ryna

Just an FYI-

Re: 785-330-1048

I called this number and received the following message: "You have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service"

Sorry you had to go through that long of a wait but I see you've recently finished everything. Congratulations!

It hasn't been that long for me yet. I just saw that someone with my exact timeline got their approval today. I still have hope of a reasonable processing time.

OMG!!!!!! Yay!!! I just checked my email and got my approval letter mailed!!!! I am so happy!!!!! I hope everyone else gets there's!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your timeline is exactly like mine @ USCIS...

C'mon VSC!!

best of luck, though you can get touched many, many times before approval. I think my cases got touched about 10-15x from the end of Jan 2010 to March 16th 2010 (when we got approval). Believe me, I jumped up and down with joy when I got touched the 1st time (gonna go right past all the sexual innuendos! ) on Jan 27th and then it was crickets chirping for a whole month after that. just dont get your hopes up too high; it aint over till you get the email/text message saying you got approved. best of luck

Thanks...

Actually, after more than 2 months with absolutely nothing, and seeing a lot of others with NOA1 dates after mine (well after mine in some cases), I think I'm in the 'Please acknowledge that I'm alive' phase. Within days of sending in my petition, I noticed a couple 'I could've had a V8' forehead slapping, but minor, mistakes that an immigration attorney told me may, or may not, matter depending on the adjudicator. I've had corrected documents signed and ready to go in the event of an RFE for close to 2 months now. I decided not to submit them unsolicited because I didn't want to cause any confusion in my file, or worse yet, have them lost by VSC in the event that there were an RFE.. Now, I just want to know my case is not lost. I know at this point it's highly unlikely but, as we all know, 'the waiting is the hardest part!'

You are correct. Her passport and BC aren't needed for the petition, only the signed G-325A, the photos and her letter of intent, plus your stuff.

Of course, it's best if she gets the other things ready ASAP, especially if the wait time she was given is true.

Best of luck and get ready for the journey!

si alguien necesita informacion sobre formularios, preguntas... no duden en hacerlas...... tengo muchos links q les podrian servir. Saludos...

Saludos Cami..

Yo estaría interesado en los links para darlos a mi prometida. ¿Supongo que ellos sean sitios en español? Mi prometida no habla inglés bien y deseo darle la información en español para que pueda entender más este proceso de K1, específicamente con respeto a Colombia..

Espero que me entienda. Soy la mitad de esta pareja que habla inglés. jaja

Muchismas gracias. Que tenga buena suerte con todo.

I may be wrong and others who know more will definitely correct me, but if he's already a conditional LPR, he's no longer "here on a K1". He just needs to avoid staying away so long that it raises any suspicion of abandoning residency. Several weeks away, especially for work, would seem to be OK to me.

Anyone else's thoughts?

This is just funny. Until yesterday the last update was 4/23/09. Then I ask this question and this morning it got "touched". Maybe I should have whined and moaned earlier.

I am getting really excited now that the NOA1 date is here (mine is 4/21 also). And with the application touched, some-thing should be happening soon. Hopefully just good something.

Good luck to both of us.

Wow! Now, I'm going to have to go and look at mine!

Hope you get some good news soon.

It depends on the consulate. The consulate in HCMC, Vietnam, often requests the same sort of letter from the petitioner, but they refer to it as a "timeline of relationship", and VJ members with fiancees/spouses in Vietnam just call it the "timeline". We haven't invented an acronym like "TOR" for it.

Spend time in the regional forum for idiosyncrasies about the consulate where your fiancee will interview.

There is a new member whose fiancee's interview went down in flames in Cambodia for this very reason. Lack of a common language is a very strong reason for denial, especially in high fraud countries. The consulates don't seem to realize that this is the 21st century, and people with little common language knowledge can communicate effectively over the internet.

In any case, many consulates don't allow the petitioner to attend the interview, so the chances of the consulate actually seeing first hand how the petitioner and beneficiary handle both languages is practically nil. If the beneficiary has a big pile of evidence that they communicate frequently, then the common language question probably won't be an issue. If you are permitted to attend the interview in Columbia, and if you plan on doing so, then one of you should get busy trying to learn the other's language as much as possible.

