My fiancee and I have been observers of this website for a long time. I thought now would be a good time to become a registered member and perhaps help anyone out there. After all we all know how hard this process can be or has been and visajourney.com has been such a blessing to us both through all the hard times.
I live in Belfast (Uk) and Ryan lives in Minneapolis (USA) We met via my sister who is married and lives in MN also. I was visitng one summer and was introduced to Ryan through mutual friends and it was almost love at first sight. We got engaged at Christmas on New Years Eve in Belfast and that was the beginning of all this crap of immigration!!! If only it was the early 1900s and we could sail over to the States and sign oursleves into the country!
Here is our timeline:
TIMELINE
USA Processing
02/06/2004 Sent I-129F application to Nebraska Service Centre
03/20/2004 NOA1
07/13/2004 NOA2
07/25/2004 NVC receives file. Approves file 08/02/2004
UK Processing
08/20/2004 Received Packet 3
08/30/2004 Mailed packet 3(I was visitng for 3 months in the US so it took a bit of time for packet 3 to be sent by my family to the US and then returned to the UK)
09/04/2004 Packet 3 received in London
09/11/2004 Recieved Packet 4
10/18/2004 INTERVIEW DATE IN LONDON - APPROVED
10/21/2005 - Flew into MInneapolis to be with my honey
10/31/2004 MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AOS Processing
11/16/2004 Filled AOS I-485 & EAD
12/31/2004 Received EAD
06/08/2005 Received AOS interview letter
08/09/2005 AOS interview - APPROVED
08/16/2005 Received Green Card
Now we just have 2 years to wait until I can lift conditions
