September Filers!

[visceral image 0]

If you notice, you had your check cashed and your NOA1 four days after you filed. That's because Vermont is SO much faster than California. The average wait time for an NOA1 from California is 33 days. Craziness I tell you! I know that the whole process is a long wait, but if I at least had my NOA1 then I think I'd feel a bit better knowing that I was waiting for a good reason! Does that make sense? I guess I just won't feel like we've actually started without at least having the check cashed.

Your feelings are exactly the same as mine, I am thankful I filed in VSC although in the end the wait will be almost the same. I am glad to see some movement of a NOA1 even though it will not affect the process one day

[afterforever 0]

The ridiculous thing is after waiting for your NOA1 you must wait again for your NOA2!

Wait, wait and more wait!!

[Bobalouie 0]

If you notice, you had your check cashed and your NOA1 four days after you filed. That's because Vermont is SO much faster than California. The average wait time for an NOA1 from California is 33 days. Craziness I tell you! I know that the whole process is a long wait, but if I at least had my NOA1 then I think I'd feel a bit better knowing that I was waiting for a good reason! Does that make sense? I guess I just won't feel like we've actually started without at least having the check cashed.

Yea, VSC is fast with the NOA1 but we have only had one K1/K3 NOA2 since Sept 18th. I think you guys in CSC have had 12 this week alone. So, while you might have to wait for your NOA1 at least your service center is still working on petitions. So, even though I am in line, I probably have to wait the full 6 months now.

I am not bashing the CSC, in fact, I would trade my quick NOA1 to be at CSC now where at least I know they are working the petitions.

Of course, it will probably all balance out, because I think until they issue your NOA1, they dont officially have your petition in the line of stuff to work on. Does anyone know if that is true?

Edited October 11, 2007 by Bobalouie

[StillThePrettiest 4]

I don't know if anyone knows for sure, but what SEEMS to happen is that they go by their own 'received date' (which they put on most NOA1s along with the notice date)... you might remember a few people expressing relief because their received date was relatively accurate (ie a day or two after they sent it) even though the notice date (ie the date the service centre was finally able to issue a receipt) was a month or six weeks later... most of us think they go by received date, so you ARE in the system, and roughly in order; they just take their time to tell you

my received date is the day after it was sent, which I still find pretty amazing... and even the notice date isn't too bad, considering it got transferred from VSC to CSC

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Well we never received the original NOA1...after 90 days of waiting for it we placed a service request and that´s why we got a replacement NOA1 hardcopy in the mail. So if we didn´t place the request, we would have never received the hardcopy. I think they go by their received date.

[vanessaandbrent 0]

Based on timeline data, your I129f may be adjudicated as early as January 28, 2008*.

Okay - this went up 5 days overnight!?!?!? ARGH!!

[composerwise 0]

Thought I would join in and share the wait.

I received the NOA1 fairly quickly - now for the longer wait...

[Daveyamf79 0]

I got my NOA1 pretty fast. I'm expecting to wait apprx 5 months for the NOA2--provided that there's no RFE.

[TheATeam 0]

No news yet? Anyone? Anything? I'd be happy just to see someone else with an NOA1, or even with their check cashed!

[웃 910]

I'm still pretty surprised we haven't had any September CSC filers step forward with a NOA1. At least 4 people who have filled in their timelines should have received one by now.

If you want to see CSC filers who have their checks cashed and NOA1, just take a glimpse in the October Filers forum. I've seen 2 or 3 people who have sent their I129F early October and have checks cashed and NOA1's.

[EricC 0]

Yeah, I'm tired of waiting for my check to be cashed. Over a month now

[honey_me 7]

Hi..i'm new here, though it has been months that i've been reading your posts.

Fiance sent I-129f package to NSC-July 30

Returned asking the exact fee- Sept. 4

Sent Again now to CSC- Sept. 5

Received- Sept. 10

NOA1- Sept. 10

NOA1 hardcopy- Sept. 18

Now waiting...

[Brian & Kathy 0]

I finally found the September filers thread. No NAO1 yet!

The petition was recieved on Sept. 26th. It's been 3 weeks as of today and we are still waiting for them to cash the check and send NAO1.

Makes me kinda nervous that some October filers have already received NAO1.

[TheATeam 0]

Tell me about it! I can't believe that October filers have waited like less than two weeks and most of us September filers don't have our NOA1's yet. What's up with that? I thought it went in the order that they received them?! Now I'm freaking out a little. I sure hope they have our petition. I would hate to have to start all over again! What a waste of a month that would be!

[Brian & Kathy 0]

Thanks,

Yup, I'm with you! I'm a Mechanical drafter, and I've completed 3 of 4 years of engineering school. One could go crazy trying to predict NAO1 and NAO2 times, because the data is truely all over the place. When the petitions arrive, they must get randomly sorted into 5 or more piles, and each pile is for a different person or group to be processed. Kinda like choosing lines at the grocery store. You choose a line and hopefully you didn't choose the slow lane, or you watch others pass you by in other lines. That's the only way I can explain how you can always 'be in line', but still have others pass you by.

Welcome Brian&Kathy and Honey_me!

I'm kinda nervous too. Mine was received 9/12 and haven't heard a peep.

The thing that frustrates me isn't so much the waiting. It's the lack of consistency. I'm an engineer, and I like to figure out how things work. I've looked at trends, collected statistics, and tried to make *some* sense of what could possibly be going on over there at CSC, but nothing makes sense. It's not truly random, but there's just so much variation in the data that it's hard to see any consistent patterns either. Now it could be that there's some kind of external influence that occasionally swoops in, creates some chaos, and then swoops back out. Like perhaps additional workload being imposed that stops some processing but not others. Unfortunately USCIS doesn't see fit to provide us with any degree of clarity, and refuses to talk to us until we sit in the dark for 3 months. It's enough to make a fella start to get a little twitchy.