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Congratulations! :)

*Cheryl -- Nova Scotia ....... Jerry -- Oklahoma*

Jan 17, 2014 N-400 submitted

Jan 27, 2014 NOA received and cheque cashed

Feb 13, 2014 Biometrics scheduled

Nov 7, 2014 NOA received and interview scheduled


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Congrats!!

Canadians Visiting the USA while undergoing the visa process, my free advice:

1) Always tell the TRUTH. never lie to the POE officer

2) Be confident in ur replies

3) keep ur response short and to the point, don't tell ur life story!!

4) look the POE officer in the eye when speaking to them. They are looking for people lieing and have been trained to find them!

5) Pack light! No job resumes with you

6) Bring ties to Canada (letter from employer when ur expected back at work, lease, etc etc)

7) Always be polite, being rude isn't going to get ya anywhere, and could make things worse!!

8) Have a plan in case u do get denied (be polite) It wont harm ur visa application if ur denied,that is if ur polite and didn't lie! Refer to #1

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Hello !

So today was the big day :) i left home around 6:20 and walked there relaxed. by 6:45 i was in front of the entrance alone..hehehe

Then about 5 min. after a girl for a CR1 came.. and another k1 couple, and another k1 girl and someone else we didn't talked with much.

7:30, they open the door and ask everyone passport + interview letter.

I go in first at the security checkpoint on the left and a so-so half rude, half neutral security gard ask for my things to put in the tray... goes through xray, of course my wonderful person is ringing..lol.... have to go through the other check with arms open etc.... they will then give me the letter B window#9. (the second girl went with the other gard who was faster and nicer).

Then they ask to wait downstair till beeing called.... We chitchat then about 10 min. later 2 gards come out from the elevator, asking the first 5 persons to come in.... they look quite serious but are still funny when they tell in their radio code from aviation...tango whisky etc.... like super serious... (i can't help but think that it's all of a fuss to just say some folks are coming upstairs (well if it was what he meant)... might have mean.. get my coffee ready, or wait for the croissant !)

7:48 we are upstairs, waiting in the room with a nice 180 degres view on the city... i can even see the building i live in from there !

8:05 the first person is called window 12 (the girl with CR1 visa)

a few minute after i am called window 9, it's a man...

i thought he was friendly at start but he turned out to be more neutral than expected... he made me thing about the father of the weasley in harry potter but with grey hair. We talked a mix of french and english while e was asking for the different papers.

it started with 2 photos, the medical (just the white enveloppe), my birth certificate and his letter of intent.

Followed by the 156k, passport, affidavit (originals), police certificate (originals and copy), copy of the picture page of the passport, enveloppe

asked me where we met and if my sweet was working as a ##### in US (i just had to say yes ! lol)

At the end i asked about the divorce certificate (i wonder if he would have ask it if i would have shut up).

The order in wich they ask the different documents are different from one officer to another.

Then had to go window 14 to pay the fees, the girl wasn't there yet and a bunch of other people were waiting for it already. So basically the thing is to sit down and go after thoses other people (most of them just pick a number there) then you go pay your 131$. The girl there was super friendly. After giving me the receipt the girl told me to go back to see her colleague.... so i went back to my window 9 but no one there... i waited a bit.. then got a little lonely so i went back to the other folks who where transiting in the other bigger waiting room.

Little wait till the person actually calls you (so no need to directly go back to see the colleague as the woman at the register said)

Then they take your fingerprint in some kind of electronic device. asked for my phone number in montreal (well i killed my cellphone a few weeks ago in water and my only phone was the one my sweet gave me.... (he was a little suspicious about that one but well) and ask to go back to the waiting room.

Then wait for another 10/15 min or so.... and it's my turn to the interview room. I saw there a guy super friendly, talking more like in a conversation, asking how we met, when he came for the first time, how many time we saw each other, what he does for living, if he owns a house or an appartment.

Then he asked to pledge that everything on the file was true (actually i don't remember if the pledge was before or after) then he said he would APPROVE (yey !!!) my application, that everything was fine and that it should be printed today or tomorrow so i might get it early next week.

I then left, chichat for another minute with my pals there waiting and went on my way home :)

It feels so great !!! we gonna get married in 16 days !! (and he is coming here in 9 days) how cool is that !!!!!

Good luck to all who their interview are coming ! and to ladynoles who have hers this afternoon !!

:dance::thumbs::dance: Congrats! :dance::thumbs::dance:

Thank you for sharing all the details. It makes me feel like I was there with you! I am so happy for you! We will have our interview in Montreal as well, We are having a baby in a little over 10 weeks and so, I am thinking about flying out with the baby for the interview and then the baby can meet his daddy's family then. Anyways... Congrats again. that is FANTASTIC news! I wish you Happily ever after! :)

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Married 3/15/07

USCIS:

NOA1: 5/23/2008

NOA2: 9/12/2008

NVC:

They received: 9/24/2008

Case Complete: 12/1/2008

Interview: 03/24/2009

Received approved visa (after RFE in interview): 04/21/2009

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Canada
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Congrats that is wonderful news. Whoo hoo.

