STUCK @ NVC for AP

[scandal 951]

We're out of the NVC! Hopefully the interview will be happening soon.

Good luck to everyone still waiting!

Congratulations!!

35 days --- that's pretty good!

I manually reloaded the statistics page (since I still don't have the cron working).

You are now listed under the "K1 Stuck and Released" section. Welcome to the "alumni"

Good luck with the rest of the process

[Y's_habibitk 2]

We're out of the NVC! Hopefully the interview will be happening soon.

Good luck to everyone still waiting!

wooohhooooo

[toddandhien 2]

Ron, thanks. You guys are next. Hang in there for just a little.

In reading your summary of e-mails from the embassy, they read almost EXACTLY the way that mine read from the HCM consulate. I confirmed receipt of Hien's Packet 3 info and got, "we will schedule her as soon as possible...". Right. Then I pinged them 2 weeks later and got, "we have not yet scheduled the beneficiary for an interview date but when we do we will notify her by mail. Check back in a month if you have not seen anything." OK, that made me feel real good. 1 WEEK later (today her time) she got Packet 4 in the mail.

It seems that it takes them about a month to get an interview date and mail it (at least in VN). But i think it is not ALL bureaucracy...I think they are doing background checks on the beneficiary (and family) again (I forget where I read that).

She will be home with you in the month of June for sure!!

Thanks Todd. Thantita is active on a Thai-language message board similar to VJ (usvisa4thai.com) for Thai beneficiaries that swap their immigration stories and advice . The scoop on that site is that they never even open the Packet3 materials until the Interview itself. Meaning they can't be doing background checks and stuff during the interval. I'm not sure if that's true. It seems weird to me, because why would they insist on a whole long checklist of things to include in P-3 if they don't even open it?

Anyway, the process is different in each country. So whatever happens in Thailand will be quite different for you in Vietnam.

Thanks for your support- I hope you're right about making a June POE happen!

What about you guys? Now that you have an interview date scheduled, do you have thoughts about POE? Are there summertime wedding bells in your future?

We are looking at a POE of June 7 in SFO right now. I am going for the interview and will bring her back with me. subject to change but it will be around that point. Wedding plans set for August 8 on Great Diamond Island here in Maine.

Oh, and you can take Chinh and Erik off the K-1 waiting list. He is posting now in preparation for her interview on 4/28. They were never in AP.

Edited April 17, 2009 by toddandhien

[scandal 951]

We are looking at a POE of June 7 in SFO right now. I am going for the interview and will bring her back with me. subject to change but it will be around that point. Wedding plans set for August 8 on Great Diamond Island here in Maine.

Oh, and you can take Chinh and Erik off the K-1 waiting list. He is posting now in preparation for her interview on 4/28. They were never in AP.

Regarding POE and Wedding - that's terrific!! You guys must be so excited that after all the waiting it feels like it's FINALLY about to happen! (I know you're feeling that, that's what I'M certainly feeling!)

About Chinh & Erik - I am powerless to move them off the lists. It's all in the hands of the scripts at this point . Technology run amok.

Their timeline gives a date entered NVC on Feb26, and no dates after that. They will need to edit their timeline to get off the list. That's why I disclaim right at the top that the data is only as accurate as the timelines it's based upon.

BTW - I did see and agree with your suggestions. I'm plannig to devote some time this weekend to cleaning it up. Sunday is supposed to be gray and raining here in Chicago, so that seems like a good time to work on the list. I think Saturday I'll buy a lawnmower and mow the back lawn on my new home.

[pgp 0]

We're out of the NVC! Hopefully the interview will be happening soon.

Good luck to everyone still waiting!

Congratulations!!

35 days --- that's pretty good!

I manually reloaded the statistics page (since I still don't have the cron working).

You are now listed under the "K1 Stuck and Released" section. Welcome to the "alumni"

Good luck with the rest of the process

Thanks! Yes, 35 days was much better than the 400 some odd days we spent in CSC...

