Lee L

As one of the many petitioners waiting patiently for their spouses to be allowed into the country, please understand and believe me when I say that we're approaching the most difficult time of the year to be separated. For all of you working at VSC who have families - children, wives, and husbands - and get to come home every day after work to be with them and bask in the holiday glow together. To all of you at VSC who wake up each morning next to the love of your life, the reason for your existence. Just imagine this... imagine coming home to a dark, quiet house. Imagine waking up in the bed alone without your wife/husband. All because your country deemed them unsuitable to be allowed into your home until the completion of an eight month + waiting period. This is all I ask - please just think about it. If I could just ask for one thing this Xmas it would be an approval notice from VSC for Marcy 's visa. C'mon VSC, you could make so many people happy this month!!

LeeL[/color]

Are they kidding or what? One f*ing holiday weekend and their office is paralyzed again? C'mon VSC, a change we can believe in.. YES WE CAN!!!

Please fill in your timeline and add the 129F!!

Congrats - now please update your timeline...

My two cents - This immigration fiasco is the biggest bulls%$# i've ever had to deal with in life... that's all i have to say about it

Hi,

For the recent approvals thru VSC, how were you notified by USCIS?

Hi Lisa.. Has your case been given to an adjudicator or is it in the 'adjudications queue'? I have been in that queue for almost 3 weeks now according to my congressional rep. Just curious.

LeeL

we're in the "que" guys!!!!! the congressman responded after I wrote AGAIN, after talking to uscis and pushed for the update review thingy lol

Its coming, and i almost cried when i got the letter today. pittiful eh? heh

Lisa

it's pretty sad....no approvals at all this week!

There was an approval this week at VSC check out my Dust Collectors thread. I always told you to watch it but you never acknowledged my existance for some reason.

Mahitab

You are hereby acknowledged Mahitab! I always acknowledge ya

This is good news. I was told I was in the queue by my congressman and 11 days later, I received my approval! Hang in there!!

Thanks! I was thinking that I read that posted somewhere saying that... thank you for sharing

Im soo excited really

Lisa

Still waiting...

Yes, I called and commented that I am past 6 months and the officer said I wasn't. I attempted to dazzle him with my math skills but he just said I was wrong. It feels like they will deny that the sky is blue on a sunny day - According to this guy they are still processing end of Feb I129Fs at VSC... #######!!

Don't believe what that agent said... most of them are f@#*ing clueless...

I am an April filer, and according to recent approvals it appears that VSC is busy with March filers. But according to timeline data there are a number of Feb K3 filers still waiting.. Is that the case or are people just blowing off this site after their approval and not updating?? If there are any K3 Feb filers still waiting please respond to this and if you have NOA2s PLEASE update - this would help us gauge where VSC really is with our applications.

Thanks-

LeeL

Hi Everyone-

It is obvious that there are a bunch of K3 filers who were here at one point and already have been approved BUT HAVE NOT UPDATED THEIR TIMELINES!!! If you are one of those, please just log on and update by adding your NOA2 dates. Its just out of respect for those of us who are still waiting..

Thanks

LeeL

You have to go on the congressional website..

http://www.house.gov/htbin/zipfind

And contact the local office and possibly a rep there can help.

I'm still waiting for both petitions and that's why I went to my congresswoman's office today.. I met with the liason who IMMEDIATELY got on the phone and called USCIS and was able to tell me that my 129F was just put into the queue for processing 2 days ago. I was like "uh, OK, wasn't that where it was anyway?" And she said "no, it's finally ready to go into someone's hands for adjudication in the next few weeks so be patient and wait"... I've heard many people so far say to be patient and wait and I'm getting tired of it. But, this might be something real... Has anyone received any good news from congress that panned out?

Congrats... I hope that we're next there!

Please fill in your timeline..

I hear that they are pretty quick - so if I were you I'd call them to see if they received the packet from NVC and start getting your stuff ready like affidavit of support, medical, police records, etc. I think after the interview it should be ready after a day or two.. we're still awaiting our NOA2s..

It can't be too much longer for us...

Hey CJ.. this is probably where you should look to see your "spot in line" - not that there's any method to their mayhem, but they are definitely working on Feb still

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/igor/vjdata/vsc.aspx

Yeah, you probably were touched when they put both petitions together. As you can see , almost everyones' I130 and I129F are approved together...

Just curious. I sent my 129F in late April and it was touched on May 30. No activity since then. Anybody else?

I write this with the hope of catching someone's eye at Vermont. As you may or may not know, there are a number of us waiting for months and months to be with our spouses due to this wait for petition processing. Here on this site it is plain to see that engagement petitions are often approved within half the time it takes for those for actual spouses. I am not questioning fairness - but I am questioning logic. I am married - which means I ALREADY have made the commitment to place myself responsible for my spouse, both emotionally and financially. This responsibility is extremely difficult to honor from here overseas and I would spend this time with her waiting in her country if I could, however I am not independently wealthy so it would prove even more detrimental to our marriage than this distance. Not to mention that seperation from her is heartbreaking.I know there are many elements at play here - politics, bureaucracy, etc, - but take this as a plea for the consideration of the numerous families that are being kept apart during these long wait times for petition processing.

Thank you,

Lee L

They were working for a week or so and now they're on vacation again???

Solution (as with many countries): apply for new passport, and have current one cancelled.

Hey Brooklyn... yeah its a costa rican thing - Ticas never change their names when married so probably theres no structure in place which would enable her to alter her identity. If you two would have kids in CR they would take your patrimonial names only and those names stay forever.

I hope this means they're moving now...

One piece of advice.. keep calling the attorney regularly because the VSC has been known to send mail to the lawyer and not the actual petitioner. So, if your lawyer's really busy they may not let you know right away if something was sent out - evidence request, NOA, etc..