K-1 journey, AOS/EAD and ROC in my timeline

2011 March 31 - Sent off Naturalization pkg overnight to Texas

2011 April 1 - Arrived in Texas at 10:21 am

2011 April 1 - NOA (rec'd via snail mail April 8)

2011 April 7 - Cheque cashed

2011 May 5 - Biometrics (letter rec'd via snail mail April 15)

2011 May 9 - Placed in line for interview scheduling

2011 June 13 - Rec'd yellow letter (no change in status online)

2011 June 23 - Rec'd text that my case has been scheduled for interview

2011 August 1 - Interview (rec'd via snail mail June 27) PASSED

2011 August 3 - Rec'd email that my case has been scheduled for Oath

2011 September 1 - Oath ceremony (rec'd snail mail Aug 5)

2011 September 1 - All done, yeah.

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Congratulations!!!! :thumbs:

Service Center : Vermont Service Center

Consulate : Montreal, Canada

I-129F Sent : 2008-01-10

I-129F NOA1 : 2008-01-15

I-129F NOA2 : 2008-03-03

NVC Received : 2008-03-05

NVC Left : 2008-03-07

Consulate Received : 2008-03-10

Packet 3 Received : 2008-03-25

Packet 3 Sent : 2008-03-31

Medical: 2008-04-01

Packet 4 Received :

Interview Date :

Visa Received :

US Entry :

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Hello !

So today was the big day :) i left home around 6:20 and walked there relaxed. by 6:45 i was in front of the entrance alone..hehehe

Then about 5 min. after a girl for a CR1 came.. and another k1 couple, and another k1 girl and someone else we didn't talked with much.

7:30, they open the door and ask everyone passport + interview letter.

I go in first at the security checkpoint on the left and a so-so half rude, half neutral security gard ask for my things to put in the tray... goes through xray, of course my wonderful person is ringing..lol.... have to go through the other check with arms open etc.... they will then give me the letter B window#9. (the second girl went with the other gard who was faster and nicer).

Then they ask to wait downstair till beeing called.... We chitchat then about 10 min. later 2 gards come out from the elevator, asking the first 5 persons to come in.... they look quite serious but are still funny when they tell in their radio code from aviation...tango whisky etc.... like super serious... (i can't help but think that it's all of a fuss to just say some folks are coming upstairs (well if it was what he meant)... might have mean.. get my coffee ready, or wait for the croissant !)

7:48 we are upstairs, waiting in the room with a nice 180 degres view on the city... i can even see the building i live in from there !

8:05 the first person is called window 12 (the girl with CR1 visa)

a few minute after i am called window 9, it's a man...

i thought he was friendly at start but he turned out to be more neutral than expected... he made me thing about the father of the weasley in harry potter but with grey hair. We talked a mix of french and english while e was asking for the different papers.

it started with 2 photos, the medical (just the white enveloppe), my birth certificate and his letter of intent.

Followed by the 156k, passport, affidavit (originals), police certificate (originals and copy), copy of the picture page of the passport, enveloppe

asked me where we met and if my sweet was working as a ##### in US (i just had to say yes ! lol)

At the end i asked about the divorce certificate (i wonder if he would have ask it if i would have shut up).

The order in wich they ask the different documents are different from one officer to another.

Then had to go window 14 to pay the fees, the girl wasn't there yet and a bunch of other people were waiting for it already. So basically the thing is to sit down and go after thoses other people (most of them just pick a number there) then you go pay your 131$. The girl there was super friendly. After giving me the receipt the girl told me to go back to see her colleague.... so i went back to my window 9 but no one there... i waited a bit.. then got a little lonely so i went back to the other folks who where transiting in the other bigger waiting room.

Little wait till the person actually calls you (so no need to directly go back to see the colleague as the woman at the register said)

Then they take your fingerprint in some kind of electronic device. asked for my phone number in montreal (well i killed my cellphone a few weeks ago in water and my only phone was the one my sweet gave me.... (he was a little suspicious about that one but well) and ask to go back to the waiting room.

Then wait for another 10/15 min or so.... and it's my turn to the interview room. I saw there a guy super friendly, talking more like in a conversation, asking how we met, when he came for the first time, how many time we saw each other, what he does for living, if he owns a house or an appartment.

Then he asked to pledge that everything on the file was true (actually i don't remember if the pledge was before or after) then he said he would APPROVE (yey !!!) my application, that everything was fine and that it should be printed today or tomorrow so i might get it early next week.

