*** K-3 May and June 2007 Filers ***

[Urge To Race 2]

Dave,

That is nothing really strange. They have been trying to approve both petitions for K3 together for about a year now. Actually, your case among the unusual in that they approved the I130 and never took action on the I129F.

Wow almost back to back on the NOA2 for both I-130 and I-129 huh, G&A?! Congrats!

[KingsleysPrincess 0]

Woooooooo hoooooooooo! Congrats G&A. We did receive both approvals in the mail today as she stated, both dated November 15th!!! My husband and I were on the phone when I went to the mailbox so we found out together!!!! We are thanking God!!!!!

[Urge To Race 2]

Congrats!

Woooooooo hoooooooooo! Congrats G&A. We did receive both approvals in the mail today as she stated, both dated November 15th!!! My husband and I were on the phone when I went to the mailbox so we found out together!!!! We are thanking God!!!!!

[Juan Carlos 0]

Hello, guys! Today I learned a little something about the RFE trick (for those of you who may not know about this already).

I called early in the morning (8am central time) and a recording said: "no immigration officer is available at this time. Your call will be transferred to a Customer Service Representative". A nice old lady answered with their typical "My name is Such and my badge number is XX XXX" She was nice, but had noo information at all. As a matter of fact she just mixed up all the information and confused me beyond explanation.

So I calmed down and called again three and a half hours latter. The recording clearly said: "you will be transferred to an immigration officer". The person who answered introduced herself as Officer X of the California Service Center. How I got there, I am not sure. Still the officer didn't tell me anthing I didn't already know: "your case will be reviewed by the end of this year or early next, bla bla". But she sounded like someone with at least some authority, she actually looked in to my case and even more important, she was an immigration officer and not a clerk at a call center. She wasn't reading a script.

You may want to be careful because it seems based on their work load, time of the day, phase of the moon or who knows what else, your call may get transferred one way or another. Hope this helps.

[G&A 1]

G,

I called and I was told that it is still pending in standard processing. There was no further info they could give or action they could take. I was advised to allow 180 days to pass for the transfer to complete. They sound so benevolent when they say it I almost wonder if they realize 180 days is 6 months. I think because I've pursued the CR1 Immigrant instead of K3 Non Immigrant they are holding on to it. *sighs* I'm getting pretty proficient at waiting...

That just sucks... I think they never 'paired' your applications and the 129F petition is collecting dust somewhere. Glad you went ahead with the CR1.

Updated... Dates with font in Red mean that i am still missing the actual date you got the NOA2 in the mail

Send me your updates...

BRING ON THE GREEN MY FRIEND!! NO MORE BLUE!!!!

Finally! Long overdue...

[G&A 1]

Hello A,

Yes, it is official. They are not updating the website completely. Kingsley's Princess was approved, according to the website, for I-130 only. Today, she got both approved petitions in the mail today, I-130 and I-129F. It should be just any time for my husband and me. We sent our petition in on May 18, so we are over due as of Sunday. Gotta keep praying!!!!! Congratulations G & A!!!! I am so very happy for you two.

Deb

Thanks Deb! I really hope you get yours soon. You are the last of the CSC petitions in my table. I will stay around until yours is approved. I have to

Urge, Davejaz, Thanks!

Woooooooo hoooooooooo! Congrats G&A. We did receive both approvals in the mail today as she stated, both dated November 15th!!! My husband and I were on the phone when I went to the mailbox so we found out together!!!! We are thanking God!!!!!

Hey! we are tracking to the same day. Let's hope they send this batch of approvals to the NVC soon! Congrats!

[G&A 1]

MyHoney, did you get your approvals in the mail today or was it on the website?

[chinemeze 0]

MyHoney, did you get your approvals in the mail today or was it on the website?

Congratulations G & A. i am very happy for you and yours. hopefully we all can be next. Its high time

[G&A 1]

Congrats everyone on the approvals last week! I'm still hanging in there in hopes of getting approved this week. There have been some approved already that have later dates then ours so it should be real soon! Good luck to everyone else still waiting!

Kristi

Hi Kristi, any news? Hope soon!

