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Very good, and a very good discussion topic. Let's hope that this slowdown is temporary.

Yes -- price out the options, figure in the headaches, be sure you're right, and go ahead. It may well be that you decide to bear a little extra expense in favor of straightforward convenience.

Sir, this post merits enshrinement in the pantheon of All-Time Greatest VJ Posts.

Good thinking; however, with so many courts in the U.S., it's unclear how meaningful such a statement would be. A couple could live in Vermont after having been married in Las Vegas, for example. This sounds good. Maybe add a subheading in boldface like this: MARITAL HISTORY / RECORD *** NO MARRIAGE OCCURRED -- READ BELOW *** And then elaborate concisely.

Or, how to answer a wife's question: Wife: Does this dress make me look fat? You: No, the dress doesn't make you look fat. You ARE fat!

Thread, seemingly pertaining to CR-1 times, is moved from the CR-1 Case Progress subforum to the USCIS Service Centers forum -- topic involves overall rapidity.

Thrilling Tuesday-on-Wednesday report, see man: Decently zzz'd, much-needed man. Miu was still dozing atop miu-tower when we initially lurched downstairs, quiescent miu man. Went first with donation-drop, drop donation we man. Got hardware-store boxes, go out for boxing we man. Store later called to say that they had even more big boxes, will get them on Wednesday we man. Free lunch was meat loaf, turkey noodle soup, mashed potatoes, peas, and sugar-free vanilla pudding, ingest we man. Mama T-B.'s meal allocation has enough in it for us to lunch for free through month-end plus a din-din or two, well-fed and financially savvy we man. Lady showed up to buy a recliner, see recliners she man. She bought one after sitting in it for literally just Many seconds, easy sale man. She even lifted it onto the flatbed dolly and wheeled it out herself, wow man. Another lady bought the paper-shredder, small sale but a sale nevertheless man. She expressed initial interest in the other recliner and the warsher but ultimately declined, polite she man. We have people interested in the warsher/dryer and other items, interesting what people want man. One lady (from Craigslist) wants to buy the dryer sight-unseen, no see she man. Her husband would purportedly overnight a cashier's check to us for $Many00 more than list price, hmm man. She wrote back to say that the check will now arrive on Monday, not overnight man. We said that we can't wait that long, beginning to feel weird and sound complicated man. She even "asked" that we remove the dryer as an active listing, we shall decide that man. Just about willing to tell her to take a long walk off a short pier, give her very short rope hereafter we man. Mama T-B. is miserable because Hospice didn't show up to give her a bath today as promised, we man. No one is helping her try to get out of bed, only 2 attempts in a full month man. She is also waffling about which clothes to save from her closet, time's elapsing man. We also have to figure out how to move the spoken-for desk & bed headboard, maybe Ecu handyman man. That option wouldn't occur till Sunday, sigh man. We also need to make room for furniture-moves amidst boxes and scattered items on floor, Moving is Chaotic man. We hosed ourself trying to lift a box of heavy framed pictures onto the flatbed dolly, ow ow ow OW OW man. We should take bedtime HSM, already almost too late if it out-knocks us properly man. Returned to our casa at Many (2+2) p.m., hurt-backing and sweaty we man. Updated Nextdoor & Craigslist lists, conscientious we man. Took <hourlong siesta, zzz we man. Din-din was Tuna Glop*, ingest we man. *nuked rice from Mama T-B.'s pantry, tuna & peas from recent ES, financially savvy we man Confirmed that Mama T-B. didn't particularly need a visit, offer we man. Went to get our hairs cut, found place open till Many (2x2x2) p.m. man. Up-stocked on Powerade Zero grape**, load off our mind man. **WUOCs on last day of validity, financially savvy we man No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. HSM on the bedtime ingestation plan, ingest we man. Wednesday chiefly to be spent entertaining buyers, hope we man. Should also prepare more donations, probably kitchen items man. And that was/is our thrilling Tuesday, report we man.

