Danno2

Its a Thai conspiracy cooked up for our girl to come to the same flight.

OK , I'm putting the crack pipe down now...

Hi my new friends.

I am new here

Just wanting to stop by and say hi to all my new friends

Welcome aboard. There are lots of good people in this thread. If your new to VJ a great way to get caught up is to look in the guides and FAQ's for K1's or K3's. Being a guy I first refused to do that but after I did I was shocked at just how good these items were. I think everyone here will be glad to help with things specific to Thailand.

Good Luck!

I never had to preface questions in this thread before but I will a little with this one.

Chada and i want to go through the post NOA2 process as efficiently as possible in hopes of her spending a really great summer in the US. (we have a 6 state road-trip and a second vacation on the books). By now everyone should know "I'm a planner".. In order to pull that off we want to be prepared for best case scenario processing times. (us waiting on the visa and not the other way around). Because she has a TON of things to do outside the visa process to leave her country along with 4 week notice to give at her job we really need to get things organized. To get this started I have taken information from VJ stats page for the remaining steps pertinent to us. Can you please review and compare those to your time frame. The most important one for me would be the last 2 items.

NOA2 to NVC receive = 8 Days

NVC processing = 6 days

NVC to BKK receive = 5 days

Bangkok initial processing time (sending pk4) = 10 - 25 days

Receiving pk3 to interview date = ?

Thank you in advance!

Danny

^{CONGRADULATIONS!}

Of course this is the place to ask!! As much as anything else I see this thread as supporting others... Tell us about how much you want to spend, what part of town your looking for (if any), inside or outside and what you want to do. I'll get the info from Chada ASAP.

Before that happens I can tell you that:

The Banyon tree hotel has a very cool restaurant on its roof. Its expensive to eat but they have a bar as well. Many people go for 1 drink only just to see it. Its an awesome view at tonight, very romantic and just overall very cool.

Waterside is a "resort" Thai restaurant with upscale looks but normal Thai prices. Its very popular with the local's and I was the only foreign person there. Its seen as a special place to go..

Waterside

PM me if you want and I will get Chada to call you. Both of us would love to help.

For 107 days from NOA1 our case was not touched. Then on 4/10/09 we got a touch only and thats never changed. Today we received our hard copy NOA2 in the mail. It was received 7 days post NOA2 approval. So VSC NOA1 -> NOA2 = 107 days for us.

The reason for the original post was that I called Chada last Friday and told her that we got a "touch". Also that it was likely an NOA2. What I got back was a girly scream, babbling followed by tears of joy. When I had to follow that with "I didn't get confirmation via email and we have to wait for USPS" she was really, really worried we got an RFE.

Thanks to everyone who posted because that made the last 2 days bearable for her.

Heather no worries about the misunderstanding. I very much appreciate your heartfelt PM and replies!

Danny... Modest na!

Congrats on getting your hardcopy NOA2!

Yes thats me in full dork mode. I'll be intolerably happy for days so I'm apologizing in advance...

<-___Ladies and gentlemen,

<-___That cuttie to the left

<-___That girl I love

<-___Yes that girl

<-___YES HER

Is comming to the USA this summer!

NOA2 - 4/9/2009 --- VSC-107 days

<-___Ladies and gentlemen

<-___That cuttie to the left

<-___That girl i love

<-___Yes that girl

<-___YES HER

Is comming to the USA this summer!

NOA2 - 4/9/2009 --- VSC-107 days

I need some ice cream

LOL, I cant wait for my girl to say this.

Thank you everyone for the replies.

Nik+Heather there was a specific reason I asked the question. I didn’t think posting another 200 words explaining the "why" of my particular situation was going to add value. If you wish to call me obsessive I guess you can. I was just trying to alleviate the concern my SO has on if we received an RFE, NOA2 or nothing with our 109 day "touch" from last Friday. I'm not sure why without knowing anything about me or my situation you would say that about me.

Thanks again,

Danny

I have searched on this and cannot find another thread. Can those who received the NOA2 letter please answer how much time passed between approval date on the letter and when you actually received the letter in the mail?

I'm trying to get an idea if this is a week, a month or so unreliable it cannot be averaged.

Thanks in advance.

Who is going to create a dedicated SAWASDEE social, culture, political b!tch thread?

Why we REALLY want to pick a fight with Iran...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA410A.html

I learned something new today.

We have chatted a lot but have used Yahoo IM. I have saved some chat files but cannot find a log file for this service. How important do you think this will be?.

I have not been through the process yet as I'm pre NOA2 but read up on this thread from about mid February for people going into the interview. Its seems pretty horrible.

