TampaRishon

On 12/12/2023 at 8:34 AM, Thunderbolt said:

We didn't know that we should add anything to the N400 application regarding I751. 

During the N400 interview my wife told the DHS employee that we have I751 pending. Then she asked me couple of questions and we were done. 

Same! I didn’t mention it in the application. I will at the interview though 

5 hours ago, Busta said:

will it be sent to both petitioner and beneficiary??  

So it was sent to me for sure. I’m the petitioner and I can’t remember if my husband received it too. 😬🤷🏻‍♀️

5 hours ago, James Blunt said:

That’s the one a got about “thank you for your interest in moving to the us”. After the first payment, how long did it take before you got an interview date?

Well my situation was different. I expedited, but I sent an expedite during the NVC process, was excepted not long after and at Christmas I had an appointment scheduled for February 10th. So 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ I had to schedule my own appointment here in Israel. They do it differently everywhere. 

1 hour ago, Busta said:

Thank you for this,  the mail we received only said our case was sent to NVC. We have to wait for another mail with login information right? It's kind of confusing at the moment. 

So I’m overseas and never received letters of any kind, just emails, but Mine went really fast. I think I waited 4 days to get the second email with login info. It’ll say “Thank you for your interest in moving to the US.” Then it’ll have all the login info. Just be waiting for it  you’ll get it! 

22 minutes ago, James Blunt said:

I’ve been seen people saying it could take months, the process is a bit confusing. How would I get to know the petition is with the NVC?

They should send you an email saying it was sent to NVC. Then you’ll get another email with login information to get into the CEAC website to upload all your NVC stuff. 

18 hours ago, OHFagbemi said:

NOA1 - November 11 2019

NOA2 - February 11 2020

 

please can anyone advise how long it takes for NVC to receive my application, and when the interview would be scheduled ?

So I did no expediting with my NVC. I uploaded everything ASAP, I got an RFE in 9 days, in 2 weeks after that I was approved. I was told it would be months and it happened so fast for me. Not sure if a lot of people has that experience but mine happened back in November 2020

I didn’t realize before writing this that it doesn’t have Philippines on the list so maybe you will wait for the embassy! 
 

so in Israel I had to go to a website and register everything and then pick own interview date. 
https://ais.usvisa-info.com

Because we expedited it’s really weird. They pretty much do nothing for us and so I had to do it all. Including emailing them to make sure I was set for my interview. 
 

I just did this back at Christmas time. So it’s recent. They may have done things differently before Covid, but now it’s really awkward. Let me know how it goes! If you set an interview date, make sure to follow up with the Embassy afterwards

Im not seeing phillipines on there so you may have to wait, but for other people, there are a lot of embassies on here doing what Israel did. 😬😬🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ If someone looks to this thread for info, there is some good info for other places. Sorry I couldn’t be more help🙈

9 minutes ago, Mavy Rakkail said:

Hey! I actually received my visa. 
1- appointment confirmation letter is the email you get after you register your appointment date. Print it, and keep in contact with the embassy. I sent multiple emails to the embassy to make sure I scheduled it and everything is okay, i asked about my police certificate if the embassy received it or not, so make sure everything is ready. 
2- you should schedule your own medical examination once you set your appointment date, there is a list of doctors you can visit on the embassy's website. I guess it takes 10 days for medical examination to be sent from the doctor to embassy.  
3- you pay fees before you leave the country to the US to get your green card ready once you are in the US. You can pay them after you arrive the US too but in this case your green card will take longer. You can pay fees or your spouse “if in the US” or anyone else as long as you have an alien registration number in which you obtain within your visa envelope. 
any questions i’d be glad to help

good luck

I will definitely ask more questions as we go along. 
Thanks for the information about the medical stuff. I was wondering how long we scheduled it before the interview.  
I will keep in touch with you. My husband, the beneficiary, is extremely anxious about everything and he’s pretty hilarious. So hearing from people about what to expect definitely calms him 😂🙃☺️
 

On 10/6/2020 at 8:46 PM, Mavy Rakkail said:

Hello everyone, 

i requested to expedite and I received an email on October 1st that says “expedite approved”. My case status was “in transit” then “ready” on October 6th. but i had no email from the embassy regarding appointment date! 
i sent the embassy an email asking and they replied “i should register before I schedule my own interview date!”.

