6 WKS FROM CSC TO NVC?

[Buck and Natalia 0]

HOW LONG IS IT CURRENTLY TAKING FOR AN APPROVED K1 FIANCEE PETITION TO BE SENT FROM THE CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER (CSC) TO THE NATIONAL VISA CENTER (NVC)?

OUR NOA2 WAS ISSUED SEPTEMBER 19. IT STILL HAS NOT ARRIVED TO THE NVC.

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING 6 WEEKS AND COUNTING.

TELL ME YOUR HORROR STORIES.

MISERY LOVES COMPANY.

AAAAAAUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

[apgk 0]

HOW LONG IS IT CURRENTLY TAKING FOR AN APPROVED K1 FIANCEE PETITION TO BE SENT FROM THE CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER (CSC) TO THE NATIONAL VISA CENTER (NVC)?

OUR NOA2 WAS ISSUED SEPTEMBER 19. IT STILL HAS NOT ARRIVED TO THE NVC.

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING 6 WEEKS AND COUNTING.

TELL ME YOUR HORROR STORIES.

MISERY LOVES COMPANY.

AAAAAAUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

I know how frustrating it can get - ours took about 2 week or so I think

[Jasman0717 9]

Looking at the stats under the Immigration Timelines you are way over. Have you tried to call them? Sometimes things get lost between the service center and the NVC so a littl proding can help.

[Danno 1,228]

My Noa 2 was oct 5, it's been like 4 weeks and today I called, the guy said it has not arrived yet.

He said it could take up to 90 days.

That soundds like BS, why would my NOA2 tell me to contact them if I did not hear anything in 4 weeks?

The Approval notice is only good for a few months, if I burn up 3 waiting on them to get it, it could expire before completion, especially if there were to be any problem or delay at Moscow.

If I don't hear something in 2 more weeks, I am going to ask my Congressman for help simply because of the fact the approval notice has an expiration date. Why should it take 4 or 6 weeks to send a package from one agency to another?

It amazes me how anyone who has been involved in dealing with agencies of the Govt would ever sign on to the Govt. Running something as complex a Health-care

[Satellite 1]

It amazes me how anyone who has been involved in dealing with agencies of the Govt would ever sign on to the Govt. Running something as complex a Health-care

When you become one of the 50 million uninsured people and growing in this country you too will want the government to provide you with some kind of health care. Especially if you had to choose between rent, food, and health care each month because of the out of control prices for the latter.

[Danno 1,228]

It amazes me how anyone who has been involved in dealing with agencies of the Govt would ever sign on to the Govt. Running something as complex a Health-care

When you become one of the 50 million uninsured people and growing in this country you too will want the government to provide you with some kind of health care. Especially if you had to choose between rent, food, and health care each month because of the out of control prices for the latter.

You think you have it bad now, just wait

I think Ronald Reagan said it best,

Government is not the solution, it's the problem.

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My friend, I am 45 years old and I have NEVER seen a sick person on the street... that was sober

[Dakine 26]

HOW LONG IS IT CURRENTLY TAKING FOR AN APPROVED K1 FIANCEE PETITION TO BE SENT FROM THE CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER (CSC) TO THE NATIONAL VISA CENTER (NVC)?

OUR NOA2 WAS ISSUED SEPTEMBER 19. IT STILL HAS NOT ARRIVED TO THE NVC.

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING 6 WEEKS AND COUNTING.

TELL ME YOUR HORROR STORIES.

MISERY LOVES COMPANY.

AAAAAAUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

K1 buddy I'm helping just got his Embassy number today and he had CSC aprroval the same day as you did.

Senator may have "given it a boost tho".

[Svetik & Mike 0]

HOW LONG IS IT CURRENTLY TAKING FOR AN APPROVED K1 FIANCEE PETITION TO BE SENT FROM THE CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER (CSC) TO THE NATIONAL VISA CENTER (NVC)?

OUR NOA2 WAS ISSUED SEPTEMBER 19. IT STILL HAS NOT ARRIVED TO THE NVC.

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING 6 WEEKS AND COUNTING.

