Two weeks ago I was dancing through the house because my husband's and I I129F case was touched by the USCIS. After visiting this site and reading some post, I have discovered that many VJ'ers cases were touched a couple days in a row that were not even pending or that just received there Receipt number. That burst my bubble.


No our I129f case was touched last night along with out approved already I130. Has everyone Else's cases been touched again? Or can I dance around the house?

Thank you in advance for you input.

Sincerely
Mr. Jibowu

Keep dancing hun - dont let them wear you down xxxxxx

There were some other cases where the I130 was approved and then way down the road the I129F was touched. I say any progress is reason to be happy

our case was touched for the first time on 2-07-08 no approval but im still excited about the touch we have never called them and been waiting since our NOA sept 24th 2007 as i said before im just happy they have not lost us lol

hang in there our prayers are with you and everyone else waiting.......

what does touched mean???

"Touching" is meaningless and no big deal. Some petitions get 'touched" and others never do. It only indicates someone had your petition in their hands and made note of it on the database. What truly counts are NOAs (yeah!) and RFEs (Boo!)

I totally agree with the boo's for an RFE

Look at our timeline and you can see how many touches we have had .........and still no NOA2

yes, we got a touch today and we only got our NOA1 on 2/5...i'm thinking it's pretty meaningless...but still exciting to see some action on our petition so early...

Thank you all for your replies! My lawyer was trying to tell us that the K3 might be canceled because the I130 was approved so soon. I think he was saying that to cover his assets, because he didn't mail out our I129F petition until two months after we sent in our I130.
I fired my lawyer and stopped the cr1 process to go the K3 route. So my brother in law is having trouble trusting my decision. I just hope i made the write one. The Nigerian embassy is taking an average 7 months for a cr1 interview.

Was your I-129F approved or just touched? People have been saying that they are being cancelled, others are saying not, it is all very confusing.

I would say, continue on with the CR1 until you get the NOA2 for the I-129F and then go the K3 route. Just so that you don't lose too much time because getting things started back up can be another big ol' pain.

Hi!


Im just wondering how would you know if your case is being touched? My papers are in the USCIS at the moment and have been checking it for 7 months and it says "case is received and pending". From the timelines that Ive read seems like many cases has been touched. When I dont think mine is being touched at all. And what does RFE means?

Thank you!!!

I didn't really pay attention to touches because I wasn't getting any during my process. It was a lot of phone calls to them and waiting patiently

I have gone the CR1 route right up to filing the affidavit of support. Once the CR1 hits the embassy, the embassy will process the CR1 over the K3. It take 7 months for a CR1 interview at the Nigerian Embassy and only 2 months for the K3.

Both our K3 and CR1 petition were touched on the same day. For the most part they do mean nothing, but many times people have been approved the next day. Recently many people have been touched. I think someone is going ahead and preparing easy cases for approval, but the USCIS can not touch a case until they are up to that processing date. That is just my opinion to what is going on.

You can tell your case has been touched by the change of the last activity date, if you have an account at the USCIS.


It is still to soon for my case so I will sit patiently and just dance when I feel like it. *wink