Bayareaguy

I re-contacted my congressman's aide today myself, and have gotten somewhat good (?) news. Here's what he said:
I called the California Service Center and they informed me that--unofficially--they are up to mid-August in terms of processing. The officer I spoke with said USCIS has taken note of growing frustration at the extent of the I-129F backlogs (many Congressional offices are contacting them with cases just like yours) and are taking steps to remedy the situation.
at least it's different from the usual drivel we get.

Idle hands are the devils tools.

Exactly!
Oh well, atleast I am in the UK and for me that means another day is done. It's 8.18p.m and I am off to sleep so that my fiance, who is 6000 miles away and working his backside off can call me before he sleeps at about 3a.m my time. It's the only way we can spend any time together. Roll on NOA2. Yeah waiting on AOS will seem like a piece of cake.
Good night everyone. Tomorrow we will all be one day closer.

Yeah, as if there is any comparison between, being 6000 miles away, every day and night, for months, waiting for paperwork to be shuffled, and living with your significant other and family, waiting for paperwork to be shuffled.
OH OK, YOU"RE RIGHT...I SHOULD LOOK AT HOW GOOD I HAVE IT NOT BEING WITH MY FIANCEE, WHEN IT IS GOING TO BE SOOOOO MUCH WORSE FILING FOR ROC AND AOS LIVING WITH MY LOVED ONE...I SHUDDER TO THINK OF THAT TIME AND HOW HORRIBLE IT IS GOING TO BE!

I apologize for not taking OP's advice to heart. What have I been doing this whole time? Why was I not dedicating my time to improving my relationship, or studying, or keeping myself busy. If it were not for OP's eye-opening advice, I would have just sat here for another 6 months sitting on the couch, staring at the wall, letting my life pass by.

I love when people say this. How can you compare living with your husband/wife to waiting in different countries,time zones etc for the visa.

Can a mod delete this thread? Either it's a troll thread or misguided advice. While patience is a virtue, relaxing gets old when people who filed at the same time and even after have their visas already. There are obvious problems with the service centers, CSC in particular and it's unfair to dub this a 'first world problem' when peoples lives an families are having to deal with this. There are people who have never seen their newborn children because of the delays, most of us will be apart from our loved ones for a year of our lives, how dare someone belittle the issue like that. If I live to 85, that's 1.2% of my life that I would have spent being unhappy because I coudn't be with my loved one. Can't imagine how it'd feel if there were kids in the equation.

Someone who has a K-1 approved telling people who are waiting in line for longer than he/she did to relax is like Marie Antoinette telling hungry Parisians to eat cake. Well intended but hardly useful advice.

To the OP
I just want to make sure I understand what your suggesting, but first hold on a minute while I go check your timeline.
Wow you got your noa2 in 169 days and you mean to tell me that others who have been waiting 269 days,,,yes that's right the July 23 filers (CSC) have been waiting 269 days,,,should just relax!!! I want to know,,,did I get that right???

Oh please, you waited half a month more than the national average at that time. Many of us are waiting 4 months more than what we were told we'd be waiting. I've worked on my relationship for 4 years already, but thanks for the tip. I'm surprised you didn't say that God has a time reserved for everyone.

Your petition was approved in 169 days...We have been waiting for 198 days so far and there isn't any sign that we'll get approved in the near future. At 169 days I was angry but still had some hope..Now, i am angry, disappointed and have so many other feelings, all of them negative. There are people that have been waiting for more than 250 days. What is your answer to them? it'll be done when it'll be done???

I don't wanna be relax!. The last time I was with my fiance was on 2011 ... worst feeling than this 4 months and 13 days of still waiting for NOA2. How long more do I need to get to know my man ? lol

I have determined that the reason Islam won't spread more into the Philippines isn't because of Catholicism, but because pinay (and pinoy) love baboy too much.
As do I...

I have determined that the reason Islam won't spread more into the Philippines isn't because of Catholicism, but because pinay (and pinoy) love baboy too much.
As do I...

He's trying to pin blame on us July filers by claiming that we didn't provide enough evidence in our app and that's why we're waiting so long. What the idiot doesn't realize is that many of our apps haven't been touched since the days they've been filed.

Yeah, it's a given that if you are a september CSC, you don't have your NOA2.

"Load" is often used as a euphemism for a collection of fecal matter. In this case, the load is being passed from an orifice found on the front of the body, which is the mouth.

I do not agree with that statement about people with no RFEs get approved faster, please tell me where you got the information to get that kind of conclusion. My petition had no RFEs or any other issues and it took USCIS OVER ONE YEAR to approve. You can front load your petition all you want but that does not mean that you are going to get approved faster than anyone else.

His source is relatively inaccessible to most. The trick is learning how to bend your spine in such a way that allows you to peer down your ####### canal.

Hey, this might be a good book to look over for some people...

