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Varba   0

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I'm a patient person, but they've had the paperwork I worked very hard on for almost a full month and haven't even glanced at it yet.

I realize this is normalish.. but still it's no fun!

:angry:

Montreal Interviewer: "What do you have in common with each other?"

Peachey: "We're REALLY weird."

Montreal Interviewer (incredulously to me): "Do you agree with that?"

<I think back to several days before the interview. Driving through the country, passing a field with cows...>

Peachey: "MOOOO! MOOOOO! Does this make me weird?"

Me: "No, well yes. Here, let me roll down the windows so they can hear you better!"

Peachey: "MOOOOO!!!!"

<back to interview>

Me: "Yes, yes I do."

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I'm a patient person, but they've had the paperwork I worked very hard on for almost a full month and haven't even glanced at it yet.

I realize this is normalish.. but still it's no fun!

:angry:

waiting does suck :(

It will be a while, and the time lines on their system, are not accurate. I sent my stuff in originally in August of 2008, and my NOA2 was finally approved in Jan/09. Recently it's been about 6 months. But when I was approved, their system was showing that they were still working on April/08 app's and we were Aug/08....

Hang in there. Our lawyer said it would be about 8 months in all, but it would appear that it will likely be about 10 months for us in total through Montreal.

Some people have been lucky and it has been sooner.

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Jasman0717   9

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It does seem like a long time but once you are together it won't seem all that long :blink:

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"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." John Wayne

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It does seem like a long time but once you are together it won't seem all that long :blink:

Yea and you'll be like: "FACK I NEED SOME SPACE DUDE!!"

:P

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Donne moi une poptart!

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Yea and you'll be like: "FACK I NEED SOME SPACE DUDE!!"

:P

Jokes

Just the other day I told my husband that I'm longing for the day where he's around so much that he's driving me nuts and I want him to go work in the garage.

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I'm a patient person, but they've had the paperwork I worked very hard on for almost a full month and haven't even glanced at it yet.

I realize this is normalish.. but still it's no fun!

:angry:

I am with you on that one! This waiting is pure torture! I heard the song "So Small" by Carrie Underwood today as I was listening to her CD and it is now my theme song for this process...it seems so huge to conquer, now I have to take it a day at a time because you can't take it back after its all over. And like someone else said it will hopefully become a repressed memory... :lol:

AOS

Sent- 10-21-09

Tracking says Delivered by USPS-10-23-09

Check cashed-10-30-09 (MSC case # on back)

NOA 1 date-10-29-09 (Received Date 10-23-09)

Hard copy NOA - 11-02-09

Touch- 11-03-09

Received bio appt letter-11-07-09(dated 11-03-09)

Bio appt- 11-19-09

Transfer to CSC-11-18-09

Touch on 485/765- 11-19-09

Touch on 485/765- 11-20-09

Hard copy of transfer to CSC- 11-23-09

Touch on 485- 11-24-09 (now processing @ CSC email)

Touch on 485- 11-25-09

Touch on 485- 11-27-09

Touch on 485- 11-30-09

Touch on 485- 12-01-09

Touch on 485- 12-02-09

Touch on 485- 12-03-09

EAD/AP approved-12-18-09

EAD/AP touch- 12-21-09

GC APPROVED!!- 12-21-09

Notice mailed welcoming PR-12-21-09

2nd Card Production ordered email-12-22-09

Approval notice sent-12-28-09

GC arrived in the mail-01-05-10

Done with USCIS until September 14, 2011!!

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Received: 09-16-11

Check cashed: 09-21-11

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chimcham   18

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Yea and you'll be like: "FACK I NEED SOME SPACE DUDE!!"

:P

Jokes

Just the other day I told my husband that I'm longing for the day where he's around so much that he's driving me nuts and I want him to go work in the garage.

awww...i totally want that too.

06/25/12-2 Year Green Card Approved

05/13/14-Mailed ROC

05/15/14-NOA Receipt Date

05/19/14-Check posted to account and NOA received in mail

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awe.. hang in there.. it really does all fall away when the process is over. And AOS (albeit stressful) is tolerable cause you are together.. Hang in there!!

