January 2017 I-129F Filers

[MrMizo 144]

32 minutes ago, lcfreshful said:

Filed on jan 10th and got approved on April 26th. Now we're just waiting for the actual NOA2 to come in the mail. 

 

Perhaps other filers around Jan 10th may hear good news soon too. 

 

Good luck to you all.

 

We certainly hope so 

Still 51 Cases left for Jan 10th!

They were knocking them out on 4/27 but as usual, we got put on the back burner since then. 

Thank you for your optimism! 

[pardiiix 18]

Do we have to keep the I -129F form? I seem to have lost it 😔. If I print it all over and sign it again, will that cause problems later on? 

98 days and I still haven't received NOA 2.

[MrMizo 144]

[JackieandAustin 42]

30 minutes ago, pardiiix said:

Do we have to keep the I -129F form? I seem to have lost it 😔. If I print it all over and sign it again, will that cause problems later on? 

98 days and I still haven't received NOA 2.

Yes, you need to have a copy of the entire I-129f package you sent away. Have you checked everywhere? I keep mine at my desk in another identical folder next to the one I am peparing the other needed documents for the interview in    

Its been 101 days for us now - I am really hoping for this week. We will hopefully hear something soon  

[eastcoastgroove 329]

1 hour ago, pardiiix said:

Do we have to keep the I -129F form? I seem to have lost it 😔. If I print it all over and sign it again, will that cause problems later on? 

98 days and I still haven't received NOA 2.

We forgot to print 2 copies of ours and we just filled it out again at a later date and printed it off. 

[Nameless 28]

Day 98 for me.  Hopefully this week will bring good news.  I seriously don't think I can go another 2-3 weeks.  This is really starting to get to me now.

[RJandHamid 1,129]

Here's to hoping for another productive week at the CSC! Best of luck to everyone waiting on NOA2 or their case number from the NVC. 

[Nameless 28]

52 minutes ago, RJandHamid said:

Here's to hoping for another productive week at the CSC! Best of luck to everyone waiting on NOA2 or their case number from the NVC. 

 

Wishing you luck because you have been waiting WAY too long! 

[Brian D 6]

1 hour ago, Nameless said:

Day 98 for me.  Hopefully this week will bring good news.  I seriously don't think I can go another 2-3 weeks.  This is really starting to get to me now.

Day 102 for me now. Waiting is so stressful 

[PR&PR 325]

12 minutes ago, BrianDao said:

Day 102 for me now. Waiting is so stressful 

I came to the conclusion I am not stressed about the wait myself. I know in the end we will get approved. We have been together 5 years and we are a genuine relationship...In the end if this route doesn't work for some reasons (which I don't think it would happen but anyway), there are many other ways to go around. So I am really not stressed about being refused. I am just literally tired and annoyed about those 108 days wait (That is since my NOA1, received date add 3 days). why are they holding us like this, I cannot see a reason and if there is one they should contact us with a RFE. I just believe our case has been left untouched up to now, as stated earlier maybe their dogs ate it...

 

Best of luck to everyone on this new week!

[kasu06 36]

4 minutes ago, PR&PR said:

I came to the conclusion I am not stressed about the wait myself. I know in the end we will get approved. We have been together 5 years and we are a genuine relationship...In the end if this route doesn't work for some reasons (which I don't think it would happen but anyway), there are many other ways to go around. So I am really not stressed about being refused. I am just literally tired and annoyed about those 108 days wait (That is since my NOA1, received date add 3 days). why are they holding us like this, I cannot see a reason and if there is one they should contact us with a RFE. I just believe our case has been left untouched up to now, as stated earlier maybe their dogs ate it...

 

Best of luck to everyone on this new week!

 

You WILL get approved, I have no doubt about that.  We got approved 114 days past our received date. The very best of luck to all those waiting ever longer!!

[SkruDe 311]

Good morning all!

 

Another week starts today!  No more long, unproductive, useless weekend feelings until 5 consecutive days of approvals and RFE's arrive first!  It should be a good week for a lot of you.  I can feel it.

