EkaBess

we got the NOA2 on oct 23rd I think, and got an NVC case # just today (maybe it was ready yesterday but we didn't call)

Guys, girls, guys..who are still in the waiting mode, please please please don't overthink, let the process take its natural course. The reason we are at the desperate state is because we are at the present and want the information from the future! What made it easier for me is that I was checking visajourney 3-4 times per week at most and signing up for an email confirmation to inform me about the status change definitely helped.  I kept myself occupied throughout the day for time to pass by quicker. Definitely calm evenings and no media before bed - golden rule that helped to sleep better. In the mornings I would start the day with the belief that everything will be just fine ☺️👍 I could feel positive changes are coming ;}
You have all waited so far, stay strong and r e m e m b e r why you have started it ✨🕊

Guys, girls, guys..who are still in the waiting mode, please please please don't overthink, let the process take its natural course. The reason we are at the desperate state is because we are at the present and want the information from the future! What made it easier for me is that I was checking visajourney 3-4 times per week at most and signing up for an email confirmation to inform me about the status change definitely helped.  I kept myself occupied throughout the day for time to pass by quicker. Definitely calm evenings and no media before bed - golden rule that helped to sleep better. In the mornings I would start the day with the belief that everything will be just fine ☺️👍 I could feel positive changes are coming ;}
You have all waited so far, stay strong and r e m e m b e r why you have started it ✨🕊

Noa2 on 25th of OCT, no news yet

No Affidavit of support isn't required in I-129F. We didn't include it and got approved.

Guys, girls, guys..who are still in the waiting mode, please please please don't overthink, let the process take its natural course. The reason we are at the desperate state is because we are at the present and want the information from the future! What made it easier for me is that I was checking visajourney 3-4 times per week at most and signing up for an email confirmation to inform me about the status change definitely helped.  I kept myself occupied throughout the day for time to pass by quicker. Definitely calm evenings and no media before bed - golden rule that helped to sleep better. In the mornings I would start the day with the belief that everything will be just fine ☺️👍 I could feel positive changes are coming ;}
You have all waited so far, stay strong and r e m e m b e r why you have started it ✨🕊

Guys, girls, guys..who are still in the waiting mode, please please please don't overthink, let the process take its natural course. The reason we are at the desperate state is because we are at the present and want the information from the future! What made it easier for me is that I was checking visajourney 3-4 times per week at most and signing up for an email confirmation to inform me about the status change definitely helped.  I kept myself occupied throughout the day for time to pass by quicker. Definitely calm evenings and no media before bed - golden rule that helped to sleep better. In the mornings I would start the day with the belief that everything will be just fine ☺️👍 I could feel positive changes are coming ;}
You have all waited so far, stay strong and r e m e m b e r why you have started it ✨🕊

Guys, girls, guys..who are still in the waiting mode, please please please don't overthink, let the process take its natural course. The reason we are at the desperate state is because we are at the present and want the information from the future! What made it easier for me is that I was checking visajourney 3-4 times per week at most and signing up for an email confirmation to inform me about the status change definitely helped.  I kept myself occupied throughout the day for time to pass by quicker. Definitely calm evenings and no media before bed - golden rule that helped to sleep better. In the mornings I would start the day with the belief that everything will be just fine ☺️👍 I could feel positive changes are coming ;}
You have all waited so far, stay strong and r e m e m b e r why you have started it ✨🕊

Yeah, they better touch those untouched May11th files during the untouched day 😂

Yeah, they better touch those untouched May11th files during the untouched day 😂

Yeah, they better touch those untouched May11th files during the untouched day 😂

Good News Everyone, I made a mistake! 
 
@June2017UKtold me there were duplicates in June. And I will input corrected numbers in this post.
However, Why does this important for May Filers?? 
Because I manually put every April and May approval of 10/24 and realized a few things.
 
1) I am 99.9% sure some of April RFE's were to gain time.
     Other than 2 of the April approvals & RFE's from yesterday was already RFE'd. 
     Some were responses BUT some were really weird. Such as the case that got RFE on 10/23 and approved on today.
     Some RFE's changed to approval without status change to "RFE received" 
2) I am certain their system is not working properly.
    We already know this by people here telling us, however, now I am certain there are way more of these cases than we thought.
3) I am guessing some new trainee or other people are at work, and their training period might have also affected April Filers.
     This also has the affect on RFE levels, they keep RFEing more than once, some of them late in the game, so I believe some RFE's are without screening the whole petition. What I read in the past was most of the time you get 1 RFE and it usually covers everything if given in 2 close timeline.
 
Now as I am going to post this in all months;
 June Filers from my estimate, depending on things picking up to 700+ per week, your cases should start in 2-3 weeks.
 Yes it is longer than expected. However, this week and next week supposed to be May's peak time.
 
