Earliest Date to Call About Notice of Action (NOA) 2 Status

[Roy and Joanne 0]

Community,

I filed the K-1 petition (form I129-f) for my fiancée on 27 June 2012, which is over five months ago. My service center is Vermont (VSC). According to the Processing Times section of USCIS's My Case Status web site (https://egov.uscis.g...rd/ProcTimes.do), Vermont is taking 5.6 months to process K-1 petitions, while the national goal is 5.0 months. May I call customer service now, or do I need to wait until 5.6 months have passed? (This would put the wait time on the K-1 to just near Christmas.)

Thanks,

Roy

[Jen and Mikey 13]

Community,

I filed the K-1 petition (form I129-f) for my fiancée on 27 June 2012, which is over five months ago. My service center is Vermont (VSC). According to the Processing Times section of USCIS's My Case Status web site (https://egov.uscis.g...rd/ProcTimes.do), Vermont is taking 5.6 months to process K-1 petitions, while the national goal is 5.0 months. May I call customer service now, or do I need to wait until 5.6 months have passed? (This would put the wait time on the K-1 to just near Christmas.)

Thanks,

Roy

Ya just gotta keep waiting. We submitted June 1st and still haven't heard anything, but looking through the timelines linked above, it looks like they are starting to work on June.... slowly but surely we'll get it.....

[EminTX 131]

Go back one and two years on the threads where K-1's updated their cases to see how the timelines typically flow for the months that you filed. Example...For us, we tried to file in May, but were delayed when my then-fiance's city re-addressed his home (different street name and house number). We successfully filed in early July. We got RFE'd in November and it took 3 or 4 weeks to get the documents from his country to submit. We got NOA-2 in the end of January. He received his embassy packet on Feb 14th this year with an appointment date for March 14th. He was here the first week of April and we were married on April 10th.

To follow up, we filed AOS in June and are still expecting a letter any old day now. Bwah ha ha ha ha. Yeah.

The wait was very frustrating and our original (inaccurate )timeline of expecting him to be here in 6-8 months led to a lot of frustration. We wouldn't have waited because of the address change if we'd have known that it is so easy to update that type of information.

Here is the link to the thread for K-1's in July last year:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/319411-july-2011-filers/

Note: There seems to be a tendency to "attack" certain types of visa applications in groups while letting others "marinade" for a while. You'll notice that there'll be lots of K-1's that come through over a couple of weeks then hardly any for a while but lots of other types get pushed through. The system appears to arrange work-flow based on the squeakiest wheels.

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