I-129F March 2017 Filers

[GazLisa 1,168]

2 minutes ago, SolFreeman said:

Good Morning! As soon as I read your post, I called my fiancé to call the NVC hoping that they already received our petition and yes, they got it few days ago! What a great news! 🤗 Thank you for updating your status here! Lol

 

@GazLisa you got the same approval date! You should try to call the NVC now. I'm pretty sure it's already there! 😎

 

Wishing everyone a great week and more approvals please!!! 😘🙏🏻

 

Lord, please help us. 

We called Friday they didn't have it 😞 Maybe try tonight 

[GazLisa 1,168]

3 hours ago, TearsOfBabylon said:

Uhuhuhuhuu even from Sheldon! 
Good luck for getting your NVC number, my friend! 
I can't wait for your report! Hopefully it doesn't arrive right when you're stateside, but before!!!

I sure hope so too lol 😂 

[KozmicBlues 592]

On 6/24/2017 at 1:44 AM, piranda said:

@KozmicBlues @Rev we have similar date for noa1 received and mail date ( for us 29 th March received, mailed 4th of April ). so , keeping all fingers crossed, next weeks is about us hopefully . 

Guys, checking our fillers page is more addictive then FB or Insta...

congrats to everyone with noa2 and keep us updated with the next steps in the process, don't abandon the forum after .

 

have a nice weekend !!!

 

 

 

Ah yes! Mine is only 1 day earlier than yours. Fingers crossed that we hear something this week or next! Hopefully it being a holiday on the 4th doesn't slow down processing too much. 

[Rev 392]

On 6/24/2017 at 1:44 AM, piranda said:

@KozmicBlues @Rev we have similar date for noa1 received and mail date ( for us 29 th March received, mailed 4th of April ). so , keeping all fingers crossed, next weeks is about us hopefully . 

Guys, checking our fillers page is more addictive then FB or Insta...

congrats to everyone with noa2 and keep us updated with the next steps in the process, don't abandon the forum after .

 

have a nice weekend !!!

 

 

 

It's probably wishful thinking and a bit early yet but I'm feeling really good about this week!  Fingers crossed

[KozmicBlues 592]

Happy Monday! Finally caught up on all the posts for the last few days...I have a rule to myself that I won't check this site over the weekend since I already obsessively check too much during the week. haha. Friday/Saturday were rough days for me though. I was really sad missing my fiance, broke down crying with him on the phone/FaceTime which I haven't done in awhile. He was also having a stressful few days with work and family stuff so it made it more difficult...we hate not being able to be there for each other to help out with simple things. 

 

On the bright side, it's now been 3 months since I mailed my petition and it felt like this day would never come. Hopefully our NOA2 is on its way soon. I'm actually going to visit my fiance in India on Sept 1st for FIVE WEEKS so I'm counting down to that instead of worrying about the wait for the NOA2. It definitely makes it easier. I'm just stressing about it because I really want things to get done before then so we can schedule his interview for when I will be there. The ultimate dream would be for him to get approved in time to fly back with me in October, but I'm definitely not getting my hopes up for that.

Random thoughts...do any of you have a back-up plan? One of my friends asked me over the weekend what we would do if his visa doesn't get approved. For us, it's simple. I will move there in a heartbeat. That was our original plan anyway, but we decided to go this route instead so he can come to the US for awhile to meet all of my friends/family and so we can save a bit more money. And we knew that if I go there first it will be 100x more difficult for us to both come back here later. We know for sure that we will settle there eventually because he is the eldest son and we will need to care for his parents. So for us it wouldn't be the end of the world if the K1 wasn't approved, although I have no reason to believe it won't be. But it got me wondering about what if we didn't have a back-up plan. I guess it would be to get married and file for the spouse visa? Personally, I'm the kind of person who always prepares for the worst case scenario so just wondering if anyone else is the same way. Or if anyone else is not planning on staying in the U.S. forever and plans on moving to the foreign fiance's home country some day?

Edited June 26, 2017 by KozmicBlues

[KozmicBlues 592]

39 minutes ago, Rev said:

It's probably wishful thinking and a bit early yet but I'm feeling really good about this week!  Fingers crossed

Wouldn't that be amazing!!!! I keep checking informed delivery hoping it will be my time. Fingers crossed for sure!  

[Rev 392]

23 minutes ago, KozmicBlues said:

Happy Monday! Finally caught up on all the posts for the last few days...I have a rule to myself that I won't check this site over the weekend since I already obsessively check too much during the week. haha. Friday/Saturday were rough days for me though. I was really sad missing my fiance, broke down crying with him on the phone/FaceTime which I haven't done in awhile. He was also having a stressful few days with work and family stuff so it made it more difficult...we hate not being able to be there for each other to help out with simple things. 

