May 2021 I-129F K-1 FILERS

[DSBeijing 303]

33 minutes ago, Amelme said:

what do you think whether May be done this month or not? 🌺

There are around 5000 Cases before May. They process around 100 cases per day, so if the processing rate says same as now, we can expect to get to May in around 2.5 Months. I hope that processing rate will improve.

[OM&OL 49]

2 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

There are around 5000 Cases before May. They process around 100 cases per day, so if the processing rate says same as now, we can expect to get to May in around 2.5 Months. I hope that processing rate will improve.

If this has really happened, and the processing times stayed the same, that would be really really sad. Our case in September and it's already been 4.5 months, that means they need like 8 to 9 more months, so it could be more than a year in total. I hope they feel how hard it is for everyone to just pause our life and wait to be with our loved ones. 

I pray every day for a miracle 🙏. 

Edited February 4, 2022 by OM&OL

[DSBeijing 303]

18 minutes ago, OM&OL said:

If this has really happened, and the processing times stayed the same, that would be really really sad. Our case in September and it's already been 4.5 months, that means they need like 8 to 9 more months, so it could be more than a year in total. I hope they feel how hard it is for everyone to just pause our life and wait to be with our loved ones. 

I pray every day for a miracle 🙏. 

Sadly USCIS is the worst agency in Federal Government, they have 0 accountability and don't answer any question. I honestly don't understand, how it is possible that under Republicans processing rate was significantly higher than under Democrats, since Jaddou(head of agency) took over processing rates have collapsed over the board. 

[OM&OL 49]

6 minutes ago, DSBeijing said:

Sadly USCIS is the worst agency in Federal Government, they have 0 accountability and don't answer any question. I honestly don't understand, how it is possible that under Republicans processing rate was significantly higher than under Democrats, since Jaddou(head of agency) took over processing rates have collapsed over the board. 

Yeah, unfortunately. 

Yesterday while I was hearing what she's saying and how she doesn't know how to explain accurately or answer questions, I was like Oh No!! It's gonna take us for ever to get the approval. 

God be with us 🙏

[DSBeijing 303]

3 minutes ago, OM&OL said:

Yeah, unfortunately. 

Yesterday while I was hearing what she's saying and how she doesn't know how to explain accurately or answer questions, I was like Oh No!! It's gonna take us for ever to get the approval. 

God be with us 🙏

Oh man, don't get me started, I woke up in the middle of the night for that appointment. It was like a self padding by USCIS and saying "we are so great, its all Trump fault". And off course they provided 0 answers to any real questions.

[theanchorman 0]

Does anyone know how long it takes for a USCIS to process one case once its been assigned to an agent from start to end? 1 week, 2 weeks, month, etc.? Seems like our case maybe just sitting in a pile for so many months until someone can get to it. 

Edited February 4, 2022 by theanchorman

[dalindeck 390]

1 hour ago, theanchorman said:

Does anyone know how long it takes for a USCIS to process one case once its been assigned to an agent from start to end? 1 week, 2 weeks, month, etc.? Seems like our case maybe just sitting in a pile for so many months until someone can get to it. 

My case has been theoretically assigned to an agent for 2 months now, so it doesn’t seem to matter a whole lot if it’s assigned or not.

[GG & SG 15]

20 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

Sadly USCIS is the worst agency in Federal Government, they have 0 accountability and don't answer any question. I honestly don't understand, how it is possible that under Republicans processing rate was significantly higher than under Democrats, since Jaddou(head of agency) took over processing rates have collapsed over the board. 

I was also looking at the prior processing rates (Historic Processing Times (uscis.gov) and noticed FY2021 and FY2022 processing rates are 2-3 times what they were from FY2012 through FY2020.

 

I read in some other forum that they are operating 40-50% of their capacity due to COVID restrictions. I-129F is still a paper application so they can't work remote.

 

If this is true, then it would make sense why the processing rates are double now.

 

She didn't mention COVID as the reason but talked about issues with previous administration and now that their additional funding request is approved, they are hiring more staff.

 

Whatever the reason it is very hard on the applicants and their loved ones, and we can't do anything about it but wait.

[DSBeijing 303]

4 hours ago, GG & SG said:

I was also looking at the prior processing rates (Historic Processing Times (uscis.gov) and noticed FY2021 and FY2022 processing rates are 2-3 times what they were from FY2012 through FY2020.

 

I read in some other forum that they are operating 40-50% of their capacity due to COVID restrictions. I-129F is still a paper application so they can't work remote.

 

If this is true, then it would make sense why the processing rates are double now.

