CSC-what are they playing at!!!!

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Woops only just managed to get back on this morning and whatbrilliant replies.

I was so p***d off on Friday that I just went out and downed one or two to many and the same last night. Party'd a bit too much but feel OK and after reading that explanation meauxna, feel so much better about it all. Still don't like all this waiting, but who does and at least I know that if our paperwork is at he bottom of someone's bin on their desk, they'll get to it soon. I will tell myself to be a bit more like my hubby "what will be will be" and it will come.

Drew I really am so pleased that you got your approval and I know 136 days is long compared to some we see, I certainly wasn't having a go at you, after all there's nothing you could do about it but wait like the rest of us, good luck on the rest of the journey.

Euro, definitely a pool party as soon as we have the house, how can I live in Florida with no pool ,

I shall throw up an open invitation to anyone who wants to come, just bring your own booze

meauxna, as always a wonderful source of info -but stop saying I'm practicing with my bikini, I'd look like a beached whale

Keep watching this space folks, when I get that approval -you'll know about it, trust me

Irish, we'll get there, hugs to you that you hear soon

Thanks for all the support, it really is a wonderful place to be

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OK, it turns out that the helpful source *does* want to be identified. Matt Udall has posted reports of his visits to the Service Centers online in the past and it's from those and his other posts that I got most of the information about inside the SCs. However, he tells me that I got it wrong, but I don't know what parts. Like a memoir, I wrote how I remembered it. But, I thought that some of you with all this extra free time while you're waiting (!) might enjoy reading through some of Matt's experiences too, so here's a list of links--have fun!

I have not toured the VSC

Jul 22 2000

http://tinyurl.com/aowdg

have lots of information about processing and procedures that go on at the Service Centers, including the TSC in particular. Since I have freely shared a lot of that information, and since it covers so many aspects of Service Center processing

Nov 11 2002

http://tinyurl.com/dlnsa

“overdue” date

Jun 17 2003

http://tinyurl.com/be33x

25 case files fit into each bin

Aug 23 2003

http://tinyurl.com/dqgrd

I share that information. Nothing more.

Sep 25 2003

http://tinyurl.com/d4d4t

it "really pisses them off" when they have to answer multiple inquiries

Feb 19 2004

http://tinyurl.com/d2qg6

more on JITs

Sep 8 2005

http://tinyurl.com/bzt23

I know Matt got a bad rap at this group and doesn't participate here, but I do want to say for the record that he used to be a real contributor to the fiance visa group and gave a lot of information like this that helped interested people understand the process better. If you'd like to look for more of his stuff, you can search at

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.visa.us.marriage-based under udall + tour.

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meauxna Have saved the link to this thread so can lead others to it in future. Good post. And thank you Matt Udall