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13 minutes ago, slavaskii said:

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Right, now the picture looks more accurate with this latest change and it will be easier for us to have a picture when we are going to be with our fiances, hopefully sooner 🤞.  It's true, K1 filers are perhaps the most vocal and united group of people in the entire world which is excellent, we all encourage toeach other.  Everything will be alright and hope all our petitions could be listened. 🤞🤞

By the way, when will be the Q&A session this week?  I'm new here and  signed up recently.

18 minutes ago, Keithn85 said:

That was my hope throughout the process.  My process was like this, even though it shows in my comments and timeline the best i can put it:
January (sent off and "received")
March (notification by text of NOA-1 but backdated to January received date)
September (RFE notice) 
So you see, it took me 9 months roughly in 2021 to see any movement of my case.  But during those 9 months, I watched the date flip back and forth on the USCIS case processing site.  The nice thing was after my RFE was sent back, technically my case was outside of processing time so I was able to leverage that until they approved it.  

My interpretation of the movement of dates is when it moves forward and then drops back, that to me is them catching up.  Think of each month as a number for processing.  If March is processed then you have 3's, February are 2's, etc.  For example, imagine this month there are 10 cases in March (3s) that were processed, one in January (1s) and 2 in February (2s).  If you had to average, the "date" would be closer to March, right?  But if there were more cases processed in February than March, the date would be maybe the middle of February.  That is how I see the reason why the date moves around on the USCIS site.  Since it is an average, if 20-30 cases in February were skipped the first time around and USCIS circled back to them this month, then the average for that last processing period would weigh more on February with the 20-30 cases.  I feel like I really went deep but I hope you can decipher this correctly.  
*DISCLAIMER* I am not an expert at this, but I am just deducing from watching over the last year.  It could be correct or completely wrong.  

One thing I will say though is I would not dive too deep into those processing times.  Just again, pay attention to the date and if it is after your date, put in an out of processing time request.  If you want to watch those dates (and I will admit I did) then do so with caution and keep your emotions in check because if you do not, those numbers will drive you crazy.  Trust me.  I never spoke to Anna about those dates.  I only spoke to her about when I would see people announcing they were receiving RFEs/approvals.  And I would check VJ's timelines more than USCIS case processing time.  

Thank you for your words and your advices, I'll follow your advice and I won't permit myself all these changes of dates drive me crazy, especially this last one,  we had on mind we would finally be together not later than August 2022 (our NOA1 is from late August 2021) .  I think this last  change of dates was done to avoid more expedites and more delays as a consequence.  The same as you, I have tried not to stress my fiance with all these changes, I only tell him when there're positive things.  I just hope that in the upcoming months the times will improve and start flowing faster once March cases finish to be processed.  Greetings and thank you so much.

On 1/29/2022 at 10:31 AM, Keithn85 said:

This time range is how long it is taking USCIS to process your case from the date we received it. We generally process cases in the order we receive them, and we will update this page each month. The estimated time range displayed is based on data captured approximately two months prior to updating the page. Please note that times may change without prior notice.

 

That is something I kept in mind while waiting for my approval (well it turned out to be an RFE in September and then approval in October).  My general rule of thumb is, if that date hits or goes past your date, then put in the case outside of processing time.  Otherwise, there is really nothing else you can do but wait.  For us, this was the hardest part of the K1 process (from sending I-129F to visa approved and issued) so I encourage you both to just stay positive and strong throughout this.

So, according to this 2 months in advance you mention, could be better times the upcoming moths once March and April backlog are not stuck anymore?. Regards!