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I get lost a LOT without my phone. I'm very dependent on the little blue dot that shows me exactly where I am. No phone, no sense of direction! But if all else fails, I hail a cab. The walk will only take about 20-25 minutes.

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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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yeah every little steps of this process freaks us out lol but now we just need to do the medical then interview! That's it!!

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LOL I don't think you are jinxing yourself, I think you are being practical. Good for you! I love ticket sales. And re: the poor horn player. You know, it's so hard not to laugh initially, but I see

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Oh no, you are not the only one with excellent taste in hair color;)

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I bet with your old-timey map you will be all set. So funny that they are indeed completely outdated. :lol:

Also, pretty sure I just liked your post in the VJ group on facebook! Wanted to add here that I would love to stay in touch with any of you that would like to. I'm happy to give out my email and/or facebook if anyone would want to be friends there, just shoot me a message. If not that's cool, just wanted to put it out there.

 

~12-25-2006: met online (a blog site)
05-01-2013: FINALLY MET IN PERSON! in Canada
05-04-2013: finally became a couple
06-14-2014: got engaged
08-08-2014: got married in Canada
09-18-2014: sent I-130 via UPS, 142 pages in total
09-19-2014: I-130 arrived and signed for
09-24-2014: NOA1 text & hard copy received same day, Vermont Service Center
11-20-2014: NOA2 (I-130 approval!) hard copy received, 57 days from NOA1


12-08-2014: NVC received case
01-14-2015: case number and IIN number received via email
01-14-2015: DS-261 submitted
01-14-2015: AOS fee paid
01-22-2015: IV fee paid
01-24-2015: DS-260 submitted
01-25-2015: AOS and IV documents submitted electronically
02-18-2015: petitioner's proof of US domicile submitted electronically
02-25-2015: email confirmation received (31 days after sending!), scan date of 01-26-2015 <--60 day wait starts
03-24-2015: email confirmation received (34 days after sending!), scan date of 02-18-2015 <--60 day wait starts (a 2nd time)
03-31-2015: case completed at NVC! 2/18 documents got reviewed with the 1/26 ones, 64 days from original scan date

 

04-07-2015: case complete email received
04-22-2015: interview date email received
05-13-2015: medical in Montreal

05-19-2015: picked up medical results
05-20-2015: interview in Montreal --- APPROVED!, 238 days from NOA1

05-25-2015: passport/visa received!

05-30-2015: POE, Calais/St Stephen land crossing, 248 days from NOA1

06-03-2015: paid ELIS fee

06-10-2015: SSN received

07-02-2015: green card received!


03-13-2017: sent I-751 via USPS to Vermont Service Center, 156 pages in total 
03-14-2017: I-751 arrived and signed for

03-23-2017: NOA1 received, dated 03-16-2017

04-07-2017: biometrics appointment letter received 
04-18-2017: biometrics appointment 

02-05-2018: I-751 approval received!, dated 02-01-2018

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Not a Tailor   1,370

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Pretty sure you're right. *grin* And sure, friend me!

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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Hey NAT! Just wanted to say GOOD LUCK to you!!!! I will definitely be thinking about ya (maybe not at ten to 6 in the am as I will be snoozing for about another hour) haha but definitely when I wake up! I hope everything goes smoothly for you and I expect it will! Let us know as soon as you can! Get some sleep!! Ohhhhh soooo exciting!!

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Ok :blush: I know I probably sound crazy, but I LOVE having you to ask stupid questions of. Thank you!

hehe...mine is signed in black ink and I'm super worried that they won't be able to tell it's an authentic signature!

So......

follow the rules = worry & stress

don't follow rules = worry & stress

What are we going to do someday when we don't have silly little details to worry and stress over....ahhhh I can almost picture it!!!

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hehe...mine is signed in black ink and I'm super worried that they won't be able to tell it's an authentic signature!

So......

follow the rules = worry & stress

don't follow rules = worry & stress

What are we going to do someday when we don't have silly little details to worry and stress over....ahhhh I can almost picture it!!!

LOL too true!! I am just sitting here, putting together our picture album, and I am obsessing over what to include. And then I think, come on!! So I am only taking a couple of phone bills (there is NO WAY I will bring 4 years worth), but the phone bills from the beginning are over 1000 bucks/month :blush: before I figured out how not to break the bank and still talk to my love.

If that's NOT love, then what the heck is???

I think I will finish the album, put in a few more interesting emails (wondering if I should include some of our "really interesting" emails hehe, just for shock value), and leave it at that. If anyone can mistake our looks for something other than love they are crazy.

SORRY I totally went off topic. Good luck NAT!!

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LOL too true!! I am just sitting here, putting together our picture album, and I am obsessing over what to include. And then I think, come on!! So I am only taking a couple of phone bills (there is NO WAY I will bring 4 years worth), but the phone bills from the beginning are over 1000 bucks/month :blush: before I figured out how not to break the bank and still talk to my love.

If that's NOT love, then what the heck is???

I think I will finish the album, put in a few more interesting emails (wondering if I should include some of our "really interesting" emails hehe, just for shock value), and leave it at that. If anyone can mistake our looks for something other than love they are crazy.

SORRY I totally went off topic. Good luck NAT!!

