January Filers

[TracyTN 237]

the automated voice sounds like a disneyland announcer. welcome to fantasyland . . . where all your speedy approval dreams come true . . .

anyway - just called. got a nice woman on the phone. who told me nothing that wasn't already on the computer screen. oh well. i'm no worse off than i was a few minutes ago. i was impressed that there wasn't a long hold time, at least. didn't really get my hopes up prior to dialing. a lot less disappointing than two touches followed by a huge pile of nothing.

Can't blame you for trying.

*hugs* Hang in there.

[Scarlett07 0]

I also just called USCIS. LOL. They're probably wondering who all these crazy January people are who are all calling within minutes of each other! LOL!!

Anyway, yeah she told me exactly what it says online, blah blah blah. I told her that I had gotten 'touched' last week - she was like "you got WHAT?" - LOL. She asked if it had been within 6 months of me filing yet....grrrrrrrrrrrr. I told her that I just wanted to make sure the online notification was working right....

What the heck # did you guys push to actually talk to a human being??? I wonder if I call and press the 'change of address' number I'll get better info like a previous poster got. Jeez, somebody just wake me when all of this is over.

[hmm1 0]

I also just called USCIS. LOL. They're probably wondering who all these crazy January people are who are all calling within minutes of each other! LOL!!

Anyway, yeah she told me exactly what it says online, blah blah blah. I told her that I had gotten 'touched' last week - she was like "you got WHAT?" - LOL. She asked if it had been within 6 months of me filing yet....grrrrrrrrrrrr. I told her that I just wanted to make sure the online notification was working right....

What the heck # did you guys push to actually talk to a human being??? I wonder if I call and press the 'change of address' number I'll get better info like a previous poster got. Jeez, somebody just wake me when all of this is over.

It really depends, I have talked to helpful people...then I have talked to the standard run of the mill government sheep(follow all the same drills for answering questions over and over again)...

[Scarlett07 0]

Man, I wonder if I should contact my congressman too? I think next week if I haven't heard anything or gotten something in the mail...

It does sound like there's a newbie working or maybe the supervisor has been out sick or something and that's why there are all these touches and nothing else. (Let's hope...).

[ktyjp 0]

Cinders,

Sorry if i didn't catch this and you wrote it before...what does it show in your online status? Still the original message about receipt in january? And then just the newer date so you know it was touched? Status still only says "pending"?

Thanks!

Kate

[1123521 0]

Can I make an observation that I've noticed while reading all of your comments? You need to go outside and do something to take your mind off of this for a while. I think you are driving yourselves nuts. hehehe. Relax and let the process run its course. You won't help anything by yelling at the USCIS. That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. You are either too blindly obsessed or your just too ignorant to understand the implications your yelling might have potentially caused you. 5 years ago my brother and his wife waited 9 months for their NOA2. No RFE's. Just 9 months of waiting. And then about 6 more months because the Philippines is very slow. I think the USCIS has improved immensely over the past 5 years in their turn around time. I just got my NOA2 in 3 months. And you will get yours soon also. But you must be patient and kind and praying for helps too.

I just called them, agghhrrr the guy was so rude, first he read me the: ON JANUARY 18TH, we recived this blah blah blah,...... then when i was about to ask him a question he said that is all the information i have, then he said they are processing october, i explained him that wasnt true etc.... the whole story about january fillers, what we called "touch", that i got some of those last week, blah blah, and that there was something wrong because they werent updating approvals etc. After 3 minutes of non-stop talking, he said Ok that is all they info. we have, is there something else i can do 4u? WHATTTTTT I FLIPED OUT AND STARTED YELLING WHERE IS MY APPROVAL, I KNOW YOU HAVE IT, SEND ME MY APPROVAL,!!!

ooops, I really dnt know what happened to me, I know it wasnt right at all, ufff, rough day, rough day

Im not planning on telling about this to my fiancee, he might think im getting nuts.

