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[meauxna 15]

Hey everybody... Wifey arrived last night here in Pensacola, FL. The whole thing at the LAX POE went great... except the first lady my wife encountered was being a b!tch and someone saw and took her envelope from her and got her through quick, the other lady apparently has issues.

Anyway, it's a beautiful day in Florida.

Wooohoooooo Wifey! Welcome to America, S!

We'd love to have your POE experience recorded here--let us know what was different!

Arriving in America, The POE Drill

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19229

[serendipitous 0]

Sere - Love the coast to coast roapd trip idea. I love road trips. Last time I was in the States, we drove down to Luray Caverns in Virginia - and it was just so much fun looking around at all these places I never been to.

OH and guess what?? Eric will be flying here in May!! He got time off and will be here for 2 whole weeks! Then soon after, I'll be joining my wonderful hubby. I love doing "normal couple" stuff like that and cooking.

Hehe, yeah I figure it'd be a GREAT way for Corey to be introduced to the US. What better way than spending a month driving from VA to California hehe. Man, I live in Virginia and I still haven't gone to the Luray Caverns. Well I remember going to a cavern when I was little but I don't remember much so it doesn't count lol. I'm going to add that to our trip

I also love doing normal couple stuff too!! I use to be spoiled he'd cook me lunch on the barbie every tuesday when I was living with Corey for 6 months in Melb. ;D

Hey everybody... Wifey arrived last night here in Pensacola, FL. The whole thing at the LAX POE went great... except the first lady my wife encountered was being a b!tch and someone saw and took her envelope from her and got her through quick, the other lady apparently has issues.

Anyway, it's a beautiful day in Florida.

Congrats!! I'm so happy for you, your visa journey is over finally!! Hehe.. I bet you're ecstatic. Wait a minute, what are you doing online?! You should be with your woman every minute for the first 1000000 months now that she's here with you (I'm kidding hehehe)

Update:

I overreacted last night when I was freaking out(You can check out my meltdown on the other thread hah..)

Because today I got this:

Thank you for your inquiry.

We have received his file and the paperwork (pkt 3) was mailed on March 19, 2007 to his home address.

Sincerely,

Immigrant Visa Unit

American Consulate General, Sydney

WOOOT! Sorry for being a drama queen.. I promise it won't happen again haha..

[Moonie 0]

Hey everybody... Wifey arrived last night here in Pensacola, FL. The whole thing at the LAX POE went great... except the first lady my wife encountered was being a b!tch and someone saw and took her envelope from her and got her through quick, the other lady apparently has issues.

Anyway, it's a beautiful day in Florida.

[girlfrmoz 1]

Wonderful news David and Stephanie!!! Yay!!!!

Hey Serendip, great that you heard something! ....see I told you it would be soon. But just remember it is truelly ok to vent in here. I think all of us have done it at some stage!

What a great day all round....I am waiting for someone to come and look at my car tonight...cross your fingers that it sells.

I do have a quick question about superannuation... I found out that you can get your personal contributions paid out but not your employers that's with the PSS. I am thinking this will help us a bit. Is this true? I am happy for my super to sit there but would be nice to have the little bit that i have contributed....your thoughts??

[Elle 0]

How did you & Corey meet? Thats great that the Consulate has received the packet...you are truly on your way to being together! Yeah Luray Caverns was pretty neat. We were going to do Skyline drive too. I members when we drove from LA - Vegas...had to stop and just stare at the stars cuz they were SO bright and plentiful, and looked like you can just reach and grab em cuz there were no light pollution -- i loved it. So thats something else you could add.

Cooking...yes thats def not my forte lol. I have gotten better at it, but Eric does most of the cooking. I'm just the dishwasher

Congrats Dave & Steph!! Good to hear POE went smooth, apart from the first officer. Would love to hear what happened since LAX would be my POE too.

Hope you sell your car Lyndel!! I'm going to call my super 2moz, and hopefully I can get some if not all of my super.

[girlfrmoz 1]

Elle, I hope you can get your super...I couldn't get mine except for my own contributions but that may just be the Public Service. Would be really interested to know how you go. Good luck!

Kath are you still on the internet??? What time is it there???

