January I-129F filers

[wdm1986 2]

Oh yay! Congrats you guys that's awesome! I feel better to fffiiinnnaaallllyyyy see some approvals!

I'm hoping my congress people give me some good news tomorrow. I guess we shall see!

[Ally_bally 0]

We just got our approval today too! And i am here right now with my fiance in the Philippines. God is good! Good luck to everyone!

[sabi 148]

OMG I just received my NOA2 email, we were approved yesterday :D Soooooooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!! My fiancee is sleeping right now but I messaged her on google talk

That said, I know how it feels to read other people's approval posts and still be waiting. So I'm thinking about all of you guys! I was pretty down last night and was losing hope and didn't expect anything this morning!

Wow congrats! Not to worry, we wish it was us but we are happy for you at the same time! Way to go!!! At least California you can really count on an approval around 5 months

Edited June 21, 2012 by sabi

[sabi 148]

Hey hello vjers!!!! I just wanted to say that I JUST GOT APPROVED!!!! I got my NOA2 at 9:45 PM PST via the USCIS website, also I got the email notification and when I logged into my USCIS account and it was updated today!!!!!!!!! I feel sooooooooooooooooooooooooo relieved and happy that we finally got our NOA2, I truly can't describe how this feels.....I thought I was going to have a heart attack of happiness lol wowowowowowowowowowowowowowow

P.S. For those who are still waiting, don't give up hope trust me I know how excruciating it feels to be waiting and waiting at the mercy of USCIS and being away from your better half, keep your heads up and before you know it(literally) you guys will get your NOA2 =)

Congrats and thanks for your words of encouragement... Unfortunately i would feel much better waiting for NOA2 from

california than vermont at this stage... Oh well, we shall see!

[Nehelenia 2]

OMG I just received my NOA2 email, we were approved yesterday :D Soooooooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!! My fiancee is sleeping right now but I messaged her on google talk

That said, I know how it feels to read other people's approval posts and still be waiting. So I'm thinking about all of you guys! I was pretty down last night and was losing hope and didn't expect anything this morning!

Hey hello vjers!!!! I just wanted to say that I JUST GOT APPROVED!!!! I got my NOA2 at 9:45 PM PST via the USCIS website, also I got the email notification and when I logged into my USCIS account and it was updated today!!!!!!!!! I feel sooooooooooooooooooooooooo relieved and happy that we finally got our NOA2, I truly can't describe how this feels.....I thought I was going to have a heart attack of happiness lol wowowowowowowowowowowowowowow

P.S. For those who are still waiting, don't give up hope trust me I know how excruciating it feels to be waiting and waiting at the mercy of USCIS and being away from your better half, keep your heads up and before you know it(literally) you guys will get your NOA2 =)

We just got our approval today too! And i am here right now with my fiance in the Philippines. God is good! Good luck to everyone!

Congrats

[photomile 101]

OMG I just received my NOA2 email, we were approved yesterday :D Soooooooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!! My fiancee is sleeping right now but I messaged her on google talk

That said, I know how it feels to read other people's approval posts and still be waiting. So I'm thinking about all of you guys! I was pretty down last night and was losing hope and didn't expect anything this morning!

Hey hello vjers!!!! I just wanted to say that I JUST GOT APPROVED!!!! I got my NOA2 at 9:45 PM PST via the USCIS website, also I got the email notification and when I logged into my USCIS account and it was updated today!!!!!!!!! I feel sooooooooooooooooooooooooo relieved and happy that we finally got our NOA2, I truly can't describe how this feels.....I thought I was going to have a heart attack of happiness lol wowowowowowowowowowowowowowow

P.S. For those who are still waiting, don't give up hope trust me I know how excruciating it feels to be waiting and waiting at the mercy of USCIS and being away from your better half, keep your heads up and before you know it(literally) you guys will get your NOA2 =)

We just got our approval today too! And i am here right now with my fiance in the Philippines. God is good! Good luck to everyone!

Congratulations!

[L+T 71]

OMG I just received my NOA2 email, we were approved yesterday :D Soooooooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!! My fiancee is sleeping right now but I messaged her on google talk

That said, I know how it feels to read other people's approval posts and still be waiting. So I'm thinking about all of you guys! I was pretty down last night and was losing hope and didn't expect anything this morning!

Nice!! It's your birthday!!

Hey hello vjers!!!! I just wanted to say that I JUST GOT APPROVED!!!! I got my NOA2 at 9:45 PM PST via the USCIS website, also I got the email notification and when I logged into my USCIS account and it was updated today!!!!!!!!! I feel sooooooooooooooooooooooooo relieved and happy that we finally got our NOA2, I truly can't describe how this feels.....I thought I was going to have a heart attack of happiness lol wowowowowowowowowowowowowowow

P.S. For those who are still waiting, don't give up hope trust me I know how excruciating it feels to be waiting and waiting at the mercy of USCIS and being away from your better half, keep your heads up and before you know it(literally) you guys will get your NOA2 =)

congrats

We just got our approval today too! And i am here right now with my fiance in the Philippines. God is good! Good luck to everyone!