Speaking of port of entry and wedding dates, is it important to schedule these before the interview to make the consulate happy? We've been waiting so long that we don't plan to schedule anything until she actually has the visa.

[toddandhien 2]

We are looking at a POE of June 7 in SFO right now. I am going for the interview and will bring her back with me. subject to change but it will be around that point. Wedding plans set for August 8 on Great Diamond Island here in Maine.

Oh, and you can take Chinh and Erik off the K-1 waiting list. He is posting now in preparation for her interview on 4/28. They were never in AP.

Regarding POE and Wedding - that's terrific!! You guys must be so excited that after all the waiting it feels like it's FINALLY about to happen! (I know you're feeling that, that's what I'M certainly feeling!)

About Chinh & Erik - I am powerless to move them off the lists. It's all in the hands of the scripts at this point . Technology run amok.

Their timeline gives a date entered NVC on Feb26, and no dates after that. They will need to edit their timeline to get off the list. That's why I disclaim right at the top that the data is only as accurate as the timelines it's based upon.

BTW - I did see and agree with your suggestions. I'm plannig to devote some time this weekend to cleaning it up. Sunday is supposed to be gray and raining here in Chicago, so that seems like a good time to work on the list. I think Saturday I'll buy a lawnmower and mow the back lawn on my new home.

Yup, that's what we are feeling! Pretty excited.

OK, I thought you could force some data by pegging it some way. But you are the expert...I'm just one of the users who asks for impossible things (just like at work)!!

Have fun with the lawn...gotta do something while waiting for the USG to pick up the pace and get you your dates!!

[toddandhien 2]

We're out of the NVC! Hopefully the interview will be happening soon.

Good luck to everyone still waiting!

Congratulations!!

35 days --- that's pretty good!

I manually reloaded the statistics page (since I still don't have the cron working).

You are now listed under the "K1 Stuck and Released" section. Welcome to the "alumni"

Good luck with the rest of the process

Thanks! Yes, 35 days was much better than the 400 some odd days we spent in CSC...

Speaking of port of entry and wedding dates, is it important to schedule these before the interview to make the consulate happy? We've been waiting so long that we don't plan to schedule anything until she actually has the visa.

HCM is a tough consulate and they are looking for LOTS of proof of a valid relationship. But, we made these plans because we want to marry someplace special and if you want to marry in Vacationland on an island in the summer, you have to plan and book ahead!! The fact that she will have our plans to describe to the CO is a bonus.

[Matt & Bing 56]

We're out of the NVC! Hopefully the interview will be happening soon.

Good luck to everyone still waiting!

Congrats! The NVC received our case 11 days after yours - hope we are out in about 11 days!

[Badgerella 5]

We FINALLY received Packet 4 yesterday and now have an interview date...May 27!!

Congrats!

We're out of the NVC! Hopefully the interview will be happening soon.

Good luck to everyone still waiting!

Congrats to you as well!

Speaking of port of entry and wedding dates, is it important to schedule these before the interview to make the consulate happy? We've been waiting so long that we don't plan to schedule anything until she actually has the visa.

This was, actually, one of the very few so-called questions my fiance and I were asked during the interview (so-called because we had barely any interview at all - I promise I will post a review one of these days). We sad we didn't know when I would come over and also that we had no idea when we would get married. It made sense for us to not have any plans before our visa in hand, so we told them that, too. It looked like the answer was more than acceptable.

As for our current plans..... there are still none. I'll be there sometime in the summer. Well, late summer. My dress is being made and today we ran into a shirt, totally by chance, that my fiance will wear.

[wasabi 4]

If you want to see how many business working days you have been stuck in AP you can use the =NETWORKDAYS function in Excel. I have Excel 2007, I'm not sure if it is available in earlier versions but it counts days excluding weekends, you can also make it exclude holidays. For example the poster above me Badgerella was in AP for 35 business days if you discount Christmas, Christmas eve and New Years Day. This doesn't make the wait go any faster but might help the anxiety that something is wrong since it's at NVC for slightly less time than we think.

