I-129F March 2017 Filers

[Holly♡ 401]

Ok, so, I need to get some thoughts on something... Purchasing the one way airline ticket now since the deals are better in advance. We have been talking about this for a few weeks now (probably more) and in the last few weeks, the ticket has already gone up by $50+. We talked about it some more today and he agreed that it's a good idea to get it now. I asked him to see what he can find in his own search to see if it's more or less for him to get it over there with the difference in currency etc. and the fact that their money is only 25% of what the dollar is. He found a ticket on Oct 19th for $280 from Bucharest, Romania to LAX. The cheapest I am seeing is $433. He is going to purchase the ticket tonight (his tomorrow) because we are fairly certain that he should be approved by then. Thoughts?

And note... the $433 is an amazing price as the next tickets in line are $700+. So, in my opinion the $280 is just crazy!

Edited April 27, 2017 by Holly♡

[Patricia & Ola 129]

6 minutes ago, Holly♡ said:

Ok, so, I need to get some thoughts on something... Purchasing the one way airline ticket now since the deals are better in advance. We have been talking about this for a few weeks now (probably more) and in the last few weeks, the ticket has already gone up by $50+. We talked about it some more today and he agreed that it's a good idea to get it now. I asked him to see what he can find in his own search to see if it's more or less for him to get it over there with the difference in currency etc. and the fact that their money is only 25% of what the dollar is. He found a ticket on Oct 19th for $280 from Bucharest, Romania to LAX. The cheapest I am seeing is $433. He is going to purchase the ticket tonight (his tomorrow) because we are fairly certain that he should be approved by then. Thoughts?

And note... the $433 is an amazing price as the next tickets in line are $700+. So, in my opinion the $280 is just crazy!

We're hoping to be approved sooner, but who knows........October should be safe!  Good luck!

[Holly♡ 401]

26 minutes ago, pvandel said:

We're hoping to be approved sooner, but who knows........October should be safe!  Good luck!

We are hoping for sooner too, but I feel that it wouldn't be much sooner the way things are looking... and the price.. and I just looked for Oct 11th... and its only $196!!! That is even more insane! He had just randomly picked the 19th and we thought $280 was cray... $196 seems unheard of! Even if he got approved end of Aug or even Sept, that would give him time to tie up last min things, packing and spend time with his friends and family before leaving.

[CubaAndChill 389]

5 minutes ago, Holly♡ said:

We are hoping for sooner too, but I feel that it wouldn't be much sooner the way things are looking... and the price.. and I just looked for Oct 11th... and its only $196!!! That is even more insane! He had just randomly picked the 19th and we thought $280 was cray... $196 seems unheard of! Even if he got approved end of Aug or even Sept, that would give him time to tie up last min things, packing and spend time with his friends and family before leaving.

Hi Holly,

Looking at your timeline your NOA2 is around mid July (hopefully earlier) then to send the petition to NVC & then to the embassy can take another 4 to 6 weeks and then maybe another month or so for the interview. If everything goes accordingly it could be cutting it close.

 

That's ultimately a personal decision, but there's been a lot of posts on here that couples have bought their ticket beforehand and then had to miss or cancel/change their flight because they were put into AP or things didn't go as planned.

[Holly♡ 401]

10 minutes ago, CubaAndChill said:

Hi Holly,

Looking at your timeline your NOA2 is around mid July (hopefully earlier) then to send the petition to NVC & then to the embassy can take another 4 to 6 weeks and then maybe another month or so for the interview. If everything goes accordingly it could be cutting it close.

 

That's ultimately a personal decision, but there's been a lot of posts on here that couples have bought their ticket beforehand and then had to miss or cancel/change their flight because they were put into AP or things didn't go as planned.

It should happen no later than September though, right?? The end of Sept... We are very much hoping no later than that.
Also, I saw someone else who was approved from Romania... They sent on Nov 18 and was approved... APPROVED on March 27th!!!!  Thats what I want!  hehe =)

Edited April 27, 2017 by Holly♡

[Maria124 98]

5 hours ago, Estibaliz said:

I reckon that would be just perfect. I have to say I'm not bothering with call logs, since we only video chat on FB during the weekends... Maybe I'm making a mistake with that, but I think emails and Messenger captions are enough, given I can also explain everything in the interview. Hope so! 

ohh .. too bad, me and my fiance is not fond of sending emails . i mean important things to be sent through it . but our daily conversation is in Imessage and FB messenger . and Latest Convo sometimes only have the days, not the Dates .. Also sometimes it makes me nervous thinking that they will doubt us coz we met Just Once and  almost a year had past, .. 😯🙁 maybe theyLL rain me with questions . 😁

[Patricia & Ola 129]

1 hour ago, Holly♡ said:

We are hoping for sooner too, but I feel that it wouldn't be much sooner the way things are looking... and the price.. and I just looked for Oct 11th... and its only $196!!! That is even more insane! He had just randomly picked the 19th and we thought $280 was cray... $196 seems unheard of! Even if he got approved end of Aug or even Sept, that would give him time to tie up last min things, packing and spend time with his friends and family before leaving.

