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TiffAndMike

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  • Gender
    Female
  • City
    Fort Worth
  • State
    Texas

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  • Immigration Status
    IR-1/CR-1 Visa
  • Place benefits filed at
    Texas Service Center
  • Local Office
    Dallas TX
  • Country
    Germany
  • Our Story
    I met Mike in the spring of 2022 in a group chat for a video game. Upon casual conversation, I learned he was from Germany which I was super interested in learning about because my late grandmother was from Germany and brought to the states when she married my grandfather while he was serving in Germany. Over the course of the following few months, we began talking more and more frequently. The conversations about Germany became fewer and started to become much deeper, flirtatious and emotional. We got to the point where we talked every waking second that we weren't at work or asleep. We just unexpectedly fell
    in love with each other.

    We both declared our feelings for each other in the beginning of August that year. To make sure that it actually love and not just infatuation or a "love from a far" type of thing, we decided for him to come visit me here in the States and for him to stay as long as he could on the VWP to make sure what we both felt was real.

    On December 6th 2022 Mike arrived at DFW airport. Within 5 minutes of us being in the car together, we started snuggling up together in the backseat while my friend driven. Being in his arms felt like home which is something I did not feel for a long time before that. My anxiety completely went away and I was happy. At that point, I knew what we were feeling was real.

    We spent almost 3 months together. The only time we were apart is when I had to go to work.

    I'm the type of person who craves my solitude and I honestly can not stand having house guest for more than one night, if that. After a week of having him here with me, I knew I never wanted him to leave.

    Before he came here, we made an agreement with each other that things will only go one of two ways. Either we would split up and remain close friends or we would move forward with our relationship and all that entails as neither of us wanted a forever long distance relationship.

    On February 14, 2023 he proposed to me with a beautiful ring that he had picked out for me and of course I said " YES" with no hesitation.

    He is honestly the most wonderful man I've ever met and is everything I have ever wanted in a partner. He's a foot taller than me and he's so sweet and gentle with kittens that I gave him the nickname "my gentle giant". The little things make him happy in life as they do me. He is super nice and friendly to everyone he encounters.

    Growing up, my grandmother would go to Las Vegas every year with her brother and she would tell me about all the cool themed casinos like the Luxor, Excalibur and Cezars Palace and how once I was 21, she would take me there. Unfortunately she had an accident when I was 14 that severely impacted her mobility afterwards so she was unable to keep her promise. Since her passing it was on the top of my bucket list to go there.

    After seeing a few movies where they were set in Las Vegas, most notably The Hangover, Las Vegas was on his bucket list as well.

    Because of these reasons, Mike and I decided that we wanted to visit Las Vegas together and to get married while we were there.

    Over the next 6 months, we planned every little detail of our Las Vegas wedding and on September 10th, 2023 we were married.

    Since our wedding, he and I have visited each other every 6 months. I went to Germany to visit him and met his entire family. They welcomed me with open arms and I love them all so much.

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  1. So you are one of the people on here who went to the interview right before your two year wedding anniversary?
  2. Does CBP tend to forget to endorse people's visas? And what happens if they don't endorse it?
  3. Thank you for that advice. I took a screenshot of it for the hubby so that he will know what to try to do at the airport if they issue it as a CR-1. How much of a pain is it to have to get USCIS to re-issue it as a 10 year if they screw up?
  4. Thank you everyone! Yeah I thought the paralegal was wrong too as I saw a post in the past about someone interviewing right before their anniversary date but not entering the country until after it and getting a 10 year.
  5. Thank you! The paralegal assigned to my case at my attorney's office told me that you have to be married 2 years at the time of the interview. As a result, we have waited since we got approved in March to submit all the documents. We are going to to be at the Frankfurt consulate.
  6. Forgive me if this has been asked before but how long does it take NVC to issue your interview date after you have been DQ'd? My husband and I are about 3 months shy of our 2 year wedding anniversary so we are trying to time things out perfectly so that his interview date falls the week after our anniversary.
  7. Mine said "your case is taking longer than expected "
  8. Congratulations! I'm so happy for everyone!!! I literally just recieved the notification from USCIS saying they submitted our petition to the Department of State! It's all uphill from here! Happy days ahead!
  9. Congratulations!!!! It is nice to see all of us early December filers getting approved within days from each other!
  10. I'm not sure. From what I have seen from other timelines, there isn't a long wait at the Consulate in Frankfurt. We are currently about 5 1/2 months shy of our 2nd wedding anniversary so we are going to drag it out to make sure he gets his 10 year green card. Being that USCIS took so long, it is pointless at this point to rush through the rest of the process to only get a 2 year one. I don't want to deal with USCIS again until it is time for him to become a Citizen.
  11. Thank you!!! Yours will happen too within the next few days😁
  12. After further digging on myuscis, I found the approval notice!!!! I am so happy to be past this stage of the process. It took 15 1/2 months. PD: DECEMBER 07, 2023 APPROVAL:MARCH 21, 2025 POTOMAC SERVICE CENTER
  13. I literally just recieved a text message from USCIS within the past 10 minutes stating that USCIS has taken action on my case. Went into my USCIS account and it says they are actively reviewing my case and that no further information is needed at this time. It is dated for March 21, 2025. It doesn't say anything other than that. Is that my NOA2?
  14. I hope so! Visa Journey sent me my latest approval estimate and said SEPTEMBER 22, 2025. #######?
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