G

MyHoney, did you get your approvals in the mail today or was it on the website?

Congratulations G & A. i am very happy for you and yours. hopefully we all can be next. Its high time

Thank you! Yours should be around Thanksgiving!

[G&A 1]

MORE GREEN!

[Amy B. 0]

Congrats to all the approvals .....

[davejaz42107 1]

Yeah G, I have a feeling they didn't pair it either. I think (and I hope) I made the right choice going for the CR1 instead. The process has been relatively quick through CR1. As it turns out this visa will work out better for my wife and I anyway. I look forward to when your list is solid green!

[wintime 0]

Properly executing the RFE trick means that you go from the automated system right to a rep at CSC. Your call should not be answered by a regular call center type CSR.

The second call might have transfered you to a higher level call center CSR; or you got a person at CSC who did not care enough to look at your case. The people who get some info from the RFE are fortunate that the person to whom they speak cares enough to look at their case and give some meaningful info, as what happened to my case when I called when my I130 received date was 180 days gone, and my I130 NOA1 date was 167 days gone.

I called the USCIS today, and tried to use the RFE trick like most people mention here, but no luck, I couldn’t pass the customer service rep. at all.

But I called again with the straight truth that my I-130 has been there for over 180 days, then they transfer me to someone else they call customer service, and I had to wait for 25 minutes on the line, but I think it’s not the customer service I think that person is in CSC, because how could they transfer me from customer service to another.

Anyway, they told me that the processing date is:

For the I-130 the processing date is May 19th

For the I-129F the processing date is April 29th 2007

So I said I have sent my I-130 on May 10th, she then told me that they can’t be looking into my individual case being late unless it’s 30 days out of the processing date.

I couldn’t get any information from her at all.

I really still don’t understand why the process of a US citizen bringing his spouse to the US should take all this time, it make no sense to me at all

But

I was trying to make another call today, but I went to check my online USCIS profile, even though I have checked it this morning, so I am checking for the second time, and the reason for me checking for the second time is to check before I call today the USCIS trying the RFE trick Urge to Race mentioned above, and I found that my I-129F date has been updated to today 11/20, this is the first touch to my case since it went to CSC, now it may be obvious that this touch is because of the phone call I made yesterday, but when I made the call most of my conversation with the lady was about my I-130, and I only gave her the case number for I-130, I never gave her the I-129F case number, maybe she searched with the info. I gave about my I-130 to find my I-129F, but it's still a hope in my side that this touch may be it,

the bottom line, I am not calling today I will wait to see where this touch will go, and I will not know that until after the Thanks Giving holyday, that means next week Wed. or even Friday, if I haven't received any by then I will go head and make a call

What a day, few minutes ago 11:49pm I checked my online USCIS profile, and I saw an update on my I-130 date, it has been touched and the date is 11/21/2007, even though we are still on 11/20/2007, that's not the end of the story, I checked the status for my I-130, and there you go

My I-130 is approved

Here is the message....

[Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On November 20, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.]

But for my I-129F it still saying pending under process, but like I said above in my previous post the last update date says 11/20, that means my I-130 and I-129F were together, but only the I-130 got approved so far, I don't know what will happen to the I-129F, I hope it will follow, and I hope they will not say (because there is 2 months between both cases), ,

Edited November 21, 2007 by wintime

[davejaz42107 1]

Congrats wintime! :thumb: (A little more green on the list never hurt anybody)

[pechez 0]

Let me introduced myself. m from the philippines and my hubby is from washington. I just have few questions regarding k3. So frustrating that we sent the I-130 package may 8, 2007. My hubby called USCIS and was told they got it may 15. But when I checked online it says there On June 1, 2007 we received this I-130..... and the receipt date is July 11.we got the hardcopy of the receipt notice July 18. When will I start counting? Is it from June !st or from July 11?

Another thing, since We got the hardcopy of the receipt notice late, we file the I-129f july 18, and was receive by the USCIS July 24. it was transferred to laguna niguel aug 9, so does it mean I have to count from the date of the transfer aug.9 even USCIS receives it JUly 24? Plsss. help me. So confused. We are in the same boat and you guys are the one giving me hope.