I registered, and scheduled my interview date, all i got was a bunch of automated emails and the appointment confirmation letter(which i printed).

Now i go on the embassy’s checklist over and over and i read i should have two things: 

1- “embassy’s appointment letter/ which I don’t have because I scheduled my own appointment ” and

2- “ appointment confirmation email/ which i have”.

** Should i be worried or am i fine?
** When i must do the medical examination i must bring embassy’s interview letter or is the confirmation letter enough? 

** when should i pay appointment fees ? And can my spouse pay them online from the US? 

thank you all and i’m sorry for the long thread

Hey, our case was expedited too! Did you find out anything on this situation? Any tips on what my husband and I should do? Thanks a bunch!!

7 hours ago, onek said:

Going through each field and make sure that everything is completed accurately. Try changing the browser as well.

Hey! So I fixed the problem! THANK YOU FOR HELPING!! 
 

I’m working on a Mac laptop. Safari and Chrome did not work. We also tried on our phones and everything. Nothing worked. So I downloaded Firefox today and it immediately sent it in! Thank the LORD! We spent hours trying to figure out what we were doing wrong 😂😂 Was making us looney. It’s been a stressful week! Don’t laugh 😂

So if there are any Mac users needing help in figuring this out, try Firefox and see if that helps  

6 hours ago, onek said:

Going through each field and make sure that everything is completed accurately. Try changing the browser as well.

Did both of those multiple times....sigh. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Is there something special about the DS-1810 that we have to do? They said view it, we did, we read it multiple times, still wouldn’t let us. 

My husband and I were finishing submitting the DS-260 and he looked at the DS-1810, he signed the e signature and we CANNOT move to the next spot. They won’t let us upload documents or anything. We’ve been trying for two days and can’t get it done. Are we doing something wrong? Is there a reason why we can’t submit the DS-260? Every part of it is filled out and yeah...I’m getting mad at my computer 😂 . 

Thanks to anyone who can tell me what I’m doing wrong! 

We would like to reassure you that we will update U.S. citizens on this current situation as quickly as possible, and strongly urge you to refer to our website for the latest updates.

Visa Services:

Important information for visa applicants regarding novel coronavirus: As of March 16, 2020, the United States Embassy in Jerusalem and the Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv are cancelling routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments. We will resume routine visa services as soon as possible but are unable to provide a specific date at this time. The MRV

fee is valid and may be used for a visa application in the country where it was purchased within one year of the date of payment. If you have an urgent matter and need to travel immediately, please follow the guidance provided at the appointment website to request an emergency appointment. Immigrant visa applicants who have urgent travel should contact JerusaelemIVInquiries@state.gov to request an emergency appointment. Emergency appointments are extremely limited.

Just now, TampaRishon said:

We would like to reassure you that we will update U.S. citizens on this current situation as quickly as possible, and strongly urge you to refer to our website for the latest updates.

Visa Services:

Important information for visa applicants regarding novel coronavirus: As of March 16, 2020, the United States Embassy in Jerusalem and the Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv are cancelling routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa appointments. We will resume routine visa services as soon as possible but are unable to provide a specific date at this time. The MRV

fee is valid and may be used for a visa application in the country where it was purchased within one year of the date of payment. If you have an urgent matter and need to travel immediately, please follow the guidance provided at the appointment website to request an emergency appointment. Immigrant visa applicants who have urgent travel should contact JerusaelemIVInquiries@state.gov to request an emergency appointment. Emergency appointments are extremely limited.

