AUGUST I-130 PETITIONS!!

[MsSheka 0]

This February it will be 22 years since I met the love of my life at a random youth hostel in Sydney, Australia. We were so young, right out of college, and the timing was off. I like to think that maybe it wouldn't have worked when we were 23/24 years old, plus I never would have had my amazing and beautiful daughter if I hadn't married someone else. Lucky we were both single when I decided to Google him last year. I didn't know if he got married (he never did), he didn't know I got divorced (which happened three years prior to finding him again). We felt so much love for each other just through emails and phone calls. It was scary when I decided to visit him a month later, knowing it was either going to be real good or not work and the feelings weren't real. It took 24 hours for me to get to him, and I was either super excited on the planes or about to barf with nervousness! The second we saw each other at the airport, we knew for sure we were madly in love and going to marry each other-FINALLY! We never have had a moment of awkwardness or being uncomfortable around each other. I love him with all my heart. I don't usually go on and on about personal stuff and emotions, but I'm in one of those moods right now! And hey, we're all on VJ for love...

Anyway, it's fun to do this in our mid-40s. We're like teenagers! And of course we're much older and wiser...

This morning I woke up just feeling cruddy and down about all this immigration stuff. I called him early and he made me feel so much better just by talking to me!

A little while ago I just received a text from "358-42." I read it. I called my Finn Man so he could be on the phone with me when I tried to figure things out. I opened up an email I had just received while he was on the phone.

Here's a hint:

We were approved on 9/25!

OMG!!!CONGRATS!!!! YAAAY!!! OMG FINN I AM SO HAPPY LIKE ITS MINE YES YES YES !!!!

Edited September 27, 2009 by MsSheka

[MsSheka 0]

This February it will be 22 years since I met the love of my life at a random youth hostel in Sydney, Australia. We were so young, right out of college, and the timing was off. I like to think that maybe it wouldn't have worked when we were 23/24 years old, plus I never would have had my amazing and beautiful daughter if I hadn't married someone else. Lucky we were both single when I decided to Google him last year. I didn't know if he got married (he never did), he didn't know I got divorced (which happened three years prior to finding him again). We felt so much love for each other just through emails and phone calls. It was scary when I decided to visit him a month later, knowing it was either going to be real good or not work and the feelings weren't real. It took 24 hours for me to get to him, and I was either super excited on the planes or about to barf with nervousness! The second we saw each other at the airport, we knew for sure we were madly in love and going to marry each other-FINALLY! We never have had a moment of awkwardness or being uncomfortable around each other. I love him with all my heart. I don't usually go on and on about personal stuff and emotions, but I'm in one of those moods right now! And hey, we're all on VJ for love...

Anyway, it's fun to do this in our mid-40s. We're like teenagers! And of course we're much older and wiser...

This morning I woke up just feeling cruddy and down about all this immigration stuff. I called him early and he made me feel so much better just by talking to me!

A little while ago I just received a text from "358-42." I read it. I called my Finn Man so he could be on the phone with me when I tried to figure things out. I opened up an email I had just received while he was on the phone.

Here's a hint:

We were approved on 9/25!

OMG!!!CONGRATS!!!! YAAAY!!! OMG FINN I AM SO HAPPY LIKE ITS MINE YES YES YES !!!!

Finn this truely made my day i needed to hear some good news congrats again my dear i know your hubby was super happy!

[FinnLove 0]

Thanks Mal and Ms. Sheka! I was shaking when I read the text. I was actually worried it was an RFE!

I want the rest of my August team approved THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And of course anyone in the months before us!

Others may have been approved on 9/25 and don't know it yet...and here we thought they took the day off! I know some people didn't know until they got their mail (snail mail). August is moving fast-almost like February did!

Yes he was super duper happy! I actually cried when I read the email as he was on the phone (the text message just said it was updated-the email said approved). I'm so sappy.

