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9 minutes ago, rich rich said:

Could you provide a link to the fb group? Sounds like a great store resource. Thanks

MAY 2021 I-129F K1 FILERS    I copied the name of the group on here they post the same info usually here too, there are also groups I believe for your month. For fb its a group called K1 visa May 2021 filers it doesn't let met post the link.

15 hours ago, Ecofolux2427 said:

What is a congressman going to do to help me?

They get involved when you are past your processing time, they can execute a certain authority to at least make your case noticeable to an officer. It doesn't hurt to try.

9 hours ago, rich rich said:

How do you find out what month they are currently processing? The new processing website seems to only list 80 percent processing times

We  belong to the K1 May 2021 group on fb and here and they run the numbers and keep us updated on what range uscis is working on.

On 8/8/2022 at 3:05 PM, Ecofolux2427 said:

I'm a US citizen and my fiancé is Chinese. We applied for the K-1 Visa back in September 2021 (yes we have confirmation that the California processing center received it in September 2021). It's been 11 months and it's still the same, no updates, no progression. I don't know what to do, I see some people from May 2021 still waiting. It's infuriating! I haven't seen my fiancé in 2.5 years. I almost want to bring her here on her valid 10 year tourist visa and "wait it out" here because who knows how much longer it really will be. The big problem I see with this is if she comes here, she will move out of her apartment. When they send a letter to her Chinese address for her interview, no one will be there to receive it. I don't know what to do and I'm getting to the point where I might snap. Is there anything else I can do besides just "wait"? Thanks for any input

They are just now processing May and June of 2021, sadly the wait is very long I just got my approval recently. The only thing you could do right now is try to meet as much as you can. When the time is getting closer try to get a congressman involved. Best of luck!

On 8/8/2022 at 3:05 PM, Ecofolux2427 said:

I'm a US citizen and my fiancé is Chinese. We applied for the K-1 Visa back in September 2021 (yes we have confirmation that the California processing center received it in September 2021). It's been 11 months and it's still the same, no updates, no progression. I don't know what to do, I see some people from May 2021 still waiting. It's infuriating! I haven't seen my fiancé in 2.5 years. I almost want to bring her here on her valid 10 year tourist visa and "wait it out" here because who knows how much longer it really will be. The big problem I see with this is if she comes here, she will move out of her apartment. When they send a letter to her Chinese address for her interview, no one will be there to receive it. I don't know what to do and I'm getting to the point where I might snap. Is there anything else I can do besides just "wait"? Thanks for any input

They are just now processing May and June of 2021, sadly the wait is very long I just got my approval recently. The only thing you could do right now is try to meet as much as you can. When the time is getting closer try to get a congressman involved. Best of luck!

5 hours ago, Scholastic said:

Got our NOA2 approval yesterday 

Time to continue the waiting game now with NVC

 

Not sure if the persistent contacting my local congressman helped 😅 

Could you give me the example email you wrote to the congressman?

5 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

I am tired of repeating this...

I am sorry, what you wrote is simply not true. USCIS is funded solely by fees of applicants so your paid to US government to process your case, we are not getting a handout but expecting service from our government that we paid for.

Also, comparison with Europe is not appropriate, because USA is of similar size and has 50 states that make the Union, you can move between the states. In Europe every country has its own immigration, and when you are not from EU member state you go trough the immigration process that is 3 times faster. Friend of mine started process of getting his fiancé from China to Germany one month after me, and they managed to finish it in 4 Months, we are waiting 12.

 

Also it is easy to be motivated when you are sitting in EU member state that can get easy trave to USA without visa. There are couples that are from countries like Philippines, China, Bosnia or other countries that need tourist visa to do basic visits and in these countries wait for tourist visa can be Months long. In my case, I am stuck in China due to lockdowns and Covid measures and even though I have tourist visa, I cannot leave. I have not seen my fiance for over 2.5 years now, and we are 5 years in relationship and used to live together for 2,5 years, we had wedding planned for February 2020, tell me how not to get frustrated.

We need to understand each other situation, and not just make blank statements how we need to be patient.  For example Philippines even after they get NOA2, they have to wait months for Visa Interview, what puts their total wait to over two years.

 

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5 hours ago, Etherial said:

I got tired repeating this... He did this during covid translates as USCIS did not have a backlog back then. Now they do.

Do we realise there are people waiting for this since March 2021? 

As i said before we did not "pay" someone to do something. America has a closed immigration system. Its not like europe where we can freely move from one country to the other and work freely if we have an eu passport. US wants to control who comes and who goes with either visa or esta and also they want to control who lives in their states.

Therefore, we do not "pay" them to do a job for you, we "apply" to have your fiance accepted to live and work in the US. They have the right to decline and they do not have to even justify on what base they declined. Its what we have to go through since we chose to live there.

However, one can always appeal their denial. Now, when it comes to lawsuits, eligible to sue is any person who has properly filed an application for a benefit, whose application has not been decided for an extended period of time.
The USCIS publishes “processing times” (https://egov.uscis.gov/) which can be used as a guide to what is a “reasonable” period of time. And that is why they change the processing times, to avoid lawsuits

 

It's not ideal for any of us waiting for more than a year. It needs patience and if we cannot endure this are we sure we are ready to be married? Waiting 1 year+ is nothing compared to the rest of our lives

For you it may be a year this is my fifth year due to other paperwork issues. So yeah being desperate at this point I believe it's pretty reasonable.

They should be held accountable for all this. My brother in law did his DURING covid all done in 8 months yet the rest of us still here a whole yr later.

This is out of control. What do they have against the May filers. I'm so mad right now.

16 hours ago, rocky95 said:

https://www.uscis.gov/forms/filing-guidance/how-to-make-an-expedite-request

 

 

Here are the criteria. Its very hard to get your case expedited. Most of the expedited cases currently are Ukranian cases and fall under the emergency and humanitarian reason.

Thanks so much!

Does anyone know if there are any special circumstances where they can speed up the process?? 

8 hours ago, KikeCa said:

They touched few may cases, anyone here who got approved?

No, nothing yet..😪

how can they pull up the case ID to see the status? could he look up mines individually? sorry new at this..

Yes it is crazy about a week about it said that you could inquire outside processing time for April now all of a sudden with the change from 9 to 12 months its back to February... I don't even know what to say...

Awesome thank you I will go there now.

Hi, 

I am new to the site. Was wondering if anyone has had better luck than me with getting any updates? We filed on May 14th and I just saw they went up now to 9.5 months  so far we only have the notice of received.