August 2008 Filers

[Fred N Emilia 0]

210 over here, but hey dun really matter, there are so many people on there who dun even update their timelne anymore.

[Bulgarican 0]

I highly recommend the Movie Mamma Mia wonderful and inspiring you'll like it

I'm also frustrated that people dont update their timeline, most of them forget, oh

well we cant blame them, as soon as we are approved we wont think for internet anymore

Have a nice sunday guys,

Hugs, Dani

[Hell0W0rld 10]

[Bulgarican 0]

no, i really cant understand how this system works though i try so hard to understand...

CSC are approving petitions filled May/June and i just saw approval on 22 of JULY???

I guess we should be ready for anything

Hows everyone today?

[Noa&Mia 0]

Hey Guys -- what is the Igor's list I see everyone' talking about? how do I access it and what does it tell you?

(FYI -- I'm flying to Bonaire today to meet my fiancee who is flying in from Amsterdam for a week. Yayy!!)

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/igor/vjdata/stats.aspx is the 'overview' page and shows how many approvals for the week (based on timelines on this site), follow the link to VSC or CSC to see the lists of people waiting/just approved.

Thank you for the information Maliciant! we still have hope to receive our NOA2 by december! There are some cases that have been approved in 3 months to 5 months...... and we are all getting close to our third months!!!!! yeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I hope you are all OK, I am missing my babe like crazy! and feeling a litle sad we are not going to be able to see each other by Christmas ..... so:( but well, we keep supporting each other... and thinking that we will spend the rest of our lives together!

Kisses and positive energies to all!

Mia

[Noa&Mia 0]

no, i really cant understand how this system works though i try so hard to understand...

CSC are approving petitions filled May/June and i just saw approval on 22 of JULY???

I guess we should be ready for anything

Hows everyone today?

Come one we should keep positives! supporting each other! I think it is all about luck! because there are cases that have been approved in 2 months!!! I knew a girl from Venezuela! who had her case approved in two months after getting her NOA1..... she received her NOA1 by April... and by the end of June she was havning he interview!!!!!!

So we should keep positives! and pray to God and Virgin Mary the person who is working in our case really focus on ours!!!!!!! and send us the NOA2 soon!!!!!!!

Really guys, dont lose faith! there is nothing we can do about it! this are just a few more months! and then!!!!!! the rest of our lives with our sweet hearts!!!

Lets be patient!!!! we are really getting every day closer to our NOA2:)

[maliciant 7]

I saw that late july csc entry... the last time we saw one like that it was possibly a typo... this one probably isn't but it's so far out of the normal rangefor CSC that odds are fairly high it was an expedite... on the other hand maybe CSC is training some new people too (why this = grabbing from newer boxes I have no idea haha). The big friday NOA2 update this week was not a very big update... CSC got 3 more and VSC got 2 more. Almost time to start watching a new hopefully far more exciting week of NOA2's.

[Cuchita 1]

A friend of my sister´s coworker had fiance overseas and his mother was here dying, they gave him especial permission to come and see her before she died, then went back to wait for approval, and I guess they have everything documented so he got approved like in 2 months, his hole process took only 4 months total there are hundreds of cases out there we don´t know of. Every case is especial and different. I wish all of them were part of this VJ community.

I´m so frustrated cause I thought this process will be faster, and plane tickets to Chile are so expensive

Edited November 9, 2008 by Cuchita

[Bulgarican 0]

A friend of my sister´s coworker had fiance overseas and his mother was here dying, they gave him especial permission to come and see her before she died, then went back to wait for approval, and I guess they have everything documented so he got approved like in 2 months, his hole process took only 4 months total there are hundreds of cases out there we don´t know of. Every case is especial and different. I wish all of them were part of this VJ community.

I´m so frustrated cause I thought this process will be faster, and plane tickets to Chile are so expensive

Stay strong dear, the waiting is about to end soon, just pray God for a miracle, i know each case is individual and everyone has its own luck, you have waited for such a long time, and you should not give up now, everything will be alright...

I'm in Bulgaria, the tickets for here are also expensive so we cant visit each other with my fiancee, so i can understand how you feel dear.

You have nice friends here, if you want to talk with someone and share, we are here!!!

[Chris & Mara 0]

I pity you both, but at least in Chile you are roughly on the same timezone, being 15hours ahead of your other half sucks, and looking at the price of tickets from this region (about 2500 at the cheapest return) testing the deportation boarders just isnt an option Though I will be lucky enough to have my boy here for Xmas and new years.

Chris wants to try and get me in there next Feb/March time if we haven't heard anything about our Visa (look at my positive-ness there) but I am really hoping that I will be getting in over there with my visa at that point.

Come on VSC and CSC get your arses into gear already!

Edited November 9, 2008 by Chris & Mara

[Gemmie 142]

You know I really feel lucky to be from the UK at times like these.. 3000 miles suddenly doesn't seem as far, and 16 hours travel doesn't seem that long. I really admire you guys. Then again, this distance is still too far to be away from the person you love, I envy the few Canadians that can drive across the border every other weekend.

I'm having a pretty bad week, also... worried about a lot of things. It's my last year of school and I can see other students worrying about their dissertation or their work. Meanwhile, I'm worrying about that, *plus* this international situation. I envy them for having their boyfriends right here with them, and for having a family home to go back to. I feel bad for envying them, but I can't help it.

I can't wait for this struggle to pay off and for the day where we're holding each other at the airport after 6/7 years of communication, after 4 years of visits, and saying "we did it".

Stay strong guys..

[Hell0W0rld 10]

yea, just another 3 weeks and December will arriving so hopefully we should see some good news. so again stay strong, positive, everything will be fine!!

[Donna-marie 0]

Nearly there guys, from what i have been watching a lot of the noa2s have been coming four months after then noa1, if that is true we only got a few more weeks.

Good luck

Edited November 9, 2008 by Donna-marie

[HappyDancer 7]

Happy Monday everyone!!! Missed you all. What did you all do last weekend?

[Gemmie 142]

I just stayed in all weekend, watching DVDs and talking things through with Bill.

I'm not having a good week, but another issue came up.

I thought my graduation was at the end of June... only I found out recently that my graduation ceremony is on July 20th... I don't want to miss my ceremony as I've been working hard for these years and have made some fantastic friends, it would be a shame if I didn't get to graduate with them. But my house contract runs out on 1st July so that was when I had planned on moving to the U.S.

We're trying to decide if it's worth waiting possibly almost 2 months extra on top of our longer wait, just so that I can have my graduation ceremony... that means looking for somewhere to stay and trying to come up with the money. Or whether I should just leave when my exams are finished and I have my degree (May/June) and have a farewell party with my friends instead.

My fiance is also feeling bad and responsible for me having to make all of these hard decisions about things. Obviously he appreciates that I'm leaving everything behind to be with him.

I won't be able to get around on my own for a long time as I haven't had driving lessons yet and he lives in the countryside. Earlier in the week we had talked about how much harder it is to become a psychologist in the U.S, and it's a lot more expensive to go to school there too. I've had amazing opportunities here in the U.K (I've started to dig my heels into real research with British psychologists) and if things were different, perhaps I could have gone on with this. My family and friends are sad that I'm leaving, which makes me sad to see/hear. Now he finds that I might have to leave before my graduation ceremony. Nothing has really changed on his side of things, he's still living with his parents and looking for a full-time job, marriage is the only change he's making.

Of course I have told him that I'm doing this to be together, that we deserve a chance to finally live our lives together after all these years of being apart... but he still feels responsible. He's promised to do everything he can for me once we're together... teach me to drive, help me get a job, look at graduate school with me... so that's nice to plan for both of us.