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Our son was traveling with his school group last year and we accidentally stupidly signed his parents permission document at home right before we went to the notary to get it notarized. The notary simply asked us to sign it again in front of her. So we both had two signatures on the document, for a total of four. No biggie  

August 2018 Filers (Nebraska Service Center) -- I-30

Generally, Notaries witness signatures.  Taking an already signed document to a Notary is generally futile.  This can vary by State in the USA and certainly varies by country but for a permission document, a Notary's purpose is to verify who signed it.

I think it's OK too but the more he has already been in the USA and left in the past, the better.  You will need to deal with issues of permission to travel with the child, regarding inlaws.  The logistics of avoiding problems with international child trafficking laws can be tricky.  Maybe you've already looked into that.

There have also been 4 August 9th approvals today (there may be more, but our internet's been super slow today, so I've only run two sets of numbers (2x500)).

I got my noa2 in mail today.. my mom picked the mails! It said the 16th July. I'll update timeline. Online 17th.
PD was July 13 2018

Holy Moly... they finally approved us.
 
PD : 6/25/2018
NOA 2 : 7/18/2019
Nebraska 
 
was about to jump ship.
 
even after the weekend update... there is no change online or on case tracker.. and I didn’t receive an email.. just got it in the mail today!

Please note that this post is not meant to scare you, but to make sure you're aware that the US isn't going to fix the problems with your son and that research will be needed to find out what city you need to live in, what you can afford, and what resources are available to you.

As a parent of a child with Autism, I can easily say if I could move out of the US I would. MOST USC's with children with Autism or most other special needs, would move if they could. It's a common topic in the community about other countries level of care and priority.

The system is not there to help our children.

Children being abused, hurt, lost, left in school buses over night, dropped off in wrong locations (even wheel chair bound ones), locked in closets to "calm them down" are all common news in the special needs community in the US. It's becoming a common recommendation to get a sewn in GPS with microphone system into your childs clothes to make sure they aren't being abused. 


Note that what happened at your school happens here, and if you can't afford private school (the cheapest in my city is 15K a year, more than our rent per month, and we have multiple schools to choose from) then you will have to go public and that is less regulated.

The money that SSI will give you will be nominal, it will be a fraction of what you get for disability until he is 18 in which it will be less but comparable. We received 300$ a month for 3 years for my daughter, this was prior to my husband coming here when I had little to no income.

Recent changes in insurance laws have allowed the states to pick and choose what insurances you child can have, limiting them from better care, and also limiting the number of visits. There were stories about a boy who had been seeing about 20 different specialists and therapists, and the insurance changes made it so he could only see 5 of them. Had to find completely new ones in the new network he got forced into.

Also in Texas, if your child is on Medicaid, then every year you will be assessed in your own home to determine if the child needs more services, less services, or if you are bringing in enough money to cover it for yourself. If you decline the visit, you lose the insurance.

 My daughters therapy place for OT and ST ended up being closed down because Medicaid cut their reimbursement fees (how the therapists are paid) by a total of 60% (30% initially, then 30% 6 months later). We had to write letters attesting to why they shouldn't cut the reimbursement. The place shut down a couple of months after the final cut went through.

This last year we went through an issue where my daughter was self-harming at school. It was discovered that she was actively being bullied and the teachers and school were allowing it to happen. This ended with 10 out of the 12 special needs teachers being removed/reassigned in the district. 

Texas, for example, is being sued by the federal government for not using and misusing allocated special needs funds given to them. They were warned three years ago to use this money and use it correctly, and the state basically laughed back and said no. Now they are being fined. An entire state being handed money to help special needs children and they straight up refused to use the money and the money they did use, they put elsewhere. This should be a big sign of how much they care.

Public school only needs to have one DEGREE'd special needs teacher per so many students. Her class had 6 students, so there was one special needs teacher holding a masters degree and then 3 special education assistants. YOU DO NOT NEED ANY EDUCATION TO BE A SPECIAL EDUCATION ASSISTANT. Here it pays 12$ an hour and you simply need experience working with children with special needs.

90% of the time, your child will be surrounded by more special education assistants than actual degree'd teachers. There is no guarantee that these assistants actually care, they have little to no training, and this is perfectly acceptable by most public school standards. 


