on website

Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:33:20 +0000

The form you reference may still be used. The expiration date will not

effect whether the petition will be approved or denied.

I just hope they don't use "effect" as a loophole to not honour it.