Approval!

Hello everyone,

At 3am UK time today, Jon and I received an email from our lawyer at Masliah and Soloway, titled' GOOD NEWS'.

As you are all aware, Jon and I have been waiting since September to be approved by the USCIS in order to move on to the next stage of the immigration process. Initially we expected this to take around 3 months, but because of a large government backlog, it has ended up taking SIX. To say we have been on edge waiting for that notification everyday would be a massive understatement!

The email we got this morning informed us that "moments ago", LA time (UK -7 hours currently), their office received our approval notice for the immigration petition! After 6 agonising months, our application has finally been accepted! Of course this doesn't mean it's all over. But it's a start...

From here, our newly approved application is moved from the USCIS in Los Angeles to the National Visa Center (NVC) in New Hampshire where they will assign us a case number. This takes up to 8 weeks. Once we have a case number, we are required to fill out some more forms, and return them. Once the NVC receives these forms, they review our case and forward it to the consulate in the UK.

For now, we have work with our lawyer to gather all the information required by the NVC, so that once we receive our case number in about 8 weeks time, there is no delay and we can submit everything immediately.

At this moment in time that's about all the details I know. Once we start filling out these documents, I'll post more here, continuing my quest to document these procedures, in the hope that it helps someone!

Even if we still have a ways to go yet, to know that after 6 very long months we are finally able to start moving along is a huge relief.

Have a great day everyone,

Dan.