 

I just got back from my trip to Colombia to see my fiance.  It turned out to be a perfectly planned trip as we got our NOA2 last week and celebrated together.  She was in much better spirits and we both now can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

 

I've noticed a lot of emotions building up in a lot of you and wanted to share my quick advice/experience.  The weeks leading up to my NOA2 I was beginning to become a mess.  I waited 109 days and past the estimated time by two weeks. The wait and the checking and the tracking was interfering with my daily life, my work, my happiness.  It is easy to blame the USCIS and get upset over their methods, but in reality we are nothing but 1 small stack of papers among thousands and thousands of stacks of papers. 

 

It wasn't till after I got my NOA2 approval that I realized that all my pain and suffering leading up to the NOA2 was not a product of the USCIS, but instead a self inflicted pain and misery.  I was doing it to myself.  We like to think our petition is the most important one.  The only one that matters to us.  Why is MY petition taking this long?  What did I do wrong?  Why are they skipping MINE?  When will I be approved?  But as I said, each one of us is 1 among thousands being processed.  And given the unconventional approval system, it is like a lottery of sorts.  But in our lottery, we are nearly guaranteed to be a winner as it is really hard to be rejected at this stage of the process.  You would know if you would be rejected and never would have submitted the petition in the first place.  Everyone here will receive approval, or RFE then approval.

 

The best things in life are worth waiting for.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it takes to achieve it.

 

It's like torture being away from the one you love.  But a few months will be minuscule when compared to the lifetime of happiness that follows.  And I think we all can sacrifice a few months for a lifetime of happiness.

 

And for those of you with faith, let me add my favorite words of wisdom that has gotten me thru many situations in my life.  "God has perfect timing.  Never too early, never too late.  When it happens, it will be the exact right time, and it will be perfect."

 

Good luck to everyone this week!!!!

 

Edited May 1, 2017 by SkruDe

[JackieandAustin 42]

14 minutes ago, SkruDe said:

Good morning all!

 

Another week starts today!  No more long, unproductive, useless weekend feelings until 5 consecutive days of approvals and RFE's arrive first!  It should be a good week for a lot of you.  I can feel it.

 

I just got back from my trip to Colombia to see my fiance.  It turned out to be a perfectly planned trip as we got our NOA2 last week and celebrated together.  She was in much better spirits and we both now can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

 

I've noticed a lot of emotions building up in a lot of you and wanted to share my quick advice/experience.  The weeks leading up to my NOA2 I was beginning to become a mess.  I waited 109 days and past the estimated time by two weeks. The wait and the checking and the tracking was interfering with my daily life, my work, my happiness.  It is easy to blame the USCIS and get upset over their methods, but in reality we are nothing but 1 small stack of papers among thousands and thousands of stacks of papers. 

 

It wasn't till after I got my NOA2 approval that I realized that all my pain and suffering leading up to the NOA2 was not a product of the USCIS, but instead a self inflicted pain and misery.  I was doing it to myself.  We like to think our petition is the most important one.  The only one that matters to us.  Why is MY petition taking this long?  What did I do wrong?  Why are they skipping MINE?  When will I be approved?  But as I said, each one of us is 1 among thousands being processed.  And given the unconventional approval system, it is like a lottery of sorts.  But in our lottery, we are nearly guaranteed to be a winner as it is really hard to be rejected at this stage of the process.  You would know if you would be rejected and never would have submitted the petition in the first place.  Everyone here will receive approval, or RFE then approval.

 

The best things in life are worth waiting for.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it takes to achieve it.

 

It's like torture being away from the one you love.  But a few months will be minuscule when compared to the lifetime of happiness that follows.  And I think we all can sacrifice a few months for a lifetime of happiness.

 

And for those of you with faith, let me add my favorite words of wisdom that has gotten me thru many situations in my life.  "God has perfect timing.  Never too early, never too late.  When it happens, it will be the exact right time, and it will be perfect."

 

Good luck to everyone this week!!!!

 

Thank you very much for this inspiring post!  

