ATTENTION JULY FILERS!

[weedebz 0]

CONGRATS LILOU!!!!

as Aly has already said, I'll be dropping off the radar between now and thursday. Me and Nick spending the time together before he leaps the puddle back to NE. I'll still be doing updates occasionally but could PM's be directed to her for the next few days.

Have a great week all and I hope to see MASSES of approvals when I get back.

[MR2nice 0]

APPROVED I just sees it because I was disconnected from the net and I'm now in US sharing Xmas with my fiance and that is a great Xmas gift.....

WhooHoo!!!! Congratulations!

[Jeraly 4]

Hopefully mine Debz!! I'll make sure to message you here, on facebook and e-mail just to make sure you know!!! Lol

[mc2000ch 0]

I guess I should reply too since I'm going to be filing myself.

Soon as I get the birth certificate thing worked out (tomorrow) and get paid (Friday) then I'm mailing off my I-129F!

I'm going to send it express, or whatever, I want them to get it ASAP.

Here's hoping VSC starts picking up and we don't have to wait *too* long...

wow congra, i am right behind you

[Arrta 1]

We just got about 3 - 4 inches of snow here last night.. Toook me the last hour to shovel the driveway, yeah its the heavy stuff and I'm a little out of shape

Gonna take a photo of the first major snowfall this year and send it to Charry hehe. She has never seen cold weather before never mind snow..

Researching the interweb I found the coldest it has ever been in the Philippines was 19 C in Manila. Which, for us Americans who don't use that Celsius #######, is 66 F..

It is 28F but it was 20 F on Saturday which, for you Celsius people, is negative 7 C.. And there have been times I went to my car in the morning and checked the temp at neg 15 F, or neg 26 C...

It is one of the few things I worry about, her distance from family, if she can handle the cold weather are a few of the top ones.

No luck yet on our NOA2.. waiting patiently.. YEAH RIGHT!!!

Edited December 3, 2007 by Arrta

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

It got up over 80 F (27 C) here yesterday and poor Lindsay has been looking at temps around -4 F (-20 C).

I will take my stifling summer heat and hurricanes.

[niceguy26 0]

1st off. CONGRATS on the MANY, MANY APROVALS!!!

I think I might be able to help a little with the "What's Next" questions. After you have received notification of an Approved NOA2 then the USCIS website is indeed useless. Now you have to call the NVC to check on the status. Now, let me explain a couple of things. The NVC is located in New Hampshire which is just down the road from Vermont, so for all of you who applied to the VSC then your petition should get to the NVC fairly quickly. From What I Understand, the CSC saves the petitions up in bulk and then sends them to the NVC.

In our case, the petition was at the NVC for something like 5 days before it was forwarded on to the Embassy. While the Petition is at the NVC it will be reassigned a new tracking number. Please do not be concerned though. You can still track your case with the NVC by the Case number from your NOA1/NOA2. The people at NVC were much more helpful than USCIS.

In our case, we were able to check the Embassy received date by checking out the Website for the Consulate Section in Guayaquil Ecuador.

Once the case was received at Guayaquil they sent the packet 4 out to Belen. When Belen received the packet, she had nearly everything taken care of with the exception of the medical exam. Just so you know, most of the Consulate Sections have Sample Packet 4s, so that you and your fiancé can prepare yourselves in advance. Once Belen completed the requirements for her Packet 4 she called and scheduled an interview with the Consulate Section at the Embassy.

Here is the number to the NVC: (603) 334-0700(Open until Midnight)

As a side note: We received confirmation today that Belen's interview date has in fact been moved from the 23rd on January to the 17th of December. That makes me... A very, very fortunate and Happy man!!!

Take Care and I hope this helps...

Thanks alot for writing this and taking time to do it. Our petition should be sent to NVC very soon. we were approved yesterday. I'd really like to track it's movement to NVC and onto the embassy in Moscow. Does NVC have its own website? When should I try calling NVC to find out if/when they received it?? Thanks.

NVC Does have a website, but I am not sure if you can track your status on there or not. Trust me you are just as well off calling the number I provided. The people at NVC are incredibly nice and helpful. We filed through the VSC just like you. I called the NVC only a couple of days after I knew our NOA2 had been approved. The people at NVC were not bothered by this at all.

It wouldn't hurt to give them a call tomorrow. The NVC will be able to tell you when the Petition arrived and when it left. From what I understand, an electronic version is sent out as well as the hard copy. More likely than not, you will have to wait a week or so for your petition to arrive at the Embassy in Moscow. Have you checked to see whether or not the Consulate Section in Moscow has a website or how helpful it is? I have to tell you, I have been extremely impressed with the Consulate Section in Ecuador. Hopefully the Consulate in Moscow is just as helpful.

Best of luck neighbor...

does everyone use the automated service for this? or is it more accurate to reach an actual person? thanks!

[Jeraly 4]

Researching the interweb I found the coldest it has ever been in the Philippines was 19 C in Manila. Which, for us Americans who don't use that Celsius #######, is 66 F..

Celsius #######?! LMAO It's cause we have all gone metric - It's *you* guys who use a weird system Lol

We prolly won't get snow - rain, wind, bits of hail, stupid flurries that don't amount to anything and frost but not any decent amount of snow

Oh - and in case anyone cares or is surprised - still no news at our end

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

As an engineer, I think we are stupid for not adopting the metric system years ago. It makes everything a whole lot easier.

[Jeraly 4]

Yay!! Go metric!!!

Besides - how can something be a positive number yet be below freezing?! Ok so I am no physicist and that may only be true for water but still!!!

[kaush 0]

Yay!! Go metric!!!

Besides - how can something be a positive number yet be below freezing?! Ok so I am no physicist and that may only be true for water but still!!!

Haha! True that!

[KGSodie 0]

So everyone is thinking about a meet up next fall? Any particular part of the country being considered yet, or is it too early to think about?

[Jeraly 4]

Personally somewhere easy to get to would be cool - I would say Vegas but then I am going to be kinda close if I am out there at all at that point!!!

[tucson_chick 0]

Personally somewhere easy to get to would be cool - I would say Vegas but then I am going to be kinda close if I am out there at all at that point!!!

YES!!!! VEGAS!!!!! I'm all up for it!!!!

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

Yay!! Go metric!!!

Besides - how can something be a positive number yet be below freezing?! Ok so I am no physicist and that may only be true for water but still!!!

Yeah, actually the concept of negative temperature is false. Absolute zero occurs at the point when all particles lose kinetic energy. This means that EVERYTHING is frozen, even air. Setting zero at the freezing point of water just allows for simplified approaches. Mathematics pertaining to fluid temperature either deal in temperature difference, where the "actual" temperature is irrelavent, or absolute temperature (Rankine or Kelvin), where the true energy capacity of the material is considered.

For ease of operation, water freezes at 0C and boils at 100 C, assuming that a pressure of 1 atmosphere is present in throughout the fluid.

Edited December 3, 2007 by AnewKINDofFEELIN