I-129F March 2017 Filers

[twoDs 590]

10 minutes ago, belle4310 said:

The NVC still has not received my case from 07/19 approval? I sent them an online inquiry, they asked me to scan my NOA2 to them. should i be worried?

The average wait time for NVC from NOA2 is listed here at 25 days, so I wouldn't worry too much -- yet.

There are some horror stories but you're not even at two weeks yet, so I wouldn't stress too much.

[belle4310 72]

13 minutes ago, twoDs said:

The average wait time for NVC from NOA2 is listed here at 25 days, so I wouldn't worry too much -- yet.

There are some horror stories but you're not even at two weeks yet, so I wouldn't stress too much.

I was concerned because i never saw them asking for the approval letter before, at least not so early.

[twoDs 590]

17 minutes ago, belle4310 said:

I was concerned because i never saw them asking for the approval letter before, at least not so early.

Reading the thread it's clear USCIS has been pretty inconsistent in delivery to NVC, my bet is it's NVC documenting your case because USCIS hasn't provided anything yet. I would look at it as good news that they have interest, god knows USCIS wouldn't be so proactive about getting information.

Edited August 1, 2017 by twoDs

[Marzena & Stephen 544]

Starting to get super discouraged aswell. Sitting at my fiances house in chicago while hes at work.. always praying that we will get something in the mail and nothing everyday. Hoping to get our noa2 before i leave this weekend 😔 hard to stay positive youre at 139 days and a bunch or others get approvals.. i just dont get the system 🤔 super frustrating. 

[dkmfan85 832]

One approval magically popped up in a +/- 100 scan dated today, 8/1 with a March 28 receipt date. I wonder what causes these seemingly random tracker updates.

[Rev 392]

16 minutes ago, dkmfan85 said:

One approval magically popped up in a +/- 100 scan dated today, 8/1 with a March 28 receipt date. I wonder what causes these seemingly random tracker updates.

Personally, I wonder if they've been told not to mark them as approved electronically but if some end up doing it by accident out of habit.  All I can come up with 🤔

[Vendhen 117]

I just googled my local senator office and set up an account which provided me contact information to local offices.

Was an easy process and they are sending me a privacy act email shortly which I will fill out so they can proceed to look into my case.

Tired of this waiting game - 153 days in waiting for noa2 - they received my rfe 26 days ago.

Hopefully my local Senator office can get some traction.

good luck to all

Steve and Adhen

[AnJ Co 1,676]

 

 

[twoDs 590]

20 minutes ago, Rev said:

Personally, I wonder if they've been told not to mark them as approved electronically but if some end up doing it by accident out of habit.  All I can come up with 🤔

 

It's also possible they're cases that are being specifically watched (e.g. congression inquiries or something similar.)

At this point I'm inclined to think it's almost random chance, but we had the crazy event last week with 250+ updates in a day. I halfway wonder if there's an internal USCIS app that has to be running for updates to happen and someone just forgets to run it that day.

 

There's so little pattern to the USCIS behavior I'm inclined to think it's random chance for the most part. The only thing I'm certain of is that approvals happen with some kind of performance target in mind, since you can see them slowly creep across days, but never enough to complete a day, just get to about 50%. I'm sure some adjudicator could tell us the real story and we'd just shake our heads at the insanity of it.

[MentalVoid 191]

Just called the NVC again. They have my case (woo), but it's still being scanned into their system (boo). They told me to call back in a few days, which of course means, call back tomorrow lol. I don't mind since line 5 never has a very long wait, and it helps ease my mind that at least something is happening over there.

[troika 307]

Haha .. quite ironic. Seems like even applying for a job as an ISO (Immigration Services Officers) at the USCIS takes forever 

https://forum.federalsoup.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=75601#post829278

[Justtwoofus 158]

5 hours ago, troika said:

seriously !!! so, basically, they just do eeny meeny miny moe ... how unfair 

I don't think they realise that peoples way of life depends on it. their "whatever" attitude affects real lives, but I don't think they care anymore, we are just paper files to them.

