mikeleighb

Congrats....about time they approve an Oct filer...

thanks!!!

hey everyone! maybe this isn't important but i thought i'd ask anyway.

i got the email today saying approval and i confirmed it on uscis website. the website says "on jun 20 we sent the approval ...." (paraphrased of course) but i didn't know this until today. it was updated last on 6/26.

should i put approval 6/20 or 6/26 on my timeline? i want to keep my info as accurate as possible for anyone who uses my info.

thanks everyone.

i just got the email! they sent the approval for our application!!!!! no RFE!!!

i can't believe it.....

i am not sure i can concentrate on working

i am not even a little bit surprised. i lived in madison for for about 3 years. it is a total liberal cesspool.

I have heard (from people who've lived there as well) that it is a delightful and fun place to live!

you're right. the place is loaded with college kids and drunks and a combination of the two. that was pretty fun.

but they are pretty destructive politically.

don't call them animals. you might hurt their feelings.

if we could only talk to them, they will change their ways.

isn't that right mr. obama and his band of merry retarded liberal followers?

i am not even a little bit surprised. i lived in madison for for about 3 years. it is a total liberal cesspool.

i would happily pay 10 dollars a gallon if it meant i could avoid the constant barrage of discussion about gas prices.

it's all i hear all day at work. i turn on the radio and they're talking about. get home the tv is the same.

can we just shut the ####### up about gas prices?!

fine, i have to spend about 20-30 dollars more each week than i did a year or two ago. if your budget is broken over 20 dollars a week then you have bigger problems. you need to fix your lifestyle and quit complaining about this.

wow! my wife isn't here yet but i haven't put much thought into this.

any suggestions? my wife is Chinese.

Blacks? Don't they mean South African Americans?

I actually heard someone call South African Blacks "the African Americans in South Africa."

yes, that is hysterical. i love when the news or any other idiots (although i think newscaster implies idiot) calls a black british guy african american or any other similar situation.

i've enraged many people by my refusal to ever utter the term "african american". you are american or not. sorry, if your physical appearance needs to be described, then i will say it as it is.

i sure didn't

this is total bullcrap

global warming is a hoax

Might want to block out your receipt number...

i can't figure out how to edit

well, today i know that someone actually looked at my case. i had to request an investigation as to why i am 47 days outside of processing time.

i realize this touch is sort of artificial, but i do feel a little better knowing that someone actually looked at it. jesus christ!!!!over 4 months of just sitting there not to mention the 8 months since the application was received.

anyway, here is the email i got:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

California Service Center

P.O. Box 30111

Laguna Niguel, CA 92607-0111

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Emailed to mikeleighb@hotmail.com

Dear M. Baker:

On 06/18/2008 you, or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case. Some of the key information given to us at that time was the following:

Caller indicated they are:-- Applicant or Petitioner

Attorney Name:-- Information not available

Case type:-- I130

Filing date:-- 11/01/2007

Receipt #:-- WAC-08-108-18971

Beneficiary (if you filed for someone else):-- Information not available

Your USCIS Account Number (A-number):-- 000000000

Type of service requested:-- Outside Normal Processing Times

The status of this service request is: Your case is currently under review.

You should receive a decision or notice of other action within 60 days of the date of this letter. If you have any further questions, please call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.

Please remember: By law, every person who is not a U.S. citizen and who is over the age of 14 must also notify the Department of Homeland Security within 10 days from when they move (persons in "A" or "G" nonimmigrant status are exempt from this requirement). If you have moved, please complete a Form AR-11 and mail it to the address shown on that form. If you do not have this form, you can download it from our website or you can call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 and we can order one for you. If you move, please call us with your new address information as soon as your move is complete. If you have already called us and given us this information, you do not need to call again. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Wow!!!!

