April Filers - NVC to Interview

[etripke 0]

:innocent:Hello to all here,

We filed or sent our petition april 30 and they received it may 7 we are already approved and just waiting for the pocket to arrive home..

As i read you are almost in April ahead of us where do you file most your petition? it is Vermont Center is the fastest Center of all so i think you all guys need to wait!

God bless to all of us

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[TT&QQ 0]

[/size]INTERVIEW and APPROVED!!!

QQ had the interview in the morning and again in the afternoon. Each was < 1/2 hr though she had to wait 45 min in the a.m.

In the a.m. the med check was not there from the hospital...so they said it would be there by noon. She also had to go home and get the certified divorce doc I sent on Monday (DHL) that was to be delivered to her house in a.m.

It all went smoothly.. and they told her she can pickup Visa on Aug 30. We booked the ticket almost 2 weeks ago for Sept 7th.

What a relief for both of us to have this step complete. Joyous happy days.

Best wishes to everyone,

Tom - TT

[wioombeen 0]

Heya everyone. :)

Does anyone know if we can just fill out the packet 3 for the philippines online?

US embassy immigrant visa info

At the bottom of this page the embassy provides the complete packet 3. Do we need to wait for the physical Packet or can we just use this to do everything?

Thanks

Wioombeen

Edited August 23, 2007 by wioombeen

[wioombeen 0]

[/size]INTERVIEW and APPROVED!!!

QQ had the interview in the morning and again in the afternoon. Each was < 1/2 hr though she had to wait 45 min in the a.m.

In the a.m. the med check was not there from the hospital...so they said it would be there by noon. She also had to go home and get the certified divorce doc I sent on Monday (DHL) that was to be delivered to her house in a.m.

It all went smoothly.. and they told her she can pickup Visa on Aug 30. We booked the ticket almost 2 weeks ago for Sept 7th.

What a relief for both of us to have this step complete. Joyous happy days.

Best wishes to everyone,

Tom - TT

WOW thats awesome news. Are you the first of us April filers to be approved at the interview? Our interview is Oct 5th. 43 days to go hehe.

Congrats again

Wioombeen

[etripke 0]

Long before I started this process I hired an immigration attorney. At the time (about a month prior to finding VJ) I thought it was the right thing to do. After I found VJ, I more or less took control of the petition which was being compiled, and have done everything by myself with the attorney just being given updates and used in case of problems. Well today I contacted her and this may explain some of the mailroom delays:

"While it is always hard to say, the "backlog" could be a result of the flood of fiilngs that came into the

system just before the fee increase on July 30."

I guess when I look at it in that perspective, it would make some sense. She is in contact with other attorneys, and they have their own user groups to excahnge information and ideas. I would think that this assumption may very well be correct.

So, we weathered the H1B mess in April that flooded the mailrooms and delayed the NOA-1's from being issued as well as the computer system mess. By the sounds of it we are most likely weathering another delay because we are in the wrong place at the wrong time. I know this adds little comfort, and I am as furious as anyone else in the same situation, but I guess it is what it is.

Everyone hang in there, they can't take away an approved petition, we'll be on our way to NVC soon enough.

[BRH 0]

Long before I started this process I hired an immigration attorney. At the time (about a month prior to finding VJ) I thought it was the right thing to do. After I found VJ, I more or less took control of the petition which was being compiled, and have done everything by myself with the attorney just being given updates and used in case of problems. Well today I contacted her and this may explain some of the mailroom delays:

"While it is always hard to say, the "backlog" could be a result of the flood of fiilngs that came into the

system just before the fee increase on July 30."

I guess when I look at it in that perspective, it would make some sense. She is in contact with other attorneys, and they have their own user groups to excahnge information and ideas. I would think that this assumption may very well be correct.

So, we weathered the H1B mess in April that flooded the mailrooms and delayed the NOA-1's from being issued as well as the computer system mess. By the sounds of it we are most likely weathering another delay because we are in the wrong place at the wrong time. I know this adds little comfort, and I am as furious as anyone else in the same situation, but I guess it is what it is.

Everyone hang in there, they can't take away an approved petition, we'll be on our way to NVC soon enough.

Thanks for the input. This process has thrust us into a host of unfortunate circumstances. I try to find some solace in the fact that those behind us will likely suffer even MORE! Although our timing was bad,..........perhaps not as bad as the ones behind us. To this extent we might consider ourselves a tiny bit lucky.....hahahahaha.

My approval came only 3 days ago (Aug20) and it appears a few days earlier would have done me little good. I can imagine the frustration for all of you with approvals from two or more weeks ago, and NO NVC !!!!!

Best of luck to all,.......I know it's tough, but we MUST: "Keep The Faith"

[wioombeen 0]

I try to find some solace in the fact that those behind us will likely suffer even MORE!

