Why would anyone move a post ..

[rebeccajo 14]

I thought one of the purposes of the sub-forum was for exactly this... to post progress reports and congratulatory posts... A "YIPPEE VISA APPROVED" in my eyes fits that definition.... To me it was more a YIPPEE post than anything to do with a particular consulate

I guess I don't know which post was moved. If they contain consular information, yes I think they should be moved.

TECHNICALLY, I believe this new forum is for I129F approvals. Not the visa approval, which is not only an entirely different matter, but an entirely different function performed by an entirely different branch of DHS.

Edited April 17, 2007 by rebeccajo

[payxibka 10,045]

I thought one of the purposes of the sub-forum was for exactly this... to post progress reports and congratulatory posts... A "YIPPEE VISA APPROVED" in my eyes fits that definition.... To me it was more a YIPPEE post than anything to do with a particular consulate

I guess I don't know which post was moved. If they contain consular information, yes I think they should be moved.

TECHNICALLY, I believe this new forum is for I129F approvals. Not the visa approval, which is not only an entirely different matter, but an entirely different function performed by an entirely different branch of DHS.

Look at the title... K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Does not say I-129F filing and progress reports... The case isn't complete until the visa is issued...

[Jenn! 918]

I thought one of the purposes of the sub-forum was for exactly this... to post progress reports and congratulatory posts... A "YIPPEE VISA APPROVED" in my eyes fits that definition.... To me it was more a YIPPEE post than anything to do with a particular consulate

I guess I don't know which post was moved. If they contain consular information, yes I think they should be moved.

TECHNICALLY, I believe this new forum is for I129F approvals. Not the visa approval, which is not only an entirely different matter, but an entirely different function performed by an entirely different branch of DHS.

Look at the title... K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Does not say I-129F filing and progress reports... The case isn't complete until the visa is issued...

You're right. IMO the subforum was added too quickly with not enough thinking it through. The title is all wrong for starters, plus many of us thought it should be an entire Yippee forum for all yippee posts, NOT just those related to the K1 or I-129F.

I think we should all just hold out until the moving guide comes out and hope that it will clear up a lot of this confusion.

[rebeccajo 14]

I thought one of the purposes of the sub-forum was for exactly this... to post progress reports and congratulatory posts... A "YIPPEE VISA APPROVED" in my eyes fits that definition.... To me it was more a YIPPEE post than anything to do with a particular consulate

I guess I don't know which post was moved. If they contain consular information, yes I think they should be moved.

TECHNICALLY, I believe this new forum is for I129F approvals. Not the visa approval, which is not only an entirely different matter, but an entirely different function performed by an entirely different branch of DHS.

Look at the title... K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Does not say I-129F filing and progress reports... The case isn't complete until the visa is issued...

You've got a point there.

You got a suggestion maybe? I mean, USCIS doesn't issue visas. Consulates do.

[rebeccajo 14]

I think we should all just hold out until the moving guide comes out and hope that it will clear up a lot of this confusion.

I remember being TOLD (back when I was a newbie) that I had posted in the wrong place. And not in PM's either.

Has the movement of threads 'helped' anybody out there? Helped like..... to really think about the process?

Personally I don't feel any of the thread movers are on any sort of knowledge ego trip. I do think we want to help members learn to think through the process - to become more responsible for their case.

[payxibka 10,045]

I thought one of the purposes of the sub-forum was for exactly this... to post progress reports and congratulatory posts... A "YIPPEE VISA APPROVED" in my eyes fits that definition.... To me it was more a YIPPEE post than anything to do with a particular consulate

I guess I don't know which post was moved. If they contain consular information, yes I think they should be moved.

TECHNICALLY, I believe this new forum is for I129F approvals. Not the visa approval, which is not only an entirely different matter, but an entirely different function performed by an entirely different branch of DHS.

Look at the title... K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Does not say I-129F filing and progress reports... The case isn't complete until the visa is issued...

You've got a point there.

You got a suggestion maybe? I mean, USCIS doesn't issue visas. Consulates do.

So by merely mentioning that a visa was issued in London, Kiev or Montreal automatically sets up a thread to be moved to the Foreign Consulate forum.... Or if it is a YIPPEE our case has left NVC will require it to move to the NVC forum

I don't see anywhere where we establish a distinction that the YIPPEES are only for USCIS activity... All visas typically transit 3 different components (USCIS, NVC, Consulate) within 2 different agencies (DHS, DOS) within our government

I agree that if a thread goes deep into the idiosyncracies of how a particular consulate works then it might be better served in a different forum

[rebeccajo 14]

I thought one of the purposes of the sub-forum was for exactly this... to post progress reports and congratulatory posts... A "YIPPEE VISA APPROVED" in my eyes fits that definition.... To me it was more a YIPPEE post than anything to do with a particular consulate

I guess I don't know which post was moved. If they contain consular information, yes I think they should be moved.

TECHNICALLY, I believe this new forum is for I129F approvals. Not the visa approval, which is not only an entirely different matter, but an entirely different function performed by an entirely different branch of DHS.

Look at the title... K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports

Does not say I-129F filing and progress reports... The case isn't complete until the visa is issued...

You've got a point there.

You got a suggestion maybe? I mean, USCIS doesn't issue visas. Consulates do.

