The 2010 London Waiver List

[city2countrygirl 0]

I'm getting the feeling that there won't be an update today. Be a nice surprise if there is, but it's already nearing closing time & nothing's changed. *sigh*

Maybe Monday.

Hi J, I just felt compelled to log on to offer you support, I really know how you feel,although I dont have the anxiety of wondering if it will be ok anymore, I waited a long time before my case even got through to USCIS and then waiting for it to be completed and I haven't heard anything since so I'm still waiting, and have no idea where it is or why its taking so long. But bear up, it WILL all come to an end and I'm sure something is being done with all of your cases at this very moment. You just have to keep on keeping on

[JustJ 0]

Hi J, I just felt compelled to log on to offer you support, I really know how you feel,although I dont have the anxiety of wondering if it will be ok anymore, I waited a long time before my case even got through to USCIS and then waiting for it to be completed and I haven't heard anything since so I'm still waiting, and have no idea where it is or why its taking so long. But bear up, it WILL all come to an end and I'm sure something is being done with all of your cases at this very moment. You just have to keep on keeping on

Thanks, C2C, I appreciate it. It's just hard, because I've been married for a year and a half with no opportunity to build a life with my husband. In all likelihood, we will have been married for 2 years before we know one way or the other what is happening. Being a woman in her 40s who hears the desperate ticking of the biological clock, each passing month is one more missed opportunity for conception that I simply can't afford at my age. I truly feel like the length of time it has taken has stripped me of my last chance at having a child.

[Justine+David 218]

Oh JustJ that's just so heartbreaking

I guess it would be too hard to try to conceive and be pregnant without your hubby at your side? I don't blame you at all. How is your mama doing?

Prayers still coming your way

Edited March 26, 2010 by Justine+David

[JustJ 0]

Prayers still coming your way

Thanks for that. I don't know how I'd make it through this without faith.

Mom is actually doing a little better, I think! She had a heart cath done recently, and they changed some meds. She's not as short of breath, which is wonderful. She'll never actually get "better," but more comfortable certainly is a blessing. Thank you for asking.

Because I have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility, I will most likely require some assistive reproduction treatment. Since I only have 17 total days vacation/sick per year, and since money is tight & my husband can't come to the US, it's virtually impossible to conceive. I've tried to plan visits when I should be most able to conceive, but it's just guesswork, and with the stress of all of this, who knows.... With his dna on one side of the pond and mine on the other, it's just not going to happen.

[treehugger 23]

Thanks, C2C, I appreciate it. It's just hard, because I've been married for a year and a half with no opportunity to build a life with my husband. In all likelihood, we will have been married for 2 years before we know one way or the other what is happening. Being a woman in her 40s who hears the desperate ticking of the biological clock, each passing month is one more missed opportunity for conception that I simply can't afford at my age. I truly feel like the length of time it has taken has stripped me of my last chance at having a child.

I'm so sorry to hear that Wishing you the very best, and that you hear good news soon

[Traci - Andrew 14]

Well thanks USCIS.... No Friday update for us as expected, so this can only leave us with two possible outcomes:

1 - They missed the Friday deadline and will post an update on Monday 29th March.

2 - They purposely made the last update on a Thursday one day earlier than the normal Friday release so that they can miss this week altogether and post on the Thursday before Easter making it an exact 2 week update from the last one.

So we will know on Monday if they were just late in posting the info together ready for Friday, which would indicate that they are very busy and this should then reflect this in the number of changes on the next posting of the PDF file, or they will leave it to the Thursday 1st April (April Fools Day) to release two weeks worth of work, which will probably result in less movement of cases otherwise they would have posted weekly and not make us wait two weeks until they have some positive news.

I am really sorry if this post sounds negative, but I hate the way USCIS control so many people's life and we have no way of knowing if it is going to be days, weeks or months before we will know the outcome of their adjudication, when I was told at my interview it is taking 12 - 15 weeks this set the bar, and we are beyond the bar by weeks and still "Pending" the same as we have been since the begining... in fact since I have been recording the movements on my spreadsheet our Pending case has been the longest Pending case so far, others have been waiting longer overall if you add the amount of time Pending to the Under Review time, however at least some have moved from the Pending list to the Under Review list, this is progression.

