This is really annoying....

[awk83 0]

From a current Federal employee, and former career military veteran (same a many other fed employees).

I work my butt off, as do most of the other federal workers. We take great pride in our work as I am sure you do with yours. Our budgets have been slashed to nothing in past years, and many workers are doing three jobs just to keep up with demand.

Please don't take your frustrations out on us. I have a petition sitting at the service center SAME AS YOU, and am waiting SAME AS YOU. Many, if not most countries don't even have a K1 type fiancé program. Receiving a K1 is a privilege and not a right, so show a little gratitude toward your country and a little patience with some poor folks that are working hard to chop through a mountain of paperwork.

According to your timeline and the VJ calculations: Based on timeline data, your I129f may be adjudicated between March 24, 2012 and March 29, 2012*.

Point well made. Well I wish everyone the best of luck in this process, especially those just starting out.

[NoneYa 73]

You are probably going through what I went through 3 weeks after mailing it the I-129f. I was a short fuse but then I realized how I could damage our relationship with my frustrations. It was the only time we really were tense. My fiancee was fairly cool but it was me. When I thought that if I create an argument because I was so tense about the process, how could I repair our relationship over SKYPE !!! 8,000 miles away ?? It was at that time that I realized, it was in my best interest to settle down. Settled down immediately and that is what I did.

That's when I said, this process has a definate end. We are in line and when it comes, it comes. I relaxed and didn't worry about it anymore. Thats when I was at peace and then 3 days after Christmas, the NOA2 just showed up in my mailbox. No text, no email, just showed up. I read it 3 times to make sure it sayed we were approved. It was a good feeling but I went through the same pain as you did. It was hard. If you don't learn to manage the stress like I did, it's going to be a lot harder on you than it was on me.

[EmelyNJoel 43]

It's frustrating, I know. But some go quicker, some go slower. I got an RFE this Monday. Read what the issue was. Divorce Journal instead of divorce Decree. Used a vital records service Monday evening, paid for next day air delivery, and it was waiting for me today. Got one of the 3 copies I ordered, took it to FedEx, ant the VSC will have my response first thing tomorrow.

My point is this, most everyone likes to take some pride in their work. Including govt workers. Except maybe the DMV (just kidding).

We all make mistakes. I didn't send the right supporting document. I also didn't send a lot of stuff. Just what they asked for. So there wasn't a lut to go through.ie a fuick file to read. Maybe that helped?

Waiting sucks. But have faith.the worst part is knowing there is almost nothing you can do one you send off the packet....

[mounir412 101]

patience my friend untill you get your NOA2

[M & M 0]

Based on timeline data, your I129f may be adjudicated between January 24, 2012 and February 4, 2012

....I feel your pain.... I now also have acepted the fact there is nothing that can be done until after that "5" month average time line....

As I alway us to say during the time I was in the navy....Hurry up and wait.... hehe Our turn is just around the corner and should hear something sometime in the near future... just relax, ha easier sais than done but no use to stress it, stressing will not speed up the process. Just keep your faith and keep moving forward.

ALL IN GOD'S PERFECT TIME

[EminTX 131]

We had our I-129F ready and sealed in May, I was literally getting dressed to go to the post office when my fiance received notice from his municipality that his address would change (the house was re-streeted and re-numbered) and to begin preparing to make changes in all official documents and blah blah blah. He needed to be here in January. We had plenty of time, statistically. So, we elected to wait until the city got its stuff together and he had an official new permanent address so that all documents would be accurate. That was the first week of July. Excellent. We still had plenty of time statistically. We got the NOA2 in mid-January. He has his embassy appointment on March 14th. The average number is an AVERAGE. Some get less but just as many get more. We are possibly really screwed because he has to retake one single class to graduate from college and it is only offered beginning in July and if he doesn't go this year, he will forfeit his education. WE have to marry IMMEDIATELY when he arrives and file immediately after that so that he can travel. The possibility if very real that we may have to go through all this all over again. (Or, of course, he can give up his education and profession completely.)

On top of that, we would like to have a child and since I am almost 41, the odds of pregnancy are about 12% of that of a 25-year-old in the best of circumstances. There is no fighting biology. Every month more that we are apart is a like a slap in the face to our dream of a child.

We feel like we are hitting roadblocks that we have to hurdle over again and again.

Our situation is annoyingly frustrating. Yours, IMHO, is looking pretty good.

