Anna Hessler

13 RFEs for the Saturday RFE party on the 28th. 

6 minutes ago, FromMexico W/Love said:

Potentially, but at this stage and with the wait being so long I value a notification very highly, but that's just me. Because from a RFE, you are looking at a couple weeks until approval. 

 

EDIT: I see what y'all are saying now.

You make a good point though! The average K1 filer doesn't care about all this data mining and analyzing. They just want to have some hope that things are getting better and that they have a chance. That is just as valuable as a high-tech spreadsheet.

7 minutes ago, FromMexico W/Love said:

Do you think we should view it as 1,053+ cases processed or just the approvals? I'm trying to frame this in the best way possible for timelines. Because I wonder how much the RFEs weigh down the processing for future cases. I doubt it has the same weight as an untouched case. 

It depends on what your "goal" is. Are you interested in the backlog being reduced? Then just look at approvals and denials, because those are the only decisions that remove a case from the backlog. 

Processing speed and weekly capacity? K1 FTEs, if you will? Then I'd include RFEs, but even that is hard. We don't know how much time was spent on each RFE before a decision was made. USCIS claims they spend 40 minutes on a K1 application. Arguably, a case that gets an RFE doesn't need that much time before the officer realizes something is missing. 

Just now, FromMexico W/Love said:

779+ cases approved is a great week. 

It is! Ive been doing this weekly table for my K1 FB group for about three or four months now and its the most by far. 

Just now, FromMexico W/Love said:

Show us!!! lol 

Sorry if this is a little messy. I wasnt going to include July and August but this week there were a good amount of them. 

3 hours ago, AndiB said:

Anna will post one when she gets a sec! Majority seems to be Nov with cascade down to july. Each day is fairly consistent

I'll post tomorrow. Unless no one cares about Saturday RFEs and wants it today!

6 minutes ago, AndiB said:

pls make the master post as you considered, will be nice to have a clean place to see em.
Appreciate you

If its going to cause drama like the FB post then you can have the honors of being the poster instead! 🤣

No I don't mind. I'll start one tomorrow if I can get all the data. My FB group is doing a few months every day and I'll get the rest from the data miners here. Giving them full credit of course! Happy to see such an improvement at USCIS. Really, really hoping it continues! The 2022 filers might get lucky and see reduced times. 

1 hour ago, GinoNiña said:

Is it possible to do just weekly. Post results every Friday?

I'll post once weekly on Sundays or Mondays. USCIS works until the early evening on Saturday so it'll give all the analyzers time to gather the info. 

30 minutes ago, AndiB said:

An admin said it was old data and only represented VJ members??? That USCIS processes way more than 966 a week??? Are they outta touch or am I? I thought scanners literally scan a range of numbers not specifically VJ cases???

I'm upset an admin was so wrong (unless I am)

The admin isnt wrong. He was trying to say that USCIS processes way more than 966 a week when you account for other visas. Work, family, asylum, etc. But, who cares? Thats not what we as K1/CR1 fliers care about. We want to know how many I-129Fs are being processed because thata what we filed. Work visa speeds have no effect on us. And yes, when us scanners do the data mining its all I-129Fs. 

Sorry it got locked. Its very frustrating!

51 minutes ago, New Romantics said:

I saw your spreadsheet being shared on one of the k1 visa groups on FB and wow, were people mad. I don't think they understand how it works 😭

I just came here to comment on this too. I hate people sometimes 🤣

Hey @AndiB I think I saw some posts from you in the big K1 group. Are you compiling a weekly list? I was going to start a Master thread with weekly totals but I dont want to step on toes if you already have something going like what I have here:  

November 2021 data for Thursday, 26 January:

Approved: 56

RFE: 27

RFER: 0

Withdrawn: 4 

Denied: 0

November 2021 data for Friday, 27 January:

Approved: 63

RFE: 28 

RFER: 1

Withdrawn: 5 

Denied: 0

11 minutes ago, New Romantics said:

Should someone create a master thread of daily updates regardless of month? I feel like it would be less confusing

Yes! 

