I-129F Filers, March 2015 NOA1 date! TSC only!

[dmaven 7]

ImmiFairy.com is showing a bunch of March approvals today, looks like the trend is leading into this month!

[CharlieTanger 76]

APPROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ESCAPED THE BLACK HOLE!

Wow I could not believe it! Only off my prediction by 7 days!

Celebration now in Tennessee. Linh leaves in 60 hours to go back to Vietnam. Perfect timing! We are blessed

Good Luck to All

Just saw this. Congrats good sir! your prediction was quite close! Best of luck with the rest of your journey! I'm at the embassy stage now.

[JennyandVaughn 3]

I didn't receive notice of an approval today, but I did receive notice that we've been sent an RFE and I'm still overjoyed. I'm just happy there's finally been some progress! Congrats to everyone who has been approved.

[KASH2011 382]

APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!

Just got the notification from the case app and checked online!!!! approved on august 24, from the SRC159023 lot!!!!!!!

Congrats!

[IleanaArpaio 10]

March 23 here ....Waiting & Waiting! POSITIVE POSITIVE!

Congrats for those who got approved!!

[Mad & J 25]

Congrats to those who were approved!

I checked our case status this morning and still nothing, but the case right before ours (!!!), also 129F, got approved yesterday. Hopefully this means we won't have to wait very long, but I've spent enough time on these boards to know by now not to put too much stock into that. TSC is fickle!

[Egyptian m7tas 1]

ok I thought i was March 17 but since i read the thread and knew that my NOA1 was March 23 , the date that appear on checking the src ..
the funny part is I was extremely happy when i saw approvals on immifairy for March 17 .. anyway even the senator did not reply on us ..

it is getting darker for me

[Yana32 9]

Hi all! Noa1 is march 2 here. Still waiting though. hope it wont be long. How do you check the sequence of the src numbers? Thanks

[Tom and SooGyeong 87]

Hi all! Noa1 is march 2 here. Still waiting though. hope it wont be long. How do you check the sequence of the src numbers? Thanks

There is no sequence.

USCIS receives about 20,000 applications per quarter, so SRC numbers are assigned according to availability. If you go here

https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus

You can plug in your Case number to check your status. However, if you change the last number of your SRC (the last three), you may see the status of a completely different visa application, and one that was filed days, weeks or even months different from yours. For instance, your case number may be SRC1590221***. and when you type it into the link above, it returns the status of your Case file, but also lists that your case file is a I-129f, Received on March 2, etc...

But if you change even just the last digit of your case number by 1, the response may show an I-797 Received on August 8, 2015, or a note that a Green Card was Mailed, tracking number is "....."

No sequence to the numbers, and neither rhyme nor reason to the way TSC chooses files to process.

탐

(Tom)

Edited August 28, 2015 by Tom and SooGyeong

[Yana32 9]

There is no sequence.

USCIS receives about 20,000 applications per quarter, so SRC numbers are assigned according to availability. If you go here

https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus

You can plug in your Case number to check your status. However, if you change the last number of your SRC (the last three), you may see the status of a completely different visa application, and one that was filed days, weeks or even months different from yours. For instance, your case number may be SRC1590221***. and when you type it into the link above, it returns the status of your Case file, but also lists that your case file is a I-129f, Received on March 2, etc...

But if you change even just the last digit of your case number by 1, the response may show an I-797 Received on August 8, 2015, or a note that a Green Card was Mailed, tracking number is "....."

No sequence to the numbers, and neither rhyme nor reason to the way TSC chooses files to process.

탐

(Tom)

Thank you Tom! Our receive date was feb 25 and we received email notif mar 2. Still waiting for noa2. Taking a toll on both of my partner and i but we are trying to be patient. Hoping for the best. And praying for everyone who are still waiting too.

[Tom and SooGyeong 87]

Thank you Tom! Our receive date was feb 25 and we received email notif mar 2. Still waiting for noa2. Taking a toll on both of my partner and i but we are trying to be patient. Hoping for the best. And praying for everyone who are still waiting too.

If you look back to page 20 of this thread, I posted a question, "What is your REAL NOA1". From your description 'Our receive date was feb 25 and we received email notif mar 2' it sounds as if your real NOA1 may be earlier than March 2. The date listed as 'Received' on the Case File Status page when you type in your SRC case file number, is your actual NOA1. It is also the date in the middle of your hardcopy. The date that the notice was sent only refers to the mailing date of your hardcopy, but the date listed as 'Received' is the one that was used to enter your case file into the system.

https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus

Ours was mailed on Feb 28th, Received on March 5th, and notice mailed on March 7th. So, we are in the system as March 5th filers.

[Mad & J 25]

We were approved last night at long last!!! I was just talking to my fiancee on Skype last night about an hour before we got notice, and telling her that the case before ours had been approved but that we shouldn't get our hopes up too much because it didn't necessarily mean anything, and that we might have to wait another couple of weeks for all we knew. Glad I was wrong!

SO glad that this part is over! Now I just have to review the next steps, it's been so long that I've forgotten most of it.

Best of luck to those still waiting! I hope that your turn comes very soon!

Edited August 28, 2015 by Mad & J

[Yana32 9]

Congratulations to you!!! thats giving me some hope... I hope we too will receive some good news soon. How do you know the cases before you?

If you look back to page 20 of this thread, I posted a question, "What is your REAL NOA1". From your description 'Our receive date was feb 25 and we received email notif mar 2' it sounds as if your real NOA1 may be earlier than March 2. The date listed as 'Received' on the Case File Status page when you type in your SRC case file number, is your actual NOA1. It is also the date in the middle of your hardcopy. The date that the notice was sent only refers to the mailing date of your hardcopy, but the date listed as 'Received' is the one that was used to enter your case file into the system.

https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus

Ours was mailed on Feb 28th, Received on March 5th, and notice mailed on March 7th. So, we are in the system as March 5th filers.

Edited August 28, 2015 by Yana32

[Yana32 9]

Ohhh thank you Tom! So our noa1 is feb 25 and 6 months have passed already. I guess its just not our time yet because a lot of feb filers have been approved already and they are starting with march applications.

[Tom and SooGyeong 87]

Congratulations to you!!! thats giving me some hope... I hope we too will receive some good news soon. How do you know the cases before you?

Hmmm....

Yana32, you are congratulating Mad & J, but quoting me, so I am not sure who you are asking your question to.

However, as I explained earlier, there truly can be no 'case before you' as Mad & J posted, because TSC does not process files in order, and the NOA1 Case numbers are not in any specific order either. However, there is a chronology to the numbers, and somewhat of an order, based on the internal timestamp of the case files, which cannot be seen on the Receipt.

For example, My case file is SRC1590222846, which is a March 5th NOA1, There are 13 others, (small group, as some days have upwards of 150). I have an APP on my iPhone called Case Buddy. It's free. It allows me to input multiple USCIS case files, and check on the status at anytime, just by selecting 'Update'. Since all of the March 5 cases begin with SRC1590222, that means that I only had to cycle through the 1000 different combinations that are the last 3 digits to locate the other 13 numbers. The smallest being 511 and the largest, (mine) at 846. I have all 14 plugged in to the Case Buddy APP, and can check on all March 5th Files as often as I like. I will know when a fellow March 5th case is Approved, or RFE'd before it is ever posted on Immifairy, and possibly before the lucky Approved Couple does.

So, as Mad & J posted, it IS Possible to know that the file 'Before Yours' is approved. even though it truly is not 'Before', just 'Near'.

Tom