 

She didn't mention COVID as the reason but talked about issues with previous administration and now that their additional funding request is approved, they are hiring more staff.

 

Whatever the reason it is very hard on the applicants and their loved ones, and we can't do anything about it but wait.

Reduced operating capacity might have been true in 2020 or first part of 2021, but for K1 we have seen declining processing number of cases per month since mid August, we went from 2350 in August 2021 to 1300 in December 2021. You can see this on screen shot below (ignore values before Feb 2021 since I didn't collect those). 

Thus the excuse that COVID or previous Administration is somehow at fault for decline in second half of 2021, cannot be more further from the truth. 

 

Also, for me it it is not logical to constantly have optimizations (according to USCIS) and still experience decline in processing rates (how you process less if you optimize ???), not only in K1 but EAD and green cards. Don't get me wrong, I am not defending previous Administration, just calling out incompetence of the current one and utter failure to do anything to fix backlogs, but on the contrary to increase it.

Also continued lying that they are processing cases in chronological order, while this is pure lie, they are processing March cases, while there are still open Jan and Feb cases is mind boggling. 

 

Today again they processed 75 cases for entire day, what is far below any sustainable level, and at that rate for one month of cases they will need 3 Months of work, so effective wait time for anyone who has filed in May 2021 or later, will probably be somewhere around 12-15 Months, and for people in second part of 2021 wait times will be even higher, since backlog is ballooning with out any control.

 

There are easy ways to fix K1 backlog, for example splitting low risk cases and processing them fast, since there is no red flags or issues=> similar age of applicants, first marriage, long term relationship prior application-2-3 year, mutual children of applicants are all things that could significant reduction of backlog. Same goes for EAD, there is no reason if a person has same job for 10 years, works for same employer, in same city, has already extended EAD several times, to wait for EAD for several months, this could be extended automaticlly, and would half EAD backlog in an instant.

[theanchorman 0]

Did anyone catch the USCIS Progress with Director Ur M. Jaddou this past week? It was nice to hear her talking specifically on K-1 visa and she on mentioned staffing 200 employees to reduce backlogs. Not sure how long this will take to implement, but it sounds like there will be some progress made in the near future. Does anyone have any idea on how the USCIS works on the order of cases the receive? Sometimes it seems like they work on cases out of order, or some cases filed later get approved first then the ones filed earlier.  

 

https://youtu.be/ukqAmPgAN4w?t=925

[MarJhi 924]

36 minutes ago, theanchorman said:

mentioned staffing 200 employees to reduce backlogs

She said they were hiring 200 employees for the "asylum" division, then she went on to blame the previous administration for all of the problems. She is a political beast, not taking ownership of the failures.

[DSBeijing 303]

7 hours ago, MarJhi said:

She said they were hiring 200 employees for the "asylum" division, then she went on to blame the previous administration for all of the problems. She is a political beast, not taking ownership of the failures.

Yes, 200 new employees is just for asylum, not for other visa types. 

 

Mentioning K1 was nice, but to be honest, she just mentioned it as an example.

 

I have a feeling that in next 3 years she will do nothing but complain about previous administration and Covid for the backlog, even though processing rates collapsed under this administration. Up to mid 2021, wait times for K1 were 5-6 months, only in second half of 2021 they started to collapse.

[Mbfernandes 95]

On 2/4/2022 at 4:08 PM, theanchorman said:

Does anyone know how long it takes for a USCIS to process one case once its been assigned to an agent from start to end? 1 week, 2 weeks, month, etc.? Seems like our case maybe just sitting in a pile for so many months until someone can get to it. 

Theoretically 12 min. They released a document a while ago saying how long it takes to process each case (meaning approval or rfe once in the hands of an employee). Which is so surreal that we have to wait so long for something they barely touch. 

[MeG@Am 110]

15 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

Mentioning K1 was nice, but to be honest, she just mentioned it as an example.

Hi.  What did she talked about the K1 visa?

I just partly saw it because I was working.  But part of what I saw was about them hiring more people and congratulating themselves on the accommplishments they have done... (well, not for the K1 visa).  Haha I'm such a pessimist now. 

[DSBeijing 303]

1 hour ago, MeG@Am said:

Hi.  What did she talked about the K1 visa?

I just partly saw it because I was working.  But part of what I saw was about them hiring more people and congratulating themselves on the accommplishments they have done... (well, not for the K1 visa).  Haha I'm such a pessimist now. 

She just said, something like "many of you complained that waits for K1 are long" and that was it.

 

You have entire event on USCIS YouTube channel.