Edited May 2, 2007 by minhagatinha

[CarlaM 0]

Can I make an observation that I've noticed while reading all of your comments? You need to go outside and do something to take your mind off of this for a while. I think you are driving yourselves nuts. hehehe. Relax and let the process run its course. You won't help anything by yelling at the USCIS. That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. You are either too blindly obsessed or your just too ignorant to understand the implications your yelling might have potentially caused you. 5 years ago my brother and his wife waited 9 months for their NOA2. No RFE's. Just 9 months of waiting. And then about 6 more months because the Philippines is very slow. I think the USCIS has improved immensely over the past 5 years in their turn around time. I just got my NOA2 in 3 months. And you will get yours soon also. But you must be patient and kind and praying for helps too.

I just called them, agghhrrr the guy was so rude, first he read me the: ON JANUARY 18TH, we recived this blah blah blah,...... then when i was about to ask him a question he said that is all the information i have, then he said they are processing october, i explained him that wasnt true etc.... the whole story about january fillers, what we called "touch", that i got some of those last week, blah blah, and that there was something wrong because they werent updating approvals etc. After 3 minutes of non-stop talking, he said Ok that is all they info. we have, is there something else i can do 4u? WHATTTTTT I FLIPED OUT AND STARTED YELLING WHERE IS MY APPROVAL, I KNOW YOU HAVE IT, SEND ME MY APPROVAL,!!!

ooops, I really dnt know what happened to me, I know it wasnt right at all, ufff, rough day, rough day

Im not planning on telling about this to my fiancee, he might think im getting nuts.

Thanks, it was too necesary to say ridiculous?? You can give your opinion and that is fine, I just think there are different ways to address it, anyway probably you are right, I need to get a life.

[Cinders 0]

Cinders,

Sorry if i didn't catch this and you wrote it before...what does it show in your online status? Still the original message about receipt in january? And then just the newer date so you know it was touched? Status still only says "pending"?

Thanks!

Kate

It still shows that my case is pending. I asked the women about that and she said when the supervisor approves then it will change.

[Dawny&Tommy 0]

Can I make an observation that I've noticed while reading all of your comments? You need to go outside and do something to take your mind off of this for a while. I think you are driving yourselves nuts. hehehe. Relax and let the process run its course. You won't help anything by yelling at the USCIS. That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. You are either too blindly obsessed or your just too ignorant to understand the implications your yelling might have potentially caused you. 5 years ago my brother and his wife waited 9 months for their NOA2. No RFE's. Just 9 months of waiting. And then about 6 more months because the Philippines is very slow. I think the USCIS has improved immensely over the past 5 years in their turn around time. I just got my NOA2 in 3 months. And you will get yours soon also. But you must be patient and kind and praying for helps too.

Thats all easier said than done, when you see people being approved that filed AFTER you have

Dawn.

Edited May 2, 2007 by Dawny&Tommy

[Scarlett07 0]

Ummmm yes, but I have been waiting for 119+ days....approval @ 90 days sounds like a big, wet dream to me at this point! LOL. B)

[TimsDaisy 0]

Today is day 100 for me. Woohooo! I feel like ther should be a cake or something.

[Scarlett07 0]

TimsDaisy, I work with a girl that is moving to the UK to marry a British guy and her approval was finished in a week or 2.

I told my guy to just go to Mexico and make a run for the border. LOL. He'd probably end up on CNN if he got busted though. JUST KIDDING!

[TracyTN 237]

TimsDaisy, I work with a girl that is moving to the UK to marry a British guy and her approval was finished in a week or 2.

That's great - and I'd move to the UK if we had no other options. But I'd rather not live there. I love that country, don't get me wrong - but its sad to me to see the state of things there.

[Len & How 0]

I got touched today! I was so doing the happy dance here at work!

Congratulations on your graduation and those touches!! That should be NOA2 coming your way! Yippee!!!

It is very exciting to see so much action around here lately. I'm happy for everybody that gets touched or approved (even better!). It is sad though that every time I check our status, it is still the same...

Howard and I both feel down these days, we'd use some good news

[Scarlett07 0]

I called USCIS again just now and found out I was APPROVED back on April 24th!! I posted a new topic on it. Ridiculous how the online status didn't change, nor was I sent any emails. FIGURES!!!

THe officer I spoke with didn't mention anything about pending approval though like another VJer mentioned...

Edited May 2, 2007 by Scarlett07