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I have been doing a lot of research, and while I am still waiting on packet 3, I would like to know what forms they require you to send in. I have ordered my BC and I think I have to get a long form BC for my daughter, even though she is not accompanying me, but do I have to send those with the packet or are they just to be brought to the interview?

I need some help before I go insane here... oh wait, I already am not being with my wifey LOL but any help would be appreciated... thx.

Another question is with my daughter. She is not moving with me, and it will be her decision when she gets older to follow. Will i need a long form birth certificate for her as well? Or what will I need? I am still unsure as to why they would want that unless she was joining me, or if applying for her own....

Hey guys, just a minor freak out here..... I am waiting on MTL to send my packet 3 to me, but so far nothing. The NOA 2 was received March 14th, and said it would take a week, but we all know that is to get to MTL. My freakout concerns the expiry date of the petition, it is set to expire June 26th, and I still have to get the rest of the checklist together. So far I have ordered my BC and criminal check, but dont want to fill out the forms until they send me the packet.... But why would they want another copy of my fiancees tax return? I am confused and my wits are startingto frey... any help would be appreciated.... thx guys

We received our RFE today...they want more proof we met in person.

I already sent with our first application in sept 2010:

-plane tickets

-one picture of us together (might be our mistake, I sent just one without writting where and when it was)

-passport stamps (we didn't scan the front page of it with ours names and stuff )

We will send them more plane tickets, plenty plenty pictures with family and all with little notes, copies of our passports with the front page this time.

I assume emails and msn discussion logs would be useless since it just prove on going relationship but not that we met.

Also, none of our pictures have the dates on them, my fiancé will have to write it by hand on each... is it ok?

Unfortunately I think it was the front page omission that got you the RFE.... I think that was what happened with me... I do land crossings, and there are no stamps so we were beside ourselves as well, but all they needed was my front passport page, with all my information, it could just be as simple as that.... no worries, relax and keep enjoying eachother.... all you need really. It will come together in time.

Personally, I prefer to use my home phone. I get unlimited international calling for $35.00 ontop of my local calls of $19.00 with AT&T. If I AM using my cell phone to say a "Hey, I'll be home late tonight- I'll call you at such and such time", I use SPRINT and have their International Plan that is an additional $5.00 a month and charges $10 a minute instead of the $45 a minute I'd get without it.

Other options is this little device called the magic jack! You buy it for $19 and it allows you to use your phone through the internet FOR FREE. Basically, it's a free land line phone you can use to call ppl international. My Step-Mother uses it to call her daughters in Brazil.

http://www.magicjack.com/6/index.asp

Another option is Skype! At the time I used it, it was FREE for international calls. It worked okay.

My Husband and I are both video game nerds, so we use the internet to communicate and spend time together A LOT by playing multi-player games online and use our web cams every so often with Skype.

With us, we are gaming nerds as well, and play a lot on Live to stay in touch.... it does cost me 300 a month in cell charges, but I use way too many daytime minutes... it is an add on that saves me from 1000 dollar bills again.... unlimited north america that uses your minutes instead of LD charges, and I Have an unlimited evenings and weekends, so after 6 it's free to me... saved A TON per month compared to before.... Thank you Rogers.... LOL

Ahhh! Congrats! Hopefully our journey is as successful as yours

Hopefully you dont split your pants and have about a half shift to work with duct tape on the groin...LOL

Hey guys,

Just thought I would share my joyus update so far.....

This morning, started out pretty poorly.... Woke up late, coffe filter exploded and I had a nice steaming hot cup of grinds, too bad the 3 drips of water that actually made it to the cup ruined the experience......

Decided to say nuts to it, and hit a Tim Hortons before work.... Line up out the parking lot, and out both doors.... Guess I didn't really need a coffee anyways.....

Got to work, and my assigned keycard wouldnt work.... Guess I didn't really have to worry about waking up late....

Day was the usual day of fixing the overpaid art departments errors and make sure we look good, as does our product, and lo and behold I bend down to pick up a roll of vinyl and the musical sound of tearing denim fills my ears.....

Go to write to my baby at lunch, to send her a I love you note in text, and lo and behold, it wont send... have to restart the phone 5 times before it will let me do just about anything.... Isn't technology grand? Definately a FML day

Get home and start to relax.... about 6 pm, my phone chimes, I have an e-mail.....

APPROVED!

Guess it wasnt that bad a day after all! After all the time patiently waiting, I now am one step closer to finally being with my baby for the days to come....

Thank you to everyone on here for the advice and support. Dogspot, NotYourPsycho, Kamson, Utha, thank you for the words and support.... M&Dj, as for your side, I wouldn't worry about it too much, I have a good feeling that it will all work out... TY again everyone... hope to tell you more good news in the coming months for sure.....

