city2countrygirl

Hi C2C

Are you calling the premium Megabucks helpline number up in Scotland, where the operators have no access to any information or files, or are you calling in on another London Embassy phone number?

The reason I ask, like you I called up the Premium rate line and was told zip, they had no idea about my case, the only thing they could tell me was "that they could not tell me anything" as I was not on the system?

However when I aquired a phone number for the embassy, I asked this rather busy sounding Chinese woman who answered the phone if our case has been processed yet, she asked me for my case number and after about 5 minutes returned to the phone told me "they have found it on a desk of a worker who is on holiday and will now be processed goodbye... and then they hung up"... no sorry or explaination as to why it had been overlooked. anyway after this call we got notification about a week later that our case was recieved and being processed.

So I think it may be worth a call to see if you can get any info at all, even if they say go away it is worth a try.

Regards

Andrew

Thank you for that Andrew, yes i have been calling the Visa helpline number in Scotland but I tried calling the Embassy 9000 number and they just refer me to the Visa helpline number as it is to do with a Visa, but I will try and get another number somewhere.

Hi C2C

Are you calling the premium Megabucks helpline number up in Scotland, where the operators have no access to any information or files, or are you calling in on another London Embassy phone number?

The reason I ask, like you I called up the Premium rate line and was told zip, they had no idea about my case, the only thing they could tell me was "that they could not tell me anything" as I was not on the system?

However when I aquired a phone number for the embassy, I asked this rather busy sounding Chinese woman who answered the phone if our case has been processed yet, she asked me for my case number and after about 5 minutes returned to the phone told me "they have found it on a desk of a worker who is on holiday and will now be processed goodbye... and then they hung up"... no sorry or explaination as to why it had been overlooked. anyway after this call we got notification about a week later that our case was recieved and being processed.

So I think it may be worth a call to see if you can get any info at all, even if they say go away it is worth a try.

Regards

Andrew

Thank you for that Andrew, yes i have been calling the Visa helpline number in Scotland but I tried calling the Embassy 9000 number and they just refer me to the Visa helpline number as it is to do with a Visa, but I will try and get another number somewhere.

C2C,

While the USCIS is particularly iconoclastic on not handing out info via telephone, email, etc...

I've always heard that the visa branch at the embassy is a little bit more accomodating. Have they confirmed that they've received notice of your approval yet?

Hi Todd, thanks for taking the time to respond.. No I have heard absolutely nothing, I've called several times and the very nice Scots operator can see nothing to tell me, and my numerous e-mails have also gone unanswered. It just seems like I've been forgotten or am at the bottom of a very big pile that they'll get around to sometime. meantime life goes on without me. I really would like to hear from someone who has gone through this but it would seem like anyone who has got their deal done and could enlighten us further have abandoned us

C2C, stick with us. We need to know how it all turns out for you.

Maybe they'll make you file that I212 thing? Isn't that for permission to re-enter after voluntary departure, etc?

I returned to a serious mess. Mom fell, a co-worker got fired (and I inherited her work), and I'm just plain depressed. But I have new photos and new memories to sustain me.

Hi J.. sorry to hear of your further woes and I hope your mother recovers quickly. No - the whole 212 thing is finished and now its in the Embassy/Consulates hands, considering it took over a month to get to USCIS, I suppose I can expect it to take just as long on the way back ! - I tell myself these things in my eternal quest to stay sane,

I went for my interview on the 11th Janaury 2010 and was advised I had been referred for a 'Waiver of inelgibility' due to something on my record from 11 years ago. I was advised this would take 4-6 weeks. I am still waiting 90 days on and due to take my young children to Disney World on the 29th April 2010 and still nothing. I have e-mailed the Embassy and phoned them every week and yet they cannot advise me of anything. I don't know what to do. Please can someone advise me of what to do next.

Thanks

Hi Leedsbelle, welcome to VJ, were you told at your interview that you had been denied due to a previous infraction and you would need to file an I-212 to amend this ? Did you file one ? If so you should be able to track your case on the uscis website, as so many people on here are doing right now. You will find some good people here who are going through the same thing and will be quite willing and able to help you

I was very disheartened when I saw C2C's post - Guess I figured once you got the Waiver approval it was smooth sailing...

If there is anyone out there reading this who has completed/been approved on their waiver and have gotten their visa in their passport could you please reply and let us all know what the procedure forward was - how long did it take??? Please share your experience. Any insight you can give us would be greatly appreciated as I am totally in the dark about all of this...

To all of us waiting - hang in there - we all need to stick together.... I know the waiting and constantly checking for updates is agonizing. Kudos to my hubby for creating his spreadsheet to keep us all informed

Take care,

Traci

Hi Traci, I am sorry that you were disheartened as I purposely didn't post on this site for that reason but I was transferred from the other sites as I was getting nowhere and I knew that Graeco had also got through so, as you can imagine, after all this time I was grateful to get some feedback even though his situation is different from mine. I too thought that it would be a matter of days before I'd be up and away into my fiance s arms and my new life, and here I am, with no notion of what is going on. I have called the Embassy 'extortionline' several times to no avail and e-mailed with no response. It COULD be that since the ESTA they are so much busier, I know that doesn't help much but at least it stops me from thinking that I could be in the black hole they call AP. But do take heart that Graeco's case is going ahead with no problem, albeit not the same category as mine. And yours and your husbands contributions here are very valuable to all of us,, keep up the good work and good luck with everything

There was another update today.

