Sra Gomez

You are kidding, right?

this is very interesting. In 90 days, you literally don't have even an hour to go to the courthouse?

Don't be bitter because you're on the other team.

CONGRATS!!!!!!!! Finally some movement this week. Hope next week they keep them coming.

Congratulations everyone! So nice to see some movement!
And remember,

No pareces grosera LO ERES

Just thought I'd let everyone know the August list of unapproved petitions dropped from 154 to 121 in 2 days.

Welcome to the site!
So much to say in response to this...
My first suggestion is that you don't rush too much into things. Not only is meeting in person a requirement to the whole process, but it's something that will really be beneficial to the both of you. No matter how well you know someone over the internet, there's always a chance that there is something that just doesn't work in reality.
The first step? Set up a trip for him to meet you, or you to meet him. If you're both young, you may want to make sure you involve your parents. Introduce your parents to each other over the 'net if you haven't already and have them talk over the phone to get them comfortable with the idea of the two of you meeting. It's very scary for a parent to have their child go halfway around the world to meet a total stranger. I'm in my mid-twenties and my family /still/ worried when I went overseas to meet the soon-to-be inlaws.
Once you've met, and you're /sure/ this is something you want to persue in the future, DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. Save trip itineraries, receipts, boarding passes, photos, and anything else that can prove that the two of you met. Take a look through the guides on this site, as well as the instructions for the various forms you need to fill out for the process. Keep in mind that you will need to prove that you can support your spouse when they come to the US, so you will want to look at the poverty guidelines and find out if you have the income for it. Since you are only 17, you will almost certainly need a co-sponsor, so getting your parents involved at an early stage and getting them to be okay with you dating someone from another country will be important.
Others have already talked about the costs, so I won't reiterate that.
Just take your time, understand the process and what you'll need to do.

I tell people that dealing with US immigration personnel is like dealing with untrained monkeys, because it would be an insult to trained monkeys to compare US immigration personnel to them.

He's apologized so I would think others would let it go.

Yeah - ok, we all know the waiting sucks, and I'm SO thankful to have found VJ, because only the people here understand what I am going through. Each person deals with the waiting differently, and that is what makes us DIFFERENT. So let us freak out, let us complain about VSC and USCIS and whoever else we feel like complaining.
Stop attacking the people who come here to vent their frustrations with the system. Personally I am sick and tired of waiting, and it doesn't matter how many times people tell me to suck it up and wait, I am still going to blame VSC for the worst 5 months of my life.
I am stressed out, can't sleep, having enough problems as it is, so yeah, I'm gonna log on the VJ, check that my timeline has yet again been pushed back, see that no one has been approved my VSC today and HELL YEAH I'm gonna get pissed off about it. I KNOW is not "accurate" information, but its a pretty good sample in my opinion.
So for all you people who already have your NOA2 and got it in less than 5 months, and for all of you super strong people who can wait for your approval forever, please, just please, let us come in here and complain, if that will make us feel better.

Yeah - ok, we all know the waiting sucks, and I'm SO thankful to have found VJ, because only the people here understand what I am going through. Each person deals with the waiting differently, and that is what makes us DIFFERENT. So let us freak out, let us complain about VSC and USCIS and whoever else we feel like complaining.
Stop attacking the people who come here to vent their frustrations with the system. Personally I am sick and tired of waiting, and it doesn't matter how many times people tell me to suck it up and wait, I am still going to blame VSC for the worst 5 months of my life.
I am stressed out, can't sleep, having enough problems as it is, so yeah, I'm gonna log on the VJ, check that my timeline has yet again been pushed back, see that no one has been approved my VSC today and HELL YEAH I'm gonna get pissed off about it. I KNOW is not "accurate" information, but its a pretty good sample in my opinion.
So for all you people who already have your NOA2 and got it in less than 5 months, and for all of you super strong people who can wait for your approval forever, please, just please, let us come in here and complain, if that will make us feel better.

Yeah - ok, we all know the waiting sucks, and I'm SO thankful to have found VJ, because only the people here understand what I am going through. Each person deals with the waiting differently, and that is what makes us DIFFERENT. So let us freak out, let us complain about VSC and USCIS and whoever else we feel like complaining.
Stop attacking the people who come here to vent their frustrations with the system. Personally I am sick and tired of waiting, and it doesn't matter how many times people tell me to suck it up and wait, I am still going to blame VSC for the worst 5 months of my life.
I am stressed out, can't sleep, having enough problems as it is, so yeah, I'm gonna log on the VJ, check that my timeline has yet again been pushed back, see that no one has been approved my VSC today and HELL YEAH I'm gonna get pissed off about it. I KNOW is not "accurate" information, but its a pretty good sample in my opinion.
So for all you people who already have your NOA2 and got it in less than 5 months, and for all of you super strong people who can wait for your approval forever, please, just please, let us come in here and complain, if that will make us feel better.

