I-129F March 2017 Filers

[Eric&Olya 881]

1 hour ago, Holly♡ said:

 Anyone else have a date or just playing it by ear to be safe? I'm an ISTJ and I can't just sit back and not make a date! lol Even though it makes me crazy, I have to plan plan plan everything!

We don't have a date yet, I don't know how to choose a date when everything is so uncertain. I like planning too, but I hate it when my plans are changed due to some unsurmountable circumstances. We'll probably choose the date after buying our plane tickets 

[TearsOfBabylon 1,680]

Heeeeey, my dear fellow Whiners!

Look who's back - and still hasn't figured out why all of her potential profile pics are too large for VJ!

I hope you all are good and hanging in there! Hugs to everyone!

I took a couple of days off from here; not because of VJ, but because of having no time at all. 

My timeline has moved to the right as well, by now from 25th of June to July 3rd... shishhhh. But we're hanging in there.
I'm not really impatient yet, and since we're taking the waiting pretty easy so far, it's ok. 
I can't wait to move, but I am glad to have a little more time.

My household is getting a little emptier, I have ordered me pretty big boxes for shipping things over... but I'm in an anti productive stuck-phase... I've got my criminal records - that's it. No checklisting, no filing... nothing. I got no head for it, so I postponed it for now, until life gets more calm.

What do you think?
How long will it take from NOA2 to interview? 

Huggggggs to you from Germany!
Bine

[Alysia&Luis 522]

23 minutes ago, TearsOfBabylon said:

Heeeeey, my dear fellow Whiners!

Look who's back - and still hasn't figured out why all of her potential profile pics are too large for VJ!

I hope you all are good and hanging in there! Hugs to everyone!

I took a couple of days off from here; not because of VJ, but because of having no time at all. 

My timeline has moved to the right as well, by now from 25th of June to July 3rd... shishhhh. But we're hanging in there.
I'm not really impatient yet, and since we're taking the waiting pretty easy so far, it's ok. 
I can't wait to move, but I am glad to have a little more time.

My household is getting a little emptier, I have ordered me pretty big boxes for shipping things over... but I'm in an anti productive stuck-phase... I've got my criminal records - that's it. No checklisting, no filing... nothing. I got no head for it, so I postponed it for now, until life gets more calm.

What do you think?
How long will it take from NOA2 to interview? 

Huggggggs to you from Germany!
Bine

Welcome back!!! I keep trying to take a break from here, but I always end up back because really I don't have much else going on in my life right now.  I have been focused on getting to the gym daily and I managed to make a checklist of things that need to get done before my fiance arrives. Right now Luis and I are sort of estimating for 2-3 months between NOA2 and Interview...just the pesky wait for NOA2 for now - blah!

[Eric&Olya 881]

43 minutes ago, TearsOfBabylon said:

Heeeeey, my dear fellow Whiners!

Look who's back - and still hasn't figured out why all of her potential profile pics are too large for VJ!

I hope you all are good and hanging in there! Hugs to everyone!

I took a couple of days off from here; not because of VJ, but because of having no time at all. 

My timeline has moved to the right as well, by now from 25th of June to July 3rd... shishhhh. But we're hanging in there.
I'm not really impatient yet, and since we're taking the waiting pretty easy so far, it's ok. 
I can't wait to move, but I am glad to have a little more time.

My household is getting a little emptier, I have ordered me pretty big boxes for shipping things over... but I'm in an anti productive stuck-phase... I've got my criminal records - that's it. No checklisting, no filing... nothing. I got no head for it, so I postponed it for now, until life gets more calm.

What do you think?
How long will it take from NOA2 to interview? 

Huggggggs to you from Germany!
Bine

Guten Abend

Nice to have you back!

As for the profile pic, I cut out a little fragment in Paint, all my photos were too big too.

As for NOA2 to interview, I really hope it's not more that 2 months but in my country they don't send you any snail mail, you download everything from the embassy website so I won't have to wait for any packets.

[Holly♡ 401]

57 minutes ago, TearsOfBabylon said:

Heeeeey, my dear fellow Whiners!

