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[hampster 0]

Hi Cherie as well,

As Lyndell said welcome to the Aussie Forum

We Aussies are a friendly helpful lot if you need ,

there are alot of us here willing to help anyone who needs/asks for it

Hoping to hear back from Sydney myself soon.. doing ds-230 CR-1

They recieved ds-230 on 18th January 2007.. so fingers crosses,

it won't be too long till they send it in a bottle across the,

big puddle to Sydney Consulate

Cheers

Paul

It is 5 days, 17 hours, 13 minutes and 48 seconds until Friday, 9 February 2007 at 10:30:00 AM (Adelaide time)

till my Wifee Cheryl - NorthernGirl arrives from Massachusetts

<H2 align=center>Current time is</H2>

2007-02-03 17:16:12

CST(local time in Adelaide)

[CarolineM 0]

YAy for all the new couples on the site!! I love seeing Aussie/American couples!!

David: That is really sweet! I know ya'll will be together soon and then we all have to have a florida get together. Hey I was in P-cola on Tues and Wed. The soccer team I coach played Gulf Breeze in the regional semi final and we lost It was a long trip!

Keep posting all your new people! Hey TONS of people from Melbourne. Where in Mel? Stewart is from Geelong!

[Kath 0]

hi cherie

welcome to the aussie forum glad you found us...i am from melb too now living in toledo ohio..and i did the K1 journey ...robert and i compiled our petition while being on msn..sending back and forth scanned pages and both of us checking that it is correctly filled out...it took us a whole weekend to get it complete .. so say your biographical information sheet is complete send it to him to check then he does the same thing..this way any mistakes you missed he might catch an it can be corrected...do one thing at a time make copies and put aside then start on another section say your evidence ... keeping everything seperate is the key then putting it all together in the order it needs to be...we did it and we got a quick approval...i know it sounds methodical but it does work...you dont get frustrated by doing it this way..you know the section is completed and doesnt have to be looked at again...

the only other bit of advice to give you is be patient...this process can be so frustrating and it doesnt stop until your a unconditional citz in the states...

your welcome to post any questions in here even if its been posted before we are a friendly lot and here to help our fellow aussie/american mates....

i use to live in melton where is your fiance...and where will you two be in the states...

well ive rambled on too much...

take care

and good luck on your journey

kath

[girlfrmoz 1]

Hampster, How many days/hours/minutes to go now till your wife arrives? YOu must be excited!

Cherie, I am from Melbourne (Boronia) orginally too, now staying with my parents in Canberra until I leave. I miss Melbourne!!!

Hi Kath, Jake told me it was -16C in Colorado a couple of days ago....how am I going to adjust after 34C here...BRRRRRR!!!! I am going to take my Ug boots.

Caroline and David, you are in Florida right? I hope you got through the storm ok. Let us know.

Elle, do you want to see my beautiful evidence folder?? Just kidding. I was just like you when we put together the I-129F took ages and we still got an RFE. Kath is right be really methodical and you can't go wrong. It's a long haul so come in here and chat/vent ask questions when you need.

[hampster 0]

Hampster, How many days/hours/minutes to go now till your wife arrives? YOu must be excited!

Cherie, I am from Melbourne (Boronia) orginally too, now staying with my parents in Canberra until I leave. I miss Melbourne!!!

Hi Kath, Jake told me it was -16C in Colorado a couple of days ago....how am I going to adjust after 34C here...BRRRRRR!!!! I am going to take my Ug boots.

Caroline and David, you are in Florida right? I hope you got through the storm ok. Let us know.

Elle, do you want to see my beautiful evidence folder?? Just kidding. I was just like you when we put together the I-129F took ages and we still got an RFE. Kath is right be really methodical and you can't go wrong. It's a long haul so come in here and chat/vent ask questions when you need.

Hi Lyndell,

Well let me see how long is it till i see my Wifee Cheryl - NorthernGirl,

It is 4 days, 21 hours, 44 minutes and 50 seconds,

until Friday, 9th February 2007 at 10:30:00 AM (Adelaide time)

till she arrives at airport here in Adelaide

am I excited hell yeah

so the wait continues

she is only in Adelaide till the 20th Feb,

then she has to fly out back to Massachusetts.

But will be 9 months since we saw each other last

But i will make this trip exciting and fun for her and i.

Going to do a road trip to Victoria on the 12th Feb - 18th Feb.

Going Mt Gambier stay the night there explore the blue lake,'

then on the Tuesday drive along Great Ocean Road through,

Warnnambool to Apollo Bay to Sorrento Ferry to go see my sister,

in Mt Martha Victoria.

Take out time so Cheryl can take lots of pictures

Ok well time for me to ring and catch up with Wifee.

15 and a 1/2 hours difference between,

Adelaide and Massachusetts.

so i call at 1.00pm Adelaide time Sunday Arvo

it will be 9.30pm Saturday night there.

I get good phone cards here in Adelaide.