November 2021 data for Wednesday, 25 January:

Approved: 82

RFE: 21 

RFER: 1

Withdrawn: 4 

Denied: 2 

1 minute ago, AndiB said:

This is the week so far as I can pull from threads here. Sadly Sept, Nov and Dec aren't updating daily in threads but sitll decent numbers!
Didn't break up by RFEs etc as I'm just going by processing. Feel free to check individual threads or I assume Anna may keep us in the loop weekly. May update to incl RFEs if a source isn't easily accesible as trying to keep track of backlog and processing week by week

Yeah I can do it if people want. I've been doing weekly numbers for my FB group for a few months now. I usually do 3-5 months at a time, whatever USCIS is focusing on. The FB group is November filers so we are doing daily November scans. We will start daily December scans in about two weeks because ~20% of the group is December. 

Just now, AndiB said:

that's okay still a decent approx! I really appreciate them pls don't delete 

Haha okay! Happy to do it! I saw your post on the Nov 2021 filers thread. The FB group the scanner mentioned is our group, the one I mod. You're welcome to join. I post a lot there.

1 minute ago, AndiB said:

Oh Oct is wrong I think? Tues: 26, 2 Wed: 94, 1, 30
So one of the days is missing?? You have same numbers for tues and wed

I messaged the October scanner and these numbers are what they DM'd me. Not sure honestly! I didn't run October myself. I don't mind deleting this if it'll be confusing for people. 

But the idea is that the numbers for the week were great! And I'm happy about that! 

1 hour ago, Anna Hessler said:

 

Heres what I've got for November for the week of the 16th. Closed Monday, MLK Day. 

Sorry, I cropped this and didnt realize it. Ignore the totals, thats for the whole week and includes July-November. Columns are approved, denied and RFE. 

235 total November cases for this week.

1 minute ago, AndiB said:

how is this so much higher than the 800 odd people were quoting??? Was it maybe excluding RFEs or one of the months do you think???

I included RFEs and most people dont! I also added July and August. I wasn't going to, but there was a lot more movement there than I expected. Not sure if others have included those months. Theres definitely a chance I wasn't paying enough attention to numbers and accidentally included some twice. I'll double check when I can! 

On 1/15/2023 at 8:53 AM, Anna Hessler said:

I ran numbers by hand for July-November and got around 840. Approved, denied and RFE. Trying to post it here but the image is getting messed up. One sec!

I said this and then never updated it. Whoops. 

7 minutes ago, Ok-Mix1229 said:

Okay this is getting exciting. LOL even though we are a Dec 2022 filer, this is already so intriguing!

 

Someone just slap me if I'm getting too involved/interested too early.

I think its exciting too! But I totally think you should consider withdrawing and doing a CR1 if you only filed a month ago. 

Just now, New Romantics said:

735 with 4 days? Impressive. That averages out at ~184 a day. If it were a 5 day week the number would be 918 😮

Yes, i'm pretty thrilled with this! The week before was just about 900. I include RFEs though, and I know most people dont. 

1 minute ago, New Romantics said:

This is pretty good considering Monday was a holiday. Thank you for the data!!

Its amazing considering Monday was a holiday! Looking forward to this week. 

5 minutes ago, Anna Hessler said:

For those of you wondering about the weekly number of cases, here is what I have. I did NOT do October myself. I pulled that from the October thread here and it seems like there were two days missing, unless I'm just blind. I'm in a K1 FB group and the numbers here are a collaborative effort between us mods. Depending on what the October numbers were, it wasnt a bad week. But doesnt look like it was another 800+. 

 

The October scanner is a wonderful human and sent me that data! So here we go.

For those of you wondering about the weekly number of cases, here is what I have. I did NOT do October myself. I pulled that from the October thread here and it seems like there were two days missing, unless I'm just blind. I'm in a K1 FB group and the numbers here are a collaborative effort between us mods. Depending on what the October numbers were, it wasnt a bad week. But doesnt look like it was another 800+.