However, there were neither any new approvals nor moves to "Under Review".

Still keeping my fingers crossed for you guys.

Hi Graeco, my waiver was approved and completed 5 weeks ago and I'm still waiting to hear something, have you heard anything else yet and would you be so kind as to let me know if and when you do, thanks

I had my interview in November. everything OK but past overstay history. had to file I-212 to lift inaccessibility status. approved and completed early march but still waiting for Visa Unit to request passport to stamp K1.. the DS230 part 2 is the application for immigrant Visa and alien registration that you have to submit at the interview, but i'm thinking that as they didn't know if I was going to be eligible they didn't keep it then

well I'm not having much luck here am I ? I guess what I'm asking is, after waitingfour months on the waiver list, after it was approved and completed, I thought it would be a matter of days before I got my K1 stamp and here I am almost 5 weeks later, and so I was hoping there was someone her who has had this experience and had to wait so long too, Maybe once people have got their deal done they dont post here anymore, Oh Well

Are you talking about your NOA2 from USCIS? What is a I (230)11?? Are you talking about a waiver? Did you have your interview yet?

I had my interview in November. everything OK but past overstay history. had to file I-212 to lift inaccessibility status. approved and completed early march but still waiting for Visa Unit to request passport to stamp K1.. the DS230 part 2 is the application for immigrant Visa and alien registration that you have to submit at the interview, but i'm thinking that as they didn't know if I was going to be eligible they didn't keep it then

Hi good people, I had my K1 case completed early this month, received the letter and am now waiting to hear from NVC regarding the next step. does anyone here have any experience of this ? in particular how long they had to wait , what they had to do ? they didn't keep my passport, nor my I 230(11) I'm hoping that some good souls here who've been successful will visit here now and again and help us out, many thanks

I guess there's no one here to reply my case hasn't gone to NVC maybe I'm in the wrong place !

Hi Graeco

Thanks for the update about the update

I have updated my spreadsheet to show the two changes that they made today.... 1 was the old 2005 case that was under review and the other case was our one !! which has gone from pending to under review...

Regards

Andrew

Great News I hope it moves along quickly for you

Hi good people, I had my K1 case completed early this month, received the letter and am now waiting to hear from NVC regarding the next step. does anyone here have any experience of this ? in particular how long they had to wait , what they had to do ? they didn't keep my passport, nor my I 230(11) I'm hoping that some good souls here who've been successful will visit here now and again and help us out, many thanks

Andrew, the Dublin CO told my husband that it would take "months and months and months." And from what I gather from the folks at I2US.net, it sometimes takes 6 months from the point that you hit the list. I have always set my sights on that 6-month mark so that if we are adjudicated earlier, I will be pleasantly surprised. If it takes the full 6 months, that means my husband and I can't expect anything until August.

I know it's hard. I know you're frustrated and depressed. We all are. You wonder sometimes if there is an end to this nightmare. There is. There has to be. And it will be worth it if you can just hang on, focus on your love for each other, and try not to let the process ruin what the two of you have.

Chimps cannot live like this- no touch, isolated and alone. Like you, I get obsessed with the list, and as a logical person, I try to make some sense of it. I try to figure out what they're doing/how they work. But I am beginning to think there really is no rhyme or reason to it. We just get adjudicated when we get adjudicated. All I'm trying to do is hang on for dear life and hope that somehow, at some time, this Hell will end.

Hi again J, You certainly have had and continue to have a large mountain to climb and only you can know why you're doing it and that's what gives you the strength, and to weigh in again, I DO know that even though the London Embassy is the largest in the world, the USCIS section is manned with less employees than we would like to think and it is why they take so long, look on the bright side though - it could be worse, it could be in Rome ! where it would definitely take longer, and make no mistake, Purgatory is where we all are, Hell could be preferable, at least we'd know

I'm getting the feeling that there won't be an update today. Be a nice surprise if there is, but it's already nearing closing time & nothing's changed. *sigh*

Maybe Monday.

Hi J, I just felt compelled to log on to offer you support, I really know how you feel,although I dont have the anxiety of wondering if it will be ok anymore, I waited a long time before my case even got through to USCIS and then waiting for it to be completed and I haven't heard anything since so I'm still waiting, and have no idea where it is or why its taking so long. But bear up, it WILL all come to an end and I'm sure something is being done with all of your cases at this very moment. You just have to keep on keeping on

Congrats to C2C! Did they give you any indication if it was approved? I sure hope it was!

We hit the list on the same day, but I don't expect a completion as quickly as yours, as our case is probably a bit more complicated.

I would also like to know if you were notified by mail, email or phone.

Man, St. Patrick's Day was lucky for you, eh? It's traditionally been a pretty rotten day for us. We lost our daughter in a car accident 3 years ago today. I was kinda hoping that we could get good news today and salvage something of this yearly holiday, but alas, it was not to be.