Get one called "Daybreak"

a $10.00 card gives me

258 minutes, or just over 4 hours of talk time.

But if you ring after 1.30am local time (Adelaide)

it goes out to over 2000 minutes or 33 hours

Anyway's I have Waffled on long enough.

To Lyndell and Partner, David.A AND Carloline smile.

and everyone else be happy and your day will come soon.

Cheers

Paul

Current time is

2007-02-04 12:45:10

CST(local time in Adelaide)

Edited February 4, 2007 by hampster

[Poi_n_J 0]

Congratulations Lyndel...!!!

Hi Cherie, I'm from Melbourne also (Elwood). Joshua and I have recently married with the intention to do DCF but in light of the recent changes we will be at least starting similar to you also. Now that our official marriage certificate is finally here we can send off the petition this week...!!

Cheers,

Priscilla

[valkyrieshewee 0]

Australian hospitatlity is fantastic as always! Thank you so much for your welcome! Rob currently lives in Box Hill (I spent 5 months with him there last year). I miss Melbourne! Such a lovely place and I loved being able to go anywhere and not having to worry about driving! The people were just wonderful as well and I can happily say that should we ever decide to move back to Melbourne, I'd be quite happy there.

I am currently waiting for a few forms and copies to arrive in the mail from Rob (my fiance) and next weekend we're planning on going through things and triple checking everything so I can send it off by Valentine's day to get the ball rolling. Patience DOES seem to be a needed value with processing times and the tedious work of filling out forms. I'm just grateful I ended up deciding to live with him as that will help our case for proof or relationship. I get to see him again in March, so we're fortunate to not have to go so long without seeing one another. Any more advice on filing for the K-1 is always welcomed!

Thanks again for the warm welcome!

[girlfrmoz 1]

Thanks Priscilla. Good luck for a speedy process!!

Hi Cherie, wow Boronia is about 20mins from Box Hill. I know it well.

[Elle 0]

From the US Consulate Sydney website:

"The U.S. Consulate in Sydney will be closed to the public for routine services from 12 February until 23 February 2007. Exceptions to this closure will be made only for the U.S. citizens in emergency situations and those scheduled to collect previously processed U.S. passports and Consular Reports of Birth."

I wonder if they will use this time to iron out the procedure for those in limbo with the DCF. Or is this really a routine closure?

[David A. 0]

Routine my @$$... they need to redo the whole Standard Operating Procedure!

[Kath 0]

hi ya

just looked at the closure thing on the embassey website..melb, canberra and brisbane are closed the others arent..also i looked at bangkok website to see if they too are closing seeing the applications are being sent there and they arent being closed...

my question to all this is ... is it a background check on the U.S. citz or the international citz...

if it is the U.S. citz why cant they get the citz to get a police check completed with the application..as the overseas fiance has to get...wouldnt this save time and a transfer of the petition...?

if im wrong someone clarify for me please cos im a bit confused over this one...

kath

[David A. 0]

I got an email from the Sydney Consulate asking them what they will be doing to my I-130. I told them word for word what they told my wife at her interview. So I asked them what they know about Bangkok and what instructions were they given about Bangkok.

Well, I got an email stating that they have not recieved any instruction from the Department of State as to what will happen to the pending I-130.

So I'm asking myself... why did they tell my wife that my I-130 will now go to Bangkok to get a background check? This is frickin' ridiculous. I'm sure the Sydney Consulate is just as confused as everyone around the world... that's why they shouldn't be telling people false information. Until they have it in writing. That's why I asked them what they knew... apparently they are clueless.

[Kath 0]

hi david

i hear ya frustration over all this and i know were all keeping our fingers crossed for you and the other DCFers...

if they are going to bring out this new law why the hell make it so if all their embassey's arent informed first on how to handle it..it makes no sense to me..

i read somewhere about the fees going up and the bloke commented how can they increase the fees when the standard of work being done isnt up to par (not those exact words but close enough) and he is right....it goes with everything right down to bringing out new laws and not letting the left hand is to do when the right hand makes new laws...

hope you hear something more positive soon david..

take care

kath

[Moonie 0]

David,

Your situation is horrible. I hope that you find resolution soon.

The past few days have been hard on me. I miss him so terribly we both are majorly depressed.

[vylex 0]

Hi Folks,

I saw this regarding the DCF process and an hoping the Australian Consulates may also follow suit. Apparently, some consulates are allowed to accept the I-130s again but the USCIS office will be performing background checks. I am guessing that the Bangkok USCIS office would be doing this since they have jurisdiction in this region.

I hope the Australian Consulates post some news about this. I am on the verge of filing a K-3 / CR-1 for my wife and want to know if I should hold off to try a DCF in April.

Some news about how they may handle DCFs moving forward...*Fingers Crossed*

Now my only concern is how the Bangkok USCIS office will handle USCs that don't live in Australia. Assuming that this new process will be implemented I hope that their only purpose would be to perform background checks and not pass judgement on living abroad (or lack thereof).