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20 minutes ago, yvonme said:

Ours never went to Ready and Sydney confirmed it wouldn't. I wouldn't wait on the website to get started on the DS160 bit and scheduling your medical

Due to Sydney consulate being closed is the NVC still sending the petitions to Sydney as normal? 
 

also why wouldn’t it go to ready status 😕 just trying to prep myself for when it’s our turn  

51 minutes ago, mitzab said:

Silly question

 

Isn't WAC number private? Or is it like public information provided by USCIS?

 

How accurate are these apps to change the filing status from received to approved etc? I am using the app for android USCIS case which let's me search 100 numbers at a time.

 

 

It’s public info but your details will not be made public. So no one knows the name of the petitioner and beneficiary and details unless they are somehow able to link it to a case number which the person would have to disclose themselves or there was a huge hack and leak of info 

26 minutes ago, Elzmd said:

I've just joined and so I apologise if I've missed anything (I've been scouring the forums for a while now) but I figured I'd ask for thoughts. We applied for a K1 in Jan 2020, got the NOA2 in September 2020, but haven't had anything since then. We've called them and it's just 'we're waiting on the embassy' in so many words. I'm from the UK, so I'm wondering if it's simply pending until the London Embassy opens up properly. Does anyone have any ideas on that or if there's a place to look in regards to UK applicants?

Yes they are backlogged are the moment but potentially trying to work through it. 
 

You can find more info here: https://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/99-united-kingdom/  

6 minutes ago, yvonme said:

You’re welcome! It was a tip someone told me. Not sure if it works - but worth to mention it. Sydney is on lockdown, does anyone know how this effects the Consulate?

Yes - it’s closed and all interviews cancelled 😔

5 minutes ago, Vamp.nz said:

I’m nov 23rd and my number is in the 31000 some of dec and jans are lower numbers than mine 

They will go by received date as October onwards is when the lockboxes got backlogged and started messing up the numbers 

20 minutes ago, quinnscribe said:

oooh good to know, my partner lives in Canberra but has Sydney family to stay with, so might be able to get up there to interview if he has a couple day's notice of cancellations... I'll let him know about this tip once we actually get our NVC-Sydney info.

I didn’t know this either. I’m in Sydney so I can get to the consulate easily. Thank you for the info! 

17 minutes ago, Andrew L said:

I’ve tried calling 7 times so far but keep receiving the same pre-recorded “Sorry, all of our callers are busy” and it hangs up

Le sigh - why does this not surprise me 🙃 I’m sorry I have no other suggestion. I know sometimes to get past the USCIS robot you can say certain things and it will transfer you to a ✨human✨ But with NVC I’m not too sure

14 hours ago, Andrew L said:

Hey everyone, my fiance and I got our NOA2 on May 19th but we still haven’t heard anything back from NVC. Anyone else having a delay in their receiving notification???

Have you called them to get your case number? I think around 2-3 weeks after NOA2 you can call them  

8 hours ago, JeffDR said:

My level of frustration with USCIS is at max ! There is always an excuse for their inefficiency (COVId-19, policy, and of course now a Holiday excuse ....)  I am a November 4th applicant that has spent more than 200 days away from the United States to be with my fiancé.... how is it possible that we (taxpayers) are subject to this and have to act like they are doing is a favor? Ugh . I see people already jumping ship with dealing their applications and getting married because of the delays .... the country is open, propel are vaccinated and Federal Employees must go back to work .....

Agreed. Nightclubs and football games are at full capacity, yet these guys can’t work properly. No excuse whatsoever. 

1 hour ago, macorbin said:

i just find one by searching  what is interesting is that there is only 85 members in the group

yes that's the group - perhaps not everyone has facebook and also not everyone is part of it but it is super helpful!

2 minutes ago, macorbin said:

HI do you know any facebook group for December fillers?

Yes for sure it is 12/20 K1 filers or something along those lines  

3 minutes ago, Nuvana said:

Thank you, but this doesn't give a time frame for the k visa interview 😕

hmm yes I just realised that - are you a part of the K1 Aussie group on facebook? Might be an easier way to find out as people are updating on there when they are scheduling in for their interviews. At the moment seems to be about a 6 week wait

3 hours ago, Nuvana said:

Anyone know how to find out what the wait time of interviews is in Sydney Australia? 

Appreciate and advice. Thank you 

Here :) https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/wait-times.html

6 minutes ago, oatmilkfan said:

Hi group,

 

I have received text confirmation of my application arrival to TX

 

In summary,

Application was delivered at USIC on May 21,2021

USIC, texted with notification on June 1st, 2021

Check was deposited on June 2nd.

 

Is NOA1 different from a Text which I got ?

 

Thank you

The text is basically is your NOA1 notification, so you can relax now you can use the WAC number in the text to check your case status online at https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do

In a week or so you will get your official paper NOA1 notice 

3 hours ago, rne said:

How much more do you think we have until we see regular Nov cases? 

I reckon a few weeks, maybe 2 earliest  

15 minutes ago, JobbinsKnobbins said:

I just mean the rate at which cases are being processed.  April was the peak rate with cases being processed in the 60+ range daily.  June looks like it might be in the 30s with somewhere in the 10s being the accepted rate.  There are more RFEs than general in progress cases so I think they will prioritize getting those numbers down.  Assuming that everyone is providing the evidence for their respective RFEs.

