August 2008 Filers

[Fred N Emilia 0]

Man good thing he is ok!

for me Emilia has to go see a doctor, her ulcer is back due to the stress of waiting and such. Its hard to take care of someone when you are 7000 miles away from the person you trully love. I am strong but I did crumble lastnight, staying up all night knowing that my soulmate is in pain.....

SUCKS BIGTIME but I still have to be strong for her and our kids.......

Goodluck to everyone, keep your heads up!

[maliciant 7]

Man good thing he is ok!

for me Emilia has to go see a doctor, her ulcer is back due to the stress of waiting and such. Its hard to take care of someone when you are 7000 miles away from the person you trully love. I am strong but I did crumble lastnight, staying up all night knowing that my soulmate is in pain.....

SUCKS BIGTIME but I still have to be strong for her and our kids.......

Goodluck to everyone, keep your heads up!

Most ulcers can be cured with antibiotics these days, is that not the case with her?

Yikes, car accidents too now, this really is turning into a rough week for august filers...

But I've got a few things to look forward to later in this week, nothing as great as a NOA2 but more later.

P.S. Fred smells of October!

Edited October 29, 2008 by maliciant

[Fred N Emilia 0]

Emilia and I are so alike, she is basically the female version of me. We both have a problem of forgetting to eat, she is even worst because she stresses and thinks more which adds to it. In 2004 she had it real bad where she was spitting blood, antibiotics and other medicines fixed it, but now stress and the wait, pheeewwwwwwwwww, came back, she is on her way to go see a doctor and pick up our daughter...

I myself are on antibiotics, I had a UTI for not drinking enough water, uggghhhhhhh, yeah we are killing ourselves huh, I'd be so glad once this visa thing is over.........

I smell of October? More like November! hehehehehe! We are hitting the 80 day mark for since our NOA1's.

[Hell0W0rld 10]

c'mon November!!! just 3 more days + daylight savings,

[maliciant 7]

Daylight saving time might be nice for a change... the philippines doesn't have that so my fiancee will be on an hour sooner... unless I'm getting confused that is.

I meant you smelled like you had invaded an october filers thread, but maybe you also raided a november thread... I spy on the other threads now and then but I skip postin, once I post in a thread I'd feel obligated to continue to pay attention to the thread cause it'd have that dot on it and any month of filers thread is going to get big... I already spend entirely too much time here just reading the 2 or 3 forums I do.

Fred, you should give in to more impulses, you know, things like checking the USCIS site and being dissapointed, eating when hungry, things like that, it's good for ya. Also, eat spicy food, it's great for killing bacteria (aka ulcers) and I'm pretty sure it's going to be better for your health long term than repeated use of antibiotics, which should really be a last resort or used in cases of surgery etc. Not saying you shouldn't use antibiotics to cure the ulcer you have, but should make a point to eat foods that will help prevent them in the future. Last thing we want is some super boogey ulcer that turns people into zombies or something (any super disease is bound to create at least some zombies).

But heck, yay for november, only my favorite month ever... it's got thanksgiving and my birthday in it, it don't get much better than that!

[HappyDancer 7]

Hey guys... Sorry for being late on all the news. I am finally back to work. Fred I was hospitalized due to gastric ulcer (GERD) and insomnia. Talk about STRESS!!!

Mara, I am so sorry for what happened to Chris but I am glad he is okay.

By the way, whatever happened to Dani? I miss her.

For everyone's reference, I got this link from the USCIS on Expedite Crietria:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...0000ecd190aRCRD

It says:

USCIS Expedite Criteria

All expedite requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and are granted at the discretion of the Director. The criteria are as follows:

Severe financial loss to company or individual

Extreme emergent situation

Humanitarian situation

Nonprofit status of requesting organization in furtherance of the cultural and social interests of the United States

Department of Defense of National Interest Situation (Note: Request must come from official United States Government entity and state that delay will be detrimental to our Government)

USCIS error

Compelling interest of USCIS

If your case is at a local office at the time you need to make your emergency request, please go to the local office in person to make your request. Please be sure to take all supporting documentation with you.

If your case is at one of our Service Centers or the National Benefits Center, please call customer service at 1-800-375-5283 to receive further instructions on where and how to send your request.

Hang in there everybody. November is almost here!!! I'm happy to be a November Scorpio. This might be my lucky birthday! YAY!!!

[Gemmie 142]

Fred and HD, it's understandable that you guys have stress problems and that Emilia has developed ulcers again. Honestly, this process is enough to drive anyone insane. Some of the most patient people ever have caved under all the pressure of compiling evidence, meeting deadlines, saving money, POE worries, and of course all of the WAITING! She might benefit from some health or stress management classes, they help with anxiety so that whenever she feels an "attack" coming on, she can try some breathing exercises or tell herself something that helps. I feel myself getting anxious whenever I think about my flight in 6 weeks... I'm so scared of being denied entry that all of these situations run through my head, and my heart just wants to explode! Fingers crossed...

Mara, what a string of poor luck! But so glad he's OK!!

I'm going to a Halloween party tonight! I'm dressed as Sadako from The Ring (the girl that comes out of the TV)... my Japanese friend is going to be a psych killer from Battle Royale. I love Asian films!!

