September Filers!

[Bobalouie 0]

Congrats Sofia! What a great feeling

Congrats Sofia!!!

[sofia2009 1]

Thanks my VJ family..Oh yeah what a great feeling..i had been spent on the phone for hours and hours since I got my notification.. ..Good luck for all those waiting for your approval..you'll get there.. God bless!!

[sofia2009 1]

Bobalouie:

What is the phone number for the NVC?

Did you find out if the NVC already got your case? Keep update..I need to know

[minnietheminx 0]

Another approval here

[mox 298]

Another approval here

Congratulations!!!

[bengalilover 0]

Why does CSC have to be slow? If they need some extra hands, I can probably volunteer!

[Haonie 0]

Another approval here

Congratulations!!! Good news.

[chuck_n_rose 0]

Another approval here

Congrat on the approval.

[TracyOz 0]

CONGRATULATIONS folks... IT IS so exciting to see September filers getting their NOA-2's.... HOPING THAT WE WILL see more of them... I am actually AMAZED that VSC seems to have started pumping through October filers... ...

have a GREAT day

Tracy

:-)

[웃 910]

Can anyone give me a logical explanation, a thought, an answer, or a reason why the CSC would take 5 months to do a 5 minute job (approving a K1 petition)??? It is beyond me. High school freshmen could do a more efficient job. These CSC people are something else. I am truly in awe. I am dumbfounded. Confused. Bewildered. One can only imagine what it looks like inside of that place. Seriously, I wonder what it looks like when a typical CSC worker goes to work? I think it might look something like this....

[DavidSimona 0]

I am so jealous but very happy for you two. I am new here but find it very comforting to see so many in my shoes. What a trip all of this is.

Best wishes

NOA! 9/21/07

[Bobalouie 0]

Can anyone give me a logical explanation, a thought, an answer, or a reason why the CSC would take 5 months to do a 5 minute job (approving a K1 petition)??? It is beyond me. High school freshmen could do a more efficient job. These CSC people are something else. I am truly in awe. I am dumbfounded. Confused. Bewildered. One can only imagine what it looks like inside of that place. Seriously, I wonder what it looks like when a typical CSC worker goes to work? I think it might look something like this....

My guess is (and this is only a guess) is that CSC is experiencing the same type of slow down that VSC had a few months ago. Back in September, VSC only cranked out something like 9 VJ petitions and October was much the same. November was when they picked up the pace along with December. Near as we can figure, they got tasked with other types of petitions. CSC might have taken a different approach and instead of sitting on the K1s they decided to push a bunch thru to clear room to work the other types of petition. Now, they are working the other stuff for a while. VSC did the opposite, they stopped working K1s and immediately processed other stuff.

Like I said, this is only a guess, but both service centers have "about" the same workload now, and most of the types of petitions they deal in is much the same. But, that is all I got as to hazarding a guess as to why CSC is slow now.

[sofia2009 1]

Another approval here

Congrats!!

[StillThePrettiest 3]

I think Bobalouie is pretty close to the mark... I think '5 months to do a 5 minute job' is, unfortunately, over-simplifying matters; even trying to draw a direct correlation between higher fees and speedier service could be a bit too simplistic

the fact is, this is a government department, and whichever way you cut it, they have far far FAR more work than they can handle

and we can all have opinions over what should be prioritised, and we may well be right; hell, I reckon I could get things sorted out within two weeks if they'd just let me... but that's also over-simplifying matters; I'm sure we've all had days or weeks at work or at home when we simply COULD NOT COPE with the sheer volume of what we had to deal with, and this is what's happening at the service centres

add in increasing paranoia over terrorists, and (from what I've heard) increasing prevalence of actual visa fraud, and the strictures and hurdles are only going to become worse... it sucks, but like many things in this life, we all suffer because the system is broken, and because some people do the wrong thing

I'm not trying to make a point with any of the above, by the way, just answer thegreatgate's question... I don't think it's right, but then I don't think almost half the world STILL living without clean water is right either, and that doesn't change either

[Jeraly 4]

Why does CSC have to be slow? If they need some extra hands, I can probably volunteer!

I have said the same thing to myself over and over!!!

As for one service centre outperforming the other... I must say I think it is disgusting - not because I begrudge Vermont but because they are demonstrating a relatively decent service while CSC lags behind and fails to demonstrate any level of service. It used to be that the monthly threads for filers were a way to compare notes but I can understand how many Sept CSC-ers could get increasingly p*ssed off that they seem to be so far behind...

*hugs to fellow CSC-ers*

Trust me - you *will* get there - it is disheartening to see others getting approved but remember that it isn't because you have been forgotten, just because CSC is lame. You might fancy setting up something like this It's a way of keeping track of how you are doing against your fellow Sept filers but it is also sorted by service centre so you can see how things really stand with you

Why does it take them five months to do a five minute job? I can only guess. Personally I think that the fee increase created a huge number of applicants and backlog. VSC and CSC were both lame - things took longer because they had more petitions to process. Now VSC seems to have sorted itself out. CSC however had the K visa petitions from TSC and... NSC? (I can't even remember - another two service centres anyway) lumped onto them - effectively (and again - an estimation based on theory) tripling their workload while VSC merely had to catch up...

Just my two penn'orth