March 2010 CR1 filers

[johndoe12 2]

Keep the information coming. The more the better

[totosan 0]

Teya. Congratulations!!!!! As you know many of us tought you had to be the next one to get approval.

I have a two year old son, and it has been seven months since I´m not with him and wife.

Did you get an answer from your sponsor? I hope he/she can understand. I had to ask my sister to be my co-sponsor, and I can´t tell if we are going to make it trough NVC, well in case we get our approval.

I like the way you see things in case something goes in a different direction. Good thing is you have your own family to stay strong.

How do you feel? Were you prepared with all the paperwork?

[BigSigh 12]

I read the LingChe a long time ago and thought, "Jeez....that looks so easy. How does anyone get caught up in NVC?"

Well, when you get that NOA2, your brain falls out of your head and you start to panic and things don't make sense anymore.

A whole new process has begun and everything you knew to expect and wait for has changed. NVC only deals with you through e-mail. The phone number for them is busy all the time (but they are available 24/7) unlike USCIS.

I almost think NVC is worse than USCIS because while you have to send more things in for NVC (hence you actually get to do something instead of sit like a bump on a log), you are waiting on USCIS to send your case to NVC, NVC to not have a busy signal on the phone, NVC to e-mail you telling you to send the DS3032, NVC updating that they received your info, moving to the next step, waiting for NVC to update your info, and so on and so on. Just more waiting...but all at different times instead of just one chunk of waiting (which you know will happen anyway).

It might feel something like the initial wait for the NOA1. You knew it was coming but still you held your breath because some people got it in a week and some took longer.

After typing this, me thinks I need my Marchers to help get me through (and honorary Marcher Ankit). The June NVC seems to be full of people waiting for their SIF and CC's and interview dates instead of new people starting from the beginning.

Please come join me (I know, if it were up to you, you would all be done already!!!) .

[johndoe12 2]

Thanks Alix. I aint the person who knows everything. But let me know how I can help and I will try my best to help. let me know you email address and I can send you the cover letter that I have typed for DS230 and I864.

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Totosan,

Thanks for the congrats! I have a 14 month old daughter and my husband hasn't seen her since she was 3 1/2 months. As you know....they change all of the time. He has missed a lot!!!! I just sent out my packet to my AOSer on Tuesday. It took me so long to do the packet because I had to translate...which meant going through the 16 pages of the I-864 and picking what needed to be translated. This is going to my husband's uncle (who's wife told me that he would do it). The fact that it needed to be translated makes me wonder a little bit. Also the lack of communication between the wife and husband leaves me wondering. If they can't do it or won't do it...I might be sunk. Part of me wonder's if my super back up (hope I never have to ask them) co-sponsor will come in and save me. Without a sponsor, my daughter and I will be packing up and heading on down to Peru for good.

I prepped as much of the paperwork as I could. I still have many blanks to fill in. If your sister makes enough past the guideline for 2009 (since they haven't changed it yet for the 2010 year), you should be fine. Your approval shouldn't be too far behind.

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Ankit, I know you don't know everything but it is nice to have a support group to bounce ideas off of. Nothing against the current June NVC group, but I feel like a kindergartener thrown in with some senior in high school. I'm afraid of what they will think of my questions. No one has extended the olive branch yet. I just want to go back to PRESCHOOL!!!!!!

[johndoe12 2]

I think most of us here will be glad to help out as much as we can. Dont worry. You will be fine.

[Sweetcheeksss 91]

Actually Teya, I got assigned a NVC case number last night! So I'm sure you'll be very soon.

[josh.paulsen 0]

Big congrats to you Alix, great news on the NOA2. I pray for a speedy process for all of us March filers. I'm a long time lurker, and quite enjoy your guys' banter.

Sow how elevated was the heart rate when you discovered the approval in your junk mail box?

[BigSigh 12]

Yay to Sweetcheeksss! So about two weeks. I finally got through 30 mins ago. I was caught off guard. They don't have my case yet . Slackers!!!!

Josh...you caught me off guard when you used my given name instead of Teya. It was like you knew me in person or something (yes, I know I posted it on here earlier today but still....). My heart rate didn't go up much. I saw the e-mail from USCIS and thought that it couldn't be real. Good thing no one was in the store at the time because I said out loud, "What? No. What? No, this can't be." Then when I open it I made some noises and had that look of "OMG" on my face and had a hard time calming down for a minute. I know it would've been longer if I were at home instead of at work...where people come in and expect me to act normal. . I'm sure that if I can get a hold of my husband tonight, we will be happy together for longer than half a min.

[BigSigh 12]

Oh also just to make sure it was real, I went to the USCIS website and saw that the blue dot had changed from "Initial Review" to "Post Decision Activity". Then I lloked at my portfolio and it showed a touch for June 3rd.

[FLPilot 0]

Looks like you are next FLPilot. Hope you are ready with the documents needed for NVC Stage.

I hope so! But...we don't have our NVC documents ready yet. We are in a unique situation that makes our I-130 approval not as exciting as it COULD be.

My wife came here under a J-1 Visa which had a 2 year home residency requirement. Those 2 years were up May 13. However, since she returned to Russia 2 years ago, she has left her country multiple times for short business and pleasure trips to Italy, France, and the U.S.A. (On the U.S. trip she came here for 3 months on a B-2 Tourist Visa and we got married). So...depending on who you ask, she still has an additional 4 or 5 months to spend in Russia before her 2 year HRR is fufilled. Some people say they won't hold it against her when she left on short trips to Europe and will only make her add the 3 months spent here, others say EVERY day out of Russia has to be added on. So we are scared to get an interview date before ALL of that time is fufilled, because we would hate for her to go to the interview, have her time figured out by looking at her passport stamps, and have her visa denied! Then I guess we would have a long wait to get another interview date. So our plan, unless someone can advise otherwise, is to time the NVC paperwork so she gets an interview date in late November/early December.

Anyone have any advice?

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Huh. You could probably find someone who has done a J1 before and ask them. Why would they have issued her a B2 is she had a 2 year in country residency requirement. They broke their own rules. Hopefully that won't be an issue for you.

[FLPilot 0]

Huh. You could probably find someone who has done a J1 before and ask them. Why would they have issued her a B2 is she had a 2 year in country residency requirement. They broke their own rules. Hopefully that won't be an issue for you.

She just applied for the B-2 and they approved it. They said there was no law saying you can't have a B-2 while you are waiting out a 2 year HRR, but that it would probably delay the completion of the 2 year HRR by however long you spend in the U.S. It is still up to whoever interviews her at the consulate in Moscow to determine when the 2 years is up.

[BigSigh 12]

http://travel.state.gov/pdf/J_WaiverFAQ21-DEC-06.pdf

Since I don't know what I'm looking for nor the details of your case, you might be able to get something helpful out of this site or by also looking at this site:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/info/info_1296.html

If neither of those help, sorry.

I meant this site: http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1267.html#15