Phoenix314

Good luck to everyone tonight. I know I will hoping for approval
Not looking forward to another long weekend still waiting

Are there any 'received January 19th' filers here? They're touching cases before and after the 19th but ignoring our date. I just want to go to that office and show them how they're supposed to work on stuff like that. Who starts with working on mid January and then continues with the beginning and then touches some February cases 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Great news!! Now you can relax a little bit  Hope to see alot more good news tonight...hopefully even including for us 

They trickle out, not all at same time.

Good luck tonight, everyone.

4 more hours until I get to be glued to my phone again.... It's so much worse when you expect to hear back from them around now rather than when you first submitted and knew you wouldn't hear anything for a while.

4 more hours until I get to be glued to my phone again.... It's so much worse when you expect to hear back from them around now rather than when you first submitted and knew you wouldn't hear anything for a while.

Agreed =(

Another brutal day passes without a word from them....  Bummer.
 
 
Congratulations to those who heard lucky news! May your patience be rewarded a thousand-fold with happiness! =)

Gah the time 9-11 pm EST is so stressful- was hoping to hear back this week.

Gah the time 9-11 pm EST is so stressful- was hoping to hear back this week.

Good luck everyone, I hope there are much more NOA 2 approvals tonight, we are getting closer by the hour, i have everyone in my prayers! Good luck!! 

Lots of incorrect or partially incorrect answers in this thread.  If there is a shutdown (which I don't personally think there will be right now--but that's just my opinion), any program that is fee-funded (petition processing, visa processing, etc.) will continue as normal, as long as there are festival available.  These agencies have multi-year funds available to them from the fees, which means they are not tied to fees allocated in a specific fiscal year like other government agencies.  
 
Yes, there are costs associated with having a facility operating, but those costs are included in the calculation when the fees are set -- one of the reasons some people think they are too high, since they think it just covers the actual adjudication process; fees actually cover all of the expenses of personnel, facilities, and processes.  Any perceptions of slowdowns in the processes during a government shutdown are merely that -- perceptions.  There are way too many other factors that influence workload and processing times that people can't account for, so it appears that it is tied to the shutdown when it is not.

Thanks for posting this! Glad they're making progress- still heart breaking that so many numbers after my case were approved instead =(
 
Happy for them, but hard not to get discouraged and lose hope.

It's almost that time y'all! I can't wait until 9pm!

Actually, the correct number is a little higher. I subsequently realized that they are using different descriptor for same rejection categories. I have now revised the table accordingly and I've broken down the rejection categories
 

aw man people so close to me before and after were approved - I feel like they just skipped mine! Some serious progress though

Thanks again, hang in there! And I know it's easier said than done.  Only thing that was keeping me sane was my next planned trip 10 days from now

The received date is the day the USCIS received your petition.  Not the NOA1 date, but the actual receive date that shows on the USCIS website when you look up your WAC number.
 
The second column, in this case 4/18/17(Tuesday's results since scan took place this morning) is how many cases for that receive date are still "untouched" or marked as "Case Received".
 
The third column, in this case 4/17/17 (Monday's results) is how many cases for that date are still "untouched" or marked as "Case Received".
 
So with this info, we can see for example my receive date is January 5th.  On 4/17/17 there was 23 untouched cases.  The next day on 4/18/17 there was 18 untouched cases.  Which means, on Tuesday (yesterday) the USCIS processed and either gave an Approval, RFE, or Rejection to 5 cases that were received on January 5th.
 
So, we can see, every day that the scan is so kindly posted, how many cases from each January receive date have been processed and assigned a Approval, RFE, or Rejection.... AKA "Touched".
 
Hope that makes sense

Best of luck for your soon petition approval It's hard to wait and wait ... I know. Whenever you have questions feel free to msg me. I'm in Georgia at the moment so it may need a bit for me to answer. Flight back to Germany will be on 29th. (Unfortunately)

I ended up just attaching a separate form with everything on it. Just make sure you label it (Supplement for G325-A: Biographic Information) and include it in your cover letter. I also printed my name and signed every page, dated it, and put my DOB just to be safe. Fingers crossed it's okay- haven't heard anything yet beyond confirmation they got my petition!
 
Good luck!