, Bro G man!!! Gracias, Bro B man. The first task is to learn to make poo, and then it can be flung, si man.

Welcome to the forum! Fingers are crossed for you and for everyone.

If possible, find out who moves into your old location at your old address, and have them notify you if your card comes there. You can then arrange how to get it.

A breakthrough is so very much needed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What causes Parkinson's disease? Scientists uncover an unexpected new clue. More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson's disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that leads to symptoms such as tremors, slow movement, limb stiffness, and balance issues. Scientists still don't know what causes the disease, but it's thought to develop due to a complex mixture of genetic and environmental factors, and treatment is still quite limited. But new research is putting scientists one step closer to some possible answers. In a recent study published in JCI Insight, researchers found a common virus, called human pegivirus (HPgV), in the brains of patients who had Parkinson's disease when they died. Although HPgV infections don't usually cause symptoms, researchers believe the virus may be playing a role in the development of Parkinson's. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/causes-parkinsons-disease-scientists-uncover-110000751.html

Awful 22-second video of the crash. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pilots 'switched off wrong engine' in South Korea crash that killed 179 The pilots of the South Korean airliner that crashed and killed 179 people switched off the wrong engine, a report has revealed. The Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB) found the right engine of the Jeju Air Boeing 737 stopped working after the plane collided with a flock of ducks, but that the left engine continued to produce power. However, instead of turning off the damaged engine, the pilots cut power to the side that was still operational, leaving the plane without any working engines. The investigators said: "A pilot may have mistakenly turned off the engine." The cockpit voice recorder captured the pilot saying [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/pilots-switched-off-wrong-engine-082403902.html

We are in urgent need of Sunday's Official Weekly VAWA-Thread Joke: =========================================== THE TAX-RETURN FORM A man from New York City found himself in a pickle after the IRS returned his tax return to him because of an incorrectly answered question. The question had asked him to list his dependents. A few days later, the IRS received the following response: "12.1 million illegal immigrants, 1.1 million crackheads, 4.4 million unemployed deadbeats, 80,000 criminals in over 85 prisons, and at least 450 idiots in Congress and numerous others who call themselves politicians, but are in fact nothing of the sort." In a strongly worded letter accompanying the man's tax return, the IRS responded, "This answer is completely unacceptable and an insult to this government institution." In turn, the man replied, "I thought that it was quite detailed. Who did I leave out?"

Punching walls with your elbows causes less damage (to yourself) than does punching them with your fists.