WOW, so many!

[sabi 148]

there is a thread with this former adjudicator in case someone is bored and wants to read a bit more how the whole processing system "works" :

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/55762-1st-post-former-nsc-adjudicator-now-petitioner/

[sabi 148]

pretty interesting:

Well lets see how much I remember...

Maybe it might be easier if I just described what I would do to approve a petition - my process.

First, I would select a case file/folder. All petitions/files are kept in folders that a have a scanable bar code identifier. This folder has everything that a person submits on the left side of the folder and all the agency generated documents on the right side. They should be in date order, Petition and then most recent from top to bottom. The left side has the pictures on top.

You begin by looking at the petition for correctness by checking the information via several databases depending upon what type of petition you are adjudicating. Also if the form was complete and everything was in order. Descrepancies in peoples names from what the database had vs. what the petition said, birth dates, things like that all had to be resolved and could generate a RFE if the adjudicator couldn't figure it out with the tools he had.

There were some standard criminal and background type databases that were required for all petitions. A "hit" in any of these databases would flag the petition and it would be sent to a special group who worked to resolve why the "hit" occurred. Sometimes it could be something simple as a similar name of a bad guy, but every hit had to be resolved.

I remember that certain surnames would invariably cause a hit, but they could be resolved rather quickly by comparing the applicants background information with those of the "hit" name. There were various ways to do this of course, and it took time. Thats why some applications take longer to process because there are stumbling blocks along the way that must be worked through before approval. Consequently, all the other petitions that the officer was working get set to the side. or, the adjudicator/officer might set the difficult one to the side and work on less complicated ones. Remember it was a production environment where you had to be accurate but fast. Getting a petition kicked back for mistakes to be re-worked hurt your overall stats, so, you tried to be a thorough as you could, but also as quick as you could.

After clearing a applicant through the various mandatory database searches, then you could begin to review the various information on the petition. Sometimes there would be stupid mistakes like forgetting to sign it, or using a copy when an original signature was required etc... Kinda careless mistakes or from not really understanding the instructions type of thing. Anyway, these would generate an RFE, and the file's staus would be update in the computer as awaiting repsonse to RFE or something like that, I don't recall the exact terminology.

Anyway, instead of sending the newly RFE'd file back to the large file storage area, it would be kept at the officers desk in a holding cue. Then when an RFE reply would come in, I wpuld pull it (the file) off the shelf and rework it. I tried to clear all my answered RFE's out first thing every morning because it was "old" work as compared to the dates I was working at the time. If the RFE had the required information, it would continue to be processed and/or approved and sent on its way. If the RFE did not address the item, then another RFE would be generated and back on the shelf it would go.

A word about RFE's. It was my experience that no two officers would always see eye to eye on if an RFE was required. Some officers could or would spend some more time digging around the file or a database to find the information (if they thought it could be found) and others would just as soon rip off an RFE. So it varied. Then there were some times that an RFE was required because of the situation. Again, it depends a lot on who was looking at your case and what the question was / what information was needed. No hard and fast rule.

Also, each adjudicator/officer had a master list of RFE "phrases that they could pull off thier computer and plug into a standard RFE form depending upon the situation. Each of these "phrases" could be further "wordsmithed" to suit a particular situation. Again depends on the officer. Thats why you may see some RFE's that are similar but not exact. We would borrow each others RFE phrases to add to our list as we came across one that fit a particular situation.

It would be like "Hey, cube mate. I've got this situation, do you have anything in your RFE library that might fit?" answer "Sure, try this one. I'll email it to you". And thats how that worked.

You asked about country of birth etc.. Yes and no. There were "watch lists" of certain countries that meant that certain procedures had to be followed when processing petitions from these countries, but it was just a couple more things to check/verify along the approval process. It didn't slow things down dramatically. So, I wouldn't worry about that being a big factor.

Additional review. Mainly if you came up as a "hit" for a surname of a bad guy (or gal) that would have to be resolved. Marriage Fraud. Overstaying your visit. Lying. Criminal activity/organized crime, police reports, things that would be outside of a "normal" person's life you might say.

So back to the approval process. So if no RFE was needed then i would "approve' the petition, affix my stamp with my identifier # , sign and date it. I would then scan the file, update the status and send it on its wayto the next stop wherever that was. Actually, all the approved petitions/files were placed in a separate box and those were collected as you went along and taken for final disposition/processing.

Then you start all over again with the next case...

[sara80 17]

Congrats redskins47chaos, alanandmaria & vemallyson!!!!

