The 2010 London Waiver List

[Traci - Andrew 14]

OK here we are on Monday 29th March 2010 and the USCIS have decided to update the I-601 Status PDF file (I-601 Status PDF) however unlike what we were hoping for, they released a pretty ####### update again.

1 New person joining the waiting list

1 New person going straight to under review

1 Person moving from pending to under review

2 People moving from under review to completed ** (Updated Monday 29th March moved 1 more case from under review to completed making a total of 2)

1 Person removed from the list altogether

It takes no work at all to add to the list, it takes no work to remove someone from the list, so what have they really done this last 10 days.. take two files from the pending pile and put it on their desk and work on one of the under review files on their desk and complete it... well done USCIS at last some progress.

However some of the longer pending cases like say my one is still being passed over for newer cases, 2 cases jumped in front of us again this update, so we are still the longest pending case out there.

I have updated my spreadsheet so you can see all this activity ;o) I-601 Status Timescale Spreadsheet

Anyway I doubt if they will update us again this week as Easter is upon us in a few days and they will have the Friday & Monday off so my guess will be another update on Friday 9th April 2010.

Sorry guys... but this is my way of venting frustration, I know we are all in the same boat and that this will end eventually, however I thank everyone for their comments and support.

Take care

Andrew

[JustJ 0]

Thanks Julie for being so eagle eyed...

I'm like a cat staring at something unseen in the corner.

[Graeco 0]

Hey all,

Believe it or not, we have another update this morning (Tuesday, March 30th) after getting two updates yesterday.

Not much additional movement; but, the poor soul with the 2005 case who has been "Under Review" for the last nine months has had his case finally completed.

I have to say... although the number of completions could make this seem like Chinese water torture... I'm remarkably happy seeing movement.

Perhaps the USCIS is just looking to get Traci-Andrew to go mad updating his spreadsheet on a semi-hourly basis from now on

[Traci - Andrew 14]

Hey all,

Believe it or not, we have another update this morning (Tuesday, March 30th) after getting two updates yesterday.

Not much additional movement; but, the poor soul with the 2005 case who has been "Under Review" for the last nine months has had his case finally completed.

I have to say... although the number of completions could make this seem like Chinese water torture... I'm remarkably happy seeing movement.

Perhaps the USCIS is just looking to get Traci-Andrew to go mad updating his spreadsheet on a semi-hourly basis from now on

Hi Graeco

Thanks for the update about the update

I have updated my spreadsheet to show the two changes that they made today.... 1 was the old 2005 case that was under review and the other case was our one !! which has gone from pending to under review...

Regards

Andrew

[Graeco 0]

Andrew,

I can't believe I missed that! Only able to take cursory looks at these things while at the office.

It used to be that once "Under Review", there was only a week or so wait out of London. While, that hasn't been the case in recent months, I'll keep my fingers crossed that you get a quick turnaround now. Hopefully, you are just a short time away from your wife and a new life in Hawaii together.

[city2countrygirl 0]

Hi Graeco

Thanks for the update about the update

I have updated my spreadsheet to show the two changes that they made today.... 1 was the old 2005 case that was under review and the other case was our one !! which has gone from pending to under review...

Regards

Andrew

Great News I hope it moves along quickly for you

[Traci - Andrew 14]

AT LAST we have moved from pending to under review

Good news at last, we have moved from pending to under review after 140 days.... as Graeco said, it may be that USCIS is reading this and trying to make me work hard updating my spreadsheet... all I can say to USCIS is "Bring it on" I am more than happy to work as hard as it takes to update the spreadsheet as long as they keep doing the work and updating everyone and moving cases along.

Well USCIS if you are reading this, please update us all as soon as possible and keep the work flowing as the droughts in information updates and movements make us all very unhappy.

This is a most unusual event USCIS posted an update on Monday 29th March, then they ammended it on the afternoon/evening on the same day to complete one more case, then they decided to post another update again today Tuesday 30th March, this update moved one person from under review to completed and us from pending to under review.

Lets hope that the Under review time gets cut down from the average time that the rest of the under review cases are experiencing as we have already waited 140 days at pending, so a few days at under review would be appreciated and not a few weeks...

Anyway thanks for those people that post here and help spot the updates, as I was waiting until Thursday 1st April or Friday 9th of April for the next update, but it shows that USCIS can still suprise us.

UPDATED SPREADSHEET > I-601 Spreadsheet updated Tuesday 30th March

Good luck everyone..

Andrew & Traci

Andrew,

I can't believe I missed that! Only able to take cursory looks at these things while at the office.