 July Filers should have a rather easy process however we cannot predict the effect of holidays.
 Although there may be some case workers coming back from holidays with bunch of status updates (all fingers are crossed ladies and gentlemen)
 
 Now the numbers;
   Virgin cases (As I'll be calling received cases from now on, cause why not? ) of April is going down slowly, 
   However, RFE's are moving way faster. But May has the weekly 70%, which is good for May filers, as most will finish eventually but awful for rest of us, for now.
  
 
So when did the April started to pick up? Because It was really hard for me to believe it took this long for them.
 And obviously this is way more fun than what I am supposed to be doing at work (Let's thank to the 16 hour time difference that I am awake and my fiance is not...) So I did this 
 

 
It's ok... I'm known to be crazy.. My future mother in law is as crazy so they accepted me extremely easily...
Sooo I also did this cause I wanted to see a possible peak point! (by then I was hoping I had a predictive analysis software on my PC... but they don't let me use my work PC )
 

 
So Everyone let's gather around and whichever power you believe in start doing your thing!
Cause for your sake and ours and all the future K1s.. and probably your AOS to GC.
 We need 700s and then some (at least a few) 1000s...
 
 (Have I mentioned I used to work as a fortune teller in a Turkish Coffee shop when I was in high school? Yeah nah, we say don't believe in it so you won't get hurt; but listen to it so you will have hope)
     
Now the links (UPDATED)
  I did check all the links, and the data. However, mistakes happen.
 If you have any concern or can't find your number, or seen duplicates, please let me know!
 
May
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7VjUxUGJCZlJYVDA
June
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7Y0dUU2szSVV6UUU
July
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7SGphWmI4blc4ZFU
August
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7RFlBekpGYUExLWM
September
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7UkpONjltVzI0bGs

I really don't understand how we are ever going to get approved. It looks like they started touching the first week of May in the last week of September almost if not 4 weeks ago. I understand that the Mondays in each week are heavy with petitions and May 8th is no different. I am fortunate to be in the next heavy date of May 15 and towards to back third of that date in petitions. If it takes 4 weeks to touch a case from the first Monday of the month to the next they will never get back on track. Just glad we filed when we did. As it looks like their will be over 7 or 9 month for NOA2 to a year for a K1 visa in hand.  The only way is to spread back out the petitions to the other service centers. I don't understand the logic in that decision to send everything to one location and then sit on it when there is a huge backlog. Seems like it was working well last year until that change. But what do I know.....nothing.... Glad to be closer now but just don't know how close, a week, two weeks or two months. At this rate it looks like 6 or so more weeks before middle of May starts seeing approvals regularly. Still have hope that by the end of the year we are together but that hope is diminishing day by day.  

We finally got our hard copy NOA2 in the mail today!! The notice date says 10/9. We were notified by text on 10/10. So I’m guessing they actually worked on Columbus Day and updated online the next day. Which is why it rained approvals last Tuesday. 
 
Good luck to all those waiting. Your NOA2s are just around the corner 

Hey I did mine in Jan 2016 
NOa1 May 11th 2017
I hope for the interview before the certificate expires ;} please no later then Jan 2017 😉👌

I wish every May filer good luck today and to a successful approval day!!!!

Thanks so much. Of course I will - send me a message any time. We are all in this together regardless of what stage our visa is at!  xx

Good luck to all us May Filers this week, hoping for the best for us all!  Let it be a productive week!

Congratulations 

Hello May Filer - I'm from April forum but I thought of sharing this good news to you!
 
Visa Approved! 
Time Line: 
NOA1: Apr 17
NOA2: Sep 2 - notice date / app update on Sep 5
NVC: Sep19
Medical: Sep 26 (1day only) 
Interview: Oct 5. 
 
Pre Screening. 
Filipina Consul Windows 46
Questions: 
 
How are you today? 
Are you working? 
What’s your fiancé Job? 
How did you met? 
When did you saw each other?
Have you been to other country? 
Why didn’t you live with your dad in Singapore? 
 
Finger Scanning.
American Consul. 
Interview 
Windows 65
 
Greeted him ‘goodmorning’
Questions: 
 
How are you today? 
Are you still working? 
What are your fiancé hobbies? 
Do you have kids? 
Were you married before? 
What’s your fiancé job? 
Do you plan on continuing working with IT related job in the US? 
Does your fiancé work in a government? 
 
I was smiling all the time. I was holding my mom’s holy rosary. I went inside the embassy full of hope and love. I went there and imagine all the things happened to me and my fiancé while we’re still on a process. Yes, nervousness is real but as long as its 100% genuine you’ll never go wrong! 
 
I am happy! 
To God be the Glory! 😊

No May updates and just one lonely 9/22 approval BUT congrats to them.
They are from you guessed it Philippines. 
Doesn't seem to be a vocal member her though.
 
http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/monthly_filers.php?form=1&visa=1&scenter=1&option=2&sortby=2
 
Hopefully at LEAST 1 or 2 more get added tonight. Far from our normal 5 approvals a day from CSC.