Progress!

On Sunday, I opened a letter from US Customs and Immigration Service stating that they'd completed their review of our fiancee visa petition. This doesn't give Christine her visa, but it's one step closer. Once USCIS finished their review, they sent the application along to the National Visa Center and we're supposed to hear from them in 2-4 weeks. Then, it goes along to the US consulate in Calgary where Christine will have to sit for an interview- presumably, they ask all about our relationship and make efforts to verify that we're actually marrying for love and not convenience (which we are- living apart from my partner and fiancee is actually really inconvenient, for a host of reasons I won't go into here).

It was great to see the letter in the mail. I played it cool when I opened it but it did get my heart rate up a little because you have to just wait for the government to contact you during this process. They certainly have thousands of various petitions to review at any given time so that's reasonable I guess, but it makes the waiting a bit longer.

But, we have played by the rules 100% in everything we've done during this process and know that our fairness will be reciprocated throughout the rest of the petition process. And we're excited for the next letter, whenever it comes (please, come soon).