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On 8/5/2019 at 11:36 PM, oflyingbunnyo said:

Awesome!

How long ago did your nephew go to his interview? 

39 minutes ago, Greenbaum said:

 

The instructions say to use the example, that it needs all the digits to work and that you should expand your dates in either direction as we have always found that to work also. If your case was shipped today in the hack I express that it may not show until 24 hours giving NVC and DHL computer systems to update. The hack works as by the evidence from others.

As per usual, your instructions are spot on.  I guess we did not wait the full 24 hours for it to load.  It's working now!

2 hours ago, MJS+CJB said:

I expanded the dates to from the 5th to the 7th.  DHL shows they received the shipment information on the 7th

I’ve had no luck either. 

May 16...he wrote a review on the embassy review page on here.

43 minutes ago, oflyingbunnyo said:

Hello hello hello! 

I just got recently approved today at my interview and I couldn't be any happier 😊!

I was just wondering if you guys could give me some insights into when you received your visas as me and my fiance have some plans and we would like to know around when should we expect to receive them, they told me in the interview that they'd give me the visa around 10 business days but have you guys got it any sooner? 

Thank you in advance! 

Congratulations.  My nephew recently did his Cr-1 in Costa Rica and they got it in 7 days.  

1 hour ago, SMACEM2019 said:

Our NOA2 are around the same date. Mines June 20th. I literally just go off the phone with them and they still haven't received it ;-(. Oh well hopefully soon for both of us.

1 hour ago, SMACEM2019 said:

Our NOA2 are around the same date. Mines June 20th. I literally just go off the phone with them and they still haven't received it ;-(. Oh well hopefully soon for both of us.

Thanks.  We were lucky on the noa 1 timeframe and then it looks like NVC processing times went up.   So maybe by July 21 based on Greenbaum’s note.   In the digital age this whole thing seems very old fashioned.   I also imagine that the 4th of July week had reduced staffing levels with vacations etc like everywhere else. 

Thanks so much for reaching out!

Just now, Greenbaum said:

Try calling in the later evening hours. Others have indicated they have more success during those times.

Thank you.  Will do!

Just now, Greenbaum said:

Try calling in the later evening hours. Others have indicated they have more success during those times.

2 minutes ago, Greenbaum said:

Are the prompts in the first post correct to what is needed to skip the "elevator music" and reach someone?

There was not a single prompt. On the third try to attempted to use the prompts from before to no avail.   Clearly, they don’t want to talk to anyone. 

Tried calling the NVC to get a case number.  They have changed the recording three times this week.  Now, you listen to a 3 minute message in English and in Spanish and you are disconnected completely tried a few times with same result.

4 hours ago, oflyingbunnyo said:

could you tell me where it says that please? 

Thank you for responding :)!

Well I went to actual government website and it does not say it specifically...there is a forum on visa journey and it seems that the debate on this is mixed....  Forum is: Form I-134 must have an original signature?!?  

3 hours ago, oflyingbunnyo said:

Hello everyone, I know this thread is pretty much dead but I'm panicking. 

Can the I-134 be a scanned copy or does the original have to be brought in ? 

We're almost at the end of this whole thing and it has been nothing but stressful @__@ 

It says it requires a "wet" signature in black so that would be mean original of the signature page.

7 hours ago, MB and MG said:

@GreenbaumThank you. All these are now installed. 👍

@nosleep Which tracker app are you referring to where you saw cases of rfes and approvals? I will be happy with an RFE just to know that my case has been touched but if i get an approval that'll be better. 

Hi the currently delisted case tracker app shows for cases received March 27- the following statistics (approximate as it is not easy to exactly read the graphs points - 48 approved, 46 pending and 15 RFEs. 

As a reference point on speed, last Friday there were only 21 approvals.   As I mentioned earlier, things only appeared to slow down because there was a gap from March 22 to March 27 where the app shows they did not log any apps as received until March 27. Log is 108 apps for that date they are working through.  

It’s nerve wracking to be sure and I still look every day.   Our app posted on Wednesday but had been approved on Monday.  

Even with the great trackers it can be mind boggling when you see apps with higher numbers than yours get approved faster.  Some of that is military who are given preference. 

We are all in this complex process together and I thank everyone for their support and encouragement.   And for those who are waiting.  Keep the faith.  

There is an issue. People were asking and I went to see and the app is gone if of iTunes. I had it installed and contacted the developer.  He said they were delisted by Apple who told them it was because of privacy laws and they were going after other trackers as well.  

He sent them the statement from the uscis website saying the info was publicly available.  He is hoping to get it resolved soon. 

31 minutes ago, Mimiso said:

Greenbaum, I believe there is an issue with the case tracker app being removed from the Apple store, at least in the US. I checked the developer’s twitter account and they did mentioned they were upset that it was removed. 

 

I just want to add though, I still have that app installed on my phone and it’s working still, but I downloaded way before they removed it on April 30.

Hi all,

noa -1 4/1/2019

noa 2 - 6/24/2019

i just saw on the tracker app a number of petitions just loaded this Morning.  They must have been behind on entry and they must do some sort of batch processing overnight. 

Keep the faith!

We are all waitIng on pins and needles because our predicted dates are passing.  I think I may know why. On that uscis tracker app, It shows that no cases were processed as received from 3/22 until 3/27. 

So there are about 108 cases received on March 27. Most are I-129f with a handful of I-130s.  This app looks at received date Vs noa1 dates. 

When I select the graph of the 129fs as of 5 pm today:  roughly 32 approved, 6-7 RFEs and about 68 remaining to be processed.   

Hang tight!

Nice post.  Yes, this is surely an emotional process.  I am glad we have this community where we can share all of this.

Many of my friends have had long distance relationships in the past within the US but can’t even fathom the complexity of this k-1 process and all the other processes that lie ahead and the stress it causes. 

Thanks for sharing.  🙏 

Is it just me or does it seem like things really slowed down this past week in terms of Noa 2 approvals?

16 minutes ago, Derek & Cece said:

I have the exact same fear as I too crammed mine with as much proof as I could

Not a 

17 minutes ago, Derek & Cece said:

I have the exact same fear as I too crammed mine with as much proof as I could

Not a factor unless poorly organized.  Don’t worry it will be fine.