Ukraine I'll Be Coming Soon!!!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Thank you everybody and you too Dallas.

Dallas, don't worry, it seems that VSC takes a little longer to get things approved than the CSC. When I submitted the I-129F, Liana was still waiting for her passport because of the halt in production. When she finally received it.... They translated a letter in her last name different. Instead of a "y" they put a "i". So I had to call USCIS and they told me how to fix this. Unfortunately, the man on the phone misinformed me!!!! He told me to send a copy of her passport and a letter stating why I wrote it differently. A week later, the package was sent back to me. I was #######?!?!?! So I called them again and the lady on the phone told me that I was misinformed.... All I had to do was tell her the new spelling on the phone and she gave me a reference number to it and that was all. And now I have NOA2 with everything correct. As I was waiting and looking at Igor's List Timeline, I did notice that I got approved a week later than other people who got NOA1 the same time as me. One couple who turned in their I-129F the same time as you, got approved in only 42 days at CSC!!!!!

I hope for the best of you both also, and don't worry. USCIS is processing much faster than usual in CSC and VSC. You will get yours any day now.

Eddie, for future reference. USCIS and the consulates accept any reasonable transliteratrion of names. There is no need to change anything. Avoid calling USCIS anytime you can, you will almostnever get correct information (you still haven't) The visa will be issued in the name as in her international passport. End of story.

Alla does translations for them and names come spelled in all different manner...transliterated from Russian, transliterated from Ukrainian which was transliterated from Russian. It is virtually impossible to get someones name spelled the same, in English, on all the documents. No worries. One of our sons had his name spelled three different ways and the other two different ways despite trying everything to make them consistent. It never was an issue.

Edited June 13, 2010 by Gary and Alla

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

And by slowing things down you mean less than 6 months for NOA2????????? I do not believe it could be any slower to tell you the truth. And if it does, then we will know someone has looked at our petition in the last 95 days. S**T!!!!!! give us an RFE, I really do not care at this point if we got one I would know we were about 20 days from approval. If I put evidence of our second meeting in the mail tomorrow it would be there by Tue. and in our file by Wed. It would prompt an update, at the very least make someone work on it. We should have NOA2 any day now and if we get that between now and when other evidence arrived then no harm done.

Do you know anyone who ever tried doing this, or is it speculation that prompts your response? Just curious

Sending them more info will do nothing for your case. It has been 3 months, what exactly is the problem? You are still WAY under quoted processing times.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

And by slowing things down you mean less than 6 months for NOA2????????? I do not believe it could be any slower to tell you the truth. And if it does, then we will know someone has looked at our petition in the last 95 days. S**T!!!!!! give us an RFE, I really do not care at this point if we got one I would know we were about 20 days from approval. If I put evidence of our second meeting in the mail tomorrow it would be there by Tue. and in our file by Wed. It would prompt an update, at the very least make someone work on it. We should have NOA2 any day now and if we get that between now and when other evidence arrived then no harm done.

Do you know anyone who ever tried doing this, or is it speculation that prompts your response? Just curious

I know one guy that sent stuff every few days. Including a change of address to his neighbors house. No luck. I also know adjudicators at VSC and a department director there is a friend and his wife is an adjudicator (and Russian K-1 immigrant) It will make no difference. I can SEE the VSC from my front yard and they are a big employer in this area, several of my neighbors work there. Extra stuff sent without an RFE is usually misplaced. And what on earth makes you think an RFE means you are "20 days from approval"? That is speculation, there is no particular process for handling RFEs and how quickly. It depends on how the adjudicator handles it and what was requested. Very often adjudicators handle the RFEs by the date due. For example if you have an RFE with a 45 day period to respond, and you send it back within 5 days, the adjudiator will wait the 45 days before they even look at that case. Why? Because many times people have responded to an RFE inadequately and when the case was denied the applicant files a motion to re-open (I-290) and claims he was not given the full 45 days to respond!!!!!!!! So many adjudicators just wait the full time allowed before even looking at your response. Others will look at them every day and if they are adequate, will approve the case. If inadequate they will wait to deny. The bottom line is that there is no particular procedure carved in stone, the adjudicators have some latitude, provided they are meeting production and timeline standards (timeline standard for a K-1 is 6 months without RFEs)

Did you think they would see that now you met TWICE and will pull out your case and process it right away?

Relax, you entered a process that takes a long time. Prepare for it and prepare for your new life with your wife which will come sooner than you think.

[EddieLovesLiana 1]

Eddie, for future reference. USCIS and the consulates accept any reasonable transliteratrion of names. There is no need to change anything. Avoid calling USCIS anytime you can, you will almostnever get correct information (you still haven't) The visa will be issued in the name as in her international passport. End of story.

Alla does translations for them and names come spelled in all different manner...transliterated from Russian, transliterated from Ukrainian which was transliterated from Russian. It is virtually impossible to get someones name spelled the same, in English, on all the documents. No worries. One of our sons had his name spelled three different ways and the other two different ways despite trying everything to make them consistent. It never was an issue.

Thank you so much for letting me know about the name spelling. I just received my NOA2 HARDCOPY in the mail today and I would have been freaking out when I saw that they STILL haven't changed the spelling to how it is spelled in her Passport. I can't believe they haven't changed it after all those times I was trying to get their attention to change it. I guess it isn't that big of a deal after all.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Thank you so much for letting me know about the name spelling. I just received my NOA2 HARDCOPY in the mail today and I would have been freaking out when I saw that they STILL haven't changed the spelling to how it is spelled in her Passport. I can't believe they haven't changed it after all those times I was trying to get their attention to change it. I guess it isn't that big of a deal after all.

It isn't. Our oldest son, Sergey, we were so proud of our work. He came as a K-2 to follow, so we were extra careful to be sure his name was transliterated in the preferred manner...Sergey. So all goes well until he has to get his own international passport and they spell it "Sergii" !!!!! He got his passport not long before his interview so there was no time to change it, then we get his Ukrainian police certificate, spelled "Sergei" and his Russian police certificate spelled "Sergey" .

No worries.