Ridiculous Letter From USCIS

[faust-yusov 103]

"Your visa is being processed and should be ready within 60 days of this letter." [Dated 06/21/2011]

It has been 162 days since our NOA1. We put in a service request over two weeks ago, on 13 June.

This is unacceptable. VSC are not the slow service center they once were. They're onto late Feb now and almost all Jan filers have been approved. I've checked - there's virtually nobody in January ahead of us on Igor's list.

60 days! This is unbelievable. Has anyone else received this nonsense?

Edited June 25, 2011 by faust-yusov

[faust-yusov 103]

Has no-one else received this?

[danik713 21]

Reminders: 1. VJ represents ~0.4% of all I-129F applicants. 2. You are dealing with the federal goverment.

Edited June 25, 2011 by danik713

[faust-yusov 103]

1. I'm aware that VJ represents a narrow sample. Samples are, however, indicative of general trends, and if VJ indicates that VSC are working on late Feb filers, it's likely that VSC are in fact working (predominantly) on late Feb filers.

2. Quite, and I had bargained for that. But whatever is this letter supposed to tell us? We will qualify for expeditious processing on 13 July. Why pick an utterly arbitrary date (21 June) and inform us that our visa is being processed (I'd have hoped that was the case anyway) and will be assessed within 60 days (which would in sum amount to more than 2 months past normal processing time) of said date? It's just utterly nonsensical.

Edited June 25, 2011 by faust-yusov

[Alcheringa 39]

Given that your visa cannot be "processed" or "made ready" until after a successful interview, I don't know what this letter refers to.

Now, your petition could clear USCIS and move on to the consulate, but a longer timeframe only looks like nonsense if you forget that some folks wait eight months to a year for it to completely process.

Stomping your foot at some irregular notice really won't make a difference. And these timelines you quote are rough assumptions, not hard promises. Every case is unique, and has the potential to fall through the cracks.

Ours flew through the system, while folks that started months before us were still waiting five months after we had already POE'd in the States. Mileage varies.

[Alcheringa 39]

I'd stop putting stock in that letter -- clearly it does not apply. Nonsensical is the name of the game, anyway.

It's a big system with an inconceivable number of little pieces being moved around. Add in the human factor, and it is ripe for unexpected outcomes.

Follow up with it as you are, and that'll be that.

[faust-yusov 103]

Given that your visa cannot be "processed" or "made ready" until after a successful interview, I don't know what this letter refers to.

Indeed. It's unnecessarily confusing. A pointless and obfuscating piece of communication.

Now, your petition could clear USCIS and move on to the consulate, but a longer timeframe only looks like nonsense if you forget that some folks wait eight months to a year for it to completely process.

Eight months for complete processing would be a luxury if the I-129F takes a further 60 days (which would be 7.25 months from NOA1 to NOA2).

Stomping your foot at some irregular notice really won't make a difference. And these timelines you quote are rough assumptions, not hard promises. Every case is unique, and has the potential to fall through the cracks.

Not stomping my foot (lamenting its enigmatic wording and trite, irrelevant assurances, maybe ) - I'm specifically asking if anyone else has received this letter.

Actually, the timelines are quite firmly adhered to by USCIS. After 5 months, you are permitted to submit a service request. After a further 30 days, you can request expeditious processing.

Edited June 25, 2011 by faust-yusov

[baron555 934]

"Your visa is being processed and should be ready within 60 days of this letter." [Dated 06/21/2011]

It has been 162 days since our NOA1. We put in a service request over two weeks ago, on 13 June.

This is unacceptable. VSC are not the slow service center they once were. They're onto late Feb now and almost all Jan filers have been approved. I've checked - there's virtually nobody in January ahead of us on Igor's list.

60 days! This is unbelievable. Has anyone else received this nonsense?

Goods friends of ours had a 10 month time between NOA1 and approval. You only have 5 months. They never go angry or complained; they understood that there is little they could do. They dealt with it and are now happily together. You ought to just be preparing for that eventuality....your dance with USCIS is just beginning.

[faust-yusov 103]

Hello baron.

I am not looking for a tedious and condescending advocacy of apathy and disassociation.

I am interested to see if anybody else has received this curious letter - preferably somebody who has received both it and (latterly) their visa.

It might be an interesting an elucidating discussion!

Thanks,

f-y.

[Alcheringa 39]

OK, no, that alleged letter is unusual in its explicit assurance that your "visa will be ready within 60 days of this letter."

And, as is the case with impatient OPs like you, it couldn't have happened to a better person --

No one is harassing you in this forum, nor will they tell you what you want to hear. Just giving you the facts.

Good luck. Or not.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

"Your visa is being processed and should be ready within 60 days of this letter." [Dated 06/21/2011]

It has been 162 days since our NOA1. We put in a service request over two weeks ago, on 13 June.

This is unacceptable. VSC are not the slow service center they once were. They're onto late Feb now and almost all Jan filers have been approved. I've checked - there's virtually nobody in January ahead of us on Igor's list.

60 days! This is unbelievable. Has anyone else received this nonsense?

USCIS does not process visas. The state department does. USCIS processes petitions. Your visa is processed by the NVC and the consulate after your petition is processed.

Are you in favor of the government processing your health care?

[faust-yusov 103]

OK, no, that alleged letter is unusual in its explicit assurance that your "visa will be ready within 60 days of this letter."

And, as is the case with impatient OPs like you, it couldn't have happened to a better person --

No one is harassing you in this forum, nor will they tell you what you want to hear. Just giving you the facts.

Good luck. Or not.

Alcheringa!

I thought we were having quite a nice and palatable disussion and had the two of us civilly and resonably agreed that the letter was indeed a little obtuse and unhelpful and silly.

I am not quite sure why you are now lambasting me with the charge of impatience and wishing me ill fortune!

Perhaps it is because the "facts" you presented were neither edifying nor asked for? In which case I suggest you reassess your own sense of self-importance!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hello baron.

I am not looking for a tedious and condescending advocacy of apathy and disassociation.

I am interested to see if anybody else has received this curious letter - preferably somebody who has received both it and (latterly) their visa.

It might be an interesting an elucidating discussion!

Thanks,

f-y.

Simple answer. You will NOT under any circumstance, receive a visa from USCIS. I have never heard or seen a letter with that wording from either USCIS or any part of the State Department.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Mayhaps it is perchance that one's writing is tedious and badly mispelled and curiously seeks some reassurance and general happiness to be blown upwards in the direction of one's pertly puckered exit orifice of which there is none to be had. As we say ion the colonies.."fresh out of that, Buddy"

USCIS, rest assured, does not issue visas and has no control or say in when they will be issued, or even IF they will be issued. Basically, the letter states, correctly and succinctly...you have waited, now wait more. Welcome to the United States and its government at work. Please, allow us to remove the money from your paycheck to fund it.

FWIW ours was processed in 58 days.

[faust-yusov 103]

Simple answer. You will NOT under any circumstance, receive a visa from USCIS. I have never heard or seen a letter with that wording from either USCIS or any part of the State Department.

It is quite a vexatious pancake indeed.

It has, however, been noted some way up the page, by both myself and Alcheringa, that the notion of USCIS adjudicating a visa is a perversion of process chronology, and thus I would request you kindly desist from your defeaning restatement of known facts.

It would naturally be useful to hear from someone who has "received this letter and (latterly) their visa" for a report of its position in their overall timeline.

Edited June 25, 2011 by faust-yusov