annax

Woohoo!

Congrats on the approvals! :dance:

Am I seeing things or is CSC approving K3's way ahead of K1's? Igor's list is showing some July and August K3's getting their NOA2's. If this is the case, I wish now we would have gone the K3 route.

On the bright side, we've moved up 45 spots on the list in the past 3 weeks..... So there is hope.

Good luck to everyone who is waiting so patiently.

Yeah I've been noticing that as well and thinking #######? Everything I read about this process before applying said that k3 took months longer then k1. I keep wondering if there is a step I'm not seeing in the process that makes it slower? I'm really wishing we'd gone k-3 now -- would have been 2 months faster!

Can't believe it but got my NOA2 on Thursday 2nd October 2008 from CSC. I am soo happy and can't believe its came this quick, a lot quicker than anticipated. I think i'm the first June filer from CSC with NOA2. I was 109 on Igors list yesterday. woo hoo.

Hope everyone as much LUCK as me!

Stuart

Congrats - 127 days! You're almost a month ahead of VJ averages. I hope the rest of us get that kind of speed-up, too.

congrats on being the first June filer! I think were all thrilled to see the 06 dates finally starting to show!

I really hope that fiscal theory proves true. Yesterdays approvals were really exciting to see, 6 approvals on a Wednesday! I hope it keeps up and I'll be super thrilled when the first June date shows, I think it could be any day now.

Has anyone seen an explanation as to why CSC is so far behind. It seems they're always behind. I mean if their receiving more apps. then why aren't they increasing staff. Just thinking out loud, I'm a July filer, but it does make me cranky when I think about the time involved. It seems the Immigration office has raised their application fees about 100% in the last 2-3 years, unfortunately they didn't raise their quality of service.

On their site they make it seem like they're changing their priority more to other visas with quotas to meet since we're right at the end of the fiscal year.

So the optimist in me says we should be seeing more approvals in much larger quantities at the end of the week or next week as a new fiscal year begins.

Where do you see something about priority and quotas? Have a link? I think theyre probably fast tracking people who are trying to naturalize in time for the election. I had a friend who went through that recently, was told a wait time of a year and then managed to complete the process and have the ceremony in a few months time. She filed her paperwork well after I did. It would seem k-1's are pretty low priority looking at the processing times for other types of cases. It could be worse though check this one out >.<:

I-829 Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (immigrant investors) based on PL107-273 September 10, 1997

1997....wow....

Has nothing to do with the elections, as it doesn't give them a pay raise, so they're not going to adjudicate any faster due to elections. It's based upon quotas and especially the fiscal year.

https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/jsps/Processtim...eviceCenter=CSC

In fiscal year 2007, USCIS received 1.4 million applications for naturalization; nearly double the volume received the year before. USCIS is working to improve processes and focus increased resources, including hiring approximately 1,500 new employees, to address this workload.

Last year's application surge did not impact USCIS offices evenly across the country. Although most offices have already processed cases received during the 2007 filing surge, a handful of offices will have a small percentage of their 2007 cases pending at the end of Fiscal Year 2008. That will result in processing times longer than the 10-12 month national average. USCIS will continue to shift resources to ensure that all local offices achieve the goal of five month processing times.

Dunno how else to put it, other than they have a higher volume of pending naturalization cases and thus shifting their resources to meet those quotas -- based upon fiscal year, not the elections.

So, once again, the optimist in me says things will get better for us May and June filers pretty soon.

yeah its pretty depressing seeing filers with noa dates before april getting noa2 in 4 months time, whereas its up to 5 months now for recent ones. =/

Has anyone seen an explanation as to why CSC is so far behind. It seems they're always behind. I mean if their receiving more apps. then why aren't they increasing staff. Just thinking out loud, I'm a July filer, but it does make me cranky when I think about the time involved. It seems the Immigration office has raised their application fees about 100% in the last 2-3 years, unfortunately they didn't raise their quality of service.

On their site they make it seem like they're changing their priority more to other visas with quotas to meet since we're right at the end of the fiscal year.

So the optimist in me says we should be seeing more approvals in much larger quantities at the end of the week or next week as a new fiscal year begins.

Where do you see something about priority and quotas? Have a link? I think theyre probably fast tracking people who are trying to naturalize in time for the election. I had a friend who went through that recently, was told a wait time of a year and then managed to complete the process and have the ceremony in a few months time. She filed her paperwork well after I did. It would seem k-1's are pretty low priority looking at the processing times for other types of cases. It could be worse though check this one out >.<:

I-829 Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions Removal of lawful permanent resident conditions (immigrant investors) based on PL107-273 September 10, 1997

1997....wow....

What did you expect from an agency who used the excuse, "the increase in processing fees would add additional personnel, and give us better and faster service?" That was one of the oldest tricks in the books in order to give themselves a pay raise, without having to ask Washington for it.

The sad thing is, if you look at older timelines, it would seem they got even slower. You can see timelines from 2006 being approved in 3 months time from the CSC, currently it would seem were up to 5 months.... =/

How is everyone holding up???

Today was a rough day at work SO i am happy it is DONE. I am exhausted!

Kai got a better job to help with wedding funds and that SO I am HAPPY!!! this takes so much pressure off me!

I feel so blessed today!

Aubry love you doing okay today??? Hold that head high...we are in this all together girl and think..SOON SOON we will get our loved ones back!!

BIG HUGS ALL!

Meri

Trying to keep busy. Andy's still pooped from his long flight so I've only had a short hello time. He's going to need another day to recover - that 9 hour time change is a doosey. Then hopefully he'll stay busy with job hunting and stuff during the day. We're sure going to need the money to help pay for all the visa/medical/flight/wedding/AOS stuff coming up down the road. Wish I had time to work a part-time job to make the financial stuff less overwhelming, but it's not realistic with my studio projects & intern job. I have a ton of work to catch up on this weekend since last week I couldn't focus on it.

Basically I'm trying to keep my nose to the grindstone so I don't notice how empty and quiet this place feels without Andy here.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words and consoling. It's really helped me. I can't stand hearing from people not going through this - "it's not forever" or otherwise blowing it off like it's no big deal. It feels so much better knowing there are people out there that really understand and care.

Me to! I get a little jealous because everyone gets to visit their lovers and kai and I have not been able to afford a visit since he was here. I really cant wait to have him get off that plane and never have to leave me again

Yeah I get jealous of all the people who have partners in canada or mexico... and the ticket prices to Australia fluctuate so wildly, $1000 in August $3000 in December. =/ On the plus side, I now have enough miles to fly to Sydney for the interview (good thing to cause its likely to be in December!)

Btw.. I'm a late june filer, but we dont seem to have a thread that is active so I think I'll join you lot, were close enough on the timeline anyway.

New June filer here. In just before the end of the month. File was received at CSC June 27, Check cashed July 1. Now we play the waiting game =(

New June filer here. In just before the end of the month. File was received at CSC June 27, Check cashed July 1. Now we play the waiting game =(

Officers adjudicate (process) petitions and decide to approve, deny or Request Further Evidence. So basically adjudication is the process of "processing" files.

so it means when you can expect your 129-F to be processed and passed on to the VSC (meaning the whole process will actually take longer then that date)