 

On the bright side, it's now been 3 months since I mailed my petition and it felt like this day would never come. Hopefully our NOA2 is on its way soon. I'm actually going to visit my fiance in India on Sept 1st for FIVE WEEKS so I'm counting down to that instead of worrying about the wait for the NOA2. It definitely makes it easier. I'm just stressing about it because I really want things to get done before then so we can schedule his interview for when I will be there. The ultimate dream would be for him to get approved in time to fly back with me in October, but I'm definitely not getting my hopes up for that.

Random thoughts...do any of you have a back-up plan? One of my friends asked me over the weekend what we would do if his visa doesn't get approved. For us, it's simple. I will move there in a heartbeat. That was our original plan anyway, but we decided to go this route instead so he can come to the US for awhile to meet all of my friends/family and so we can save a bit more money. And we knew that if I go there first it will be 100x more difficult for us to both come back here later. We know for sure that we will settle there eventually because he is the eldest son and we will need to care for his parents. So for us it wouldn't be the end of the world if the K1 wasn't approved, although I have no reason to believe it won't be. But it got me wondering about what if we didn't have a back-up plan. I guess it would be to get married and file for the spouse visa? Personally, I'm the kind of person who always prepares for the worst case scenario so just wondering if anyone else is the same way. Or if anyone else is not planning on staying in the U.S. forever and plans on moving to the foreign fiance's home country some day?

I have two kids and my ex is not likely to give me permission to take them out of the country (my first choice was actually to move to the UK but he would not grant permission), so being denied is my biggest fear.  The only plan we have is to try to appeal or re-apply depending on the circumstances and if that fails get married and try for CR1 :/

[Eric&Olya 881]

22 minutes ago, KozmicBlues said:

Happy Monday! Finally caught up on all the posts for the last few days...I have a rule to myself that I won't check this site over the weekend since I already obsessively check too much during the week. haha. Friday/Saturday were rough days for me though. I was really sad missing my fiance, broke down crying with him on the phone/FaceTime which I haven't done in awhile. He was also having a stressful few days with work and family stuff so it made it more difficult...we hate not being able to be there for each other to help out with simple things. 

 

On the bright side, it's now been 3 months since I mailed my petition and it felt like this day would never come. Hopefully our NOA2 is on its way soon. I'm actually going to visit my fiance in India on Sept 1st for FIVE WEEKS so I'm counting down to that instead of worrying about the wait for the NOA2. It definitely makes it easier. I'm just stressing about it because I really want things to get done before then so we can schedule his interview for when I will be there. The ultimate dream would be for him to get approved in time to fly back with me in October, but I'm definitely not getting my hopes up for that.

Random thoughts...do any of you have a back-up plan? One of my friends asked me over the weekend what we would do if his visa doesn't get approved. For us, it's simple. I will move there in a heartbeat. That was our original plan anyway, but we decided to go this route instead so he can come to the US for awhile to meet all of my friends/family and so we can save a bit more money. And we knew that if I go there first it will be 100x more difficult for us to both come back here later. We know for sure that we will settle there eventually because he is the eldest son and we will need to care for his parents. So for us it wouldn't be the end of the world if the K1 wasn't approved, although I have no reason to believe it won't be. But it got me wondering about what if we didn't have a back-up plan. I guess it would be to get married and file for the spouse visa? Personally, I'm the kind of person who always prepares for the worst case scenario so just wondering if anyone else is the same way. Or if anyone else is not planning on staying in the U.S. forever and plans on moving to the foreign fiance's home country some day?

I'm just like you when it comes to planning, so we have two back-up plans 

One of them is for Eric to move here, and the other one is to get married here and then move to some nice European country. I can find a job anywhere in the world, and Eric has his military disability compensation, so we would be fine. 

 

Anyway, I am sure all of us will be approved, we just need a little more patience 

[pajobra 1,395]

31 minutes ago, KozmicBlues said:

Random thoughts...do any of you have a back-up plan? One of my friends asked me over the weekend what we would do if his visa doesn't get approved. For us, it's simple. I will move there in a heartbeat. That was our original plan anyway, but we decided to go this route instead so he can come to the US for awhile to meet all of my friends/family and so we can save a bit more money. And we knew that if I go there first it will be 100x more difficult for us to both come back here later. We know for sure that we will settle there eventually because he is the eldest son and we will need to care for his parents. So for us it wouldn't be the end of the world if the K1 wasn't approved, although I have no reason to believe it won't be. But it got me wondering about what if we didn't have a back-up plan. I guess it would be to get married and file for the spouse visa? Personally, I'm the kind of person who always prepares for the worst case scenario so just wondering if anyone else is the same way. Or if anyone else is not planning on staying in the U.S. forever and plans on moving to the foreign fiance's home country some day?

