I am not dumb, just frustrated. Can someone help me here?

[Glenn & Rosemarie 0]

I would greatly appreciate someone giving me some insight here. I have an attorney, but I just don't seem to know what is going on. I met Rosemarie in September of 2005 in the Philippines. I returned to the USA for a couple weeks at the end of October and them we were married in a beautiful wedding on December 29, 2005. I then hired a so called expert that was only an expert at taking our money. I returned to the USA in May and hired an Immigration attorney that specializes in Asia K Visa's. I received a NOA for the I-130 on June 19 and received the NOA for the I-129F on July 5, 2006. I read on the USCIS website that they are processing March 06 receipt dates? It has said the same date for almost a month now. Is it accurate? How much longer are we looking at before my darling wife is here? I am leaving next week and meeting her in Manila for two weeks. We miss one another terribly. If anyone has completed this experience or is presently at about the same rate as us time wise, willl you please shed some light for us? We both would greatly appreciate it so much. Thanks

[JenT 0]

Of course you're not dumb, but you're also in for a long haul. You just recently started this process, and timelines have really gone astray due to IMBRA workloads. It's also difficult to predict anything at this stage because you don't know whether you're going to get held up due to security checks, etc....

Hang in there.. it could be a while. Focus on staying connected on issues other than immigration, or you'll drive yourselves nuts and your relationship into the ground otherwise...

Jen

[sbgwolf1 0]

As for the timeframes...in a round about way it is accurate...there are some files from before march still lingering. The issues is everything after march 6th was bundled up with everything through around the end of june and the RFE went to all of them. then it 'supposedly' is being worked based on the rfe returned reciept date. so, there are april, may, june petitions approved, but still march one waiting (mine is an example). That date will have no meaning for a while since a few months worth of us were consolidated into a spread of few weeks of rfe returns. Also, there are a few files linging without the RFE even recieved by the applicant yet......its a big mess and dont expect quick results. Sorry.