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Casetracker pushed a notification about updates this morning. Real bummer case I had been awake for all of a minute before my heart skipped a beat in excitement only to be followed up with soul crushing disappointment.

Pup woke us up at 4am this morning. But it was worth it because I checked our status and our interview has been scheduled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉❤️

Thanks!! Us too... Keeping our fingers cross all day, every day in the meantime! We're hoping to make a trip over to England to see friends and family at some point this summer. Hopefully we can still make it happen! 

I'm still waiting too November'ers, hoping everyday for my app to say something, anything....sending positive vibes to all you lovely people! Xx

Thanks!! Us too... Keeping our fingers cross all day, every day in the meantime! We're hoping to make a trip over to England to see friends and family at some point this summer. Hopefully we can still make it happen! 

Awww thanks! Really hope you get your EAD/AP/GC interview soon too! There's just states and areas that has high demand. I'm not totally surprised to see Vegas being that backlogged. Best wishes and everything to you guys still waiting ❤️ 

Ugh, I'm sorry to hear the wait is so long in Vegas! We're in Nashville and ours is almost that long too -- Frustrating! Hope you get your interview sooner than that!

You are 211 days!!! This is wonderful!! Congratulations 🍾🎉...they seem to be cleaning up September filers and starting on cleaning up October filers. We will be next November peeps 🤪! Hang in there!!! 

https://www.aila.org/advo-media/whats-happening-in-congress/congressional-updates/uscis-responds-to-letter-from-86-house-members
 
just in case someone didn’t see this, it was posted a little while ago in visa journey. It definitely explains what’s happening and why it takes so long!! 

So frustrating to see so many people in the same boat. We were hoping to get back to England because my husband is supposed to be the best man in our friends' wedding mid-May. It's looking like that's not going to happen now, so my husband is planning to film himself giving the best man speech. We're both musicians, and we were asked to play the first dance... so I guess we'll just have to make a video of that too. 😞
 
We got our hopes up with all the recent approvals, but we're on day 166 and are still waiting to hear anything. I hate seeing how upset he's been about not being able to go, and to hear how disappointed our friends are that we can't make it to the wedding. It kind of makes me feel like the bad guy, but I try to not think that way. Just trying to stay hopeful and maybe we'll hear something soon... 🤞

Ours just changed to "Interview Ready To Be Scheduled" 5 days ago! Still no EAD/AP. But really hoping we get an interview soon, as San Diego has been pretty fast and most people around our file date already have interviews scheduled! So hoping ours is next!

I just ran a scan there. There seems to be a lot of recent activity around my date 11/23 with approvals a few days ago... I really hope to see more approvals this week for everyone!!!! ❤️ 
 
 
 
 

Oh trust me, we are already planning a super nice dinner out when we get a Green Card approval! 😂

So frustrating to see so many people in the same boat. We were hoping to get back to England because my husband is supposed to be the best man in our friends' wedding mid-May. It's looking like that's not going to happen now, so my husband is planning to film himself giving the best man speech. We're both musicians, and we were asked to play the first dance... so I guess we'll just have to make a video of that too. 😞
 
We got our hopes up with all the recent approvals, but we're on day 166 and are still waiting to hear anything. I hate seeing how upset he's been about not being able to go, and to hear how disappointed our friends are that we can't make it to the wedding. It kind of makes me feel like the bad guy, but I try to not think that way. Just trying to stay hopeful and maybe we'll hear something soon... 🤞

Wow, I'm sorry... I can only imagine how you both must feel about that. I know what you mean about the "feeling like the bad guy" thing. Sometimes it's hard not to feel like that. Good for you two for trying to stay positive and finding a solution (making videos) - even though it isn't the same, I'm sure your friends will appreciate how much effort you went to. 

Fingers crossed for you guys! And about the "feeling like the bad guy", it's tough not to feel that way. I feel the same way allllll of the time. But we just have to realize that it won't be like this forever. And we are all going to be so damn happy once we get approvals. 💛 Then we can start living life like normal couples again! Can't wait for that!

