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Congratulations.

LingChe NVC Guide

Using this guide may allow you to fly through NVC in as little as 11 days.

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Our Visa Journey

2006-11-01: Met online through common interest in music - NOT Dating Service

2007-01-28: Met in person in Paris

2007-10-02: Married in Tokyo

2008-07-05: I-130 Sent

2008-08-13: NOA2 I-130

2008-10-02: Case Complete at NVC

2008-11-04: Interview - CR-1 Visa APPROVED

2008-12-11: POE - Chicago

2009-01-12: GC and Welcome Letter

2010-09-01: Preparing I-751 Removal of Conditions

2011-03-22: Card Production Ordered

2011-03-30 10 Year Card Received DONE FOR 10 YEARS

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YES WE DID!

And it appears to have made very little difference.

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Filed: K-3 Visa Country: Peru
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My good friend GOGO, I send to you the bigggeesssttt CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU!!! I am so happy the WHACKS FINALLY MADE the right decision for you and wishing you the very best for you and your wife! Soon you will have a normal life with your spouse! I love every moment with my hubby! You never stopped believing you did what ever you had to do and its awesome to hear this part for you is over.

Big hug and the very best to you and your wife.

My honey.........

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Te amo mucho mi gran amor!!!

I-130 Application: (Filed 222 days ago) Reached 7 MONTHS

04/12/2007 Filed at VSC

05/09/2007 recieved NOA I from CSC (Reached 6 MONTHS 195 days from NOA I)

05/18/2007 Filed I-129F at Chicago Office ( Filed 186 days ago) 6 MONTHS!!

05/20/2007 rec'd NOA (184 days ago for NOA I ) REACHED THE 6 MONTH MARK!!

BOTH APPLICATIONS APPROVED 11/20/2007 THANK YOU MY GOD!!

11/20/2007 Date of NOA 2 email

11/26/2007 Date of hard copy of NOA 2

12/12/07 Date NVC receives paperwork

12/14/07 K3 is sent to Lima Peru, received case number from NVC.

12/17/07 Lima Peru Embassey receives K3

01/04/08 My Honey's Medical

**** I leave today to reunite with MY HONEY!!!! ****....

01/15/08 LEAVING FOR LIMA PERU!!!

01/17/08 8:15 AM Date of Interview in Lima, Peru with my honey!

INTERVIEW WAS APPROVED!!!!

***2008 is with My Honey***********

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Congrats gogo!! :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: FINALLY!

03/12/2007 - Married to my beautiful wife

04/16/2007 - Sent I-130 to VSC via USPS Express Mail

05/12/2007 - NOA1 received by snail mail after a loooong wait

05/14/2007 - Sent I-129F for K3 to Chicago Lockbox via USPS Express Mail

10/22/2007 - I129F APPROVED (161 days), I130 APPROVED (188 days)

11/08/2007 - I129F received at NVC, embassy case number generated.

11/13/2007 - I129F forwarded to embassy.

11/18/2007 - 129F petition received at embassy

01/09/2008 - finally, DOS gives me the interview date, April 16, 2007 (ouch)

01/23/2008 - never got packet 4, emailed embassy

04/11/2008 - picked up packet 4, did medical

04/14/2008 - medical report pickup, no problems

04/16/2008 - interview date- APPROVED!!!!!

04/18/2008 - both of us are home at last, POE JFK!

05/21/2008 - sent AOS and EAD

05/27/2008 - received NOA1 for AOS and for EAD

06/02/2008 - received Biometrics appt letter

06/19/2008 - Biometrics appointment scheduled - DONE

06/19/2008 - both AOS and EAD touched because of biometrics

07/29/2008 - EAD approved.

05/13/2009 - AOS Interview - APPROVED!/ Card production ordered email

05/18/2009 - Welcome Letter received

06/12/2009 - Second card production ordered email

06/19/2009 - Approval notice send email

06/22/2009 - Green Card received

04/09/2012 - Applied for Citizenship by Express Mailing N400 to NBC

04/10/2012 - N400 received by USCIS

06/23/2012 - Biometrics appointment

07/27/2012 - Appointment scheduled for N400 interview

09/05/2012 - Interview passed, oath ceremony completed, and Naturalization certificate received.

Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: China
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haha, more thanks coming my way.. =) Thank you everyone for the congratulations.. haha, but the fight isn't over yet.. we barely punched them with 1 hand, now for the other.. :devil: even my lawyer said they were messed up.. she said not to tell , but I guess it should be ok.. for those of you who remember, I had a local office interview back in February of this year.. (February 2008).. the approval notice that arrived had the date after when I interviewed.. so the approval date was in February too.. so the lawyer called me and said they were lying.. because the approval notice had my lawyer's name on there (who I hired around May 2008).. so USCIS tried to cover their butts.. :angry:

I-130 STAGE 1 : 533 days - 1 year 6 months (4/16/2007 to 9/22/2008)

Priority Date I-130 : 4/16/2007 ( 533 days , APPROVED 9/22/2008)
Transferred to local office based on "security checks" : 11/27/2007
wrote hundreds of letters - received letter from FBI Records Management Chief stating no security checks
local office interview : 2/21/2008 - brought my parents too (result : you will get approval within 2-3 weeks)

5/2/2008 - (lawsuit) Writ of Mandamus - OFFICIAL DATE (7/29/2008)
9/22/2008 - CALL AND EMAIL COPY OF APPROVAL NOTICE FROM LAWYER

NVC STAGE 2 : 99 days - 3 months (9/30/2008 to 1/7/2009)

NVC Received : 9/30/2008
Received Packet 3 (I-864/DS-230) : 11/10/2008
NVC says "RFE sent out 12/9/08 for missing documents" : 12/10/2008
CASE COMPLETE - 1/7/2009

CONSULATE STAGE 3 : 96 days - 3 months (1/8/2009 to 4/14/2009)
CLEARED CUSTOMS - 3/10/2009
**APPOINTMENT DATE : 4/14/2009, 7:15AM**
** BLUE SLIP **

AP STAGE 4 : 97 days - 3 months (4/14/2009 to 7/20/2009)
DOS call to receive I-601 (Waiver of Grounds for Inadmissibility - basically denial) from Guangzhou : 6/24/2009

REMOVAL OF I-601 due to my letters to the USCIS Director, Michael Aytes: 6/29/2009
CALL-IN LETTER NOTIFIED : 7/8/2009
CALL-IN LETTER (APPROVAL)!! : 7/16/2009
ALL DONE!! (got both GREEN CARD & SSN CARD) : 10/1/2009

"http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/194075-feel-like-a-cr-1-csc-castaway/page-60" (pages 53-63) for more updates and letter I wrote to Director Michael Aytes and his replies and back and forth..

HER PARENTS - 10 months so far

I-130 Sent In : 1/7/2013

I-130 Approval : 3/28/2013

Transfer to NVC : 6/12/2013

Case Complete : 8/25/2013

"Ready for Interview" (Ready to wait for 1-3 Months, this is official NVC letter transfer date) : 9/9/2013

DHL Tracking : arrived 9/24/2013

P4 Letter : 11/21/2013

Interview Date : 12/9/2013, originally 12/3, stupid lawyer filled out her dad's passport number wrong..

Interview Passed : 12/9/2013

Visa "Issued" on CEAC : 12/10/2013

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TWITS!

xxxxx

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

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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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:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs::dance: :dance: :dance: YAY, WE GOT APPROVED AT 2:30PM PST.. THE LAWYER CALLED AND SAID THEY RECEIVED THE APPROVAL LETTER (FROM THE LOCAL OFFICE, SHEESH).. THEY FAXED ME A COPY SO I KNOW IT WAS FOR REAL, WITH THE DISTRICT DIRECTOR'S SIGNATURE..

BOTH I-130 AND I-129F GOT APPROVED!! BUT I'M STILL GOING WITH THE LAWYER AND CONTINUING ON THE I-130 PATH.. IT MAY SEEM LONGER, BUT IT WILL BE WORTH IT AT THE END..

WOW, I can't believe it finally happened!!! We are sooo happy for you GOGO....CONGRATULATIONS!!!

4.28.07 - Married in Jalisco Mexico - Cozumel Honeymoon for 2 weeks

***I-130***

5.24.07 - I-130 Received in CSC

7.14.07 - Received NOA1 (WOW after 6 weeks, I was worried...called INS and told me CSC had a computer "glitch" causing delays on printing Receipt notices and approvals)

10.30.07 - APPROVED No email, the NOA2 came in the mail...hard copy.

***1-129F***

7.23.07 - I-129F received in Chicago

7.30.07 - Received NOA1

11.21.07 - APPROVED!!!! APPROVED. GOT AN E-MAIL ON THANKSGIVING!

03.03.08- INTERVIEW IN CIUDAD JUAREZ. VISA GRANTED ON 03.03.2008

***AOS & EAD***

3.10.08 - Case Received at Chicago Lockbox, check cashed 3.14.08

3.17.08 - Received both NOA's in the mail

3.21.08 - Received Biometrics appointment letter in the mail, biometrics Appt. 4.02.08

5.05.08 - EAD Card Production ordered GOT EMAIL (we received the same email on 5.09.08)

5.13.08 - Approval Email for EAD (so the card was ordered first, and then we were approved...hum)

5.15.08 - EAD Card Received in mail.

