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You're next! 

We've got our letter. He was arrested for careless driving and they wanted the court's documents. I hope we can get the letter from the court soon 

My fiance called USCIS and talked to the TİER 2 officer. Unfortunately, they told him we won't fax you until 28th.😥 I'm really sad and happy at the same time. I'm happy because I'm going to see my fiance after almost 8 months. and sad, because I'm afraid they want something from us which is required physical presence  of my fiance in the US. He is going to stay here almost 2.5 months. 
I wish they sent the e-mail 😥
Please send your positive vibes, today is the last day and he flies in the evening. Please wish us luck about the letter and the task. I hope it will be a simple task and no need to be  in the US to complete it. 

FINALLY got approved! 🙌   Out NOA-1 was February 12th, had a very long wait but so happy and relieved. Hopefully everyone on here waiting gets some good news soon! 

We received our approval today 😊, almost 3 weeks after they received our reply to an RFIE.

We just got our approval today! Our NOA1 was February 25th. No RFE. I stopped looking everyday and then looked this morning. 
it’s coming everyone just be patient. ❤️

I was a bit nervous flying from Australia to the US (six airports/four planes) with my three year old. First time we ever wore masks too - mainly as my fiance is high risk. We were totally fine though. Day to day life I am not worried at all and we wear masks everywhere but we live in the midwest and it isn't so bad here.

We thought we would be doing the same. Our receipt date is the 3rd of February. I hope you hear soon and that you don't have to call.
 
I really hope you hear something soon. I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you for good news

Wow I'm happy that you got a notification! I hope you get approved really quick and praying . At this point I give up also on anything 

I woke up to a notification saying, "You have an updated on your case status from USCIS" this morning. If it had been possible to have fallen out of my bed in shock I would have done that! I had given up on getting any kind of an update at this point and here we are at day 199.
 
I tapped through to find out what it could be to see the following, "Request for Additional Evidence Was Sent"
 
We have no idea what it could be that they are missing to make a decision. So now begins the wait for the letter to tell us what it is they need to proceed.

https://www.samessenger.com/news/sen-patrick-leahy-pressures-uscis-to-delay-furloughing-employees/article_63283696-e189-11ea-a313-d713f54e8a52.html
 
I'm really praying that they delay the furlough again 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 

I've just got a notification from Lawfully that USCIS sent RFE yesterday. I'm not sad because I know that we made a mistake and sent only one intention to marry with two signatures on it. ( I hope they only need that 😀)
I'm worried how long will it take to receive the mail. Because my fiance will come here next week and I'm not sure if we are allowed to response to RFE while he is away from US.   

We received our approval today! I'm so happy! 😄

Sending good vibes out to everyone waiting for their NOA2 from February. I know this is a really difficult time for everyone but hopefully some more of us hear something this week! Just think ahead to when this is all over and you and your fiancé can look back at how you got each other through a really difficult time. Love to all. 

It gets really frustrating now since my NOA2 hasn't come in yet 😐 its been 183 days 

I definitely had to read through your post to make sure you weren't MY wife! LOL  We've been together for 8.5 years in what I thought was the perfect K-1 Visa love story!  In a nutshell, she REALLY has not become acclimated to being here, after all these years.  Her prevailing defense is that she's more comfortable at home in the U.K., which she should be, but I personally feel that she should have gotten comfortable living with me after all this time.  "At the end of the day", as you Brits say, I've concluded that she "leaped before she looked" and would be better off just admitting that she's perpetually homesick, like yourself, and should just remain in the U.K.  COVID-19 has actually helped with that. 
 
She left to attend to her Mum for a medical procedure which was actually ruled out because of her age (92) and that's been 2.5 years ago!  Her "excuse" for not returning is that we lost our housing, which was inevitable, because she would not try to get gainful employment that would afford us to live the lifestyle that we were both comfortable with, here in America.  I had to do it all by myself and it wasn't possible.  She didn't want to work outside of the home because she didn't feel comfortable working in America.   Didn't want to work from home because she rather work outside the home.  Didn't want to go school to upgrade her skills because she really felt she was DONE with school after vocational training, 40 years ago.  Everything in America was substandard to everything in U.K.  From the beginning, the U.K. vs the USA has been a thing in every way possible, even to the point of refusing to apply for citizenship because she didn't want to "give up her U.K. citizenship", which is not possible.  It's been a stressful experience, for me.  So I may empathize with your husband.   
 
I worked for an airline and have retired so we're able to fly at a tremendous discount - how does £372/round-trip sound?!  We've both been back and forth to where I just left there in March, right before the travel bans started.  She's not been back here in 13 months now, so her green card is in danger of getting revoked.  She can file an appeal, but I'm at the point of saying, "Don't worry about and stay where you're 'more comfortable' !"  She claims she wants to return, but I don't want to get off of this cycle of misery  
 
The moral of MY story is:  People want to GET married before considering what it's going to take to BE married.  And these are some atypical circumstances.  A cross-cultural marriage, different nationalities and now COVID-19 can make for a perfect storm.  I'd say, have a honest "come to Jesus" discussion with yourself and then your husband.  I've already challenged my wife that she has to decide that here is where she wants to BE, COVID-19, notwithstanding.  With any couple, courtship is SO romantic which falls off when you're actually living together.  Not unless you continue to be pro-active with the romance.  It's easy for my wife to make the grand, romantic statements from across the Atlantic - the things will fall right back into the routine when she does return.  So, I want her to stay where she is, going forward. I don't want her coming back if she's not happy and not working toward being happy.  It's made me feel like sh**.   Which ever direction you take - staying and making a positive go of things here, or just returning home - it not going to be easy one way or the other.  You've got to decide on which direction to take to not be miserable.  Eight years in, I can only say that it's only going to get worst if you don't.  CHEERS!  Wife is from Walsall, btw   (Hope you can read thru my typos.  I'm too lazy to proofread!)
 