So frustrating to see so many people in the same boat. We were hoping to get back to England because my husband is supposed to be the best man in our friends' wedding mid-May. It's looking like that's not going to happen now, so my husband is planning to film himself giving the best man speech. We're both musicians, and we were asked to play the first dance... so I guess we'll just have to make a video of that too. 😞
 
We got our hopes up with all the recent approvals, but we're on day 166 and are still waiting to hear anything. I hate seeing how upset he's been about not being able to go, and to hear how disappointed our friends are that we can't make it to the wedding. It kind of makes me feel like the bad guy, but I try to not think that way. Just trying to stay hopeful and maybe we'll hear something soon... 🤞

So frustrating to see so many people in the same boat. We were hoping to get back to England because my husband is supposed to be the best man in our friends' wedding mid-May. It's looking like that's not going to happen now, so my husband is planning to film himself giving the best man speech. We're both musicians, and we were asked to play the first dance... so I guess we'll just have to make a video of that too. 😞
 
We got our hopes up with all the recent approvals, but we're on day 166 and are still waiting to hear anything. I hate seeing how upset he's been about not being able to go, and to hear how disappointed our friends are that we can't make it to the wedding. It kind of makes me feel like the bad guy, but I try to not think that way. Just trying to stay hopeful and maybe we'll hear something soon... 🤞

So frustrating to see so many people in the same boat. We were hoping to get back to England because my husband is supposed to be the best man in our friends' wedding mid-May. It's looking like that's not going to happen now, so my husband is planning to film himself giving the best man speech. We're both musicians, and we were asked to play the first dance... so I guess we'll just have to make a video of that too. 😞
 
We got our hopes up with all the recent approvals, but we're on day 166 and are still waiting to hear anything. I hate seeing how upset he's been about not being able to go, and to hear how disappointed our friends are that we can't make it to the wedding. It kind of makes me feel like the bad guy, but I try to not think that way. Just trying to stay hopeful and maybe we'll hear something soon... 🤞

I don't know if the scanning ever made me feel better. Usually just worse. To be able to see just how many applications are pending....oh my god. It's unbelievable. And you're right, it makes no sense that the people who have already been checked into (for the purposes of a K1 visa) can come here and still be unable to work for 5-7 months. Absolutely ridiculous. Those thoughts cross my mind like 50x a day....but unfortunately this process isn't exactly logical   
 
My parents have been planning a trip to Europe - my sister and I are joining them for a week (beginning of July). We thought "Oh, what a good chance to visit Belgium and meet XXX's family!" This was back in October, mind you, when combo cards were taking 3 months to process. Well it's going to be massively awkward if my family and I show up at my hubby's family's house without him. Especially considering I'm the only one who can speak their language (and poorly, at that). And obviously it's our own fault for making plans....but who would have thought this would end up taking sooooooooooo long?! 

🤣😛 I do realize there Is not just one agent. (This is why some get answers and others are still waiting) But I did think as the files came in the mail they were given a case number that day. So it confused me to see case numbers in order but day it arrived out of order. Seeing case numbers near me who turned it in November 14, but we are November 26. I just thought in my brain that when cases arrived they received numbers that day. Guess I thought staffing was larger to handle that 🤪. Lol don’t know what I was thinking 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️
Yep 🤦🏻‍♀️ No earthly idea 😂😞. 
Scanning just helps you see soooo many like you are just waiting. 😳🤦🏻‍♀️ My poor husband. My poor body (working way too many jobs trying to Make enough income).  Our poor bank account 😞. Truly didn’t realize how long he would not be able to work. We are ok with the green card taking forever. But not working is just crazy 😭. Why can they not work!!!!!!!????? He has a SSN (we applied for that soon after getting married).....it just says he can’t work yet until given permission. But why....why can’t he work. Why is this process so long. I understand why K1 takes time but this is crazy, immigrate to America, marry and then tell them ohhh by the way you can’t work for 5-7 months. Well that works if you are rich....but doesn’t work for us simple folks who just happen to fall in love with someone from another country. And it’s so much harder if the immigrant is the husband. It truly beats him inside not to be providing, even though I tell him he is (in love). We truly didn’t have a clue what falling in love with each other from different countries meant. But you can’t control love and I wouldn’t change loving him!! He is my best friend, never imagined I would one day marry him. 🥰 but watching and feeling his love and support is amazing!! He keeps me strong, even though this system is degrading and beats him up inside because he can’t provide. 
 
.....that’s my rant for the day 😞😒

So when I scan 500 people before my case number, 49 have answers, 57 rejected, 13 RFE, and 381 are still waiting. What that means to me is our file is somewhere in a pile with maybe some of these case numbers and it’s definitely not our turn yet. Even if visa journey predicted our answer the beginning of April, end of March. I’m beginning to lean more to what visa journey predicted way back and that is middle of May for an answer. 😔 unless.....our pile someone wins the lottery and gets distributed next for one of the IO to work on it 😍🤪 THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL!! 

Just received notification via CaseTracker that my green card is being produced. Parent of USC - PD 11/16/18 - Dallas.  No lawyer,  no RFE, no interview.   Stay blessed and focused on your journey! 🙏

How do you do this?

Getting antsy over here as well...I just checked the USCIS app, and I saw that they approved the case just before ours, as well as the case just after ours today. COME ON USCIS, the suspense is killing us! Fingers crossed we all receive some good news soon!