Will it ever happen....

Some days are just better than others I guess....
Seems that since my return from SM there have been lots of other days that have been better, and even though I am keeping a smile on my face and an upbeat attitude, I seem to worrying about lots of silly little things that I would have just taken in my stride previously, and I am constantly having to tell myself off for being a 'silly cow'....

There isn't anything specific, just teeny stuff and nothing stuff - I am hoping that it is just a phase of this craziness that we seem to be living in at the moment - but nothing seems to be happening. My wonderful S says that he believes that we will hear something this month, and I have found myself checking the USCIS website even more often in the hope of finding something. I never do of course, although I have discovered that I can put in different receipt numbers and see what if any stage other peoples petitions are at. It doesn't give out personal info of course, just says stuff like 'we wrote to you on.........to confirm that your I131 has been successful. Please follow instructions as included in that letter'; but it does let me know that something is happening somewhere. Also I had thought that perhaps certain receipt numbers related to certain visa applications, so all the K1/K2/K3 and K4 petitions would be together because they take the same sort of processing time being for pretty much the same thing, but it would appear from what I am seeing that there is no allocation system involved - you send in your petition you get given the next receipt number and then your petition gets sent to the relevant department. To me this is good news because when you see all the receipt numbers ahead of yours, and you are assuming that they will all take months to process, it can be very dis-heartening. When you find out that a lot of the numbers ahead of yours could just be for green card issue that doesn't take so long, and weigh that up with the fact that they don't work through the receipt numbers in numerical order because this number is purely for logging not processing, it does make you feel a whole lot better and more hopeful of hearing something this month....

Of course hearing something, only means that the USCIS have verified that the wonderful S and I do in fact have a relationship. They then hand over to the State Dept. who will then send me out a date to attend an interview at the Embassy, which for me means a trip down to London, which in itself is quite horrifying, as I do not know anyone in London. My wonderful S used to have a brother living there but he has now also moved back to the US, so I can't use him as a stop or guidance point. The interview appointment could be another 3 months down the line, and I will need to have a full medical before I attend it. The good news is, that once I have attended this interview, as long as they as happy and satisfied with the answers to my questions about S, they will grant me the visa, and the boys and I will finally be able to book flights and get moving. I am hopeful that we will be moved in time for Christmas. The wonderful S says he thinks we will be there for Thanksgiving which would be fantastic. I would be there tomorrow if I could, but I have to be sensible and realistic about this. My beautiful A has her 21st at the end of October, and we cannot and will not miss that - it's far too important....

So keeping my practical head on, being there in time for Thanksgiving which is the 24th November this year would be perfect and I am just keeping everything crossed for then....