Cortr

Go to the USCIS website...

http://www.uscis.gov

And on the left navigation bar there's a link about checking your case status. Do that, and then it will take you into the area. There's an option to create an account, and once you've done that and you're signed in, you can add "case numbers" to your account. Once the case numbers are in your account, you can add/remove email and text alerts for when they change status.

OMG. Such fantastic news. Congratulations! Maybe now they've moved on to September for good... one can hope.

For the people who got notified via text at 7:30ish or so, what timezone are you guys in?

Garfield's in central, so 7pm here (same town as him) would be 5pm at CSC -- quittin' time, I'm sure.

You cannot attend the interview with her. They will not allow you access beyond a certain point. I've read that there is an (overpriced) coffee shop where most of the significant others wait it out. Bring a book, because it can take several hours.

Air China Limited (dunno who that is or if it's a decent airline) is running fares from JFK to Guangzhou to $907 round trip. (817 if you go to Hong Kong instead) So, if you were able to get to NYC cheaply, that might not be a bad way to go. Pretty bad layover in Beijing though.

http://www.bing.com/travel/flight/flightSe...CH&baf=true

Cathay Pacific (great airline) to Hong Kong is $1465 on those dates.

I checked some of the other big international hubs in the states for departure points and wasn't able to come close to JFK for rates. A good travel agent may be able to find you even better.

I flew Asiana Airlines last time I went over from JFK to Guangzhou (with a stop in Seoul) and it was really nice.

Their flight rates seem to fluctuate wildly from reasonable to outlandish, so you have to keep an eye on them. A quick glance at the flights in that date range seems expensive to me too.

There's a certain window of opportunity when you book flights that is not too far in advance and not too soon where you will get the best rates. I have a feeling you're now in the "too soon" timeframe, so you're going to pay for it.

I've heard lots of people say that the Hong Kong route tends to be cheaper too. In my case, it was a wash, so I flew directly to Guangzhou to save myself the trouble of making the connection.

Delivery confirmation of my package to CSC this morning!

Seconding, zip up any important documents and e-mail them to yourself at a hotmail, gmail, yahoo account. Storing on any kind of local media like flash drives, DVD, whatever, is far more susceptible to data loss than storing on a massive, commercial-enterprise grade e-mail system.

Put ours in the mail today. It's supposed to be there on Friday. Officially joining this group now, I guess! Gooooooooo September!

Oh, so -this- is the thread where all the drama goes down. I've been looking for it!

I suggest everyone live and let live. We all have our skeletons in our closets, and none of us is perfect. Except maybe the O.P. That guy is choice. (just kidding)

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

hi i am going to fly @ Los angeles airport with a connecting flight to dallas and final destination to corpus christi texas with a k1 visa. i am just curious coz its my 1st time to travel and i am so nervous and worried becoz so many connecting flights. anybody could give me some tips or tell me the step by step on how to get lost at the airport or missed any flight?

1 more question regards to my flight was the requirements i need to bring for a k1 visa.

By the way, don't forget to bring a PEN, hehehehehe!! you have to fill-up something for immigration purposes before you deplane.

I (USC) invariably forget to have a pen readily accesible during the flight and end up bumbling with it during the line-up to get up to immigration.

That last post was pretty thorough, and sound advice, but one thing I'd like to add is that:

Anything you put in your "checked baggage" has the potential to get lost, and you won't have access to it (at best) until after you are through customs at LAX.

Make sure that you keep all important documents (passport, visa, sealed K1 documents, anything else super important -- money, fiance's phone number, etc) ON YOUR person at all times. Maybe in your handbag, or backpack. (Don't forget to grab it when you get off the plane!)

Yeah, I'm going to send four, just to be safe. It just seems silly that this confusion isn't accounted for in the form instructions.

On a related note, do you have to send in just one (per person) passport photo, or do you need a photo to accompany each of the form copies (for a total of 4 per person)?

Is 54 pages really that big? I'm still working on assembling mine, but it's going to be well over that size. Probably over 100 when you count all the "evidence of continuing relationship" (email & chat samples, phone call logs) plus the "evidence of my visits" to her country.

Sending I-129F out next week, have to assemble the monster this weekend. ;-)

I'm in the middle of this same nightmare right now.

First of all, if you haven't downloaded the form since 6/12/2009 -- then you were using the old form. The USCIS website says that the old form is still currently being accepted. Please don't confuse the discussion further by mentioning how there's 4 pages for you, etc!

Because, if you navigate to the website and look at the current form available for download, it's only 1 page, and it doesn't have the little routing/codes at the bottom that the prior one did:

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/g-325a.pdf

The instructions make no mention of the fact that you're supposed to include four copies. The only hint to that fact is that the page describing the G-325A says there's 4 pages:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00045f3d6a1RCRD

I've been wondering whether to send four copies, one copy, or what. So far, here is the results from my inquiries online:

1) Asked my attorney -- says since they reduced it to 1 page, and the other 3 pages were just copies anyway, can just send 1 (probably)

2) Looked on VisaJourney -- website claims to send 4, claims to be checking into the matter with USCIS -- unverified, just guesswork as best as I can tell

3) Called USCIS a week ago and asked them Attempt #1 -- guy said that if the instructions didn't say to make 4 copies, can just send one

4) Called USCIS today -- another guy said that even though there's only 1 page in the PDF, it's supposed to (magically?) print out four copies with some different text at the bottom when you print it. As far as I know, that's totally and technically impossible. But I could be wrong. He went on further to claim that sending in the same page, copied 4 times, would be incorrect. (this also seems totally unlikely)

So in summary, my experience is that nobody freaking knows what you're supposed to do, and it depends on who you ask, or where you look! How much more opaque could this process be?