I then left, chichat for another minute with my pals there waiting and went on my way home :)

It feels so great !!! we gonna get married in 16 days !! (and he is coming here in 9 days) how cool is that !!!!!

Good luck to all who their interview are coming ! and to ladynoles who have hers this afternoon !!

Congratulations. :thumbs::dance::dance::dance: I always wondered who put the # on phones, I had no idea it was your soon-to-be Hubby. :lol: I once worked as a #####, had a terrible time, it was almost as bad as that time I worked as a *****. :lol:

BTW, are we all invited to the wedding because I have my Elvis outfit ready. :lol:

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2007-07-27 – Case complete at NVC waiting on the world or at least MTL.

2007-12-19 - INTERVIEW AT MTL, SPLIT DECISION.

2007-12-24-Mom's I-551 arrives, Pop's still in purgatory (AP)

2008-03-11-AP all done, Pop is approved!!!!

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!! :dance::dance::dance: I am so happy when I hear about others finally making it through.

2007 10 05 : Married (In Arequipa, Peru)

USCIS

2008 01 22 : NOA1

2008 04 11 : NOA2 (I-130 Approved)

NVC

2008 04 21 : NVC received & case# generated

2008 05 12 : I-864 Package entered into system by NVC

2008 05 13 : DS 3032 Accepted (Spouse - Received e-mail confirmation)

2008 05 23 : DS 230 Entered into system by NVC

2008 06 02 : Case Complete

2008 06 12 : Case Forwarded (Embassy - Lima, Peru)

2008 06 20 : Appt Letter received

EMBASSY - LIMA

2008 06 26 : Medical Exam - 9 AM (Picked up results 07/01)

2008 07 03 : Interview - 10 AM (DENIED - RENIEC ENDOREMENT MISSING)

2008 07 07 : Submit RENIEC Endoresed Marriage Cert.

2008 07 10 : Passport & Visa (Pick-up at DHL Facility - Lima)

POE

2008 07 15 : San Francisco (midnight)

2008 08 19 : SSC Received (Had to re-file at SSA Office)

2008 08 04 : I-551 Received

2008 08 26 : Permanent Employment (HR Asst. Int'l Firm)

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lol..... alright.. under great pressure i will reveal what is a ##########..... it stands for network field engineer.... how exciting...

actually the guy at the consulate asked me also if it was a hardware or a software job then we talked about me, as a 3d animator, he asked if i worked on anything he knows... i said not yet but i will !! then we had a chichat about mac and pc....was funny (he prefers mac !)

Thank you for all the congrats (and to have tried to read (and understand my review) in english ! (i would have made a better one in french !)

To all who are around me, we will keep to see each other here on the canadian and of course in the aos section..yey ! some other paperwork...

Delicia, you are going with the I130, CR1 thing... this process is different and take about a year to process. There is a very long waiting time at the start but then the end goes more busy (so time feel faster) and on the other hand i think you will not have to do aos etc wich take for us K1 another 3 months (but at least within the US with our sweet), you will probably get some news soon. I do not know the last stats for CR1 but you should be quite close after all that waiting and i wish you luck for everything to come !!

The feeling of beeing approved is quite exciting and there is a big stress coming out from my chest (when i came back home, right after writing my review (see how important you guyz are) i went directly to sleep for like 3 hrs (got woke up by my sweet calling to get juicy details :P).

I will fix a couple of things tomorrow, will start the change of adress etc and will get the re-organisation of the storage starting on friday.

This is the plan to come !

Removal of conditions

01.11.2011 Remove conditions GC I-751 ($590)

01.18.2011 NOA1

02.24.2011 Biometric

03.25.2011 Approved

03.28.2011 Notice sent

03.31.2011 Received new green card (and it's green !)
 

AOS/EAD/AP from K1

07.23.2008 Send AOS/EAD/AP

07.29.2008 Check cashed

08.01.2008 NOA1

08.08.2008 Biometric Notice received

08.21.2008 Biometric Appointment

09.22.2008 Approval notice sent for AP (CRIS email)

09.22.2008 Card production ordered for EAD (CRIS email)

09.25.2008 Card production ordered for EAD (CRIS email) and a couple of touch since (last one 09.30.2008)

09.27.2008 Reception AP

10.02.2008 EAD Received

02.23.2009 Notice for interview (1.5 month late compared to LA statistics)

03.16.2009 AOS Touch

04.01.2009 Interview in LA  // Approved 

04.06.2009 Welcome to the USA Letter

04.13.2009 Reception GC

Naturalization
06/2016 Request
03/2017 Interview

Almost at the end !

 

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lol..... alright.. under great pressure i will reveal what is a ##########..... it stands for network field engineer.... how exciting...

actually the guy at the consulate asked me also if it was a hardware or a software job then we talked about me, as a 3d animator, he asked if i worked on anything he knows... i said not yet but i will !! then we had a chichat about mac and pc....was funny (he prefers mac !)