8.08.08 - WE GOT OUR INTERVIEW APPOINTMENT YAY...9/12/08 - INTERVIEW APPROVED

9.24.08 - Received Green Card in the mail YEAH!

***I-751***

6.15.10 - Mailed I-751 Docs to CSC, check cashed 6.24.10

6.26.10 - Received NOA in mail dated 6.21.10

6.29.10 - Received Biometrics appointment for 7.15.10

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Ukraine
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:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs::dance: :dance: :dance: YAY, WE GOT APPROVED AT 2:30PM PST.. THE LAWYER CALLED AND SAID THEY RECEIVED THE APPROVAL LETTER (FROM THE LOCAL OFFICE, SHEESH).. THEY FAXED ME A COPY SO I KNOW IT WAS FOR REAL, WITH THE DISTRICT DIRECTOR'S SIGNATURE..

BOTH I-130 AND I-129F GOT APPROVED!! BUT I'M STILL GOING WITH THE LAWYER AND CONTINUING ON THE I-130 PATH.. IT MAY SEEM LONGER, BUT IT WILL BE WORTH IT AT THE END..

I just came and checked the K3 forum specifically to see if you ever got your approval, Gogo! Glad to see you finally got it! Congratulations!!! You've finally got a little light at the end of your tunnel! :thumbs:

Wife's visa journey:

03/19/07: Initial mailing of I-129F.

07/07/11: U.S. Citizenship approved and Oath Ceremony!

MIL's visa journey:

07/26/11: Initial mailing of I-130.

05/22/12: Interview passed!

Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: China
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Thank you guys.. wow, feel like an old timer now.. haha :whistle: yeah, we are finally coming through the tunnel.. or at least moving a couple of steps into it.. we were stuck at the beginning and hopefully the NVC trip would be much faster.. although my expectations for Guangzhou (China) isn't too high.. I'm estimating from now (beginning of October) to end of Feburary 2009.. about 5 months guess.. that should be realistic for GUZ? anyone here have any recent times on the NVC to interview time for that country/consulate? :star:

I-130 STAGE 1 : 533 days - 1 year 6 months (4/16/2007 to 9/22/2008)

Priority Date I-130 : 4/16/2007 ( 533 days , APPROVED 9/22/2008)
Transferred to local office based on "security checks" : 11/27/2007
wrote hundreds of letters - received letter from FBI Records Management Chief stating no security checks
local office interview : 2/21/2008 - brought my parents too (result : you will get approval within 2-3 weeks)

5/2/2008 - (lawsuit) Writ of Mandamus - OFFICIAL DATE (7/29/2008)
9/22/2008 - CALL AND EMAIL COPY OF APPROVAL NOTICE FROM LAWYER

NVC STAGE 2 : 99 days - 3 months (9/30/2008 to 1/7/2009)

NVC Received : 9/30/2008
Received Packet 3 (I-864/DS-230) : 11/10/2008
NVC says "RFE sent out 12/9/08 for missing documents" : 12/10/2008
CASE COMPLETE - 1/7/2009

CONSULATE STAGE 3 : 96 days - 3 months (1/8/2009 to 4/14/2009)
CLEARED CUSTOMS - 3/10/2009
**APPOINTMENT DATE : 4/14/2009, 7:15AM**
** BLUE SLIP **

AP STAGE 4 : 97 days - 3 months (4/14/2009 to 7/20/2009)
DOS call to receive I-601 (Waiver of Grounds for Inadmissibility - basically denial) from Guangzhou : 6/24/2009

REMOVAL OF I-601 due to my letters to the USCIS Director, Michael Aytes: 6/29/2009
CALL-IN LETTER NOTIFIED : 7/8/2009
CALL-IN LETTER (APPROVAL)!! : 7/16/2009
ALL DONE!! (got both GREEN CARD & SSN CARD) : 10/1/2009

"http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/194075-feel-like-a-cr-1-csc-castaway/page-60" (pages 53-63) for more updates and letter I wrote to Director Michael Aytes and his replies and back and forth..

HER PARENTS - 10 months so far

I-130 Sent In : 1/7/2013

I-130 Approval : 3/28/2013

Transfer to NVC : 6/12/2013

Case Complete : 8/25/2013

"Ready for Interview" (Ready to wait for 1-3 Months, this is official NVC letter transfer date) : 9/9/2013

DHL Tracking : arrived 9/24/2013

P4 Letter : 11/21/2013

Interview Date : 12/9/2013, originally 12/3, stupid lawyer filled out her dad's passport number wrong..

