Ok so I just got our packet sent out and received in Cali on the 18th....I know I obviously have a wait for the receipt....but just wondering once I get that what kind of status updates will I see online? Will it just say processing for months on end? .....Ugh all the waiting we have ahead of us.....

Maybe. The online updates are always very reliable, and you'll get messages that your case has been "touched", but you won't know exactly what they did with it. Maybe someone moved it from the shelf to a desk. If you're lucky, you'll get updates which say a receipt notice has been sent out, or the case has been approved and forwarded to NVC. After that, you won't get online updates for the I-129F anymore, because everything is done at NVC and the consulate after that. So really the only online thing you're looking for, eventually, is that the I-129F was approved and forwarded to NVC.

Rene

Pretty much, yes that is all it will say.

You may notice updates on your file (or not--there is no rhyme or reason to it) like Rene explains.

You'll also get notification if an "RFE" is generated, and then you'll have two weeks to stew over what it is until you get the letter!

Try to keep your eyes on the horizon for the moment. Watching the road will make you loopy.

Yikes, I meant to say: The online updates are NOT always very reliable! Do not count on them for accurate updates.

Rene

Oh, thank god! I thought for a moment that you had been abducted by aliens in some sort of "body snatcher" thing... and replaced!

Ian

Ditto! I was thinking to myself, "What have they done with our Rene!?! This is an imposter!!!!"

~ Jenney

It was a very short abduction, the aliens decided I wasn't a typical earthling, and set me free.

LOL thanks everyone! I need to just relax right now I guess as much as I can.... as nothing else I can do at this point....my fiance' has already sent off for his police record and thinks he has his medical in order until he has to go to the USCIS doc...so nothing else to do but twiddle our thumbs ooooffff!

If you guys really feel like keeping busy, you can fill out the I-134 ahead of time, to be ready to send him closer to his interview time. He can go to the London website and see what his visa application forms look like and get started on filling those out, so when the originals come (the originals will have a special bar code), he can zip through those quickly!

And if you get REALLY bored, you can look at all the paperwork involved in his AOS once he gets here and you're married...you can read up on all of that and be extra-prepared....

But don't listen to me. I'm high on the membership list of the anal-retentive club on here!

Rene

Been twiddling my thumbs since the 25th of September, it's better than not twiddling them I guess, at least it is all underway now. Good luck!

Actually, you could read threads on here for heads up about 'common sense' things that can come up. Like old police cautions, even underage, or what kinds of pointed questions might be asked at the medical and what to do about them or how to get a social security number as a K-1.. oh heck, there's lots of reading to do!
People's experiences are always interesting.

Thanks everyone! TKO sounds like we are closest as of right now in this journey so will be interesting to hear about your journey as well! Please keep us updated

Hey I just wanted to let you know, me and my fiance applied for a K-1 visa and I submitted my petition on May 2nd 2007 and now, we finally have our K-1 interview in London on Jan. 28, 2008. I just wanted to give you the time frame we had to wait for ours, I hope this will give you some insight, but your could always go much faster, it's really hard to tell. I hope this helped with you a little.

-Samra

Well, fiance just received a mail saying her petition was approved on the 4th of February. We filed through Vermont SC and there were no RFE requests. So that took less than 4 and a half months - quicker than I dare dreamed.

Woot Woot! Sure hope our approval from Cali takes that amount of time (or less haha!). Have fun and keep updating progress!