Wow, that is very cheap! I am hoping my fiancé will be here in August..........may be wishful thinking, I know.  A huge guessing game!

[pajobra 1,395]

2 hours ago, pvandel said:

We're hoping to be approved sooner, but who knows........October should be safe!  Good luck!

I hope October is safe because my fiance's birthday is October 19th and if I could be down by then it would be fabulous as its his 50th. Although I have a dilemma, my niece's birthday is October 25th and I missed hers last year when I was in Wisconsin visiting my best friend. She has already asked me twice if I will still be here for her birthday. I said I am not sure. She just looks at me with her big brown eyes and says "Ok Auntie I hope you are" She is 11 going on 30. LOL

[Holly♡ 401]

3 minutes ago, pajobra said:

I hope October is safe because my fiance's birthday is October 19th and if I could be down by then it would be fabulous as its his 50th. Although I have a dilemma, my niece's birthday is October 25th and I missed hers last year when I was in Wisconsin visiting my best friend. She has already asked me twice if I will still be here for her birthday. I said I am not sure. She just looks at me with her big brown eyes and says "Ok Auntie I hope you are" She is 11 going on 30. LOL

Awwwww... that sounds so sad!  I don't know what I would do either! How long did you say the drive was to make a trip? oh, wait... once you are here, you can't go back for a bit =/ could she visit you for a trip?

[pajobra 1,395]

Just now, Holly♡ said:

Awwwww... that sounds so sad!  I don't know what I would do either! How long did you say the drive was to make a trip? oh, wait... once you are here, you can't go back for a bit =/ could she visit you for a trip?

She already asked if she could visit us and her Mum said if Grandma takes you. My Mum is thinking of coming down for the wedding so I think if she does she will bring her too.  

[Yasmin&Hab 15]

19 hours ago, maxim84 said:

 

[CubaAndChill 389]

1 hour ago, Holly♡ said:

It should happen no later than September though, right?? The end of Sept... We are very much hoping no later than that.
Also, I saw someone else who was approved from Romania... They sent on Nov 18 and was approved... APPROVED on March 27th!!!!  Thats what I want!  hehe =)

 

To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm itching to buy my fiance's ticket to the US too, but I know that anything can happen; look at the members from November still waiting for their NOA2. There's people still waiting 120+ days for their NOA2 and I'm not sure that CSC will speed up their process after they get done with the Dec filers. It's just risky to buy any plane tickets now because you might have to change or cancel your flight and then still pay 700+ for a plane ticket after the interview. And there's always the possibility of getting put into AP and then nobody knows how long that takes. (Praying none of us have to go through that). I would suggest, if anything, to buy a ticket for November to be extra safe; but then again I'm not sure if you'll want to wait that long if you do get approved in late Sept/Early Oct.

[Holly♡ 401]

2 hours ago, CubaAndChill said:

 

To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm itching to buy my fiance's ticket to the US too, but I know that anything can happen; look at the members from November still waiting for their NOA2. There's people still waiting 120+ days for their NOA2 and I'm not sure that CSC will speed up their process after they get done with the Dec filers. It's just risky to buy any plane tickets now because you might have to change or cancel your flight and then still pay 700+ for a plane ticket after the interview. And there's always the possibility of getting put into AP and then nobody knows how long that takes. (Praying none of us have to go through that). I would suggest, if anything, to buy a ticket for November to be extra safe; but then again I'm not sure if you'll want to wait that long if you do get approved in late Sept/Early Oct.

I keep seeing people mentioning AP and tbh, I have no idea what this means... =(

[CubaAndChill 389]

7 minutes ago, Holly♡ said:

I keep seeing people mentioning AP and tbh, I have no idea what this means... =(

AP is Administrative Processing and can happen after the interview. The reason can be an array of things, but most of the time I've read that people have been put into AP for background checks, or just for reviewing the case before they issue the visa and it can take 1 week, 1 month, or more than a year. When dealing with the government, you can really never expect anything. I'm taking a expect the worse and pray for the best type of approach even though our case should be one of the easy ones. You just never know what can happen.

 

I just read a post from someone who has a fiance in Cuba. They've been engaged for 5 years, have a mountain of evidence and got denied at the interview because they didn't show a "bonafide relationship." I know she's devastated as anyone would be, but just goes to show you. Never make permanent plans with everything so up in the air and in the hands of a stranger that if they have a bad day or have a hair up their @(*3 they can deny you without any recourse or reason really.

 

But that's just my opinion, I don't mean to be a debbie downer and of course it's ultimately up to you and your fiance.

[CubaAndChill 389]

Good evening Anonymous Whiners!

 

I have all the scans done and I've included received dates with 04/03. So up to WAC1790274549. I'll start the weekly scans on 5/1 and will do it every Monday until they start touching March cases. Once they start touching march cases consistently then I'll post daily.

 

Thanks everyone for your patience and we're almost there!!!