AUGUST I-129F FILERS UNDER CSC

[azezohome 1]

Hey Geico and Bengalilover i know exactly what you mean us august filler need to keep in touch more often so we can keep track of each others progresses. By the way how was your holidays? hope you guys had fun i know i did but it would have been even better if my fiance was here. Do you think CSC is working on August right now or are they still on July ones?

[Geico 0]

Bengaliver, i am expecting the same time of approval as you.

Azezohome, I spent my holidays with my family. I wish to have my fiance with me, but for work reason of both, we couldnt be together for this time. We are only waiting for USCIS give us the approval very soon as the rest of august filers are expecting.

God bless everyone in this forum.

[Dr Mirage 0]

Hello All,

Hey!!! Us August filers are just being patient. There was too much stress after long waits in receiving the NOA1 and getting our checks cashed after the escalating July application when we filed in August.

I'm expecting a result of the petition by the end of January.

August filers were active around Sept and Oct and now yes... there isnt much activity also because there is 60% less applicants for the K-1 after July.

[bengalilover 0]

Hello everybody, hope everybody had fun during holidays. Also. hope USCIS is back with full energy after holiday. I heard from other forums that green card mess is better now. We should start to see August approvals from next week.

My estimate for those who sent 129F by 8/15/2007: 150 days - which stands at 1/12/2008

My estimate for those who sent 129f by 8/30/2007: 150 days - which stands at 1/27/2008

I am opening mail box everybody hoping that approval e-mail. I am getting anxious.

[7Rivers 0]

Well, I don't want to be a joykiller but from my understanding, they said in the time processing its 150 days since NOA1 not from filing! but correct me if I'm wrong, which i hope i'm wrong by the way..what else number should i call to check what's going on with my case..i don't want the one with the machine answering you..

Best of luck for all of us..

[bengalilover 0]

Hi Joy. I just took a small sample of observations from those who have got NOA2. I think it was about 14-150 days from filling date. Filling date is a very consistent date to use because some people use received date witihin NOA1 as NOA1 date, while others use the NOA1 date as the date they actually receieved the notice.

Hope we get it soon. I am getting impatient...

[Geico 0]

Hi Joy. I just took a small sample of observations from those who have got NOA2. I think it was about 14-150 days from filling date. Filling date is a very consistent date to use because some people use received date witihin NOA1 as NOA1 date, while others use the NOA1 date as the date they actually receieved the notice.

Hope we get it soon. I am getting impatient...

I agree with you Bengaliver. Your comment is reasonable. We can see in july filers timeline an average of 150 from filling date.

[Queen Jenn 0]

Hey August filers. I was just lurking around today and thought I'd put in my $0.02. And just remember, that's all it's worth is 2 cents. The averages I believe are 150 days from NOA1.

IF (and that's IF) CSC continues processing at the average rate they have been for the past three months (about 6 approvals per day on AVERAGE-and I've accounted for holiday time off), then the approvals should be as follows:

They should be finished with July by the end of January.

According to my calculations, there are approximatly 45 filers from August without approval. That means that they should basically be finished with the August cases by February 8 or so.

That's just a guess, assuming that there are no RFE's. If you get an RFE, your case will take a little longer.

I'm not a math whiz and this is just something I've been working on in my spare time. I hope you all get approved FAST because that means that those of us behind you will get approved quicker, too. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[samira_07 1]

Hey August filers. I was just lurking around today and thought I'd put in my $0.02. And just remember, that's all it's worth is 2 cents. The averages I believe are 150 days from NOA1.

IF (and that's IF) CSC continues processing at the average rate they have been for the past three months (about 6 approvals per day on AVERAGE-and I've accounted for holiday time off), then the approvals should be as follows:

They should be finished with July by the end of January.

According to my calculations, there are approximatly 45 filers from August without approval. That means that they should basically be finished with the August cases by February 8 or so.

That's just a guess, assuming that there are no RFE's. If you get an RFE, your case will take a little longer.

I'm not a math whiz and this is just something I've been working on in my spare time. I hope you all get approved FAST because that means that those of us behind you will get approved quicker, too. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know that which date has often been a debate, do you use the date printed on your NOA 1 or the date you received your NOA 1. If I am to use the receipt date on my NOA 1 well I am almost at the 150 day mark, however if I use the date my NOA 1 was issued, well then that is looking at another 44 days added on bring my approval time around March 1st in looking at many of the stats it is from the date of file you can see the 150 day mark the most often. I do not think I will stay calm waiting another three months

[Geico 0]

You should really use the actual "received" date printed on your NOA1. The reason is that this is the only firm date that you can compare to other filers. For example, I filed in September 13, but didn't receive my NOA1 until 6 weeks later. Someone else filed August 1, and received their NOA1 a couple days later. If you were to compare our NOA1 dates, you might assume that the August filer would be approved before the September filer because they received their NOA1 first. But USCIS have said that they process applications based on the date they receive them. Therefore you should be calculating times based on the received date, not the NOA1 date. Hope that makes sense.

You are right Mox. About Date Received in Mailroom USCIS says: "USCIS will honor the actual date that an application was received in our mailroom; this date will be indicated on the receipt (in the Received Date box) when Form I-797, Notice of Action, is mailed".

[samira_07 1]

You should really use the actual "received" date printed on your NOA1. The reason is that this is the only firm date that you can compare to other filers. For example, I filed in September 13, but didn't receive my NOA1 until 6 weeks later. Someone else filed August 1, and received their NOA1 a couple days later. If you were to compare our NOA1 dates, you might assume that the August filer would be approved before the September filer because they received their NOA1 first. But USCIS have said that they process applications based on the date they receive them. Therefore you should be calculating times based on the received date, not the NOA1 date. Hope that makes sense.

You are right Mox. About Date Received in Mailroom USCIS says: "USCIS will honor the actual date that an application was received in our mailroom; this date will be indicated on the receipt (in the Received Date box) when Form I-797, Notice of Action, is mailed".

Yes you are right, thanks and I remember seeing this some place before on their website. I called them to today to get clarification, originally I was thinking of doing the ref trick, but remember I had some other question to ask and knew customer service was not able to help me. The lady was very nice and even said that my receipte date is 8/14 not the date of NOA 1. So hopefully 150 days is coming around the corner for us

[7Rivers 0]

The processing timefram is June 18, 2007 now..for k1, k2 & I-485 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh plz ppl keep praaaaaaaaaaaying

and thats a lil statistical numbers to think about:

K1 cases in CSC from June 18 till July 31:

Pending: 227

With NOA2: 159

Still waiting NOA2: 68

and if they approved at lest 6 per day..they should be done by January 21st (and I only counted business days..which would take them 11 business days to finish all that hassle grrrrrrr) and make every body smile

[7Rivers 0]

So by January 21st, August filers should see the sun shining again

[bengalilover 0]

Lucky5: thanks for the updated. I think August filler will see approval before that. Some of the June/July fillers may have RFEs or other things which may delay them. Essentially, I am trying to get to the point that processing is not strictly sequential in temrs of output. They work by received date but each case is different and may take different amount of time. they should be August cases soon, if they haven't already started.

Do you know if the country of beneficiary is a factor?

Interesting we applied around same time and got our NOA1 around same time.

[7Rivers 0]

I'm just putting roughly expectations so that won't get us disappointed later on and yes I do believe that the country of beneficiary is a factor but I'm telling you again dear, just keep praying