Thrilling Monday-on-Tuesday report, see man: We were dead to the world until aroused by massive whirring/whining, jolted we man. Chinese dude two casas down mows his lawn with a weed-whacker, not lawnmower, don't know why man. He began at Many (2+2+2+1) -- si man, Many (2+2+2+1) -- a.m., si and and and man. Guy has been here for years but speaks no English, si and no man. Steveklar, if here, might peg him as being from Fujian Province, remember this long-timers man. We felt like garbage for most of the morning, HSM helped somewhat man. Brushed demanding miu twice, brush miu we man. Got to Mama T-B.'s old casa at half-past noon, drag we man. Free lunch was pork stir-fry, snow peas, Many-bean ([2+1]-bean) salad, & sugar-free ice cream, ingest we man. Spent much time doing final out-clearing of desk slated for sale, out-clear we man. Spent even more time finding the blouses/pants that Mama T-B. wanted us to de-closet, unsure of reasoning we man. Someone texted to ask about the vintage mirror-dresser, text he man we man man. We then spent considerable time out-clearing that, amazing contents man. Mama T-B. had nearly Many00 (Many00 - [2x2x2 +2]) unopened packs of, see man: -- pantyhose, si man -- knee-highs, si man -- footlets, si man -- other such, si man Many/most of these were NIP from Many Manycades ago, unbelievably low prices back then man. We presume that if anyone wears this stuff now, the products should still be good, presume we man. We aggregated these for donation, who cares if they're later thrown out man. Young couple showed up separately but simultaneously, very nice and fizzicly fit pair man. Their older son (Many [2+2+2] years old) just moved into a big-boy room, awww man. Husband expertly disassembled mirror from dresser, proficient he man. Wife left to withdraw $ from bank, just down the street man. Husband removed handles from flatbed dolly so dresser could fit on it, proficient he man. Wife carried mirror, strong she man. They expertly loaded the stuff in his pickup truck, obviously done this before man. Each could put one leg up on truck tailgate and step up from there, amazing strength/flexibility man. Conversely, we can barely raise either leg to take stairs, ow ow ow OW OW man. They paid and thanked us, and we were both gratified and amazed at the rapidity and ease of sale, si man. We reported this to Mama T-B., report we man. We were afraid of her potential reaction, like the one of grief for the cedar chest man. Mama T-B. asked our sales price ($Many00), and said the following, see man: "I didn't think that you could get that much for it, no man," si man. We didn't even need to emphasize that a little wee man would enjoy her furniture for years, no man. We have a small sale of a small desk + 2 folding chairs pending for Tuesday, pend sale man. This, like the dresser, was from NextDoor, si man. At half-past Many (2+2+2) p.m., we left, still more to do man. Din-din was from Subway*, ingest we man. *WUOC + gift card, financially savvy we man Ministered to demanding miu before consuming din-din, man. Debated showering but decided on a siesta instead, much-needed zzz we man. Curbsided the recycling and dished/de-dished the warsher, domestic we man. No further NextDoor interest, sigh man. Spent much time posting listings on Craigslist, leave no stone unturned we man. The system overloaded during our very last listing, nearly 2 Manyzen man. We'd barely gotten the last one posted when an eager inquiry came in, wow man. Someone else inquired without follow-up about our largest item, bookcase-atop-storage-cabinets man. We hope to get this stuff out-cleared promptly, hope we man. Brushed miu a Many'rd time and had rousing game of "catch the dangly-pole," interactive miu man. We expect to be awakened by texts, in advance but necessary we man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. Must make a donation run on Tuesday, empty the T-B.-mobile we man. And that was/is our thrilling Monday, report we man.

Road trip, si mam ma'am! We can meet up, si mam ma'am. At least that, si and sigh mam ma'am. In/out time precised, si and see and mam ma'am. That depends on the definition of Many, oj tak.

This sounds positive indeed. Fingers strongly crossed for you. Of course, report back.

Then it's time to involve your Congressman or U.S. Senator's office. Try your Congressman first. Go to his/her official website and find the "release form" that permits them to inquire/intervene on your behalf. If you have trouble finding it or completing it, call the Congressman's office (probably in Washington, DC) and ask for the Immigration Liaison. Let us know what happens -- we care.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard: Obama Orchestrated A "Treasonous Conspiracy... Yearslong Coup" Against Trump Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo that recently released documents implicate President Obama in a "treasonous conspiracy" to fabricate evidence for a Trump-Russia conspiracy, during and after the 2016 election. She says more whistleblowers and documents are coming to provide more evidence and says the Justice Department will be considering charges on those involved, including FISA judges, John Brennan, James Clapper, and others inside the so-called "deep state." She also suggests special counsels Robert Mueller and John Durham knowingly ignored this evidence. Gabbard says it is now up to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to act and that the future of American democracy could hang in the balance. [...] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/07/20/dni_gabbard_obama_orchestrated_a_treasonous_conspiracy_yearslong_coup_against_trump.html

But will chickens roost? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DNI Tulsi Gabbard Releases Declassified Info on Russiagate I will have a lot more to say on this—and have been working on a few pieces related to this historic scandal—but I wanted to immediately share the report released today by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that proves once and for all that President Barack Obama orchestrated the yes, coup, against the incoming president of the United States. "These documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people and try to usurp the President from fulfilling his mandate," Gabbard wrote on X. (Her full thread can be found here.) Not only do the documents demonstrate the intelligence community did not believe Russia could (before) or did (after) interfere in the 2016 presidential election, Gabbard's report disclosed an important 24-hour period where ex-FBI Director James Comey suddenly parted ways with his intel colleagues who at the time were preparing a president's daily brief indicating the Russians did not meddle in the election. [...] https://www.declassified.live/p/dni-tulsi-gabbard-releases-declassified

