I-129 f processing times

[kirstg 0]

Hi all

Im new to the site and in depserate need of some help. i keep getting conflicting info.

I am in South Africa and my husband is in the USA. He filled the i-130 form as requested - got our NOA - then filled the I-129F at the Vermont centre. We did this in May 2008. We received our 1st NOA about a week later. Im just wondering if anyone has an updated idea how how long it will be until we receive our 2nd NOA?? I also keep looking at the USCIS website at the processing times and really dont understand quite how to read it. A week ago it send for september they were processing forms from Feb 2008 - now it says for July 2008 its processing forms from Feb 2008. Im very confused! Does that mean the processing time has shortened? im so baffeled. my husband and i got married in Feb of this year and he had to return to the USA in April. So we have been apart since then and its just too long. I have seen post that it takes 8 months to process the I-129F then i have seen post that say 3 months.

Any help would be so apreciated. I am desperate!!

Thanks so much

xoxox

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hi all

Im new to the site and in depserate need of some help. i keep getting conflicting info.

I am in South Africa and my husband is in the USA. He filled the i-130 form as requested - got our NOA - then filled the I-129F at the Vermont centre. We did this in May 2008. We received our 1st NOA about a week later. Im just wondering if anyone has an updated idea how how long it will be until we receive our 2nd NOA?? I also keep looking at the USCIS website at the processing times and really dont understand quite how to read it. A week ago it send for september they were processing forms from Feb 2008 - now it says for July 2008 its processing forms from Feb 2008. Im very confused! Does that mean the processing time has shortened? im so baffeled. my husband and i got married in Feb of this year and he had to return to the USA in April. So we have been apart since then and its just too long. I have seen post that it takes 8 months to process the I-129F then i have seen post that say 3 months.

Any help would be so apreciated. I am desperate!!

Thanks so much

xoxox

#1 ignore anything you see about timelines on the USCIS website. They are required to post them and do so in a manner designed to reduce phone calls, it is in no way accurate or meaningful to you, the consumer. It is meaningful to them (reduces phone calls) and to bloodsucking immigration attorneys who use the inaccurate information to demonstrate how they will get you a visa "faster than normal" which is, of course, complete BS but if you are a bloodsucking immigration attorney, truth of is little interest to you because if you were truthful you would have no immigration clients at all. 'nuff said? It has nothing to do with actual processing times.

Check the VJ timelines which are based on actual experience. I filed my I-129f in Vermont in March and got the NOA2 in May. 61 days. Could have had visa in hand in about 110 days but could not make the first interview date offered, our problem, not theirs. If you put your timeline in at your VJ membership it will give you a much more accurate estimate of when you will receive your NOA2.

Gary

[msnoob 3]

Hi all

Im new to the site and in depserate need of some help. i keep getting conflicting info.

I am in South Africa and my husband is in the USA. He filled the i-130 form as requested - got our NOA - then filled the I-129F at the Vermont centre. We did this in May 2008. We received our 1st NOA about a week later. Im just wondering if anyone has an updated idea how how long it will be until we receive our 2nd NOA?? I also keep looking at the USCIS website at the processing times and really dont understand quite how to read it. A week ago it send for september they were processing forms from Feb 2008 - now it says for July 2008 its processing forms from Feb 2008. Im very confused! Does that mean the processing time has shortened? im so baffeled. my husband and i got married in Feb of this year and he had to return to the USA in April. So we have been apart since then and its just too long. I have seen post that it takes 8 months to process the I-129F then i have seen post that say 3 months.

Any help would be so apreciated. I am desperate!!

Thanks so much

xoxox

#1 ignore anything you see about timelines on the USCIS website. They are required to post them and do so in a manner designed to reduce phone calls, it is in no way accurate or meaningful to you, the consumer. It is meaningful to them (reduces phone calls) and to bloodsucking immigration attorneys who use the inaccurate information to demonstrate how they will get you a visa "faster than normal" which is, of course, complete BS but if you are a bloodsucking immigration attorney, truth of is little interest to you because if you were truthful you would have no immigration clients at all. 'nuff said? It has nothing to do with actual processing times.