Thanks so much!!!! Only 60 days?!?! by all means, take your time. 10 months is no time at all to be separated from lao po, never mind the additional steps afterward.

i can only hope i get an RFE instead of an approval to waste even more time....

yes, i realize my personal information is up there, i don't care. if that's against the rules, delete whatever. if you want to send me an email or look up my case, feel free.

i feel sick

anyone have the contact number for vermont processing center? thx

i am pretty sure you have to call the generic 1-800 number on the website

oh, i have it here 1-800-375-5283

i think that is the only way to get ahold of anyone

If they consider you out by 30 by next update, Vermont is going to be hearing from me!

i just got off the phone with uscis. they tried to say my application was received on feb but i insisted it was november. i told them i have my receipt in front of me and it clearly says nov. 1.

she said, ok, it appears you are 47 days out of our processing times. she set up an inquiry as to the status of my case and said i will hear something within thirty days. please call back july 19 if i don't hear anything. and she gave me a reference number for the inquiry.

it sucks that now i am still waiting but at least they are doing a little something. be sure you insist on your receipt date. that is their own posted rule, they can't just ignore it.

good luck

I just want to know how many people are there whose waiting for NOA2s from VSC???

CSC is approving March08 as for now.

What happened to VSC and people who are waiting for this form last year???

Anybody called in VSC and find out??

When are they going to work on our Appls?

when i checked uscis.gov this morning it said csc is approving nov. 07

am i missing something?

They're definitely not going by received date in Vermont. Is there any evidence to suggest received date in CA apart from what they told you? Because what they say is pretty much worth the air that it is written on.

all i can tell you is that the last two times i called ( jun 9 and 2) they said that as soon as they update and i am 30 days out by my nov. 1 date, they will investigate my case. i guess i will let you know the results. hope they update soon.

You aren't actually outside of the processing times. They claim to be on July right now so you're well within, just like me. It is even worse since they're not honoring the date they received our applications but are going on the NOA1 dates.

edit : You're California -- still not outside of the dates. They claim November. The NOA1 is Feb.

We're both pooched by the delay from the alleged flood of July.

when i called them last, they said they are going by received dates as they are supposed to. they said call back when we are thirty days out.

wow, i was just gonna ask the same thing.

it always says last update is 15th of the month but they never actually update on the 15th.

i hope they move it because for the last 30 days i have been outside their processing time, but not outside enough.

maybe now someone will actually help me out.

***this one might get moved

I was logging in like i do every day and it dawned on me...."what's the point?"

So i want to ask everyone, why do you bother coming to vj everyday? I don't mean this in a mean spirited way, i am only curious. I know there are loads of info here, but once your paperwork is filed what is to gain? We can't find any more info about our case then we can at uscis.gov.

is it the emotional support? the willingness to answer others questions?

Is it seeing other people's approvals? if so, does that excite you or depress you? or both i suspect.

i just wondered what everyone's compulsion is because i don't know about mine.

yes, don't feel bad. you are a member of a very large club.

well thank you for adding more negative news, though i can't say you said anything i don't already know.

i was speaking of uscis, not anything else. i am already a member of that website, thanks. i am not yet ready to complain about the future, only the present.

look at our lovely DMV, and USCIS and every other bureaucracy. Any of you who think universal healthcare is a good idea, i hope you die before you are allowed to vote on it.

i'm so glad that they have the resources and manpower to update the website every few days but haven't had the time or resources to pick up my god D A M N application even one FU CK ING time

i don't know why i bother replying to these types of questions but i feel obligated somehow. my noa1 was sent feb. 7 so that makes 125 days. if you include the time it was received that makes 223 days of nothing. no one even looked at our case yet except to receive it.

no answers, no help....

i've kept my positive attitude this long, but it is getting difficult. my wife is so depressed, i am having a hard time keeping her head up. she almost has me feeling the same way.

i hope we all can get some answers soon.

everyone remember, however bad your case is, there is another who is waiting longer. for every case you see that applied after you approved, don't lose hope. you will probably get yours done before someone else who waited longer too.

Give or take 60 days.

exactly....

mine says april 3