What's Vermont's excuse now for not approving NOA2s?

[Blob18 111]

I am all for hiring more people at USCIS, better work management and an easier process. I am not for turning a blind eye just so I can get what I want, when I want it.

If the Haitian TPS applications are truly the issue and I must wait to get a decision on my petition because they have prioritized TPS applications, then I am glad to it. I would rather wait a few extra months than to have some poor person get sent back to face disease, crime and possible death in Haiti.

For the people who complain about Haitians and TPS delaying their NOA2, do you even care at what expense it will take.

I love my fiance but I don't want to see someone else suffer because I want to hold hands and play googly eyes with him. I am just not that obsessed with him. God first, Fiance second in my life and I don't think God wants us to be this selfish.

Your foreign fiances will understand, because the kindness shown to the Haitians is something that they would want for their friends and family. You will soon be able to get married and start your family's a month or 2 won't make a difference in the great scheme of things. It might make a difference in life of a Haitian though. [/font]

Charity begins in the home. We don't have the resources OR jobs to be giving to some random person just because mother nature acted up. If Haiti wasn't corrupt and used the billions of aid money to make things better right after the earthquake, the cholera BS wouldn't have happened.

[JudyKCski 12]

Word of warning... alot of venting probably best not to read below this

Right now I am just plain old bitter! I am the most patient and giving person in the world but this whole thing leaves me angry. Right now I pretty much agree with alot of people pro and con.

Here I sit wondering if I am going to be able to get over base amount required for 2 people for the I-134, (Affidavit of Support: To file a promise with the Bureau to support an alien entering the United States and that the alien will not become a public charge) with my fiance' getting permanent disablility in Norway (transferable to the US) but from what I have been told this will not be taken into consideration at the Embassy. I left my full time position with benefits to substitute status so that I could maintain my relationship with my fiance since Feb 2007 so in the past 3 years I have not worked only half the year for 3 years. Doubt they will take this into account. There is no one to co-sponsor.. I have too much pride to ask my elderly parents who are on Social Security to co-sponsor. So, I am going to wing it and do what I can without working myself to death. I can sincerely and honestly say I will NEVER go on Social Services reguardless of if I had no home and were starving (I have been there and done that without the govt's help) I would rather die first. Sorry... guess you can ask me if I would like more cheese with my whine.

To heck with it all... I will go to Norway the end of next month with what paperwork he needs and I will stay there 3 months to chill out and possibly relax and maybe when I get back to the US the NOA 2 will be here when I get back May 28th.

No one person or country or law owns the planet! I feel a whole lot better having vented.

[Aztec&Taino 144]

We were all under the impression that the long delays were due to TPS. We believed they were concentrating on a large number of humanitarian files at Vermont. If they are not currently working on TPS, what is the problem? Why can't they catch up? could it be that the TPS has not phased out yet? The last couple of approved NOA2s were sorry! I am happy for the filers, but i believe one them waited for 6 1/2 months!!! That was not 'good news'...that was just 'news'

I expect approvals to come thru like hot cakes!!! not some sorry overdue approvals!

I truly understand your frustration, but to be fair, according to your timeline you only sent your petition October 1st. Besides, since your fiance is Haitian, your petition will be expedited so you will likely not even have to wait the 5 months that is the processing goal.

[Robby999 1,024]

We were all under the impression that the long delays were due to TPS. We believed they were concentrating on a large number of humanitarian files at Vermont. If they are not currently working on TPS, what is the problem? Why can't they catch up? could it be that the TPS has not phased out yet? The last couple of approved NOA2s were sorry! I am happy for the filers, but i believe one them waited for 6 1/2 months!!! That was not 'good news'...that was just 'news'

I expect approvals to come thru like hot cakes!!! not some sorry overdue approvals!

According to this document your case should have been expedited! http://www.uscis.gov...000082ca60aRCRD

[Richie Rich 70]

Do you really believe they will get to you in 5 months when almost everyone here has had to wait more like 6 to 6 1/2 months? And it is getting worse, each and every day.

Their claim of 5 months is about as ridiculous as the director's claim that there is no backlog at VSC. Both claims are ridiculous lies, just like the lies they tell you when you call them.

The credibility of the Vermont Disservice Center is ZERO. Nothing they say is worth anything.

5 months? Yeah, right!

Just a thought --the 129F application fee was reduced in nov . Maybe it meant less manpower since it amounts to lesser revenue . It is not an excuse for the service center since I am in the same boat --waiting . I fullu endorse that more emphasis should be placed on finacee visas since it creates hardships on couples .

