Thank you!

George

Question. When you contact your state representative, does he/she respond to you directly or do they have a group of people handling these types or requests? I just can't picture a busy senator or congressman calling USCIS about a single case that was brought up to his/her attention.

my congress man said he doesnt help till it gets to the embassy....

I spoke with the assistant of my congressman but the letter and info sent to me was signed by him. His assistant will be the one inquiring for me tomorrow. She did tell me that she called USCIS today and there IS a huge influx of visa apps. So we could be looking at another 45 day wait

That doesn't make sense. Are they all priority-filing employment-based visa people who get to pay $1000 to skip to the front of the line?

And did you say that somewhere else too, or are you the second person to give that 45 day figure?

I am the 2nd person to hear and give that 45 day figure. This sucks!

does that mean 45 days for a NO2.. whhat does that have to do with us... what about imbra people

I am telling you thats because of the cancellation of DCF... they have stopped all dcf resulting in a night mare. Any application AFTER january 26 is behind an avalanche of papers because thats teh day that they stopped all DCF... after that day all the normal dcf stuff started to be sent to the US. and they need to have vermont start handing the east coast.. this is wrong wrong that they get their stuff done so fast while cali is over loaded

I can't believe this! I stayed off the computer for almost a whole week and still there is nothing. Now I'm reading that there might be another 45 days or so before anything happens?? This is so frustrating, especially when you think you are getting close to an NOA2.

Aaahhhhh!

Also H1B applications... and H1B's can have expedited processing which means they must be finished within 15 days. April 1 was the opening of the H1B 2008 filing window and the cap was reached very quickly... When in doubt, i-129F's go to the back burner

http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/H1BFY08Cap040307.pdf

You might also want to read this:
http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/H1...pdate041307.pdf

Arnt

This sentence might be of particular interest for all of us waiting here for there NOAs:
"For the cases initially filed for premium processing, the 15-day premium processing period begins on April 12, the day petitions were selected through the random selection process."

Trying to be optimistic I suppose the Service Centers were super-busy with processing the premium H1Bs in the last two weeks, but from now on the remaining H1Bs will not be processed with high priority anymore, so at least some of the adjudicators can get back to processing the K visas.

Too wishful thinking? What do you think?

Arnt

I'm not worried at all. I just cant believe that they would just completely stop processing k1 visas. I dont buy into that 45 day thing either. I know they are way too slow, but they have been giving touches and noa2's sparingly.

Maybe another week for us 1/29 people??

Keep hope & positive.

I think the 45 addtional days is an estimate, and the explanation makes PARTIAL sense. That is, DFC's processing has been added to the workload of CSC.

I don't know about the H1 work visas adding to the workload explains much, unless there was a shift in the offices that process them. Isn't the H1 work visa influx an annual thing? One year ago, there was not a similar slowdown in NOA2s from CSC.

George ...sigh

I was touched today, and it felt so good. Now just waiting on the approval

Great! I hope you receive approval soon. My NOA1 date is January 26, so your file WAS on top of mine, among many others. Thank you CSC for taking some weight off, I can breath a little easier.

George ...sigh

We were touched again today too.

Just for kix, I changed the search parameters to be sure to include Jan 1 and Jan 31 NOA1s, this picked up a couple extra. Here are the NOA2 results for January's NOA1s as of 6:00 PM:

Search result for
Visa Type : [K1], Service Center(CSC, NSC, or TSC), Beneficiaries Country : [All], Consulate/Embassy : [All], I129F NOA 1 After 2007-00-00, I129F NOA 1 Before 2007-01-32, I129F NOA 2 After 2007-00-00, Local Office : [All]

Congratulations to the new NOA2s! Here are the latest numbers:

For 98 total Jan NOA1s,
total 44 NOA2s posted:

NOA2 Week:...CA.NE.TX.ALL
=========================
3/18 - 3/24...0..0..0..0
3/25 - 3/31..11..3..2.16
4/01 - 4/07...5..2..2..9
4/08 - 4/14...3..1..0..4
4/15 - 4/21...3..3..2..8
4/22 - 4/28...3..0..4..7 <== C'mon CSC, "Love is Eternal,"
4/29 - 5/05...0..0..0..0 <== but why make us wait for eternity?
=========================
...NOA2.TTL..25..9.10.44
JanNOA1.TTL..68.16.14.98
=========================
SC.NOA2.Pcts.37.56.71.45

Sigh... George

I got a touch yesterday, but nothing since then. No email of any sort.

