KiwiBird

Can you tell us what is involved? I promise not to tell you that you are wrong; I just want to know what you know that the rest of us are missing.

It is great that you can remain calm and patient, but as you can see, there are others here who, like me, cannot sit idly while our vital interests are being walked all over by an uncaring and unfeeling bureaucracy.

I'd love to. Unfortunately, due to job constraints, I cannot.

I just feel that trying to label portions of 'the government' as 'uncaring and unfeeling' is silly. You cannot take a collective group of people, just following orders and doing their jobs, and claim this is true of every one of them. I can tell you that everyone goes through this process. They don't sit there at the Service Centers and laugh at the public. To think that'they just don't care' is silly. They are human at USCIS and have restrictions on what they can and cannot do.

Not everyone who says 'hang in there's is approved.

On that note, hang in there. It'll come.

Congrats!!

Yup. We get 'real service's at California. We sure don't have to wait or have the same lack of communication. We also don't have the frustration of unpredictable progress. Right?

(That was sarcasm for those that didn't catch it.)

We are all still waiting and its not any easier.

Al, since every one of your posts is about how awful things are... and you seem to have participated (started?) more bickering fights on the forums... may I ask why you are here? I noticed you couldnt even offer a simple congrats to another member without entering how you are 'so put out because of the Service Center you are at.' I can understand venting... but is there anything good that you take from your experiences here? I'm not asking to be mean. I am sincerely interested.

That sounds so dirty! :rolf:

I'd still like to see some Vermont movement too!

Not me, not yet.

Sometime soon though, I'm hoping!

I got three certified copies of my divorce decree anyway. Was only like $15 for each one, and worth it, personally. There have been posts where people have gotten RFE's for that, but then some people mail copies and its fine. I think it depends on the officer that gets to look at your case.

What's not cool about it? It's not what I think. It just sounds as silly as the 'conspiracy' and 'they don't care about us at all' arguements!

(Hey, if you can't laugh at silly things while in this process, you gotta loosen up!)

HeatDeath is right. Also, some applications take longer for background checks.

Course, according to some people, they take these boxes and then throw darts at them. After that, they use the selected petitions as seat cushions while they play solitaire and laugh at how they are ruining our lives and plot new 'lies' to tell the general public.

They get how many petitions a day? Not just K1's, but many, many others, too. Is there enough time in one day to process a thousand applications hat come in each day?

If they were able to complete all applications that came in from a day in one single day.. then I'd wonder. But they can't. Plus, they aren't open on the weekends so there is no one to process those. So even if they got all the applications from one day done that day, they'd still be getting a backlog of two days for every week.

If you hate dealing with them so much, pull your application. They are going to work on your paperwork. Be grateful it is only five months instead of like.. three years.

This guy actually said that VSC has no backlog!

Oh no! Another conspiracy?!

Given this was published in March 2010, and VSC had more petitions processed than submitted....

http://dashboard.uscis.gov/index.cfm?formtype=6&office=6&charttype=1

Don't assume everything is a 'lie'.

What s/he said.

But please do not come here and argue with us. You argue every time we're trying to chat and support each other through this and try to steamroll everything we're saying whether there's any logic behind your side of it or not (and there often isn't). We get it. You're choosing to be pessimistic and miserable and obsessive. We aren't. You can have your pity party but stop picking apart everyone else is saying because we don't join in. Accept we feel differently and move on.

Well stated and agreed.

I'm going to start making use of the 'ignore posts' function. Just tired of seeing the overly dramatic "USCIS is ruining my life!!!" stuff. (I, for one, thank USCIS for working on my petition and allowing me to be with my love later on. Its certainly nice to be able to marry someone of my choosing.)

Remaining positive without false hope is to sit back and focus on the fact they WILL get to my petition. That's a fact. They will. I remain positive by focusing on that instead of how long it is taking. I don't see how focusing on the positive that they WILL get to me sometime .. is 'false hope'.

But why is California (according to Igor's list) so far ahead of Vermont? Can we attribute all of this to sampling error?

Because by chance, more people updated their timeliness from CSC. And yes, California is ahead based on Igor's. But either way, both samples are unreliable due to sample size. It could be totally wrong and maybe VSC is ahead.

The fact still remains that just cause Igor's doesn't progress, that doesn't mean there was no progress that day. It just means that there was no progress recorded on VJ. It doesn't speak for the whole service center since there might have been approvals. Just not on anyone here.

VJ members that actively update their timelines make up an incredible minority of petitions at the service centers. Just because Igor's doesn't show progress does not mean there isn't any.

From what I understand, you do NOT want her overstating.

I believe she can incur a 10 year ban for overstaying a visa. It is a ground for denial as well.

The Service Center in Texas does not review I-129F petitions unless both other service centers are really backlogged. They'll move some petitions there to help out. However, so far, they haven't done that yet.

The place you send your papers in Texas is just a lockbox that will route your packet to either Vermont or California. Your wait will still be 5-6 months just for approval of the I-129F and not including the embassy part of the journey.

I am glad that today is over, for the most part. Now... more approvals, please! I want to get you July filers out of the way... and then August.. so they can start working on September!

I've got my packet ready and waiting for the RFE (if I get one), or the refile (if denied). I suggest the OP does the same so it will minimize the amount of time spent waiting.

They can hope that the sorter notices there is no evidence and the packet is rejected, if that happens they'll know within a few weeks.

Otherwise they will either be outright denied for lack of evidence OR...

If USCIS is feeling kind they will receive an RFE for the missing evidence. So if they get an NOA1 then you can hope for an RFE otherwise it's the filing fee and 5 - 7 months flushed for the mistake.

I understand this very well since it's the same situation I am in right now, too.

The people that open the mail aren't the same ones that approve/deny petitions. They pretty much check the amount of the payment, and see if there is a signature on the I-129F. Mine was only the form and the fee, and it was accepted.

I'm hoping that both the OP and myself get RFE's, instead of being denied and forced to refile again completely. The 5 month wait is unbearable, not including an extra 5 months due to a mistake that was 100% avoidable.

I didn't think it was possible to get to the Arrival Gate at LAX without an actual plane ticket.