Just goes to show you, though, the list isn't up-to-date. Maybe this Friday they'll have mercy on us and update it.

Hi again J and thank you for your good wishes, yes you're right my case wasn't complicated really, just a case of administration error but dont feel too bad as looking at your timeline I think my case went on the list a little before yours. My solicitor was notified by snail mail but even though we all want to know the minute our cases are being looked at, on the good side, many days have gone by since then and I am expecting instructions on obtaining the visa any day now. I thought this day would never come. I was very saddened to hear of your tragedy and no words can assuage the grief you must be feeling, I just hope very much that you get some happiness soon.

Cead Mile Failte to J and all my fellow sufferers on the London Waiver List, here's to a Happy St Patricks day and to digging down and finding even more hope and faith and patience, it will all be worth it in the end. I just feel that something is being done with some of our cases this very day and we will all be hearing something soon. I have to !

Hi Guys, well I'm here to re-iterate what I just said about having faith and hope and patience, I have just been notified that my case was looked at and completed 6 days ago, so they're being looked at all the time and your case can be too and good news could be just around the corner

Hi Guys, well I'm here to re-iterate what I just said about having faith and hope and patience, I have just been notified that my case was looked at and completed 6 days ago, so they're being looked at all the time and your case can be too and good news could be just around the corner

Hi Lily, I think of you often. I hope all is well with you and hubby.

As for me, I'm just trying to survive. We made it to London's list in February, but they have either been moving very slowly or haven't been updating their lists. So, no news, really. Six months since I've seen my husband.

Cead Mile Failte to J and all my fellow sufferers on the London Waiver List, here's to a Happy St Patricks day and to digging down and finding even more hope and faith and patience, it will all be worth it in the end. I just feel that something is being done with some of our cases this very day and we will all be hearing something soon. I have to !

Thanks, C2C. We were added the same date.

I am certainly glad we got added when we did, as a huge clump of cases were added to "pending" the week after us. Not sure that means anything, as I doubt they take them in order of receipt. I would imagine that some are pulled out and reviewed quickly, and the more complicated ones sit & grow mold for a while.

I've also wondered if the majority of cases reviewed are from the UK, with perhaps one day per month or quarter when the cases from the outlying consulates are reviewed at once. It just struck me as odd that some of the Dublin cases went from Pending to Complete immediately, skipping the "under review" part. Only a few hit that review section.

Another explanation, I suppose, is that they're really under review long before they reflect that on the list.

Who knows.

I just keep thinking that with the surge from Valentine's chocolates, we might see an equally big burst after Easter. Hopefully, they didn't give up sweets for Lent and they're all snoozing at their desks.

Hi JustJ, I have had every thought that you state here, I think lots of people going thru these things can probably get high level jobs in US Immigration, - presuming they get in that is As you say there were indeed some that went straight from 'pending' to completed including a coupla Swedish ones and that gives me hope that my case has already been looked at and is on its way to the completed file, as I hope all of the others who've been with us for this time get some news too, this whole deal would try the patience of a saint wouldn't it ?

I hope your theory on the chocolate is right and we can all get out of this mess and get on with our lives.. in the meantime I'm hoping today will throw something up - and I dont mean last nights dinner Good Luck and I will update here as soon as I hear anything

C2C, I want to say "welcome," but it sounds pathetic, considering why we're all here. So I guess I'll just say that I'm sorry you're among us.

I have noticed that the list changes on either a Friday or a Monday. There've been no new completed cases in a month now. There was a short burst of energy in February, maybe from a sugar high due to lots of Valentine's chocolates, but nothing since.

Have you made it to the list yet? When was your interview?

Fill out your timeline if you get a chance - it really helps others going through this.

Hang in there.

Hi JustJ, thank you for your welcome and encouraging words, it says a lot about you who is going thru so much herself to be able to do that. Its comforting to know others are going thru the same waiting game. I had my K1 interview last November and due to an entry refusal(for an overstay) I had to file an I-212. I didn't get on the list until Feb 8 and have been alternately very pleased and freaked out at my position on the list until I realised that these are listed and looked at in no particular order, and are routinely moved up or down. Some say these lists are unreliable and will drive you even madder, but I think the USCIS in London get them done and are good compared to the rest of the world. You are spot-on about the days and I'm hoping tomorrow will change again and I will see my number out of the 'pending' stage. My case is pretty straightforward (famous last words) compared to a lot that I see on these forums so I wish you all the best of luck and speedy satisfactory conclusions

The London list will be updated on Monday 8th March - so don't drive yourself all mad by checking it every 20 minutes...

I got an email from the Embassy today telling me i'll be on it, at last...

Hello everyone, I'm new on here and in the same boat as you all. I was really impressed by this posters advance info on the updates, My London lawyer doesn't even have this.. way to Go ! please keep us enlightened when you can so that we dont have to drive ourselves mad checking the list every day. The last change on 8th March moved nobody up from pending to under review but did delete all of the completed cases (and added a few more pending) implying that another batch is ready to move on up soon, hopefully end of this week. Possibly wishful thinking but we must keep our spirits up right !