Edited October 29, 2008 by Gemmie

[Chris & Mara 0]

Thanks guys, needless to say I was a little worried when i got up and the first email in my inbox was "I was in a car accident" of course being a worried Fiance 10000 miles away I went "OMG what's happened!" without even considering the fact that he must be ok, he emailed me... lol.

Hopefully things will pick up onto the good luck train this week however.

Hmmm I wonder If i can convince the USCIS that our case is "of compelling interest" to them.... would love for this to go faster...

On the positive Chris and i have been looking and emailing around for reception/ceremony places for our real not real wedding in late summer early fall next year. Pretty much ruled out Maine though because the places around the house up there are really really expensive, one place was $11K US before you sat down...

So back to the drawaing board, this time we are looking in DC, southern MD and northern VA, I found a very cute place in MD, about an hour from home, which looks gorgeous. Waiting to hear back from them about avaliabity and costs, here is hoping for some good luck

I miss Dani too, though I have seen her or Chris... lurking occasionally on the forums, no posting though.... Come back to us Dani!

[Gemmie 142]

That sounds positive!

I really liked the look of a place in Florida, a night ceremony with candles, and flowers, and oh my!

But it was also the first place I saw, so I imagine I should look around a lot more before committing to anything. Bill reckons we should find somewhere in the New England area, like Mass, or Maine, Rhode Island... or Connecticut seeing as his mother is afraid of flying...

Edited October 29, 2008 by Gemmie

[HappyDancer 7]

It's a rough week for all of us indeed.

Gemmie, I agree. The distance does get to my nerves. My fiance, being the more patient between the two of us, goes crazy every now and then. I feel so bad that something as wonderful as this could turn into the most traumatic experience. I just keep reminding myself that November will be here soon, and my fiance will be with me for the holidays too... We will be celebrating our anniversary in December and that's one of the things I need to be ready for. I want us to be happy no matter how sad parting time is going to be when he leaves for the states again.

Mara, keep your head high. You need to be strong for Chris.

Fred, you can tell Emilia to ping me at facebook. I can even invitre her over here in Cebu in case she wants to get out of her usual environment. We could go to spas together.

Dani and Chris - hope you two are doing great. We miss you!

Maliciant - Your girl can ping me too if she wants. I would be glad to establish a network here of the Philippine August Filers for K1. We will move forward with custom made t-shirts.

[TeeKol 0]

thanks Teekol

Looks like we won't know today though, Chris' car was t-boned by a taxi driver on his way to work. He wasn't hurt (thank god) but spent 4 hours with the police at the accident, needless to say he missed work, USCIS and some important meetings.

As much as I would love to know about our case I am considerably happier about know that Chris is ok at this point.

OMG!!!! Thank god he is ok. Must have been a terrible shock for both of you.

[Fred N Emilia 0]

Gimmie - I LOVE ASIAN FILMS! Battle Royale especially!

HappyDancer - I wish she can go to Cebu to chill with you but rightnow she is taking care of our kiddos 3 nights a week, a shared custody with the jerk/dead beat dad. She went to the doctors today and she was given meds, from now on she needs to be eating on time, that's cruicial to gettting that ulcer healed again.

[maliciant 7]

I'll pass it along happydancer, I'm sure she'll be interested in meeting at least a few people in the states who are from the philippines, and there really doesn't seem to be any filipino communities in missouri... I did see that there was at least one cable channel that was either called the philippino network or something like that (maybe it was pilipino?) but an actual community doesn't seem to exist... I live really close to a small asian market (not like an actual market, more like a store that sells rice paper, and strange looking *food?* in jars and stuff like that)... we might have to stalk that place once she's here looking for other filipinos who've immigrated here.

Fred: Your ticker is almost down to 60 days until your next visit... I need to renew my plans to convince you to lend me those tickets for new years... It's almost to the point where it'll be worth counting the days to your flight... once you hit the 30 days to go point I'm really going to start getting jealous. You'll probably have your NOA2 before the trip happens, I'm hoping most of us have our NOA2's before you trip happens though. My birthday is nov 26 and I'm hoping for a birthday present from USCIS, it's pretty unlikely but every time I open my physical mailbox I hope that I find a NOA2 there, even though I've received no email notification or seen any touches... but either way I'm hoping the holiday season will help keep us all busy so as not to spend all of our spare time wishing we were with our SO's, of course... when I do get free time I know next year she'll be here. My new years resolution (besides swiping fred's ticket) is to spend more time with my fiancee mwuahaha.

For those of you using yahoo, have any of you messaged with the IMvironments much... that doodle one is quite a bit of fun.

[Donna-marie 0]

in a foul mood so not gonna type much cos ill not know when to stop lol,

anyone have any good news today.

one of those days when u just wanna yell arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!

[Fred N Emilia 0]

Nope, not really but my Emilia got her medicine for her ulcer, she's feeling much better and for ALL OF US HERE! October is ending! you are nearing your 80 day mark and pretty soon APPROVALS come trickling along in this very thread. So hang in there, keep ya head up, put on a happy face.