I'm still here!

[sheeshkabelle 153]

Hiya!

I'm still around and kicking and still waiting on our NOA2!

After my grandmother passed, school started back up, my bathroom had to be remodeled (leaky toilet, made a huge mess) life has finally started to settle back in to a routine.

Trent did make it here for my grandmother's funeral fine. They didn't hassle him at all. He wanted to stay a few more days but his boss couldn't let him leave for that long. (busy time of year for them)

I called USCIS customer service again today, no one can tell me anything, other than the application is still processing. They have no idea why their web site says 'five months' and we've been waiting almost 8 months.

I wrote a letter to my congressman today and included an authorization form so he (or an aide) can look into our case.

At this point it's almost a blessing in disguise, since we'll be married for two years in June, Trent can get an IR-1 instead of a CR-1 and save us a few hundred bucks.

I've still about had it with this entire process!!!!

[Trav&Shell 83]

Hiya!

I'm still around and kicking and still waiting on our NOA2!

After my grandmother passed, school started back up, my bathroom had to be remodeled (leaky toilet, made a huge mess) life has finally started to settle back in to a routine.

Trent did make it here for my grandmother's funeral fine. They didn't hassle him at all. He wanted to stay a few more days but his boss couldn't let him leave for that long. (busy time of year for them)

I called USCIS customer service again today, no one can tell me anything, other than the application is still processing. They have no idea why their web site says 'five months' and we've been waiting almost 8 months.

I wrote a letter to my congressman today and included an authorization form so he (or an aide) can look into our case.

At this point it's almost a blessing in disguise, since we'll be married for two years in June, Trent can get an IR-1 instead of a CR-1 and save us a few hundred bucks.

I've still about had it with this entire process!!!!

Oh for crying out loud. What a pain. (Really sorry to hear about your grandmother )Definitely keep us posted about the congressman's contact - we've done the same thing recently but you've been waiting FAR longer...would like to know if they're actually any help! Did Trent fly through Winnipeg, or through Toronto, to get no hassle?

[sheeshkabelle 153]

Oh for crying out loud. What a pain. (Really sorry to hear about your grandmother )Definitely keep us posted about the congressman's contact - we've done the same thing recently but you've been waiting FAR longer...would like to know if they're actually any help! Did Trent fly through Winnipeg, or through Toronto, to get no hassle?

He flies in and out of Calgary since that's where he lives now. I've never had issues with Calgary except for the last time when they stamped my passport.

Winnipeg is where I was taken into secondary a few years ago and put in a little room while they played good cop bad cop with me. I was never so scared in my life!!

[Trav&Shell 83]

He flies in and out of Calgary since that's where he lives now. I've never had issues with Calgary except for the last time when they stamped my passport.

Winnipeg is where I was taken into secondary a few years ago and put in a little room while they played good cop bad cop with me. I was never so scared in my life!!

They stamp Trav's passport every time here, and he always gets put through the scanner and gets grilled to no END by the people at customs here! The first time, they confiscated his saskatoon jam (a present from my mom, but I can see their point - it's a gel lol). The second time he pretty much had to fight the guy to get allowed back into his own country (and they lost his luggage)...the third time was more of the same. I think we may drive over when it's time...heh...

The US customs put you, a USC, in secondary here?!

[Kimbear 53]

They stamp Trav's passport every time here, and he always gets put through the scanner and gets grilled to no END by the people at customs here! The first time, they confiscated his saskatoon jam (a present from my mom, but I can see their point - it's a gel lol). The second time he pretty much had to fight the guy to get allowed back into his own country (and they lost his luggage)...the third time was more of the same. I think we may drive over when it's time...heh...

The US customs put you, a USC, in secondary here?!

actually that is not a surprise to me..when i was activating my k1 they interogated my fiance while he waited. asking him when he got his passport where he was living when he got it where his parents were born etc. i was like #######.

[CANtoUSlove 3]

Hiya!

I'm still around and kicking and still waiting on our NOA2!

After my grandmother passed, school started back up, my bathroom had to be remodeled (leaky toilet, made a huge mess) life has finally started to settle back in to a routine.

Trent did make it here for my grandmother's funeral fine. They didn't hassle him at all. He wanted to stay a few more days but his boss couldn't let him leave for that long. (busy time of year for them)

I called USCIS customer service again today, no one can tell me anything, other than the application is still processing. They have no idea why their web site says 'five months' and we've been waiting almost 8 months.

I wrote a letter to my congressman today and included an authorization form so he (or an aide) can look into our case.

At this point it's almost a blessing in disguise, since we'll be married for two years in June, Trent can get an IR-1 instead of a CR-1 and save us a few hundred bucks.

I've still about had it with this entire process!!!!

Wow! 8 Months! That makes my 4+ almost trivial. I'm sorry it's taking so long... I'm losing my mind over here. Don't they know that Canadians are just across the border to our north?! Why is it taking them so long!!! lol.

[Trav&Shell 83]

actually that is not a surprise to me..when i was activating my k1 they interogated my fiance while he waited. asking him when he got his passport where he was living when he got it where his parents were born etc. i was like #######.

Really? Did you activate in Winnipeg too? Winnipeg airport seems to have fun giving people grief...when it's time, I'm either driving with Trav or flying out of Toronto...*sigh*

[Kimbear 53]

Really? Did you activate in Winnipeg too? Winnipeg airport seems to have fun giving people grief...when it's time, I'm either driving with Trav or flying out of Toronto...*sigh*

no actually we activated it in detroit. but it was a crossing that for almsot 2 years we never had a problem. most fo the people there knew us knew we were doing k1 knew it took over a year even. some were happy for us when we finally got it. I think this person this woman must have been new or a recent transfer..quite a stick up her ####### really. My husband was like #######..i'm here with my fiance activating her visa..i'm an american citizen..and she just kept treting him like #######. what can i say...it was the perfect ending for our hellish journey lol.

[sheeshkabelle 153]

Ya I landed, went to customs and answered their questions. The officer then sent me to another room where I was taken to yet another room and sat down in front of a desk in front of a female officer and grilled about everything. Where I was going, why I was going there, who did I know in Winnipeg (I was going for my husband's grandmothers funeral, I was staying in Winnipeg with my in-laws) Then she leaves the room and later I learned she called my husband AND his parents to verify my story. My mother in law was at the airport waiting to pick me up!

Finally she lets me go.

I changed my return flight and went to Calgary for another two weeks just out of spite and I wanted to spend our six month anniversary together

I'm so aggravated with the whole process. We've fallen into some black hole in California and I don't know if we'll ever get out. I feel like screaming every time one of our family members say "why hasn't he moved yet?!"

I mailed the letter to my Congressman yesterday. His office is right down the street, so it shouldn't take long for him to get it.

[Kimbear 53]

we called ours and then faxed in a letter and the authorization. we had to do this like 3 times during our process and each time it was resolved within a few days.