It's still Sunday in some time zones, so here in greatest haste is our Official Weekly VAWA-Thread Joke: =========================================== BAD (OR GOOD) ONES You're not completely useless... you can always serve as a bad example. I threw a boomerang a few years ago. I now live in constant fear. I broke my finger last week. On the other hand, I'm OK. I took the shell off my racing snail, thinking it would make him run faster. If anything, it made him more sluggish. Why should you never marry a tennis player? Because Love means Nothing to them. I told my wife that she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. My wife accused me of being immature. I told her to get out of my fort. Someone stole my mood ring. I don't know how I feel about that. My grandfather has the heart of a lion... and a lifetime ban from the zoo. You don't need a parachute to go skydiving. You need a parachute to go skydiving TWICE.

Scintillating Sunday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Sunday report, see man: This was almost a normal Sunday, mirabile dictu man. We zzz'd for Many hours, imagine that man. Breakfast was 2 hard-boiled eggs, ingest we man. Decided to do our normal Sunday routine, 2 LLs conquered man. Finally posted fotos of Mama T-B.'s furniture on NextDoor, some interest but no buyers yet man. Lunch was Re-Modified* Tuna Glop, ingest we man. *cream of chicken instead of cream of 'shroom soup, substitute we man. Siesta'd (!!?) afterward, much-needed zzz for we man man. Went to Mama T-B.'s old casa at around Many (2+2+2) p.m., finally go we man. Out-cleaned a drawer in a desk that had drawn NextDoor inquiries, tidy we man. Took fotos of absolutely everything else for sale, lamps decorations warsher/dryer man. Took a bag of stuff for ex-Mrs.-T-B., drop at empty casa on our way to our casa man. Reconfirmed with Receptionist what was still for sale, reconfirm we man with she man man. Left after about 2 hours, reasonable accomplishment man. Din-din was 2 ham sandwiches, ingest we man. Miu then wanted to play, rousing game of "catch the dangly-pole" man. This was the first non-two-shower day for us in forever, amazing man. Party with the rubias tonight, finally cavort we man man. Unsure what will occur on Monday, depends on interest in furniture man. Probably will tackle Mama T-B.'s clothes, clothes-horse senior she man man. We are debating whether to take any to Plato's Closet for potential resale, unsure we man. (We should have done this with Mama T-B.'s purses, man!) We suspect that we wouldn't make enough to make the labor/travel worthwhile, who knows man. On the other hand, nothing ventured nothing gained, there's that too man. Also unsure of when and how to schedule movers, depends on furniture sales man. Anyone with ideas is welcome to offer them, si man. And that was/is our thrilling Sunday, report we man.

Welcome to posting in the forum! Your thread is shifted from the K-1 Process forum to the K-1 Case Progress subforum. The consulates have the power to, and usually do, extend petition validity in 4-month increments for up to a year. This should not be your problem, and it almost certainly won't be. This information is accurate. Put your beneficiary's "A" number in the Subject line of the e-mail that you should write to let the consulate know about the tardy status of your petition. See here: https://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Indonesia&cty=Jakarta This information is under the "Office Reviews & Info" dropdown, atop every VisaJourney page. --- Keep us closely informed about how things are going. Best of luck and all due speed.

