Thursday, March 24, 2011

I600 (Immigration) Approval and 3 WEEKS?!?!

Today I made a phone call to our assigned immigration officer to inquire about our file status. Guess what? Our I600 was approved on March 21! And guess what? Our 171 (the official approval notice) came in the mail today!

Now for the real news. I e-mailed our agency with this update, as they need to communicate our approval date to the Korean agency to continue our processing. I got this e-mail back from the Korea program manager:
I've been looking at my files and it seems that the families who have been notified they can travel had their acceptance paperwork sent to Korea right around the same time as you and received I-600 approval about 2 weeks before you did. If travel keeps up like this you may be traveling closer to mid April.
Did you catch that last line? Mid-April. MID-APRIL. As in, 3 weeks from now. So if things continue as they have been in our agency's recent experience, we should get our travel call in about two weeks. And then we'll need to be in Korea within two weeks of that call.

Heads are spinning here tonight! (In a good sort of panic-induced way, of course.)

3 comments:

Barbara Ley said...

Wow! That's awesome.

Aleece said...

YAY!!! Congratulations!

I'm sure you will - but let me know what days it's looking like for your travel. I'm in town the 14th - 18th and really wanted to see you guys. I can re-arrange things things make sure we meet up if you're traveling around then.

Anonymous said...

Woooo-hooooo! Please let us know if we can help in any way!