I-129F May 2017 Filers

[_Mia_ 348]

13 minutes ago, June2017UK said:

@_Mia_ just received hers this morning. Yay! @_Mia_ how was it packaged? X

 

Thank you @June2017UK  Basically it was a plastic parcel (like any other parcel) it didn't say who it was from. Inside it had my passport and  "evidence"  clipped together , 1-134, police certificate etc.. basically everything they kept at the Interview and an envelope with a CD, this is from Knightsbridge. Then there is a bigger envelope (White... I also expected it to be brown) that says The United States of America - Official Business, Important notice : To be opened only by the United States Immigration or Public health Service Officer. This sealed package must be surrendered to the United States Immigration Officer at the port of Entry into the United States. Do not pack it - it must be hand carried.

 

 

[AnaMolina 567]

11 minutes ago, roadracer said:

Awesome! Even if it is brief, I'd love to here about it. Congratulations!

 

Sure!!! I was planning on doing a post like this so let's do it:

 

my interview was scheduled for 8:40 am, I was there at 8am. Got in the consulate and they told me to go to a special room for immigration visa. After I got there, I talked to a guy and he handled me a form to fill with my info and he also asked me to put my documents in a certain order.

After that I was called for a prescreening and a girl asked for mt docs. She checked EVERYTHING, compared my info with DS160 and all, but she was very polite and nice. Everything was good and I sit again to wait for the CO to call me. There were 2 girls before me. I could hear everything, everyone could, they both got approved. She called me and she was VERY nice and talked about pittsburgh with me, thats its a very nice city and all, to get me less nervous I think, then she asked:

- so you studied in ... university in the us? Where is this cause I never heard of it? Is it small?

- was that when you met your fiance? Did you meet him online?

- did you go visit him again? Did he come to brazil? (The answer was no cause he has two small kids and it's hard)

- do you have any plans for the wedding?

 

- ok, everything looks good, you should get your passport and package in a couple weeks. Thanks hve a good day.

 

all the time she was very nice and polite, I wasnt nervous at all after we started!

 

Ps: i was out at 9am

Edited November 21, 2017 by AnaMolina

[IG&JG 53]

42 minutes ago, AnaMolina said:

Guys, had my interview this morning in rio de janeiro, it was quick, easy and painless lol visa approved!!!!!

estimated POE December 8th

Congratulations))

Did u have form I -134 Affidavit of support original document or scan copy? 

[AnaMolina 567]

1 minute ago, IG&JG said:

Congratulations))

Did u have form I -134 Affidavit of support original document or scan copy? 

Thank you! I had the original and a copy, she kept only the original.

Edited November 21, 2017 by AnaMolina

[Naes 12,205]

15 minutes ago, _Mia_ said:

 

Thank you @June2017UK  Basically it was a plastic parcel (like any other parcel) it didn't say who it was from. Inside it had my passport and  "evidence"  clipped together , 1-134, police certificate etc.. basically everything they kept at the Interview and an envelope with a CD, this is from Knightsbridge. Then there is a bigger envelope (White... I also expected it to be brown) that says The United States of America - Official Business, Important notice : To be opened only by the United States Immigration or Public health Service Officer. This sealed package must be surrendered to the United States Immigration Officer at the port of Entry into the United States. Do not pack it - it must be hand carried.

 

 

Congratulations Mia! Reading this made me so excited  

[M&J2018 48]

12 minutes ago, IG&JG said:

Congratulations))

Did u have form I -134 Affidavit of support original document or scan copy? 

Congratulations!! Well done. So happy the process has come to closure. 

[AnaMolina 567]

17 minutes ago, Road2Nyama said:

Congratulations!! Well done. So happy the process has come to closure. 

Thank you!!

[_Mia_ 348]

32 minutes ago, Naes said:

Congratulations Mia! Reading this made me so excited  

Awww thank you  It will be your turn soon!! xx

[JayMar2019 2,741]

1 hour ago, AnaMolina said:

Guys, had my interview this morning in rio de janeiro, it was quick, easy and painless lol visa approved!!!!!

estimated POE December 8th

Congratulations!!!!