Our back up plan is Chris comes here to Canada. The reason I went down there instead of him here is just because my job skills are so much more than his plus I may have a really great job here but its only part time and I would not be able to support us both on it unless I was full time like they promised me but its been two years and I am still part time. The gal that was supposed to fully retire last year decided to not. I doubt she will for another 5 years or so. I can't afford to wait that long. But if worse comes to worse he will come here and I will get a second job to support us better. We don not plan on staying in the USA forever, in fact we are talking about retiring in Canada.  

[KozmicBlues 592]

2 minutes ago, Rev said:

I have two kids and my ex is not likely to give me permission to take them out of the country (my first choice was actually to move to the UK but he would not grant permission), so being denied is my biggest fear.  The only plan we have is to try to appeal or re-apply depending on the circumstances and if that fails get married and try for CR1 :/

Aw that makes sense, but I'm sure you guys will get approved with no issues! The chances of getting denied are pretty slim. I have complete faith that ALL of us March filers will get approved!! It's super rare to even read about denials on here anyway. I'm just a weirdo who likes to discuss and think about every possible outcome of a situation even if it's sad or negative to think about. Lol.

 

But I can't imagine if kids were involved or other circumstances making this already impossibly difficult process even more difficult. I feel for everyone else who has a more complicated process to deal with. I can't imagine how much more stressful it must be! 

[pajobra 1,395]

1 minute ago, KozmicBlues said:

Aw that makes sense, but I'm sure you guys will get approved with no issues! The chances of getting denied are pretty slim. I have complete faith that ALL of us March filers will get approved!! It's super rare to even read about denials on here anyway. I'm just a weirdo who likes to discuss and think about every possible outcome of a situation even if it's sad or negative to think about. Lol.

 

But I can't imagine if kids were involved or other circumstances making this already impossibly difficult process even more difficult. I feel for everyone else who has a more complicated process to deal with. I can't imagine how much more stressful it must be! 

Kids do make things tougher. My fiance Chris has 5 kids but they live with his ex and their new dad. Chris signed over rights to them early last year when he was in a mindset of they are better off without me forever. He now wishes he had not until I pointed out that his ex can not get him for child support now. He said oh true. I said regardless they are still your kids and they know it. Although they now call him Chris and not Dad which hurts and I see it in his eyes. His youngest who just turned 15 last Sunday was not talking to him at all but finally reached out to him yesterday and texted him a whole bunch. He cried to me on Skype last night about how happy he was to hear from her. The other 4 kids text him a few times a week so that is good. We plan on flying out to California to visit them next spring and so they can meet me.

[KozmicBlues 592]

5 minutes ago, Eric&Olya said:

I'm just like you when it comes to planning, so we have two back-up plans 

One of them is for Eric to move here, and the other one is to get married here and then move to some nice European country. I can find a job anywhere in the world, and Eric has his military disability compensation, so we would be fine. 

 

Anyway, I am sure all of us will be approved, we just need a little more patience 

Both sound like great back-up plans! I loveeeee the idea of moving to some nice European country. Me and my fiance would love to do that someday, but with neither of us being European citizens I can't imagine it will be easy. haha. We figure if we settled somewhere in the middle, like Europe, then neither of our families can feel more left out than the other!  

 

But you're right, I'm sure all of us will be approved. I have no doubt about that!! I'm just the weirdo who asks these questions out of curiosity haha. 

[KozmicBlues 592]

9 minutes ago, pajobra said:

Our back up plan is Chris comes here to Canada. The reason I went down there instead of him here is just because my job skills are so much more than his plus I may have a really great job here but its only part time and I would not be able to support us both on it unless I was full time like they promised me but its been two years and I am still part time. The gal that was supposed to fully retire last year decided to not. I doubt she will for another 5 years or so. I can't afford to wait that long. But if worse comes to worse he will come here and I will get a second job to support us better. We don not plan on staying in the USA forever, in fact we are talking about retiring in Canada.  

That makes sense. But at least you guys have a plan just in case. No matter what we will all make it work regardless of the circumstances because we don't have any other option, right! 

 

4 minutes ago, pajobra said:

Kids do make things tougher. My fiance Chris has 5 kids but they live with his ex and their new dad. Chris signed over rights to them early last year when he was in a mindset of they are better off without me forever. He now wishes he had not until I pointed out that his ex can not get him for child support now. He said oh true. I said regardless they are still your kids and they know it. Although they now call him Chris and not Dad which hurts and I see it in his eyes. His youngest who just turned 15 last Sunday was not talking to him at all but finally reached out to him yesterday and texted him a whole bunch. He cried to me on Skype last night about how happy he was to hear from her. The other 4 kids text him a few times a week so that is good. We plan on flying out to California to visit them next spring and so they can meet me.