[LeftCoastLady 441]

OMG I just received my NOA2 email, we were approved yesterday :D Soooooooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!! My fiancee is sleeping right now but I messaged her on google talk

That said, I know how it feels to read other people's approval posts and still be waiting. So I'm thinking about all of you guys! I was pretty down last night and was losing hope and didn't expect anything this morning!

Congrats!!!

Hey hello vjers!!!! I just wanted to say that I JUST GOT APPROVED!!!! I got my NOA2 at 9:45 PM PST via the USCIS website, also I got the email notification and when I logged into my USCIS account and it was updated today!!!!!!!!! I feel sooooooooooooooooooooooooo relieved and happy that we finally got our NOA2, I truly can't describe how this feels.....I thought I was going to have a heart attack of happiness lol wowowowowowowowowowowowowowow

P.S. For those who are still waiting, don't give up hope trust me I know how excruciating it feels to be waiting and waiting at the mercy of USCIS and being away from your better half, keep your heads up and before you know it(literally) you guys will get your NOA2 =)

Congrats!!! Wow, the CSC is fired up lately!

[sabi 148]

Thanks. There are storage shelves in each section of the building that house the boxes full of applicants files. These shelves are continuosly replenished as boxes are removed by the officers to be worked or turned in to be further processed after being approved. This resupply as it were is handled by the CIS contract employees.

So as a Adjudicator/officer I would go and get a box of case files every morning, scan/wand each file into the sytem under my user ID # (so people could track who had it) and then begin to adjudicate the cases. A box might hold 50 case or so.

They also had a rack for "expedites" which were cases whose petitioners had selected/paid for "premium processing". You were slected on a rotating bais to do "expedites". But the process was the same for these they just were staged diferently in the overall que of things, so to speak. MOved further ahead in line or something. Congressionals were pulled by the congressional office and routed to the appropriate supervisor for dissemination to his employee's to work with a short turn around time.

So, your number of files vary at any given time during the day. Officers who did the work form home I spoek about earlier would come in to the office maybe once or twice a week, scan in all thier new files (to their ID), then scan in all the approved files they were returning back into the system (from thier ID) and take the multiple boxes back home with them to work. Enough to last a few days or so.

The reason for some hanging so long could be several. One could be an RFE and while the officer is waiting for the response he is working more current dates. In other words more and more applications are getting in front of the RFE'd application. Another reason could be that the boxes that are staged on the shelves are chosen at random by the officers. For some reason a box of files might sit longer on the shelf than another. Usually not more than a day at the most though. Or the officer could be hording a box at his desk (for some strange reason) and then goes on vacation and deoesn't scan them out of his name and back into (return) them to the system so they can be picked up by someone else to work. So it sits for awhile.

Usually unless a file gets misplaced, applications are always kept in date groupings and date order. If you look in a box of files, they will all have been initially entered into the system either on the same day or within a day. That way they can work from oldest to newest in a organized fashion. They are kept that way so it will be fair to everyone waiting in line for approval.

On the rare occurance a file will be mistakenly sent to district office or other Service Center, the error will be caught when a file search is done and it shows the location of the file (there is a system code showing its physical location). The the file is recalled to its proper center or office. Very rare though.

[Texas22 50]

OMG I just received my NOA2 email, we were approved yesterday :D Soooooooooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!! My fiancee is sleeping right now but I messaged her on google talk

That said, I know how it feels to read other people's approval posts and still be waiting. So I'm thinking about all of you guys! I was pretty down last night and was losing hope and didn't expect anything this morning!

Congratulations!!

Hey hello vjers!!!! I just wanted to say that I JUST GOT APPROVED!!!! I got my NOA2 at 9:45 PM PST via the USCIS website, also I got the email notification and when I logged into my USCIS account and it was updated today!!!!!!!!! I feel sooooooooooooooooooooooooo relieved and happy that we finally got our NOA2, I truly can't describe how this feels.....I thought I was going to have a heart attack of happiness lol wowowowowowowowowowowowowowow

P.S. For those who are still waiting, don't give up hope trust me I know how excruciating it feels to be waiting and waiting at the mercy of USCIS and being away from your better half, keep your heads up and before you know it(literally) you guys will get your NOA2 =)

Congratulations!!

We just got our approval today too! And i am here right now with my fiance in the Philippines. God is good! Good luck to everyone!

Congratulations!!

[Knope2012 10]

If I can find the time, I'm getting in touch with a congressman today. At the rate things are going, it'll be another four months before he's here. Assuming we got an approval today, it'll be a month (at least) until it gets to the consulate, and probably another three months until the interview date. I just can't wait any longer.

[sabi 148]

If I can find the time, I'm getting in touch with a congressman today. At the rate things are going, it'll be another four months before he's here. Assuming we got an approval today, it'll be a month (at least) until it gets to the consulate, and probably another three months until the interview date. I just can't wait any longer.

you are absolutely right ! We are doing it on Monday if we don't hear anything by then...