Congrats guys... may the rest of your journey go quickly....

It's great to hear that all of you got those RFEs turned around so fast. I'm sure you'll be seeing your approvals soon.

Well just seeing you write that makes me excited again... maybe should buy a lotto ticket now... figuring last time you said something about mine, we got the RFE that night.. Congrats man... Should go quick from here on in..

I faxed the authorization form and letter over to my congressman today and his aid called me within an hour of me sending it. She wanted to ask me a couple questions about my case and said she already sent to inquiry off to USCIS. Now THAT'S service!

Awesome man... next week should be your week my friend.... Keep us posted on how its going and before long we will be celebrating the home stretch of your journey man....

great.... beacause I dont use CC's, and because I normally pay with cash, I will not be getting my K1 it looks like.... Because of people just looking to use the system for a green card in the past, I have a feeling I am going to get hosed on this.

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If I could I would bring her here, but with cost of living, me only being in my job for a few years compared to her, her working for the city there, it is not logical for me to make her pack everything up and move up here. We have talked about the rest of our lives together, and are actually looking forward to it, for the first time in my life I am happy for what is to come, and now because of what they say a lack of evidance, even though we gave everything we possibly could and had, looks like the USCIS will deny me? Not bloody likely. I have fought for a lot in my past, but if it comes to it, the past will look like a playground arguement compared to this. I refuse to beleive I cannot be with the woman of my dreams becasue some pencil necked paper pusher wants to know everything about our lives together. We are homebodys, we are recluses, we are perfect for eachother... thats all they need to know. Sorry about the rant.. I am just frustrated, and upset..... Who knows, maybe they will actually take into initiative, look at the times I have crossed and come back, and cross refrence the receipts and other secondary evidance they have... but that seems too much like work I suppose.

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I feel a bit better now... sorry for that guys.... :S

We have only had our one hotel stay in Detroit.... the rest of the time I have driven to Ohio to be with her. We have sent in ticket stubs from movies, our trip to cedar point, all those trivial things we sent in to back up we have physically met, I mean why wouldnt a time dated photo be acceptable as proof of meeting? Its not like I photoshopped myself on the picture... LOL But right now I am getting a schedule down of all my visits to include with the passport photos... I am praying that they can pull up my entries to the us and see that they do match up to the dates I will include... I just don't know what else I can do other than affadavits and all the other secondary evidance we have.....

It sounds to me like they are asking for proof of meeting in person in the last two years. You cannot go and ask for a stamp now, because you need proof that you met in the two years before you sent in the petition (ie you must be eligible at the time of submission, can't get eligible now if you weren't then). What did you send in as proof of meeting?

Exactly what the forms had asked.... we sent in hotel receipts, color photos, the receipt for the engagement ring, the signed letters of intent, there wasn't much more we could have done other than the passport. I feel stupid now for not including it, but the stamp thing is going to hurt me isn't it? Right now I just don't know what else I can do, I just want to be with her so badly, and from the sounds of it, I won't be able to.... it is depressing me to no end.....

Okay, so heres the situation now....

We have the RFE. It is asking for copies of my Passport and all stamps, here is the problem. I have always used the Ambassador bridge to cross, and not once have the border crossing officers given me a stamp for my passport. Will this cause a problem with the RFE? I really want to find this out quickly because the RFE expiry is the 12th of March (I know, more than enough time) If it will be a problem not having stamps I can probably get one this weekend on my next trip, but I am just wondering if they can pull up all the information from the systems since the passport was scanned in. I could send the copies to my fiancee in Ohio right now, if I knew the stamps weren't direly needed......

Hey guys,

Needing somehelp here, the RFE that was sent only stated they wanted a copy of my passport and all the stamps from the times I have come down, but I have never gotten my passport stamped from the Ambassador... Do they scan the passports, and will there be a record of my visits still? HELP! I don't know what else I can do.....

At least someone is looking at your file now.

Forgot about that one important thing there..... Thank you for making me see that while I am in a bit of a spot, at least there is more progress than before....

But I brought up the phone records as a way of showing it has been ongoing. Thank god Rogers has the unlimited North America plan, and I snapped it up when I did... LOL

Don't stress! I got an RFE last week and it was because of me missing anything. They wanted to know what state we were getting married in. Now that's frustrating!

Seriously? The State? I dont even remember talking about that with her when we were filling in the papers... :S

Maybe it was just some omitted detail... I dunno. It just sucks they dont explain it for #######....

