My fiance who is American sent I-129 on 27th and was received on 28th. We are waiting for NOA1. However, since the fee was increased, many people have already filed applications. Do you guys think that it might be possible for us to marry by valentain's day? We are hoping to marry in Feb. I used to be a student at US with F1 visa. I graduated and went back to Japan last september after withdrewing the graduate program. I have heard that it is not good to file I-129 soon after a person finished school and returned to his or her home country. I was an exchange student for one year from 2000-2001 and from 2002 to 2006, I was F1 student. Does the immigration think that I stayed in the US too long?

You can't help falling in love if you're here in the States studying. I dont think it matters when you file as long as you are both legally able to marry and have sufficient proof of a loving relationship with intent to marry. Its not impossible for you to have a visa before Valentine's Day. Its just not wise to make plans on the date. Plan for the worst, hope for the best. Good luck.

you should also add your info to the list in the JULY FILERS thread. then you can keep track of your progress against others who filed to the same service center and timeline. just add a reply to the last post there and list your service center received date and your NOA1 date and which service center you sent to. they will add ti to the web spreadsheet.





Chris

07/27/2007 sent I-129 to CSC
07/28/2007 CSC recieved I-129.
waiting for NOA1 since

the July Filers thread is here

I'm at about the same point as you, and we've been very brave and set a date for our wedding, Feb 16th, 2008. If we don't get our visa before that, we'll have a "rain" date in April sometime, and hope for the best. This may cause all our foreign travellers lots of pain (changing plane tickets, etc) but fortunately for us our wedding venue is allowing us a sliding date. I'm sure we'll know by January at least if we'll have the interview date by the date of our wedding (depending on what stage of the process we're at by that point). So setting a wedding date in February isn't an impossibility, you'll just have to have some flexibility if it doesn't work out, and keep an eye on your I-129F progress to see what adjustments you'll have to make... Good luck!!

Sunshinegirl....added you to our spreadsheet. You can view it with the link in my sig and don't forget to PM me with any updates

I don't know if anyone would be interested in the information, but I've been working on some tools to 'mine' the data on the USCIS site. It's all public information, after all, and I've been curious how many petitions get filed each day, and how many are I129F petitions.

I have the code all done but the USCIS has thrown me a curve - they have monitors in place that check how many requests are coming from a given IP (or possibly gateway), and they 'shut off' access for 2 or 3 days if you exceed whatever the limit is. There is a flood check for a short duration, and after I slowed my requests down (one lookup every 15 seconds) I hit a longer duration monitor that also shut me down.

So my next try will be to slow my code WAY down (maybe one lookup every 2 to 5 minutes), but I have already determined that the average number of petitions received by the California Service Center is around 4000 (or more) (my code has a binary search component that can determine the number of petitions in about 14 searches). To determine which are I129F petitions (or any other type) I have to query each individual petition. Once I know which ones are I129F, I log the numbers so that I can watch for status changes on subsequent days.

So if I query 1 case every 2 minutes, it will take 8000 minutes, or 134 hours, or nearly 6 full days. And that's just to locate the receipt numbers for a single day. To scan all of July (our filing month) will take about 117 days (21 fiscal days in July, or so)! I would eventually like to give this code to VJ so they don't have to rely on users to input timelines, and they would gain access to a ton of more petitions. I have already contacted VJ and they are interested - if I can get it to work.

Why do all of this? Because I can, and I want to. It's an interesting technical challenge. Would there be anyone out there reading this who would like to donate some of their computer time? I could provide you the code (it's written in python) along with the instructions, and we could split up the days in July of 2007, in order to locate the petitions we're interested in.

I've also requested of the USCIS that this data be made available in an off-line form so I don't have to query it online so slowly. If they agree, and I'm not holding my breath, then this would all be moot, but I thought I'd see if there is any interest, other than my own!

Good luck to you, but you realise they are a paper system at present not computer , for example they still have my N-400 as pending from May of 2006, I got it months ago, but if you get anywhere it would be interesting

That's my birthday!! We set our date for the 11th and it isn't flexible because we didn't know any different at the time... BUT! We know the consequences so we're just riding the wave

My noa 1 was issued on August 6th and I got a hard copy on August 10th. I really hope that the immigration will hurry up their process. Do you think that the countries matter? I have heard that some countries are taking longer.

Every country are taking longer and one shorter very shorter (Cuba)

I filed for I-129F on the 3rd of July. Got a confirmation that USCIS in Vermont has recieved my documents on the 10th of July. Since then I haven't heard anything from them. Any pointers as to how long do any of you think it will take for the approval to come through?
Thanks,
Ankur

if you fill in your timeline, it will generate an estimate for you based on the data you provide

July 13th: I-129F Petition sent!
July 15th: Delivered and signed for at NSC
July 19th: Received at (transferred) CSC
July 23rd: NOA1 received.
Waiting............................

Thank you for starting this forum. I am going to write a letter to congress. It seems that looking at other timelines..it took around two months for approvals earlier in the year. Now people who filed late...very late in May JUST received approvals around Sept 19th. We are looking at waiting TWICE as long now and it is NOT acceptable. I will update you all after I figure out what and whom exactly to write to and if anyone has done so already please let me know. Take care. Everyone needs to write a letter. We need to put the pressure on.

Take care,
Crissy

You need to read more posts about how overwhlemd usics is with petitions, HB1 and Ki, due to deadlines for filing and fee increases