Number of cases processed hit new high!

[madmanmike 191]

Needless, we are hyped for them to start processing June. 
 

[Vulpis 26]

Another good day at CSC; 314 cases moved to terminal status. If this keeps up, we'll start seeing wait times slip below a year for our fall 2022 filers. 

 

On a side note my case could definitely have been a Nov 2022 NOA1 If I didn't listen to my lawyer who insisted that the beneficiary has to be out of country at time of receipt of the packet by USCIS. 

[Cheesehead22 86]

Can somebody explain why they leave so many people behind? We're early April filers and have heard nothing. We were so hyped seeing USCIS moving quicker but it's so painful as we see they are working a month after us. Today on Facebook I saw a September 2021 filer get their approval. 

 

How is this fair or logical?

[Eddie101 87]

15 minutes ago, Cheesehead22 said:

Can somebody explain why they leave so many people behind? We're early April filers and have heard nothing. We were so hyped seeing USCIS moving quicker but it's so painful as we see they are working a month after us. Today on Facebook I saw a September 2021 filer get their approval. 

 

How is this fair or logical?

I think that's to polish the average processing time. Of course, once the trailing behind cases are being processed it drops again.

[Crazy Cat 39,665]

13 minutes ago, Cheesehead22 said:

How is this fair or logical?

It is very logical.  All cases are different.  Some background checks take longer than others, different adjudicator speed, etc.  As the late, great Visa Journey veteran @geowrian used to say, "USCIS is like a large grocery store.  Some lines are just faster than others".  

[Eddie101 87]

2 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

It is very logical.  All cases are different.  Some background checks take longer than others, different adjudicator speed, etc.  As the late, great Visa Journey veteran @geowrian used to say, "USCIS is like a large grocery store.  Some lines are just faster than others".  

Well, then some filers seem to be stuck at a very slow checkout.

[FromMexico W/Love 244]

Just now, Eddie101 said:

Well, then some filers seem to be stuck at a very slow checkout.

Some filers can have things in their background you know nothing about too. 

[Eddie101 87]

Just now, FromMexico W/Love said:

Some filers can have things in their background you know nothing about too. 

That's true. Watching over a year now they seem to have a processing window that spans over several months. Of course they have to find ways to fight the backlog that piled during covid and moving forward not necessarily sequentially can help the average processing time for now.

[Crazy Cat 39,665]

5 minutes ago, Eddie101 said:

Well, then some filers seem to be stuck at a very slow checkout.

I have heard the rumors of USCUS manipulating processing speed by using LIFO instead of FIFO, but I'm not sure anyone can really confirm that. 

Edited June 2, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[Eddie101 87]

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat said:

I have heard the rumors of USCUS manipulating processing speed by using LIFO instead of FIFO, but I'm not sure anyone can really confirm that. 

It somehow looks like that. All we can do is speculate. The more we look at it the crazier we get. It's sometimes good to not look at it and just be patient.

[AndiB 661]

35 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

I have heard the rumors of USCUS manipulating processing speed by using LIFO instead of FIFO, but I'm not sure anyone can really confirm that. 

They're still processing mostly in order so how does LIFO make sense? The number of approvals 'ahead' of the queue are minimal 

[AndiB 661]

1 hour ago, Cheesehead22 said:

Can somebody explain why they leave so many people behind? We're early April filers and have heard nothing. We were so hyped seeing USCIS moving quicker but it's so painful as we see they are working a month after us. Today on Facebook I saw a September 2021 filer get their approval. 

 

How is this fair or logical?

Every immigration process I've been through has a 'window' you expect to get an answer. It's usually a few months between earliest you can expect it and latest. I'm pretty sure the k1 has always had some variance but obviously it's worse at the moment as they try to speed through and get times down.  They're still actively working on April and only started April a lil over a month ago. 

 

The average atm seems to be 13-15months so you're still very much in the normal time. I know it sucks and I think it especially hurts early 2022 filers as you weren't due such a long wait at filling so every additional bit of wait is extra felt. 

 

I would try not to focus on people who had late approvals, majority are after RFEs and for the odd one that had no RFE, we can't truly know their situation. You're almost at the finish line 🙏

[AndiB 661]

1 hour ago, Vulpis said:

Another good day at CSC; 314 cases moved to terminal status. If this keeps up, we'll start seeing wait times slip below a year for our fall 2022 filers. 

 

On a side note my case could definitely have been a Nov 2022 NOA1 If I didn't listen to my lawyer who insisted that the beneficiary has to be out of country at time of receipt of the packet by USCIS. 

That's crazy, there's even a part of the form that asks if they're currently in the country. Why are lawyers like this 😭

 

Hopefully with speed up, the delay won't be too felt

[Vulpis 26]

3 minutes ago, AndiB said:

That's crazy, there's even a part of the form that asks if they're currently in the country. Why are lawyers like this 😭

 

Hopefully with speed up, the delay won't be too felt

Shouldn't be that too bad. I'm optimistic that the estimated wait times will continue to improve and that I hear back from them with either an approval or RFE (hopefully not) by late October (NOA of late January). Would be a great birthday gift

[Bh_sarah 942]

1 hour ago, Cheesehead22 said:

Can somebody explain why they leave so many people behind? We're early April filers and have heard nothing. We were so hyped seeing USCIS moving quicker but it's so painful as we see they are working a month after us. Today on Facebook I saw a September 2021 filer get their approval. 

 

How is this fair or logical?

I know this feeling way too well. It isn't fair or logical, and the anxiety and frustration ramp up when you see people that filed 1, 2 months after you get their approval while you're still waiting. Unfortunately, my opinion is that it's normal, and it's a gamble. Some people get left behind and to me that doesn't mean at all that their case is more complicated than others or that they did something wrong.

 

There are people still waiting from February, imagine how they are feeling seeing May cases being approved. And you'd think that they are more prone to get an RFE because "there was to be something wrong with their case" but nope, 19 straight approvals yesterday in a single range in late February. 15 approvals yesterday in November 2021! To me is simply a matter of luck if you have a simple case, a matter of getting your case randomly picked by an agent in the first wave vs. having it randomly picked when they already moved the bulk of activity to other months. You're still inside normal processing times, even if they are focusing on recent ones. It's coming. Don't let anxiety get the best of you now. Contacting your congress representative about it also doesn't do any harm if you think it will help you feel more in control.