panamania79

You nailed it!

Now Trump's fault because he's protecting the United States of America from illegal immigrants. Later, its Biden's fault for letting too many immigrants coming to the US that slow the petition process. 
Do you think we ever blame the president while we did this process? As stated above,you only been in this journey for 4 months! Im telling you my dear you still have long way to go there's still NVC stage,medical and embassy interview. 
Why don't you stay positive and stop blaming anyone. Instead, read more about the visa category you're in so that you'll know what to expect and you'll be ready for your visa interview.
Sitting around and blaming Trump for your 4 months in process is childish.🙄🙄🙄

Seriously? You had to come to this forum, which has been so useful to many people, to vent about your political views? 
Wow...

Haha and I can imagine how much everything will slow if he opens the boarders and lets everyone with an approved i130 in.. 
 
the administrative processes will be overwhelmed and of course PD will come back into play since we’re all here and suddenly the AOS process gets pushed out to 5 years...  oh and of course priority processing will need to be given to all the new arrivals 🙄 and asylum seekers..
 
And since asylum seekers don’t pay processing fees and are free to walk across the boarder with their entire family fee paying applicants will be expected to pay more and more and more thanks to the massive new free entry sign... 

And on January 20th, 2021 it will all be Bidens fault. Maybe it's because most people on here are not from the US, or had to deal with US government anything until now, but I have never seen anything fast concerning the US government doing anything. Unless it's to give themselves a raise in pay. That seems to process pretty quickly.

I know under GHWB was "fast".     USCIS K/CR/IR petitions are pretty much running a checklist in about a half and hour.

COVID is still an issue and no one is being forced to go back to consulates.  And few are volunteering.

I don’t even think it’s that they’re doing nothing, I think they’re just super understaffed overall at the embassy level.

Unless you are working at the embassy you don't know that they are "literally doing nothing". Global health pandemic. 

Honestly can’t wait for you to start the AOS process... if you think it’s slow now your gunna have a whole heap of fun when you get to the next stage.. 
 
patience is the key, some of us have been at this 2+ years and still no green card or EAD

I know this is crazy but... not everything is Trumps fault. 🤷🏼‍♀️ You just started this process hang on for a bumpy ride. 

you think before Trump this was fast?
got our visa in 2015 a year before Trump
 
(and i am not a fan of his either) but Nebraska had our CR1 10 months and then transfered it to Missouri for faster processing (another 5 months)
and to NVC where i paid fees within a week of getting the notice and  all the documents within the month and it took over 8 months for NVC to process
so,  who do i blame?  this is life and sometimes things happen fast and sometimes slow/ its just life 

I agree with you. I've also only been waiting four months and I fully expect to wait at least four more. I actually count my blessings that my petition at least isn't stuck in limbo 

Can I share somethings with you that I learned long ago about this process?

    • "the man with the gold makes the rules"
    • it will take as long as it will take 
    • no one with any certainty can tell you when some process will be completed
    • Your sense of urgency will never be equaled to what USCIS, NVC or your embassy demonstrates
    • Your journey is not going to mirror someone else's experience - yours and theirs are not the same
    • They only promised you a YES or NO answer. Never an exact time that their decision would be completed
    • Lowering your expectations will make you a much more relaxed individual
 
We have a constitution with a bill of rights. In that document everything President Trump is doing is law of the Constitution Country of ours. There have been other Presidents who have exercised their due diligence to help protect the American public and they too have abided by that same set of laws. 
 
There is a discussion on historical wait times for the K-1 visa with current projections. You'll find that discussion here:
https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/740988-k1-visa-i-129f-processing-at-csc-now-at-150-days-total-k1-timeline-now-9-months/
 
 
Adding facts to the conversation, in the first 11 months of FY2019, USCIS adjudicated 7.5 million requests for immigration benefits, naturalized 833,000 new citizens, granted lawful permanent residence to 582,000 individuals, processed more than 2.1 million employment authorization applications, verified more than forty million new hires through E-Verify, the Asylum Division received more than 105,000 credible fear cases, and USCIS met the 30,000-refugee admissions ceiling for FY 2019. I don't see where they are the embassies are demonstrating a "disregard for your time" See the extended version here:
 
Cuccinelli Announces USCIS’ FY 2019 Accomplishments and Efforts to Implement President Trump’s Goals
USCIS, like other Federal Agencies, does a tremendous amount of work, is seldom appreciated, or praised, and the scale of work they do is several orders of magnitude larger than private companies but we as the world outside, and the consultants who often have worked on small to middling projects seem to be obsessed with private enterprise as a model to emulate!
Sometimes the tallest building seems small when shrouded in clouds.  
 
The destruction of reason has seen the triumph of ignorance.  

LOL, I missed that.  OP, your petition isn't even close to being at the embassy, so I'm not sure why you're critiquing embassy workers.
 
Pre-COVID, our I-129F took six months to be approved.  Might as well get used to waiting.

I am in no way a Trump fan (or voter), but as much as he and others would like to think he has absolute power over everything at all times, he does not.  Including over immigration.
 
The executive orders/presidential proclamations he has put in place have clearly stalled the progress of some visa categories, but as far as workflow at individual embassies, that is controlled at the local level.
 
Pandemic conditions vary by country and region, and the workflow decisions made at local outposts reflect that.
 
It really isn't fair though to say that people working at embassies are 'literally doing nothing.'  That just isn't true.   

It appears you have been in the process for only 4 months........ The fun has just begun....

It’s a myriad of problems, including staffing, covid, overall USCIS incompetence, etc. It’s easy to point at Trump based on his anti immigration stand and just solely blame him (and believe me I detest Trump), and the EOs have affected a lot of folks, but it’s a multi faceted issue.

No, I don't "get that feeling".  Everything is ALWAYS Trump's fault??.......For your information, the world is in the midst of a PANDEMIC...which originated outside the US!!!!!    

Does anyone else get the feeling that Trump secretly stopped all immigration until the election was over? These processing times and quite frankly the embassies blatant disregard for people’s time just doesn’t add up to me. People are working at these embassies but are literally doing nothing. I don’t know...just seems like something he would do. Maybe I’m reaching, but we all know how he feels about immigration. 

Double congratulations! So glad this went so smooth for you!! 

Do you remember what kind of questions they asked regarding I-944? 
You are the first person I saw that filed AOS after the public charge rule has gone into effect and got approved. 

Congratulations on the speedy approval,I'm truly impressed!

La frescura de algunos hombres!You cannot get deported!If he goes to the USCIS and lies,he will be the one getting in trouble!Kick his sorry @ss to the curb,you and your son do not need that negative enviorment!

Si, man -- out with it, Woman (or, if in Canada, oot with it, eh man).