January filers VSC lottery, who gets the jackpot next?

[Cecile and Bryan 0]

Congratulations Joe and Bella! I hope her daughter will be fine...

Does anyone have news of dbears?

[Alex & Rachel 78]

This morning Bella went to the embassy at 9.. Turned over the passports.. After hour, she was called to the window..

She was told she was approved , go pay Domesa !!!

Bella and the twins called me all excited.. Finally, what a relief..

The strange thing that happened was the embassy kept the original birth certificates and baptismal certificates and the certified translations.. She asked to have them returned and was told it is better she go get all new documents.. Do they have any idea how difficult it was to obtain the documents to begin with.. geesh..

Thank you again for your prayers and well wishes.. We are much appreciative.. We wish everyone much success and a much easier road than we had..

J&B

Congratulations! But what a bother the embassy is. Keeping all the originals?

But woo, you'll soon be together now.

[Amanda+Stephen 0]

This morning Bella went to the embassy at 9.. Turned over the passports.. After hour, she was called to the window..

She was told she was approved , go pay Domesa !!!

Bella and the twins called me all excited.. Finally, what a relief..

The strange thing that happened was the embassy kept the original birth certificates and baptismal certificates and the certified translations.. She asked to have them returned and was told it is better she go get all new documents.. Do they have any idea how difficult it was to obtain the documents to begin with.. geesh..

Thank you again for your prayers and well wishes.. We are much appreciative.. We wish everyone much success and a much easier road than we had..

J&B

Congratulations!!!! We are very happy for all of you!!!!!

[KimandRuss 0]

Congratualtions Joe & Bella! I wonder if all the originals will be in the secret package so that you'll have them for aos. I certainly hope so. Best wishes to bella's daughter!

[KitEEgirl 0]

We applied for Marco's social security number today! It went fine and they said he'll have his card in about 10 days.. wahoo!

[psiprez 3]

It's so good to see all the happy news here!!! Congrats to everyone!!!

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It gives me hope that maybe there will be an end to all this for me and my sweetie someday.

Unfortunately, we are facing even more delays. The medical couldn't be booked until over a month from now, and we have no word yet on an interview date. Of course, that is because he still hasn't been able to get to a computer to print out his Packet 3 forms to mail off. It won't be mailed until next week at the earliest, which is over three weeks after it was mailed to him. So much for getting a jump on things. If it had arrived just a few days earlier, he could have brought it to the US with him and taken care of it here. Looking at other timelines, I'd guess the interview will be mid-July at the earliest, but probably even later. Which is so terribly depressing.

It was so hard to send him home on that plane last Sunday, especially knowing that had it not been for that stupid RFE delay, he could have been here for good around now. Instead, it will be another two months AT LEAST. Yes, I know that seems short in the overall scheme of things. However, he arrived home to find the shift times at work had changed. Instead of regular working hours, he must now work 12 hour days for two weeks straight, and then he gets off the whole third week. Sound nice, getting a vacation every three weeks, doesn't it? But due to the time change between the US and UK, as well as his 1-1/2 commute each way, it means that instead of us being able to talk nightly for 2-4 hours, the only time we will get to talk AT ALL will be my two days off from work. He has also lost his internet connection, so we can't even e-mail the rest of the days. We are completely cut off.

And I have no one here. I feel so lost, so completely cut off from my main source of stregnth, friendship and support. It just magnifies the extra months we have to wait, and makes it feel like a prison sentence. Not only should he have been here for good around now, but now I can't even communicate with him. Why why why? I just don't understand why it has to be so hard for us. Always so hard.

Maybe it's good we can't talk often now. He doesn't want to hear at all about my frustration with the delay, which I know is because he doesn't want to think about it himself. But that means I have no one to talk to about it, and have to keep it bottled up inside. Not good.

[SusieLuvsPaul 0]

aw I hope you get an interview soon! I know it's hard but just think about the rest of your lives together vs. these few more months *fingers crossed for you!*

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

Karen, I'm so sorry that things have been/are so rough for you. I will be praying for a quick interview for you.

When you fill out your packet 3, there is a box that asks when your wedding date will be. Try to give them an early estimate. We did (Memorial Day weekend), and we got a fairly early date (about 3 weeks after packet 4 arrived). London seems to be pretty good about scheduling that way...

All the best for both of you!!!

[Herolmounia 0]

BIG Congratulations for your visa greeneyedgirlfl

Edited May 17, 2008 by Herolmounia

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

BIG Congratulations for your visa greeneyedgirlfl

Thanks!!!

[KitEEgirl 0]

I know we all waited what seemed like forever..but can you guys really believe it's almost June already?

BIG Congratulations for your visa greeneyedgirlfl

Thanks!!!

[Sal and Jay 2]

I know we all waited what seemed like forever..but can you guys really believe it's almost June already?

BIG Congratulations for your visa greeneyedgirlfl

Thanks!!!

I know it doesnt seem long ago we were all waiting for our Nao2s and here we are some with visa in hand and some with interviews very soon.

I so wish they would approve the rest of January filers too.

[Saffyre 0]

I know we all waited what seemed like forever..but can you guys really believe it's almost June already?

BIG Congratulations for your visa greeneyedgirlfl

Thanks!!!

I know it doesnt seem long ago we were all waiting for our Nao2s and here we are some with visa in hand and some with interviews very soon.

I so wish they would approve the rest of January filers too.

I know it feels like yesterday that Iw as stressing out about 'where's my NOA2' and now my interview is tomorrow........it's been 5 months since I sent my paperwok, and it has flown by!

I hope everyone else gets their NOA2's and interviews/visa's soon.

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

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I know it feels like yesterday that Iw as stressing out about 'where's my NOA2' and now my interview is tomorrow........it's been 5 months since I sent my paperwok, and it has flown by!

I hope everyone else gets their NOA2's and interviews/visa's soon.

Good Luck on the interview tomorrow!!! I can't wait to hear from you!!!!

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

Congratulations Joe and Bella! I hope her daughter will be fine...

Does anyone have news of dbears?

I was perusing the Philippines forum to find that out...took me a while, but I found something.

She passed the medical last week (I assume this goes the same for her children)!!!

Good luck to her this week on her interview!!!