Lets just hope and prey that when USCIS do release the next update that all the Under Reviews have moved to completed and that a lot of Pending including our case have moved from Pending to Under Review or even Completed like they have done in the past... Come on USCIS you can do it if you want....

OK rant over for this update.

Everyone try and have a good weekend and we will catch up on Monday/Thursday

Good luck everyone

Andrew

Edited March 27, 2010 by Traci - Andrew

[Fandango 1,439]

Thanks for that. I don't know how I'd make it through this without faith.

Mom is actually doing a little better, I think! She had a heart cath done recently, and they changed some meds. She's not as short of breath, which is wonderful. She'll never actually get "better," but more comfortable certainly is a blessing. Thank you for asking.

Because I have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility, I will most likely require some assistive reproduction treatment. Since I only have 17 total days vacation/sick per year, and since money is tight & my husband can't come to the US, it's virtually impossible to conceive. I've tried to plan visits when I should be most able to conceive, but it's just guesswork, and with the stress of all of this, who knows.... With his dna on one side of the pond and mine on the other, it's just not going to happen.

I just happened across this thread and I just want to say that I will keep you in my prayers that it all works out. Is there any way while you are visiting him that you could possibly get some eggs frozen and or fertilized while you're there? I just watched something on tv where a woman did that and they wound up preggers.

I am in my mid 30s, never had children, and for the past year or so, always had it in the back of my head that I am reproductively challenged due to my age. We weren't actively trying for a baby, but we weren't taking much precaution either. I decided in Nov to just let whatever happen happen, and we wound up getting pregnant in Dec. It's not the same situation, but I know how you feel because I spent all last year feeling the exact same thing. Stress is a HUGE roadblock, so if there's anyway you can meditate or learn some ways to not internalize it, it might help when you two get together for your holidays.

I know....easier said than done. I hope I don't come across condescending here....I just read your post, and wanted to give you some words of encouragement.

[JustJ 0]

I just happened across this thread and I just want to say that I will keep you in my prayers that it all works out.

Aww, thanks for that, and congratulations on your pregnancy. Here's wishing you a lifetime of happiness with your baby.

As for freezing/fertilizing eggs, it all takes money that we simply don't have. My husband hasn't found work in over a year, so I'm the sole breadwinner at this point. He gets no welfare benefits of any kind, and lives on next to nothing with what I can manage to send him.

I have picture perfect cycles - just no success conceiving. I have never seen 2 pink lines in my 43 years.

My OBGYN says it's time to move on to assisted reproductive procedures. The first thing would be an intrauterine insemination. That *could* be done with frozen semen, but collecting & transporting would cost money that the immigration process has, unfortunately, taken away from us. It's all I can do to keep the bills paid & save enough to travel to see my husband 2x/year. Even if I managed to somehow pay for the procedures, I'd have to work until the day I delivered, and be right back at work after. Then my salary would go for daycare. There's also the question of "what if" he doesn't get a visa? Would I then sentence a child to the same uncertain fate as my own?

It's all just way too much sometimes.

Thank you for your kind words, though. And enjoy your baby!

[JustJ 0]

Andrew, the Dublin CO told my husband that it would take "months and months and months." And from what I gather from the folks at I2US.net, it sometimes takes 6 months from the point that you hit the list. I have always set my sights on that 6-month mark so that if we are adjudicated earlier, I will be pleasantly surprised. If it takes the full 6 months, that means my husband and I can't expect anything until August.

I know it's hard. I know you're frustrated and depressed. We all are. You wonder sometimes if there is an end to this nightmare. There is. There has to be. And it will be worth it if you can just hang on, focus on your love for each other, and try not to let the process ruin what the two of you have.

Chimps cannot live like this- no touch, isolated and alone. Like you, I get obsessed with the list, and as a logical person, I try to make some sense of it. I try to figure out what they're doing/how they work. But I am beginning to think there really is no rhyme or reason to it. We just get adjudicated when we get adjudicated. All I'm trying to do is hang on for dear life and hope that somehow, at some time, this Hell will end.

