I-130 January 2017 Filers

[freaque 11]

4 hours ago, dady12 said:

Texas and nabraska service centre are been hell these days,uscis are too lazy these days as petition now taking more than 6months for approvah,I am over 6 months of waiting and still no sign from nabraska,very sad

The thing is, it may not even gna be approved, they may request for evidence, so it's just gna take forever

[Pat&Vince 97]

5 hours ago, freaque said:

Ugh day 181

It's been 6 months

 

 

 

152 days here... this isn't giving me a lot of hope  :-(

 

I'm flying to the US in 8 days for a month, I'm not even sure we will get the NOA2 while I'm over there now.

And it's seriously screwing my planning/timeline for the end of this year.

 

 

 

[freaque 11]

1 minute ago, Pat&Vince said:

 

 

 

152 days here... this isn't giving me a lot of hope  :-(

 

I'm flying to the US in 8 days for a month, I'm not even sure we will get the NOA2 while I'm over there now.

And it's seriously screwing my planning/timeline for the end of this year.

 

 

 

I'm losing hope

Honestly, I thought this uscis part would take a half of a year max, so naive

[Pat&Vince 97]

1 minute ago, freaque said:

I'm losing hope

Honestly, I thought this uscis part would take a half of a year max, so naive

 

We're at a point where we try to avoid the subject with my husband... it's hard because because a lot of people keep questionning us (and look genuinely surprised that things are so slow!)

 

Receiving the NOA2 is going to be an incredible feeling (and that thought is making smile), but in the meantime, it's still the same awfully long waiting game.

 

6 months from now, we'll all laugh about this  :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Yeonin 127]

4 hours ago, dady12 said:

Texas and nabraska service centre are been hell these days,uscis are too lazy these days as petition now taking more than 6months for approvah,I am over 6 months of waiting and still no sign from nabraska,very sad

@freaque @dady12 sending you both hugs and positives vibes, it might nog b3 alot but o hope it comforts you a bit. Have a great day!

[freaque 11]

3 minutes ago, Pat&Vince said:

 

We're at a point where we try to avoid the subject with my husband... it's hard because because a lot of people keep questionning us (and look genuinely surprised that things are so slow!)

 

Receiving the NOA2 is going to be an incredible feeling (and that thought is making smile), but in the meantime, it's still the same awfully long waiting game.

 

6 months from now, we'll all laugh about this  :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or cry

[freaque 11]

1 minute ago, Yeonin said:

@freaque @dady12 sending you both hugs and positives vibes, it might nog b3 alot but o hope it comforts you a bit. Have a great day!

Thank you!

What you guys upto

I'm a lil worried about aos cause I don't understand how to fill all the forms right, not sure about co sponsor too, seems like husband's income should be enough. Telling him to go through the papers now and find out which docs he may need to fill the form, so we wouldn't have to spend time on it later and be prepared, but he's just being a typical husband and bet haven't even read it yet

[Pat&Vince 97]

6 minutes ago, freaque said:

Or cry

 

 

Awe c'mon... those lawyers, they know nothing about nothing !

 

Ours give us the same kind of answers, I don't even ask anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

[Yeonin 127]

3 hours ago, freaque said:

Thank you!

What you guys upto

I'm a lil worried about aos cause I don't understand how to fill all the forms right, not sure about co sponsor too, seems like husband's income should be enough. Telling him to go through the papers now and find out which docs he may need to fill the form, so we wouldn't have to spend time on it later and be prepared, but he's just being a typical husband and bet haven't even read it yet

Not much I've sent NVC an email today because they keep dropping the call when I phone them. Well not only men my wife is just like that, luckily I have a legal degree, I read and write for a living so I was able to figure everything out myself. I wasn't willing to pay a lawyer, because I know how they operate. So I make sure I read into everything and prepare all the documents she only has to print out and send. Let me know if there's something I can help you with, greetings.

[Yeonin 127]

3 hours ago, Pat&Vince said:

 

 

Awe c'mon... those lawyers, they know nothing about nothing !

 

Ours give us the same kind of answers, I don't even ask anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

typical lawyer behavior! very discouraging and lazyyy, my God. I'm glad I have a law degree and to a certain degree like to challenge the Law as they say it is. 

[MO&RA 22]

10 minutes ago, Yeonin said:

Not much I've sent NVC an email today because they keep dropping the call when I phone them. Well not only men my wife is just like that, luckily I have a legal degree, I read and write for a living so I was able to figure everything out myself. I wasn't willing to pay a lawyer, because I know how they operate. So I make sure I read into everything and prepare all the documents she only has to print out and send. Let me know if there's something I can help you with, greetings.

Such a big comfort to have you here. Thanks for the support  

[Yeonin 127]

28 minutes ago, MO&RA said:

Such a big comfort to have you here. Thanks for the support  

lol you're welcome! anything to help my "immigration community" out. we're in this together♥

[Pat&Vince 97]

39 minutes ago, Yeonin said:

typical lawyer behavior! very discouraging and lazyyy, my God. I'm glad I have a law degree and to a certain degree like to challenge the Law as they say it is. 