I have another questions for you all.....Jake doesn't have much stuff for our apartment because he lives on base and I really don't want to use his funky cutlery (flatwear - USA translation) that has been in storage for +3years right? Now I can send my cutlery via mail all safely wrapped in bubble wrap but I read up on Australia Post and you are not allowed to send weapons...would you classify cutlery as weapons? I asked at the Post Office today and they were unsure and said it may get confiscated because it will have knives even though they are blunt ended. I don't want that to happen as my stuff is expensive and my mum brought it for my 21st. Anyone got any ideas who I could contact and ask, maybe UPS??

[Kath 0]

Senders should determine import restrictions from United States of America authorities before posting:

hi ya lyndel...

had a look on australia post website...these are the restrictions to go to the states....

Alcoholic beverages

Animals and animal products

Hides

Pharmaceutical products

Skins

Tobacco and tobacco products

Vegetable and other plant products

Weapons

Wool.

what i would do is say what it is in the box and also state its a wedding gift place all each set flat in the box side by side with the knives on top so when its x rayed they can see what they are clearly...or do the same and put them on the top of your suitcase......

and yes you know i am on the net lol geeez its a bad habit i know...lol..talkin to my daughter tellin her ..her gran is in hosp...

take care

kath

[Poi_n_J 0]

Congrats David & Stephanie...at long last..!!!

Good to hear yours is cruising along Rings..!!!

Well we've realised that the cheque was processed in California so we're not sure what's going on, why it's been sent there or what happens next as we still haven't recieved the NOA1..?!?!? The only thing I can think of is that because we didn't have a cover letter they've assumed it was a K-3 Visa petition.....??? Well we didn't send a cover letter because nowhere on the instructions OR in the checklist for the I-130 did it mention it and by the time I read it somewhere else we'd already sent it..!!! Either that or they've just plain fcked up..!

[Poi_n_J 0]

Or...we were supposed to send it there in the beginning due to the fact we're sending it from Australia in which case they fcked up on telling us Nebraska was our office..!!!

[Kath 0]

hi ya pris

i took a look at the following link..im thinking i might be wrong..they are sending it to another service centre cos they dont process them in nebraska...that is your local office though...

take a look..there is no I-130 for the processing times

nebraska process times

another reason they transfer petitions is because of backlog at that office...

for my AOS i was sent to California because of the backlog at cleveland ....

found out last night that my mum was in hosp getting a big thing taken off her face..it was cancerous but from what my bro said they got it all an shouldnt be back..she comes home tonight..so i was on the net all night well early hours of our morning trying to call my sis with no luck and talkin to my bro and daughter and my son on msn..

was funny i was looking round for my phone card rang me mum she wasnt home (derr now i know why) and so i thought i would try to send my sis a sms cos 2 days ago it didnt work.. i get a message back that she is in hosp..then i ring my bro and he said i was just about to ring you...so i said go on msn its cheaper for us then my daughter signed in told her..then my son did too so we all got to chat and let um know in one hit...

lol sorry on a lighter note. im listening to an australian cd i made for robert one year..its quite funny aussie songs and termanology of slang...lol anyone want a copy let me know will post it to ya..

take care

kath

[Poi_n_J 0]

hi ya pris

i took a look at the following link..im thinking i might be wrong..they are sending it to another service centre cos they dont process them in nebraska...that is your local office though...

take a look..there is no I-130 for the processing times

nebraska process times

another reason they transfer petitions is because of backlog at that office...

for my AOS i was sent to California because of the backlog at cleveland ....

found out last night that my mum was in hosp getting a big thing taken off her face..it was cancerous but from what my bro said they got it all an shouldnt be back..she comes home tonight..so i was on the net all night well early hours of our morning trying to call my sis with no luck and talkin to my bro and daughter and my son on msn..

was funny i was looking round for my phone card rang me mum she wasnt home (derr now i know why) and so i thought i would try to send my sis a sms cos 2 days ago it didnt work.. i get a message back that she is in hosp..then i ring my bro and he said i was just about to ring you...so i said go on msn its cheaper for us then my daughter signed in told her..then my son did too so we all got to chat and let um know in one hit...

lol sorry on a lighter note. im listening to an australian cd i made for robert one year..its quite funny aussie songs and termanology of slang...lol anyone want a copy let me know will post it to ya..

take care

kath

Hmm...that link didn't work for me but thanks anyway Kath, have just been informed in another string that all family-based visas are now being handled at CSC, so there you go...lol..