Look who's back - and still hasn't figured out why all of her potential profile pics are too large for VJ!

Welcome back! And I used the snip it tool and just kept making the pics smaller until VJ would accept it... lol

[pajobra 1,395]

7 hours ago, Holly♡ said:

Even though I am pretty down about my estimated processing date being so far away, I must say, (even though I am at the VERY end of almost everyone here in March) I will be thrilled when I start seeing everyone posting that they got their NOA2!!!  Not only will I be so happy for everyone, but that will also mean that I am getting closer to receiving mine too! <3 And this is me tryna see the light at the end!! hehe And it helps me so much when my F reminds every so often that sooner than later we won't have to deal with the problems we sometimes have (like Skype being annoying or headphones being annoying... etc.) due to the distance.
He is really good at reminding me that December really is not that far away. Hopefully he will be here long before then and that is when our forever will officially start (Dec wedding date here). Anyone else have a date or just playing it by ear to be safe? I'm an ISTJ and I can't just sit back and not make a date! lol Even though it makes me crazy, I have to plan plan plan everything!

Annoying skype problems hahaha oh yes gotta love those. I swear they are worse since Microsoft took over skype. lol

[Holly♡ 401]

44 minutes ago, pajobra said:

Annoying skype problems hahaha oh yes gotta love those. I swear they are worse since Microsoft took over skype. lol

LMAO That's what my F says too!!!

[CubaAndChill 389]

Oh man speaking of video call fails... I don't know if anything compares to the SUCKY WIFI that Cuba has along with the IMO app... You get to say Hi and then it freezes... then you hang up, call back and it's "I mis"... freeze... "hello?????" lol!! And don't let 239827193735hjfdnlkasjdndjfudfh9347839481731hjeq18 people be connected to WIFI at the same time... It's even worse! I sometimes want to throw my phone but then have to think again as it may be the most expensive thing I own right now other than my car LOL!

[CubaAndChill 389]

3 hours ago, TearsOfBabylon said:

Heeeeey, my dear fellow Whiners!

Look who's back - and still hasn't figured out why all of her potential profile pics are too large for VJ!

I hope you all are good and hanging in there! Hugs to everyone!

I took a couple of days off from here; not because of VJ, but because of having no time at all. 

My timeline has moved to the right as well, by now from 25th of June to July 3rd... shishhhh. But we're hanging in there.
I'm not really impatient yet, and since we're taking the waiting pretty easy so far, it's ok. 
I can't wait to move, but I am glad to have a little more time.

My household is getting a little emptier, I have ordered me pretty big boxes for shipping things over... but I'm in an anti productive stuck-phase... I've got my criminal records - that's it. No checklisting, no filing... nothing. I got no head for it, so I postponed it for now, until life gets more calm.

What do you think?
How long will it take from NOA2 to interview? 

Huggggggs to you from Germany!
Bine

Heeeyyyy!!!!!!

 

Welcome back!

 

These timelines have gone rogue.. They do what they want, when they want lol and the scans are coming up empty so we have no way of knowing who was really approved or how many cases they've been processing daily. It's madness out here in the VJ streets!

Like you said, at least you get a little more time to empty our the household and pack everything up. Right now you can kind of be as lazy as you want and go at your own pace. As for the time between NOA2 to Interview it could be a few months. Some cases go from NVC to Embassy within a week, others it's taking the actual 6 weeks. Another Cuba filer has been waiting almost 4 weeks with no updates from NVC (grrr).. So it could take another 2-3 months maybe to get an interview after NOA2. With all these lags I think we'll be looking at from start to finish around 8 months. (don't shoot me).

 

As for pics.. I minimized mine through Paint and uploaded it. Seemed to work once I minimized it because it kept telling me it was too big as well.

 

Hugs from Houston!

Edited May 11, 2017 by CubaAndChill

[dkmfan85 832]

11 hours ago, Holly♡ said:

. Anyone else have a date or just playing it by ear to be safe? I'm an ISTJ and I can't just sit back and not make a date! lol Even though it makes me crazy, I have to plan plan plan everything!