TELL ME YOUR HORROR STORIES.

MISERY LOVES COMPANY.

AAAAAAUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

I think it is very evident that the machine has slowed down considerably and all of our anticipated dates are becoming protracted. We just received our Packet 3, which I had computed to arrive 18 days after the Petition left the NVC. My 18 days turned into 33 days. That’s 183% longer than expected. From our timeline, you’ll see it took our Petition 29 days from the NOA2 date to be received by the NVC. Just playing with some numbers: Your NOA2 date is 19 September 2007 and if I add 29 day times 183% (for machine slowing) = 53 days – this may be your NVC receipt date: 11 November 2007, a Sunday, so say may be 12 November? You’ve sent an e-mail inquiry to the NVC I hope.

Mike & Svetik

[Danno 1,228]

I called the NVC again this morning and again was told they should have received it by now but

it can take up to 90 days.

I explained to her the Approval expires in 4 months. How could the system reasonably expect to complete the process if it took 3 of those months to simply transfer documents from one department to another.

I called back to the California center to ask why they have not forwarded the paperwork, .. they did a "report" and will get back to me in a month.

In a week or so, if nothing shows up at NVC, I will contact my rep... and why not, they are the ones which voted an increase in the fees with the understanding that it would make the system run faster and better when in fact it has gotten worsex2.

I am usually a pretty patient person but this failure to transfer Documents is BS.

[Satellite 1]

My friend, I am 45 years old and I have NEVER seen a sick person on the street... that was sober

I'm not talking about the sick people in the streets. As I doubt there are 50 million people in the streets. I am talking about the working folks who work several part time jobs or even a full time one where medical benefits are not offered. Hard to imagine right? So what are those people to do? They can either choose to buy health care, food, or pay for rent each month. They can have only two of these three each month based on their salary and the cost of the latter. Yet they are too far above the federal poverty guidelines to receive assistance for either three!

[Buck and Natalia 0]

HOW LONG IS IT CURRENTLY TAKING FOR AN APPROVED K1 FIANCEE PETITION TO BE SENT FROM THE CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER (CSC) TO THE NATIONAL VISA CENTER (NVC)?

OUR NOA2 WAS ISSUED SEPTEMBER 19. IT STILL HAS NOT ARRIVED TO THE NVC.

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING 6 WEEKS AND COUNTING.

TELL ME YOUR HORROR STORIES.

MISERY LOVES COMPANY.

AAAAAAUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

I think it is very evident that the machine has slowed down considerably and all of our anticipated dates are becoming protracted. We just received our Packet 3, which I had computed to arrive 18 days after the Petition left the NVC. My 18 days turned into 33 days. That’s 183% longer than expected. From our timeline, you’ll see it took our Petition 29 days from the NOA2 date to be received by the NVC. Just playing with some numbers: Your NOA2 date is 19 September 2007 and if I add 29 day times 183% (for machine slowing) = 53 days – this may be your NVC receipt date: 11 November 2007, a Sunday, so say may be 12 November? You’ve sent an e-mail inquiry to the NVC I hope.

Mike & Svetik

Thanks for the tip Mike & Svetik. I sent off email and fax inquiries today. We will see if anything comes of it. My fiancee is a strong and loving woman but it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep her and her family's spirits up when the anticipated dates are becoming longer and longer. CSC is making the Russian bureaucracy look speedy by comparison.

Buck

[Buck and Natalia 0]

My friend, I am 45 years old and I have NEVER seen a sick person on the street... that was sober

I'm not talking about the sick people in the streets. As I doubt there are 50 million people in the streets. I am talking about the working folks who work several part time jobs or even a full time one where medical benefits are not offered. Hard to imagine right? So what are those people to do? They can either choose to buy health care, food, or pay for rent each month. They can have only two of these three each month based on their salary and the cost of the latter. Yet they are too far above the federal poverty guidelines to receive assistance for either three!

