I-129F June, Part II

[Kim & Zak 195]

4 minutes ago, Love Found said:

Dec 7

Congratulations!!

 

Was he out of town and didn't check his mail until now? 

[Love Found 61]

Yes! 

Just now, Love Found said:

Yes! 

Thanks guys:)... 

[Britanee7 49]

2 minutes ago, Lana&Tyler said:

I have been in contact with my congressman. 

A woman working for my congressman in immigration affairs offered to help us. I write her an Email back today. Thoughts? Too passionate? Am I going to far? I want to see change. 

And yes I write for Tyler he is not the best with words which is funny considering I’m a foreigner and he is American. 

 

Anyways. Please share your thoughts. 

 

Dear Ms Katie Malone, 

 

Thank you for your response. I would like to thank you and take you up on your offer on following up on our case on behalf on my benefiary Lana *********

I am delighted to read that you offered to send a letter of support to the Frankfurt US consulate prior to my fiancées Interview. It would mean a great deal indeed, if you could do that on our behalf. 

 

I do have some questions for you. I have been in contact with the USCIS and NVC on multiple occasions trying to find out why the USCIS is holding on to approved petitions. I do not see a reason to hold them for 6-8 weeks just to send them to the NVC. Not including the time the NVC will process the application. Or the time the application takes from NVC to the consulate and finally the interview. 

We got approved on December 11th. The approval is valid for 4 months and expires thereafter. 

It is unsettling to know that we will most likely exceed this validity timeline due to backups at the government institutions, which is by no means our fault. 

But we are the ones suffering under current conditions. 

 

The uscis is extremely rude and does not give any Information at all about any subject. In fact, it seems to be standard language to give out false statement to petitioners calling over the phone. 

Maybe you helping us will give us a voice in this matter, which we are thankful for. 

 

There needs to be an understanding that our petition is not just a number, but two people with lives, problems and emotions. 

The process used to not only be shorter, but cheaper and with less hurdles to overcome. 

 

While I understand that we live under current anti-immigration administration, I wouldn’t have thought what a huge negative impact this process has on our lives and how disrespectful we are being treated by the listed Government institutions. 

After all, I am a proud tax-paying US citizen that just wants to marry the women he loves. 

 

We are very thankful for your help. I hope this process will be made easier on US- and foreign citizens in the future. 

I don’t mean to be rude, I am just very passionate about this as this is consuming our lives. 

 

Please keep following our case and please do send that letter of support to the Frankfurt consulate prior to my fiancées interview. 

 

Many thanks 

 

Tyler *******

I think this is sufficient. How do i find out who to contact? How did you know to contact that person? Im the UK beneficiary would my fiance have to contact?

[Desi1012 209]

52 minutes ago, Love Found said:

Noa1 June 14. We got approved! No update on the website. My fiance received the hard copy!!!

God is good! 

Congratulations

[Lana&Tyler 359]

Just now, Britanee7 said:

I think this is sufficient. How do i find out who to contact? How did you know to contact that person? Im the UK beneficiary would my fiance have to contact?

He needs to find out who his congressman is. We live in Maryland and ours is Elijah Cummings. Katie Malone handles immigration related affairs for him. She offered to help us. 

 

He just needs to go to go online and google who the congressman of his state is and send him or her a letter 

[John & Rose 7,239]

Just now, Love Found said:

Dec 7

Wow.  You were kept in the dark for a whole month!  Congratulations.  It probably would have been nice to know that before Christmas!

[John & Rose 7,239]

2 minutes ago, Lana&Tyler said:

He needs to find out who his congressman is. We live in Maryland and ours is Elijah Cummings. Katie Malone handles immigration related affairs for him. She offered to help us. 

 

He just needs to go to go online and google who the congressman of his state is and send him or her a letter 

I finally went that route.  I called and faxed and emailed my Congressman, Mike Quigley.  They even have a spot on their site to help deal with Government Agencies.  

[Lana&Tyler 359]

Just now, John & Rose said:

I finally went that route.  I called and faxed and emailed my Congressman, Mike Quigley.  They even have a spot on their site to help deal with Government Agencies.  

That’s good. 

I hope government will help us. I am praying for you and rose. This is getting ridiculous and I can see how it’s becoming very hard on you. I will send some strengh your way. 

 

 

[John & Rose 7,239]

1 minute ago, Lana&Tyler said:

That’s good. 

I hope government will help us. I am praying for you and rose. This is getting ridiculous and I can see how it’s becoming very hard on you. I will send some strengh your way. 

 

 

There are good days and bad days.  I am not as strong as she is.  Last night as we were talking about another year of school for Aira and AJ in the Philippines she was starting to show some of the strain.  I was able to be strong for her but it is getting harder.  We will both rebuild our walls and be back waiting with positive vibes.

