ChristianZane

Bureaucrats run so much of your life (air transport, food inspection, highway repair among thousands) I wouldn't get too concerned about it.

Think about this... This agency is run by the same bureaucrats who will soon be running our healthcare system in this country! Things are looking up!

Is this really a good sign? They skipped September, October and November and approved December filers, sounds like someone just grabbed a pile randomly (December) and plopped it on an adjudicator's desk to process, crazy.

Talking to Tier 1, Tier 2, supervisor, whatever won't speed up your case, they only way you can get sped up is file a service request (wait until you are past their posted processing times) or expedite, here are the expedite criteria:

The applicant has urgent and critical medical needs that cannot be addressed in the applicant’s country;

An applicant’s family member in the United States has a serious medical condition and has urgent and critical medical needs related to that condition that require the applicant to assist the family member in the United States;

The applicant is faced with urgent circumstances related to the death or serious illness of a family member;

The applicant or qualifying family member is a particularly vulnerable individual due to age, serious medical condition, or disability and this vulnerability is exacerbated by the applicant’s presence outside the United States;

The applicant is at risk of serious harm due to personal circumstances distinct from the general safety conditions of those living in the applicant’s country;

It would be in the national interest of the United States to have the applicant in the United States (for example, the applicant’s presence in the United States is urgently required for work with a U.S. government entity); or

As described in a request from or for a member of the Armed Forces of the United States

I looked at your timeline, and your I-130 was approved a long time ago and you state you had an interview on Tuesday. Also, unless it says "approved" on the Decision Activity page, it doesn't mean approval necessarily. My status post decision page said "approved" specifically.

ok so I went to the USCIS page to check My Case Status

and its said this

Post Decision Activity

For approved applications/petitions, post-decision activity may include USCIS sending notification of the approved application/petition to the National Visa Center or the Department of State. For denied applications/petitions, post-decision activity may include the processing of an appeal and/or motions to reopen or reconsider and revocations.

What does that Mean ????

Im so Confessed and worryed about my hubby visa Status

it states it doesn't work for filers after December

WOW! Thank you.... It doesnt calculate anything with my NOA date.

Your NVC case status link doesn't work.

4/5/2013

I wanted to come back and post my experiece with the NVC for others who may find themselves in a similar situation. My package left NVC yesterday 4/4/2013; 11 working days after NVC received my petition. On 3/21/2013, I sent an email to the NVC asking they update the beneficiary's mailing address. Two days later I called NVC to inquire about the case status and beneficiary address update. At that time I updated his mailing address over the phone. The rep stated emails are processed in the order they are received. I updated it over the phone because I thought to myself, i didn't want them to send out the case without the address being updated. (silly me)

On 4/2/2013 I received a response email from NVC advising my case was undergoing "necessary administrative processing. You will be notified with further instructions when the processing is complete." In between, I called pretty much every day. Some of the responses I received from reps was my case is undergoing additional processing, administrative processing, one guy even told me my case sits in a box until it fills up after which it is sent to the embassy. (of course I went onto VJ checked out similar timelines and saw some with NOA2 after me had already had their cases forwarded to the same embassy as me) and was infuriated.

Here are some of my observations. If there is any activity email/address update submitted via email, there is a chance your case comes out of the normal shuffle and put into "necessary administrative processing". Reason being, I got the email from NVC on 4/2/2013 and two days later my packet went out. Which would be consistent with most timelines.

I have done extensive research on what "administrative processing" means for K1's. Most of what I read states that NVC only enters your case in the system and ships it off to the Embassy. I also read the NVC randomly selects files and puts them through security checks. I never found actual confirmation that this takes place, NVC never confirms it I did go onto the government website and even read a newsletter posted by the NVC which describes how they process cases. click here to read. http://digitaledition.state.gov/publication/?i=108925&p=37

Throughout my quest for answers, I came across a fellow v'jers post about how to check your NVC case status. Here is the link https://ceac.state.g...er/Status.aspx?. When I entered my case number, a pop up box appreared stating my case was processing and to contact NVC if I hadn't been contacted by them. An hour later I re-entered my case number and an error appeared stating my search did not return any results. I immediately contacted NVC. Once I was able to get a live person, I was told my case had been sent out today.

This process has been quite frustrating, especially seeing others going in and out of the NVC in no time. My advise for anyone, wait until the embassy receives the case and then update the beneficiary's address. We are going through Kingston, and it seems as though Kingston is very responsive to email inquires.

