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Good news for California filers! Seems everything is moving quite quickly. Although the online systems show that they are taking about 5 months, the time between our NOA1 and NOA2 was only 4 DAYS (5/19-5/23) and our petition has already be received by the NVC. I called yesterday for the Case#, etc, but they said it could take up to a month for their processing.

Keep your heads up! We May Filers started the process at a great time ;)

Our Relationship
11/06/2010: Met in Spain
11/21/2010: Officially became an item
08/12/2011: A moved to USA

09/09/2012: A moved back to Spain
01/26/2013: I proposed in Barcelona
07/19/2013: WEDDING DAY! (L)

USCIS
05/16/2014: I-130 package scanned

05/19/2014: I-130 NOA1 electronic copy received
05/27/2014: I-130 NOA1 hard copy received
05/23/2014: I-130 NOA2 ELECTRONIC COPY RECEIVED! :dancing:


NVC
06/03/2014: NVC received case
06/23/2014: NVC Case Number and Invoice ID Number assigned
07/09/2014: DS-261 completed online & accepted
07/10/2014: AoS bill invoiced & paid
08/05/2014: AoS package scanned
09/08/2014: IV bill invoiced & paid
09/10/2014: IV package scanned
09/28/2014: DS-260 completed online & accepted
10/17/2014: AoS checklist email received

10/21/2014: AoS checklist package scanned

12/13/2014: CASE COMPLETE! :dancing:
12/29/2014: Interview scheduled

12/30/2014: P4 email received

12/31/2014: Case file shipped to the Embassy (In-Transit)

Embassy

01-05-2015: Case file arrived (Ready)
02-10-2015: Medical appointment in Madrid
02-12-2015: Interview in Madrid: APPROVED! :dancing::dance:
02-13-2015: Visa issued

02-17-2015: Visa in hand

02-25-2015: POE

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NKrishMT
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Thank you! Thank God for this thread! Yes I will let you know

wavj
wavj

Hello, We are about to send the package for my AOS. Would you mind to share how you put together yours? what kind of binders? I have some extra required documents to attach to some forms to explain

jsumner86
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Can't believe there's a May 2014 thread.. I started in May 2013, and along with others who started in the beginning of 2013, we are finally slowly making our way to approvals for I-130s and case compl

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Not a Tailor   1,370

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Your luck is amazing! *jealous* I hope the rest of your journey goes really smoothly and you get home soon. It's been less than a month since we sent ours off (just) and I just really want it sorted. I'd promised myself I'd only check case status online once a week. I'm checking three times a day. Oops?

Met in 2010 on a forum for a mutual interest. Became friends.
2011: Realized we needed to evaluate our status as friends when we realized we were talking about raising children together.

2011/2012: Decided we were a couple sometime in, but no possibility of being together due to being same sex couple.

June 26, 2013: DOMA overturned. American married couples ALL have the same federal rights at last! We can be a family!

June-September, 2013: Discussion about being together begins.

November 13, 2013: Meet in person to see if this could work. It's perfect. We plan to elope to Boston, MA.

March 13, 2014 Married!

May 9, 2014: Petition mailed to USCIS

May 12, 2014: NOA1.
October 27, 2014: NOA2. (5 months, 2 weeks, 1 day after NOA1)
October 31, 2014: USCIS ships file to NVC (five days after NOA2) Happy Halloween for us!

November 18, 2014: NVC receives our case (22 days after NOA2)

December 17, 2014: NVC generates case number (50 days after NOA2)

December 19, 2014: Receive AOS bill, DS-261. Submit DS-261 (52 days after NOA2)

December 20, 2014: Pay AOS Fee

January 7, 2015: Receive, pay IV Fee

January 10, 2015: Complete DS-260

January 11, 2015: Send AOS package and Civil Documents
March 23, 2015: Case Complete at NVC. (70 days from when they received docs to CC)

May 6, 2015: Interview at Montréal APPROVED!

May 11, 2015: Visa in hand! One year less one day from NOA1.

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Even if it's the same thing, never fails to always have your bases covered with communication. Say your email has an underscore, immigration person may assume you meant a space so you never receive notification. My NOA 2, first I saw anything of it was looking up my case number, on a Sunday night... Went in found there had been an update. Never got a text about the NOA 2 but I did get one for NOA 1. These are goverment workers, they will send out one form of notification, even if it is a letter in the mail. Just stay on top of it, and as the guides and people here say keep calling each day after the alloted time. Just waiting till June 19th to start calling NVC, good luck and God bless!

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Deep35472   130

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Please Join our I-130 filers Facebook Group for more Help guys.

we r their to support each other.

Here is the link..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/297983330378608/

Please come and join our friendly I-130 filers Immigration Visa Facebook group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/297983330378608/

My Visa journey

Service center : National service center.