Colombia does allow me to attend so I definitely will attend her interview.

We speak 2-3 hrs/day (when I'm home in the U.S.) and practically every waking moment when I'm here in Colombia. On top of that, if I print them out, we have enough email correspondence to kill a small forest - all in Spanish. I can read it very well, write it fairly well, speak it fairly well but I only hear it marginally well, depending on the speaker. I can speak semi-fluently with her, her family and friends, and can usually understand them on the first try, not to say that I don't ask them to repeats themselves at times.

Honestly, I don't think it should be a problem for us if they just listen to us communicate with each other but a general conversation/interview situation with a CO who speaks Spanish like an auctioneer would be big trouble for me.

In any event, I think I'll be printing out a few dozen emails spread out over the course of our relationship specifically to show that we communicate regularly and well. And, I'll have a basic relationship timeline at the ready. I'll definitely be paying more attention to Colombia-specific consulate issues as our interview date (hopefully) approaches..

Thanks

Exactly I know the NOA2 is coming soon - within the next month I would expect - I just no longer pounce on the computer first thing when I get up in the morning and then spend the rest of the day being disappointed due to there not being an email from USCIS.

I had a great and happy life before filing for the K1 and it will be even more wonderful when the process is done but I shall not squander that precious 6 months(ish) in between being miserable

Keep the faith all.

I've been fortunate enough to have been able to spend a significant portion of the past month visiting my fiancee. It sure makes the wait pass more quickly, but the downside is that when she's at work on the weekdays, I have way too much free time to check the USCIS site.

I do like that the estimated approvals dates have been creeping closer to the current date. My (early) estimate is now July 1 when it was July 19 just a week or two ago.

NOA2s are coming!! I can feel it!!

Thanks everyone.

I was just looking at my NOA1 for the number(s). I only have (at best) a medium-speed connection here and the web sites load pretty slowly. I never saw the local number on the USCIS site.

And, it's unlikely because nothing has changed on the USCIS website for my case, but I've been out of the US for nearly 20 days and now that I know they only allow 30 days to respond to an RFE. With so many people with NOA1 dates similar to mine getting action, I'm starting to wonder if one awaits me upon my return with limited, or worse, no time left to respond. I was thinking maybe calling was an option, even to the automated system to see if that info differs in any way from the website.

Tony_SH - I have called them once, and spoke to a live person, about the birth certificate # on the I-129F form. It was almost useless. He would only say "I can't tell you what to put on the form" when I only wanted to know what they were looking for. (I now think that Cert #. only refers to Naturalization Certs, not BCs, but I could be wrong.) And, thanks for the e-mail addys, too.

Dan - Enjoy your trip! I extended my stay to be here for the upcoming 3-day weekend. I see you're from FL, too. It's nice that the trip to Colombia is shorter than many domestic flights and makes weekend visits possible, right?

SPSguy - I actually have a Vonage adapter here with me but no high-speed internet connection, so that option is out, too. If I really need to make that call, Skype is definitely an option as I *think* it'll work with the connection I have. Or so the Skype connection tests tell me.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!!!!!!! i was so worried and almost giving up telling myself im not going to the uscis website again everyday and check the update on our case but today, almost 9:30pm in vermont, we got an email notice from uscis and here it reads:

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Response to request for evidence received, and case processing has resumed.

so this means NOA2 next, right? wooooooohhhhhooooooo..i am excited!

Thanks God for working this process out for us. We love you God and will continue to trust in YOU! To GOd be all the glory, honor and praises!

Glad to see they're moving forward for you again.

9:30 EDT?? Now, I'll probably check even more!!

Is it possible that he could visit you during the wait instead? I can't imagine that Canada would care as he has no impending immigration case there.

And, as the others have said, it's totally up to the CBP officer. Whatever you do, be straightforward with them because you don't want any immigration issues later on down the line.

