The Grit Iron: K1 Process

[TucsonBill 0]

TucsonBill - I feel like flopping around on the floor like those bratty kids you see in the mall or at the grocery store.

http://www.jibjab.com/JokeBox/JokeBox.aspx...mp;JokeId=36349

[RosaMystica7 0]

I think I'll join in on this.

My boyfriend and I agreed that we wanted to get married (we're saving the official proposal for something super-special after he's here) in December and started looking into the visa process in January. I had just gotten over being sick for 3 months. Then I got sick in February, sick again in March, anemic in April, and a lot of garbage happened in May that knocked me off my already-exhausted feet. In June I started looking for a new job, but nothing worked out.

Now it's July, and the people who I was supposed to be visa-process buddies with are married. I'm in a job that pays too little and the prospect of finding a co-sponsor isn't looking too bright, so I'm on my own for supporting us both. I'm looking for a new job that pays more, I have one application that I'll be returning tomorrow, and I'm still looking around. In the meantime, we're getting all our documents together. Once I secure a job that pays enough (I've got a free meeting with an immigration lawyer Wednesday so I can get a definitive answer on what I really should have in order to qualify as his sponsor) the petition's gonna go in the mail, and then the saving-money spree will start.

The last time he was here was in December, and we can't really justify spending the money to bring him here for a visit when every spare cent we get really needs to go into the bank to move him here and help us get started on our new life together. Besides, I on't think we'd survive another airport goodbye anyway, the last 2 were horrible, and the 2nd was worse than the 1st. So right now we're going on 8 months since we've seen each other.

We're sick of waiting and waiting and WAITING to file for this visa, but we know it's for the best. At least my health's back in one piece, and I'm going on 1 month of being in work full-time, which feels really good. I'm hoping that it will only go up from here.

But damn... the people who filed through VSC back when I originally wanted to file are MARRIED.

Anyway... ya'll are lucky, at least you're IN the process. I'm not even that far yet. And I agree, webcams are awesome. After his first visit in October he bought us a set and mailed me one. Between that and talking for a few hours on the phone each day and playing games together through the internet... it makes the distance much smaller than if we only had snail mail.

[chzuga 0]

TucsonBill - I feel like flopping around on the floor like those bratty kids you see in the mall or at the grocery store.

http://www.jibjab.com/JokeBox/JokeBox.aspx...mp;JokeId=36349

thanks for the comedy relief TucsonBill, we need to take a break from this ardous thing we call VISA PROCESS.

I duly can ID with everyone saying their collective "pieces" here. There are days that I feel utterly frustrated that I have to wait sooo long for this to happen.

Myself, I will not start the JOURNEY until Jan/Feb of next year. First I am going there to take the all important pics of my sweetheart and me and send along with my plane tickets information.

As far as sharing with people here, I understand people do not understand why I am doing this, so I do not bother. This time around, I have not told a soul ONLY until she gets here.

message to Robor007 -- pass the Doritos, man !! -- we are in this line here waiting to get inside hahahahaha

much luck to all -- it is soo good to come to this corner here in cyberspace and find people that UNDERSTAND my problems and have similar ones.

good voyage -- lets keep our heads UP!!! UP !!! UP!!!

[Sheriff Uling 3]

TucsonBill - LMAO! I totally forgot about that one... I've seen it before but it's still hilarious...

[kitkat1 5]

I wish I was playing the waiting game with you all now. I still have a couple of months before I even get to join in that kind of fun.

Oh but by the time you file everything will be back to normal and you won't stuck in more than 4 months of hell like the rest of us you lucky duck!

[Thingee 0]

And that thought kitkat is all that's keeping me going. I'm not by nature a patient person..or rather I'm awful at waiting, give me something to do to help things along and I'm hunky dory. I dislike 'hurry up and wait' things, and I'm going downright bonkers in my present 'waiting to wait' status.

[RosaMystica7 0]

And that thought kitkat is all that's keeping me going. I'm not by nature a patient person..or rather I'm awful at waiting, give me something to do to help things along and I'm hunky dory. I dislike 'hurry up and wait' things, and I'm going downright bonkers in my present 'waiting to wait' status.

Same here. But at least this bonkerness (new word, yay!) is pushing me to find better jobs. I don't want to do anything other than eat, crash, and talk to SC after work... but after work today I'm gonna go out to an office for an application and stop at CVS to get my passport photos done. It's a good incentive, pushing me to do what I need to do when I really don't want to.

[Robor007 0]

I wish I was playing the waiting game with you all now. I still have a couple of months before I even get to join in that kind of fun.

Oh but by the time you file everything will be back to normal and you won't stuck in more than 4 months of hell like the rest of us you lucky duck!

I do hope you're right but even if the IMBRA backlog unplugs and the process speeds up at the CSC I would guess it's still going to be a 8+ month process. Filing in mid-October that's May or June for us so I'm not feeling so lucky right now...

I see a bunch of approval posts at the top so I'm *VERY* glad for those who got the good news. Congrats!