I just emailed them and this is what I received in return 

Hey Everyone, 
So I had a few touches a few days ago and then nothing for a few days. 
I woke up today to an approved I-130!!! It was approved October 23rd, but I didn't get the information till today!
We are very happy!!
We were at Nebraska Service Center. 

My PD was July 3rd 2020. 

Good luck to everyone still waiting! I hope it goes quickly for all of you ❤️ 
 

On 10/14/2020 at 6:17 PM, Rachel Becker said:

How are people dealing with the Health Insurance Enrolment requirement? How can we purchase health insurance if we have no idea when we'll be moving, and without purchasing it out can we show proof of enrolment???

From what I was reading if you have proof of dealings with insurance companies, Like inquiring about the costs via email and phone call records to the insurance or whatever proof you have that you were shopping for insurance, that’s enough for them. Also, a lot of people doing this I-130 stuff are applying within the US. I think they understand that you’re not gonna waste money on insurance, but they’ll want to see proof that you’re looking for insurance for your spouse. You can also decide on an insurance, get it, but have the start date to an estimated time like January 2021. You can delay it if he’s not in the US by then. I was reading that you can do stuff like that and then print the information and send it in. 

13 minutes ago, Arthur2021 said:

Hi,

 

Where would I be able to see if my case has been touched? Is there a specific site? I'm only using the egov case checker which doesn't seem indepth 

 

Thanks

So I assume it’s been touched because my date changed on my USCIS website account. It went from July 25th-October 17th. That means they’re doing something. They could be adding information, sending an RFE, close to approving, or just reviewing it, etc....

I just went on my USCIS online account. Is that what you’re talking about?

Hey Everyone! 
My priority date is July 3rd 2020. I sent it via mail and I am at Nebraska. 
Touch: July 9th 

Touch: July 25th

Touch: October 17th. 
I’m hoping yesterday’s touch means something 😁❤️ We shall see. Good luck to you all! I will keep you posted and I also hope to hear more from you all concerning your situations! 

4 minutes ago, SteveInBostonI130 said:

Timelines have been decreasing for IR1/CR1 recently, most likely due to Covid and the presidential proclamations.  Other visa categories are low priority, and according to USCIS there have been less applicants.

 

EDIT:  Please note that USCIS is just the first step.  Next is NVC, which takes 2-4 months on average.  Then it is the embassy stage, which takes a while if your particular embassy is not open.

Yeah! Thanks for adding that. I do know there are two more steps. I just have some personal (at home) goals I wanted to accomplish and was kind of attempting to get them done before the I-130 is accepted so I have free time to work on the NVC. I also wanted to make sure I wasn’t hoping on something that is normally far from accurate 🙃😁, but it makes sense they’ll be focusing more on the marriage visas now since America isn’t dealing with the other ones at this time. 
Our embassy is still shutdown so I know we ain’t going anywhere too fast 🙄😂

Hey Everyone, 

So my NOA 1 is from July 9th, 2020, I believe. My timeline is saying my I-130 should be “approved” (Lord willing) by December 26. It went from April 2021 to December 2020. The date keeps getting less and less with every other day. 
The USCIS website also says that Nebraska processing times went from 9-11 months, when I filed, to 6-8 months in the last two months. 
 

VisaJourney timeline thing is saying I could hear something by the end of the year. Are they normally accurate? Give or take a few weeks? I am watching it like a hawk and just want to know if I’m hoping for nothing and wasting my time? Or if it’s a pretty good indication? Obviously, it’s a computer, I just was curious how all of you faired with your “estimated” dates. 
 

Thanks in advance for any info 🙃

21 hours ago, Lucky Cat said:

Yes, Social Security Retirement income is, in fact, acceptable income.  I, personally, used my SS retirement along with my military retirement pensions to show evidence of my financial ability to sponsor my wife.