I would like to take a minute and use your data to show you how you are spreading incorrect information.
Recent NOA2 April & End of March 2013
No RFE from Vermont Service Center:
cornwallloz (9/24/12), annerobin12 (10/5/12), thirdtimeacharm (10/9/12), meandterry (10/1/12), XHawkeye (10/1/12) , angeleyes-gman (9/26/12), Ccyahaira (9/14/12), cheekiest (7/23/12), gm33021 (9/17/12), FinTex (10/11/12), rsz (10/22/12), Khyryke (9/20/12),
No RFE from California Service Center:
Falene (11/3/)12, asia/chris (11/28/12), dragonharrower (11/25/12), elisabethn (11/29/12), Laressa (7/20/12), mrskinne (12/6/12), Taron (12/3/12), Stevian (11/29/12), RnL (12/4/12), Chris&Maureen (8/24/12), CM&MI (8/31/12) Help from Senator, retemad (11/19/12), ChristianZane (9/12/12), res4688 (2/16/12), hkl (8/12) Expedite requested
RFE from Vermont Service Center:
JackWest (7/16/12), makii (9/10/12), XiaoyunJohnson (8/8/12), man1125 (9/10/12), StephanieChaplin (9/14/12), habibi11(7/9/12), ElenaB (7/23/12), ToniLauren (7/31/12), Saragrace (6/18/12), Francis J (8/23/12), Ibk/Ma (7/16/12), Myrlene Janvier (10/12/12), Kineo (8/2/12), bob&maegy (8/9/12), Mrs. Prince (8/10/12), Corey and Nicole (8/6/12), JM-SHE (8/9/12), elisabethanne (7/10/12), deena and joe (8/20/12), mauricio0501 (7/19/12), Gabru (9/14/12), katt_henry (9/24/12)
RFE from California Service Center: none from your list
From the list you provided, no NOA2 has come from California Service Center in which an RFE was issued.
The approvals from California include:
- 1 unfortunate couple from February 2012
- 1 from July 2012
- 3 from August 2012 (one of these members had help from his Senator, and one put in an expedite request)
- 6 from November 2012
- 3 from December 2012
This is why people are saying that the California Service Center has skipped over July through October and is now processing Nov/Dec.
The reason that ALL of the people on your list that have received NOA2 after receiving an RFE are from Vermont is because Vermont seems to be working, for the most part, in chronological order. So they sent out RFEs when they were processing July/August cases, those people have responded to the RFEs, and are just now getting the NOA2s. Please notice that without RFEs, Vermont is mostly approving September/October. Other than one VJ member from November, CSC hasn't been sending out RFEs in quite some time.
Making conclusions without understanding the data you are looking at, and then spreading those conclusions to others is irresponsible.
Usually when I see misinformation being spread, I keep to myself. However, I'm an October filer and my case is sitting in CSC...which means I have nothing but time on my hands.

Ummmm, no.
Unless you are saying that the majority of July 19-mid november filers just all happen to have RFE's

My concern is the posted BS July date, when they are clearly working on newer dates, and that the USCIS call centers and even Congressional liaisons are regurgitating this, and using it to keep from having to do anything.
Whether it's DACA, the wine in France, your 5th cousin, or the polar bears causing the delay in processing is irrelevant to me.

AArsenalteam is a moron. He should perhaps take a class in statistics before he tries to pull data analyses out of his rear end using what is likely an unrepresentative sample of the population and making assumptions about the data that are implausible. You really think that somehow due to the aligning of planets that July and August filers just didn't fill out their apps right? Was it some contaminant in the global water supply at the time that made us so stupid? Perhaps stress from following Olympic events diverted our attention away from appropriately filling out our applications?
Or maybe you're pulling reasons out of thin air. That's what's stastically more likely.

Life lesson: "just facts" alone do not for cogent analysis make. Cogent analysis requires that you actually think about what you are saying and check to see if your theory of specific facts reconciles with the broader universe of known facts. You obviously have not done so.
The flaws in your analysis have been explained to you several times, so I don't hold out high hopes that this time will sink in, but here goes nothing:
1. Your theory cannot account for all of the September and October filers who have been passed over. That should be enough to stop it dead in its tracks right there. Period. End of story.
2. You are ignoring all of the pending July and August filers who have no reported RFE. (And, again, all of the September and October filers who have no RFE as well.)
3. You are ignoring the mountains of empirical evidence on this site that indicate the slow down in processing has nothing to do with file completeness and everything to do with the USCIS's priorities; i.e., there are very few adjudicator hours spent on I-129Fs due to a refocus on DACA processing. In fact, if you'd actually look at the numbers of completions per month under reasonable projection scenarios, the USCIS's current rates do not allow them to finish August filers as a matter of simple arithmetic. But what do I know? I only spent hours pouring over that data and developing a spreadsheet that proves that is true.
4. You ignore the fact that there is no way for adjudicators to know ex ante which applications are "complete" and "front loaded" and which ones are not. It makes no sense that there would be cursory examinations of applications of petitions to try and determine this, when ultimately every petition needs to be thoroughly examined and even thorough examinations take only 15-20 minutes per petition. Your processing theory would just be a gigantic waste of time.
I could go on and on and nitpick your theory more, but I think those broad points are more than sufficient. Please stop spreading your misinformation now.