Actually if the USCIS does half of what it has said it would as a result of the fee increase, those that come after us, will hopefully not have to endure what we have.

[twodot 0]

Who else has been waiting for more than 3 weeks for their petition to get to the NVC? I'm getting irritated. Called the NVC today and got a real @ss on the line who acted like I was an idiot. He answered and just said "Give me your case number" immediately, then when I told him, he said "We have no information, when did you get approved." and I told him July 31 then got...

"Well, what does it say on your NOTICE?" in a high and mighty tone. So I replied, "It says that we were APPROVED on JULY 31 and it was forwarded to NVC three weeks ago." And then he gave a big sigh like he was too above me to talk to me, then said "well we haven't gotten it yet." and hung up on me. I am so mad- I wish he'd have given his name so I could get a supervisor. What the heck is someone like that doing working with PEOPLE?

Finally got through to NVC. I gave him my CIS no. and he said they mailed me a notice yesterday and gave me a MNL

no. I didn't ask anything else of him. No Interview date when I put MNL no. in website Like you I am 7/31 NOA2 Good luck to all

[JVKn'CVO 11]

[/size]INTERVIEW and APPROVED!!!

QQ had the interview in the morning and again in the afternoon. Each was < 1/2 hr though she had to wait 45 min in the a.m.

In the a.m. the med check was not there from the hospital...so they said it would be there by noon. She also had to go home and get the certified divorce doc I sent on Monday (DHL) that was to be delivered to her house in a.m.

It all went smoothly.. and they told her she can pickup Visa on Aug 30. We booked the ticket almost 2 weeks ago for Sept 7th.

What a relief for both of us to have this step complete. Joyous happy days.

Best wishes to everyone,

Tom - TT

BIG CONGRATS TO YOU BOTH!!!

Saludos,

Caro

[Chantel 0]

Finally got through to NVC. I gave him my CIS no. and he said they mailed me a notice yesterday and gave me a MNL

no. I didn't ask anything else of him. No Interview date when I put MNL no. in website Like you I am 7/31 NOA2 Good luck to all

Congrats....pls join us in the Philippines section of April filers to the interview... give it a week more.....

[kmplisa 0]

Update from us:

we finally got some great news today. My girl got packet 3 from London. She made the Medical appointment for September 1st, but will send out the packet on Monday (its better to double and triple check everything rather then send it tomorrow and have it sit in the mailroom all weekend).

So, we are hoping for a September Interview and an early October arrival.

for everyones info, it took exactly 8 days from NVC sending it to the embassy and my fiancee getting packet 3, i think thats pretty good for our government

Edited August 24, 2007 by kmplisa

[Blues Fairy 0]

I try to find some solace in the fact that those behind us will likely suffer even MORE! Although our timing was bad,..........perhaps not as bad as the ones behind us. To this extent we might consider ourselves a tiny bit lucky.....hahahahaha.

And I am hoping that because of the two bottlenecks we April batch had to go through, our respective Embassies will be setting up fewer interviews right before our cases are received, so we might actually get our interview dates faster than the folks before us.

[DeeZee 0]

Apparently, according to CSC, our approval date is AUGUST 21. But they said we keep the first approval notice of AUGUST 2 for our records, what for??? I guess my happiness 3 weeks ago when we got the NOA2 hard copy was unreal. I'll be behind you guys now for the wait to NVC. I just hope it will go faster and for the rest of you guys waiting, hope you'll get to NVC before month ends.

[kittybear 0]

I'm glad I found our brothers in arms here. I just got a mail from the Embassy, our interview is scheduled for Sept 5th.

As it happens, my SO is here that week... WooooT!!!

I undestood that it is allowed for him to join me in the interview, right?

Anyway, about our timeline, we got our NOA2 July 27th, took about a week to go to NVC, another to be sent to Finland. Embassy here responded in a few days from when they received it, with package 3. They move fast here

[TT&QQ 0]

[/size]INTERVIEW and APPROVED!!!

QQ had the interview in the morning and again in the afternoon. Each was < 1/2 hr though she had to wait 45 min in the a.m.

In the a.m. the med check was not there from the hospital...so they said it would be there by noon. She also had to go home and get the certified divorce doc I sent on Monday (DHL) that was to be delivered to her house in a.m.

It all went smoothly.. and they told her she can pickup Visa on Aug 30. We booked the ticket almost 2 weeks ago for Sept 7th.

What a relief for both of us to have this step complete. Joyous happy days.

Best wishes to everyone,

Tom - TT

WOW thats awesome news. Are you the first of us April filers to be approved at the interview? Our interview is Oct 5th. 43 days to go hehe.

Congrats again

Wioombeen

Thanks Wioombeen, we may be the first to get Visa approval for April filers, have not seen any news from others. Feel fortunate given the slowdowns after us. Best of luck to you. TT