YueQian

sent back the packet, waiting for the consulate to allow me to schedule an interview  so fast

On 6/10/2021 at 9:14 AM, YueQian said:

Petition was approved twice, first on 4/29 and then on 5/12, I assume the latter counts.

 

Yesterday NVC replied to my inquiry submitted on 5/24, giving us the new case number, case status is READY since 5/27

The consulate called me yesterday about sending me the packet!!! Only a little over a month after NOA2, I'm so grateful (especially after SO much inaction earlier)

Petition was approved twice, first on 4/29 and then on 5/12, I assume the latter counts.

Yesterday NVC replied to my inquiry submitted on 5/24, giving us the new case number, case status is READY since 5/27

On 4/30/2021 at 9:30 AM, YueQian said:

Finally got approved!!! 350 days 

Got approved AGAIN yesterday... I assume this means they haven't sent my case to NVC and wasted 2 weeks being imcompetent : (

Finally got approved!!! 350 days 

On 4/20/2021 at 3:54 AM, TimmahTimmah said:

@YueQian We returned our RFE on the same date. Ours was for a missed question (about an IMB) and ours took 46 days to approval (Approved April 16). I was researching a bunch of cases and the average was around 18 days for approval, with some going as quick as 6 days and I'm still tracking a few from late Feb. that are still outstanding (over 52 days now) - it sounds like its just the luck of the draw, but if you do get to 55+ I'd call USCIS and file the inquiry for taking longer than 60 days, in addition, I'd ask to talk to a tier 2 agent (you get a tier 1 when you call the generic number) which they will quote you at no more than 14 days, but for us it was 8 both times, and they can push the inquiry. I think we called a lot, because a few days after our second tier 2 agent call, we were approved that Friday. Good luck!

Hi, would you mind telling me how you got to speak to a real person? My fiance said he only got automated answers 

4 hours ago, TimmahTimmah said:

@YueQian We returned our RFE on the same date. Ours was for a missed question (about an IMB) and ours took 46 days to approval (Approved April 16). I was researching a bunch of cases and the average was around 18 days for approval, with some going as quick as 6 days and I'm still tracking a few from late Feb. that are still outstanding (over 52 days now) - it sounds like its just the luck of the draw, but if you do get to 55+ I'd call USCIS and file the inquiry for taking longer than 60 days, in addition, I'd ask to talk to a tier 2 agent (you get a tier 1 when you call the generic number) which they will quote you at no more than 14 days, but for us it was 8 both times, and they can push the inquiry. I think we called a lot, because a few days after our second tier 2 agent call, we were approved that Friday. Good luck!

Thanks, that was very helpful!

We did file an inquiry and called them, but the inquiry didn't give me any information, due to me using the wrong email I think, aka not the one on the I129f. Didn't know we could ask to talk to a tier 2 agent, now we will try those magic words haha.

1 hour ago, macorbin said:

did your petitioner  forget to put divorce decree?

He initially submitted the separation agreement, after the RFE sent in the divorce decree. 

Our response to the RFE was received on March 1st, it's been 49 days. The RFE was simply for his divorce decree, which he then got from the court and sent in a copy. I've been watching cases around our time and their approval after RFE took a lot shorter than us, like 10 - 20 days.

I think they send out RFEs when other work like background check is done, right? What could be the reason for it to take this long?

2 hours ago, Juan&Rocio said:

Whats going on  and what’s nie? 

This probably doesnt affect Columbia though, it was never under the travel ban (PP9984), changes about that only affects countries under the ban.

2 hours ago, Juan&Rocio said:

Whats going on  and what’s nie? 

China just confirmed via email that K1 processing has been resumed ✌️

Still waiting for the approval after replying the RFE, I must be one of very few left. This has made me miss out on multiple chances of joining a lawsuit but now the NIE update and K1 will be back on track... no complaints (maybe a little haha)

A bunch of cases were recently sent to Guangzhou, China and are "ready", around your time. Then the NIE update and it says they may grant immigrant and K1 visas now. So that's why...…^ _ ^

Huge huge huge good news, and about time!! Gov finally doing the right thing, after being sued and losing multiple times.

Technically consulates could use "the pandemic" and "local conditions" as excuse to continue to not do anything, but Guangzhou has been very cooperative with previous rulings, and with resuming F2A after 10014 was canceled, so I'm optimistic about K1 in China.

Looks like NVC is working for a change, but so far no interviews have been scheduled. I wonder what this means...

may I ask were you part of the milligan lawsuit?

3 hours ago, GregandNatty said:

It doesn't seem to me that thousands of additional employees need to show up.   They need to use the employees they do have to ramp up interviews more.  I'm going through the Nairobi embassy and they issued 27 IR1/CR1 VISAs in December of 2020 and 105 IR1/CR VISAs in December of 2019.   They are doing a very small fraction of what they normally do. 

 

I just returned from Uganda a few weeks ago and COVID is nothing there compared to here in the US.  Everything is open over there, so it makes no sense that they aren't doing even 1/2 of what they normally do.

 

Someone needs to give them a swift kick to get moving on interviews.  Since Biden is now their boss, he's the best guy to do the kicking. 

I agree. Consulates have been saying "can't resume routine services due to local conditions" for about a year now, that's not all true... Local conditions have been back to normal for at least half a year, everything's open, everyone's working, most cities all over China has 0 existing covid cases, yet the consulate refuses (or doesn't have the go ahead from DoS) to do more than the ridiculously tiny amount of work they're doing. Covid is not a convincing excuse. Is covid especially bad in the consulate? Maybe, it is technically American soil

I also got RFE today, NOA1 was May 14

Greencard/adjustment of status interviews are conducted in the US. People adjust status from non-immigrant visas all the time... They probably just mixed up the words and called it an embassy.

1 hour ago, arizreynolds said:

Now they want me to ask because apparently they heard that someone changed embassies instead of having the interview in their country the were able to have the interview in united states any truth to that

Interview in US? They probably ditched the K1, just got married and applied for a greencard. 

9 hours ago, Drj224 said:

But I thought this expired December 30 2020

Common misunderstanding. PP 10014 was set to expire on 12/31/2020 but has been extended by 3 months by Trump. State Department confirmed that K1s are not subject to 10014 so it never mattered to K1 applicants.

PP 9984 has no expiration date and seems to have been forgotten since May, even though it is supposed to be "about preventing Covid", and the pandemic has changed so much that the list of countries are ridiculous now, no one thought to revise it.

No movement due to presidential proclamation 9984 ("travel ban") which has no expiration date and can only be terminated by a president. No one has been able to get an interview except the handful that were in the K1 lawsuit. 

On 1/6/2021 at 12:40 AM, Olga88 said:

There is a little update for you guys

 

oh wow this is so informative, I appreciate you spreading the love to other months too haha

As cases from May are starting to get NOA2, I'm considering joining the lawsuit... What's the news on the added plaintiffs a while back? Will they have another trial and how long does that take?