 

Lets all have a good and fresh start towards the next step of this journey we are lucky enough to share with our loved ones and the other members here in this community  

[TriloByte 1,818]

43 minutes ago, PR&PR said:

I came to the conclusion I am not stressed about the wait myself. I know in the end we will get approved. We have been together 5 years and we are a genuine relationship...In the end if this route doesn't work for some reasons (which I don't think it would happen but anyway), there are many other ways to go around. So I am really not stressed about being refused. I am just literally tired and annoyed about those 108 days wait (That is since my NOA1, received date add 3 days). why are they holding us like this, I cannot see a reason and if there is one they should contact us with a RFE. I just believe our case has been left untouched up to now, as stated earlier maybe their dogs ate it...

 

Best of luck to everyone on this new week!

 

 

 

 

 

I agree. The way the government handles this is unethical IMO. If the case is to be sitting for 5 months, why not reach out and set an expectation. 

 

I think the widely accepted assumption on this forum is that there are a bunch of workers who are given a "stack" of cases to work on. I mentioned this a few days ago and will mention it again. Why in the age of such awesome technology are we processing applications by papers in "stacks" in the first place?

 

What they COULD do, theoretically, is have one main center that processes incoming petitions. The receipt numbers would be entered (ordered by date received) into a master database that's shared across all service centers. All documents would be scanned electronically into a database and linked to each receipt number in the master database. Only valid petitions make it into the database. The people processing the incoming would immediately reject any petitions that had incorrect fees, etc. Nobody has a "stack" on their desk. Then, when any worker at any service center finished the petition they were working on, they would query this master database for the next petition in line. This way there never would be a situation where someone who got a receipt at the end of the month gets movement before someone at the start. There would still be situations where an RFE delays a person and causes someone who got a receipt at the end of the month to get APPROVED before someone at the start, but that's acceptable! haha. 

 

With this type of approach, there could be very precise statistics on where the processing is currently at and what the wait time should be. 

Edited May 1, 2017 by dbmathis

[TriloByte 1,818]

32 minutes ago, SkruDe said:

Good morning all!

 

Another week starts today!  No more long, unproductive, useless weekend feelings until 5 consecutive days of approvals and RFE's arrive first!  It should be a good week for a lot of you.  I can feel it.

 

I just got back from my trip to Colombia to see my fiance.  It turned out to be a perfectly planned trip as we got our NOA2 last week and celebrated together.  She was in much better spirits and we both now can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

 

I've noticed a lot of emotions building up in a lot of you and wanted to share my quick advice/experience.  The weeks leading up to my NOA2 I was beginning to become a mess.  I waited 109 days and past the estimated time by two weeks. The wait and the checking and the tracking was interfering with my daily life, my work, my happiness.  It is easy to blame the USCIS and get upset over their methods, but in reality we are nothing but 1 small stack of papers among thousands and thousands of stacks of papers. 

 

It wasn't till after I got my NOA2 approval that I realized that all my pain and suffering leading up to the NOA2 was not a product of the USCIS, but instead a self inflicted pain and misery.  I was doing it to myself.  We like to think our petition is the most important one.  The only one that matters to us.  Why is MY petition taking this long?  What did I do wrong?  Why are they skipping MINE?  When will I be approved?  But as I said, each one of us is 1 among thousands being processed.  And given the unconventional approval system, it is like a lottery of sorts.  But in our lottery, we are nearly guaranteed to be a winner as it is really hard to be rejected at this stage of the process.  You would know if you would be rejected and never would have submitted the petition in the first place.  Everyone here will receive approval, or RFE then approval.

 

The best things in life are worth waiting for.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it takes to achieve it.

 

It's like torture being away from the one you love.  But a few months will be minuscule when compared to the lifetime of happiness that follows.  And I think we all can sacrifice a few months for a lifetime of happiness.

 

And for those of you with faith, let me add my favorite words of wisdom that has gotten me thru many situations in my life.  "God has perfect timing.  Never too early, never too late.  When it happens, it will be the exact right time, and it will be perfect."

 

Good luck to everyone this week!!!!

 

 

 

You're right, but I still want that USCIS to become more efficient so that others behind us can avoid this unnecessary misery that technology and proper thinking could easily fix. 

Edited May 1, 2017 by dbmathis