February 2015 filers - Texas Service Center

[GMLove 18]

I hope everyone here hears some good news shortly. I know what a black hole the TSC is.

[sa39561 1]

All, Do Not Give Up Hope! We were just approved (NOA2) on the 19th. 42 days of processing; Philippine beneficiary. Keep your fingers crossed and pray that TSC gets faster in processing. Cheers and good luck everyone!!

Lance and Ann

[sweetymcbeal 9]

Wow!! Congrats

[HislittleSecret 21]

All, Do Not Give Up Hope! We were just approved (NOA2) on the 19th. 42 days of processing; Philippine beneficiary. Keep your fingers crossed and pray that TSC gets faster in processing. Cheers and good luck everyone!!

Lance and Ann

Yours was likely expedited but congrats anyway! Philippines beneficiary....

Edited March 20, 2015 by HislittleSecret

[ConiMoni 11]

Yours was likely expedited but congrats anyway! Philippines beneficiary....

Hi HislittleSecret,

Are cases involving Philippines beneficiary expedited due to some reason??

Kind regards,

ConiMoni

[TabeaK 517]

They have been for a while due to the 2013 typhoon and other natural catastrophes.

[waiting4awhile 18]

All, Do Not Give Up Hope! We were just approved (NOA2) on the 19th. 42 days of processing; Philippine beneficiary. Keep your fingers crossed and pray that TSC gets faster in processing. Cheers and good luck everyone!!

Lance and Ann

Filipino applicants are expedited. Although, I'm super happy for you (yay!), non-expedites will never be processed in 42 days at this rate. You're situation is unique and does not apply to the majority of TSC filers. I don't want your case to give others false hope is all. Still, congrats!

One more thing, why is the consulate on your timeline filled out as ISRAEL if you're a Filipino filer? You should change it, otherwise people won't take your data seriously.

Edited March 20, 2015 by naija202

[Mad & J 25]

Well, I'm about 5 weeks into this process... It's discouraging to think how many more weeks I will likely have to wait before our petition is approved, but today I booked my tickets for a 3 week trip to see my fiancée! I'm leaving in a month, it's nice to have something concrete to look forward to! It's going to help a lot with the waiting.

How's everyone holding up?

[hosfam 4]

Hi, everybody! Our noa1 12 of February. TSC. Still nothing.

[Pennycat 880]

Well, I'm about 5 weeks into this process... It's discouraging to think how many more weeks I will likely have to wait before our petition is approved, but today I booked my tickets for a 3 week trip to see my fiancée! I'm leaving in a month, it's nice to have something concrete to look forward to! It's going to help a lot with the waiting.

How's everyone holding up?

Almost 2 months in and nothing. Not that I expect it, or that 2 months is bad. It's just knowing that it's likely to be 6 more just for NOA2 that's driving me nuts.

I really can't take much more time off work to visit (I don't want to abuse the really generous leave policy we have, plus I'm trying to save up all of my leave for when he moves here. Don't want to pull a "welcome to the US and thanks for immigrating to a country you've never seen before just for my sake, but errr, gotta run, see you at 5:30!"), and he can't come here and I'm also attempting to save money like crazy as well so........ Yeah. No visits on the horizon, even though I'd desperately want it to be otherwise

It also seems like the "good news" we got about the dealing with the backlog/ workload imbalance between the service centers wasn't really good news for us (or dealing with the backlog). They're going to have the Lockbox route new petitions to the service center with the lowest workload from here on out. So basically, we'll still be in the long line they're doing nothing about at TSC and all new filers will go to CSC until the workload balances out. Hooray.

Also, this has basically provided the employees a disincentive to work quickly. The quicker they process applications, the more applications they'll be sent. I don't anticipate this ending well for anyone.

[yaizz 5]

Well, I'm about 5 weeks into this process... It's discouraging to think how many more weeks I will likely have to wait before our petition is approved, but today I booked my tickets for a 3 week trip to see my fiancée! I'm leaving in a month, it's nice to have something concrete to look forward to! It's going to help a lot with the waiting.

How's everyone holding up?