Its a top priority for Chada and I to get as much 2 way proof of love we can.

Packet 3 and proof of relationship = full time job

You only need the divorce certificate. The Bai Rub Rong Sod is only for woman that have never been married.

Looks like you lucked out. That document is a SOB to get. The guy that gives them out in BKK got burned by a girl before and just does not want to do it.

I'll be able to tell you in 24 hours when Chada gets back to Bangkok. I'm worried...

Thanks Danny.

Looks good! Of course, the checklist will vary based on each applicant's situation.

E.g. - in our case we needed change-of-name certification as well.

Btw - your new VJ profile photo of Chada is very distracting! Unless you want all us lonely guys drooling (maybe that's your intent?) suggest you switch to something a little tamer. She's smokin', man!! Wish you two all the best

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She had that on her MSN today. As soon as I saw it I said Send that to me!

rotating it out of the lineup...

Pretty quiet around here.

I spend the day working on the IM component for the Proof of Relationship attachment to Packet 3. It seems after I came back from my first trip in November I upgraded MSN messenger and it disabled my chat log history. Nice... So after pulling together files from 3 computers over 3.5 hours I have assembled a history showing 17,265 messages which is 267 pages in Ariel 8pt type with .3 top/bottom margins. Everything after 12/1 has been proofed for appropriate content. I'll probably have to spend 2+ hours going over everything before then. In case he wants the raw printouts I'm going to send Chada all the XML files on a CD. I hope to god he does not want the originals. There is nothing crazy in there but I would like to have some privacy and not kill a forest printing out 1200 pages.

BTW if you are using AT&T to track phone logs they did a system upgrade around Dec 20th that impacted the detailed calling reports. On my logs it shoes incoming calls from Chada as my cell phone calling myself. This is even though her cell phone number shows up on my caller ID every time she calls. I called AT&T and after 20 minutes of level 1 people telling me its her carriers fault and to call them I got escalated to a supervisor that said yes its their fault and happened at the exact time of a system upgrade. She promised to track down the issue and call me back. I guess you can imagine what didn't happen after that... Thank goodness Chada could pull detail billing off of her calling card.

Chada's in Chiang Rai for the holidays and didn't know what was going on in Bangkok. She did mention they ran into the red shirts when they were at a festival but didn't say anything else.

In reading the Bangkok post this morning it worried me as well. Besides the political turmoil 95 people have died in car accidents over the last few day. 30+% were due to drunk driving.

Danny,

Your Google document is locked. It's telling me that I'm not granted permission to open it.

I hate it when I do that. It should be fixed now. Bangkok Embassy Packet 3 Checklist

I've been researching and updating my Bangkok Embassy Packet 3 Checklist based upon the latest instructions from the Bangkok embassy. Can you take a look and see if I have missed anything?

I'm glad we were working on this over the last few months. This is ALLOT of work and organization to get this right the first time.

I did a date calculation from NOA1 to the "touch" yesterday. It was 109 days or 3 months and 19 days. It seems so odd that many, many other timelines I have seen have been almost the EXACT same processing time (within a day or so). It makes me wonder if they process the K-1's by due date as primary and FIFO as secondary. The reason I say this is 2 fold. Large companies are VERY dependent on stats / metrics to track operational activities. Secondly I remember reading the articles on VJ about the former USCIS employee. He indicated the top priority was meeting whatever performance metrix they had established. If you think about it the 110 days would give just enough time to process apps within any 4 month window which is what the metrix currently is.

I know not everyone gets it within that time-frame but if they just shoot for xx% that might explain the coincidence.

Guys thanks for all the info and support. I added the domain name in your post to our spam software so it will not get caught there.

About 4 months ago I was doing stats on IGORS and picked our place in line when we would be approved as 77. I know IGORS mean very little but I need data to crunch on to make me happy. Anyway we are at IGORS #75 today. Also Chada and I were talking and I told her we would be approved Friday (as in today). Man oh man I hope this happens.

How many times can I hit refresh button before my finger falls off?

Anyone ever notice that date from approval date on the NOA2 to actually receiving an email notification? Is the email notification useless as well? Did you find out via email or US mail?

Thanks for the quick answer and no one telling me to use the search button.

Not sure if anyone else is like this but after my last trip to see my girl and having packet 3 completed we’ve both been sitting calmly waiting for the NOA2. Then today when I saw some activity with our case it kind of snapped me out of a "numb mode" and reminded me just how bought into the process I am. Man this is one h** of a roller coaster ride and we are not even around the first bend yet