Yeah - ok, we all know the waiting sucks, and I'm SO thankful to have found VJ, because only the people here understand what I am going through. Each person deals with the waiting differently, and that is what makes us DIFFERENT. So let us freak out, let us complain about VSC and USCIS and whoever else we feel like complaining.
Stop attacking the people who come here to vent their frustrations with the system. Personally I am sick and tired of waiting, and it doesn't matter how many times people tell me to suck it up and wait, I am still going to blame VSC for the worst 5 months of my life.
I am stressed out, can't sleep, having enough problems as it is, so yeah, I'm gonna log on the VJ, check that my timeline has yet again been pushed back, see that no one has been approved my VSC today and HELL YEAH I'm gonna get pissed off about it. I KNOW is not "accurate" information, but its a pretty good sample in my opinion.
So for all you people who already have your NOA2 and got it in less than 5 months, and for all of you super strong people who can wait for your approval forever, please, just please, let us come in here and complain, if that will make us feel better.

Their first and biggest mistake is working on the wrong applications. TPS petitions are charity petitions and clearly not the first order of business for an agency of the United States Government. The needs of its citizens come fist. Push the TPS stuff to the side, and 360,000 petitions are now out of their way.
Now the desk is clear, and they are free to work on the important applications, the ones by United States citizens.
There was a time that Vermont was approving I129f petitions in 30 days. So it can be done. All they need is to do what they were doing in 2004 through 2009. They did it correctly then, and they can do it now.
Their first mistake was to take in TPS applications in the first place. Their second mistake was to compound their first mistake by giving these unwanted TPS applications the priority they clearly do not deserve.
Go back to what worked, the way they used to do it. Forget TPS. There are no resources for such things. Let other countries like Canada and Brazil be the do-gooders of the world for a change. We did it for far too many years.

The word I got from them is that they are now working on July 24th- August 17th applications.
Looks like they work on date ranges and that's why the last batch of approvals were all over the place. It is also, probably the reason why they were telling everyone they were working on July 10th applications a few weeks ago. It could have been the first date in the range they were working on.
Not everyone who get approvals post the results on visajourney.com and sometimes people post days, weeks or years later. I know I have seen a few updates posted much later than when the approval is received. I miss my fiance too, but nothing is done before it's time. At first I was kinda sad about the wait, but I know that God wants me to use this time apart for good and not to obsess.
People don't you realize this website makes you nuts. When you check the dates all the time you just get upset, jealous and more impatient.

It is a violation of the Terms of Service (TOS) for Visa Journey to make personal attacks or to insult other members.Several posts containing such comments or quoting such comments have been removed.; Acceptable parts of the removed posts are returned below.
Please try to be supportive of each other during this incredibly frustrating process. Vent if you wish but realize that sometimes when you vent about your circumstances you may inadvertently insult someone else in their circumstances.
Immigration is not for the faint of heart or for the impatient.. There are tens of thousands of applications submitted each year to the different service centers of USCIS.; They are not a workforce dedicated to only one type of application or petition, and based upon back logs and other factors there will be times in the year when certain petitions are the priority and other petitions have to wait. USCIS staff work hard but they don't decide what petitions they get to work on each day. The petitions are sent to them and they process them as fast as they can. They process many, many petitions each day and the delays that are experienced have more to do with too few resources and too much work. They aren't moving any slower or faster now than in the past - there are variables within every year and every processing cycle.; The biggest hassle is the lack of transparency - we have no way of knowing what is happening - and it is the not knowing, and the incredible importance of this decision in our lives, that makes this one of the most challenging experiences you will ever face.
So, please try to be considerate of each other and while you are frustrated about your own delay, know that there will be others who have it much worse than you. Those of you who have waited a short time, please know that you will spend many years into the future waiting for a decision of one sort or another from USCIS and the better you learn to deal with it now, the easier you will make it on yourselves - and on those who are also going through this process along with you.
I've been there too - my I-129f took nearly 7 months for approval back in 2003. When we applied we were told on our NOA1 to expect a 120 day wait, so yeah, I fully understand how you feel.
So thank you for being more considerate with each other whether you are venting or responding to someone's vent, whether you are still going through the process or you are lucky enough to be further along in the immigration journey.

That is very true. I went to see my fiance over the summer and most people just assumed I would bring her back with me. I've had to explain the process to so many people. It's just not something that people are aware of; and I wasn't either until I started this journey.
As far as the difficulty of waiting; some people need to vent and others want encouragement. I guess we should just do what we can to help each other get through this the best we can.
And I am thankful every day for Skype.

Hi Angelforever07 and welcome to VJ.

Then start by reading the instruction for the I-134 form and the pinned topic in the Embassy and Consulate forum. No need for spoon feeding here. Do your homework.

I am keeping tracked of couples who got approved after the collective touch. So far I have listed 15th couples.

You comment makes a good point & you have pointed some good ideas, but guess what? coming from someone who got their application approved w/n 42 days? but ofcourse! if ours is that fast too then we wont be here ranting duh!?! so i think you dont have any right to judge how we feel unless you were in the same situation.

it is a violation of terms of service for someone to suggest that this guy look for someone else to marry so that he can obtain status. that is immigration fraud, in it's purest sense. it is not fraud if he happens to marry for love and obtain status incidentally.

What about putting out a flyer in your area and do some babysitting or maybe watching some neighbours kids after their schools if the parents dont get home right away?
Or you could put a flyer and do some dog walking service for people in your area too.
if you have a church close by you could join a church group maybe? sometimes they also have social events for people in the area too.