Good luck, and God bless you all through your journey.

Next stop... Interview!

A K1 doesn't have to pay any fees after to NOA2 to the NVC.

It is our understanding that the California office suffered water damage when a pipe broke. And all processes have slowed down as a result. Specutaion on files being destroyed. (See previous posts) But all you can do is wait for the receipt letter from NVC and the new case number, then follow the instructions to pay the 2 fees online. I do know many of the cases went to other offices as mine is now in Missouri and a gf recieved notice hers is in Texas, so hopefully those offices can get oall our packets to NVC in a resonable time frame.

Your NOA1 was in January, it's barely April, are you concerned with your application going beyond the 5.5 month processing time they stated when you filed? Folks here from July still waiting. I guess a good idea to get a head start now tho.

Sorry to hear that! Yesterday I sent my representative an email referencing http://tinyurl.com/cscdata which has all the data on processing times. My rep himself emailed me back within the hour and expressed his concern and offered to help. He also hooked me up with his immigration staffer who emailed me the next morning (today) and promised to pursue the issue. I will keep everyone informed as to what I hear.

On your profile page when someone asked if you filed an expedite or if you were in the military, you said "no just got lucky I guess!"

So did you file an expedite or not? Confused

I can't believe but my NOA2 text came in and I am finally moving on! Just keep waiting and finally one day you will get the surprise of your life

Who said competition? Where does it say that? Anyways, the point is if VSC applicants did something to speed up their visas (when things were opposite of that they are now, hence the term "tables are turned") perhaps CSC applicants can learn from them and so the same thing now.

Geez.............some how Someone decided this was a "competition"?

"The tables are turned"??................really?

Vermont was 8.5 months forever, when CSC was churning them out in 90 days, I can't find any fuss over the years searching through these forums about Vermont taking too long or filing lawsuits or contacting senators from those filers. What did Vermont filers do when they had to wait 8.5 months, maybe it can be emulated, as now the tables are turned.

Wow 7.5 months, insanity.

As I said before, K1 will start taking one year, maybe two, once DACA and Immigration reform really starts clogging up the system. What's sad is if you filed June 2012, you were approved in 90 days. If you filed in July or after (when DACA started picking up steam), it went to 7 months and longer.

Yea it's just going to get worse, like at CSC... they were closed Monday and Tuesday due to a flooding problem, closed Friday for Good Friday and Monday I believe for Cesar Chavez Day, they haven't had an approval since Wednesday, the backlog must be insane over there if they are barely churning out late July applications, I'm 6.6 months tomorrow so I am going to go nuts with phone calls and letters.

The majority of approvals occurred before 18th of July 2012, everybody from everywhere was getting fast approvals before that date. Now regardless of what country the fiance is from everyone is waiting 7-8 months.

Take a look at Igor's List from CSC, a majority of the approvals are from western European countries, UK is not a security threat so the process is fairly quick.

Do you really think country has anything to do with processing time? There are plenty of people from non-fraud Western countries like the UK, Australia, Canada etc, waiting 7 months plus at CSC, country of beneficiary has nothing to do with it.

UK applications get processed fairly quickly (based on Igor's List), I would look for a NOA2 in about six months from your NOA1.

I work in Hollywood in film production and my fiance is also in the film industry (currently in London, but joining me in Los Angeles obviously) and I think we'd both be willing to use our skills to help if there was enough interest. I'd be happy to coordinate and all that stuff and he is a director/editor and we have a very nice home editing suite as well as an office one on his end. If there's interest, I'd be willing to pitch in and I'm sure he'd do so as well.

I saw that story on 60 Minutes last week, tragic. I see so many posts here about people wanting to contact Senators after a month of their NOA1, people need to be patient, just as our noble veterans are. I wish the system would change, for everyone.

The Veteran's Administration supposedly has a backlog of 900,000 claims and the average claim is taking 273 days. For medical disability claims.

If I can get my NOA2 in 7-8 months I will feel lucky.

We'll probably all get to be with our loves. Stay positive.

Well you're entitled to your opinion, and I see your point, but your opinion doesn't help speed up the K1 process, so it's best to deal with the situation at hand based on historical data and actual user experiences and what timetables the immigration authorities have set up, not on what we think they should be.

