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[Dan & Jenni 457]

So, grab a hot chocolate, lace it with peppermint schnapps, and settle down for a wait. Use this time to gather additional documentation of relationship, save up money for medical, travel, shipping of personal household goods, and filing AOS. Use this time to save money for the wedding. But please do NOT use this time to selfishly insult those of us who have been waiting more than 6 months as if it were some how OUR fault for the delays!

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[Heartwarming 15]

If there are back logs of files uscis should have persons personally to deal with that. The files they recieve recent should not have to wait until they have finish with there back logs because this is messing with the timeline for persons. It is unfair to file my petition and my five or six months has past and i have to wait on uscis to finish with there back logs before they can deal with the recents filers.......Something needs to be done about this. This is very bad service......persons wants to be with their love ones.....this is foolishness

I have waited 178 days. You want to trade me places?

[LaLaLeesha 0]

With RFEs and the such, it's been a little over 7 months for us. I agree something needs to be done about the obnoxiously long wait!

[tweety&irv 5]

There are people over 7 months waiting. Yes, it would be wonderful if there were enough people trained, and hired to handle the backlog. What you see on this site is only a VERY small percentage of the 3000+ petitions received at a service center in a month. If there is a language issue, all documents must be translated, and certified. Each country has DIFFERENT method of documenting birth certificates (if one can be found), marriages, divorces, and so on. Some countries have political upheaval that takes precedence over our tiny lives. Someone who has not being doing adjudication for a while may not understand what makes the documentation (translated to English) valid. The names are put through several databases. A background check is done. This is to prevent visa fraud, especially from high fraud countries with websites set up to let you dial-a-fiance/ee. Now add in paperwork that is missing information, evidence, incorrectly completed, assuming it is in English and can be verified as valid and legal documentation. Yes.. that's right.. add RFE time on top of that. Now you have a backlog of exceptions as well your piece of 3k new petitions.

Something does need to be done. But it won't happen overnight. Training the adjudicators is a constant process with so many foreign countries represented.

So, grab a hot chocolate, lace it with peppermint schnapps, and settle down for a wait. Use this time to gather additional documentation of relationship, save up money for medical, travel, shipping of personal household goods, and filing AOS. Use this time to save money for the wedding. But please do NOT use this time to selfishly insult those of us who have been waiting more than 6 months as if it were some how OUR fault for the delays!

i am not being selfish so i would appreciate it if you guys dnt call me that i just have a suggestion and i mentioned it. i thought this was a sit where you can share idea and thughts and express ourself about certain you have regarding your filing. i had a thought and wanted to share it with yall. but i was not being selfish when i thought about that i am just thinking of ways they can get things moving faster without persons being back logged

i am concerned about everyone here as i am on a journey too and also have feelings so pls no name calling pls thats rude thank you.......hope those who file are back logged will get approve soon......all the best every VJ member on your journey.....nuff love

[tweety&irv 5]

With RFEs and the such, it's been a little over 7 months for us. I agree something needs to be done about the obnoxiously long wait!

thats exactly what i am trying to say something needs to be done

[Dan & Jenni 457]

i really dont understand what people are complaining about... i already got approved

[tweety&irv 5]

i really dont understand what people are complaining about... i already got approved

lucky u and congrats

[Dan & Jenni 457]

lucky u and congrats

thank you your time will come... good luck

[skiptex 225]

[D N Medellin COL 75]

Think about this - 2 months ago I saw a report on a TV news program (i.e. CNN) , it reported on the vast number of Chinese families wanting a tourist visa to visit USA and spend their holidays AND their money here in the US. A good thing right! To help our economy (hospitality, travel and restaurant industries).

Now these are all VERY WEALTHY Chinese people. They showed one example of a family of 4, both husband and wife driving new $100k Porsche, earning in excess of $300k a year, they own business and homes (so they have strong ties to remain in China) and they waited and waited to no avail for a visa to visit New York.

Yep the reason - There is a back log of 10,000 visas each year that the State Department can not review and issue so they travel to another destination and NOT the USA.

And us K-1 applicants think we are something special. After watching this report I see that the whole visa system needs a revamping.

[Obc333 24]

I totally get what Tweety is saying and I don't think it's a matter of being selfish. Think about it if ppl are hired to take care of the backlogs then those who send in their petitions now will get approved in their given timeline and not face being backlogged and the ones that are now backlogged will get their approvals quicker.

I'm just thinking that right now case workers are going from backlogged cases to ones that they just received and so you have recent applications being approved before ones that are being backlogged.

They still have to take care of applications they just received so it's a little hard to concentrate on both.

I do agree on teamwork to get it done but I think it's not a bad suggestion

[tweety&irv 5]

I totally get what Tweety is saying and I don't think it's a matter of being selfish. Think about it if ppl are hired to take care of the backlogs then those who send in their petitions now will get approved in their given timeline and not face being backlogged and the ones that are now backlogged will get their approvals quicker.

I'm just thinking that right now case workers are going from backlogged cases to ones that they just received and so you have recent applications being approved before ones that are being backlogged.

They still have to take care of applications they just received so it's a little hard to concentrate on both.