I don't think so. Maybe they are expediting cases with kids or else. I  have a son and new school year 2017/2018,starts  on 27th of August I assume  / hope they do take this in to consideration

[SazKap 75]

Hi All,

 

Not sure if this info has been shared already but just spoke with a family friend who works at the CSC in Aliso Viejo - he said that they are experiencing MAJOR delays due to K1s being deprioritized in favor of other more urgent immigration cases.  He mentioned that a massive caseload of Haitian immigration applications landed on their desks and they've had to pull a lot of the K1 case reviewers onto the job - apparently, the Temporary Protected Status for those affected by the earthquake got extended so now they are trying to process as many cases as they can so that people don't get deported. Since it's a human rights issue, they've been mandated to prioritze those cases. He said they are so underwater that they've apparently authorized overtime pay for adjudicators for the first time in a long time. He said I should be expecting a minimum of 120+ days since NOA1 to hear from them. I'm a May/June cusp filer, so I've got quite a ways to go still it seems.   

 

While I'm cranky about the delays, I feel a bit better knowing why - thought you guys might want to know as well.  

 

He didn't know anything about the app or the cadence of approvals/status updates.

 

In the meantime, congrats to those who did manage to get some good news this month.

 

xoxo,
Sarah

[FutureMrsBennett 69]

12 minutes ago, DalilaAdnan said:

I don't think so. Maybe they are expediting cases with kids or else. I  have a son and new school year 2017/2018,starts  on 27th of August I assume  / hope they do take this in to consideration

No whether you have kids or not it doesn't matter if they have not actually laid hands on your case.  They know their are cases where children are involved but this is not a determining factor on how fast your case moves.  Sorry, but I wish this were the case as well...but sadly it is not. People with kids wait just as long as others without.

[twoDs 590]

1 minute ago, FutureMrsBennett said:

No whether you have kids or not it doesn't matter if they have not actually laid hands on your case.  They know their are cases where children are involved but this is not a determining factor on how fast your case moves.  Sorry, but I wish this were the case as well...but sadly it is not. People with kids wait just as long as others without.

Yeah, there's no indication of any preference for kids at all, other and adjudicators like them because they're easier to process.

 

8 minutes ago, SazKap said:

Hi All,

 

Not sure if this info has been shared already but just spoke with a family friend who works at the CSC in Aliso Viejo - he said that they are experiencing MAJOR delays due to K1s being deprioritized in favor of other more urgent immigration cases.  He mentioned that a massive caseload of Haitian immigration applications landed on their desks and they've had to pull a lot of the K1 case reviewers onto the job - apparently, the Temporary Protected Status for those affected by the earthquake got extended so now they are trying to process as many cases as they can so that people don't get deported. Since it's a human rights issue, they've been mandated to prioritze those cases. He said they are so underwater that they've apparently authorized overtime pay for adjudicators for the first time in a long time. He said I should be expecting a minimum of 120+ days since NOA1 to hear from them. I'm a May/June cusp filer, so I've got quite a ways to go still it seems.   

 

While I'm cranky about the delays, I feel a bit better knowing why - thought you guys might want to know as well.  

 

He didn't know anything about the app or the cadence of approvals/status updates.

 

In the meantime, congrats to those who did manage to get some good news this month.

 

xoxo,
Sarah

Your information meshes with the reports from USCIS. Not sure about the Haitians but that could just be the application de jour.

 

It's pretty apparent we've been de-prioritized, and for Q1 at least we can prove it was for I-129 (not F) H1B cases. Based on what we've been told, there aren't really that many K1 case reviewers, less than 10 adjudicators could process every K1 that comes in.

 

Of course when five of those guys are taken off K1s and put on other cases, we get the current nightmare. If you look at the last NOA2 issues in the past two weeks, the average NOA1-NOA2 time is now 136 days, and almost certainly will be over 150 in another month without a major change at CSC.