At least he was doing what he thought was best for them and clearly cares about them still. Situations are difficult and complicated, but as long as he is there for them as much as he can be and does what he thinks is best for them. It's great that you are supportive of him through that, I'm sure it helps a lot for him to have a partner who understands a difficult situation. 

[GazLisa 1,168]

55 minutes ago, KozmicBlues said:

Happy Monday! Finally caught up on all the posts for the last few days...I have a rule to myself that I won't check this site over the weekend since I already obsessively check too much during the week. haha. Friday/Saturday were rough days for me though. I was really sad missing my fiance, broke down crying with him on the phone/FaceTime which I haven't done in awhile. He was also having a stressful few days with work and family stuff so it made it more difficult...we hate not being able to be there for each other to help out with simple things. 

 

On the bright side, it's now been 3 months since I mailed my petition and it felt like this day would never come. Hopefully our NOA2 is on its way soon. I'm actually going to visit my fiance in India on Sept 1st for FIVE WEEKS so I'm counting down to that instead of worrying about the wait for the NOA2. It definitely makes it easier. I'm just stressing about it because I really want things to get done before then so we can schedule his interview for when I will be there. The ultimate dream would be for him to get approved in time to fly back with me in October, but I'm definitely not getting my hopes up for that.

Random thoughts...do any of you have a back-up plan? One of my friends asked me over the weekend what we would do if his visa doesn't get approved. For us, it's simple. I will move there in a heartbeat. That was our original plan anyway, but we decided to go this route instead so he can come to the US for awhile to meet all of my friends/family and so we can save a bit more money. And we knew that if I go there first it will be 100x more difficult for us to both come back here later. We know for sure that we will settle there eventually because he is the eldest son and we will need to care for his parents. So for us it wouldn't be the end of the world if the K1 wasn't approved, although I have no reason to believe it won't be. But it got me wondering about what if we didn't have a back-up plan. I guess it would be to get married and file for the spouse visa? Personally, I'm the kind of person who always prepares for the worst case scenario so just wondering if anyone else is the same way. Or if anyone else is not planning on staying in the U.S. forever and plans on moving to the foreign fiance's home country some day?

The thought we don't get approved honestly scares me to death,we don't have a back up plan yet 😔, my fiance can't move over to UK as I fall well short of earning enough to bring her over here so if I'm refused I will be devastated 😔 

[Holly♡ 401]

1 hour ago, KozmicBlues said:

Happy Monday! Finally caught up on all the posts for the last few days...I have a rule to myself that I won't check this site over the weekend since I already obsessively check too much during the week. haha. Friday/Saturday were rough days for me though. I was really sad missing my fiance, broke down crying with him on the phone/FaceTime which I haven't done in awhile. He was also having a stressful few days with work and family stuff so it made it more difficult...we hate not being able to be there for each other to help out with simple things. 

 

On the bright side, it's now been 3 months since I mailed my petition and it felt like this day would never come. Hopefully our NOA2 is on its way soon. I'm actually going to visit my fiance in India on Sept 1st for FIVE WEEKS so I'm counting down to that instead of worrying about the wait for the NOA2. It definitely makes it easier. I'm just stressing about it because I really want things to get done before then so we can schedule his interview for when I will be there. The ultimate dream would be for him to get approved in time to fly back with me in October, but I'm definitely not getting my hopes up for that.

Random thoughts...do any of you have a back-up plan? One of my friends asked me over the weekend what we would do if his visa doesn't get approved. For us, it's simple. I will move there in a heartbeat. That was our original plan anyway, but we decided to go this route instead so he can come to the US for awhile to meet all of my friends/family and so we can save a bit more money. And we knew that if I go there first it will be 100x more difficult for us to both come back here later. We know for sure that we will settle there eventually because he is the eldest son and we will need to care for his parents. So for us it wouldn't be the end of the world if the K1 wasn't approved, although I have no reason to believe it won't be. But it got me wondering about what if we didn't have a back-up plan. I guess it would be to get married and file for the spouse visa? Personally, I'm the kind of person who always prepares for the worst case scenario so just wondering if anyone else is the same way. Or if anyone else is not planning on staying in the U.S. forever and plans on moving to the foreign fiance's home country some day?

We have talked about this also and he really would like me to go there, but I have much more family then he does (and the few family members that he does have, he is not close with) and I feel like I need to stay close to them, so we have also talked about moving to Canada since all of my mom's side of the family is there and they are only 8 hours north of where I am now, so I would still be semi close to my parents... closer then being in Romania anyhow. He has his mom, and his brother (that he doesn't get along with that well - the brother) and his aunt and cousin that he never talks to. I hope that doesn't make me selfish for feeling that way, but I can't help feeling that if I were to go there, not only would I not know anyone, I don't know the language and I just feel like I would not have any kind of support system there and I think it would just be VERY difficult.