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I had never heard of "Say yes to the dress" but wow, you can watch clips from the show online. Ah, there is one from a mother who is SO NOT into shopping with her daughter, and then a different clips from fathers who love their daughters dressed in "the dress". Very funny comic relief!

The only update I received for my petition with a NOA1 date of 10-15-09 was an email saying that the petition was approved and that they had mailed me notice of that approval on 1-8-10. I had been checking the "my portfolio" section to see any "last updated" date changes had occurred and about 5 hours before I received the email about my NOA2, the date updated from 10-19-09 to 1-8-10. It gave me something to look at in the waiting time (but the touch "update" wasn't emailed, only the "approval notice" was).

Too bad the closed RBC is 467.50 miles away from where we will be living in the U.S.

So let me get this straight, my fiance could become a RBC member, get a U.S. RBC visa card, and start building his credit score in the U.S.?

My fiance' will be eating the peanut butter cookies with Hershey Chocolate kisses that I made him for Christmas and he has kept frozen in his frig to eat at his leisure.

I am eating whole wheat rotini with spaghetti sauce and Ritz crackers with sharp cheddar.

What does OP mean? I see it often and haven't found a good definition of it. I have figured out a good number of the other abbreviations. Some are just elusive.

As for what I read, I have to say, I am glad my fiance' is a Canadian. Reading about the other country hassles at the consulate where the K-1 visas are more likely denied just gets depressing (Casablanca comes to mind). I know I have to wait for my fiance' to get his Montreal interview but I think our ducks are in a row so it shouldn't be that big of a deal.

I just figured out the Portal thing and that is nice to see what other Canadians/Significant others of Canadians are posting about. I also read they K-1 forum (especially the October filers from California Service Center (since I am one) and the September filers from California Service Center (since I was waiting for them to get their NOA2's before me)). The Canadian regional forum has so much information and is really useful! Like the EI thread, it reduced my concerns over him waiting for his EAD and then having to wait to find a job by leaps and bounds.

When you log into your account, you need to click on the "my portfolio" and if you have added your receipt number to your portfolio, there is a little table that has "last updated" as a column heading and it will list the date your file was "touched".

Adjudicated is just the process of judging your visa. It would be nice to get the visa when USCIS says "you're approved" but that is only the first step. Good luck.

Seems immigration, no matter what country you are going to, is a waiting game. I have a friend whose wife has been waiting for her paperwork to move/live/stay in Canada for 6 months now. And it is HIS WIFE. Waiting is the worst.

My fiance' really wants his car in the U.S. though. Now the work to find out if the bank will let him take it without paying it off all first. So many things to think about when bringing another person to live in a new country!

Well, this is good news, hopefully for me too. A similar discussion was happening in the following thread today

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=185250

Seems every province in Canada has different ways of dealing with car ownership (some have titles, others it just "registration") and each state in the United States is different too. ARGH!

I am just hoping my fiance' can keep paying his car payments from his canadian bank account that he will keep open and import the car to the U.S. Thanks Neiks for the information about having a car that is still being paid for in Canada while the beneficiary is in the U.S.

Glad you heard something TaiwanLover. News is always good even if it isn't the news you preferred. At least now you have a plan. Hopefully it won't be long until that NOA2 is in your hand.

I saw that the medical exam is "recommended" to be completed a week before the interview. Are the panel physicians able to make appointments for medical exams that quickly (i.e. within a couple days of receiving the packet 4 interview letter)?

Three months to receive packet 4 (interview letter) that will tell use we have, what a couple of weeks to a month to an interview?

Don't do it! I went to ebay last night to buy a subwoofer for my fiance' and have it shipped to my U.S. address to get "free shipping" and spent about 1.5 hours looking at things I was interested in purchasing.

I am definitely going to get my fiance' to look into the two different ways that seem to be presented for transferring money though to and from a U.S. account. With Canadian EI, it will definitely be a time saver while we wait for his EAD to be processed.

My sister and I were talking yesterday about how I should just have my religious ceremony even if I don't have the "paperwork" for the wedding. Then get married legally by the justice of the peace when the visa does come through. I had to laugh at her logic. Um, I don't want to get our adjustment of status messed up because of our "wedding pictures" being before any legal wedding.

I just saw another Montreal interview waiter that got his Packet 3 in 16 days from the consulate receiving their petition from the NVC. Yeah! I am more hopeful that if the wait is closer to 4 months, then my fiance' will get his interview sometime in June before our hopeful date of July 11, 2010. I am going to call NVC tomorrow to see if my petition has been sent to Montreal. They said they had it yesterday, but it was finished being processed/entered into their computers.

I don't know how common it is, but I do know that it has happened. If you read through the Sept. 2009 CSC thread, I think it was Rosie & Yu that had the experience of NOT getting a status update on the USCIS website, except for the touches, and then getting the hard copy in the mail.

I believe his car loan was from the dealer. Is there anyone else who dealt with this (i.e. a car loan from the dealer on a car they wanted to import to the U.S.)?

Just give it a few more days. I know someone from the Sept. filers had touches, but no change in status, then got their NOA2 hard copy in the mail. That could be happening to you. Has it been 7 days since the touches? Have you gotten the mail?

In Michigan (where he is coming) (and Wisconsin where I lived before) my car title had the name of my car loan holder on it until I paid off. I will have to ask my fiance' about his car title in Canada. I hadn't even thought of the fact that they wouldn't give a title at all to the car purchaser. Hum.

After reading through this thread, I am still a little unclear. If my fiance' still is making payments on his car loan, can he or can't he import it to the U.S.? We were just planning to keep his Canadian checking account open with money to pay his monthly payments.

Gela,

You would be better served by the October Vermont Service Center thread since these people will get approvals around you.

It is found at http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=221572

Seems Vermont has slowed down their processing of K-1 visas right now. Don't know about the issues with your location and your citizenship. You may have to go to Poland to interview but I am sure the Department of State will send the petition to the consulate that you will need to interview at.

This is great news as my fiance' has a car payment with a great interest rate that he doesn't want to lose. Being able to send money to his Canadian bank account to pay for the payment will be good.

The interview for the K-1 visa occurs for everyone at the consulate in the country your fiance'/fiancee is coming from. The USCIS "interview" may occur too although I haven't heard of anyone getting an interview at that step. First stop is USCIS where they basically look at paperwork and do a background check on the U.S. citizen's name, then the second stop is the National Visa Center where a number is allocated for the visa and another background check on the U.S. citizen's name is done, then the petition goes to the consulate in country of the fiance'/fiancee where there is an interview with supporting documentations like medical report, police certificates, etc. Your fiance' (or fiancee, I can't remember your gender) will definitely be interviewed in their country of origin. But the first 2 steps have to happen first.

Welcome Gela! It is always nice to have some company on the journey! Glad you found the website.