I'm a dual citizen (UK and Australia) and I went through this when I first moved out to Australia. I wanted to move here and I loved it here when I first arrived. I read about homesickness but that just didn't seem to be a thing that I would go through until I did. It hit me with full force towards the end of my first year. It cost too much to fly back to the UK there and then so I was stuck with the feeling and did my best to hide how I felt (don't do this) and pretend I was fine. People would ask me, "Don't you miss your family?" and I would say I did but I wanted to be here and I would see them again etc. What I really wanted to say was that I missed my family, my friends and I especially missed having that connection with people who knew me and who had known me for years. I coped by calling home, reading the news back home, going for long walks and watching old episodes of QI and anything that reminded me of home. It took me a while to find work also and like you I wasn't used to being out of work. I think that a combination of going outside for walks and watching comedy (I love QI!) helped me the most but what it really did was helped me to cope until the feeling of homesickness wore off. If I'm completely honest it took finding a place where I felt accepted - for me that was work and the small group of friends I have here now. 
 
You are not alone and it can happen to any of us. In my case I was lucky and the feeling of homesickness wasn't permanent. I met others for whom it was and they did go back. If you can get out and about safely I would take walks outside where you are. I found it helped me to cope and I came to like the differences in the outdoors in Australia vs back at home in the UK. However this plays out for you, it's important to be honest with yourself. If you're miserable and you think it won't get better, start making a plan. If the feeling wears off, the money you save for moving back can be used for something nice for where you are now. Don't be too hard on yourself either x

I am bracing myself knowing I will be going through the same thing again when I move to New York. I'll be going over on a K-1 so I'll have a few months where I won't be allowed to work and I'm hoping that the feeling of homesickness will be easier to bear a second time around.
 
Hopefully this wasn't too much of a ramble and that something in the replies you've had so far helps you to feel a little better.

Edited to add that I just re-read and saw that you don't have anything really walkable where you live. I'm lucky to have some beautiful surroundings where I am now but I've lived in spots where going out for a walk wasn't really viable. Is a bicycle an option where you are? 

Hi all, I don’t really know where to start but I’m basically at my breaking point due to the stress of AOS, acclimating to living in the US, Covid-19 and homesickness after coming here on a K-1.
 
I’m home alone all day. I’ve recently received my combo card, but I’ve not found any work yet. I can’t get my driver’s licence as the DMV is closed (not that we could afford a second car anyway) and there’s nothing really walkable where we live. 

I’m really struggling to fit into the American way to life and lockdown has made it nearly impossible to make new friends. 
 
I moved in October of last year and haven’t been able to go home yet. I expected a six month wait before I would get my AP through and so be able to travel — but the pandemic has made it even more complicated. 
 
I miss home desperately but I’m terrified to fly in case I’m turned away when I try to return with just an AP. I’m also terrified to fly home in case I pick up Covid-19 from another passenger, as cases are skyrocketing in the US. I would be quarantining with my sister once I arrived back in the UK, and she’s pregnant. I couldn’t risk putting her in danger.
 
I’m so depressed, it’s almost unbearable. I just want to go home and see my family. I’m really not enjoying my life here like I thought I would.
 
I never thought this would happen to me — I travelled to the States frequently before I decided to move here and always loved it, and I really didn’t expect to miss home this much. 
 
Lockdown has made things more difficult and I know that, and that’s what I try to tell myself when I get really down — but the uncertainty of everything is a real killer. I have no idea how long my green card might take and I don’t know if it’s safe to travel on AP or during the pandemic.
 
My husband tries his best to be supportive but it’s hard for him to understand why I’m so depressed when we worked so hard to be together, and I can’t really explain it to him. I don’t tell anyone at home how miserable I am because I don’t want them to worry, and I try to play it down when around my husband’s family in case I sound like I’m being over dramatic. 
 
I’m sorry this is such a bummer of a post, and I know everyone on here is going through/has gone through something similar and I shouldn’t whine about it. I’m really trying to put on a stiff upper lip but I just don’t know how long I can keep a lid on it.
 
I figured if anyone would understand, it would be you guys.
 
Thank you for the venting space, it really helps.

Congratulations... I'm anxious for my turn!

I am so happy. We got our NOA2 yesterday- 4th of August. 2020 NOA1 was 19th February 2020. For all those waiting for NOA2, it will come. Stay strong
 
What next are we meant to do? Pls we need your advice 

Likewise  Today is a good day but I'll go back to checking the USCIS status page 2-3x per day just in case the app I installed isn't working or something! Yoga helps a bit too.

Likewise  Today is a good day but I'll go back to checking the USCIS status page 2-3x per day just in case the app I installed isn't working or something! Yoga helps a bit too.

I was approved July 30th NOA2 Feb 19th yay.

Hang in there! I go through some days where I'm totally fine and calm and others where my anxiety is through the roof 🙄  it does help knowning we're not alone though, really hope you hear something soon!

We have just reached our 178th day of waiting. There's nothing remarkable about our backgrounds either. I'm a dual British and Australian Citizen so I've been putting the delays down to our bureaucrats being slower to respond than their bureaucrats! As @Greenbaum has said, the delays are most likely due to the pandemic. It could be that the team working to progress our petition are personally impacted by COVID  My fiancé will call them to make sure they haven't lost our paperwork or whatever at the 7 month mark.