My father, who will be my Joint Sponsor, is getting his SS retirement and naval retirement next year and will use that as proof to help get my husband to the states . Good to know someone else has done it! 

22 minutes ago, JFH said:

But the OP said that the “people in Israel“ that are causing problems are Americans. Second paragraph. 

Yeah, they’re Americans, but they are very against America. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ They like America for what they can get out of it, but don’t like losing people to that “trap of Satan” across the sea. It’s just their own opinion. They’ve got nothing to back it up. 
 

I’m just glad we’ve seen it and can get away from it before trusting them with more information and stuff. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Okay, for now this is a hypothetical question. My husband and I have nothing to hide, we’re first loves, happily married, we applied for a marriage visa while living together abroad, have been BEST friends for 7 years, we have nothing that anyone could accuse us of “bad intentions” in this Visa process.
 

We have recently gotten out of a manipulative church situation, here in Israel, where their MAJOR pet peeve was Israelis marrying Americans and moving to America. The church leaders are American themselves, they go to America whenever they care to, but they really hate when their people from their Israeli group move to the US. It’s like leaving the faith and turning to Satanism for them. 🙄
 

We got out of the church when we realized how bad stuff was getting, but we are a bit uncomfortable with the situation of them finding out about our applying to come to the US. We’re related to some of these people and they unfortunately found out about us one day moving. They were angry at us and said some manipulative stuff and told us that God would never bless us if we went to the US. Then we once heard one of the leaders say to someone else “We’ll do whatever it takes to make it to where you have to stay in Israel.” The leader said he’d write the people in charge and make sure they stayed put. This comment was said in jest to someone else, but my husband and I got nervous. 

We left the church, but they still write us, and have even sent other people to write us to find out information about what we’re doing. 
If these people wanted to try to do problems to us for our process, would the USCIS take their word over ours? If they said they suspected fraud to manipulate the situation, what would that do to us? 
 

I know they’d have nothing on us if they claimed it and needed proof to back up their claims, but I don’t know how USCIS works. I would hope they’d need proof 🥺❤️. I just want to be prepared if there was ever an issue. 

Thanks for answering with whatever you know. 
I hope this isn’t taken as a super weird question. Lol. 

2 hours ago, smpcole said:

Other possible "red flags":

- We are planning to apply immediately after getting married.

- We are going to sign a prenup before getting married.

- We have never lived together before.

My husband and I did all that too. I wouldn’t think there would be a red flag. In our case we applied 6 months after marriage (Pretty soon), we didn’t sign a prenup, and we never lived together because of religious reasons. So I don’t think those would be red flags.

I used Boundless to begin with. They were SUPER Slow. They kept blaming it on Coronavirus. They told us something would take 3-4 days to review, then they said 8-10 days, then 3 weeks later I stilll hadn't heard anything and so I canceled their help and did it myself. Not sure if I did anything wrong just yet (USCIS has had my stuff since the first week of July so they still have time to send me an RFE), but I have been studying the topic for months, I've read other people's situations, and so I decided to file myself. We had lawyers here in Israel helping me with immigration on this end (just to let my husband and I be together here in Israel) They were pretty much not helpful, told us to commit fraud here in Israel (we didn't and were appalled), and they did absolutely nothing to help us. When they did do something useful, they charged an extra $500 after we paid them $5000 to help us. I was over the top with it all and decided to handle our American situation myself. I will do the best job out there because I actually care about our situation. 

With our lawyers here, I am still waiting on information we asked them about 2 months ago and they've yet to help me figure it out. 

I am very knowledgeable on politics, immigration issues, government rules. I've been involved with governmental stuff since 2012 and its a passion learning all about how stuff works. SO I am just trusting myself on this issues. I may have mess-ups, but I'm pretty convinced I will do a much better job than someone who's life isn't affected by if I get it or not. I will give my all and my best. I will say I was not so confident till I found Visa Journey. They helped give me the confidence I needed to file it myself.