VSC & K1'S

[Beth/ Paris Heart 2]

Well VSC is again approving K1's 58 days to approval. Glad for them, but sad for us waiting more then 58 days, and for some so much longer.

What is wrong with the married folks petitions????

Paris Heart

[clairern 0]

Well VSC is again approving K1's 58 days to approval. Glad for them, but sad for us waiting more then 58 days, and for some so much longer.

What is wrong with the married folks petitions????

Paris Heart

That was my thoughts exactly. No offense to K-1 filers, but why do they get faster approvals than spouses?

[Beth/ Paris Heart 2]

Well VSC is again approving K1's 58 days to approval. Glad for them, but sad for us waiting more then 58 days, and for some so much longer.

What is wrong with the married folks petitions????

Paris Heart

That was my thoughts exactly. No offense to K-1 filers, but why do they get faster approvals than spouses?

Clairern, I agree, I too mean no offense at all to K1 filers. But after all K3 are families visas. We are already married and established a true realtationship , some K3 have kids. Come on VSC give us a break, is that asking to much???

Paris Heart

[jeca 0]

Hi, Paris Heart

I am wondering the same thing.K3 is non-immigrant visa just like K1 and I think it deserves the same treatment at least.But they are not approving it at all let alone giving it priority over K1 which K3 should be given.I don't have a clue why this is happening, I don't think anyone here has the answer.If only they made it official then we would know where we stand.But at this point we can only make assumptions and wait for something to happen.WAIT WAIT WAIT I'm tired of that word because it is all we can do.

[Beth/ Paris Heart 2]

Hi, Paris Heart

I am wondering the same thing.K3 is non-immigrant visa just like K1 and I think it deserves the same treatment at least.But they are not approving it at all let alone giving it priority over K1 which K3 should be given.I don't have a clue why this is happening, I don't think anyone here has the answer.If only they made it official then we would know where we stand.But at this point we can only make assumptions and wait for something to happen.WAIT WAIT WAIT I'm tired of that word because it is all we can do.

Hi Jeca,

A VSC approrved a CR-1 today, maybe that is a sign :Keep fingers crossed maybe ours is soon.

Hang in there Jeca, soon one day we will post our much desired words: APPROVED!!!!

Paris Heart

[Catt 6]

Hey Paris and Jelena,

Personally I don't think that K-3 should take precedence over K-1, but the I-129F petitions for K-3 visa should at least be processed at Vermont, which at present does not seem to be the case.

I have been doing some research on the VJ timelines. And until end of december of 2007, VSC was processing both I-130 and I-129F petitions for K-3 visa and approving them on the same date, or shortly after eachother, like California is doing until today.

However, this changed in 2008. As of January 2008, the timelines show not one single approval for I-129F petition for a K-3 visa in Vermont. (If i'm wrong, please correct me.)

I do not think they could justify this simply by saying "once the I-130 pet. gets approved, this makes the I-129F for K-3 useless", since that would mean that - if they discard all the I-129F's whereby the I-130 was already approved - they'd just get to more recently filed I-129F's whereby the I-130 was not yet approved, right?

The data, again if this is correct, seems to illustrate that in the past months Vermont has only been processing the I-129F's for a K-1 visa but not for K-3.

I know i'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this . Let's see what happens in the next month or so, maybe we'll start seeing approvals again.

So far my visa rant of the day, lol.

Cat

[jeca 0]

With all this delay and visa waiting family members are away from each other, there are people who have children and they are kept apart for so long.I don't have children but I want them, I want to start a real family and I can't do that when I'm not with my husband.Everyone's time is precious, why wasting it, and why are K1 filers entitled to be with their loved ones so soon and why are we the ones who have to wait?No offense to K1 filers, I'm not saying they should stop processing K1 applications, what I'm saying is that they should at least give it the same treatment.

[Beth/ Paris Heart 2]

With all this delay and visa waiting family members are away from each other, there are people who have children and they are kept apart for so long.I don't have children but I want them, I want to start a real family and I can't do that when I'm not with my husband.Everyone's time is precious, why wasting it, and why are K1 filers entitled to be with their loved ones so soon and why are we the ones who have to wait?No offense to K1 filers, I'm not saying they should stop processing K1 applications, what I'm saying is that they should at least give it the same treatment.

Hi Catt,

No what Im saying is is that K1 are being processed more quickly then either K3 I-130/ 129-F or the Cr-1 Visas. The ficance visas are being processed quicker then the family ones, some being processed after when family families petitions have been filed is what I mean.

There have several been approved in as little as 11 days, a whole lot less then as when some family petitions have been filed.

Im happy to see any petition aproved. but when they are sent in after a family has filed, it gets frustrating. Some families are struggling cause of the sepration financialy and mentally, but when a ficance petition is passed in as little as 11 days, and familiy peitions which have been filed for months way before, well it upsetting.

That is all we are saying. All we can do is hold on to our dreams and wait for those precious word: APPROVED.

Hang in there Catt. Im going to paint some ceilings tomorrow , need paint samples to go along with wall paper samples??, ha ha

Take care my friend.

Paris Heart

[Army_Wife 2]

I agree the K1 situation is a little strange as the K3 is exactly the same petition .... however guys ... VSC is not approving as many K1's as what it was a couple of weeks ago.

From their threads, the amount of approvals for K1's has more than halved in the last couple of weeks alone. A couple of weeks back VSC was approving over 130 or something a month, now it's around 50 ..... and our I-130's are speeding up.

Sure, the numbers are nowhere like we want them to be .... but at least they doing something.

CSC is pretty much at a standstill currently with K1's and the I-130's are flying (at last) .... VSC looks like they may just be doing the same thing. There will always be a trickle of K1's, as there has been for us for so long, but those who are trained to deal with family petitions may have now been told it's time to deal with our files.

I can just see the white board in the VSC family visa room now ..... May 1st through May 10th ..... Mary, Joe and John = allocated I-130 box A, B and C

May 1st through May 10th ..... Andy and Tom = allocated K1 (I129F) box H, I and J

We all know how it works really, and this 'business' will be no different.

I can see Andy or Tom being moved over to the I-130 group soon too.

[Catt 6]

I'm liking Mary, Joe, John, Andy and Tom already

But only when they finally start prioritising on the hunny bunnycases (as the former adjudicator on here said they call our cases)

[Beth/ Paris Heart 2]

I'm liking Mary, Joe, John, Andy and Tom already

But only when they finally start prioritising on the hunny bunnycases (as the former adjudicator on here said they call our cases)

I agree Catt.

Lets just wait and see what happens in the upcoming days.

Dont let go of your dreams.

Paris Heart

[Army_Wife 2]

Yes, hold on guys .... it will happen

Have you guys read my ~Ode To VSC and my I-130 ~

[Beth/ Paris Heart 2]

Yes, hold on guys .... it will happen

Have you guys read my ~Ode To VSC and my I-130 ~

Lady Sarah,

yes, I just commented on it. Read it and check your yahoo.

Paris

[Catt 6]

As of January 2008, the timelines show not one single approval for I-129F petition for a K-3 visa in Vermont. (If i'm wrong, please correct me.)

So I'm real happy to see I was wrong! There is such an approval in the VJ timelines, see Nabil and Sheila's timeline.

[Catt 6]

Also see Lanre and Kathryn's timeline for another 2008 (spec. January) approval of I-129F for K-3 visa by Vermont. Their I-129F was actually approved months after their I-130 was.