[dan_ling 6]

dang! i thought i was in the august thread!.....

i posted this over in the july thread *toinks*

I'd just want to validate what my wife (Señora Bonita) says at Post # 395. The funny thing is that, up to this minute, our case status at the USCIS site still shows as under Initial Review. We have not received any approval email from CRIS either. But today, I received the Approval Notice, dated September 16, 2009, from USCIS. Our last touch was on September 17th and that was when this approval letter was postmarked. We can't rely on the website for updates no more, so, I recommend that you sort your mail attentively!

To abbie and maritoni - many thanks for congratulating my wife!

ooh yeah huh. our last touch was september 18th & when my hubby went & checked his PO box today guess what?? there it was!! our NOA2 hard copy dated september 18th yay!!! :dance: when i checked online today it still doesn't say approved. we have been approved a week and we didn't know it! lol

oh well, we got our NOA2!!!! woohooo!!!

now its NVC time!

for those still waiting, i will keep you guys in my prayers. well all of my august friends are in my prayers!

Congratulations, kind of weird you did not get an email.

[dan_ling 6]

get your email DS-3032 ready and save it as a draft and get all the docs ready like PC and anyother docs use this time between NVC to get their docs ready

argh! oh yeah. i didn't know i can save it as draft. thanks for the tip. i tried to save it before but couldn't. thanks MsSheka! :thumbs

about the PCs...from places i lived since i was 16? or after i was 16? my mind is kind of in a mess right now... i just woke up! lol

i am so tired cos we had a really bad storm yesterday. we might be on the news i am not sure. i got stranded on my way to work yesterday. i took the bus and i was in the bus for more than 12 hours! i skipped bfast cos i was running late so i didn't have a decent meal all day yesterday as i was stuck in traffic in the bus. some places flood water was waist-deep and some places cars were totally submerged.

Abbie if you havent' called NVC and given them your email addresses I would do this first thing Monday. After you give them your email addresses they will email you your Invoice Id# to pay your $70 I-864 fee unless this cam in the mail also. Or you could call and see if they can give you this Invoice Id# over the phone.

Edited September 27, 2009 by dan_ling

[PrincEva 0]

Hi All!

I went to church yesterday after a month, and prayed that all (everyone here and elsewhere, including me) get their petitions approved.

Today I was talking to my wife and checking my email in the morning , and I get an email from USCIS, and after opening it, was WOWED!

I GOT APPROVED by USCIS!!!!!

"Application Type: I130 , IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On September 25, 2009, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Check My Case Status and Check Processing Times.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message."

WOO HOOO!!!!

Now I have to go to church every week :-)

I hope they are approving it in the order that they are receiving it.

I still haven't received the hardcopy yet, and my online case thing at the USCIS website says Last Update was the 27th (today). So are they working weekends or something there too? Or maybe the system needs 48 hours to update itself. And the email I received this morning as well. I'll update my timeline once I receive the hardcopy.

MsSheka: I hope yours gets approved SOOON!!!! You've been the heart and soul of this discussion.

Everyone Else: Thank you soo much for just being here and I hope everyone else thats waiting will get theirs soon and smoothly (without any RFE's).

[Malrothien 6]

USCIS has been working weekends for a few months trying to get rid of the backlog.

Congrats, though!

[MsSheka 0]

Hi All!

I went to church yesterday after a month, and prayed that all (everyone here and elsewhere, including me) get their petitions approved.

Today I was talking to my wife and checking my email in the morning , and I get an email from USCIS, and after opening it, was WOWED!

I GOT APPROVED by USCIS!!!!!

"Application Type: I130 , IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On September 25, 2009, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Check My Case Status and Check Processing Times.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message."

WOO HOOO!!!!

Now I have to go to church every week :-)

I hope they are approving it in the order that they are receiving it.

I still haven't received the hardcopy yet, and my online case thing at the USCIS website says Last Update was the 27th (today). So are they working weekends or something there too? Or maybe the system needs 48 hours to update itself. And the email I received this morning as well. I'll update my timeline once I receive the hardcopy.