Check the VJ timelines which are based on actual experience. I filed my I-129f in Vermont in March and got the NOA2 in May. 61 days. Could have had visa in hand in about 110 days but could not make the first interview date offered, our problem, not theirs. If you put your timeline in at your VJ membership it will give you a much more accurate estimate of when you will receive your NOA2.

Gary

I don't think any of the timelines are accurate. You are correct that the USCIS timeframe shows a date to help limit the number of calls from petitioners and Congress that they must address.

VJ timelines don't consider expedites and the sample size is small. This means that if someone who filed in November is finally approved, the VJ timeline will alter your approval date. If someone files an expedite and their petition is approved in a matter of weeks, the timelines are altered. My timeline date on VJ showed September 16th all the way up until September 14th. Every day I look at it, it moves out about 4 days... so I just stopped looking.

As Gary's post shows, Vermont processes K1 applications much much quicker than they process CR1/IR1 or K3 applications. I also filed both my I130 and I129 in March (K3) and I am still waiting on an NOA2.

Good luck with your journey!

[kirstg 0]

Hi all

Im new to the site and in depserate need of some help. i keep getting conflicting info.

I am in South Africa and my husband is in the USA. He filled the i-130 form as requested - got our NOA - then filled the I-129F at the Vermont centre. We did this in May 2008. We received our 1st NOA about a week later. Im just wondering if anyone has an updated idea how how long it will be until we receive our 2nd NOA?? I also keep looking at the USCIS website at the processing times and really dont understand quite how to read it. A week ago it send for september they were processing forms from Feb 2008 - now it says for July 2008 its processing forms from Feb 2008. Im very confused! Does that mean the processing time has shortened? im so baffeled. my husband and i got married in Feb of this year and he had to return to the USA in April. So we have been apart since then and its just too long. I have seen post that it takes 8 months to process the I-129F then i have seen post that say 3 months.

Any help would be so apreciated. I am desperate!!

Thanks so much

xoxox

#1 ignore anything you see about timelines on the USCIS website. They are required to post them and do so in a manner designed to reduce phone calls, it is in no way accurate or meaningful to you, the consumer. It is meaningful to them (reduces phone calls) and to bloodsucking immigration attorneys who use the inaccurate information to demonstrate how they will get you a visa "faster than normal" which is, of course, complete BS but if you are a bloodsucking immigration attorney, truth of is little interest to you because if you were truthful you would have no immigration clients at all. 'nuff said? It has nothing to do with actual processing times.

Check the VJ timelines which are based on actual experience. I filed my I-129f in Vermont in March and got the NOA2 in May. 61 days. Could have had visa in hand in about 110 days but could not make the first interview date offered, our problem, not theirs. If you put your timeline in at your VJ membership it will give you a much more accurate estimate of when you will receive your NOA2.

Gary

I don't think any of the timelines are accurate. You are correct that the USCIS timeframe shows a date to help limit the number of calls from petitioners and Congress that they must address.

VJ timelines don't consider expedites and the sample size is small. This means that if someone who filed in November is finally approved, the VJ timeline will alter your approval date. If someone files an expedite and their petition is approved in a matter of weeks, the timelines are altered. My timeline date on VJ showed September 16th all the way up until September 14th. Every day I look at it, it moves out about 4 days... so I just stopped looking.

As Gary's post shows, Vermont processes K1 applications much much quicker than they process CR1/IR1 or K3 applications. I also filed both my I130 and I129 in March (K3) and I am still waiting on an NOA2.

Good luck with your journey!

No with the VJ timeline shown on here why does that keeo changing? one day it says that my forms will be adjudicated between march 20 ad april 2009 then the next day it say they will be adjudicated between 14 Feb and March 2009? I JUST DONT GET IT!!!!

LOL I feel like im going crazy cause we have no definate timeline to go by. so how can i keep checking this timeline if it literally changes every single day. it now says that my I-130 will be adjudicated before my I-129F!! Im so confused. i just want a month to look forward to and just when i see some light at the end of the tunnel the dates move.