Tom.Jen

I saw the approval on the case checker app. The app didn’t send me a notification tho

I’m happy to be here finally 🤗

We got approved yesterday!! 🎉 Exactly 1 year. NOA1: 15 August, 2022 NOA2: 15 August, 2023

Yesssss finally!!! So happy for you!! 🎉🎉

They got that by filling out their timeline in their profile. VJ gives you an estimate based on your date of filing by keeping track of previous filers’ timeline updates. So please please please fill out your timeline because it helps fellow filers tremendously!

They started working on July cases yesterday 🎉

I wonder if they started processing May today

Yesss! Congrats! I’m really happy for you! 😊🤗

Unfortunately you don’t get to decide. All petitions are processed in the California service center unless the US petitioner has a serious criminal background (then it’s sent to Vermont). You file your petition via mail, not in person.

Yes, I can say it with confidence that this spreadsheet has a big role in keeping all of us sane 😄 it’s made by @Obllak huge thanks to them!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sN2bo1xZhs8oVU6-QDUdBXBX2_ci8_QJ0wiz59Gp6H4/htmlview?lsrp=1#

It took about 2 weeks for us to receive noa1 after sending the package

I saw somewhere here on the forum before that if you have the interview in your native country you don't need get the police certificate translated. Is that false information?

I've been taking screenshots to try to find some kind of pattern in the "Total cases" percentage changes. So far it seems like the number ("% of processes cases") for the most active month (February right now) goes up around 3% every day. They started working on February when January was at 46.55% (+18.41% touched). They started working on March when February was at 34% (+15.48% touched). I'm assuming March will take longer because there are many more cases, but *in my personal opinion* they should start working on April in about 3 weeks tops

I started taking screenshots daily of the "Total cases" from the spreadsheet. They started working on February after 3 weeks of processing January. They started working on March after 2 weeks of processing February.

Yeah, I was super nervous about it. I thought we messed up something 😅 anyways, we’ll see, thanks for your help! 🤗

Yeah it says august 15. So I guess we should be in the august group even tho we sent it at the end of July and only received noa after ~2 weeks

I see, thanks! I’m super confused now tho 😅 I always thought it was weird that we got our noa so late compared to everyone else. I guess we’ll just wait and see (if anyone knowledgeable would be so kind to help me figure it out by our wac number, I’d really appreciate it 😊)

We sent ours on July 27 but only received noa on august 15. Now that makes me wonder, do we count as July filers? I always assumed we’re august because of our noa date

We are in our 8th year of LDR. We initially wanted to get engaged and be married much sooner but then Covid happened… we couldn’t meet in person for 1.5 a year. We knew from the beginning that we want to make our engagement and wedding as traditional as possible even if it meant it’ll take longer to get there. For example I knew he was gonna propose, but it was a surprise when and where it’d happen. Maybe it sounds silly, but this was important to me after having such an “untraditional” relationship. We got engaged in the US and when I had to come back I was super depressed for a long time. Being on that high and then having to leave him and be apart again was very hard. Then I found the forum a week after we filed and saw a lot of people pushing CR1. It made me very anxious and felt like we made a mistake with the K1. But then I remember how depressed I was when I had to leave after the engagement and imagine how much worse I’d feel if we had gotten married and would have to leave my *husband* and not see him for months again. It’s just not how we want to spend our first year of marriage.

You're right, I don't. And I believe no one else here does. So why are you even asking us here for help? Just go ahead and file whatever and however you want. Good luck!

Don't ask me this. Ask USCIS employees that'll handle your case

I'd say it definitely sounds sus and would be a red flag... You haven't even met this person and within 2 months you want to marry them? That's why others suggested to meet at least twice before filing. There's ton of info on this site to look all this up. What's stopping you to go through it and read it like everyone else does?

I don't want to break your spirits, but you should note: end of september in 2023, which is next year

My logic might be off here so please share your thoughts. If they want to push back the processing time to 6 months by the end of september 2023, doesn't that mean that they'll have to process all pending cases they have right now by the end of march 2023?