Laura
09-17-2007, 08:00 PM
September 1998 Future husband EWI
May 2002 Met at a restaurant we worked at together
2003 to 2004 Dated
May 24, 2004 Married :love:
January 2005 Filed I-130 with shady notario
2005 - early 2006 Received NOAs in 2005, sent in all other paperwork
as it came, at this point we just took everything we got from USCIS in the mail to the shady notario and he filled stuff out and we sent it in. I was very uninvolved with the process, as he had said that it was unlikely,
but possible, that Mr. Laura would need to spend any time out of the U.S., and if that did happen, it would be 2 months max. :curse:
May 2006 I changed jobs from restaurant management to inside sales, alleviating a ton of stress in my life and giving me a lot more time to research things on the internet on my own.
July 2006 Received appointment letter for interview in CDJ Aug. 23, 2006. Shady notario still has not mentioned the waiver or the hardship packet. Shady notario has also led us to believe 245i would be re-instated any moment, and that we shouldn't plan for a long separation.
Mid-August 2006 With my new job I have the freedom to spend a lot of time surfing the internet. One day I stumble upon visajourney.com, register and ask a question about our case. A girl known as Coatzozon reads my question and steers me to immigrate2us.net. I start reading and freak out for a number of reasons, some of which I would be unwise to detail here. Anyway, Ms. Coatzozon's husband had had his visa interview in CDJ just weeks before, and she also happens to live just miles from me. We meet for coffee and she shows me her hardship letter.
I start reading through the letters on this site, and with a lot of help from winkyeye, kitkat1 and a few others, I put together a damn-convincing letter. I am writer by degree and hobby, so that part was okay for me.
August 23, 2006 Husband goes to 1st interview in CDJ. He is deemed
eligible for the I-601, and told to return a few days later to turn it in (pre-pilot program!) He is told adjudication will take 6-9 months. I mail the hardship letter and all my evidence about three weeks later.
August 2006 forward I become an absolute immigrate2us.net addict. :D
May 11, 2007 After nearly a month of almost no approvals (reported on I2US) and before a lot of the July and early August waivers have been decided, I received an appointment letter from CDJ for July 11. I call the CDJ numbers (900# and 202#) and they confirm my waiver was approved (http://laurafern.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/where-to-begin/) May 4th.
July 11, 2007 Mr. Laura and I reunite in CDJ a few days before our visa pick-up appointment. All goes well! He gets the visa in a few hours and we get across border by mid-afternoon. We arrive back in Wisconsin a few
days later, after a mini-road trip through New Mexico and Colorado.
October 2007 I can't shake the idea of going to law school. I talk to Laurel Scott and a friend of a friend who is in law school now. I decide to take the Law School Admission Test and see if I can get into the state university.
December 2007 I take the LSAT and do alright. My score is not what I wanted but I apply to both the local private law school and the state school, not expecting AT ALL to get into the state school.
Spring 2008 I am accepted at both schools and decide to attend the much higher-ranked and more appealing state school. I can't wait to start!
May 2002 Met at a restaurant we worked at together
2003 to 2004 Dated
May 24, 2004 Married :love:
January 2005 Filed I-130 with shady notario
2005 - early 2006 Received NOAs in 2005, sent in all other paperwork
as it came, at this point we just took everything we got from USCIS in the mail to the shady notario and he filled stuff out and we sent it in. I was very uninvolved with the process, as he had said that it was unlikely,
but possible, that Mr. Laura would need to spend any time out of the U.S., and if that did happen, it would be 2 months max. :curse:
May 2006 I changed jobs from restaurant management to inside sales, alleviating a ton of stress in my life and giving me a lot more time to research things on the internet on my own.
July 2006 Received appointment letter for interview in CDJ Aug. 23, 2006. Shady notario still has not mentioned the waiver or the hardship packet. Shady notario has also led us to believe 245i would be re-instated any moment, and that we shouldn't plan for a long separation.
Mid-August 2006 With my new job I have the freedom to spend a lot of time surfing the internet. One day I stumble upon visajourney.com, register and ask a question about our case. A girl known as Coatzozon reads my question and steers me to immigrate2us.net. I start reading and freak out for a number of reasons, some of which I would be unwise to detail here. Anyway, Ms. Coatzozon's husband had had his visa interview in CDJ just weeks before, and she also happens to live just miles from me. We meet for coffee and she shows me her hardship letter.
I start reading through the letters on this site, and with a lot of help from winkyeye, kitkat1 and a few others, I put together a damn-convincing letter. I am writer by degree and hobby, so that part was okay for me.
August 23, 2006 Husband goes to 1st interview in CDJ. He is deemed
eligible for the I-601, and told to return a few days later to turn it in (pre-pilot program!) He is told adjudication will take 6-9 months. I mail the hardship letter and all my evidence about three weeks later.
August 2006 forward I become an absolute immigrate2us.net addict. :D
May 11, 2007 After nearly a month of almost no approvals (reported on I2US) and before a lot of the July and early August waivers have been decided, I received an appointment letter from CDJ for July 11. I call the CDJ numbers (900# and 202#) and they confirm my waiver was approved (http://laurafern.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/where-to-begin/) May 4th.
July 11, 2007 Mr. Laura and I reunite in CDJ a few days before our visa pick-up appointment. All goes well! He gets the visa in a few hours and we get across border by mid-afternoon. We arrive back in Wisconsin a few
days later, after a mini-road trip through New Mexico and Colorado.
October 2007 I can't shake the idea of going to law school. I talk to Laurel Scott and a friend of a friend who is in law school now. I decide to take the Law School Admission Test and see if I can get into the state university.
December 2007 I take the LSAT and do alright. My score is not what I wanted but I apply to both the local private law school and the state school, not expecting AT ALL to get into the state school.
Spring 2008 I am accepted at both schools and decide to attend the much higher-ranked and more appealing state school. I can't wait to start!