BINATIONAL SAME SEX COUPLES !! Show up!

[James N 6]

My husband and I married in March 2013, and we applied for marriage-based visa and adjustment of status (I was here on a work visa) in August, and yesterday (November 1, 2013) we had our interview and we were approved. 88 days total! Yay!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/463423-i-485-interview-today-approved/?p=6622216

Now we just wait for all the cards, and life can start as a permanent resident!

Good luck everyone!

[Cometz 0]

Congrads to all the NOA2!!! We are still waiting for ours. It has been more than 2 weeks since CSC received our RFE and no word yet. I've read other cases that have RFE and they have received approval already. Some file after us and some mailed in their RFE after us. My fiance kept asking everyday if there is any good news. I told her just be patience, our day will come. I felt that I am telling myself that too....

[ivanalex1980 34]

Thanks everybody! Yes, the Rio consulate schedules the interview for you. Fortunately they've given enough lead time so we can be together for the interview. I'm glad I saved up the frequent flyer miles!

Hi guys congratulations again

since the embassy shceduled the interiew for you it means your case is already in the embassy from NVC ?

thanks

[FulanoDeTal 19]

Thanks! Yes, our case left the NVC by 10/25, and arrived in Rio by 10/28. The Rio consulate sent the scheduling letter on 10/31, but another Brazil member suggested that we send an email inquiry to the consulate, and the consulate replied the same day with the interview date and all of the necessary information by email. The 10/31 letter still hasn't arrived, but the consulate says that's not problem because the email is sufficient. The bottom line is that all of our communications are with the Rio consulate at this point. I know that things get handled differently depending on the country, but that's how the F-1 interview scheduling has gone for us in Brazil.

Thanks again and good luck!

[Davesings 30]

Thanks everybody! Yes, the Rio consulate schedules the interview for you. Fortunately they've given enough lead time so we can be together for the interview. I'm glad I saved up the frequent flyer miles!

That's great you will be there for the interview. We are hoping I can be in London when the time comes!

[zuluweta 250]

We are hoping too that my fiancé and I can be together at the embassy interview. We have an initial meeting with a new lawyer next week to assist us in the Department of State stage of the K-1 visa application.

[Sukie 1,463]

I am full of happiness for those of you who are nearing the final step (and a bit jealous, too!). I'm at Day 125 for the I-130 (I filed the day after DOMA fell), and they are currently estimating an 11 MONTH (!!!!!) timeframe for this approval! For those of us who are married but still separated (gay AND straight), I hope USCIS starts getting its act together. It's been really hard to see 129F fiance/fiancee visas approved, while ours languish.

Keep those success stories coming. For those of you who are at the interview stage - PLEASE let us know what kind of questions you are asked. It might be different for those of you where both of you were already in the US. I'll be really interested in questions asked where the non-USC has never lived in the US before.

Hooray!!!

[wornoutcowboy 6]

Congrads to all the NOA2!!! We are still waiting for ours. It has been more than 2 weeks since CSC received our RFE and no word yet. I've read other cases that have RFE and they have received approval already. Some file after us and some mailed in their RFE after us. My fiance kept asking everyday if there is any good news. I told her just be patience, our day will come. I felt that I am telling myself that too....

Just wait a bit longer. It will turn up soon since your error was so minor. I suspect you guys will be the first same sex couple to have an interview in Vientiane. I will be interested in hearing how it goes. My boyfriend is real nervous about doing it when he heard the interviewer would probably be Lao.

Are you going to have your partner go to the Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get an exit visa? We were hoping to skip this step being it usually involves a bribe.

Just relax and it will turn up before you know it.

[Vinn 3]

Hello everyone

we just got approved, we received our NOA2 on the 31 of October.

we were sooooooo happy too read these exciting words:

On October 31, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E).

So they received our RFE response on the 25 th of October and we got our NOA2 in exactly 6 days

Oh cool! We got the same email on October 31 too! So excited! 40 days since NOA1 for us....

[Davesings 30]

Oh cool! We got the same email on October 31 too! So excited! 40 days since NOA1 for us....

Congrats Vinn on the NOA2

[Davesings 30]

I am full of happiness for those of you who are nearing the final step (and a bit jealous, too!). I'm at Day 125 for the I-130 (I filed the day after DOMA fell), and they are currently estimating an 11 MONTH (!!!!!) timeframe for this approval! For those of us who are married but still separated (gay AND straight), I hope USCIS starts getting its act together. It's been really hard to see 129F fiance/fiancee visas approved, while ours languish.

Wow, Sukie, I didn't realize how much longer the the I-130 process is taking. That does not seem fair since you are already married. Sending speedy processing vibes your way!

[ivanalex1980 34]

Oh cool! We got the same email on October 31 too! So excited! 40 days since NOA1 for us....

wow congratulations to you too

keep me updated about your next steps

hopefully they will send out our case to NVC this week

we are in TSC btw

[vlad77 9]

My spouse and I have known one another for 6 years, and we got married in Iowa in October when I was visiting him in the US. He is a LPR. He already filed I-130 on my behalf that was accepted last October, 28. Although the wait has just begun, I hope that our journey will go through smoothly.

[Sukie 1,463]

Wow, Sukie, I didn't realize how much longer the the I-130 process is taking. That does not seem fair since you are already married. Sending speedy processing vibes your way!

Thanks for the sentiments. I understand that this happened to 129F petitions when the DACA process started. 129Fs were taking nearly a year! Somehow USCIS got their act together - now 129Fs are taking 40-60 days. But the I-130s, which are supposed to take 5.5 months stretched out to 16.5 months, and have clawed their way back to 11 months. We will survive - but it's really hard, and very expensive to go back and forth.

Wouldn't it be fun one day to have a VJ "reunion" for all of us here????

Sukie

[Davesings 30]

We will survive - but it's really hard, and very expensive to go back and forth.

Wouldn't it be fun one day to have a VJ "reunion" for all of us here????

Sukie

Yeah, we've clocked about 50 trips each across the Atlantic in the past 11 years...no wonder we don't have any money...but yes it would be fun to meet everyone!