Maybe the adjucator took out my file and put it in another cabinet that says low-priority. :-)

I know there are a couple of us Jan filers who do have our NOA2.

Any of you guys had any luck with the NVC processing?

Haven't some of the approvals came in the middle of the night emails? I think I remember some of the members posting times that were at really odd hours. At any rate, there is still some time left in the day.

You've got one more NOA2 than I've got. When I have time, I'll try to make sense of it. You have bigger numbers so I like your data better!

LOL, I make occaissional errirs, so I cheked me numbers. I think they are krect.

Any explanation for the 5 day February NOA1-NOA2 result of member "rebex05" from the U.S. and Cuba/Armenia?

George

I would only believe that one when I saw the NVC receipt date, or confirmation from the member. Otherwise I can't come up with a justifiable reason why it would be approved so quickly on a K visa. I'm thinking maybe a bit of confusion. But thats just me.

There was confirmation from them. They were freaking out when they got the e-mail and we all thought it was a mistake, but the paper copy came in the mail a few days after. God only knows what happened there...

rebex05? My guess is that he waited in the lobby with no food and they felt bad, he entered the date incorrectly, it was expedited, or he is just plain FOS? LOL

I see you have a Jan 32 end date, so you think the "End" date is not included in the search? The search result does say "between". I gotta pour over these stupid results. Geesh

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...c=58027&hl= Here's their confirmation

About as rare as winning the lotto!

No touches, man this is ridiculous!!

Who else has USCIS site as their home page?

Thank you! The thread is intersting. They must have literally fallen through the cracks, it was discovered immediately, then their file was placed on top!

George... sigh

No but its my 1st bookmark

Alright George, the ball in is in your court. I've got the same number of NOA2's now, but you are missing one filer (or I've got one extra)! LOL

The "between" was a bit ambiguous to me as well. Does between mean inclusive or exclusive of the end dates? That is why I put in a begin date for January of 2007-00-00 and end of 2007-01-32. Now it appears between is exclusive, NOT including the end dates.

George... sigh

Who is the extra? What's their name on the timeline, and their member name?

I searched K1, NOA1, 2007-01-00 thru 2007-01-32. It comes up with 99. I "briefly" scanned them with the ole eyeballs and looks like all Jan NOA1.

PS Now why would "Start" and "End" actually mean "Start" and "End"! We should have known better, it is just so obvious!

I just ran the search again and also got 99. I think there was another member who put their timeline up. I'll revise the numbers again tomorrow PM.

George

seriously, WHO CARES!!!

Still no NOA2. Freakin' A.

We got touched today !
yeah !! finally we hear something !!

Sweet 1/27 noa1 getting a touch!!!

Come on lucky 1/29

1/29 CREW!!!!!!!!!!

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Whoah! This late???

CONGRATS

WOO HOO - Congrats there!!! (you can still keep us company on the "no nothin'" thread, though!!

I am with you.. people who filed after us are getting their NO 2 from CALI. I am starting to panic

CONGRATULATIONS!

Our NOA1 is 1/26... My spider sense is getting all tingly!

Congratulations Lucho! I'm so happy to see a 1/29 filer with an NAO2! I was getting pretty down with the 45 more days prediction this morning. There's light at the end of the tunnel.

Congrats Lucho!

Email at 8:20pm...NOA2!!! Yay!

Congrats to you too Lucho