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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Canada
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As a follow up to our interview at the beginning of Aug, I sent to the MTL consulate some follow up docs they asked me to submit after my interview, along with our passports.

On Wed, my hubby's senator liaison is going to contact them to "gently" suggest they could look at the docs and issue our visas. It's been 53 days since our interview...anyone happen to have any experience with this sort of thing?

My hubby's deployment date draws nearer and nearer and everytime I call DoS they tell me there's been no update but they show we have expedite on our case. I'm so scared that we won't get our visas issued before he leaves, because I know that Montreal is sooo backed up. *sigh*

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Canada
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Since you have an expedite it sounds like montreal is just dragging their heels "because they can" I would say a gentle suggestion is too nice since hes deploying soon and you were granted expedite. Thats just me tho and I know how deployments are lol.

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Your I-129f was approved in 5 days from your NOA1 date.

Your interview took 67 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

AOS was approved in 2 months and 8 days without interview.

ROC was approved in 3 months and 2 days without interview.

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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Canada
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As a follow up to our interview at the beginning of Aug, I sent to the MTL consulate some follow up docs they asked me to submit after my interview, along with our passports.

On Wed, my hubby's senator liaison is going to contact them to "gently" suggest they could look at the docs and issue our visas. It's been 53 days since our interview...anyone happen to have any experience with this sort of thing?

My hubby's deployment date draws nearer and nearer and everytime I call DoS they tell me there's been no update but they show we have expedite on our case. I'm so scared that we won't get our visas issued before he leaves, because I know that Montreal is sooo backed up. *sigh*

I would email them repeatedly with a pointed and catchy email topic line. something like "requested documents mailed in Military deployment on (date) pls reply." try a new one every day until they respond.

I had to send in documents after my interview and didn't get the visa until over two months later. They hadn't even logged the paperwork until 2 weeks before they issued the visa. Which means they have bins and bins of envelopes waiting to be opened.

When is he deploying? It's a great idea getting the congress person involved, they definitely helped us. We contacted his congress person and the following week they gave us the news that it was approved.

Good luck... Keep us posted.

btw what branch of the military is your fiance?

2007-11-10 Met on an airplane on the way to Japan

2008-03-28 First actual date!

2009-03-31 Returned from Japan

K1 Timeline

2009-08-22 Filed K1

2009-09-01 NOA1

2009-09-29 NOA2

2009-10-23 Montreal Received

2009-11-08 Packet 3 Sent

2010-02-02 Packet 4 Received

2010-03-19 Interview

Interview Result :Admin Review-missing papers

2010-06-24 Visa in Hand.. FINALLY!!!

2010-06-25 US Entry

2010-07-02 MARRIED!

2010-07-13 Applied for SSN

2010-08-03 SSN received

AOS Timeline

2010-08-16 I485 sent to chicago lockbox

2010-08-24 NOA1 received

2010-09-17 Case transferred to CSC

2010-10-23 Bio appt letter received for nov 9th

2010-11-03 Biometrics appt. EAD card issued

Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Canada
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Thanks for the suggestions - if the liason doesn't get any results, or she's taking too long, I will def. start the email barrage lol.

Tho, thus far she has been very helpful so I think we are pretty blessed to have her in our corner. Crossing my fingers that once she contacts them this week, they will pull our paperwork out from wherever it is buried and stamp our passports.

My hubby is in the Army and his team is set to deploy last part of 2010 or very early in 2011. Kinda be nice to get a few months of getting used to one another before he has to leave ya know?

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Hope you get your visa soon and can move! :)

K-1 timeline

Sent I-129f Dec. 29, 2008

Received NOA Jan. 10, 2009

NOA2 email sent April 16, 2009, APPROVED

Interview in Vancouver, June 23, 2009 APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!

Wedding, September 19, 2009, South Carolina!!

AOS

Mailed package to Chicago, Oct. 22, 2009

NOA hard copies Nov. 3, 2009

RFE Nov. 17, 2009

Finally mailed back RFE December 15, 2009

Case transferred to CSC January 7th 2010girlfreuya.gif

EAD and AP Approved, cards sent January 8th, 2010!!

AOS approved February 9th 2010 smiley-happy093.gif

Welcome letter and GC received February 16th, 2010

Done with USCIS until 11/08/11

ROC

Sent 1-751 to Vermont Service Center November 18th 2011

NOA November 23, 2011

Biometrics December 23, 2011

RFE Dated Aug. 17; received Aug. 20th

mailed off RFE end of Oct.

Received Email stating card has been ordered Dec. 4

Received Email stating card should arrive within seven days; Dec 6

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Canada
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Ok so I'm fixin to send an email to my hubby's senator liaison.

Wouldn't mind a bit of feedback on it:

Hello Claire. How are you?

I am just emailing you to remind you about contacting the embassy in Montreal on our behalf. I was hoping you could ask them some questions in regards to our case.

1) What's our casefile status?

2) What, (if any) is the holdup on the approval?

3) I've submitted everything asked for on our refusal worksheet, gotten my secondary medical AND sent in our passports --there's been no status updates on the case since interview date (I call DoS everyday to check) - what's going on?

4) The whole reason behind why we've were approved for expediting throughout this entire journey is still a valid concern (hubby's deployment to Afghanistan). We are already approved for expedite with Montreal, they have everything they asked for and our passports and my husband's deployment date looms closer and closer, could they please, please PLEASE look over the submitted docs and issue our visa's so that we could have some time to adjust as a family before he leaves??

Thanks so much for everything Claire, I am praying to God that this is all finally over and that we can all be united.

Let me know how everything turns out.

Thanks a bunch everyone - hopefully this'll be over soon!

Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Canada
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So I spoke to my hubby's senate liaison today, she said she emailed the consulate this morning and if she doesn't hear back from them in a couple of days (hopefully that means this week) she'll give them a call.

She also mentioned it is the fiscal year end, which perhaps, could help hurry it along too - her reasoning being that the more applications processed, the better chance for funding for staff,etc.

Dunno if that's accurate or not but I'm all for it if it means speedier approval for me lol.

Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Canada
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That's horrible! I would also suggest to just email them everyday (on top of having his senator call in). My fiance is military too and just returned from deployment and we got that to approve our expedite... however it goes with saying we did email them daily from his US Army Forces account. They always answered the same day. Don't wait, have you fiance email them from his account ASAP and explain the urgency in this situation.

See profile for our K-1 Visa/AOS story from 2010-2011Apparently we love USCIS/NVC so much we left and are doing it again! This time giving IR-1 a whirl. Rock on immigrators.

07/09/2014 sent in IR-1 packet to Chicago Lockbox

07/16/2014 NOA1

07/17/2014 check cashed by USCIS

10/01/2014 found out we are expecting baby #2 June 2015!

12/15/2014 NOA2

12/30/2014 Case received by NVC

03/23/2015 Received Case and Inv # from NVC after many calls and bogus excuses.

03/24/2015 AOS payment accepted by NVC

04/09/2015 IV payment finally accepted by NVC after the set the wrong fee and took weeks to correct it.

*many more delays thanks to the agency processing my fingers prints to the RCMP and the post office losing our mail*

05/20/2015 Packet sent to NVC via UPS, eta May 28.

06/16/2015 Baby #2 due - homebirth in Scottsdale, AZ

 
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