October 2017 I-129 K-1 filers

[Brittani 484]

4 minutes ago, Michelle_ said:

I think that a POE in June is very likely, they are beginning to pick up, hope the trend continues.

I certainly hope so for all of us on here. 

[Tpienkowski 210]

9 minutes ago, Brittani said:

That's what I'm really hoping that he will be able to have POE by late June then we will have time to go ahead and start preparing his AOS application and get married August 8th so we can send it in right after we get married buuuttt I don't want to get to hopeful. I do agree though. I think they're really trying to pick up the speed so it's back to normal time.

I completely understand ! We’re doing a courthouse wedding & then a (real) wedding January 2019. We’re doing the courthouse ASAP and then sending all of the paperwork off right away so he can start working ASAP. 

[Michelle_ 58]

2 minutes ago, Tpienkowski said:

I completely understand ! We’re doing a courthouse wedding & then a (real) wedding January 2019. We’re doing the courthouse ASAP and then sending all of the paperwork off right away so he can start working ASAP. 

We will also do a courthouse wedding initially, from what I have read, even receiving permission to work is taking up to 6 months. I am not sure if that is accurate.

[Brittani 484]

4 minutes ago, Tpienkowski said:

I completely understand ! We’re doing a courthouse wedding & then a (real) wedding January 2019. We’re doing the courthouse ASAP and then sending all of the paperwork off right away so he can start working ASAP. 

Yes, sounds like us. I've been saving and saving. Pretty much every bit of my tax return goes into savings so once he starts working we can look into buying a house asap. Soooo excited to start our lives like normal people. I'm so ready to close the distance forever. I hate when people say "man I don't know how you do that. I couldn't do it!" like yes thanks for reminding me of how hard of situation is literally you and every other person. Do you guys get that too?

1 minute ago, Michelle_ said:

We will also do a courthouse wedding initially, from what I have read, even receiving permission to work is taking up to 6 months. I am not sure if that is accurate.

Last I heard it was on average 4 months but this was about a month ago when I asked on here.

[Tpienkowski 210]

1 minute ago, Michelle_ said:

We will also do a courthouse wedding initially, from what I have read, even receiving permission to work is taking up to 6 months. I am not sure if that is accurate.

I know if you have a legitimate job offer you can submit it in as proof to have your application expedited which I think can get it down to 2 months 

[Michelle_ 58]

10 minutes ago, Brittani said:

Yes, sounds like us. I've been saving and saving. Pretty much every bit of my tax return goes into savings so once he starts working we can look into buying a house asap. Soooo excited to start our lives like normal people. I'm so ready to close the distance forever. I hate when people say "man I don't know how you do that. I couldn't do it!" like yes thanks for reminding me of how hard of situation is literally you and every other person. Do you guys get that too?

Last I heard it was on average 4 months but this was about a month ago when I asked on here.

Brittani, yes I hear that far to often, I did not choose the distance, and it is difficult, it is not only you.

[JDP91 118]

Hi all, Jan filer lurking here! 

 

Just had a quick question for those of you planning to have separate courthouse weddings and ceremonies... how are you planning that / framing it for your friends and family? I've thought about doing this with my fiancé so he can get his work approval ASAP (and we can have more time to plan it, not subject to the whims of the K1 approval time!), but I can't seem to shake the feeling that it would be somehow awkward. Are you treating it as a vow renewal? Just ignoring the courthouse wedding for the purposes of a ceremony? Something else?

 

Any insight would be much appreciated 

Edited January 23, 2018 by JDP91

[Michelle_ 58]

16 minutes ago, Tpienkowski said:

I know if you have a legitimate job offer you can submit it in as proof to have your application expedited which I think can get it down to 2 months 

Thanks, helpful to know

[Brittani 484]

2 minutes ago, Michelle_ said:

Brittani, yes I hear that far to often, I did not choose the distance, and it is difficult, it is not only you.

I don't think it would be so bad if it wasn't the same people over and over and giving me this look of pity and slight judgement like I chose to do this on purpose. Love doesn't discriminate against distance. Once I met my Stephen I knew he was my one.

[Naes 12,205]

5 minutes ago, JDP91 said:

Hi all, Jan filer lurking here! 

 

Just had a quick question for those of you planning to have separate courthouse weddings and ceremonies... how are you planning that / framing it for your friends and family? I've thought about doing this with my fiancé so he can get his work approval ASAP (and we can have more time to plan it, not subject to the whims of the K1 approval time!), but I can't seem to shake the feeling that it would be somehow awkward. Are you treating it as a vow renewal? Just ignoring the courthouse wedding for the purposes of a ceremony? Something else?

 

Any insight would be much appreciated 

Actually I realized many people is doing it. I was thinking it was weird at first too. We will have the ceremony as any normal ceremony is but not do the signing there that's it. 

 

Whats still weird to me is which one becomes our anniversary then?

[Michelle_ 58]

1 minute ago, Brittani said:

I don't think it would be so bad if it wasn't the same people over and over and giving me this look of pity and slight judgement like I chose to do this on purpose. Love doesn't discriminate against distance. Once I met my Stephen I knew he was my one.

Love knows no boundaries, borders.  So true. That is how I felt

 

[JDP91 118]

Just now, Naes said:

Actually I realized many people is doing it. I was thinking it was weird at first too. We will have the ceremony as any normal ceremony is but not do the signing there that's it. 

 

Whats still weird to me is which one becomes our anniversary then?

Yeah! That was another thing I was wondering about. I suppose you could always have double anniversary celebrations, haha

[Brittani 484]

3 minutes ago, JDP91 said:

Hi all, Jan filer lurking here! 

 

Just had a quick question for those of you planning to have separate courthouse weddings and ceremonies... how are you planning that / framing it for your friends and family? I've thought about doing this with my fiancé so he can get his work approval ASAP (and we can have more time to plan it, not subject to the whims of the K1 approval time!), but I can't seem to shake the feeling that it would be somehow awkward. Are you treating it as a vow renewal? Just ignoring the courthouse wedding for the purposes of a ceremony? Something else?

 

Any insight would be much appreciated 

I'm doing a simple not even ceremony. We're just dressing up for the sake of pictures. We're going to do a ceremony a little over a year later. I would do it a year exactly but August in Georgia is brutal. I don't think it'll be awkward. It'll just be your ceremony to celebrate your love with your family. I wish we could do it big the first time but this process doesn't exactly give enough time to plan that.

[Chris J 111]

48 minutes ago, Brittani said:

I certainly hope so for all of us on here. 

POE by June??? Ummm.... 

[Brittani 484]

4 minutes ago, Chris J said:

POE by June??? Ummm.... 

Ummm...yeah late June early July