[Hadassah123 523]

1 hour ago, _Mia_ said:

 

Thank you @June2017UK  Basically it was a plastic parcel (like any other parcel) it didn't say who it was from. Inside it had my passport and  "evidence"  clipped together , 1-134, police certificate etc.. basically everything they kept at the Interview and an envelope with a CD, this is from Knightsbridge. Then there is a bigger envelope (White... I also expected it to be brown) that says The United States of America - Official Business, Important notice : To be opened only by the United States Immigration or Public health Service Officer. This sealed package must be surrendered to the United States Immigration Officer at the port of Entry into the United States. Do not pack it - it must be hand carried.

 

 

@Harleyracer - whoopsie - please ignore my earlier comment. Ms. Mia here has the actual answer! I hope it's the same for each country? Plenty of Philippines filers here, am sure they could fill you in otherwise.

 

@Naes @vocaledge - correct indeed!

 

@_Mia_ - but the actual visa is still stuck in your passport, right?

Edited November 21, 2017 by Hadassah123

[JayMar2019 2,741]

Morning Everyone!!!!

 

Congratulations to all those that have gotten their approvals, and to those that have gotten their case #'s from NVC and are moving on to the final stages of their "happily ever after". Once again to the rest of us still waiting for our NOA2's, I'm sure we will be getting ours soon just can't say for sure what "soon" is looking like these days.

 

Day 183.....I didn't mention this yesterday only because I was sure whether to believe this or not but, I called USCIS and spoke with Tier 1 because after seeing that June is getting their approvals, I needed answers (no offense to my "Junies" I'm happy you guys are getting your NOA2's). Plus, yesterday there were no cases touched that had a received date of May 23rd (my received date) and there are quite a few cases left out there that need to be reviewed. Anywhoo, after demanding some answers, the Tier 1 rep told me that she could see that they are working on my case at that moment and based off what she could see, they shouldn't be needing to send me a RFE (no duh, our petition was really front-loaded), but that she couldn't give any details as to what is being reviewed at that moment, but that she could see the reviewer is reviewing the case. But then told me, that next month (which Dec. 1st, starts on next Thursday), if I don't get my approval, I could submit another inquiry.

 

So because I'm a person who believes and tries to live off of logic and realism theories (LOL), this leads me to believe a few things....1) Tier 1 can see more of our cases than they claim, they just don't want to or are not suppose to give out more information about our case probably so that they don't set up any expectations...2) the USCIS case tracker is not real time, because the cases that were in @Shoegum scan, I received notifications for them at the end of the day yesterday, which then leads me to think....3) the cases that show up in the scans could have been approvals/RFE's that were completed on Friday/Saturday, and then when the system updates, that's when we see them.

 

I'm sure I'm not the only one that figured this out as I'm not the "techy" experts as my other comrades in this group, and I'm not trying to read too much into what I was told yesterday. But, from this point on, I will be calling USCIS every day until I get the answer I'm suppose to get. Because after I told her that the USCIS Case Tracker app is showing June approvals so that processing chart is wrong, that's when she started to provide me more information regarding my case. As I told her yesterday, I find it extremely unacceptable that the fee was raised over $200.00 for this process to have moved slower and that I'm over 6 months of waiting just for the NOA2 when it was suppose to take 6 months just to get my fiancé here.

 

When you demand answers, you can get answers. Don't settle for just their script. It's okay to be pushy about what's going on because at the end of the day, the fee has been paid, the money has been collected but services have NOT been rendered after payment!!!

 

Good luck everyone!!!!!

Edited November 21, 2017 by Trinab80

[Donlan 15]

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[mcs 686]

2 hours ago, AnaMolina said:

Guys, had my interview this morning in rio de janeiro, it was quick, easy and painless lol visa approved!!!!!

estimated POE December 8th

Fantastic!!!!  Congratulations!!!! 

[AnaMolina 567]

13 minutes ago, mcs said:

Fantastic!!!!  Congratulations!!!! 

Thanks thanks thanks!!!!! You're next my friend!

[stelimeli 160]

Congrats @AnaMolina so happy for you guys!

My tracker says In Transit this morning, eagerly waiting for Ready