F1 case complete and waiting for visa # availability

[peterntk85 1]

Hopefully starting Tuesday the guys and gals next in line will get good news.

For Dec. bulletin Im guessing movement to Nov 22 - Dec 1 but hoping for bigger jump.

peterntk85, welcome. I would say lets wait for the December Bulletin and see if there are any near term predictions included in it.

Then you can guess roughly when you might hear something. My experience says, whatever estimate you come up with add 6-9 months to it (retrogression not included).

Thanks PatientMan and MariaC

[anoldjourney 1]

Curious, as I can't find any real dates on here for F1 .. How long roughly from filing your I-130 until the I-130 is accepted and sent on to NVC?

[puru444 44]

Curious, as I can't find any real dates on here for F1 .. How long roughly from filing your I-130 until the I-130 is accepted and sent on to NVC?

Waiting times were 5-6 years before retro in F1, but nowadays its 7 years waiting time bridge the gap. Ur pd is 2012, so add 7 years to it and give or take 1 year or so to get an estimate range. Yours will be done in between 2018-2020.

Trip to pandora will take 5 years, go and visit that planet to kill this waiting ......

[PatientMan 23]

Hi All,

Wondering if anyone of you had seen this. Charles Ooppenheim has made some comments just few days ago.

http://www.cilawgroup.com/news/2012/10/24/visa-bulletin-predictions-and-updates-from-charles-oppenheim-october-24-2012/

Only thing he has said about Family categories is:

" Mr. Oppenheim did not elaborate too much on family-based cases — so we are unable to provide his thoughts on this subject. However, the general expectation is that there family-based cases should continue to move with the same steady pace they have been moving over the past months — in other words, without the kind of wild swings seen in the employment-based categories such as EB-2 India and China."

I wonder if they refer to last 2 months movement of 1-3 weeks, or the 3-5 week of earlier in the year movements.

Seems like he is hiding something.

What do you guys think?

[puru444 44]

Hi All,

Wondering if anyone of you had seen this. Charles Ooppenheim has made some comments just few days ago.

http://www.cilawgroup.com/news/2012/10/24/visa-bulletin-predictions-and-updates-from-charles-oppenheim-october-24-2012/

Only thing he has said about Family categories is:

" Mr. Oppenheim did not elaborate too much on family-based cases — so we are unable to provide his thoughts on this subject. However, the general expectation is that there family-based cases should continue to move with the same steady pace they have been moving over the past months — in other words, without the kind of wild swings seen in the employment-based categories such as EB-2 India and China."

I wonder if they refer to last 2 months movement of 1-3 weeks, or the 3-5 week of earlier in the year movements.

Seems like he is hiding something.

What do you guys think?

He did big promises earlier in 2010, this time he wont take any risk by commenting on family dicey petitions ....

[chiku83 6]

Below was posted...We havent seen big movement hope next two month we see something

Mr. Oppenheim did not elaborate too much on family-based cases — so we are unable to provide his thoughts on this subject. However, the general expectation is that there family-based cases should continue to move with the same steady pace they have been moving over the past months — in other words, without the kind of wild swings seen in the employment-based categories such as EB-2 India and China.

On a more general level, Mr. Oppenheim shared that his goal is to advance the cutoff dates more at the beginning of the fiscal year (October, November and December, and January visa bulletins) and then, as he is able to gauge demand for a particular preference category, adjust accordingly by either slowing down or retrogressing (if demand is high) or advancing even more (is demand turns out to be low).

[DeW_DrOpS 21]

Below was posted...We havent seen big movement hope next two month we see something

Mr. Oppenheim did not elaborate too much on family-based cases — so we are unable to provide his thoughts on this subject. However, the general expectation is that there family-based cases should continue to move with the same steady pace they have been moving over the past months — in other words, without the kind of wild swings seen in the employment-based categories such as EB-2 India and China.

On a more general level, Mr. Oppenheim shared that his goal is to advance the cutoff dates more at the beginning of the fiscal year (October, November and December, and January visa bulletins) and then, as he is able to gauge demand for a particular preference category, adjust accordingly by either slowing down or retrogressing (if demand is high) or advancing even more (is demand turns out to be low).

Well...If Mr. Charles goal is to advance cutoff dates in beginning of fiscal year than i think his goal is not yet achieved that....as we can see in this new fiscal we have seen only 1 week and then 3 weeks movement in first two months for F1..Also other F2B and F3 & F4 have moved relatively less except F2A...

