noa1 to noa2

[Sveta & Ron 23]

i read jv eachday and am pleased to hear the joy many people receive I have a question tho as a rule after noa1 the wait is about 6 months give or take few weeks past few weeks I am reading some are getting noa2 1-2 months is this due to cases being moved around and got out of proper stack? if so hope mine will be this case

[P+J 47]

Yes. It would seem that a stray petition will occasionally make its way into the hands of an adjudicator earlier than expected. It was most likely filed erroneously during sorting, but if everything is included for approval, the adjudicator simply approves it. I was hoping I'd be lucky like this too when I received some touches in quick succession. I'm starting to think it's pretty rare (unless it's a petition for a Haitian or Dominican beneficiary) something goes on behind the scenes to accelerate approval of these petitions that we are unaware of. I would expect 4-5 months right now for NOA2. Most October filers have received approval and they are coming right down the line with the November petitions. As long as they direct enough adjudicators to the K1s, approval really shouldn't be more than 5 months when if you're filing during such a slow time of the year (December - March have the least number of petitions submitted typically).

Hoping a speedy NOA2 to you man. Hope your girl can get here by summer too! I'm praying for a May approval and maybe a June interview at the latest...After looking through some timelines, it seems that Kiev can schedule interviews pretty quickly too. Quite a few people were getting them 2-3 weeks after contacting the embassy. Once it's in the system things can move pretty fast.

I'll be glad when I see some more VSC petitions coming through. Once they hit those December petitions it should starting rolling again.

Edited March 22, 2012 by Paul86

[Oksana & Max 94]

Yes. It would seem that a stray petition will occasionally make its way into the hands of an adjudicator earlier than expected. It was most likely filed erroneously during sorting, but if everything is included for approval, the adjudicator simply approves it. I was hoping I'd be lucky like this too when I received some touches in quick succession. I'm starting to think it's pretty rare (unless it's a petition for a Haitian or Dominican beneficiary) something goes on behind the scenes to accelerate approval of these petitions that we are unaware of. I would expect 4-5 months right now for NOA2. Most October filers have received approval and they are coming right down the line with the November petitions. As long as they direct enough adjudicators to the K1s, approval really shouldn't be more than 5 months when if you're filing during such a slow time of the year (December - March have the least number of petitions submitted typically).

Hoping a speedy NOA2 to you man. Hope your girl can get here by summer too! I'm praying for a May approval and maybe a June interview at the latest...After looking through some timelines, it seems that Kiev can schedule interviews pretty quickly too. Quite a few people were getting them 2-3 weeks after contacting the embassy. Once it's in the system things can move pretty fast.

I'll be glad when I see some more VSC petitions coming through. Once they hit those December petitions it should starting rolling again.

Ukraine is usually pretty quick in scheduling interviews, when I called for mine they offered one 3 days later. However with Euro 2012 the things will slow down, so you should expect some delays. I wish you will have a speedy process.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

i read jv eachday and am pleased to hear the joy many people receive I have a question tho as a rule after noa1 the wait is about 6 months give or take few weeks past few weeks I am reading some are getting noa2 1-2 months is this due to cases being moved around and got out of proper stack? if so hope mine will be this case

Yes some are just mix ups. At VSC the files arrive at one building, are put into USCIS files and sent by truck to another building, they could get out of order. Also adjudicators will be assigned several boxes at once and those stay with them. The adjudicator could go on vacation and others get ahead of them (if they will be gone for extended times they reassign the cases) Also they use contracted adjudicators who may come and get assigned cases completely out of order with the others. Adjudicators open the boxes they are assigned and adjudicate your file, they have no idea when it arrived or when it was put in the system and do not care...not their job. Adjudicators do the adjudication, nothing else.

There could be many reasons it happens. I could not name them all and I could not even imagine how often it happens overall. It is their desire to adjudicate cases in roughly the order they arrived but it is not a perfect system. Any systen which would be perfect could only be slower for everyone.