Waiting for a NOA2 from VSC for your I-129F?

[Bill y Bella 0]

Congratulations on your approval!!!!!! :dance:

Bill, is that the one you told us today?

Nope. It is a new one.

And what amazes me is they sent their petition only 2 days before I did at the end of July. VSC is now processing petitions from the end of July? What happened to the rest of June?

Don't get me wrong dawnlake. I am happy for you!

As I see it now, I may get my approval tomorrow or I may get it at the end of January or anywhere in between.

[cuteprince 0]

Do you know when your interview is????

I am not sure the date yet? I just spoke to NVC and they gave me NWD number and told me that it take few days to forward it embassy.

[BYRON-LEIDY 0]

I Faxed the packet 3 items to the embassy...actually Leidy did yesterday, i called today but no date yet....

[Bill y Bella 0]

Congratulations to AmeRuss (Marina & Brent). Submitted Jul 5 & NOA1 reported as Jul 12. They were approved on Nov 25 and they reported it today.

This makes 11 approvals for the week and 67 approvals for the month.

Edited November 28, 2007 by Bill y Bella

[MKCT 0]

Congratulations to AmeRuss (Marina & Brent). Submitted Jul 5 & NOA1 reported as Jul 12. They were approved on Nov 25 and they reported it today.

This makes 11 approvals for the week and 67 approvals for the month.

Sweet!

[Zee Bee 61]

Congratulations to AmeRuss (Marina & Brent). Submitted Jul 5 & NOA1 reported as Jul 12. They were approved on Nov 25 and they reported it today.

This makes 11 approvals for the week and 67 approvals for the month.

Wow, that is encouraging but what about all the people who are still waiting from May and June?

[MKCT 0]

Congratulations to AmeRuss (Marina & Brent). Submitted Jul 5 & NOA1 reported as Jul 12. They were approved on Nov 25 and they reported it today.

This makes 11 approvals for the week and 67 approvals for the month.

Wow, that is encouraging but what about all the people who are still waiting from May and June?

[*julez* 124]

Congratulations on your approval!!!!!! :dance:

Bill, is that the one you told us today?

Nope. It is a new one.

And what amazes me is they sent their petition only 2 days before I did at the end of July. VSC is now processing petitions from the end of July? What happened to the rest of June?

Don't get me wrong dawnlake. I am happy for you!

As I see it now, I may get my approval tomorrow or I may get it at the end of January or anywhere in between.

Their sent date is the same as my received at VSC date! May I be in the same crate as their petition was! Not likely, but whoever said I have to be rational all the time??

[MelindaandTarek 0]

Congratulations for all of those approved....and those touches...I got a touch today too........this wait is beginning to be a little agonizing...especially since I also have AP wait to look forward to after hte interview...for at a minium of 3 more additional months.....oh well...I try to stay positive and focus on what I do have control over and what I can do......I am hopeful my NOA2 is in the works....good luck everyone.....

[rouguewave 7]

I just wake up and lo and behold!

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: EAC07xxxxxxxx

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On November 28, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this

I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the

notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.

What a nice way to start a day. Thanks everyone.

Congratulations!!!!!!!

Here's hoping the rest of your journey is swift and effortless.

[dawnlake23 0]

Congratulations on your approval!!!!!! :dance:

Bill, is that the one you told us today?

Nope. It is a new one.

And what amazes me is they sent their petition only 2 days before I did at the end of July. VSC is now processing petitions from the end of July? What happened to the rest of June?

Don't get me wrong dawnlake. I am happy for you!

As I see it now, I may get my approval tomorrow or I may get it at the end of January or anywhere in between.

VSC received our file July30. Makes me think July petitions have been assigned to officers.

Maybe we just got lucky or our file is less complicated ( first marriage for both of us).

Good luck to everyone.

[BYRON-LEIDY 0]

interesting read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have a link to this article (I'm typing it out). It was in the Tuesday, November 27 issue of the New York Times.. Editorials/Letters section page A30. Author unknown (to me).

The Citizenship Surge

About the only point of agreement on immigration in this country is that newcomers who play by the rules - fill out their forms, pay their fees and wait their turn - are welcome. But that great American dogma is being sorely tested by the inability of the federal government's feeble citizenship agency to deal with a flood of applications that arose this summer.

