Teddybeard

23 minutes ago, janet3 said:

I did the same....I sent a copy of every page of my passport (as proof I'm a citizen) and my birth certificate. I sent pictures of our trip to Dresden (and pictures with his friends in Dresden) and Prague  (where my fiance met my sister) plus boarding passes, train tickets, museum tickets, tour tickets, hotel receipts....the only thing I didn't send a copy of was my fiance's visa to Europe  (and I'll probably have been waiting 4 months for an RFE for that). But....yeah...I feel ya...my fiance is a selfie taker.....I had a total of 20 pictures of myself up until I met him...I now have 820.....

I didn't send the 2200 pages of text and email....but I will be more than happy to do so....

We kept ours simple, well, she researched for months before we did our packet. We sent entire passport (mine) 4-5 skype screen shots for every month, boarding passes, 8-10 pictures from each trip. Oh and itinerary printed off from Expedia with flight and hotel info.

3 hours ago, ChristaandJosh said:

Quick question.

Our RFE suggests we could send passport stamps. Did people photocopy every single page in their passport or just the stamps page and the photo page? 

I sent every page and front/back cover.

5 hours ago, Estibaliz said:

This is a chaotic work process that however involves some logic. Groups of petitions getting RFE's or approved, with some other groups of them still untouched, could be explained by cases organized in boxes: agents pick boxes and work on them. Not all agents are equally fast. I guess some of them could leave some petition aside to work on 'easier' ones because their work is measured by productivity criteria (that's a fact I read somewhere around here... It's hard that productivity has to apply to a situation that ultimately involves human beings, real lives and feelings... But at the same time productivity means more cases would be touched average).

 

Since this process is performed by human beings, there will be mistakes and delays. I guess some cases get unlucky for reasons I can't picture. Do they even lose cases that fall behind the desk? Who knows... With my luck, I'm expecting to be left behind when my turn comes. Frustrating, specially when now they are even cutting off communication

 

Nothing of this is comforting, so I'll just say good luck to you all. 

You  are correct, but, there are easy cases where there is no criminal record, previous marriage or other factors that could play into the decision. You would think that background checks and other municipal documents would be easy for them to obtain, believe me it isn't always the case. Cases can sit on a desk for days waiting for information to come in. There is a great post on here somewhere, where they talked to someone who used to do this and it fills in some holes. 

7 minutes ago, TriloByte said:

Right back to "have no clue" then. Not that I even left "have no clue". All I can go on is how I am treated, which is poorly when dealing with them. And I am very respectful when I call, despite my rants and rage.

They make good money, problem is, as with ANY government job, they are overworked. Not enough people to handle the case load. Also remember, they are just workers, they don't make the rules.. they just work by them.  

1 minute ago, V&B said:

May i ask how you get the scans ? I'd love to see the status of mine ... is there a link or something ?

You can sign up for it here, might take a day or two for them to start showing up. usps.com/whatsinthemail

1 minute ago, V&B said:

I haven't checked today my mail doesnt get here till' around 3 pm and its only 10 am now , so hopefully its in my mailbox after work ! 

When did you get approved ? 

Just got my email this morning with the scan of it, so it will be in my mailbox when I get home from work. I can read on the scan that the approval date was 5/19

1 minute ago, Rezaf_2000 said:

Is it only me or does this information look rather grim? Essentially, 87.5% of all the cases touched so far have not been approved, and only resulted in RFE. Is this normal?

You have to remember that those scans are only showing RFE, most of the approvals are people who are part of this forum. There are probably hundreds of approvals that we do not know about.

3 minutes ago, V&B said:

100 days today and still nothing 😕

I am a February 15th recieved date and still waiting ! 

The wait is killing me now ..... 

our noa1 was Feb 16th so I bet it's in the mail.

7 minutes ago, Teddybeard said:

Talking to my soon to be wife via skype right now ... and she has no idea that our (hopefully) noa2 is comming in the mail today ( Thank you to the lady who posted about the mail scan on  here a few days ago.

ha ah ha... i wish i had video so you guys could see her reaction when she read this.... lol

Talking to my soon to be wife via skype right now ... and she has no idea that our (hopefully) noa2 is comming in the mail today ( Thank you to the lady who posted about the mail scan on  here a few days ago.