Well, its official, after almost 5 months of feeling confident that the forms, pictures, phone records, and hotel bill would get me to my baby, an RFE is released in our names. Still havent seen the list of things they need, but I am not sure what else we can do to prove to them that we are in a comitted relationship.....

I do think it's BS that showing receipts from dinner and movies and gass bills are accepted forms of primary evidence, yet time stamped photos are secondary along with phone records.... It shows us together, and how often we talk to eachother.....

I have seen stories of other people on here with less evidance getting accepted, and it disheartens me to see my RFE. I can't really show passport stamps, because they just give me a quick scan and send me on my way.... what else can we include to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt we are together, and want to be for years to come?

Al do you know how Igors list works? Im wondering since Our names arent on the list

You guys are # 228 on the Vermont Service Centres list.... it is there now.... what that means, I havent a clue....

Did you see the output today on Igor's List/

ZERO.

That's right: Z-E-R-O !!!!!!!!!

Now how the hell am I ever supposed to get my NOA2 if the output is ZERO??????????????????

After what they did to us last October, they owe us a bare minimum of 30 to 40 a day, each and every day, without exception and without fail.

Ummm.. to be quite honest, I have no clue how to use Igors list... But you have to think that not everyone immigrating knows about this site... I only just found out this year after 3 months of not knowing anything..... It will get better Al, but they do need a kick in the ####### sometimes to get moving.... we all do....

Yes, you are lucky. I know it's not easy for you either, but imagine if you has been over 6 months since the two of you touched. It's maddening.

I wouldn't want to imagine that.... and I can agree, but it will make it that much more satisfying once it does happen.

I wasn't trying to say it was hard on me, in no way is it, and that is why I truly have a lot of respect for everyone on here, I am just impatient like us all... All I think of is the usual ####### line, 'good things come to those who wait' and it has to be enough to get me through. But taslking to the people on here, and trying to make the time pass easier helps.... and I cant thank the people on here enough for it..... We all need the escape sometimes of thinking about our others away from us..... at least we can build off each other for now, right?

Furious is not a strong enough word to express the way I feel at this obscene outrage.

I hope that Obamination and that other piece of vile trash Napolitano burn in hell for what they did.

Calm down Al, I know the situation of waiting to be with your loved one sucks, but I don't think having those two burn in hell will solve any of it. I am sure that you and your russian bride will be happy once everything clears, but we are both still inside our estimate of acceptance time. True it may be 15 minutes of work, and true it is outrageous not knowing anything aout our status aside from "Initial review" but in time, it will change, and we all will be with our significant others.....

But I can relate with your feelings of anger, I find it a bit outrageous that living on the same rock of land, I have to go through these procedures, but I know deep down that doing this legally and making sure its done right will make sure I don't get a quick deportation back to the frozen north. Eventually I cant wait to hear about your approval notice, but it will take time, and unfortunately every government has probably put other immigrants on the back shelf because of the 'humanitarian effort'.... must be a UN thing, not just a Presidential thing.....

me too! my noa1 is dated sept 14 and itl be 5th month on valentines day!i hope that noa2 will be our valentines gift but i dont know!im so stress about waiting and waiting and checking the uscis website about our receipt number and its still initial review! why there are people that filed theirs dated sept 17 or 20 that i know and they got aprove?how about me?i guess the people who got touched last oct 3,2010 i hope that they didnt put our papers in the trashcan?!!!!!!!!im so pissed off!

Agreed, that would be an amazing Valentines gift.... I am in the same boat. But don't stress yourself out too much, it will happen with time.

I have had one touch, and that was 3 days after they received our petition. There is a lot that they do there that we do not know about, and a lot of delays happen... all we can do is wait and try to prepare the best we can. Some people on here are furious over the expedited petitions of the Haitians, some are just pissed, but I am glad I Have a bit more time to try and better prepare myself for things to come.

True, I am luckier than most, and can just drive 6 hours to be with my wifey, but I am just as impatient as everyone else.... I just want to be with her. But the poeple here have helped me better prepare myself for the rest of the journey, and given me a bunch of laughs to boot, so I just try to enjoy the calm before the storm so to speak.

Quick question, is there any rhyme or reason to the way they process apps? You would think that they would want to chronologically process things, but I am guessing that is not the case... I am starting to worry that they are towards the end of the month, yet seemed to have skipped over mine... :S

Yep, like amykathleen2005 said, NVC knows where the paperwork needs to know. The USCIS, however, does not, so our NOA2 came back with "Toronto" listed as our consulate, though we are definitely processing through Montreal, so when the day for your approval comes, don't worry about your NOA2 telling you to go to Tel Aviv.

Did the same thing... any problems so far with you doing that? Too bad they didnt do them at the consulate in Toronto... that's only an hour from here... LOL