March (2012) filers...

[neobe 0]

It doesn't mean no RFE .. But my fingers are crossed for all of us. 5 days till we are at 200 as well

same here.. I'll be following you Tigerflower since were both March 9 filers..I hope we wont be waiting next week anymore...

[neobe 0]

I guess I will join the party tonight, too. I got home from work and my status at USCIS was changed to post decision activity for approval. I just got off the phone with my fiancee, as I wanted to let her know about it before posting here. Thanks for everyone's support. So many of you are literally only hours away from your approvals now. Stay strong - it is coming and I'm very excited to watch the rest of your approvals roll in!

CONGRATULATIONS Starflyer!

[Wobbafut 6]

Just 1 week after you Neobe and Tigerflower.. :/

[Starflyer 59 16]

CONGRATULATIONS Starflyer!

Thank you neobe! I appreciate it. Don't lose hope - that blue dot at USCIS will soon change over to "post decision activity".

[TigerFlower 61]

same here.. I'll be following you Tigerflower since were both March 9 filers..I hope we wont be waiting next week anymore...

We will wait this out together....

Just 1 week after you Neobe and Tigerflower.. :/

Don't lose hope! They are really hopping around the dates... you just might be before us.

[Wobbafut 6]

I dont pray to be before you both I just hope we will hope get approved soon!

[X Factor 1,111]

Just got the text. Approved. 201 days. Crying my eyes out. Too relieved to be happy yet.

Thanks for the karma & sending some back...

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ConGraTuLaTions

[TigerFlower 61]

I dont pray to be before you both I just hope we will hope get approved soon!

[Aphroditee 1]

The thing is, it is never mentioned on the instructions of the I-129F as a requrement for proof of having met (In fact the instructions are very vague in this area). It is only listed as an alternate way of proving citizenship when no birth certificate is available. I understand why a lot of people do submit it as evidence of having met because the stamps are good primary evidence, but is it really required if one has submitted other great evidence?

I don't ask this to try to start an argument, I only ask because my fiancee and I have been discussing this a lot lately. When I mailed my I-129F packet I had not yet discovered VJ, so I did not know what others were submitting as evidence of having met in the past two years. So I submitted my boarding passes, photos of us together and photos of us with her friends & family. In one of those photos is both of us and a Philippine newspaper with a clear date of Feb 9th, 2012. Is that not irrefutable evidence? In my mind it is good evidence. When assembling my packet the thought of the passport stamps never crossed my mind since I had not found this site yet, and since I submitted the front & back of my my birth certificate as citizenship evidence.

Anyway, only time will tell if the adjudicator finds my boarding passes and photographs with newspaper to be compelling enough. In the meantime, after discovering this site I have since scanned in all pages of my passport and am prepared to send them if an RFE is issued. The thing that my fiancee and I have been discussing is that if it is an absolute requirement to have passport scans as evidence of having met, then the I-129F instructions should say so. It would cut down on a lot of RFEs from people that filled out packets on their own without the help of VJ.

My fiance has a better said than me since he's a native speaker and has submitted the whole package, I only went through all the paperworks with him to see if we missed something, I almost forgot what we sent. He has no time to come on VJ since he is always busy with his PhD program, so I'm the only one who use our VJ account. When we filed the petition we did not know about VJ. We just discovered it later on.

Here I'm talking about passport stamps as proof of having met in person within the last two years prior to filing the petition. Just because I don't mention everything else as proof of having met in person doesn't mean that we did not include those (like photos of our engagment ceremony with the whole family and guests, photos from our trip together....). Though the instruction didn't mention exactly about passport stamps, but it did mention proof of having met in person within the last two years, and passport stamps is one evidence among other evidence to prove that the two have met in person in a certian place or country, so it is required.

I understand you, I don't even think that you were starting an argument with me, because we're all here to support one another and not to bring anyone down for this long waiting game sucks!

I want to quote part of what we read on VSC newsletter Volume 1, Issue 6, September 2011:

I-129 Petitions for the K Fiancé Classifications

As a part of USCIS’s efforts to establish consistency and standardization, the Vermont Service Center announces the

following changes to the adjudication of the I-129 K petitions:

- Validity dates on approvals will now be 4 months minus 1 day instead of the previous 90-day validity period.

