October 2017 I-129F Filers, Part III

[x_driven_x 1,778]

6 hours ago, Daniel and Sarah said:

I’m confused with these three dates? Which of these dates is my priority date?

Come join us in the November thread! Your case number is definitely included in the November scans!

[L and E 305]

13 hours ago, Mara Liceth said:

Omg! We just got the approval letter this morning! 🎉🎊My fiancé just called me and said that he got the letter at the mail saying that we got approved on the 30 of April!!! I’m sooo happy and excited!! We cried so had of happiness! Thanks to all this visa journey family for always supporting each other and cheering us up. @Brigitte84 @Kelly1987 @Naes . To@DanielP  thanks for the scans every day because they keep ours hopes alive! Thanks to verybody on this Family for the support! ❤️💃🥂

Congrats girl!! You’re already on your way to the NVC!! 🙌🏼💃🏻🎉

[L and E 305]

@José y Yeny how are you? Any approval yet? 

Edited May 6, 2018 by L and E
Just checked your timeline... totally missed it. CONGRATS belated

[Mara Liceth 134]

6 hours ago, L and E said:

Congrats girl!! You’re already on your way to the NVC!! 🙌🏼💃🏻🎉

Thank you! I know. I’m so excited! 😁 I wish we could have the interview together so we can get to meet in Bogota 😃

[José y Yeny 81]

6 hours ago, L and E said:

@José y Yeny how are you? Any approval yet? 

If friend approved us on April 18, are we waiting for the # of NVC, and you have already been approved?

[CI rolling 89]

Please can anyone help me?

When I didn't see my rfe on time I request for another one, but two days latter it was delivered.

But now uscis have taken the case up and sent me another rfe a day after the first one I received was delivered.

Are they going to send me another copy again.....because I have already submitted the first one and on their website it's says response received on 1st and on 2nd I also received rfe possibly my request when it was not delivered on time.

So should I call them to say they shouldn't worry about sending it again that it was delivered or just wait for the same copy to come in.....in which am afraid it will take more of our time.

[L and E 305]

48 minutes ago, Mara Liceth said:

Thank you! I know. I’m so excited! 😁 I wish we could have the interview together so we can get to meet in Bogota 😃

You never know.. we might! Unfortunately I don’t think I will be able to take off of work to go but let me know when yours is and I’ll see if your date matches with ours! 

[L and E 305]

14 minutes ago, José y Yeny said:

If friend approved us on April 18, are we waiting for the # of NVC, and you have already been approved?

Yay! Congrats!

 

Yes we just got approved this Friday.. the waiting continues! 

[Mara Liceth 134]

3 minutes ago, L and E said:

You never know.. we might! Unfortunately I don’t think I will be able to take off of work to go but let me know when yours is and I’ll see if your date matches with ours! 

Yes for sure we will keep in touch. I also just found I really good information about the next steps wich I think it will be really helpful. You may want to take a look 😉

http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=Colombia&cty=Bogota

[Sarac9 1,122]

I woke up and checked VJ like I use to do when I had Facebook..but it wasn't working at all. Asked my fiance to access it but it was not working at all!!! 

I thought USCIS has enough of our complaining and sharing info that the government shut down the website... LOL 😜😆😆😂

[Crazy Cat 39,884]

7 minutes ago, Sarac9 said:

I woke up and checked VJ like I use to do when I had Facebook..but it wasn't working at all. Asked my fiance to access it but it was not working at all!!! 

I thought USCIS has enough of our complaining and sharing info that the government shut down the website... LOL 😜😆😆😂

I thought i had been banned.......i miss VJ when it is offline.

[SONIA AND MICHAEL 508]

10 minutes ago, Sarac9 said:

I woke up and checked VJ like I use to do when I had Facebook..but it wasn't working at all. Asked my fiance to access it but it was not working at all!!! 

I thought USCIS has enough of our complaining and sharing info that the government shut down the website... LOL 😜😆😆😂

[Daniel P 2,022]

Charts to compare July, August, September and October regarding the length of time from Received to Approved (as to 05/06/2018).

 

As a reminder, in the charts below I try to compare what happened within the next 187 days after the last day of July, August, September and October received cases. In order to see them clearer I put them together in pairs.

 

In that time, with a total of 596, 849, 923 and 1038 approved cases respectively:

 

• July had a global mean of 195.56 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 5.22 days.
• August had a global mean of 189.94 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 6.95 days.
• September had a global mean of 187.57 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 7.68 days.
• October had a global mean of 182.92 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 7.00 days.

 

As I mentioned in some previous post there clearly was a turning point from July to August, and it has kept improving consistently ever since. Notice that they did not only shortened the average number of days, they also approved more cases in the same period of time. Hopefully this tendency will continue! 

 

 

[pizzaday 66]

1 hour ago, Daniel P said:

Notice that they did not only shortened the average number of days, they also approved more cases in the same period of time. Hopefully this tendency will continue! 

Thanks for this @Daniel P and for going through all the trouble to run this again! Really great to see that USCIS is turning it around!

 

1 hour ago, Daniel P said:

October had a global mean of 182.92 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 7.00 days.

For this analysis you're only looking at cases that got an approval, so there's not much that people without an approval can take away from this right? Basically, I'm reading it as "those approved got their approval on average within 182 days." I'm only saying because it's pretty easy to see this and freak out, thinking your case is outside the average. But you can't use it as an average in that way, because about 3/4 of October cases (those non-approved, but with a good amount of silent NOA2s) aren't included in this breakdown.

 

Really really not trying to dismiss your breakdown though - I think it's absolutely fantastic as a month-over-month analysis. Just want to make sure that we're interepreting this the right way! Please correct me if my interpretation is wrong btw 

Edited May 6, 2018 by pizzaday

[Daniel P 2,022]

8 minutes ago, pizzaday said:

Thanks for this @Daniel P and for going through all the trouble to run this again! Really great to see that USCIS is turning it around!

 

For this analysis you're only looking at cases that got an approval, so there's not much that people without an approval can take away from this right? Basically, I'm reading it as "those approved got their approval on average within 182 days." I'm only saying because it's pretty easy to see this and freak out, thinking your case is outside the average. But you can't use it as an average in that way, because about 3/4 of October cases (those non-approved, but with a good amount of silent NOA2s) aren't included in this breakdown.

 

Really really not trying to dismiss your breakdown though - I think it's absolutely fantastic as a month-over-month analysis. Just want to make sure that we're interepreting this the right way! Please correct me if my interpretation is wrong btw 

Correct, only approved cases are considered. Also, as you said, silent NOA2's aren't included, but as discussed some months ago silent NOA2's happen the same way both in early and late approvals and so their presence wouldn't affect the average significantly.

 

It would be more correct to say "the average of all cases approved within the first 205 days (not 187, sorry, that was a mistake) of being filed is 182 days for October", so it's perfectly normal to have cases above and below that number.

 

This data isn't intended to create more anxiety, it's just merely informative, and so it should be taken just to have an idea of the tendency over the months. Even if a case is above average it's not time to freak out, the most you can say is that it got a bit unluckier than the majority.