The fact is calling CSC before posted processing times will result in no action, without an expedite request. I'm trying to give out constructive, factually based advice to people here so they can make rational, informed decisions about their K1 CSC visa journey. Inflating this process with opinion and hyperbole and false hope doesn't really help. Folks should be patient, stay in touch with their loved ones and make the most out of the waiting period, which should be approached with much patience. Take concrete action once your case falls out of their posted processing timetable with calls to USCIS and letters to your local representative. Good luck.

a·pol·o·gist

n.

A person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as a doctrine, policy, or institution.

I disagree with you completely. I think if the institution is shifting priorities for whatever reason to the detriment of one class of applicants, it is an injustice. Not to put to fine a point on it, but this is doubly compounded by the fact that in our case it is to the detriment of CITIZENS who have always FOLLOWED THE LAW. I am 100% behind DACA or DreamAct or what have you, but they should not be given precedence over family-based visa types, in my (not so) humble opinion. And as I have pointed out in several places, this has a lot to do with gross mismanagement at USCIS. They are now flush with available resources that could be brought to bear on ALL VISA TYPES, but they were too busy establishing their priorities, instead of utilizing the resources that we applicants (K1, K3, CR1, DACA, AOS, et al) are paying to them.

Who is making "apologies" for CSC? Couldn't even find the word using a text search here.

I really don't see any point in one group of USCIS applicants complaining about another group of USCIS applicants getting petitions approved quicker than one group over another. If that were the case, everyone would be unhappy. Someone in a position of authority is obviously making decisions about priority based on caseload, national security, politics, tax revenue etc just to name a few. Go look at the USCIS processing page, it's endless with all the different applications.

And if anybody thinks that the DACA's aren't going fast, just check out this forum.

http://dreamact.info/forum/index.php

I expect to see July and August folks explode when they read the timelines that many have in their footers.

Inexcusable. And yet there are still apologists here saying that we should just be patient and wait our turn.

I would help your fiance draft a letter to the local congress person or Senator, they usually have a "Help with Federal Agency" link on their website. I wouldn't bother with local media. There are more important issues facing the US right now other than out of country fiance's not getting into this country fast enough. Listen, I'll be 6.6 months on Monday, I filed early September, I am going to hammer the CSC and all my elected representatives on Monday (although I think is CSC is on vacation Monday). I'll give you an update if I get anywhere.

As a beneficiary, is there anything I can do to help our case? My fiance's congressman has a note on his website saying that his office will not respond to anyone outside his constituency

Complaining to CSC about your case, before the 6.6 month window, based on user experiences here, results in no action at all. Sorry, you can wish and dream and hope all you want, but I'm just saying this based on previous feedback here. Anyone here, below the 6.6 month window, try calling CSC. You will get the same answer every time, unless you have valid grounds to file an expedite. As I said, you can make up anything you want, but facts are facts. You're dealing with government; some things are just out of your hands. A letter or group action about the overall slowdown I think could be beneficial however.

LOL we keep saying the same thing. I agree with you. Anything we can all do to speed up the process is well worth the effort. But specific letters to Congress about specific cases before the 6.6 month window have proven to be fruitless for the most part, based on user experiences.

That may be true, but you are only looking at half the rationale for writing to elected representatives. DACA's implementation needs to be changed through political pressure. If we get a few congressmen and senators invested in this issue, it may not mean that any given application is expedited per se, but political pressure is the only thing that will get all of our applications moving again. Given the delays that are building up now, getting the applications moving again should be just as important to a petition as getting his or her own application expedited; if we get attention drawn to this boondoggle even one month earlier than it would be drawn otherwise, we have effectively expedited 11,000+ I-129Fs, including our own, by a month. I'd say it's worth a shot.

There have been no NOA2's out of CSC that last couple of days, they were off today for Good Friday, and off Monday and Tuesday because of the toilets, and I believe they have next Monday off for Cesar Chavez Day which is recognized in California. So in one week they showed up for work two days, nice!

CSC processing time is 6.6 months... you're not going to make much headway with CSC before that unless you can file an expedite with a legitimate reason.

I'm not addressing complaining about the slowdown in general, I think it's a great idea and I'll contribute to that. But I wouldn't call USCIS or a politician before your 6.6 months is up, or they might get

All of you contacting congressmen after one or two months of your NOA1 is a big mistake. The USCIS clearly states that the CSC waiting time is 6.6 months, when your range falls beyond that then I would consider contacting your representative. But doing that before will probably just put a stain on your application, slow it down and further delay it.