Wholly smokes!! 1000 bucks a month?? I hope you have found skype....free and you get to see them!!! :)

You should totally put in one of those emails...just to see if they are paying attention....hahaha oh my how funny would that be!!! I still need to get that stuff together...ugh! Life has just gotten so busy lately I feel like I don't have time to do the things I need to...

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Wholly smokes!! 1000 bucks a month?? I hope you have found skype....free and you get to see them!!! :)

You should totally put in one of those emails...just to see if they are paying attention....hahaha oh my how funny would that be!!! I still need to get that stuff together...ugh! Life has just gotten so busy lately I feel like I don't have time to do the things I need to...

yeah… those took me a while to pay off, with hubby's help, but then a very nice Rogers guy gave me an unlimited U.S. long distance plan for only a few bucks a month extra (I think he felt bad for me), and I have had that since (and it doesn't even exist at Rogers anymore).

Well lady, get to it!!! We have our medical exams next week;) I now have mine on the 13th at Dr. M's (they moved me up). Time is all of a sudden going faster!

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Best wishes NAT, I am rooting for you. Happy birthday twochikies, I hope you have a great one, have 1 more glass of wine on my behalf.

USCIS (CR-1)

August 12th, 2014: I-130 Mailed

August 13th, 2014: I-130 was received by AZ lockbox and transferred to Nebraska SC

August 15th, 2014: NOA1 by E-mail

August 22nd, 2014: Received NOA1 by Mail

February 2nd, 2015: USCIS Approved 1-130 petition (175 days)

February 10th, 2015: Case Status on USCIS website (We sent your case to the Department of State for visa Processing)

February 13th, 2015: Received NOA2 by Mail

NVC (CR-1)

February 17th, 2015: Case Received at NVC

February 27th, 2015: Case & Invoice ID numbers assigned

February 27th, 2015: Submitted DS-261

March 3rd, 2015: AOS bill paid

March 4th, 2015: NVC welcome letter received by postal mail.

March 6th, 2015: Sent both AOS & IV packages via fedex (didn't opt for EP)

March 9th, 2015: packages arrived at NVC office (fedex tracking showed delivered)

March 14th, 2015: received official letter from NVC stating receipt of packages and March 9th, 2015 as the scan date

March 18th, 2015: AOS fee rejected (due to glitch during payment and possibly human error in imputing the bank details )

March 18th, 2015: RE-PAID AOS fee

March 19th, 2015: AOS fee accepted (changed from "in process" to "paid)

March 24th, 2015: DS 261 was reviewed

March 25th, 2015: IV fee was invoiced

March 25th, 2015: IV fee paid - "in process"

March 27th, 2015: IV Payment changed to "paid"

March 27th, 2015: DS 260 completed

March 30th, 2015: Case complete .....21 days from scan date

April 6th,2015: Official case complete email received.

April 22nd,2015: Received interview letter (p4)

April 22nd,2015: Booked medical at medisys for may 6th,2015

May 6th, 2015: Completed Medical

May 11th, 2015: Collected medical result.

May 15th, 2015: Interview appointment - Approved :dancing::dance::dancing: "As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord"

May 21st, 2015: Visa received "It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that showeth mercy"

May 31th, 2015: Port of Entry at Pearsons airport Toronto

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right about now NAT your inside the consulate because you were first in line when the doors opened! soon you'll be on the ride up and taking a number. then you'll be called up to provide docs, then asked to sit down, then called up a second time....where the CO says "Welcome to America!".....can't wait for you to tell us how it went!!!

TwoChickies, Happy Birthday!

And to everyone else....happy day, let's all celebrate tonight with some tasty morsels and a glass of ??? for this special day....we are all one day closer to living with our spouses!!!!!

:goofy::dance::goofy:



USCIS
30 Jan 2014 - Sent I-130
03 Feb 2014- NOA1
10 months of bologna, we cannot believe this, nor will you if you knew
02 Dec 2014- NOA2

NVC
30-Dec 2014 case received
10-Feb 2015 case and iin # assigned
10-Feb 2015 completed ds 261
11-Feb 2015 paid AOS fee
11-Feb 2015 welcome letter rec'd
15-Feb 2015 emailed AOS & IV package info
19-Feb 2015 paid IV fee
23-Feb 2015 submitted ds260
07-Apr 2015 CC :dancing:
26-May 2015. interview--approval

28-May 2015 noon visa in hand!!

POE-??

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I was first! Though for some reason, number two went ahead of me.

There was a moment of absolute heart failure and terror where the CO frowned and said "I didn't think Gay Marriage was legal in the state of Texas." And I said "It's not, that's why we married in Massachusetts." And he frowned some more and said "But does Texas recognize out of state same sex marriages?" And I said "No, they don't... But immigration through marriage is a federal issue under the Supreme Court ruling on DOMA in June of 2013." And he frowned some more and clicked some things on his screen and said "Well maybe we can pretend you're going to live in Massachusetts..." And then suddenly he brightened and said "Oh, okay, WE recognize your marriage, even if Texas doesn't. That's okay, then."

And less than two minutes later, I was approved! I should be visa in hand in about two weeks!!!

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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AND IT ALREADY SHOWS ISSUED ON CEAC!

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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Good luck, Sammyann!

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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