The agency, Citizenship and Immigration Services, is telling legal immigrants that applications for citizenship and for residence visas filed after June 1 will take about 16 - 18 months to process. The agency was utterly unprepared for the surge, and so tens of thousands of Americans-in-waiting will have to keep on waiting. Many, gallingly, may have to sit out next November's election, even though that civic act was what prompted many of them to apply in the first place.

This was not supposed to happen. The director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Emilio Gonzalez, promised this summer that he era of bad, slow service was over. He said a whopping increase in fees that took effect July 30 - an average of about 66 percent across the board, with naturalization now costing $675 per person, up from $400 - was about to make his agency fit for the 21st century. Speaking to newly naturalized immigrants, Mr. Gonzalez promised immediate results.

One immediate result was entirely predictable: people rushed to get their paperwork in. The agency received nearly 2.5 million naturalization petitions and visa applications in July and August, more than double from those months last year. But Mr. Gonzalez's spokesman, Bill Wright, told Julia Preston in Friday's Times: "We certainly were surprised by such an immediate increase." Surprised and swamped. The agency's processing center in Vermont is only now acknowledging naturalization petitions that came in by July 30.

It's telling that we need to explain that this backlog is distinct from other backlogs that plague the citizenship agency. This is not the visa overload that causes people in some countries, like the Philippines and Mexico, to wait decades to enter legally. Those backlogs are caused by visa quotas that no one has seen fit to adjust. Nor are they the chronic delays in conducting criminal background checks that have kept thousands of immigrants in limbo for months, even years.

Many of those immigrants have given up on the agency and sought redress in the courts. There has been a spate of decisions by judges who found that delays by the Federal Bureau of Investigation are unreasonable - three years is too long to wait to have the government decide if you are a criminal - and have ordered the bureaucracy to do its job. Judge Nathaniel Gorton of the Federal District Court in Boston became so fed up last month with a delayed background check that he simply gave a plaintiff, Ahmed Dayisty, the oath of citizenship.

It should never have come to that. The country should summon the will, the resources and the basic administrative competence to carry out one of its most vital functions, the making of ne w citizens. Mr. Gonzalez's agency says that the new revenue will allow it to eventually add 1,500 employees to its work force, an increase of about 10 percent, and that staff members have volunteered to work overtime to handle the latest backlog.

The agency has made such vows before, and the voluntarism doesn't cut it. This is not a benefit car wash or a canned-food drive. Turning immigrants into citizens demands better than platitudes and broken promises.

interesting read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have a link to this article (I'm typing it out). It was in the Tuesday, November 27 issue of the New York Times.. Editorials/Letters section page A30. Author unknown (to me).

The Citizenship Surge

About the only point of agreement on immigration in this country is that newcomers who play by the rules - fill out their forms, pay their fees and wait their turn - are welcome. But that great American dogma is being sorely tested by the inability of the federal government's feeble citizenship agency to deal with a flood of applications that arose this summer.

The agency, Citizenship and Immigration Services, is telling legal immigrants that applications for citizenship and for residence visas filed after June 1 will take about 16 - 18 months to process. The agency was utterly unprepared for the surge, and so tens of thousands of Americans-in-waiting will have to keep on waiting. Many, gallingly, may have to sit out next November's election, even though that civic act was what prompted many of them to apply in the first place.

This was not supposed to happen. The director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Emilio Gonzalez, promised this summer that he era of bad, slow service was over. He said a whopping increase in fees that took effect July 30 - an average of about 66 percent across the board, with naturalization now costing $675 per person, up from $400 - was about to make his agency fit for the 21st century. Speaking to newly naturalized immigrants, Mr. Gonzalez promised immediate results.

One immediate result was entirely predictable: people rushed to get their paperwork in. The agency received nearly 2.5 million naturalization petitions and visa applications in July and August, more than double from those months last year. But Mr. Gonzalez's spokesman, Bill Wright, told Julia Preston in Friday's Times: "We certainly were surprised by such an immediate increase." Surprised and swamped. The agency's processing center in Vermont is only now acknowledging naturalization petitions that came in by July 30.