I had no idea that it would take over a year from the time we decided to marry for him to arrive here, yet there are many, many stories of people who die during the wait, or the pregnant fiance gives birth and the baby gets sick over there, or some other tragedy that is only compounded heavily by the delays. We are very blessed in this situation--both of us AND both of y'all. Hang in there.

(I do feel your pain. I know also just how aggravating it is to read tales, especially here, where people say, "Tee hee. I messed up so much but we still had our interview in 2 months and we are together already, and oh, we are just so lucky. It is sooooo easy. You don't have to bother following directions for the forms. Ignore what they say. Just print out all your Skype chatlogs and photos to take with you to the interview. They don't really want all that other stuff. It's just secondary evidence." I keep waiting to read one of this type of report where the person states that upon arrival, the visa-holder bought a lottery ticket and won the Power Ball because s/he was just sooooo lucky. )

[Leatherneck 693]

I just went through this process. The key is not getting an RFE for something you did wrong. We were approved 2 days ago with no RFE's. The process is frustrating but when you get approved look back at it like I am now, you will likely agree that it is done properly in many ways.

I watched the boards. I saw many couples break up between 1 and 4 months in. The fact is that many couples rush into this process and are truly not solid in their relationships. If this process was done any faster, many more couples would get married and have to get unmarried. Our approval took 5 months, 20 days. Our NOA2 was approved just after 4 months. We went through Vermont. I think they did a good job. I grew up in this great country and not everybody should be allowed in.

If you can't make it through 5 or 6 months, you'll never make a lifetime of marriage.

[awk83 0]

I just want to be with my wife... She's everything I've ever wanted, it's frustrating that paperwork is whats keeping us apart.

[lovelycel26 1]

I just want to be with my wife... She's everything I've ever wanted, it's frustrating that paperwork is whats keeping us apart.

all of us feels the same thing: WANTING SO BAD TO BE WITH SOMEONE WE LOVE....ours took 6 months and 3 weeks before it got approved....keep yourself busy, it's really frustrating but that's the way it is...in time you will have yours too... God bless you OP.....

Edited February 17, 2012 by lovelycel26

[Therealworld 90]

Nicely said brian_n_phoung

[Dave&Roza 748]

I just want to be with my wife... She's everything I've ever wanted, it's frustrating that paperwork is whats keeping us apart.

Your profile states you applied for a K-1 visa yet you say you want to be with your wife?!? I hope she is still your fiancee as the K-1 is for a finacee and the IR1/CR1 is for spouse. You might also not mention she is your wife if she is your finacee as the USCIS has denied petitions for couples who claim to be married--these are horror stories of couples doing a "wedding" in the home country, but there was one or two (not sure if true) storeis on VJ where the couple was denied because they refered to each other as husband and wife. So be careful, I would not want you to be denied becuase of a slip of the tongue.

Dave

[dlbraun 4]

We received our NOA1 on October 26 and I see plenty of couples who filed after we did that have received their NOA2 already... The only thing is, they sent their paper work to the Vermont Center... Is it the case that they give decisions faster? This is really frustrating.

patience patience patience. 5 months? well that is the goal, but reality is different. everyone in the system does their job, some have a higher pile of paperwork than others. Ours took from aug 3 to jan 31st 5 months and 28 days

[Caribbean Pirate 9]

It's not that we can't make it through 5 or 6 months it's that we can't wait to be with each other. It's easy, having already received your approval to say that the process takes the proper amount of time when you're already with the person you love. I just think there should be more transparency throughout the process.

Furthermore, I don't think they extend the process time to test the strength of the applicants' relationships, I just think it's a bunch of lazy gov't employees taking their pretty little time because they could care less. I personally know social workers who tell me stories of how within their respective offices and departments how little they actually work.

As a former federal government employee I don't think you should lump all into one category as "lazy". Remember, they get THOUSANDS of petitions a day. How fast would you personally get through them all? It takes time. Even if each case is handled in 10 minutes, each one has to wait to get to the top of the stack.

We are all waiting. We all have situations. I hope that venting makes you feel better but do look at the realities of the amount of work being processed. We cannot all be processed at once.

[Vanya_Mac 2]

We received our NOA1 on October 26 and I see plenty of couples who filed after we did that have received their NOA2 already... The only thing is, they sent their paper work to the Vermont Center... Is it the case that they give decisions faster? This is really frustrating.

we got ours on october 14th...still waiting!!!

I totally agree about the frustration!!!

[3-4D 7]

If anyone U.S government agency gives you a timeline for 5months, and they meet the timeline. To me, the agency is very effective.