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christinejohn   0

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Hell all,

After arguying one more time wih our lawyer... a RFE was sent on December 20th and he says he never got it... now USCIS is telling us we have aproximately one more month to answer to it before the whole case is cancelled!

They are supposed to fax a copy of it again monday to my husband...

Anyways this time my husband called the lawyer and really got mad after paying $3,000, he could not even file the forms correctly and didn't even bother sending the evidences we had gathered for him... he just sent the marriage certificate... no need to tell you how upset we were yesterday when we found out AFTER my husband had managed to get an apointment usuing the InfoPass. Upset and so sad after being separatd for 9 months already...

Otherwise we would probably have not fond out and would have seen our case cancelled!

Anyways, the lawyer offered to end our agreement and said he would be willing to reimburse us... After a talk we decided to take up on his offer since he never did anything right anyways and we had to fight with him all along.

We sent him a hand signed fax to accept his offer. I hope he is going to honour it now and that we won't have to fight over it again.

We think we can handle things alone from here and in case we found a real good professional attorney who is a member of the AILA who already gave us some advise even though he was not paid for it.

Just needed to get my frustrations out and share this experience with you guys.

Christine & John

Met October 2002 in Australia.

04/07/07 Wedding in New Caledonia.

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I-130:

05/24/07 I-130 sent to CSC

06/27/07 NOA 1

03/10/08 NOA 2

Our I-130 was approved in 291 days from our filing date.

I-129F:

08/22/07 I-129F sent to CSC

09/04/07 NOA 1

03/10/08 NOA 2

Our I-129F was approved in 201 days from our filing date.

Children's I-130:

01/26/08 I-130 sent to CSC

02/20/08 NOA 1

09/10/08 NOA 2 for two of the children.

09/12/08 NOA 2 for the third child.

03/31/08 Arrival in the U.S.

AOS:

I-485, G-325A, I-765, I-131.

05/29/08 AOS sent for Christine and the children.

06/10/2008 NOA 1

07/01/2008 Biometrics

07/18, 23 and 25/08 Physicals

08/30/08 Employment Authorisation (valid for 1 year)

08/30/08 Authorisation for Parole

11/19/08 SSN (valid for work only)

12/04/08 Initial Interview appointment / Rescheduling requested

02/03/09 Interview appointment / very easy, very nice officer, not too many questions, our evidences were enough

02/03/09 Green Card granted for the four of us

02/16/09 Green Cards arrived in the mail

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That is so horrible!! I'm sorry you are going through this. Seperation is so hard and then to have someone who is suppose to be a professional screw up like that, well I can't even begin to imagine how much more difficult it is. I'll send positive thoughts your way and hope the lawyer gets hit in the ####### with a lightening bolt.

07/18/2007: Married in Gretna Green, Scotland

08/29/2007: I-130 Application Recieved at NSC

12/21/2007: Received NOA1 from CSC

01/08/2008: Touched-Change of Address

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Lance27   19

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Actually the USCIS sends out notices to both the Lawyer and the Petitioner.

AOS

Filled : 2007-09-17

NOA : 2007-09-25

Biometrics : 2007-12-13

EAD card prod : 2007-12-13

Job Offer : 2007-12-18

EAD card prod : 2007-12-18

EAD approved mailed : 2007-12-21

EAD in Hand : 2007-12-24 (Awesome Christmas Present)

Applied for SSN : 2007-12-26

SSN arrives in mail : 2008-01-05 (Happy New Year)

Start work :2008-01-15

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christinejohn   0

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Hi Lance,

Well if USCIS really does then where did ours go since december 20th?

We even checked the old address in case, but nothing nowhere.

So USCIS might be supposed to but didn't, what else is new...

Thanks for the positive thoughts JenAlex.

Christine & John

Met October 2002 in Australia.

04/07/07 Wedding in New Caledonia.

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I-130:

05/24/07 I-130 sent to CSC

06/27/07 NOA 1

03/10/08 NOA 2

Our I-130 was approved in 291 days from our filing date.

I-129F:

08/22/07 I-129F sent to CSC

09/04/07 NOA 1

03/10/08 NOA 2

Our I-129F was approved in 201 days from our filing date.

Children's I-130:

01/26/08 I-130 sent to CSC

02/20/08 NOA 1

09/10/08 NOA 2 for two of the children.

09/12/08 NOA 2 for the third child.

03/31/08 Arrival in the U.S.

AOS:

I-485, G-325A, I-765, I-131.

05/29/08 AOS sent for Christine and the children.

06/10/2008 NOA 1

07/01/2008 Biometrics

07/18, 23 and 25/08 Physicals

08/30/08 Employment Authorisation (valid for 1 year)

08/30/08 Authorisation for Parole

11/19/08 SSN (valid for work only)

12/04/08 Initial Interview appointment / Rescheduling requested

02/03/09 Interview appointment / very easy, very nice officer, not too many questions, our evidences were enough

02/03/09 Green Card granted for the four of us

02/16/09 Green Cards arrived in the mail

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Cecile and Bryan   0

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Wow that is crazy!

I guess this shows that people should never believe that a lawyer will do everything perfect (even if it is supposed to be his job)... that's crazy. It's good that he is willing to pay you back.

I hope you manage to put everything back in order in your case and that you will be together soon. Hang in there!