 

I am by no means in the law business, but I'm a very curious person. I've documented myself and always prepared a lot of targeted questions every time we spoke to our lawyers before launching the I-130.

To their credits, they actually motivated us to get married instead of going through the K-1 process, and I'm very happy about it !

 

However, I have to admit I haven't learnt much of anything new through the conference calls that we've had. I got confirmation of a lot of things and got "reassured", but I never had the feeling of having been informed about anything groundbreaking.

 

The things that bothered me the most are the "non-answers", the "it may vary quite a lot" and "let's wait for the return", when I suggested to be pro-active.

 

Also, the first couple drafts of our 1-130 were riddled with small mistakes and typos (I'm a well trained proof reader, so I caught them all!). Also, being an architect and my husband a designer, we were a bit disappointed by how the petition was built and how itn ultimately looked. The petition ended up being mostly a word file with copy/pastes of all the bona fide material we provided, including tens of useless pages (disclaimers for airline tickets, blanks, etc).

 

After a lot of "suggestions" to clean it up, they just edited it the way I asked without even challenging. They had also omitted some key stuff (or photos) when a lot of useless stuff had been kept and infalting the petition in a very awkward way.

 

The bottom line : lawyers make sure all the required documents are featured and the correct fee paid, that's about it.

 

However, after having paid their fee in full, I'm not convinced this is the best 5k that we have spent so far  :-/

 

 

Anyway, *end of the rant*

 

Fingers crossed, and now bring on the NOA2 dammit !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lazybones18 261]

2 minutes ago, Pat&Vince said:

 

I am by no means in the law business, but I'm a very curious person. I've documented myself and always prepared a lot of targeted questions every time we spoke to our lawyers before launching the I-130.

To their credits, they actually motivated us to get married instead of going through the K-1 process, and I'm very happy about it !

 

However, I have to admit I haven't learnt much of anything new through the conference calls that we've had. I got confirmation of a lot of things and got "reassured", but I never had the feeling of having been informed about anything groundbreaking.

 

The things that bothered me the most are the "non-answers", the "it may vary quite a lot" and "let's wait for the return", when I suggested to be pro-active.

 

Also, the first couple drafts of our 1-130 were riddled with small mistakes and typos (I'm a well trained proof reader, so I caught them all!). Also, being an architect and my husband a designer, we were a bit disappointed by how the petition was built and how itn ultimately looked. The petition ended up being mostly a word file with copy/pastes of all the bona fide material we provided, including tens of useless pages (disclaimers for airline tickets, blanks, etc).

 

After a lot of "suggestions" to clean it up, they just edited it the way I asked without even challenging. They had also omitted some key stuff (or photos) when a lot of useless stuff had been kept and infalting the petition in a very awkward way.

 

The bottom line : lawyers make sure all the required documents are featured and the correct fee paid, that's about it.

 

However, after having paid their fee in full, I'm not convinced this is the best 5k that we have spent so far  :-/

 

 

Anyway, *end of the rant*

 

Fingers crossed, and now bring on the NOA2 dammit !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I filed myself and i realized i made couple of small non-critical errors... 2 typo in the cover letter and forgot to sent one of the evidence of bonafide marriage

 

Definitely planning to Lawyer up after IF i get RFE - Dont want to Risk... better safe than sorry

 

 

[Yeonin 127]

21 minutes ago, Pat&Vince said:

 

I am by no means in the law business, but I'm a very curious person. I've documented myself and always prepared a lot of targeted questions every time we spoke to our lawyers before launching the I-130.

To their credits, they actually motivated us to get married instead of going through the K-1 process, and I'm very happy about it !

 

However, I have to admit I haven't learnt much of anything new through the conference calls that we've had. I got confirmation of a lot of things and got "reassured", but I never had the feeling of having been informed about anything groundbreaking.

 

The things that bothered me the most are the "non-answers", the "it may vary quite a lot" and "let's wait for the return", when I suggested to be pro-active.

 

Also, the first couple drafts of our 1-130 were riddled with small mistakes and typos (I'm a well trained proof reader, so I caught them all!). Also, being an architect and my husband a designer, we were a bit disappointed by how the petition was built and how itn ultimately looked. The petition ended up being mostly a word file with copy/pastes of all the bona fide material we provided, including tens of useless pages (disclaimers for airline tickets, blanks, etc).

 

After a lot of "suggestions" to clean it up, they just edited it the way I asked without even challenging. They had also omitted some key stuff (or photos) when a lot of useless stuff had been kept and infalting the petition in a very awkward way.

 

The bottom line : lawyers make sure all the required documents are featured and the correct fee paid, that's about it.

 

However, after having paid their fee in full, I'm not convinced this is the best 5k that we have spent so far  :-/

 

 

Anyway, *end of the rant*

 

Fingers crossed, and now bring on the NOA2 dammit !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this proces will create the next group of thorough immigration advisors lol! 

 

And it'll be about damn time that your NOA2 comes in...because I'm waiting alongside all of y'all! 🙌