July 2017 I-129F Filers

[Kat&Joel 484]

6 minutes ago, Pquinter said:

Me and you are on the same boat. My fiance needs to get here by April since his lease expires that month and the owner refuses to do month by month. We also have our wedding planned for the last weekend of that month... we thought we had given ourselves enough of a buffer with applying in July. If USCIS starts mailing their approved applications to NVC like they use to instead of holding them for almost two months... and we get approvals this month... then I think an April POE is possible. Still hopeful here.

Aww that is super stressful for you. I really hope you are able to get things sorted in April. We all tried so hard to plan things out and the process just couldn't be predicted. I do have some hope that the NVC part will pick up.

[Faisal1 235]

1 hour ago, Pquinter said:

Me and you are on the same boat. My fiance needs to get here by April since his lease expires that month and the owner refuses to do month by month. We also have our wedding planned for the last weekend of that month... we thought we had given ourselves enough of a buffer with applying in July. If USCIS starts mailing their approved applications to NVC like they use to instead of holding them for almost two months... and we get approvals this month... then I think an April POE is possible. Still hopeful here.

Dont say that i am also july 3rd one.. and april so far i am expecting march 

[Jason&Sarah2025 1]

3 hours ago, Justmel said:

@Jason&Sarah2025

I don't know if it will effect the k1 but I think as long as his perminent resident status doesn't expire his application for citizenship should be fine. The problem would be he won't be able to leave the United States if he's already entered by then, so he won't be able to return to Canada for his appointments.

Do you know if he will have to give up his permanent residence card before entering the US?  I tried looking it up but couldn’t find anything. Or do you know if being from another country that’s what they usually do? 

[KarthikJayashree 69]

4 hours ago, JSCGPV said:

Yes and no movement other than 1 case was updated today

OH God why are they so slow!! Just so frustrating to know they are going to take forever to do this :/ every additional day in the timeline prediction is very hard to accept. 

[trames87 227]

47 minutes ago, JAZZsal said:

OH God why are they so slow!! Just so frustrating to know they are going to take forever to do this :/ every additional day in the timeline prediction is very hard to accept. 

I don't look at my timeline prediction. I've seen too many people surpass their timeline. I don't want any false hope.

[Dave and Kate 154]

BOOOO !!!

I had to write something.....aaaaanything so our thread can come back to page 1 at least...
We had been pushed back to page 3

I do daily July scans too... well not the whole July... ain't nobody got time for that.. lol
I scan up to July 12... No movement yet but at least they're being pretty aggressive with June

[Natacha & Sean 16]

I know we're all waiting for our NOA2, but have any of you guys started looking into packet 3? 

 

[jayfee 21]

30 minutes ago, Dave and Kate said:

BOOOO !!!

I had to write something.....aaaaanything so our thread can come back to page 1 at least...
We had been pushed back to page 3

I do daily July scans too... well not the whole July... ain't nobody got time for that.. lol
I scan up to July 12... No movement yet but at least they're being pretty aggressive with June

How do you scan?

[Jaquelly 1,647]

15 minutes ago, Natacha & Sean said:

I know we're all waiting for our NOA2, but have any of you guys started looking into packet 3? 

 

I haven't. Things have been a little stressful. I know I need to start pulling things together but I am dragging my feet. I want to relax after work. LOL

[jayfee 21]

5 minutes ago, Natacha & Sean said:

I know we're all waiting for our NOA2, but have any of you guys started looking into packet 3? 

 

What is packet 3?

[Jaquelly 1,647]

1 minute ago, jayfee said:

What is packet 3?

You should set up a timeline so that we can better help you with information.

 

Start here: http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

Then go here: http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1flow

[Natacha & Sean 16]

https://ca.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Packet3Instructions-K1.pdf

I was asking because it mentions in the link above that we must bring both the original and photocopy version of the birth certificate, and i'm wondering if we have to have the original version of the petitioner's birth certificate for the interview as well. If yes, do you guys think that a certified copy of my fiancé's birth certificate is valid rather than have him send me his original ? 
I feel like we need to prepare in advance for this since acquiring legal documents from the government can easily take anywhere from one to two weeks ... plus another week to send it to the beneficiary. 

[Natacha & Sean 16]

https://www.***removed***/immigrant-visa/civil-documents.html

   Answered my own question  ... 

[Kat&Joel 484]

Dear fairies of the universe. The worst case scenario has already happened for us with this slow down. Can we please have some magic that will allow us to get back to the USA by April. Thanks in advance.

[Kat&Joel 484]

Okay.  I'm not sure if this is helpful for anybody but I just did a "possible timeline" calculation so I could have some peace of mind.  Feel free to tell me if my worst case scenario here is not actually in line with that's happening.

 

Expected NOA2 date I'm putting at 210 days - 9/2/2018 (February 9th, 2018)

NVC Received date: I'm going to be conservative and give them 8 weeks for this - 56 days.  That puts us at about 6/4/2018 (April 6th, 2018)

I'm adding another 6 weeks to get to the interview date just to be on the safe side, even though the Auckland embassy here in New Zealand is very very fast.  So that put's my approximate interview date at the week of May 18th.  We will be down to one car and having to top up our mortgage at that point but it'll take what it takes.  I have to lose a decent amount of weight so it'll be good to not have the option of fast food anymore as well. Looking on the positive side here.

 

Now I just used an excel spreadsheet to track and add dates together to come up with these days.  I thought this might give other people some slight indication on timelines based on current processing scenarios.  If the process slows down further than it already has I don't know what we'll do but I'm gonna just hope that doesn't happen.  Good luck July filers.  I hope this month is our month and we get the ball rolling!  

 

This process has created an obsession about date and trying to predict approximate timelines.  Hopefully this will somehow be a skill I can carry over to a job.