The K1 Experience

Ok for any keeping track. Date paperwork was received into the system was December 21st. Date petition was approved is March 21st. 3 months. Now first off I am rather happy that it has been done however what exactly has happend here? The papwerwork has been vetted but no visa has been approved. Nope, now we have the right to get one from the consulate. But first the paperwork has to go the the NVC. National Visa Processing center. Now out of curiosity... why didn't the inital request go to the national visa processing center? Ah well logic. Anyway now it will take 2-4 weeks for the NVC to receive our approved petition and to get us set up in their system before forwarding our request on to the consulate where the interview will be held. Why the processing of creating the visa case needs to be forwarded on to another center for more processing is something that baffles me. Why hasn't the case already been created as part of the petition review process? It sounds like the actual ...

Well sometimes it is nice to expect the worst because occasionally you can then receive a pleasent surprise. The latest Update now has the california processing date for 129f forms at December 31st which is past our date of the 21st. So as long as all our paperwork is in order we should soon have our visa petition approved and can now actually apply for a visa at the consulate. Hopefully this means I can post a bit more information here on a more regular basis as the longest wait period for new information is by far waiting for your petetion paperwork to be looked at initially. The good news here is where we were expecting 4 months or more we had our paperwork off the shelf in about 2. Perhaps things are finally falling into place since the re-organization of the INS into the USCIS under homeland security. Course this is just the first step. Their are many to come. Hopefully all of them will come with similar nice surprise. Pardon me if I don't hold my breath. But I will enjoy this...