Scintillating Saturday repartee, yawn man. Thrilling Saturday-on-Sunday non-ES report, see man: We got ES-ing before Many (2x2x2 +2+1) a.m., OK given our route man. We kept getting messages that our T-B.-mobile remote's battery was low, get the message we man. Stopped at dealership parts department, proximal man. Parts dude gave us a battery free and showed us how to replace it, tricky man. Just got to Mama T-B.'s place in time for free lunch, last one served man. We consumed beef lasagna (praise be to the Great Sky-Chimp), peas, garlic bread, and sugar-free (?) chocolate cake, ingest we man. We had big plans for up-cleaning, plan big we man. Just then, Mama T-B. called, distressed senior she man man. She asked if we could come help her with her pills and other stuff, right then man. We helped Mama T-B. with pills and with general organization, neat-freak senior she man man. We apparently fell asleep after finishing the pills, chin-on-chest zzz we man. Mama T-B. then beefed about many issues, not too exaggerated man. We were there for nearly Many hours, till half-past Many (2+2+1) p.m. man. We internally despaired regarding accomplishing anything, sigh we man. Mama T-B. gave us 2 soiled dusters to warsh, good weekend timing man. Returned to casa, feed miu and preemptively turn on lights for late-night return we man. Retrieved din-din from BK*, ingest we man. *WUOC, financially savvy we man Got back to Mama T-B.'s old casa, return like MacArthur we man. Consumed din-din, ingest we man. Out-cleaned all drawers of desk to be sold, big drawers already pretty much emptied man. The above-lap drawer was the challenge, good heavens above man. It contained such things as business cards from long-gone banks, repair receipts from old casa when Papa T-B. was alive, random scraps held together by too-small rusty paper clips, and things held by now-broken rubber bands that had melted onto what they'd been holding, man. We threw out Many% ([Many00% - 2%]) of everything, invoke name of Great Sky-Chimp in vain we man. We must now off-clean the top of the desk and see what's under the blotters, away-squirrel things Mama T-B. man. We then tackled the plastic double tray atop desk, loaded with stuff man. We found health records for Mama T-B. and Mini-B. from Many years ago, passé now man. We found half-of-half-yearly investment reports from Many years ago, passé now man. We must admit that everything was very neatly stacked, si and man. We took Many -- si man, Many -- sealed envelopes of this stuff down to the recycle bin, take we man. We then decided to make headway visibly, decide we man. We removed all Many wall-pictures, nearly Many00% of Papa T-B. man. We had one box big enough to hold them, at least a Manyzen small fotos left to pack man. Decided not to cart box of pictures down to T-B.-mobile, flatbed dolly deafening at too late an hour man. Took a bag of office supplies and a thick brown towel still with the straight-pinned "Key 1" KMart tag on it man. Made it to casa in time to assuage indignant miu and watch late TV news, assuage and watch we man. Laundered Mama T-B.'s dusters and new towel, Thread Laundress we man. We have never seen brown dryer-lint before, usually gray or mauve man. Boxed up 2 NWT plushies found deeply buried in Mama T-B.'s closet, box we man. These we will send to our Many-year-old ([2+2+1]-year-old) ex-nephew in Philadelphia, surprise wee man we man. There is a tiger with a German tag on it, and a rabbit that plays music, should be cute for wee man man. We have never met this ex-nephew, no man. He is the progeny of ex-Mrs.-T-B.'s #Many ([2+2+1th) sister, specifically man. These plushies are certainly Manycades older than he, convinced we man man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man. We have far too much to do on Sunday to do our usual casa-hold chores, but do latter we must man. During laundry, we should probably post our sale furniture on NextDoor, sigh man. But we must download these fotos from our phone, always tedium man. And we lack fotos of lamps, warsher/dryer, and other stuff man. We're unsure that we can vacate that casa in Many (2x2x2 +2+1) days, unsure we man. And that was/is our thrilling Saturday-on-Sunday, report we man.

Saturday ES report, see man: We indeed attended all Many (2+1) ESs, honorable we man. The first 2 ESs were ghastly, rightful duds man. The Many'rd ES yielded the take, see man: -- toucans Progresso soup, toucans tuna*, onecan early June peas*, toucans (nearly full) Foamy shaving-cream, half-a-Manyzen paper din-din plates = $2 + half a buck, steal man Total = $2 + half a buck *key ingredients of Tuna Glop, see and si and hee hee hee Bro G man