I do agree on teamwork to get it done but I think it's not a bad suggestion

Thank you very much that is exactly my point. Thats all i am saying.....teamwork is always good in any organiztion but when dealing with the public good customer service is even better i know there is no way we can go around the system but i was just saying.....i work with a government agency in jamaica and there is a back log of divorce file....i know this is a different case but just think if they had persons to work on those back log and a other set to deal with the new ones i personally think that things would get done alot faster...what if the team is small and not enough to get off the back log....if is even to get persons placed at other sections from uscis....for example the POE what if all the persons there are no needed bcause the work load is not so heavy they can use some of them to help with the processing of files.......

i am just thinking poeple thats all.....i just strted my journey and alot of things are on my mind....but what use of this site if i cant express my opinion without being bashed

love you all but pls no name calling

[Brit Abroad 166]

I am deeply sorry if you guys think i am selfish and yes it is not a month as yet but all i am trying to say is that they should have persons working on the backlogs and different persons working on the recent one therefore they would not have to go over the processing time they should meet. I know i have a long wait and i am not only thinking about me but other persons who petition is backlog and have not recieve their NOA2 as yet. Cause if you think about it when its my time to be approve i would be back log too cause they are still trying to finish the ones they had before. I am just trying to be logically.They need different persons to do that thats all i am saying.

If USCIS were the only agency involved, it would be easier to keep track of, and they would probably be a lot better at updating the status and removing all this angst and hand-wringing.

Unfortunately, they are required to interract with many other departments in order to verify that you aren't someone that America doesn't wish to admit, and that you have been truthful on your application. So, basically, it isn't just the staffing level at USCIS ... it's about the staffing level of the FBI, CIA, Interpol, IRS and various others and any backlog they happen to have, or difficulties they encounter retrieving information. That's just within the US. When they have to wait on verification from foreign agencies .. well, do I really need to spell out how that works?

Quite frankly, for the amount of activity our application files see, I'm amazed that we get off with only paying around $5k total for the whole process. How much more would you be prepared to pay in order to speed your application up? 10, 000? 20? Most of us prefer to wait rather than double, or triple, the costs involved in this already expensive process.

Your time would be better spent enjoying the company of family and friends, and scenery of a country you're going to be leaving behind, rather than panicking about how unfair it is to make you wait. Trust me, there will be a lot of things you'll miss from home once you arrive, so don't squander the time you have by worrying about how long it will be before you can give it all up. Make sure everyone has some kind of video conferencing and knows how to use it, visit everyone, go through your personal items and decide if you want gift some as mementos to your loved ones. Make memories to bring with you. It's often the little things that mean the most when you're here without them.

Six months seems like forever in this process, but when you look back you will realise how quickly it goes, especially in the last couple of weeks. Don't set yourself up for regrets when you get here, it's so much harder than you realise. It's great to finally be with your soulmate, but the drawback is that in your excitement to get here, you overlook what you are giving up.

Wishing you an uneventful process that passes as quickly as it can.

[Scafidi454 22]

If there are back logs of files uscis should have persons personally to deal with that. The files they recieve recent should not have to wait until they have finish with there back logs because this is messing with the timeline for persons. It is unfair to file my petition and my five or six months has past and i have to wait on uscis to finish with there back logs before they can deal with the recents filers.......Something needs to be done about this. This is very bad service......persons wants to be with their love ones.....this is foolishness

The government has to be the least service-oriented type of business I've ever encountered.

[tweety&irv 5]

If USCIS were the only agency involved, it would be easier to keep track of, and they would probably be a lot better at updating the status and removing all this angst and hand-wringing.

Unfortunately, they are required to interract with many other departments in order to verify that you aren't someone that America doesn't wish to admit, and that you have been truthful on your application. So, basically, it isn't just the staffing level at USCIS ... it's about the staffing level of the FBI, CIA, Interpol, IRS and various others and any backlog they happen to have, or difficulties they encounter retrieving information. That's just within the US. When they have to wait on verification from foreign agencies .. well, do I really need to spell out how that works?

Quite frankly, for the amount of activity our application files see, I'm amazed that we get off with only paying around $5k total for the whole process. How much more would you be prepared to pay in order to speed your application up? 10, 000? 20? Most of us prefer to wait rather than double, or triple, the costs involved in this already expensive process.

Your time would be better spent enjoying the company of family and friends, and scenery of a country you're going to be leaving behind, rather than panicking about how unfair it is to make you wait. Trust me, there will be a lot of things you'll miss from home once you arrive, so don't squander the time you have by worrying about how long it will be before you can give it all up. Make sure everyone has some kind of video conferencing and knows how to use it, visit everyone, go through your personal items and decide if you want gift some as mementos to your loved ones. Make memories to bring with you. It's often the little things that mean the most when you're here without them.

Six months seems like forever in this process, but when you look back you will realise how quickly it goes, especially in the last couple of weeks. Don't set yourself up for regrets when you get here, it's so much harder than you realise. It's great to finally be with your soulmate, but the drawback is that in your excitement to get here, you overlook what you are giving up.

Wishing you an uneventful process that passes as quickly as it can.

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thanks for those words and not trying to bash you but do you have regrets just asking based oon what you said