nottoolong

They must have had your case for several weeeks since you received an interview email. Congratulations

I was talking with a friend who visits our facility about once a month this morning. The last time he was here was before our NOA2. He asked how things were going and I gave him an update. I told him we received our NOA2 on 7/6 and we were on to the next step. He was happy for us. He then said my name came up in a conversation recently. He was talking with someone who has a daughter whose dating someone with an expired student visa. They have no plans on him returning to wherever he came from. My friend told them about me and what I (and all of us here) are going through to do it the right way. Guess he just heard excuses in response. Maybe they'll be caught, who knows. It's just frustrating to hear, and it probably happens more than we want to know. It does however feel good knowing that we're doing this the right way and will have no problems once we're together. I'm sure it will be a rough road at times, but not as rough if we were doing this the wrong way, and were caught.

It will go to the NVC where it will be assigned a case number and then sent on to the Embassy.
Congrats on the NOA2!

The longest we were apart so far was for five months and that was torture. It's hard to be away from a love one for any time period, but what has helped to ease our pain a little was being able to see each other through Skype. It wasn't the same as physically being next to each other, but at least we are able to look into each other's eyes through our webcam as we talk and be a part of each other's day to day activities during certain times of the day. Hang in there, the process and wait may be long, but at least in the end of it all, you will be together.
All the best,
Beatrice & Steve