Yeah, we have a date set for November, and I've reserved a place for us with a deposit. I made sure to check into their cancellation/date change policy to make sure we have some wiggle room. As long as I notify within 2 weeks of our scheduled date, they will work with us without any problems or other charges.

[mytruelove18 608]

HELLO EVERYBODY HERE I HOPE EVERYBODY IS OK HERE.

GOOD NEWS FOR US, GO TO JANUARY FILER AND READ THERE ARE A LOTS OF APPROVALS AND GOT NOA2 WITH DATE OF MAY 5, MAY 1 ETC AND THEY SAY THAT THEIR CASES SHOW ON USCIS WEDSITE AS RECEIVED.

so that mean that the uscis update isnt working right but they are working on cases and sending NOA2.

go to janaury filer and read many people with noa2 and no update on uscis.

so be patient and we are going to get our noa2 on time lol

[kquyen 48]

5 minutes ago, mytruelove18 said:

HELLO EVERYBODY HERE I HOPE EVERYBODY IS OK HERE.

GOOD NEWS FOR US, GO TO JANUARY FILER AND READ THERE ARE A LOTS OF APPROVALS AND GOT NOA2 WITH DATE OF MAY 5, MAY 1 ETC AND THEY SAY THAT THEIR CASES SHOW ON USCIS WEDSITE AS RECEIVED.

so that mean that the uscis update isnt working right but they are working on cases and sending NOA2.

go to janaury filer and read many people with noa2 and no update on uscis.

so be patient and we are going to get our noa2 on time lol

woohoo! Thanks for finding that out and sharing with us! 

[NicoAndNelle 127]

Soooo....if you check the January and February filers, approvals are coming in but for some reason USCIS have not been updating the database electronically. People have been receiving NOA2's in the mail so I still think mid June some of us will be seeing some "touching" and approvals!! 

Edited May 12, 2017 by NicoAndNelle

[Michelle & Jessie 51]

9 hours ago, CubaAndChill said:

Oh man speaking of video call fails... I don't know if anything compares to the SUCKY WIFI that Cuba has along with the IMO app... You get to say Hi and then it freezes... then you hang up, call back and it's "I mis"... freeze... "hello?????" lol!! And don't let 239827193735hjfdnlkasjdndjfudfh9347839481731hjeq18 people be connected to WIFI at the same time... It's even worse! I sometimes want to throw my phone but then have to think again as it may be the most expensive thing I own right now other than my car LOL!

Yeah, we stopped using Skype about two years back when it keeps freezing on us. Maybe you can try Facebook Messenger. It had voice and video calls now too. You just have to screenshot some conversation if you intend to use it as proof.

Speaking of proof, do you think lack of photos on our social profiles such as Facebook would affect our visa? We have a lot of photos but we didn't post anything on Facebook. Just realized it today after my fiancee pointed it out. 

[NicoAndNelle 127]

11 minutes ago, Jesus & Michelle said:

Yeah, we stopped using Skype about two years back when it keeps freezing on us. Maybe you can try Facebook Messenger. It had voice and video calls now too. You just have to screenshot some conversation if you intend to use it as proof.

Speaking of proof, do you think lack of photos on our social profiles such as Facebook would affect our visa? We have a lot of photos but we didn't post anything on Facebook. Just realized it today after my fiancee pointed it out. 

We hope it isn't an issue for us either. On social media our relationship isn't public at all because we knew from start that most people doubt that long distance relationships last and neither of us needs that kind of scrutiny or comments from people with the "oh do you trust him/her?" and "Hmm. That's not gonna last!" "Long distance relationships never work out!!" We both hand picked who we told about our engagement even down to relatives because though they are supportive I know for me(beneficiary) I don't want the "21 questions" adding to my anxiety while we wait. "Have you heard anything? Are you nervous?" When do you expect to hear anything?" "I could never wait this long!" For me its made things hella easier waiting with barely anyone to ask me anything and same for him. When it's closer to interview or after I hopefully get visa in hand, then the world can know and they won't have to ask anything cause they will see!!!