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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.    Boiler reacted to a post in a topic: Trump admin immigration changes? [merged threads]
  2. TiffAndMike
    He will definitely try to. He's challenging the 14th amendment due to the wording of it. It will be up to the courts at that point. Another option which he has already talked about doing is ending "chain migration". He has specifically mentioned ending IR-1s for parents of USC's and LPR's. Making IR-1's only available to spouses and minor children of USC's and LPR's would would drastically cut down on "anchor babies" as it would eliminate the opportunity for them to ever sponser their illegal parents. For the life of me, I can not figure out why we allow women to come into this country when you can obviously tell that they are going to give birth at any moment.
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  9. TiffAndMike
    The paralegal at my attorneys office told me that typically the service center closest to your residence typically handles your petition 😳
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  19. TiffAndMike
    I honestly think that his primary focus upon entering office is going to be on closing the border and getting all these violent criminals, cartels and gang members out of this country. He will implement the "Remain in Mexico" policy again. All of Biden's "Parole in Place" policies will cease to exists. He will either try to get countries that refuse to let us deport their citizens to take them back or he will just flat out deny their visas. He eventually will attempt to end family chain migration, abolish certain types of visas and change the law on "birthright citizenship" by requiring at least one parent to be either a USC or LPR. Most countries actually do require at least one parent to be a naturalized citizen in order for their child to be granted citizenship of that country. I don't believe that those of us who have immediate family or fiance cases will be affected negatively. They just raised the fees on those this year so I doubt they will raise them again. I think if anything, our cases will actually speed up drastically since they won't be in a rush to issue work permits to everyone under the sun with false asylum claims. USCIS is primarily fee funded by those of us who go through the legal channels. There are currently quite a few "fee waivers" right now. I'm pretty sure that most of them will go away as they should. The current backlog that we have is due to a lot of the immigration policies Biden put into place and not requiring fees for them. Think about it, if USCIS isn't getting money from certain petitions, then they have no money to hire more staff to process those petitions. As a result, USCIS has to allocate the bulk of their staff to process those petitions while the backlog of paid petitions keeps growing longer and longer. When I first applied for my husband to come to the states in December 2023, the current wait time was 11 months. If the wait time would of stayed consistent, I'd be getting my approval any day now if I didn't already have it. Evey single time Biden created a new parole in place scheme, I saw my wait time continue to climb up. It is now sitting at 15.5 months! 6 1/2 extra months than it was when I filed. I actually voted for Trump as I saw him as my only hope to get my husband here with me sometime in the next year. With Kamala, I'd probably be waiting another 4 or 5 years.
  20. TiffAndMike
    I'd talk to an immigration attorney about it. There are plenty of them out there that give free consultations. My attorney only specializes in fiance and spouse visas and he gives free consultations. I could give you his name if you want. If an attorney says it will be an issue, then it would probably be smart to hire one in the event that you have to apply for a waiver. Most attorneys will not touch an immigration case unless they are the one who filed it in the first place. If I remember correctly, if you only have one CIMT and it wasn't super serious then you should be okay. I'd double check that though as it has been over a year since I looked into it. Also, I'd go ahead and have them get a copy of their court and police records ahead of time so they know exactly what appears on it. I had my husband do this as we were worried about stuff he did when he was a minor coming back to haunt us.
  21. TiffAndMike
    Potomac...the slowest service center there is. Idk why it was sent there considering I live in Texas and less than an hour away from the Texas Service Center. Have you been on USCIS site recently? If so, how long does it say on yours? Mine said 9 months. 🤬
  22. TiffAndMike
    We can definitely do that! Which service center has your petition?
  23. TiffAndMike

    I'm a fellow December 2023 filer as well. If you need to vent about how frustrating this whole process is, feel free to PM me. 

     

     

  24. TiffAndMike
    Congratulations! What processing center had your case?
  25.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Travelling on tourist visa whilst waiting for I-130
  26. TiffAndMike
    It's not 2 months longer. It is 5 to 6 months longer. According to when I applied, my case was supposed to of been adjudicated next month and now the estimate is the end of February. I even have an email from USCIS that states it is now taking 15.5 months. And you can go look for yourself on the USCIS website, it clearly shows how some petitions have speed up while others had drastically slowed down. https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt
  27.    Dashinka reacted to a post in a topic: Preparing a request for Consulate to take over case
  28. TiffAndMike
    Go to USCIS's website and you will see it for yourself. You will see how certain petitions have drastically speed up while others have drastically slowed down. Sign up for emails from USCIS and you will recieve all kinds of emails about what they are now implementing. And look on government websites pertaining to Homeland Security. You will see where it clearly states that USCIS decides where to allocate it's own staff. It isn't because of the application fee going up. They have been giving priority to cranking out new voters, granting work permits and dealing with all of Biden's immigration executive orders. Have you not noticed that every single time there is a new executive order by Biden pertaining to immigration that our wait times go further up? Those are the absolute reasons why they are taking so long. They don't care about us.
  29.    KMG reacted to a post in a topic: Marring abroad bringing whole family to the US
  30. TiffAndMike
    For those who might benefit from this: My husband has a pending I-130 and his ESTA expires this month. When he came to visit me last month, we applied to renew his ESTA and it was approved within 4 hours. Yes, you can renew a ESTA with a pending I-130.
  31. TiffAndMike
    Make sure to fill out the page number, item number and part number on the last page
  32. TiffAndMike
    If you've been waiting for 10 months now, I'd assume that you are a November or December filer then? I'm a December filer myself (priority date Dec 7) and I too have been waiting 10 months. So trust me, I'm just as flusterated as you are. I hate being separated from my husband who happens to be German. I know when we both filed, it was only taking 11 months at the time. Unfortunately, USCIS has decided to prioritize other petition types over I-130's. It sucks but there is nothing we can do about it. I can tell you from personal experience that even if you put in an expidited request, USCIS will not look at it anytime soon nor will they approve it. I tried for an expidited request for medical reasons back in March and they denied it MONTHS later. And I BARELY did not qualify for it. Your situation will definitely not qualify for it. You and I are getting closer to our approvals and eventually they will happen. Believe me, I know this waiting is awful.
  33. TiffAndMike
    On the I-130 petition, you do list the beneficiaries employment history.
  34. TiffAndMike
    Give it a little time and the estimate will jump back down. I constantly upload evidence to them and it does the same to me. Their estimates are a joke and don't mean anything.
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