Not so well... I thought I could really maintain my sanity during this time period but its just draining me day by day. Two months in this ordeal process and three months since we last seen each other is really kicking my butt. I'm at the point of fumbling the idea of taking a chance of just quitting my job just to be with her and seeing if my mother can be our co-sponsor. I don't even know Laos excepts sponsor to be honest but its beats getting divided by an ocean. Why did i choose to live in Florida LOL hahah

[Mad & J 25]

Hi, everybody! Our noa1 12 of February. TSC. Still nothing.

Welcome to VJ! I like this place for venting and sharing info, even if sometimes I think it just makes me more crazy than I would be otherwise.

Almost 2 months in and nothing. Not that I expect it, or that 2 months is bad. It's just knowing that it's likely to be 6 more just for NOA2 that's driving me nuts.

I really can't take much more time off work to visit (I don't want to abuse the really generous leave policy we have, plus I'm trying to save up all of my leave for when he moves here. Don't want to pull a "welcome to the US and thanks for immigrating to a country you've never seen before just for my sake, but errr, gotta run, see you at 5:30!"), and he can't come here and I'm also attempting to save money like crazy as well so........ Yeah. No visits on the horizon, even though I'd desperately want it to be otherwise

It also seems like the "good news" we got about the dealing with the backlog/ workload imbalance between the service centers wasn't really good news for us (or dealing with the backlog). They're going to have the Lockbox route new petitions to the service center with the lowest workload from here on out. So basically, we'll still be in the long line they're doing nothing about at TSC and all new filers will go to CSC until the workload balances out. Hooray.

Also, this has basically provided the employees a disincentive to work quickly. The quicker they process applications, the more applications they'll be sent. I don't anticipate this ending well for anyone.

Yeah, I get the work thing being a problem. We're lucky because I can cross the border easily being Canadian, and I have a very flexible schedule that allows me to travel (I was in grad school for a long time, now mostly doing freelance stuff). It's not ideal money-wise, but it doesn't seem worthwhile to look for permanent work at this time, considering I'm planning on immigrating sometime this year, TSC willing. My partner, who is the petitioner, only has so many weeks off a year... If we had to rely on her visiting me, we would hardly have seen each other these past few years. Still, I'm probably visiting more than I can really afford.

I've been keeping up on this supposed transfer debacle too, it's super frustrating. I was so hopeful when it was first announced, but now I agree with you: it doesn't seem like it will do us any good at all, except maybe that it will stop the "line-cutting" from Filipino expedites for a little while. I've even considered re-filing just so I'd get routed to CSC, but everything is so uncertain that it doesn't seem worth the money or risking losing our place in the line. Who know how long they will keep routing like this? I can just imagine the frustration if I decided to re-file and ended up at TSC anyway!

[juicyturkey317 5]

We filed towards the end of Jan so I feel more connected to the Feb bunch stuck in TSC than those who filed at the beginning of the year. To call this a roller coaster would be an understatement. I've had days where I've found this site to be the biggest blessing... Inspiring words and people who understand the mixed emotion of planning a future without knowing a date. Other days, I've had to step away because the joy of another's quick approval or the ranting frustration as we all realized the rebalancing did nothing to help us all just seemed too much.

I bought a ticket to visit him in July but in the meantime I've tried a new hobby, cleared out my closet to make room for him, and even researched how he'll get a drivers license. Can you call this nesting?

This is hard. This is taking forever. But today, he reminded me that this is TOTALLY worth it. Even on FaceTime with a sketchy connection thousands of miles away... He truly sees me. I can't help but to naturally love him. I'd rather hold the phone and wait, hanging on his words, than to not have found my match living half a world away. In the most adorable accent he says 2 words that rush over me like a calm wind, "it's ok." And you know what? It is. Do you remember why you're waiting?

[Stir it up 4]

Hello Co-February 2015 TSC filers! Any updates?

[YvonneK88 2]

Hello everyone! I'm a new member and wanted to introduce myself. I don't know if this is the right place to do it but this is my first time writing in a forum ever, as I am usually just an anonymous reader. But I just found this thread and I'm thankful for all the information I got from your posts. It's good to know that my fiance and I aren't the only ones that are frustrated (and we've "only" been waiting for 3 months). Given your information about TSC it seems that we're just as stuck as you are

Good luck to all of you!