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2 minutes ago, AK65 said:

Somewhere it is mentioned that first 2 digits is fiscal year, then next 3 digits are work day number for that year and last 5 digits are actual case number filed on that day. But not able to match this year and work day decoding sequence with my case number.

Thank you so much for your help, we deeply appreciate it!! 

4 minutes ago, AK65 said:

Case number starts with IOE946 with online petition date of 17th January 2023

Thanks! This is helpful. Are you maybe familiar with other receipt number letters (first three, usually related to Service Centers) that has high volume cases? 

10 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

IOE is not service center/ it is online petitiom

 

u can not apply petition online for K1/ u send tio the address listed for K1

And they send it on

Ki if no issues will be sent to California

 

Cr1 has multiple service centers

We are wondering just about I-130, not K1.

You are right, we are not actually asking about Service Centers, but about the letters in Receipt Number, by which you can track your case (like IOE, WAC, FO etc.)

Hi everyone!

We built website link removed for I-129F and we are thinking of building it for I-130 as well.

We are aware of the IOE service center and it seems that the vast majority of cases are filed there. Is that correct? 
Are there any other high volume Service Centers that process I-130 cases that we should include?

We would appreciate any useful information, including receipt numbers examples if you are willing to share of DM them. 

Thanks!!

5 minutes ago, AK65 said:

In the I-129F processing statistics, how the cases applied for K3 are classified, while I-130 application is in process or I-130 is approved and I-129F is "Administratively Closed"?

This I believe is connected to the status "case closed benefit received by other means”, correct? We classify those cases in I-129F as "Withdrawn", because it better reflects the fact that they were removed from the backlog out of order. 

20 hours ago, Quimat said:

So essentially we shouldn’t be concerned about yesterday’s numbers not being that great?

Not at all, the averages are good

22 minutes ago, Vashezzo said:

Doesn't sound immediately concerning to me - has the ratio of approvals to denials increased appreciably? It's not surprising to see a higher raw frequency of denials as they process cases faster, but rejections should stay about the same unless the number of new cases filed also increases.

Absolutely, I agree. We are unfortunately lacking data from 2020 to know for sure. 

What is very interesting regarding this is the fact, that they used to reject more cases per month than deny, but they switched since February this year, when they started processing drastically higher numbers of cases (when USCIS got many new workers). Concerning? 

7 hours ago, Oregonian97 said:

How are you taking account rejected/denials in your daily "processed" numbers? I generally don't take credit for those because most of them are from cases filed just now and don't count towards your backlog reduction. If you look at Oblak's spreadsheet, your filing month of October already has very similar rejection numbers overall compared with months currently being processed. It won't make your dates much worse, but something to consider. 

Most of them are from denied. For example, yesterday they denied 42 cases and rejected 10. On May 18th, they denied 50 cases and rejected 10 etc. 

Denied = applicant is ineligible to receive a visa (older cases; in the backlog)
Rejected = USCIS reject form upon receipt if the form is incorrectly filled (newer cases; not in the backlog)

Looks like USCIS had a "cleaning day" yesterday - they processed more older cases (from June to December 2021) and way less "hot zone" cases compared to previous days. But in general, not the best processing day regarding SUM numbers. Nonetheless, average number of processing cases for this month are still hitting the highest records!  

25 minutes ago, Nicki s said:

Does anyone know if they have started to clean up the older cases left behind?

im a March 11 filler - 61000 range and it’s not been touched properly for 2 weeks now, and over 100 cases left! It’s so weird! When only around 700 left for March ! So scared of getting left for months on end !

They are processing older cases all the time, just at slower speed (putting less attention to older months)  . For example, yesterday they approved 1 case from February 2021, 3 cases from July 2021, 2 from August 2021 etc. 

1 hour ago, AK65 said:

I don't think we have I-130 script, which someone can run like we have it for I-129F.

Thank you! 

2 hours ago, Vashezzo said:

Makes me wonder how 8-10% of filers manage to get rejected immediately, it seems like the only ways to do so are to not pay the correct fee or to not sign the form..

There are "rejections" and "denials". Rejections happen immediately if the form is not correctly filed (missing signature, incorrect form type etc.), while denials happen later, if USCIS decide that applicant is not eligible to receive visa. 

Are you guys sure you are not missing the expedition label? Sometimes it gets expedited and also then processed the same day. if you are scanning after that and the change of statuses are not saved into the database, you simply can't know there were ever expedited. All expedited cases we see are processed extremely fast. 

Hi everyone! Did I-130 ever had scanners here on VJ? 

Hi everyone! Did I-130 ever had scanners here on VJ? 

5 hours ago, meladee said:

I understand having the gut reaction of "why are these people so negative?!" but anyone who has filed after ~June 2022 is coming from a place of privilege, where we've mostly seen the processing rates increase & processing times decrease, and are likely to get approved within the window we expected. I honestly cannot imagine having started this process with the expectation of 8-9-10 months and then actually experiencing 14-15-16 months instead. They aren't being negative because they want to poop on everyone's parade, they believe they're being reasitic because it happened to them. What they would have given to not have those months of disappointment and frustration! I am empathetic to their lived experience and understand why they have the point of view they do.

And this is the "problem" of "Processing Times" of official USCIS page, when so many people think they are reflecting the future processing time, while it is showing just historical processing time. They were not being told it will take 8-9-10 months, they were just told that in the past (before this times were published), 80% of cases took 8-9-10 months to be processed. It has nothing to the with the future trend.

6 hours ago, AK65 said:

Anyone knows, whether similar statistics are available for I130 as well?

We are planning to do the data for I-130 after we launch the website for I-129F

33 minutes ago, HC&DJXG said:

I think some people are getting their NOA2 from yesterday just now. So probably just another glitch

Thank you for letting us know! 

4 minutes ago, ChiuA said:

Prolly bugged, Oballak trying to figure out what's going on I am assuming right now @Oballak 

I just run the code again and got few extra denials/rejections. Maybe we will have a big increase in numbers tomorrow as it happened in the past before. Or maybe just a bug in the system. Who knows! But our code went normally through. Will definitely check logs tomorrow again for yesterday to see if they update some statuses today for yesterday. 

Just now, Bh_sarah said:

Oh wow. They did include results after the scans then or maybe after the outage. The custom script scanner also got the same 3 approvals yesterday. Great news!!! I can't wait to scan it again today and see more numbers than I was expecting. Thank you for letting me know!!

You're welcome!

8 minutes ago, Nikobe said:

Sorry to go off topic but does anybody have a good overview about what vaccines are required for the medical appointment? Also, is there any information on when to schedule this / what to expect?

Here! https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/vaccinations.html and https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/pdf/vaccine-requirements-according-to-applicant-age-p.pdf (according to your age). 

They might removed some vaccines from the first link, I find different informations at the moment. But I hope it helps!