So by merely mentioning that a visa was issued in London, Kiev or Montreal automatically sets up a thread to be moved to the Foreign Consulate forum.... Or if it is a YIPPEE our case has left NVC will require it to move to the NVC forum

I don't see anywhere where we establish a distinction that the YIPPEES are only for USCIS activity... All visas typically transit 3 different components (USCIS, NVC, Consulate) within 2 different agencies (DHS, DOS) within our government

I agree that if a thread goes deep into the idiosyncracies of how a particular consulate works then it might be better served in a different forum

I think it's safe to say that some posts can fit into more than one category. That goes for almost any post, you know?

So do you think all 'Yippees' should be in one place? I'm sort of liking that idea myself. I'd like to be able to more readily see the progress of people from all stages. I think it would be more interesting and would also help us all 'see' each other better.

[payxibka 10,045]

I think it's safe to say that some posts can fit into more than one category. That goes for almost any post, you know?

So do you think all 'Yippees' should be in one place? I'm sort of liking that idea myself. I'd like to be able to more readily see the progress of people from all stages. I think it would be more interesting and would also help us all 'see' each other better.

I don't want to speak for CB, but I think that was the original point... If it fits in more than one forum and if one of those forums was the forum it was originally posted in, then don't move it.....

[rebeccajo 14]

I think it's safe to say that some posts can fit into more than one category. That goes for almost any post, you know?

So do you think all 'Yippees' should be in one place? I'm sort of liking that idea myself. I'd like to be able to more readily see the progress of people from all stages. I think it would be more interesting and would also help us all 'see' each other better.

I don't want to speak for CB, but I think that was the original point... If it fits in more than one forum and if one of those forums was the forum it was originally posted in, then don't move it.....

You didn't answer my question.........................

[payxibka 10,045]

I think it's safe to say that some posts can fit into more than one category. That goes for almost any post, you know?

So do you think all 'Yippees' should be in one place? I'm sort of liking that idea myself. I'd like to be able to more readily see the progress of people from all stages. I think it would be more interesting and would also help us all 'see' each other better.

I don't want to speak for CB, but I think that was the original point... If it fits in more than one forum and if one of those forums was the forum it was originally posted in, then don't move it.....

You didn't answer my question.........................

Yes I did... I replied to your first question... unless of course now yo uare going to tell me it was rhetorical...

As for your second question, I think it would be fine... I also think that though the current set up might be slightly flawed it is also workable but that there is simply too much thread moving going on.... Maybe after the initially education process occurs, maybe things will settle down a bit...

[tmma 467]

I think it's safe to say that some posts can fit into more than one category. That goes for almost any post, you know?

So do you think all 'Yippees' should be in one place? I'm sort of liking that idea myself. I'd like to be able to more readily see the progress of people from all stages. I think it would be more interesting and would also help us all 'see' each other better.

I don't want to speak for CB, but I think that was the original point... If it fits in more than one forum and if one of those forums was the forum it was originally posted in, then don't move it.....

You didn't answer my question.........................

Yes I did... I replied to your first question... unless of course now yo uare going to tell me it was rhetorical...

As for your second question, I think it would be fine... I also think that though the current set up might be slightly flawed it is also workable but that there is simply too much thread moving going on.... Maybe after the initially education process occurs, maybe things will settle down a bit...

I agree there IS too much thread moving going on.

Most of the movement seems to be out of K-1 into whatever thread, with hardly any moved threads from K-3 or virtually NONE from CR1 or regional.

It might very well be that the K-1 forum has the most misplaced posts, but it seems to get concentrated on far more than elsewhere. Standards need to be the same across the board. Give the same attention to each forum as it seems [to me looking at the volume and distribution of moved threads] "movers/organizers" are descending in just one place "to move and organize".

Edited April 17, 2007 by tmma

[msu17 0]

I agree yippee threads should stay (for the most part) in the yippee subforum. If they discuss a particular consulate in detail, I understand the move, but many of them are just yay we got our visa. I know I am perfectly capable of scrolling as well, but seeing half the topics on one page being flagged also gets a bit overwhelming. I do appreciate the new subforum however!

[TimsDaisy 0]

I think I've been miffed about and bitching about the seemingly increased moving for the past few days - ever since the subforum opened, and especially since the post in the main K1 forum about putting things in the right place (where I learned that anyone can move things, which strikes me as a bit too democratic to maintain order in the forums).

For my thinking: I am sort of purposefully only dipping a toe into the next steps here - I know a good overview, but the particulars I'll have questions abotu and learn more about as we move into the next phase. So I'm all I-129F all the time. Once we get outta USCIS, I'll start learning about the next agency/department more. Educated baby steps to sanity, kids. So when too much stuff gets moved, I tend to lose track of it, even when it crosses-over to this topic area.

Perhaps pure yippeees should get their own area, but the longer, massive "Jan filers" type threads should stay pinned at the top? Even just at the top of the subforum? that way maybe we have fewer of them since people don't look and then start another?

Eh. Whatever. There's no way to get through everything here. But I liked the old way better.

[Jenn! 918]

(where I learned that anyone can move things, which strikes me as a bit too democratic to maintain order in the forums).

That's not true, not everyone can move threads.

[rebeccajo 14]

.... But I liked the old way better.

LOL.

The old way....

We didn't have ANY regional forums and no 'monthly filer' threads.

I'm not gonna wax eloquently about 'how it was better' cause I'm not sure it was. BUT I can say with a good degree of certainty - we tended to form friendships a lot more easily with people from other areas of the globe and we were more aware of challenges faced at different embassies.

Edited April 17, 2007 by rebeccajo