I129f September 2017 filers

[Swissmiss82 1,620]

46 minutes ago, Ёжик said:

For the first time in my life I want to quickly start the winter and February. It will be a happy month for many of us.

Sadly I think this will be the loooooongest winter ever....

I already prepared myself with some "tasks" as sewing aprons (as goodbye gifts for all my friends), selling things I don't need, have cook outs with friends and so on.... lol

[Salty2305 504]

Good luck to everyone who has just joined  I may have already said this here but thought it would be good to reiterate to all the newbies.

 

Please try to mentally prepare yourself for a 5-6 month wait for your NOA2, anything sooner will be a pleasant surprise. We originally though it would be 3 months and we would have our NOA2 in July which did not happen and it made the waiting even harder!

[Alicat 1]

Hey September filers!  I mailed the 129f via USPS so I sent it to the Dallas Lockbox and received my NOA1 from the WAC/Laguna Nigel/California Service Center.  With that being said I want to make sure I enter the timeline correctly but I'm confused on a couple things.  

 

1) When I try to choose lockbox on my timeline Dallas is not an option--do I put the Texas Service Center?

2) My NOA1 was addressed from the California Service Center --does that mean I have been transferred to them? Or do I need to wait for an official letter saying it has been transferred like I have read other people have received?

 

Thanks and good luck everyone!

[Ёжик 32]

4 hours ago, Swissmiss82 said:

К сожалению, я думаю, что это будет loooooongest зима когда-либо ....

Я уже подготовился к некоторым «задачам», как пошив фартуков (как прощай подарки всем моим друзьям), продавая вещи, которые мне не нужны, есть куки с друзьями и т. Д .... lol

Every day I want to stop when I go to Igor's list ... but I can not, I'm terribly not patient.

However, these people who have registered here. and when they ran out of questions, they stopped publishing information, such as Hola and Amigo, for example.

 

But I'm very happy that my fiancé understands that his future wife (I'm) does not have the patience genetically, and therefore we will meet in December in Malaysia, so I'm happy already from this.

[Estibaliz 3,037]

1 hour ago, Alicat said:

Hey September filers!  I mailed the 129f via USPS so I sent it to the Dallas Lockbox and received my NOA1 from the WAC/Laguna Nigel/California Service Center.  With that being said I want to make sure I enter the timeline correctly but I'm confused on a couple things.  

 

1) When I try to choose lockbox on my timeline Dallas is not an option--do I put the Texas Service Center?

2) My NOA1 was addressed from the California Service Center --does that mean I have been transferred to them? Or do I need to wait for an official letter saying it has been transferred like I have read other people have received?

 

Thanks and good luck everyone!

Lockbox is not included in the timeline, just the Service Center. Since your case has been sent to California for processing, that's what you have to put there. It's not a transferred case, it's going to be processed at CSC from the start, Dallas was just the lockbox that receives cases.

[AntoinetteB 165]

i have a question as i enjoy this lovely wait i figured i would get familiar with the next few steps as i am a very positive person and my fiance and I are sure we will have an approved outcome lol any who the visa fee is that to be paid at the day of the interview? also is there a fee at the end of the DS-160? also lol my mother will be a co sponsor because i make just under the required amount ,however i also get survivors benefits for my children but because its the social security administration who supplies it im worried that my income may not be enough so shes helping us i said all of that to ask i do need a I-134 for us both correct? ive been researching everything from the doctors to a fee of 160.00 before they can leave the country thanks for your love and support we are all in this together 

[legatoblue18 38]

Woooohoooo just arrived to visit my fiancée! Might be the last visit before our K1 finishes. Hope it's not too long of a wait after this. 😇

[AntoinetteB 165]

3 hours ago, legatoblue18 said:

Woooohoooo just arrived to visit my fiancée! Might be the last visit before our K1 finishes. Hope it's not too long of a wait after this. 😇

lucky you enjoy yourself i don't think ill be seeing my fiance until he arrives on the k1 visa he's too far  i want to try too make it to his interview but that depends on how soon they give him his visa it would be wonderful to travel back together 

[AbenaKofi 132]

8 hours ago, legatoblue18 said:

Woooohoooo just arrived to visit my fiancée! Might be the last visit before our K1 finishes. Hope it's not too long of a wait after this. 😇

Aww yay! I’m going to Ghana over Christmas to spend two weeks with mine, and that’ll likely be the last time until he gets approved. Hopefully once we all get NOA2 things will move quickly!

[Swissmiss82 1,620]

have you guys started planning on the wedding? and will you guys do one wedding or possibly one small one after the POE and a bigger one at some later point?

 

Happy Weekend everybody and good patience

[AntoinetteB 165]

7 hours ago, Swissmiss82 said:

have you guys started planning on the wedding? and will you guys do one wedding or possibly one small one after the POE and a bigger one at some later point?

 

Happy Weekend everybody and good patience

Its definitely hard to plan when literally every date is uncertain however we plan on going to our local court house and afterwards we are having a reception so we are skipping the ceremony and depending on the time he gets here we may skip the reception too and go straight to the honeymoon 

[AbenaKofi 132]

13 hours ago, Swissmiss82 said:

have you guys started planning on the wedding? and will you guys do one wedding or possibly one small one after the POE and a bigger one at some later point?

 

Happy Weekend everybody and good patience

Agree - it’s too hard and too expensive to plan a wedding around a moving target!  I have my eye on a few places for something small, and will take action once we buy his flight.  I was thinking Day 60ish? What are you guys planning as far as how far into the 90 days you want to get married?

[Swissmiss82 1,620]

yeah we will also have a small wedding for just the two of us, after the POE.. and we plan on the big wedding - well not huge, but about 50 guests - for oct/nov 2018. we already found an awesome venue, but we won't book until noa2. for some reason i don't trust this time process just yet lol but the planning and researching is fun, and keeps me busy to not go crazy with this wait..

 

but i already got the dress for the big wedding  so exciting! i look at it every day and motivate myself to stay strong and the wait will be worth it....

 

another question - did anyone research yet on how to transfer money or how to do that? keep an account in your home country?

and what about all your personal belongings, will you ship things or what are the plans?

[Ёжик 32]

We will also do the wedding later. It is important for me that my mother would see me in the wedding dress, since she does not have one more daughter, I think she will be very pleased. Therefore, the wedding will be when my mother can come to us. As soon as I arrive, we will take care of the documents and the house.

And honestly, I can not even go anywhere and choose a place for the ceremony, since all I'm thinking about is preparing documents, how much I miss and getting NOA2 .... I can not do anything with myself.

[AbenaKofi 132]

16 hours ago, Swissmiss82 said:

yeah we will also have a small wedding for just the two of us, after the POE.. and we plan on the big wedding - well not huge, but about 50 guests - for oct/nov 2018. we already found an awesome venue, but we won't book until noa2. for some reason i don't trust this time process just yet lol but the planning and researching is fun, and keeps me busy to not go crazy with this wait..

 

but i already got the dress for the big wedding  so exciting! i look at it every day and motivate myself to stay strong and the wait will be worth it....

 

another question - did anyone research yet on how to transfer money or how to do that? keep an account in your home country?

and what about all your personal belongings, will you ship things or what are the plans?

That's so exciting that you have a dress already! I have my eye on what I want 😉 but won't get it just yet. 

 

My fiance is packing light and plans to do a major downsize before POE - we may sublet his apartment so he'll leave the furniture and bring luggage. Whatever won't work with the luggage, we'll ship via DHL.