Consulate : Mumbai, India.

07-14-2013: Marriage

08-12-2013: I-130 PD

11-04-2013: I-129F PD

02-21-2014: NOA2 for I-130( I-129F closed)

03-11-2014: NVC received case

03-19-2014: NVC sent case back to USCIS

04-07-2014: USCIS got the case

sent case back to NVC again :P

4/11/2014: NVC case number assigned.

4/21/2014: AOS and IV fees Paid.

4/24/2014: DS-260 submitted.

5/01/2014: AOS packet scanned

5/01/2014: IV packet scanned

5/21/2014: case completed. Woooowwww

6/26/2014: Medical Day

7/13/2014: Biometrics day

07/14/2014: Interview date ( First Anniversary) (L)(L)(L)

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Please Join our I-130 filers Facebook Group for more Help guys.

we r their to support each other.

Here is the link..

https://www.facebook.com/groups/297983330378608/

~~~Please refrain from posting this in multiple threads.~~~

Our journey:

Spoiler

September 2007: Met online via social networking site (MySpace); began exchanging messages.
March 26, 2009: We become a couple!
September 10, 2009: Arrived for first meeting in-person!
June 17, 2010: Arrived for second in-person meeting and start of travel together to other areas of China!
June 21, 2010: Engaged!!!
September 1, 2010: Switched course from K1 to CR-1
December 8, 2010: Wedding date set; it will be on February 18, 2011!
February 9, 2011: Depart for China
February 11, 2011: Registered for marriage in Wuhan, officially married!!!
February 18, 2011: Wedding ceremony in Shiyan!!!
April 22, 2011: Mailed I-130 to Chicago
April 28, 2011: Received NOA1 via text/email, file routed to CSC (priority date April 25th)
April 29, 2011: Updated
May 3, 2011: Received NOA1 hardcopy in mail
July 26, 2011: Received NOA2 via text/email!!!
July 30, 2011: Received NOA2 hardcopy in mail
August 8, 2011: NVC received file
September 1, 2011: NVC case number assigned
September 2, 2011: AOS invoice received, OPTIN email for EP sent
September 7, 2011: Paid AOS bill (payment portal showed PAID on September 9, 2011)
September 8, 2011: OPTIN email accepted, GZO number assigned
September 10, 2011: Emailed AOS package
September 12, 2011: IV bill invoiced
September 13, 2011: Paid IV bill (payment portal showed PAID on September 14, 2011)
September 14, 2011: Emailed IV package
October 3, 2011: Emailed checklist response (checklist generated due to typo on Form DS-230)
October 6, 2011: Case complete at NVC
November 10, 2011: Interview - APPROVED!!!
December 7, 2011: POE - Sea-Tac Airport

September 17, 2013: Mailed I-751 to CSC

September 23, 2013: Received NOA1 in mail (receipt date September 19th)

October 16, 2013: Biometrics Appointment

January 28, 2014: Production of new Green Card ordered

February 3, 2014: New Green Card received; done with USCIS until fall of 2023*

December 18, 2023:  Filed I-90 to renew Green Card

December 21, 2023:  Production of new Green Card ordered - will be seeing USCIS again every 10 years for renewal

 

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Deep35472   130

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~~~Please refrain from posting this in multiple threads.~~~

I am sorry my Friend..

Reason for post in Multiple Threads is coz this is monthly Thread..

May filers stay in May month and June filers look in June thread so I try to let everyone knows..

We just trying to Support people in Long waiting Journey.

Let me know if I don't have permission to post about outside any Group,

I won't post again.

Thanks Ryan.

Please come and join our friendly I-130 filers Immigration Visa Facebook group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/297983330378608/

My Visa journey

Service center : National service center.

Consulate : Mumbai, India.

07-14-2013: Marriage

08-12-2013: I-130 PD

11-04-2013: I-129F PD

02-21-2014: NOA2 for I-130( I-129F closed)

03-11-2014: NVC received case

03-19-2014: NVC sent case back to USCIS

04-07-2014: USCIS got the case

sent case back to NVC again :P

4/11/2014: NVC case number assigned.

4/21/2014: AOS and IV fees Paid.

4/24/2014: DS-260 submitted.

5/01/2014: AOS packet scanned

5/01/2014: IV packet scanned

5/21/2014: case completed. Woooowwww

6/26/2014: Medical Day

7/13/2014: Biometrics day

07/14/2014: Interview date ( First Anniversary) (L)(L)(L)

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shippingforecast   126

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I just wanted to know how it is different from the details entered in G1145 form that we sent along I130 petition. I have also signed up for My Case Status but the details that I entered like email id and mobile number are identical to that of G1145. I was just wondering whether these two means of getting information are same or not?

To my knowledge the G1145 only instructs USCIS to give you an electronic acknowledgment of receipt for your paperwork. It doesn't instruct them to make you aware of any subsequent changes past receipt.

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shippingforecast   126