It's telling that we need to explain that this backlog is distinct from other backlogs that plague the citizenship agency. This is not the visa overload that causes people in some countries, like the Philippines and Mexico, to wait decades to enter legally. Those backlogs are caused by visa quotas that no one has seen fit to adjust. Nor are they the chronic delays in conducting criminal background checks that have kept thousands of immigrants in limbo for months, even years.

Many of those immigrants have given up on the agency and sought redress in the courts. There has been a spate of decisions by judges who found that delays by the Federal Bureau of Investigation are unreasonable - three years is too long to wait to have the government decide if you are a criminal - and have ordered the bureaucracy to do its job. Judge Nathaniel Gorton of the Federal District Court in Boston became so fed up last month with a delayed background check that he simply gave a plaintiff, Ahmed Dayisty, the oath of citizenship.

It should never have come to that. The country should summon the will, the resources and the basic administrative competence to carry out one of its most vital functions, the making of ne w citizens. Mr. Gonzalez's agency says that the new revenue will allow it to eventually add 1,500 employees to its work force, an increase of about 10 percent, and that staff members have volunteered to work overtime to handle the latest backlog.

The agency has made such vows before, and the voluntarism doesn't cut it. This is not a benefit car wash or a canned-food drive. Turning immigrants into citizens demands better than platitudes and broken promises.

POSTED BY DIVINE MERCY BY THE WAY

[AlHayatZween 2]

I just wake up and lo and behold!

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: EAC07xxxxxxxx

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On November 28, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this

I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the

notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.

What a nice way to start a day. Thanks everyone.

Hi all,

I'm just peeping my head in, since I've been lurking around the forum for a couple of days now. Sorry to have been so quiet, I'm just anxious and reading... and trying with little success to figure out if my NOA2 might come soon...

Anyway, congratulations to those of you who have received approval recently! Up until now, I've considered myself an August filer, but I'm one of those people who filed before the deadline, but no notice until well into August. I guess I'm a July/August filer.

I know a lot of you all are stressed, and me, too, I'm right along with you. I've been studying times and dates for days now, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason. Keep heart though! I hope we all hear some news soon, inchallah.

Keep on keepin' on,

hz

[Forever Young 1]

I'm at 203 days...I don't know if they will really help us with our case....

Mirla,

I believe you said that your fiance is in NY? Well, he CAN call Senator's Schumer and Clinton's NYC offices!! They are a pain in the butt to get through, keep trying (you may have to call the D.C. office and ask them to transfer you to NYC )... they will help, especially Schumer's office. There is an intern there by the name of Paul. He works in the immigration dept., very nice guy!!

I called the beginning of November (I'm not very patient )... he called me back the next day to verify my info. He finally called me on Monday to tell me my case is not with an adjudicator as of yet (duh ). But he also told me to call him again next week! He said IF I pass the 180 day mark, he can really start 'Barking' or do an official inquiry!

My Dear...you are pasted 180 days. Your fiance, should type a letter explaining the whole ordeal and how emotionally draining the whole process is...blah blah blah. Then don't mail it...he should fax it to the NYC office. 'Attn: Paul in Immigration Dept.'

This is Chuck's NYC office info:

New York City

757 Third Avenue

Suite 17-02

New York, NY 10017

Phone: 212-486-4430

Fax: 212-486-7693

TDD: 212-486-7803

The webpage link is below:

Good Luck!!

Blessed,

Gill

Edited November 29, 2007 by Deyoungting

[Zee Bee 61]

Hi all,

I'm just peeping my head in, since I've been lurking around the forum for a couple of days now. Sorry to have been so quiet, I'm just anxious and reading... and trying with little success to figure out if my NOA2 might come soon...

Anyway, congratulations to those of you who have received approval recently! Up until now, I've considered myself an August filer, but I'm one of those people who filed before the deadline, but no notice until well into August. I guess I'm a July/August filer.

I know a lot of you all are stressed, and me, too, I'm right along with you. I've been studying times and dates for days now, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason. Keep heart though! I hope we all hear some news soon, inchallah.

Keep on keepin' on,

hz

Nice to see you posting. Don't be a stranger