MsSheka: I hope yours gets approved SOOON!!!! You've been the heart and soul of this discussion.

Everyone Else: Thank you soo much for just being here and I hope everyone else thats waiting will get theirs soon and smoothly (without any RFE's).

WOOOW YAAAY OMG CONGRATS!!!!

[PrincEva 0]

get your email DS-3032 ready and save it as a draft and get all the docs ready like PC and anyother docs use this time between NVC to get their docs ready

argh! oh yeah. i didn't know i can save it as draft. thanks for the tip. i tried to save it before but couldn't. thanks MsSheka! :thumbs

about the PCs...from places i lived since i was 16? or after i was 16? my mind is kind of in a mess right now... i just woke up! lol

i am so tired cos we had a really bad storm yesterday. we might be on the news i am not sure. i got stranded on my way to work yesterday. i took the bus and i was in the bus for more than 12 hours! i skipped bfast cos i was running late so i didn't have a decent meal all day yesterday as i was stuck in traffic in the bus. some places flood water was waist-deep and some places cars were totally submerged.

Wow Abbie! Is this in the Phillipines? I hope everyone is alright and that you got to work and back safely and was able to get rest.

The answer to your question for the PC is everywhere you were from the time you were 16 and older. Not before you were 16. Hope that helps!

Take care and stay safe!

[MsSheka 0]

Hi All!

I went to church yesterday after a month, and prayed that all (everyone here and elsewhere, including me) get their petitions approved.

Today I was talking to my wife and checking my email in the morning , and I get an email from USCIS, and after opening it, was WOWED!

I GOT APPROVED by USCIS!!!!!

"Application Type: I130 , IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On September 25, 2009, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Check My Case Status and Check Processing Times.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message."

WOO HOOO!!!!

Now I have to go to church every week :-)

I hope they are approving it in the order that they are receiving it.

I still haven't received the hardcopy yet, and my online case thing at the USCIS website says Last Update was the 27th (today). So are they working weekends or something there too? Or maybe the system needs 48 hours to update itself. And the email I received this morning as well. I'll update my timeline once I receive the hardcopy.

MsSheka: I hope yours gets approved SOOON!!!! You've been the heart and soul of this discussion.

Everyone Else: Thank you soo much for just being here and I hope everyone else thats waiting will get theirs soon and smoothly (without any RFE's).

THANK YOU SO MUCH I AM SO NERVOUS BECAUSE WE HAVE THE EXACT SAME TIMELINE

[MsSheka 0]

Hey Prince_and_Rose don't forget to update your timeline

[FinnLove 0]

Prince and Rose-congrats! I got the text and email this morning-approved the same day as yours, with the same updated date! So we're on the exact same schedule now!

Let's hope some more emails start coming in...keep checking your statutes online everyone! Mine had nothing earlier this morning, then it changed an hour later (after I got the text).

I know Mark hasn't been around this morning-I don't think he's read his emails yet. Hurry Mark and come back and check your email!!!!!

[redmen99 1]

YAY Finn and Prince and Rose!

I am so happy for you!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dancing: :dancing:

Welcome to the NVC...

MsSheka, you are next! I just know it!!!

[MsSheka 0]

YAY Finn and Prince and Rose!

I am so happy for you!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dancing: :dancing:

Welcome to the NVC...

MsSheka, you are next! I just know it!!!

thanks Finn i was telling my hubby about you guys he said he hope that we all get to be with our families for the new year

[PrincEva 0]

YAY Finn and Prince and Rose!

I am so happy for you!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dancing: :dancing:

Welcome to the NVC...

MsSheka, you are next! I just know it!!!

Thanks Everyone!

Looking forward the next leg of this journey with Finn. I guess they approved a bunch from CSC today.

MsSheka, I have the same feeling as redmen99. We're keeping our fingers crossed for you and others!

I have a horrible time updating the timeline!!!@#!@!@#

Edited September 27, 2009 by Prince_and_Rose