[Al422 221]

According to this document your case should have been expedited! http://www.uscis.gov...000082ca60aRCRD

I don't want to sound prejudiced or anything, but how many more months will this expediting business add to my wait? 4? 5? 6? Enough is enough. There is no reason why these people can't wait in the same line with the rest of us.

[Sra Gomez 9]

Yeah - ok, we all know the waiting sucks, and I'm SO thankful to have found VJ, because only the people here understand what I am going through. Each person deals with the waiting differently, and that is what makes us DIFFERENT. So let us freak out, let us complain about VSC and USCIS and whoever else we feel like complaining.

Stop attacking the people who come here to vent their frustrations with the system. Personally I am sick and tired of waiting, and it doesn't matter how many times people tell me to suck it up and wait, I am still going to blame VSC for the worst 5 months of my life.

I am stressed out, can't sleep, having enough problems as it is, so yeah, I'm gonna log on the VJ, check that my timeline has yet again been pushed back, see that no one has been approved my VSC today and HELL YEAH I'm gonna get pissed off about it. I KNOW is not "accurate" information, but its a pretty good sample in my opinion.

So for all you people who already have your NOA2 and got it in less than 5 months, and for all of you super strong people who can wait for your approval forever, please, just please, let us come in here and complain, if that will make us feel better.

[ptgarner1 8]

Great....Forget what Igor timeline says....If you look at the last actual approvals you will clearly see that California is a full month ahead of Vermont. California average approval is 8/25 to Vsc 7/25. Six months will be the new norm at VSC...with 7 and 8 months often. Sure if we sit here long enough they will eventually get back to the US citizens...I am at 5 months next week. Perhaps I should call and allow some hourly wage wonder to read me a script and tell me they are processing July 10th.

We have 12 million Mexican illegal aliens here already...so I understand how there is little room for my Ukranian bride...in all fairness they swam here first..)))) Before someone sends me hate mail...do realize that I truly adore most Mexican people and understand why a Haitian living here would not want to go back home....before or after the quake....but I see no real effort or end in sight for the rest of us....hard to believe when I was gathering my paperwork the timeline was at 47 days...now it is 170..?????....

Please all of you whose wives are already here and you file for your AOS...save your smug remarks...it isnt the wait on paperwork...it is the seperation that kills us...from many of your comments on here..many of you seem to have forgotten.

[Sra Gomez 9]

Please all of you whose wives are already here and you file for your AOS...save your smug remarks...it isnt the wait on paperwork...it is the seperation that kills us...from many of your comments on here..many of you seem to have forgotten.

AMEN

[LewisandAlena 0]

California average approval is 8/25 to Vsc 7/25.

I remember being so relieved to find out we were with VSC. I'd actually have a reason to check the mail tomorrow with CSC...

[PhilAmTx 14]

guys...chillax... :whistle: . as long as they will give us chance to be with our love ones then no matter how long it takes... it is worth waiting...

[ptgarner1 8]

I remember being so relieved to find out we were with VSC. I'd actually have a reason to check the mail tomorrow with CSC...

Gosh I remember that so well..)))))..now it seems Vermont is the one slid into the ocean not California...

[ptgarner1 8]

guys...chillax... :whistle: . as long as they will give us chance to be with our love ones then no matter how long it takes... it is worth waiting...

Yea man.... Congradulations on getting thru that first hard 3 weeks...soon you will forget the thrill of that Noa 1...with a little luck,..perhaps even carve pumpkins next Thanksgiving.

Edited January 21, 2011 by ptgarner1

[BringMyBabyHome 14]

I am happy for you and your spiritual and religious beliefs that tell you this is the right thing to do. And I hope that you get whatever afterlife reward your faith has for people like you.

But shouldn't this be an individual choice? Is cramming this path down somebody else's throat the right thing to do?

No reward or gold star needed here. Just sayin' your fiance is a foreigner, my fiance is a foreigner, and the Haitians are too. I just prefer that the Haitian foreigners not suffer because they are in the way of our foreigners. This wait isn't for eternity. It's only a couple of months. Jeesh

Unfortunately we can't transfer our rights or privileges as Americans to non-Americans just because we really really love them.

[Sra Gomez 9]

guys...chillax... :whistle: . as long as they will give us chance to be with our love ones then no matter how long it takes... it is worth waiting...

It does matter how long it takes, I just got engaged, I'm supposed to be enjoying all the romance that comes with that, not running up my phone bill.

No one here can judge how other ppl feel, and how we all deal with this situation. You just filed, I wish you luck on remaining this patient 5 months from now. Best of luck.