It might also help to think of it not in terms of waiting.. but a time of preparation... you'll never have these moments again.. so find things/people experiences to enjoy!

AOS:

2007-02-22: Sent AOS /EAD

2007-03-06 : NOA1 AOS /EAD

2007-03-28: Transferred to CSC

2007-05-17: EAD Card Production Ordered

2007-05-21: I485 Approved

2007-05-24: EAD Card Received

2007-06-01: Green Card Received!!

Removal of Conditions:

2009-02-27: Sent I-751

2009-03-07: NOA I-751

2009-03-31: Biometrics Appt. Hartford

2009-07-21: Touched (first time since biometrics) Perhaps address change?

2009-07-28: Approved at VSC

2009-08-25: Received card in the mail

Naturalization

2012-08-20: Submitted N-400

2013-01-18: Became Citizen

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It might also help to think of it not in terms of waiting.. but a time of preparation... you'll never have these moments again.. so find things/people experiences to enjoy!

yessir! Some very good information here. Believe me, when you are gone and it's over, you will be wishing you had talked to or spent more time with certain people.

Also when you get here, you might be wondering when you get time to yourself! I often wonder if I would like to go back to long distance for a bit again! haha

"...My hair's mostly wind,

My eyes filled with grit

My skin's white then brown

My lips chapped and split

I've lain on the prairie and heard grasses sigh

I've stared at the vast open bowl of the sky

I've seen all the castles and faces in clouds

My home is the prairie and for that I am proud…

If You're not from the Prairie, you can't know my soul

You don't know our blizzards; you've not fought our cold

You can't know my mind, nor ever my heart

Unless deep within you there's somehow a part…

A part of these things that I've said that I know,

The wind, sky and earth, the storms and the snow.

Best say that you have - and then we'll be one,

For we will have shared that same blazing sun." - David Bouchard

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Varba   0

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Hah.

Everyone keeps saying that, but I dunno if I'm buying it right now. ;)

We've had the luxury of being able to spend 3-4 weeks together a couple times now, and I don't think either of us has even gotten close to the point of "leave me alone I need my space".

Not saying it won't ever happen, it's just really hard to envision it happening right now.

Maybe if they'd touch my application it would help me feel better, even though it doesn't mean anything. ;)

Montreal Interviewer: "What do you have in common with each other?"

Peachey: "We're REALLY weird."

Montreal Interviewer (incredulously to me): "Do you agree with that?"

<I think back to several days before the interview. Driving through the country, passing a field with cows...>

Peachey: "MOOOO! MOOOOO! Does this make me weird?"

Me: "No, well yes. Here, let me roll down the windows so they can hear you better!"

Peachey: "MOOOOO!!!!"

<back to interview>

Me: "Yes, yes I do."

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It might also help to think of it not in terms of waiting.. but a time of preparation... you'll never have these moments again.. so find things/people experiences to enjoy!

yessir! Some very good information here. Believe me, when you are gone and it's over, you will be wishing you had talked to or spent more time with certain people.

Also when you get here, you might be wondering when you get time to yourself! I often wonder if I would like to go back to long distance for a bit again! haha

I'm the one leaving not him :P

Don't worry hun, we have 3 weeks together again in April :)

Seems for me anyway, that the time is going fast, but I think t hat's cause I'm super busy at work.

12/31/2009 - Marriage

07/21/2010 - AOS approved

08/04/2010 - Green Card received (and it's actually green!)

05/30/2012 - Sent ROC packet to VSC

06/08/2012 - Received NOA1 for ROC (Dated 06/04/2012)

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I'm a patient person, but they've had the paperwork I worked very hard on for almost a full month and haven't even glanced at it yet.

I realize this is normalish.. but still it's no fun!

:angry:

Life goes on and on and on . Look foward on something else while you wait , take in a hobby . The government is slow , and by the time your done you will lose your mind . And think was this even worth it , the answer is YES

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