[vocaledge 3,340]

1 hour ago, John & Rose said:

Day 218.  VJ timeline moves to December 22nd....That is all

 

It is getting tougher to stay very positive.  We are doing our best but last night we had to discuss if we should pay the kids tuition for next school year.  They start in June and there is a very good chance that they will not be here by then.  So not only do I need to figure out if I will visit now, visit for the interview and trip home or pay their tuition for the next school year.  It is due in June and it is a one time payment.  

 

This has been such a roller coaster.  We started out believing we would be together for Christmas.  Then we worried about the kids finishing the school year in March.  Now I'm worried about their next school year.  I honestly do not see this ever happening.  It is January 10 and we have seen 5 or 6 mail only approvals.  There are 2200 June filers still waiting.  I believe it will be quicker to stop now and do a CR-1.  NOA2s for the CR-1 per the  Facebook group was only 3 months.  There are people there who were at POE with green card (and more money in their pocket) in under 10 months.  We are lucky if we are at POE in under a year and we also get to pay at least an extra $1000 for the privilege of being delayed.

 

Thanks, I needed that.  Now lets get this thing moving again.  Good luck to all of us.

John.  I dont talk to you very much but I do want to say this to you.

Stay strong.  June would be an extremely unlikely scenario, and no matter how you feel right now, I believe that to be the case.
I also have seen your estimated timeline, and whilst I think its probably 'realistic', I still think its a little on the pessimistic side, and there are cracks that you can exploit if you choose to do so, its all down to how much effort you want to put in.

For example: It has been shown that if you get the right Tier 2 representative, your time to NVC CAN be shortened - once you get approval, call every day until you get the right one.  NVC is much more helpful.  Call ever day once they have your case until you get that representative who will assign your case number whilst you are on the phone (again, this forum has proven that can happen)...

Once you get to Manila, of course I dont know the process there, and I do know its one of the busiest, but you are prepared and I fully believe that you and Rose can call every day to try to find cancellations for the medical, and get into the embassy as quickly as you possibly can.

The moral of my post is this:  Stay strong and don't lose faith... I may be a guy who doesn't particularly get along with you, and I may be overly positive sometimes, but do you know why?  I have faith in YOU.  Not God, not USCIS... YOU. Thats all you need, a little faith in your own strength and your own perseverance, and your own ability to make this work.  May today bring good news, and if not, soon, so that you can move on to parts of this process where you can exert a little more control.

[Britanee7 49]

16 hours ago, Matt&Savannah said:

I can't help but feel like we are being punished/tested for falling in love with our fiances.

 

These days, how easy is it to navigate the world, both physically and online? So they have to expect people of different nationalities to meet and want marry each other. It feels like it should be a basic human right to be able to do so without such hardship. I understand there needs to be a vetting process but keeping people in the dark for this amount of time is pure cruelty. When we signed up for this process we knew the time frame involved (or at least we knew what others had experienced). Whilst it seemed like a hurdle we never imagined it would drag on for this long.

 

@SM2017 mentioned earlier that they are nervous about seeing their fiance after such a long time. I feel exactly the same. My heart has never stopped loving Savannah but something in my head has forgotten how it is to physically be around her. Nobody has the right to make me feel that way.

 

I've decided I'm not going to simply wait anymore. I'm not going to live, constantly waiting for approval that should have come a month ago and may not be for months to come. I'm jacking my job in and will just visit America for 3 months at a time until this is all over. Sure, it may delay the whole process with me not being in England. I dont care. Honestly I'd rather feel like I'm in some way in charge of my life rather than some uncommunicative government agency on a go slow.

Are you actually going to quit and just move over there?

[useful89 692]

4 hours ago, Matt&Savannah said:

Had you called before NOA2 aswell? I notice that came Incredibly quickly relative to everyone else. You are the first person from June that ive seen who has a normal(ish) looking timeline, its inspiring 

I called for an expedite request at the beginning of my wait but never again after that. I definitely feel extremely fortunate that things have happened so quickly. I didn't have anything ready and suddenly was given an interview date only a month ahead! 

[Ana Maria 265]

4 hours ago, Alexg89 said:

Email or call NVC just for peace of mind 

but I believe they will send it to Rio anyway 

Thx

[Matt&Savannah 67]

Just now, Britanee7 said:

Are you actually going to quit and just move over there?

I am indeed. The way I look at it is I wasn't planning on being at work this long. I expected POE around christmas/new year. So every day I work now is a bonus. Savannah is coming to England this weekend for the week which will give us a boost and then I'll quit my job end of February and go to America.. Obviously we will have to live on a shoe string but after travelling the world we are pretty used to that.  I'm hoping that after a couple months I will return to find things have moved on with the visa process and we can actually start doing something useful with this horrible time apart. Like I said before, I refuse to play their waiting game with no results. 

[Britanee7 49]

I would love to do this but im nervous to do it.

I have my house here which i am renting out and keeping anyway. But im scared as when you go into the US will they ask where your return flight is and question you alot?