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How did you find out you were approved?

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130 Approval (NOA2)  

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  1. 1. How did you FIRST find out you had been approved?

    • Email alert
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    • Text message alert
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    • Saw change in status on website
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    • Received paper copy in the mail
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    • Informed by my lawyer
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    • Other (please explain in a response below)
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LilyR Contributor

LilyR   7

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The only way I learned I had been approved was by calling the USCIS and having them tell me. I still have not received either a mailed letter or email containing my NOA2, and I was approved on December 18, 2012.

Don

Wow Don .... that is what I am afraid of .... being approved but not knowing it .... does your case show up on the website at all?

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speedwell   224

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Wow Don .... that is what I am afraid of .... being approved but not knowing it .... does your case show up on the website at all?

Lily, it doesn't always show up or get updated timely, and that is why I called the USCIS once each week. Currently I'm biting my fingernails waiting for "Decision" to turn into "Post-Decision Activity", though I have run hundreds of numbers multiple times and have always seen an approved decision turn PDA within two days. I'm such a worry monster.

I'm a dual US/Hungarian citizen (both by birth; Hungarian citizenship verification TBA), and my husband is a dual British/Irish citizen (by treaty) from Northern Ireland. We are atheists.

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07 Aug 2013: Green Card received

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29 Apr 2014: POE Dublin through Heathrow

15 May 2014: Received formal residency/work permission (GNIB card with Stamp 4, one year renewable) for the ROI

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Wow Don .... that is what I am afraid of .... being approved but not knowing it .... does your case show up on the website at all?

Lily,

Don't know where to go looking for it. However, I have received emails from the NVC with the DS-3032 and instructions as to how to pay the AOS processing fee online for my wife's visa (step-daughter's hasn't come yet) which I paid this morning.

Don

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We were long ago and old school. My I-129F for spouse was approved in 2006. I got an email on my Blackberry just before dinner at the beach hotel in Beihai, China

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Lily, it doesn't always show up or get updated timely, and that is why I called the USCIS once each week. Currently I'm biting my fingernails waiting for "Decision" to turn into "Post-Decision Activity", though I have run hundreds of numbers multiple times and have always seen an approved decision turn PDA within two days. I'm such a worry monster.

Thanks speedwell!

I am a worry monster too .... and was realizing that I didnt know the most likely way to find out if my 130 was approved (which was why i started this poll). It is still early for us so I am trying to be patient and each time i look at the timelines here i say to myself "There are the people who filed ahead of you who need their 130s decided so just wait your turn!"

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Received my notice of Post-Decision Activity via text just now (and checked e-mail and online and it's there too)!

I'm a dual US/Hungarian citizen (both by birth; Hungarian citizenship verification TBA), and my husband is a dual British/Irish citizen (by treaty) from Northern Ireland. We are atheists.

All advice is given pursuant to the Disclaimer that you may read at the bottom of each forum page.

LATEST STEPS:

28 Jun 2013: POE Houston

08 Jul 2013: SSN received (at SSA office)

07 Aug 2013: Green Card received

27 Feb 2014: Whoa, life happened. Planning move "back home" together to Republic of Ireland by end of April.

29 Apr 2014: POE Dublin through Heathrow

15 May 2014: Received formal residency/work permission (GNIB card with Stamp 4, one year renewable) for the ROI

For my FULL timeline, see my "About Me" page.


For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. (Carl Sagan)

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