Thank you for all the congrats (and to have tried to read (and understand my review) in english ! (i would have made a better one in french !)

To all who are around me, we will keep to see each other here on the canadian and of course in the aos section..yey ! some other paperwork...

Delicia, you are going with the I130, CR1 thing... this process is different and take about a year to process. There is a very long waiting time at the start but then the end goes more busy (so time feel faster) and on the other hand i think you will not have to do aos etc wich take for us K1 another 3 months (but at least within the US with our sweet), you will probably get some news soon. I do not know the last stats for CR1 but you should be quite close after all that waiting and i wish you luck for everything to come !!

The feeling of beeing approved is quite exciting and there is a big stress coming out from my chest (when i came back home, right after writing my review (see how important you guyz are) i went directly to sleep for like 3 hrs (got woke up by my sweet calling to get juicy details :P).

I will fix a couple of things tomorrow, will start the change of adress etc and will get the re-organisation of the storage starting on friday.

This is the plan to come !

Oh such a let down on the xxxxxxx. Was hoping for something more juicy lol. Good to know we are more important than sleep, thanks for that. Now go out and celebrate.

K-1 journey, AOS/EAD and ROC in my timeline

2011 March 31 - Sent off Naturalization pkg overnight to Texas

2011 April 1 - Arrived in Texas at 10:21 am

2011 April 1 - NOA (rec'd via snail mail April 8)

2011 April 7 - Cheque cashed

2011 May 5 - Biometrics (letter rec'd via snail mail April 15)

2011 May 9 - Placed in line for interview scheduling

2011 June 13 - Rec'd yellow letter (no change in status online)

2011 June 23 - Rec'd text that my case has been scheduled for interview

2011 August 1 - Interview (rec'd via snail mail June 27) PASSED

2011 August 3 - Rec'd email that my case has been scheduled for Oath

2011 September 1 - Oath ceremony (rec'd snail mail Aug 5)

2011 September 1 - All done, yeah.

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lol..... alright.. under great pressure i will reveal what is a ##########..... it stands for network field engineer.... how exciting...

actually the guy at the consulate asked me also if it was a hardware or a software job then we talked about me, as a 3d animator, he asked if i worked on anything he knows... i said not yet but i will !! then we had a chichat about mac and pc....was funny (he prefers mac !)

Thank you for all the congrats (and to have tried to read (and understand my review) in english ! (i would have made a better one in french !)

To all who are around me, we will keep to see each other here on the canadian and of course in the aos section..yey ! some other paperwork...

Delicia, you are going with the I130, CR1 thing... this process is different and take about a year to process. There is a very long waiting time at the start but then the end goes more busy (so time feel faster) and on the other hand i think you will not have to do aos etc wich take for us K1 another 3 months (but at least within the US with our sweet), you will probably get some news soon. I do not know the last stats for CR1 but you should be quite close after all that waiting and i wish you luck for everything to come !!

The feeling of beeing approved is quite exciting and there is a big stress coming out from my chest (when i came back home, right after writing my review (see how important you guyz are) i went directly to sleep for like 3 hrs (got woke up by my sweet calling to get juicy details :P).

I will fix a couple of things tomorrow, will start the change of adress etc and will get the re-organisation of the storage starting on friday.

This is the plan to come !

Oh such a let down on the xxxxxxx. Was hoping for something more juicy lol. Good to know we are more important than sleep, thanks for that. Now go out and celebrate.

Congratulations Mesuline!

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beaver tails.. isn't it during the carnaval de quebec (february) in quebec city ?

I don't know about montreal !

Removal of conditions

01.11.2011 Remove conditions GC I-751 ($590)

01.18.2011 NOA1

02.24.2011 Biometric

03.25.2011 Approved

03.28.2011 Notice sent

03.31.2011 Received new green card (and it's green !)
 

AOS/EAD/AP from K1

07.23.2008 Send AOS/EAD/AP

07.29.2008 Check cashed

08.01.2008 NOA1

08.08.2008 Biometric Notice received

08.21.2008 Biometric Appointment

09.22.2008 Approval notice sent for AP (CRIS email)

09.22.2008 Card production ordered for EAD (CRIS email)

09.25.2008 Card production ordered for EAD (CRIS email) and a couple of touch since (last one 09.30.2008)

09.27.2008 Reception AP

10.02.2008 EAD Received

02.23.2009 Notice for interview (1.5 month late compared to LA statistics)

03.16.2009 AOS Touch

04.01.2009 Interview in LA  // Approved 

04.06.2009 Welcome to the USA Letter

04.13.2009 Reception GC

Naturalization
06/2016 Request
03/2017 Interview

Almost at the end !

 

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