- There has also been a change in the manner that the petitioner must demonstrate that the couple has met

within the last two years. Previously we would accept a statement from the petitioner that the couple had

met within the preceding 2 years. We will now be requiring evidence to demonstrate that the meeting has

occurred, such as passport stamps, dated photos, airline tickets, etc. A statement alone will not be acceptable

proof of meeting.

[NYYankees355 11]

Finally Approved!!! Odd thing is I didnt receive any emails or notifications but when i check the uscis.gov website its in Post-decision activity. Hopefully its for real and we receive our noa2 in the mail soon. Thank you Lord

[Starflyer 59 16]

My fiance has a better said than me since he's a native speaker and has submitted the whole package, I only went through all the paperworks with him to see if we missed something, I almost forgot what we sent. He has no time to come on VJ since he is always busy with his PhD program, so I'm the only one who use our VJ account. When we filed the petition we did not know about VJ. We just discovered it later on.

Here I'm talking about passport stamps as proof of having met in person within the last two years prior to filing the petition. Just because I don't mention everything else as proof of having met in person doesn't mean that we did not include those (like photos of our engagment ceremony with the whole family and guests, photos from our trip together....). Though the instruction didn't mention exactly about passport stamps, but it did mention proof of having met in person within the last two years, and passport stamps is one evidence among other evidence to prove that the two have met in person in a certian place or country, so it is required.

I understand you, I don't even think that you were starting an argument with me, because we're all here to support one another and not to bring anyone down for this long waiting game sucks!

I want to quote part of what we read on VSC newsletter Volume 1, Issue 6, September 2011:

I-129 Petitions for the K Fiancé Classifications

As a part of USCIS’s efforts to establish consistency and standardization, the Vermont Service Center announces the

following changes to the adjudication of the I-129 K petitions:

- Validity dates on approvals will now be 4 months minus 1 day instead of the previous 90-day validity period.

- There has also been a change in the manner that the petitioner must demonstrate that the couple has met

within the last two years. Previously we would accept a statement from the petitioner that the couple had

met within the preceding 2 years. We will now be requiring evidence to demonstrate that the meeting has

occurred, such as passport stamps, dated photos, airline tickets, etc. A statement alone will not be acceptable

proof of meeting.

Ahh, I see what you're saying now! At first I thought you meant that passport scans were the required form of primary evidence (as opposed to anything else that could be considered as primary evidence), and it scared me since I didn't send passport scans (and thankfully I did end up being approved later today without those scans). I had never read the VSC newsletter before finding VJ, so I had not heard of using the stamps as evidence until I came here. It all worked out though.

Thank you for your response, AmazingLove. I hope that your approval is coming very soon!

[Starflyer 59 16]

Finally Approved!!! Odd thing is I didnt receive any emails or notifications but when i check the uscis.gov website its in Post-decision activity. Hopefully its for real and we receive our noa2 in the mail soon. Thank you Lord

Congratulations! I did not receive the email notice either. I also did not receive the email notice back in March for NOA1 even though I attached the G-1145 form to the top of my packet. Go figure.

[NYYankees355 11]

Congratulations! I did not receive the email notice either. I also did not receive the email notice back in March for NOA1 even though I attached the G-1145 form to the top of my packet. Go figure.

Wow congratulations! yea sounds about right. As long as you get the noa2 in the mail. Did you even receive the noa1 in the mail?

[TigerFlower 61]

Finally Approved!!! Odd thing is I didnt receive any emails or notifications but when i check the uscis.gov website its in Post-decision activity. Hopefully its for real and we receive our noa2 in the mail soon. Thank you Lord

Congratulations! What was your NoA1 date? (on phone and can't see)

[Starflyer 59 16]

Wow congratulations! yea sounds about right. As long as you get the noa2 in the mail. Did you even receive the noa1 in the mail?

Yes, NOA1 did come in the mail - and I was surprised at how quickly I received it, too. We'll see how long it takes to receive the paper NOA2.

CONGRATS again! Enjoy!