Interview Passed : 12/9/2013

Visa "Issued" on CEAC : 12/10/2013

Filed: K-3 Visa Country: China
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Thank you guys.. wow, feel like an old timer now.. haha :whistle: yeah, we are finally coming through the tunnel.. or at least moving a couple of steps into it.. we were stuck at the beginning and hopefully the NVC trip would be much faster.. although my expectations for Guangzhou (China) isn't too high.. I'm estimating from now (beginning of October) to end of Feburary 2009.. about 5 months guess.. that should be realistic for GUZ? anyone here have any recent times on the NVC to interview time for that country/consulate? :star:

we got approved on 6/25 and left NVC to GZ on 7/2 and still waiting for our P4 and interview date. The whole process from NVC to GZ interview should be 4-6 months.

Paul & Apple

VSC K-3

03/05/08 - Send I-130

03/14/08 - NOA1

06/25/08 - NOA2

03/18/08 - Send I-129F

03/28/08 - NOA1

06/25/08 - NOA2

07/02/08 - NVC out

07/16/08 - DHL Delivered???

07/22/08 - Package arrived China, needs 4 weeks to 2 months to be open - according to DOS

07/28/08 - was told to call to check for updates. As of today, still waiting for GUZ to open package.

08/29/08 - Package open and P3 send out

09/09/08 - P3 Received

09/09/08 - P3 sent back to GZ

10/31/08 - P4 Received

11/26/08 - Interview

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HI, IM NEW IN HERE, I HOPE YOU CAN GIVE ME ANY ADVICE FOR MY CASE...

WE GOT OUR INTERVIEW ON FEBRUARY - 2008. THE OFFICER AT THE INTERVIEW JUST TOLD US TO WAIT 2 OR 3 WEEKS FOR A RESPONSE BY E-MAIL. SHE DIDN'T SAY IF WE WERE APPROVE OR NOT, JUST WAIT FOR HER ANSWER...SINCE THEN, WE WERE CHECKING OUR CASE ONLINE, BUT WITHOUT CHANGE. SO AFTER WAITING ABOUT 3 MONTH WE CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE AND A WEEK LATER THEY SENT US A LETTER BY REGULAR MAIL, TELLING US THAT THEY ARE STILL WORKING ON MY CASE AND IF I DON'T HEAR NOTHING WITHIN 6 MONTHS, CALL THEM AGAIN. IN THE LETTER DON'T SAY NOTHING ABOUT FBI BACKGROUND CHECK. JUST I WAS THINKING THAT COULD BE THE CAUSE BY WHICH THEY ARE BEING DELAYING SO MUCH MY CASE.

ON NOVEMBER THE 6 MONTHS WILL BE COMPLETED, SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE SHOULD MAKE AN INFOPASS APPOINTMENT NOW OR JUST WAIT UNTIL NOVEMBER TO CALL THEM AGAIN?

THANKS A LOT EVERYBODY.

AOS Sent: July 20, 2007

AOS Received: July 23, 2007

AOS BIO Appointment taken: January 24, 2008

AOS Interview: February 20, 2008

EAD Sent: August 23, 2008

EAD Received: August 29, 2008

EAD BIO Appointment taken: September 20, 2008

EAD Production Ordered: October 31, 2008

EAD Approval Notice Sent:November 7, 2008

EAD Arrives in Mail: November 15, 2008

SSN Applied for:November 24, 2008

SSN Arrived:

Posted (edited)

I was wondering how your case was coming along. I am a little late, bit I can finally say:

Congratulations gogo!!

:thumbs::dancing:

Edited by edp333

Naturalization

3/23/14 - N400 package sent to Phoenix

3/27/14 - N400 package delivered

4/3/14 - NOA1 receipt date

4/4/14 - check cashed

04/29/14 - biometrics date

07/01/14 - interview date

xx/xx/xx - Oath Ceremony

Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Sweden
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Congratulations :D !!!!!!!!

2008-05-06 I-129F sent

2008-05-10 Delivered to NVC 3:12pm

2008-05-20 NOA1

2008-05-23 Touched

2008-06-26 Touched

2008-06-27 Touched

2008-09-07 NOA2

2008-09-11 Received at NVC

2008-09-12 Left NVC

2008-09-18 Consulate received

2008-09-25 Pkt3 Received

2008-09-28 Pkt3 Returned

2008-09-30 Pkt4 Received

2008-10-09 Interview

2008-10-13 Medical

2008-10-24 Visa Received

2008-10-30 Fying home to my Jonathan

 
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