We are just now investigating the back of the cheque for the details to go online to check the status that will hopefully shed some light on the situation. Apparantly recieving the NOA1 isn't that necessary..I just hope our progress isn't being help up that's all, if we're on our way for a NOA2 then I'll happily wait...it's the not knowing what's going on that's the frustrating thing..

Soz to hear your mum's in hospital..hopefully as you say she's all clear now. You hear so much of it hear lately aye. My aunt's had skin cancer removed; my nanna's brother; it's almost enough to keep you out of the sun permanently..

[Poi_n_J 0]

Ok, soz about all the drama guys....found our reciept number on the back of the cheque and learnt that our petition was recieved February 28..!!

That was good news only they said they sent us an NOA1 but we haven't recieved it so now I'm worried that they have confused our address somehow and will send the NOA2 to wherever they've sent the NOA1.....??!! Dear oh dear....

FYI: They are currently processing I-130s at CSC from September 13, 2006.

[Moonie 0]

Hello everyone!

I hope all is in good spirits me I am just tired... I did send a email last night to the Sydney/Embassy Consulate to see if our petition was received and received a response that his packet 3 should be mailed off tomorrow. Which is nice. I sent him a text to let him know. He has this government job and they are real picky about him using his cell phone at work

I miss him terribly. Seems like forever since I have seen him and then yet it doesnt. A weird thing.

Wish everyone luck in their immigration process!

[serendipitous 0]

How did you & Corey meet? Thats great that the Consulate has received the packet...you are truly on your way to being together! Yeah Luray Caverns was pretty neat. We were going to do Skyline drive too. I members when we drove from LA - Vegas...had to stop and just stare at the stars cuz they were SO bright and plentiful, and looked like you can just reach and grab em cuz there were no light pollution -- i loved it. So thats something else you could add.

Cooking...yes thats def not my forte lol. I have gotten better at it, but Eric does most of the cooking. I'm just the dishwasher

Well.. we're pretty young, I'm 22 and he's 21. But we met in Dec 2002. I use to be really into online computer games (geek I know) and I use to game all the time with his brother. We were very good friends and we use to chat on MSN Messenger when we weren't in game. His brother (Corey) randomly saw on his brother's buddylist window my name and added me to his list. I accepted the request. And from there we talked pretty much everyday, and if we didn't we'd email each other and so forth. We just kept talking and talking and found out that we had a lot of things in common. So I really wanted to meet him but didn't want to put off school to meet him. I chose to do a study abroad program in Melbourne. I stayed there going to school for a semester.

I paid for a dormitory unit, but never stayed there! I seriously only stayed in the room like 3x. His family was so inviting that I just didn't want to leave their house and stay in the dorms with people I didn't know well. (I'm not too social, very shy person hehe). But his family took me in almost as if I was part of the family already and it was so cool.

Then I had to leave but I visited again last June-August 2006. And then he came to visit me for 2 1/2 months from Dec'06 - Late Feb 07. And it was his trip here that made us really want to be together all the time. So we filed our K-1 and from there it's history

So it was like fate that we met! I never had any contact with him before and he randomly chooses to put me in his messenger list.. haha it's a bit corny.. but its cute to me

But I'm sure u didn't want my whole life story.

Is Skyline Drive a sky diving place? I want to do that too but I'm super scared and probably never will. I can't believe you got to actually see the stars!! That's amazing. It's sad that it's such a huge thing when you can see stars. We definitely have tooo much light pollution. I will definitely check that out on the trip. That's something I've missed doing since I was little!!

You shouldn't be the dishwasher! Make him buy you an automatic dishwasher heheh! I would never do the dishes.. it's so blah.

I hope everyone is doing well! And that everyone is going along in the process speedily!

[Tamzo27 0]

Hi ALL!

Sorry I have been MIA the past few days..have been extremely stressed and drained the past few days...going to the AFP,having my medical, blood tests, x-rays and gathering everything..as well as booking my flight to the U.S!!! I know I shouldn't have ...because I haven't had my interview yet (April 12th)...but I felt I really needed to..I know there's a risk in that...but I am hoping all runs smoothly at the interview.

Just thought I'd give you guys a little update and goodluck to all everyone, whatever process you're going through