07/31/08 Entry in USA with K1 visa

08/27/08 Married

05/15/09 Conditional green card received

05/10/11 Permanent green card received

07/28/12 Started naturalization process

08/31/12 Biometrics done

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Enlighten one :)   5

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I am sorry to hear about your situation. I am currently using a lawyer that has done nothing but hurt my case. My husband would be here right now, but now we have to go the CR1 route. God is our determiner, but it is frustrating to pay that money for expertise, expedited service.

God bless you and the rest of your Journey!

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I am sorry to hear about your situation. I am currently using a lawyer that has done nothing but hurt my case. My husband would be here right now, but now we have to go the CR1 route. God is our determiner, but it is frustrating to pay that money for expertise, expedited service.

God bless you and the rest of your Journey!

Yes ditto , that is horrific - thank god your husband had the insight to go for the infopass - i can not imagine the results if he had not.

My best to you and sending your prayers and a speedy journey after this issue.

Cheers

Susie

When something goes wrong remember this saying "WHEN MAN PLANS, GOD LAUGHS"

www.orlando4obama.com

I-130 JOURNEY BEGINSSent August 28, 2007 to TSC for receipting in CSCReceived NOA1 from VSC December 21, 2007

Notes - earned USCIS skymiles for sure - postmarked from Chicago Lockbox

online finally 2/24/08

touchy feely 2/25/08

touched 2/27/2008 - great RFE requested - just wonderful news to see in your inbox early in the am

3/13 - RFE letter FINALLY received - and document that we sent NOW resent back to VSC grrrrowling

3/19 case resumed processing

3/20 touched

3./21 touched

3/23 Easter bunny touched again

4/01 - APPROVED I-130

4/02 - touched

4/07 - received hard copy approval

NVC JOURNEY BEGINS

4/07 NV Case number assigned

4/08 AOS, DS and all fees paid online

6/09 tax transcript for 2007 just became available -whoot

6/20 NVC receives everything nothing more to give them now just close eyes and pray

6/23 NVC enters into system

6/26 NVC - RFE uggh - wants all three years of Federal tax return listed and they lost originals or so they say - DING DING ROUND TWO

7/25 NVC Case completed whooottttttttt

8/7 Case forward to US EMBASSY LONDON OH YEAHHHHHHHH -

Embassy - case out for delivery to embassy via DHL sneaky us lol

08/10Received

08/19 Medical Exam completed - healthy oh yeah!!!!!!!!

9/26 @8am -Interview - approved VISA IN HAND OMG WHOOT!!! HELLO AMERICA MY LUV

POE- Atlanta then MCO - October 15th with the cat "GIT" on board lol - POE SUPER SWEET

Husband home finally - god what a journey....but after 400+ days we made it

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christinejohn Enthusiast

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Thank you all.

USCIS sent us another RFE on the 11th, let's see if we'll get it this time.

Though, we were told by e-mail as well this time, which we didn't last time.

So, I just wonder how long it will take that new RFE to reach us this time and if it will...

About the lawyer he said he'd pay us back, but since we accepted his offer we have not heard from him...

Good luck to you all.

Christine & John

Met October 2002 in Australia.

04/07/07 Wedding in New Caledonia.

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I-130:

05/24/07 I-130 sent to CSC

06/27/07 NOA 1

03/10/08 NOA 2

Our I-130 was approved in 291 days from our filing date.

I-129F:

08/22/07 I-129F sent to CSC

09/04/07 NOA 1

03/10/08 NOA 2

Our I-129F was approved in 201 days from our filing date.

Children's I-130:

01/26/08 I-130 sent to CSC

02/20/08 NOA 1

09/10/08 NOA 2 for two of the children.

09/12/08 NOA 2 for the third child.

03/31/08 Arrival in the U.S.

AOS:

I-485, G-325A, I-765, I-131.

05/29/08 AOS sent for Christine and the children.

06/10/2008 NOA 1

07/01/2008 Biometrics

07/18, 23 and 25/08 Physicals

08/30/08 Employment Authorisation (valid for 1 year)

08/30/08 Authorisation for Parole

11/19/08 SSN (valid for work only)

12/04/08 Initial Interview appointment / Rescheduling requested

02/03/09 Interview appointment / very easy, very nice officer, not too many questions, our evidences were enough

02/03/09 Green Card granted for the four of us

02/16/09 Green Cards arrived in the mail

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Hell all,

After arguying one more time wih our lawyer... a RFE was sent on December 20th and he says he never got it... now USCIS is telling us we have aproximately one more month to answer to it before the whole case is cancelled!

They are supposed to fax a copy of it again monday to my husband...

Anyways this time my husband called the lawyer and really got mad after paying $3,000, he could not even file the forms correctly and didn't even bother sending the evidences we had gathered for him... he just sent the marriage certificate... no need to tell you how upset we were yesterday when we found out AFTER my husband had managed to get an apointment usuing the InfoPass. Upset and so sad after being separatd for 9 months already...

Otherwise we would probably have not fond out and would have seen our case cancelled!

Anyways, the lawyer offered to end our agreement and said he would be willing to reimburse us... After a talk we decided to take up on his offer since he never did anything right anyways and we had to fight with him all along.

We sent him a hand signed fax to accept his offer. I hope he is going to honour it now and that we won't have to fight over it again.

We think we can handle things alone from here and in case we found a real good professional attorney who is a member of the AILA who already gave us some advise even though he was not paid for it.

Just needed to get my frustrations out and share this experience with you guys.

I am sorry to hear that you are going through such an ordeal. Get your $3000 back and move on. You do not need a lawyer. I had one, and it was the biggest waste of money. If you have any questions regarding the K-3 procedures, simply post them. Good luck!

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