Checking visa status online

[Tim and Erin 3]

At what point during the K-1 visa process are you able to check the status of the petition online?

[HeatDeath 430]

After sending in your I-129F, you will receive the NOA1 receipt notice. It will have a case number. You can enter the case number online at www.uscis.gov and track it until your I-129F petition is approved. Once it is approved, USCIS will send your case to the National Visa Center, and the NVC will, after a week or two, send it to your local US consulate. The consulate will then send your foreign beneficiary instructions on how to apply for the visa. As far as I know, there is no way to track a case's progress through the NVC online or through the consulate.

After the consulate approves the visa and gives it to your beneficiary, they will use it to enter the US. You two will marry, and then file an I-485 AOS application, an I-765 application for an EAD, and an I-131 application for AP travel documents. You will receive NOA1 receipt notices for each of these three applications. Each will have it's own case number, and you can enter these online at the USCIS website and track these cases, just as you were able to do with the I-129F case number.

[Kimbear 53]

As soon as you have a case number. However uscis is hit or miss sometimes with inputting you into the system or updating your file. some ppl have finished the journey and are still listed at the first step.