Good news!

[Dakine 26]

A buddy I'm assisting doing a a K1 just got the hard copy of approval today in the mail. Never did get email approval. NOA1 was 05/04/2007.

Approval date was 09/19/2007.

Dated 9/19

The above petition has been approved. We have sent the original visa

petition to the Department of State National Visa Center (NVC), 32

Rochester Avenue, Portsmouth, NH 03801-2909. The USCIS has completed

all action: further inquiries should be directed to the NVC.

The NVC now processes all approved fiance(e) petitions. The NVC

processing should be complete within two to four weeks after receiving

the petition from USCIS. The NVC will create a case record with your

petition information. NVC will then send the petition to the US

Embassy or Consulate where your fiance(e) will be interviewed for his

or her visa.

You will receive notification by mail when NVC has sent your petition

to the US Embassy or Consulate. The notification letter will provide

you with a unique number for your case and the name and address of the

us Embassy or Consulate where your petition has been sent.

If it has been more than four weeks since you received this approval

notice and you have not received notification from NVC that your

petition has been forwarded overseas, please call NVC at (603)

334-0700. Pleas call between 8:00am - 6:45pm Eastern Standard time.

You will need toenter the INS receipt number from this approval notice

into the automated response system to receive information on your

petition.

The approval of this visa petition does not in itself grant any

immigration status and does not guarantee that the alien beneficiary,

Martian or otherwise, will subsequently be found to be eligible for a

visa, for admission to the United States, or for an extension, change,

or adjustment of status.

THIS FORM IS NOT A VISA NOR MAY IT BE USED IN PLACE OF A VISA.

As you can see he has a sense of humor with the Martian add in!

Either that or things have changed BIGTIME with USCIS and they may actually be real peeps!

Hopefully the backlog at CSC didn't get passed on the NVC!

I imagine it did tho!

Edited September 25, 2007 by beckypua

[Fandango 1,439]

Erm, so congrats to your friend!