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Hi friends! First post here and I was delighted to see something like this site actually existed.

Quick question. I was documentarily qualified for my IR1 petition (wife & her son) in January 2026. The case is waiting for an interview slot in Manila, Philippines. We got the NBI clearance and foreign work clearances in January.

1) Is there anything I should be doing now?

2) Is there any way to estimate a wait time?

Ok our case is "ready" and it's in Jakarta Indonesia. We have NOT received anything from the embassy, nor have we received the case ID from NVC are those things I need to wait for or can I pay the visa fees and schedule his interview? Please any advice is appreciated..

Hello fellow VJ friends,

I have both my I-751 and N400 filed. I received my I-751 interview slot 2 months after filing my N400.
Went to the interview in Chicago the other day and was told my Green Card is extended, however I was fully expecting them to process the N400 at the same time (they used to combine these, right?). To my surprise, that did not happen and the Officer informed me that the Chicago Office has not been processing N400 interviews for over 6 months! Is that true? I thought it was only for select countries.

I was told to sit tight and wait, with no indication of when I can expect a N400 interview.

Anyone that filed in February 2026 receive their receipt notice yet? Filed Feb 9th. After waiting around 21 days, I contacted an agent via emma to open a case. After around 45 days, I got an email asking me to send an email to Lockbox. Haven't heard anything from the Lockbox yet and have not received receipt yet. In the mean time, I also contacted USCIS via phone and asked for ADIT stamp. That is on the way now. Is this normal?

Hi everyone,

Adam (US/NYC resident and sponsor) and I, Carolina (resident in Spain, Madrid) filed our K1 visa on September 15th 2025 and got notified on September 17th 2025 of its reception at the Texas office.

We never got the NO1 to NO2 notification from the Texas Office we were expecting in January.

We have had no news from USCIS since September 17th of 2025. No petition of amendment, fingerprints or anything has been requested from their side. Just silence.

We found this website (visa journey) in January 2026 and we have been checking the waiting period statistics every week since then.

Last week statistics showed that September 9th 2025 applicants were receiving their NO1 to NO2 notification. This week it jumped all the way back to August 1st. It had never jumped back more than a month. Anyone knows how this data charts work?

Does anyone follow this statistics as well and know if they are reliable? Is anyone out there in the same situation? Waiting for a supposedly 10 month visa that is now 16 months or more? Is everyone's K-1 also being dailed one month...every month?

Every month since January the statistics have been pushing the waiting period a month further. This uncertainty makes short term and long term professional, family and personal planning stressful and impossible.

Thanks to everyone out there helping each other in this silent process.

Kind regards,

Adam and Caro