FYI, there have been time that I wasn't sure the CBP officer would let me in - and I'm a US Citizen!

It simply means that something related to your case number was processed by the system. It could be approval, it could be an RFE, it could be that it moved from one USCIS employee to another. Any number of reasons, some big, some not so big...

My last touch was 4/26, 3 days after the check cleared. I refer to that as my 'put it on the pile' touch.

I think the reason so many get excited about them is it means that USCIS knows they're alive...

With an NOA1 of 4/21 (like mine) we should be getting close to something.

Best of luck!

Does anyone know the amount of time allowed to respond to an RFE for a K-1 petition?

My case hasn't been updated since a couple of days after they cashed the check in April but I've seen several people here with NOA1 dates after mine either receive their NOA2 or an RFE. I have also seen that several have received their NOA2 without ever receiving an electronic notice or an update on the website.

Now, as I'm only heading into Day 70, I'm not overly concerned that I've seen nothing yet but with so many with NOA1 dates similar to mine getting notices of some kind, I am starting to think maybe it's possible that I received an RFE in the mail w/o knowing it because I've been out of town for 18 days... and will be for 9 more. I would absolutely kick myself if our petition were to be canceled because of a non-response while I'm out-of-town visiting my fiancee.

Big red flag.

Others more experienced with denials and how to deal with returned cases will chime in.

Depending on the service center, the petition might just be allowed to expire.

Maybe I'm missing something here but how is being introduced by someone you know a big red flag?

And, to the OP - Sorry for your ordeal. I really have no idea about the options you can pursue.

Is this 'EOR' letter a requirement, optional or only needed at certain consulates? This is the first I've ever heard of it. I suppose in any case, it couldn't hurt to have one.

The reason this topic caught my eye is that my fiancee speaks almost no English other than a few words/phrases that I've taught her and I routinely butcher Spanish when I attempt to speak it (although she claims otherwise). Either way, I don't hear it very well except when she's speaking directly to me and only because I'm familiar with her vocabulary and she slows her speech for my benefit. If the CO at the consulate speaks to me in Spanish as 'proof' of ability to communicate, I'm sunk...

Does anyone know how to contact the USCIS from outside of the USA? The 1-800-375-5283 number doesn't accept calls placed internationally even when using a calling card. Is there a non-'800' number available that would be reachable with a calling card?

I would recommend the full passport, if only to save yourself some trouble and $ in the future. If it's only because of the price difference, and it would be more difficult for you financially, I would call USCIS and ask about the card. I know sometimes they aren't really that helpful but I don't think it could hurt.

Logic says that it should be acceptable as a form of proof of citizenship since it requires the same level of scrutiny to obtain (and is issued by the same government that wants to see it!) but, then again, sometimes logic plays no part in the immigration process..

Congrats!

And, I want to know your secret for a lightning quick NOA2!

Congrats to the newest approvals!

Here's hoping for an active week for the rest of us April filers.

my fiance sent me that form scanned, the form is digitally signed (of course I had my doubts if it would work or not) anyway, I submitted it and had no problems with the consul. May you have a chance to do it this way.

Example of the signature ( the name has been replaced ):

Is there anything special needed for a digital signature to be valid? I've seen this option before in my software (PDF) but never used it. I already send PDFs of everything to my finacee but mainly for her information as they are only scans of originals or unsigned forms. It would make my life 1000x easier if I could digitally sign any or all of the forms that I need to send to Colombia.

Thanks

Half a day to go this week. Any more good news out there?

Personally, I wouldn't do it. Too large of a risk. All it takes is one CBP agent who doesn't know what is and isn't considered legal in the Ukraine and she'll be back on a plane before you can say "I'll take that visa."

Just my opinion and why we're not even bothering to try a religious-only ceremony outside the U.S. first. There will be plenty of time for that when she's an official LPR.

Come on, now.. You all sound like a bunch of New Yorkers who've moved to Florida only complain that "things aren't like in New York."

Personally, I make my own bread. It's much better that way AND I get to decide which type I want shortly before using it.