March 2018 I-129f Filers

[BJ & Christine 1,392]

1 minute ago, Meu Amor said:

Busting with JOY!! A huge sigh of relief, after 206 long days we are finally APPROVED! God thank you for the blessing this morning! 

 

We're wishing all you well in your new life journey... 😍  

this will be ur new home for a bit 

 

congratulations 

 

[Meu Amor 180]

6 minutes ago, BJ & Christine said:

this will be ur new home for a bit 

 

congratulations 

 

Yes indeed....already on it. Thank you! Hey hang in there. I know you guys been waiting for a while. It's coming....

[BJ & Christine 1,392]

5 minutes ago, Meu Amor said:

Yes indeed....already on it. Thank you! Hey hang in there. I know you guys been waiting for a while. It's coming....

Was approved late last month... still waiting nvc number  

[Meu Amor 180]

2 minutes ago, BJ & Christine said:

Was approved late last month... still waiting nvc number  

Hahaha, gotcha. I knew it was something you was waiting on. 

[aprilfiler2018 47]

Hi all,  

 

We finally got approved! 192days!

 

Noa1 old site March 26

Noa 1 new site March 29

 

Noa2 October 4th

 

Good luck to everyone for the rest of the week!

[BJ & Christine 1,392]

10 minutes ago, Meu Amor said:

Hahaha, gotcha. I knew it was something you was waiting on. 

It's all about waiting. The more u move forward the more u wait. 

[Danery 43]

3 minutes ago, BJ & Christine said:

It's all about waiting. The more u move forward the more u wait. 

We're still waiting our NOA 2

NOA1 March 12th (old site)

NOA1 Marcg 16th (New site)

[aprilfiler2018 47]

Our approval showed in the USCIS app and on the old website. Not on the new website yet !

we also did not receive any email notification unfortunately!

[Meu Amor 180]

54 minutes ago, BJ & Christine said:

It's all about waiting. The more u move forward the more u wait. 

Yes so true!!

[Nikatnite92 29]

Guys!!!! I got my RFE AND! it’s great news. I forgot to mark if I had a criminal record or not!!!! Just have to mark NO and I’m done!!!!!

[Rayapig 46]

17 minutes ago, Nikatnite92 said:

Guys!!!! I got my RFE AND! it’s great news. I forgot to mark if I had a criminal record or not!!!! Just have to mark NO and I’m done!!!!!

That's great! That's actually all I had missed as well when I received my RFE. My lawyer told me that he thinks a lot of times it unchecks itself and doesn't print out correctly. For some reason that specific box has done that on many people's application. Which is super frustrating. However, I am glad like you, to have that be literally the only issue they had with everything. Meaning we are in the clear for everything else for now. And hopefully soon I hear back from the USCIS that it is approved, get the NOA2 and can move on. Hope things go quickly for you too!

[Nikatnite92 29]

25 minutes ago, Rayapig said:

That's great! That's actually all I had missed as well when I received my RFE. My lawyer told me that he thinks a lot of times it unchecks itself and doesn't print out correctly. For some reason that specific box has done that on many people's application. Which is super frustrating. However, I am glad like you, to have that be literally the only issue they had with everything. Meaning we are in the clear for everything else for now. And hopefully soon I hear back from the USCIS that it is approved, get the NOA2 and can move on. Hope things go quickly for you too!

 

Yeah I was going to say, I don’t think I missed that, then I went and checked the PDF and I did check it but it didn’t print out. It would probably be good to pin that to the top of the form to let people know that it might not print that out so that way it doesn’t happen to them. So excited though! Glad that you’re on the same track as me! Good luck to you too!

[Greenbaum 12,259]

52 minutes ago, Nikatnite92 said:

Guys!!!! I got my RFE AND! it’s great news. I forgot to mark if I had a criminal record or not!!!! Just have to mark NO and I’m done!!!!!

Here is some advice.

 

About RFE's

 

When you receive an RFE (Request For Evidence) the best way to handle the RFE is to read it carefully. Do ONLY what it says. DON"T add tons and tons of unnecessary documents. It's not needed and will NOT help your case. The adjudicator has already made up their mind about your case and if you do what they ask then they are going to approve your case. Of course if something in your past is hanging up the approval, hence the RFE then what you return will answer the question(s) that the Adjudicator has.

 

I'll give you an example. Recently a couple had filed a I-129f and they received an RFE because a question was not answered. The question was "have you ever been arrested" or something near that. Forgetting about a expunge case in his youth he thought he was being honest and said "no". Well the RFE was returned and the adjudicator denied the case because it answered the question "no" when he should have answered it "yes" because of the expunge case that he forgot about. So, he had to return back to his fiancé's country, marry her, and then return to process a visa for her under the I-130 which is a CR-1 visa (spousal visa).

 

Also, sign your RFE where it ask and if it doesn't ask then sign the copy of the RFE that you will be returning. Sometimes they ask and sometimes they don't. We had a case here not too long ago where someone forgot to sign the RFE when requested and BINGO.... Denied! So sign even if it doesn't ask for it.

2 hours ago, aprilfiler2018 said:

Our approval showed in the USCIS app and on the old website. Not on the new website yet !

we also did not receive any email notification unfortunately!

Did you register your email with NVC?

Once you receive your NOA2 approval then contact NVC via https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/ask-nvc.html to update your email address as well as your beneficiary's email address. This will give you an email alert when your file arrives at NVC, your case is assigned and when the file leaves for your Embassy.

Edited October 4, 2018 by Greenbaum

[wtrav 34]

What's the difference between old and new website? 

 

As per the old website we were approved on Sept 28th, however the case status is still pending on the new website. 🤔

[Greenbaum 12,259]

Just now, wtrav said:

What's the difference between old and new website? 

 

As per the old website we were approved on Sept 28th, however the case status is still pending on the new website. 🤔

Not a DANG thing. I wish that the old or new goes away. All it does is confuses everyone. Whoever came up with that brilliant idea should be taken out back and shot!