It used to be that once "Under Review", there was only a week or so wait out of London. While, that hasn't been the case in recent months, I'll keep my fingers crossed that you get a quick turnaround now. Hopefully, you are just a short time away from your wife and a new life in Hawaii together.

Thanks we appreciate the comments

Edited March 30, 2010 by Traci - Andrew

[Traci - Andrew 14]

A helpful service/application

Hi all

I know what it is like to be away from my wife, as she is in Hawaii and I am in London 8000 miles away, anyway I thought I would share this service with you that has helped us send files to each other and keep things organised.

It is called Dropbox, this service installs a small application on your PC/MAC/iPhone and provides you for FREE a 2Gb shared space, I know there are other file sharing applications and web based drives available, but where this is different is it allows you to install it on as many machines you want to using the same username & password it then updates every other location in the background so that you have a local copy everywhere and a copy in cyberspace (Web)... so Traci and I use this for photo's , video's and immigration documents , but we also use this for the spreadsheet that we use here for tracking the I-601 Status Updates... we just put it in the public folder of the Dropbox and copy the external link...

Anyway I make no profit from telling you this, but if you do register for free using my Link > Install Dropbox you will get an extra 250Mb of space and so will I.

I recommend this personally and we use it all the time, it is faster than email for sending attachments and you have only a 2Gb limit which would kill most email servers.

If you like the sound of this you can go direct to the website and sign up from there, but you will only get 2Gb, if you use the link above to sign up you will get 2.25Gb.

I hope you enjoy this free service like Traci and I have, it keeps us organised as anyone can update the file and you all have the same latest version to work on, it helps the sharing side of things that we have to do so often because of the distance between us.

Anyway take care

Andrew

[JustJ 0]

Okay, so either they want RID of the spreadsheet king, or they're sick of me staring at them. In any event, Andrew, keep it up. I'll keep staring until my eyes dry up and fall out of my head.

[jnurse68 0]

AT LAST we have moved from pending to under review

Good news at last, we have moved from pending to under review after 140 days.... as Graeco said, it may be that USCIS is reading this and trying to make me work hard updating my spreadsheet... all I can say to USCIS is "Bring it on" I am more than happy to work as hard as it takes to update the spreadsheet as long as they keep doing the work and updating everyone and moving cases along.

Well USCIS if you are reading this, please update us all as soon as possible and keep the work flowing as the droughts in information updates and movements make us all very unhappy.

This is a most unusual event USCIS posted an update on Monday 29th March, then they ammended it on the afternoon/evening on the same day to complete one more case, then they decided to post another update again today Tuesday 30th March, this update moved one person from under review to completed and us from pending to under review.

Lets hope that the Under review time gets cut down from the average time that the rest of the under review cases are experiencing as we have already waited 140 days at pending, so a few days at under review would be appreciated and not a few weeks...

Anyway thanks for those people that post here and help spot the updates, as I was waiting until Thursday 1st April or Friday 9th of April for the next update, but it shows that USCIS can still suprise us.

UPDATED SPREADSHEET > I-601 Spreadsheet updated Tuesday 30th March

Good luck everyone..

Andrew & Traci

Thanks we appreciate the comments

[Traci - Andrew 14]

Another Update !!! 31st March (Wed)

Hi everyone

I think JustJ & Graeco have a point, USCIS have again graced us with another update, this time spotted by my wife Traci whilst we were talking on the phone today...

Highlights are:

1 Under Review case has moved to Completed

1 Pending case has moved to Under Review

The pending case that went to Under Review is only 52 days old so they are now starting on the 2010 cases...

Lets hope this is a new leaf in the USCIS guidebook about updating us more often and completing and moving cases sooner.

Come on USCIS there is still one and a half days before Easter break, make me update my spreadsheet some more

I have updated my spreadsheet again... not that I am complaining... keep it coming > I-601 Status Spreadsheet 31/03/2010 Update

Take care all...

Andrew

[JustJ 0]

what blessed relief to see things moving!

[Graeco 0]

Even better... it is MY CASE that was moved up to "under review"!!!!

Andrew... we might end up racing eachother to Hawaii.

[JustJ 0]

AWRIGHT!!!!!! Congrats, you two!

Oh crud. I'm gonna be stuck here alone AGAIN.

[Traci - Andrew 14]

Even better... it is MY CASE that was moved up to "under review"!!!!

Andrew... we might end up racing eachother to Hawaii.

Well done !!!

I am glad that you have also moved up to under review, because now we can have an online wager to see who's case is going to reach completed first

Thanks for letting me know which case was yours.

Andrew