Ken1

Hi All,

I received my NOA1 dated Sept. 4th but have never been able to check my online status nor use the automated phone service with my tracking/receipt number. I double checked my receipt number and it is the same on both my NOA1 and cashed check.

I called USCIS and after getting passed from the first operator to a second one (presumably some time of supervisor/hire-up), they looked my up by name. They found my name/address/fiancée's name no problem, so that was assuring. They told me to wait until a month had passed and it should show up. I did that and called back, went through the same process and was told to wait another month. I then received a letter in the mail acknowledging that I had called and reported a problem and it said that the IT dept. was looking into it and I should feel free to call again. I called back this week and was told, "Don't worry about it, that online tracking doesn't really serve much of a purpose anyway, it's totally unrelated to our internal system which you're in." I asked if they could look up my case number to see if it match the one I had (perhaps there was a mistake/typo), but was told that she didn't have a case number there. I asked if she could do anything so that I could at least follow my status and I was told "no". So helpful, right?!?!

Any thoughts? Should I be concerned? Should I let it go? Should I keep calling and try to get to the bottom of it?

Thanks to all you helpful people!!! May we all get our NOA2s soooooooooon!!!!!

Thank you all for the reassuring thoughts. It's really helpful for peace of mind.

First, and above all, CONGRATS!!! You must be psyched! My birthday is in a month and a half and I hope to get the same present!!!

Second, I got my NOA1 on Sept. 4th and I still can not track my number online!!! I called USCIS and they told me not to worry that my name was in the system (they looked me up by name and found me which was reassuring) and it could take up to a month. At around a month I called again and they told me the same thing and to wait another month (which is now 5 days away). The then sent me a letter saying their IT dept. was looking into it. Others here have told me not to sweat it, but as you all know, it's hard not to sweat such an important matter.

Any thoughts?

Thanks and best to all!!!

Wow.. that would make me nervous, too. Did they also verify that it could NOT be tracked online? Is it at all possible that you are not using the EXACT correct number? I used the wrong one a few times myself.

I've called and spoken to them on the phone on a few occasions. Every time they've told me my name is in the system and my case is therefore processing, not to worry and that the online system is only for customer info, but has nothing to do with the actual processing. The number on my receipt is the same as on the cashed check and I've double checked the number a bunch of times...

First, and above all, CONGRATS!!! You must be psyched! My birthday is in a month and a half and I hope to get the same present!!!

Second, I got my NOA1 on Sept. 4th and I still can not track my number online!!! I called USCIS and they told me not to worry that my name was in the system (they looked me up by name and found me which was reassuring) and it could take up to a month. At around a month I called again and they told me the same thing and to wait another month (which is now 5 days away). The then sent me a letter saying their IT dept. was looking into it. Others here have told me not to sweat it, but as you all know, it's hard not to sweat such an important matter.

Any thoughts?

Thanks and best to all!!!

Thanks for the good advice! I can feel that you're going to get your approval any day now, don't know why, I just feel it!!!

I wish we'd put more photographs of us together in our pack , we found this site after we had filed.

Its a long process and the more I think about "I wish I'd done this or that" the more frustrated I get.

Shannon is my rock and she keeps telling me if they want more evidence they can have it, from looking at ppl's RFE's on here it should only hold things up for 10-14 days so after waiting 4-6 months if we get one we do. At least i know someone has looked at the file and its not propping up a table somewhere!!!

I decided to hire a lawyer in this process and she seemed experienced and like she knew what she was doing. That said, there are a couple of things that she didn't include in the packet that I now wish I had pushed for and I am worrying I might get and RFE. In terms of my lawyer filling out papers, I'm confident that she did all that right, and where we wrote about events in our statements the lawyer included things like "see photos at tab 1" and "see receipts at tab 2." I am just worried about evidence and I hope I'm just being paranoid and would love any advice you more experienced folks have.

My lawyer included photos and some receipts and my boarding passes, a copy of my passport and a few emails as well as our statements, all of which seemed great. I had a TON of other documentation when I was at her office, but she said that she knew what the USCIS was looking for and there was no need to send in too many things. My main worries are the following:

In our application she included bus tickets (two round trip tickets) to document a trip we did together (we had mentioned this trip in our application and included photos), however they had no names on the tickets. She DIDN'T include the plane ticket receipts for a flight we took together that DID have our names on it. All the receipts she included (which weren't many), had no identification of names - incidentally, we had some receipts with our names on them that she didn't include (all pretty generic hand written from bed and breakfast type places).

She DIDN'T include receipts I had for engagement rings (in Brazil both the man and woman gets one), nor any other gift receipts and said it was unnecessary.

My fiancée is pregnant and she did include an ultra-sound and doctors report from 8 weeks (we're now at 17!!!) and perhaps she felt that trumps all, but I'm nervous as you can imagine.

Of course my fiancée will bring all the above mentioned documents to her interview, but I'm just hoping there is no risk of RFE.

Thanks for any help and good luck to all!!!

For a while is seemed that the K-1 visas were most often processing in just over three months, but it looks like recent times have started to get longer. Is this just my imagination? I just looked at my own timeline prediction on VJ and if I'm not mistake, I think it's now saying a later projected date then it said days ago. Is this moving based on other peoples statistics?

Hi Everyone,

My case seems to be going as normally as anyone else's with one glitch - the online tracking.

I am applying for the K1 visa, I-129F, from the Vermont service center. I hired a lawyer (didn't want to take any chances) and we sent in all our materials on Sept. 2nd, 2008. Shortly thereafter my lawyer received and I-797C NOA 1 form dated September 4th, 2008. I eagerly looked up our tracking number online and couldn't find it. I was told my my lawyer and then the USCIS when I called, that it usually took a couple weeks to enter into the system and could take up to a month. When the people at USCIS looked me up by name, they found my case and that gave me some peace of mind (so nice to hear them read of my fiancée and my names and other info). After 4 weeks I called again and they told me to wait another month. About 10 days later I received a letter in the mail saying that they were acknowledging my problem with the online system and the IT department would look into it. We are now at 6 and a half weeks and no online tracking. I called my lawyer to ask what number was printed on the back of our cashed check, but she told me that she would get back to me when the secretary had time to go through all the September bills/receipts.

I would like to be able to see stuff online, however, if everything is going smoothly, than I'm not too worried. Should I be worried? Does it not showing up online (when many other peoples cases are) mean that my package hasn't even gotten to that stage of the game, or was it just an oversite and it's still going through the normal steps? Is my package lost under someone's desk at USCIS?!?!?

On another note, my beautiful fiancée is 15 weeks pregnant and we sooooooooo want to be together ASAP (she's in Brazil and I just went down there for 5 days to be together, get and ultrasound...). If our case goes through in 3 to 4 months as it seems many do at the VSC then we should be cool, she can travel up until the end of February/beginning of March - will we make it?!

Lastly, my lawyer seems very lax (but professional about everything). I went to her office with a TON of documentation and she took little of it (took bus ticket receipts without our names on them to demonstrate that we had travelled in Brazil together but left the plane tickets with our names on them out of what she sent it). She is experienced and said that she knows what the USCIS wants and needs to see, and doesn't need to bombard them with millions of documents. She I take a deep breath and rest assured that she knows best?

Thanks and best of luck to EVERYONE of you!!!!