http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=43271

That link above is what I found on what this "trick" could be. I just did it actually. I went through the RFE prompts and talked with someone live...I didn't get anywhere though! He told me that my case is still pending and that it hasn't been updated at all. He also told me that it was probably a computer glitch and that many people have been calling in to ask about the same thing. They are trying to fix it.

So maybe they are too busy trying to fix a "computer glitch" instead of looking over our petitions and issuing our NOA2s? Nice.


Maybe someone else will have better luck with this "trick"!

I tried the "trick" today.... was also told that touches could have been either an officer looking at my file, or just a glitch.

Good news is that there isn't an RFE.

HOWEVER, about an hour after I called I received another touch.

looks like touches can be given when our file is accessed via computer also.

We got another touch today And we haven't called anyone at the service center about our file or anything like that, so I doubt it's any of our doing!

also got another touch today...so there are several of us in the same boat or about the same...transferred the 11th (VSC to CSC_...touched 14th...touched 15th...pending at CSC update on the 21st...touched 22nd...touched 23rd...could it be that we are all in the same bin...and MAYBE an approval is on its way??? i really PRAY AND HOPE that an approval is on its way for me and everyone else here...honestly I am going crazy...everytime I see a touch and no update on the status I even go more crazy...lol...God spare us from this waiting pain and let us get our NOA2s!!!!! (inshAllah) good luck to all

I received a touch today also...wondering if they actually looked at my file or it was because of the "trick" I did yesterday. Hopefully it was them actually looking at it and maybe there is an approval coming!

My I-130 petition was approved ... but not my son's! Very odd ... one approval is not much good to us ... Maybe the K3 will get approved soon :-)

any good news for this week?

Just like you, we got two touches this week, two last week and one on the week prior to that. But so far, no really good news. The good thing is that it looks as if CSC has approved almost the whole February now, so an approval shouldn't be too far off .

sadly not yet...but i have a feeling (hopefully) that since we are all pretty close together in submitting our petitions and most of the february filers have been approved...that next week may be a week of good news (inshAllah i hope and pray for me and all of us) but with this holiday weekend coming up who knows what might happen?? God spare us all...let CSC send those approvals...pleaaaaaaaaaaase

Gosh, I hope you are right.

and why do i have a crazy amount of touches...i mean the 24th of May could have been me calling USCIS...but someone explain the others to me...because USCIS can't...oh me oh my...lol

Me too. The sad thing is that i don't really know . I know many have said that one should stop estimating timelines, but there's just so much statistics to use (and it's rather reliable too) that it's hard to resist the temptation .

I really hope that I'm not giving you false hope, but in my opinnion at least three things point out that February filers should be approved soon.
1) When you look up the percentages (in stats avail in VJ, for CSC) you find that almost all of January filers are approved, almost 80% of February filers are approved and less than 20% of March filers are approved, meaning that they should be working on February now mostly.
2) The CSC average is 111 day's as today, but it's been lower lately too. Our NOA1 dates are quite close to being 100 days old (if they aren't that already), meaning our files shoud - based on averages - be approved soon.
3) The CSC I-130 processing dates moved forward to November. Assuming that it's the end tail of a normal standard deviation (and today being naturally the other end) the mean of that deviation should hit around the 20th of February (I haven't counted this exactly though), pointing again that they should be working on February filers.

The thing that worries me, however, is that the CSC hasn't really moved forward in processing dates for three weeks now. It has processed many applications of course, but these have been for filers who sent their I-130 prior to February . It seems for me that what CSC is currently doing, is the approval of the early VSC filers who have been sent there. While this is good, it really doesn't help us .

Then again, everything I just said isn't science, so I don't really know . Even so, it doesn't mean that I would be practicing witch craft or other vice just making things up. My estimates, or rather educated guesses, do have a logical basis, but they still can't give any absolute answers. Even if they approval rates should be streamlined, it's still impossible (in this case) to remove all white noice or random walks and thus uncertanity remains .

Hello all,

Add me to this "february filer" list . Considering almost all of us on this thread got xfered from VSC to CSC on May11th and have the same "touch" pattern - it be nice to see ANY one of us get approved -and hopefully proves to be indicative of a general trend for the rest of the Feb folks!

So... has anyone who filed February been approved this week ?

We're still waiting.

i'm still waiting for January form VSC
It's starting to becomeing extremely frustrating

Still waiting too... My husband is convinced that there is something fishy going on because we haven't heard anything. I hope he is not right.

Don't JINX it!! You'll probably get approved either tomorrow or Friday since you got touched on the 23rd.

It's weird. The longer I've gone on through this process, the less I've started caring about it. Well, maybe not stopped caring about it, per se, but I've begun to take a longer view of it.

Yes, of course I want our petition to be approved. Of course it would be wonderful if it were approved tomorrow. BUT...I don't care so much about it because once it's approved, I just start playing the waiting game again. This time I just wait for the NVC to generate whatever it generates so I can send in whatever I send in there, so I can wait some more...
This whole process is hurry up and wait. I'm sick of it.

