It Started

[Brad and Vika 129]

NOA1 hard copy came in the mail. So now I feel more official

Congrats - now you can really get started!

[mox 298]

NOA1 hard copy came in the mail. So now I feel more official

Congrats!

[baron555 934]

I was going to redecorate what will become the little boy's room and she said not to so we can do that together. So I will just repaint some of the rooms (it is time to do that regardless) and I will let her redecorate the house. I have read where this is suggested so they have some connection and don't feel so foreign.

Baron no matter how you decorate, she will want to change it. Accept it and move on.

Yes, I know that. I'm just applying the base paint coat, spackle the old painting holes, etc.

This will also give her something else to do while she brushes up on her English.

[Jonathan Matthies 1]

NOA1 hard copy came in the mail. So now I feel more official

As did mine. It's dated July 8th, received it on Monday. Now we wait. and wait and wait. and clean the basement, then wait some more.

It's just a piece of paper, but damn if I wasn't giddy when it finally arrived!

[mox 298]

Congrats Jonathan!

[johnj 0]

Indeed Jonathan, good to get you in the race

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

Congrats to both Zor and Jonathan.

Now the race begins. Have fun, ask questions, and remember its all worth it.

[Brad and Vika 129]

I was going to redecorate what will become the little boy's room and she said not to so we can do that together. So I will just repaint some of the rooms (it is time to do that regardless) and I will let her redecorate the house. I have read where this is suggested so they have some connection and don't feel so foreign.

Baron no matter how you decorate, she will want to change it. Accept it and move on.

Yes, I know that. I'm just applying the base paint coat, spackle the old painting holes, etc.

This will also give her something else to do while she brushes up on her English.

Another Vjer I know left the paint unfinished for the exact same reason, and got clipped points because the house needed so much work! I guess you can't win that one either (big surprise right?).

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

I was going to redecorate what will become the little boy's room and she said not to so we can do that together. So I will just repaint some of the rooms (it is time to do that regardless) and I will let her redecorate the house. I have read where this is suggested so they have some connection and don't feel so foreign.

Baron no matter how you decorate, she will want to change it. Accept it and move on.

Yes, I know that. I'm just applying the base paint coat, spackle the old painting holes, etc.

This will also give her something else to do while she brushes up on her English.

Another Vjer I know left the paint unfinished for the exact same reason, and got clipped points because the house needed so much work! I guess you can't win that one either (big surprise right?).

That is a wonderful theory, better yet do nothing, tell he you did, that way she wont even ask for help. Then you can go hide under the couch with dima's man.

[amberdima 6]

That is a wonderful theory, better yet do nothing, tell he you did, that way she wont even ask for help. Then you can go hide under the couch with dima's man.

dima's the husband who's under the couch. when i, amber, his wife, nudged him- his toes wiggled, so he's still camping out til the greencard arrives

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

That is a wonderful theory, better yet do nothing, tell he you did, that way she wont even ask for help. Then you can go hide under the couch with dima's man.

dima's the husband who's under the couch. when i, amber, his wife, nudged him- his toes wiggled, so he's still camping out til the greencard arrives

Sorry I cant tell you two apart.

[Brad and Vika 129]

I was going to redecorate what will become the little boy's room and she said not to so we can do that together. So I will just repaint some of the rooms (it is time to do that regardless) and I will let her redecorate the house. I have read where this is suggested so they have some connection and don't feel so foreign.

Baron no matter how you decorate, she will want to change it. Accept it and move on.

Yes, I know that. I'm just applying the base paint coat, spackle the old painting holes, etc.

This will also give her something else to do while she brushes up on her English.

Another Vjer I know left the paint unfinished for the exact same reason, and got clipped points because the house needed so much work! I guess you can't win that one either (big surprise right?).

That is a wonderful theory, better yet do nothing, tell he you did, that way she wont even ask for help. Then you can go hide under the couch with dima's man.

What?

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

That is a wonderful theory, better yet do nothing, tell he you did, that way she wont even ask for help. Then you can go hide under the couch with dima's man.

What?

Sorry ambers man but who can tell

[ZorValachan 0]

Dug up this thread, as I didn't want to start a whole new one to say I got the NOA2 today at 1:15am.

I had checked the site before I went to work (work nights) and just a touch....

I doubt it, but it kinda makes me smile to think some hard working USCIS adjudicator was up waiting to finish my case, lol.

Anyway, thanks a lot to this site and many of you members who helped answer (directly and indirectly) all the question spinning around in my head.

[Merle 458]

The ride will be over before you know it. I remember worrying and fretting that everything would get screwed up somehow and we would never be together, but it didn't take very long. It seems like just yesterday that I sent off the I-129 paperwork and now my wife is a U.S. citizen. Just don't worry too much and everything should be fine.