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Good news for California filers! Seems everything is moving quite quickly. Although the online systems show that they are taking about 5 months, the time between our NOA1 and NOA2 was only 4 DAYS (5/19-5/23) and our petition has already be received by the NVC. I called yesterday for the Case#, etc, but they said it could take up to a month for their processing.

Keep your heads up! We May Filers started the process at a great time ;)

You are quite literally the luckiest person in the universe. I'm insanely envious of you, but with the utmost sincerity congratulations and good luck with the rest of the process.

Your luck is amazing! *jealous* I hope the rest of your journey goes really smoothly and you get home soon. It's been less than a month since we sent ours off (just) and I just really want it sorted. I'd promised myself I'd only check case status online once a week. I'm checking three times a day. Oops?

Right there with you... Over my morning coffee, every day when I get into the office like a ritual.

Now chronicling my experience in handy blog format at


http://the-shipping-forecast.tumblr.com/

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To my knowledge the G1145 only instructs USCIS to give you an electronic acknowledgment of receipt for your paperwork. It doesn't instruct them to make you aware of any subsequent changes past receipt.

Ok got it. ?

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shippingforecast   126

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I am just happy to be at the NVC portion rather then being stuck at the processing center... Good jolly miss Molly!

You're very lucky! How're you getting on?

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net2684   5

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Trying to keep busy, make sure I leave lots of notes when I am to do the daily call in. So I bought some missing you, thinking of you, all those mushy things to send to my wife. Figure I send out one a week, that kind of breaks the weeks up and not feel like it's dragging on and on. That is the killer for most of everyone. The long wait. Like right now, I am at school for the next three weeks. Half way through I should get notification, but since I am not at home I won't see the hard copy of the notification. Then of course once I am done, I am going on two week vacation to visit family on west coast, and then the long drive back. Mind boggling but I planned that so the 5-9 month wait would not get me cabin fever. Weird huh?

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Emily and James   1

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I'd read somewhere that they're taking onboard the applications for those that would've done direct consular filing...

Are all the people on this thread who've been sent to California living abroad with their partners? Please let us know!

Hi, haven't been on here in a while and still not at the end of the thread but-- yes, we are living abroad together and our case is through California.

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Received NOA2 today (email)- 28 days after NOA1. I did not expect that we'll be approved in less than a month! We were anxious about possibly getting an RFE for some reason. But THANK GOD for this unexpected blessing!!! I'm hoping and praying for a speedy approval for everyone! ?

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USCIS

05/13/2014: Sent I-130 to USCIS

05/19/2014: NOA1 Email Received. Assigned to NSC.

05/22/2014: NOA1 Hardcopy

06/16/2014: NOA2 Email. Approved. :dancing:

06/19/2014: NOA2 Hardcopy

06/20/2014: I-130 shipped to NVC

NVC

07/02/2014: Case received at NVC

07/11/2014: NVC confirmed they received our package on July 2.

07/23/2014: Got Case Number, IIN, BIN

07/30/2014: DS-261 Available and Completed

08/01/2014: Received NVC Instructions & AOS Invoice (Email)

08/01/2014: Called NVC to rectify spelling of address

08/03/2014: Paid AOS fee on CEAC (in process)

08/05/2014: AOS Fee in PAID status

08/13/2014: AOS Packet Mailed

08/14/2014: AOS Received at NVC

08/15/2014: AOS Scanned

09/03/2014: DS-261 Reviewed according to NVC rep

Waited for 41 days (29 business days) for IV invoice :dancing:

09/09/2014: Received IV invoice (Email)

09/10/2014: Paid IV fee on CEAC (in process)

09/11/2014: IV fee in PAID status

09/11/2014: IV Packet Mailed

09/12/2014: DS-260 Completed

09/12/2014: IV Packed received at NVC
09/15/2014: IV Scanned
Waited for 35 calendar days for AOS Acceptance and Case Complete :clock:

10/21/2014: Case Complete :dancing::whistle:

10/31/2014: Received Interview Instructions (P4)

EMBASSY

11/04/2014: Medical Exam at SLEC (2-day process) PASSED!

12/01/2014: Interview APPROVED! :dance:

12/09/2014: Visa on Hand

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net2684   5

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@KrishMT - Awesome news! Glad you guys are not hitting any road blocks!

Just got an email from NVC, they have my package and instructions will be sent out shortly. So when I get home, I'll be calling and seeing what I can do to further this process along!

FYI - I got my NOA 2 on May 19th and the NVC notice today June 16th. So it's taking 30 days to just get to NVC. Sucks but glad another hurdle is passed!

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