It'd be great if I would be approved in the next 5 minutes. But since the only thing I have to do after that 5 minutes is wait some more, it makes very little difference.

Damn, I've become quite pessimistic

you know you are not alone the same tought in m head
the only thing that helps is that it should be over one day sooner or later but we still hope for sooner
am I right??

Well, that would be just wonderful!

Mononoke28 you must be a psychic lol! Just opened up my email to find 2 emails from CRIS! We we're APPROVED!!!!!!!!!! I shouted to my parents, couldn't get the words out, finally got them out, burst into tears, and had trouble dialing the phone to call my husband lol. Finally I stopped shaking and got to tell him the wonderful news! He is in shock too!

Just out of interrest, who all have filed to VSC in February and later on been transferred to CSC? Since we all may be approved around the same time...

There's me and Geist (as almost the only couple on the forum who have separate messaging accounts ). Then there's also vylex, dillydally and virt. Is that all? Or did i miss someone?

how about this week.... any news?

I'm still waiting since the last touch on 5/23. MegDan recently got approved although she started at CSC. Her NOA1 was at 2/13 think. Her last touch before the good news email was at 5/24. If that's the case and our NOA1 dates are honored, we should be getting our files looked at this month (FINGERS CROSSED TO THE POINT I CAN'T SEPARATE THEM).

We have been touched twice but not yet approved................still waiting

My fingers are crossed tightly for you too! Actually, correction on my last touch, it was just like yours, 5/23, not 5/24. So that's a good thing, right? Good luck to you and I hope you get that approval SOON!

Heh, thanks MD!

I'd love to catch up and play the NVC game next.

You're welcome! Yes...that NVC game should be lots of fun! You're on lol!

folks waiting on your NOA2's ...especially at CSC or VSC,check out this bulletin on the USCIS website
http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/Re...pdate052407.pdf

My take is all Feb filers should get their NOA2's by that June 15th compliance date Inshallah !!! All the best !

what do they mean when they say "compliant by June 15th" ?

doesn't it mean that they will just update the cases status accordingly online ?

I don't see anything about approval notices... unsure.gif

We're STILL waiting, too.

Based on what the bulletin mentioned about CSC-VSC getting swamped with H1B processing and having to put everything else on the burner - my understanding is that the service centers are striving to approve ( be compliant) by June 15th all those petitions that would have gottens NOA2s had they not been delayed due to the H1B processing .

We were approved for the I-130 on 3 May. However, as of 3 Jun I still had not received the NOA2 in the mail. I called and they told me there is a backlog of work for the machine that folds the notices for mailing. The backlog was due to the recent deadline for all the H1B visas. At any rate, I have not yet received either the NOA2 or any notice that the file has been sent to the NVC. Sorry to be pessimistic, but wanted to describe the situation for you.

Good luck to all!
Doug

Geist and I just recieved NOA2 from CSC via e-mail. We waited 106 days for the approval. Best luck to you all February 2007 filers, who are still waiting !

YAAAAAY!!!! WE GOT APPROVED! I knew it would happen during your visit
Whew. Now on to the NVC. I never thought this would happen...really. It seems so unreal.

Congrats again Geist! Doesn't it feel great?

congrats to both of you. .
i`m seriously praying i get approved in a couple of days too.it`s been a long.......... wait

Thanks

Pjjoy, since you just got touched today, I want to bet that it might have been an approval Maybe you'll get a good email tomorrow like we did today after a touch yesterday

congrats to all those approved!! i really REALLY pray and hope that CSC will approve me soon...i am starting to freak out...please pray for me everyone thanks

Still waiting :/

Still waiting hopefully over here too...

We're still waiting. And we're getting married in church this Saturday

well..... CRIS said my RFE was mailed today, and when I got home it was sitting in the mail box.

They wanted another copy of the translated marriage cert...

If anyone knows... to what CSC address should I send the requested evidence ?

There should have been an adress specified in that letter on where to send it to. You might want to call them to make sure. However, it would most likely be the same address used to send the initial I-130 application (to CSC).

On another note, I got my NOA2 email today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay! Congrats Vylex!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!! CONGRATULATIONS VYLEX!!!! i am so happy for you and wish you the best of luck on the rest of the journey now i only pray that i will hear something soon because this waiting is driving me crazy...but i will be patient and inshAllah an approval is on its way...PLEAAAASE take care

Congratulations Vylex! Woohoo!

Thanks everyone! I was getting antsy when our group started getting their NOA2s LOL! Let's start invading the NVC threads now haha. Wow, it's still sinking in. I know we still have the rest of the journey but boy does this feel GOOD!

dillydally, I am sure your long awaited response will soon be there. It seems all of us with the same touch pattern have been notified within weeks of each other. I'll be wishing your response to come soon!

Good luck to everyone else on the next step!

Congratulations everybody that's been approved!

We are still waiting and in fact haven't been touched since May 4. That sucks.

But only 3 more days until our church wedding