Note though that federal law does allow cameras to be put in special needs classrooms now, at the request of the school, district, teacher or parent. All parents of the children in the classroom have to agree though, and they only have to keep the recordings for 90 days. There have been numerous occasions where the school was found to have a camera, but that it didn't actually record or wasn't functioning.


In America, we're told that the Netherlands has some of the best healthcare out there. There must be a reason that they cut his therapy sessions. If it's because of money, expect the same in America.

Other states may have it better, I would do research before you move, but I can say without a doubt US wide, Special needs children are on the bottom of the barrel of anyones priority and that unless you are bringing in the bucks, you will struggle.

If you have any access to anything even remotely better than this in the Netherlands I would take it, and I would find resources to help you get better care for your son there.


 

They are doing system maintenance work: https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/tools-outage

Haha.. reading what's going here..
 
I'm still waiting for my letter in mail.

Sooo....Any other good news?!!
 
 
 
 

Sooo....Any other good news?!!
 
 
 
 

Sooo....Any other good news?!!
 
 
 
 

Sooo....Any other good news?!!
 
 
 
 

Sooo....Any other good news?!!
 
 
 
 

I see RFE's sent out this week for  first week of August ..didn't check any further yet. 

Something to lighten the atmosphere. I live overseas with my husband while we wait this process out (I’ve been here almost 8 years and my son already left a few months ago to be enrolled in high school on time in the USA) and he got tired of sitting around waiting and not putting any roots down or moving forward in our life so his solution was to go out and buy us a fish tank and some koi. 
 
So I guess stability in this wait = an aquarium full of fish. I must admit, the sound of the water is soothing. 
 
It both surprised me and made me giggle this afternoon! 
 
Now, what am I gonna do with these fish when it’s time to go! Haha! Happy Friday! 

I lived in Brazil with my husband for 2 years and literally everyone would ask us all the time why we were in brazil and not in the US, when you live your life in a way ppl don't expect they think you need to give them answers. We were in brazil (I still am) because the plan was to finish college and get a diploma because i was already half way through it and college is free in Brazil for ppl who get accepted in public universities, which was my case. It made no sense for us to drop everything here and just go in 2016, but ppl always expect things to go their way, and they think you need to give them answers regarding your personal life. Idk about you, guys, but I find it quite annoying sometimes

Yikes!! I can’t imagine being at the end of an attack like that. We’ve only been married since 4/2018, but living together since 2015.  I love living here, but my job needs me back there, it was something I fought for the last 2 years. I didn’t want to leave our home and friends. We cancelled our K1 because I thought it worked out for someone else to take the job there and that didn’t last so here we are.  Sometimes we just sit and try to figure out how to make it work here, but now that my son has already left and is waiting for us, we need to move forward. My husband is so good, he says I’ll follow you wherever we need to go. Everyone’s circumstances change and everyone has a right to decide what’s best for their lives!! 

OMG!!! YAY!!!
 
I keep following to see whether or not you hear anything! Great news!!! ❤️
I hope that it will be smooth sailing for you now~~~
 
❤️❤️❤️
 

My family here in VJ,
 
Today around 4pm my time, which was about 5am, early morning in US.
I got an email saying, we have taken an action has been taken on your case.
 
I logged in the new uscis account. And there it was y'all.... 🙏🏼🙂😭🌷🙏🏼  Old account not updated, still says case received.

I had my interview for an L1B visa at the Paris embassy yesterday and it was approved, yay! I will move with my Family to Richmond, VA in the next few weeks. I will have to apply for AOS once in the US but it's a relief to avoid the long wait at Nebraska and NVC. Good news for you too, it's going to be on less file in the pile.  I realize how fortunate I am to have that opportunity and I do hope things get better at Nebraska for all of you.

Most likely she applied for a re - entry permit unsure about how long she 'll be outside the US because of her mother' s illness .  The world needs kind people not  snappy ones ( Scandi ) . Not everyone is a lawyer .

Hello August filers, 
 
I received an email today that my case has been updated so I checked my USCIS account online. 
My I-130 PD, Aug 24th, 2018. 
On July 12th, 2019 my case was approved. Finally💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Nebraska Service Center! 
 
I filed an I-129F, my  priority date for I-129F is Jun 21st, 2019. There are are no updates online for the I-129F but  I have no doubt the filing of the I-129F helped speed up my process. 
 
Good luck to everyone waiting. 

Just saw that a couple August 1st cases got RFE updates yesterday.