January I-129F filers

[waiting281 5]

i'm with you guys..194 days and waiting..with no end in sight..there cannot be any type of reasonable explaination for this forgotten fraternity that we January filers are experiencing..it is what it is i guess, no one wants to acknowledge there's a proprem and try to fix it for us..so we wait. at least i'm able to head over to thailand to visit at the end of the month..good luck guys, hope it breaks open soon..

[sara80 17]

Thank you guys!!! Approved!!!! Will write a proper review later but had a really good experience, no problems, very nice interviewer who asked the usual things (how we met, whether i wanted to work in US, if we'd spent much time with each others families, when our wedding was planned for). I was wiping away tears when she said i was approved and she said "stop it, or i'll start too!".

Called Andrew to tell him and I'm pretty sure he will need to be told all over again when he actually wakes up, i think he was sleep-skyping!

Thank you for all your support, jan filers, you all rock I don't think it's sunk in yet but right now i'm gonna have a big glass of irish champagne (TEA!) xxxx

Again, congratulations!! )) super happy for you!

I have done my medical today, hopefully all is fine so can go onto the next step!!

[P+J 47]

i'm with you guys..194 days and waiting..with no end in sight..there cannot be any type of reasonable explaination for this forgotten fraternity that we January filers are experiencing..it is what it is i guess, no one wants to acknowledge there's a proprem and try to fix it for us..so we wait. at least i'm able to head over to thailand to visit at the end of the month..good luck guys, hope it breaks open soon..

Hopefully this week will bring some good news...it seems few petitions go beyond the 190s without at least an RFE. (although an RFE would still not be good news to me as it would mean I wasted almost $2,000 to file this petition with the assistance of an experienced attorney) ...

Edited July 30, 2012 by Paul86

[Neetz 7]

Thank you guys!!! Approved!!!! Will write a proper review later but had a really good experience, no problems, very nice interviewer who asked the usual things (how we met, whether i wanted to work in US, if we'd spent much time with each others families, when our wedding was planned for). I was wiping away tears when she said i was approved and she said "stop it, or i'll start too!".

Called Andrew to tell him and I'm pretty sure he will need to be told all over again when he actually wakes up, i think he was sleep-skyping!

Thank you for all your support, jan filers, you all rock I don't think it's sunk in yet but right now i'm gonna have a big glass of irish champagne (TEA!) xxxx

You go girl!!!..........Congrats!

[djricky4 67]

*yawns* goood morning you all. Congrats Kitty on the interview .

My timeline say it all

[sabi 148]

*yawns* goood morning you all. Congrats Kitty on the interview .

My timeline say it all

Haha a bit of humor today , I like that!

It's coming!!! I dont know what and when but it is!

[djricky4 67]

Haha a bit of humor today , I like that!

It's coming!!! I dont know what and when but it is!

I hope the next time it is real

[djricky4 67]

cant wait for the track and field events to start........i have 2 high school friends running. I guess you all know usain bolt.

[miguel.angel 11]

I ended my week pretty bad last week. Sick all week, no visa news but the usual slow VSC and the frustration that brings, and on Friday morning as soon as i left to work, my house was broken into. They stole all my electronics including my laptop where i had all my visa scans, receipts, etc etc. Fortunately i have it all backed up on the dropbox always so i didnt loose any of that. But i still feel like my stuff is out there and someone is getting a kick reading all our emails , looking at our pictures and our stories.

What a great way to end the week.

Edited July 30, 2012 by miguel.angel

[rayandmel 39]

Congrats to Kittylondon! Our file changed to RFE response review today. At least they are looking at our file! Hoping for a quick approval from this point. Praying for a good week for us all! Hang in there gang!

[Level99 1]

I ended my week pretty bad last week. Sick all week, no visa news but the usual slow VSC and the frustration that brings, and on Friday morning as soon as i left to work, my house was broken into. They stole all my electronics including my laptop where i had all my visa scans, receipts, etc etc. Fortunately i have it all backed up on the dropbox always so i didnt loose any of that. But i still feel like my stuff is out there and someone is getting a kick reading all our emails , looking at our pictures and our stories.

What a great way to end the week.

D: D: D: change all your passwords for everything you can think of ASAP, if you haven't done so already. Hopefully the stolen items will be recovered and be undamaged. Really sorry to hear about that. Even though most electronics can be replaced, data isn't so you're very lucky to have your cloud backups.

Hopefully not derailing but, when it comes to computers, never make anything easily accessible. At the very least, the next computer you get I would recommend doing both an operating system-level password and getting a program called TrueCrypt to encode the system drive. Encrypting that with a good password makes it so that if the system is ever turned off or the hard drive is removed, you need the TrueCrypt password to access anything on the hard drive. Maybe somewhat inconvenient if you restart it a lot but you'll rest easy knowing that if you ever lose it, it would take a computer thousands of years to potentially crack it open.

[O&M 6]

Hopefully this week will bring some good news...it seems few petitions go beyond the 190s without at least an RFE. (although an RFE would still not be good news to me as it would mean I wasted almost $2,000 to file this petition with the assistance of an experienced attorney) ...

Looking back, do you regret spending the money on the attorney?

[kittylondon 47]

thanks for all the congratulations you guys, you're the best! good luck good luck good luck!

[P+J 47]

Looking back, do you regret spending the money on the attorney?

If I don't receive an RFE, it was money well spent because I'm sure a couple of small details would have potentially resulted in an RFE since I had not discovered this website and its resources before filing....The attorney has a decent amount of experience (over 25 years) and if they did their job properly and USCIS hasn't lost anything, I should be okay. If I do receive an RFE, it was a complete waste of money. An attorney is basically useless in this process and about the only thing they can do is help to review your petition before submission to USCIS. After that, unless your case is particularly complicated, they have no real value. When they call USCIS, they speak to the same CSRs that we do. They receive the same responses. And they can do nothing to help the situation. So I would be pretty devastated to receive an RFE for the time added and also the fact that I wasted such a large sum of money to end up in the same situation I tried to avoid. In that scenario I might as well have set up a money pit and burned the 2,000 because that's about all it would have been worth. At this point, I'd rather wait an extra week or 2 and not receive an RFE. After spending that kind of money, it would just depress me. This process is so illogical that it makes me sick. But I'd like to at least feel as though I didn't completely throw that money away. A clean approval would help in that regard. I just really hope that I'm approved this week.

Edited July 30, 2012 by Paul86

[G & Oxy 1]

Thank you guys!!! Approved!!!! Will write a proper review later but had a really good experience, no problems, very nice interviewer who asked the usual things (how we met, whether i wanted to work in US, if we'd spent much time with each others families, when our wedding was planned for). I was wiping away tears when she said i was approved and she said "stop it, or i'll start too!".

Called Andrew to tell him and I'm pretty sure he will need to be told all over again when he actually wakes up, i think he was sleep-skyping!

Thank you for all your support, jan filers, you all rock I don't think it's sunk in yet but right now i'm gonna have a big glass of irish champagne (TEA!) xxxx

congratulations