 

Ah ok. Forever impressed with your graphs haha thank you! 

18 minutes ago, JobbinsKnobbins said:

Much better result today, less than 35% remaining and just broke through to less than 1k cases remaining.
Probably going to scratch 70% in the next two weeks.  I don't know what the ceiling is for month, I estimate that its closer to an 80% completion rate; though that really comes down to how many RFE's get turned around.

I expect that the case-rate is going to go even lower by the end of the month; we will see. 

 

What does the case-rate mean?

1 hour ago, JL & JT said:

does this mean certain countries are scheduling interviews and issuing visas as normal? do you know if that's the case for any european countries which had previously been shut due to the travel ban?

Australia is, probably New Zealand too. European countries may have to deal with the backlogs from the embassies being closed so they may still be issuing interviews and visas to people who are waiting from last year

1 hour ago, AD1 said:

Thank you. I am petitioner too and my fiancé (she) is beneficiary. So I will start preparing I-134 and have it ready since she is not working in Iran. so as soon as cases approved or received noa 2 she can get police report and medical reports right? Is that all we need filling out I-134 in my part and her part medical and police reports correct? Or is there something else do I need to prepare for?
 

Her English is not very good now (in process of learning). Will that be a problem in interview (she is learning now and i am sure she will be ok in 3-4 months if she gets interview by then). Our first language is Farsi (we communicate in Farsi).

 

thanks again

Language not a problem in the interview, they shoulder offer her a translator and she has every right to ask for one

Farsi is such a beautiful language, and I love the food! 

23 minutes ago, JL & JT said:

 

Hi friends - here's the weekly roundup (compared to last week's numbers, not the mid-week ones)!

 

They are making their way through cases, though mostly concentrated on the first half of October. Average cases processed per day is nearly at 60! This does however include November filers which I think is reflected in the later case ranges (16500-20000).

 

I've also done something different this week and pulled together a table based purely on October received date. This should include most petitions, with the exceptions noted above and below the table (I had statuses from Apr 27 that I was able to reference for Received Dates before most processing began). About 3/4 of October cases are still pending and haven't been looked it. Second half of the month is also still virtually untouched. Another interesting note is that they're issuing pretty even numbers of Approved and RFEs (12% vs 11%).

 

 

So good. Thank you so much  60 cases a day is a pretty solid average, hopefully processing times pick up! 

Do you think they are trying to do both October and November at the same time to decrease the processing time? Are they only doing certain days in November or have they started at the beginning and are moving through? I know a few days in November were randomly approved really early...

12 hours ago, JustineC85 said:

Thats awesome! We used a lawyer for the filing and we still got RFEd and after we got the approval a few weeks ago I reached out to see if they have any suggestions for the next step. Nothing at all. 

 

I think we are going to do AOS ourselves. 

I think we will do the same. Our application is still in the NOA2 process and we are hoping for something by July but I have spotted 2 mistakes already on the petition that I kNOW would not have happened if I had been doing it. I am an extreme perfectionist so the only good thing about using the lawyer was that we submitted everything and it was sent, if it had been me I would have been going over and over the paperwork and probably delayed our submission. The mistakes have now probably earned us an RFE which would not have happened. 

I plan to do AoS ourselves too. We only paid for the petition part of the fee so might just part ways once I land in the US. Frustrating! 

4 minutes ago, J&D1008 said:

Ohh yeah. maybe on here there are only 68 cases but not everyone creates a VJ account. In total there are over 2000 cases. If you look at the september stats that @JobbinsKnobbins post you will see that September had almost 3,000 cases. I think October had a similar amount as well.  

ohhhh YES maybe that's what they meant! I took it to mean 68 cases in total had been filed for the month and was thinking wow what happened in October that so few people filed

Just now, J&D1008 said:

Only 68 cases for October? I thought there were over 2000 

Maybe there are. I wouldn’t quote me on that. I just SWEAR I read that somewhere on visa journey itself. Unless it was another month they were talking about, maybe they were talking about January… 

2 hours ago, Keithn85 said:

So based on the previous with using Lawfully, I did not realize how there were only 56 I-129F cases in January.  I ended up going with the pro version for the next few months just to get the same type of layout in the app that sept/oct has in their spreadsheet.  There are 2 approvals so far!  I guess when the December/February ones were getting cases created, January kind of slid in with them.  I am hopeful to see movement when december starts picking up.  And i know she will be happy to hear when that happens also.  We are all doing great though hanging in there and not losing hope.  

Oh wow! I wonder why so few…even October only had something like 68 I think someone posted here and said. We are December filers though I have a feeling December May have had a few more cases though I hope I’m wrong and maybe December has just as few as January!

6 hours ago, JobbinsKnobbins said:

Overall this week has been consistent with the daily case acceptance rate.  September should be crossing 50% approval by tomorrow, And in early next week there will be less than 40% of cases being actively worked on.  I'll post the updated area graph tomorrow to illustrate the progress over the past ~6 weeks or so.  A lot has happened over this time period and things are still moving forward.

So thankful not only for the graphs and tables (and time taken to do them I'm sure!) but also for your explanation - I have never been good at reading graphs and tables but your explanations are so reassuring. Thank you