Edited April 19, 2009 by wasabi

[scandal 951]

Ron,

Thantita's list rocks. And very humble of you to name it in honour of your sweetie! (I threw the 'u' in there just for you ). The new server seems much more stable...I was never able to look at your latest handiwork on the old one...always down when I tried. I'm sure with a fresh new look this weekend, you can get that cron job to fire.

Personally, I would lose the comments field. They are great for you to use to validate the inclusion of a couple in the list, but detract a little from the concise look that T's list should have.

And maybe to be fair to those still waiting to be released, show them first in the display? Us legacy folks can scroll down some to re-live the good times we had with our friends in Portsmouth, NH!!

Whatever you choose, I am sure it will be well-received!! And thanks again for all the time you donate to our VJ community!

Thanks Todd.

Ok, I messed about with it tonight, and I think I've captured the suggestions you made, and a few other things as well. The concise look is back, I agree it looks much more attactive. Let me know what you think. I still haven't gotten around to the by-country/by-month stuff, perhaps tomorrow. I also didn't mow the lawn, but I did get a Toro 6.75hp self-propelling MAN-machine at Lowe's today. Gonna kick up some sod!

[toddandhien 2]

Ron,

Thantita's list rocks. And very humble of you to name it in honour of your sweetie! (I threw the 'u' in there just for you ). The new server seems much more stable...I was never able to look at your latest handiwork on the old one...always down when I tried. I'm sure with a fresh new look this weekend, you can get that cron job to fire.

Personally, I would lose the comments field. They are great for you to use to validate the inclusion of a couple in the list, but detract a little from the concise look that T's list should have.

And maybe to be fair to those still waiting to be released, show them first in the display? Us legacy folks can scroll down some to re-live the good times we had with our friends in Portsmouth, NH!!

Whatever you choose, I am sure it will be well-received!! And thanks again for all the time you donate to our VJ community!

Thanks Todd.

Ok, I messed about with it tonight, and I think I've captured the suggestions you made, and a few other things as well. The concise look is back, I agree it looks much more attactive. Let me know what you think. I still haven't gotten around to the by-country/by-month stuff, perhaps tomorrow. I also didn't mow the lawn, but I did get a Toro 6.75hp self-propelling MAN-machine at Lowe's today. Gonna kick up some sod!

Ron,

The list looks great! I like the bold indicating the folks who are validated AP'ers. Did you get the cron job to fire automatically now?

6.75HP...you are going to be mowing some serious grass!! We are not warm enough here in Maine to be worrying about our grass just yet...but today I can have a beer and look at it! It is actually starting to come green now that the snow is gone!

[Y's_habibitk 2]

You know? We should ask for this thread to be pinned in this forum. Just a thought

[scandal 951]

You know? We should ask for this thread to be pinned in this forum. Just a thought

Agree. Who do we approach? Kim&Russ? Captain Ewok? Other?

Lisa, do you guys have travel plans yet? You must be getting very excited

[chefdino 0]

Please add my information NOA1 in November sent out on 12th received on 20th then long wait for NOA 2 arrival on march 7th sent to NVC and received by NVC on march 15th ----still in NVC. 35 ish days later .. i would not have even known except that i got worried because Carla never received a packet to start on for interview. I called Peru first because i received a letter saying it passed through NVC and was sent to them. Well truth is it was never sent and is sitting in a pile of other people's packets waiting on something they are not allowed to tell me about. I feel we are blessed to have a system set up to help us get our loved ones over here and still keep a safe country to live in but OMG please can we fix it a bit better???? there are so many people involved in this it seems impossible for me to even guess on a day that i could be happily married in the U.S.A. . We thought we were through the rough part boy were we wrong. ANYONE WHO HAS ANY INFO PLEASE CONTACT ME DIRECTLY.... chefdino71@hotmail.com