Joy2USA

We wanted to update everyone on our progress.  We finally got our case number after 87 days from the day we filed DCF.   Perhaps a few letters to our state congressmen helped.   We just completed our interview this morning and we were APPROVED.     We plan to post all the details of our journey for others to learn about.  Especially as it relates to the latest DCF filing.  Things have definitely changed with regards to the DCF process.  We noticed that there were plenty of appointments available within 7 days of the day we received the case number.  

This is the exact same scenario that we are in.  We filed DCF in Manila on Dec 7th 2017.  The first and second week of January we visited the USCIS to ask for a status and other general questions to see if we could find out why it was taking so long.  They couldn't tell us much at window 25.  Then we were approved via email on Jan 19th.  The email did not contain the case number.  We called the USCIS many times after being approved and have been told the same thing... The case was approved and sent to the IV department.  They will enter everything into the system and send you an email with the case number.  We've called the IV number which is routed to a call center.  They opened and escalated a case to the IV depart.  We were told we'd hear back from them in 2 days with the outcome of the escalation.  That was 20 days ago...  We've called back to the call center and they confirm the IV department has the escalation and should be replying with a status.  Nothing else they can do supposedly.  Very frustrating.  We email the IV dept every couple of days but just get the automated email response back.  Never the case number.  There's definitely something changing with the DCF filing process.  I've been checking the next available interview date and it's already showing March 8th.  

New members to the site.  Joy will be using the CR1 process for immigration to the U.S. from the Philippines.  This site has been very helpful and we greatly appreciate everyone!