Edited March 27, 2010 by JustJ

[city2countrygirl 0]

Andrew, the Dublin CO told my husband that it would take "months and months and months." And from what I gather from the folks at I2US.net, it sometimes takes 6 months from the point that you hit the list. I have always set my sights on that 6-month mark so that if we are adjudicated earlier, I will be pleasantly surprised. If it takes the full 6 months, that means my husband and I can't expect anything until August.

I know it's hard. I know you're frustrated and depressed. We all are. You wonder sometimes if there is an end to this nightmare. There is. There has to be. And it will be worth it if you can just hang on, focus on your love for each other, and try not to let the process ruin what the two of you have.

Chimps cannot live like this- no touch, isolated and alone. Like you, I get obsessed with the list, and as a logical person, I try to make some sense of it. I try to figure out what they're doing/how they work. But I am beginning to think there really is no rhyme or reason to it. We just get adjudicated when we get adjudicated. All I'm trying to do is hang on for dear life and hope that somehow, at some time, this Hell will end.

Hi again J, You certainly have had and continue to have a large mountain to climb and only you can know why you're doing it and that's what gives you the strength, and to weigh in again, I DO know that even though the London Embassy is the largest in the world, the USCIS section is manned with less employees than we would like to think and it is why they take so long, look on the bright side though - it could be worse, it could be in Rome ! where it would definitely take longer, and make no mistake, Purgatory is where we all are, Hell could be preferable, at least we'd know

[Graeco 0]

So, after much waiting, we have another update.

Since the last update, only one case (from Dublin) has been completed. That makes just two cases completed since February 11th, and one of those being - I understand - a simple case of C2C Girl's.

3 cases (two from London and one from Stockholm) have been moved up to the under review section. These are the first three that have been added since February 11th.

It looks like two new London cases were added to the pending list.

In summary, since Feb 11th, two cases have been completed, while 19 have been added. Under the current pace, for those of us who were on the list on Feb 11th, we have about another 80+ week - or just over a year and a half - wait to see ourselves to the finish line.

Edited March 29, 2010 by Graeco

[Traci - Andrew 14]

OK here we are on Monday 29th March 2010 and the USCIS have decided to update the I-601 Status PDF file (I-601 Status PDF) however unlike what we were hoping for, they released a pretty ####### update again.

1 New person joining the waiting list

1 New person going straight to under review

1 Person going from pending to under review

1 Person going from under review to completed

1 Person removed from the list altogether

It takes no work at all to add to the list, it takes no work to remove someone from the list, so what have they really done this last 10 days.. take two files from the pending pile and put it on their desk and work on one of the under review files on their desk and complete it... well done USCIS at last some progress.

However some of the longer pending cases like say my one is still being passed over for newer cases, 2 cases jumped in front of us again this update, so we are still the longest pending case out there.

I have updated my spreadsheet so you can see all this activity ;o) I-601 Status Timescale Spreadsheet

Anyway I doubt if they will update us again this week as Easter is upon us in a few days and they will have the Friday & Monday off so my guess will be another update on Friday 9th April 2010.

Sorry guys... but this is my way of venting frustration, I know we are all in the same boat and that this will end eventually, however I thank everyone for their comments and support.

Take care

Andrew

[JustJ 0]

There's clearly something going on. I've never seen it this slow. Wonder if our congressman could find out?

The ones that go from pending to complete are probably expedites.

I'd say you're right - no update now until well after Easter. :-(

[JustJ 0]

Another Dublin case was just added to completed. Now they're just playing with us.

[Traci - Andrew 14]

Another Dublin case was just added to completed. Now they're just playing with us.

Thanks Julie for being so eagle eyed... I have never seen them update it twice on the same day before, maybe bonuses are paid soon

Anyway the Spreadsheet has been updated to include this case movement from under review to completed bringing the total to 2 going to completed this update..

I have also added to the spreadsheet the average number of cases they are completing based on the time I have been monitoring it in Oct 2009, the average is 1.2 applications per week and this is not in order, so you have just as much chance going from pending to completed as you do from under review to completed.

Lets just hope I am wrong and they do another update on Thursday.... just don't hold your breath now

Take care

Andrew