But on the other hand if he predicts that in coming months there would be a steady pace in cutoff dates movement..then we can see 4 weeks movement on an average for coming next 2-3 months....and if this is true then Dec VB can be Dec 2005 and Jan VB can be Jan 2006....Hence we will see Jan 2006 in New Year 2013....Now lets see what happens in next week as they will start sending Interview letters from next week....

I think it will be either 1 Dec 2005 or maximum 15 Dec 2005....for Dec 2012 VB

[loudoff 25]

In summary, Mr. Oppenheim is trying to avoid wasting a annual visa numbers by advancing the cuf-off dates more at the beginning of the fiscal year and then adjust it later according to the level of demand for the rest of the year. To advance cutt-off date more in the beginning, that way he can see what the demand of visa numbers are so that he can predict the cutt-off dates for the rest of the fiscal year and keep the visa quotas within the annual limit.

[anoldjourney 1]

Waiting times were 5-6 years before retro in F1, but nowadays its 7 years waiting time bridge the gap. Ur pd is 2012, so add 7 years to it and give or take 1 year or so to get an estimate range. Yours will be done in between 2018-2020.

Trip to pandora will take 5 years, go and visit that planet to kill this waiting ......

I know the wait time is high, 7 years etc. But I mean just for the approval of I-130 application, before it's sent to NVC for the rest of the wait. Is it a few months wait for the I-130 approval, or years wait? If that makes sense?? Just the I-130, not the rest of the visa/immigration application process..

[puru444 44]

I know the wait time is high, 7 years etc. But I mean just for the approval of I-130 application, before it's sent to NVC for the rest of the wait. Is it a few months wait for the I-130 approval, or years wait? If that makes sense?? Just the I-130, not the rest of the visa/immigration application process..

Mine took 13 months to get approval by USCIS, these days processing times have been reduced. But, i think its just a formality to get an approval and put the file in NVC's rack for years until the pd becomes current. Whether, you gt approval in 2 months or 2 years doesnt make any difference ..... you need to wait according to Visa Bulletin's movement. Welcome to the worst journey of ur life ....

[anoldjourney 1]

Mine took 13 months to get approval by USCIS, these days processing times have been reduced. But, i think its just a formality to get an approval and put the file in NVC's rack for years until the pd becomes current. Whether, you gt approval in 2 months or 2 years doesnt make any difference ..... you need to wait according to Visa Bulletin's movement. Welcome to the worst journey of ur life ....

Thanks, that's all I was looking for, I-130 times alone. We're in the process of appealing my PD, as it ended up on my 21st birthday due to a prior rejection from signature error... and other reasons...

[MariaC 2]

Anyone else slightly annoyed right now? This month made it officially 6 years of waiting. I'm really hoping at least a month and a half. Can we all collectively hope for Jan 2006 and perhaps that will make it work through some kind of magic, somehow? I'm tired of waiting and postponing my life.

"Slightly" ???? I hardly manage not to get into a major depression

I keep telling myself to hang on just a little bit more... but this little bit more has become such a long time. And now that they actually set the cut off date as 1NOV2005 (ironically the same as my PD ) I wonder what else can come up to make my waiting even longer

So I can say many things about this waiting but saying that I'm "slightly" annoyed would be to little

Anyway I'll still try to remain positive...

Edited October 29, 2012 by MariaC

[PatientMan 23]

"Slightly" ???? I hardly manage not to get into a major depression

I keep telling myself to hang on just a little bit more... but this little bit more has become such a long time. And now that they actually set the cut off date as 1NOV2005 (ironically the same as my PD ) I wonder what else can come up to make my waiting even longer

So I can say many things about this waiting but saying that I'm "slightly" annoyed would be to little

Anyway I'll still try to remain positive...

Im sure you will get your interview letter soon, but now with storm messing up east-coast and some businesses shutting down for 1-2 days, then imagine goverment agencies.

So again we might have to wait few extra days for ILs to be sent out.

Either way, best of luck to you and you have to notify us as soon as you hear something.

[DeW_DrOpS 21]

Im sure you will get your interview letter soon, but now with storm messing up east-coast and some businesses shutting down for 1-2 days, then imagine goverment agencies.

So again we might have to wait few extra days for ILs to be sent out.

Either way, best of luck to you and you have to notify us as soon as you hear something.

Well..i dont think this storm will have any impact on NVC office ....They must be open today. But lets be optimistic and hope guys receiving I/Ls soon...

[NevermindVz 51]

Well, if they don't send interview letters at the beginning of this week, I think it's going to move 1-3 weeks again. Let's see what happens!