Sadly, the government already makes many of us choose between food, rent and health care. COBRA was not much of a solution for those of us below retirement/Medicare age because many, myself included, could not afford the COBRA premiums. By the time I hit retirement age I doubt there will be much, if anything, left in the way of Social Security benefits. In other words, the US Government has not given me much "bang for the buck" for the healthy amount of taxes withheld each month from my paycheck. However, our government has been good at using our tax money to fund dubious military excursions into the Middle East and other less noble projects. I have no problem with part of my wages being used for the public good such as public schools, caring for the elderly and underprivileged, and properly staffing necessary government offices such as CSC....... but, as you can see, our money is being put to other uses.

[Danno 1,228]

Yeah, if only we could pick n choose what our tax dollars were spent on.

I would have a whole long "Do not spend" list.

[Danno 1,228]

My friend, I am 45 years old and I have NEVER seen a sick person on the street... that was sober

I'm not talking about the sick people in the streets. As I doubt there are 50 million people in the streets. I am talking about the working folks who work several part time jobs or even a full time one where medical benefits are not offered. Hard to imagine right? So what are those people to do? They can either choose to buy health care, food, or pay for rent each month. They can have only two of these three each month based on their salary and the cost of the latter. Yet they are too far above the federal poverty guidelines to receive assistance for either three!

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First of all your 50 million number suggests that 50 million people actually want insurance. There are a lot of healthy (usually young people) who are not interested, I know I wasn't at 25 either. (no matter how affordable it was)

Of course if "someone else" is going to pay for it... sure they would I guess sign up for it and I guess that is what you are suggesting... "someone else" pay for your trip to the doctor.

I bet if you compared the percentage of people without health insurance today and compared it to 10 or even 5 years ago, I bet you would see every year this percentage grows smaller and smaller.

It's amazing really, even people like me who goofed around in school instead of doing what I should have are able to get jobs which offer health insurance. But back when I had no health Insurance, I never looked at everyone else to provide it for me. After all we make our own bed in life (with a few exceptions). When others we hitting the books, I was playing guitar or watching TV.

The biggest problem with socialized medicine is not just the financial boondoggle it would quickly bring about but, rather "It" opens the already cracked door of the Govt having the right to control your life in ways you never could believe... and one step at a time.

I mean after all, if "we" are all paying for your healthcare, ...what you eat, how much you weigh, how often you exersize, what activities you par take in are no longer just your biz, it's "ours" too.

At any rate, my friend if you get sick, feel free to mosey on down to the emergency room they will treat you... it's the law. (just ask any illegal)

Edited November 1, 2007 by Danno

[Satellite 1]

I bet if you compared the percentage of people without health insurance today and compared it to 10 or even 5 years ago, I bet you would see every year this percentage grows smaller and smaller.

I think the numbers and statistics point to the opposite.

http://www.spine-health.com/news/insurance/art532350.html

It's amazing really, even people like me who goofed around in school instead of doing what I should have are able to get jobs which offer health insurance.

I am about to get a JD degree. Never messed around, 25, and have yet to have a single job that has offered me health insurance. I have not gone to the dentist in two years, since I lost the privilege of being on my parents plan. Right now I am working two jobs, 42 hours a week and no insurance, no vacation pay, and only because the city of San Francisco mandated employers to have sick days do I have that as of 2007. My two jobs are 1. law office clerk and 2. circulation assistant at the university library.

Neither allow me to work full time to get benefits. By the way our income is way above the federal poverty line but sure feels like poverty here in San Francisco.

My wife luckily gets coverage from her school, I do not. Pretty much I hope every day that I do not get sick. Dropping a couple hundred dollars a month for insurance or $100 and having a $8000 deductible does not seem reasonable to me. I am already carrying $130k debt for school and I don't need another $100k debt for a week or so stay at a hospital.

Obviously having children is out of the question as my wife's school policy does not allow for dependents.

I understand all the problems with socialized medicine and that is not what I am proposing. Rather, I am all for either a government insurance plan that has to be accepted by all doctors or like the state of California is proposing, force employers to provide coverage to all employees.

At any rate, my friend if you get sick, feel free to mosey on down to the emergency room they will treat you... it's the law. (just ask any illegal)

Sure, and I'll send you the bill