January I-129F filers

[sabi 148]

Yes. that's what really scares me..I just don't like the movement (or lack thereof) that I've seen in my batch..Last petition approved around me was July 11. and other major approvals happened June 29th..a month ago now...I'm preparing to get my Senator involved soon if I can't receive a satisfactory update from my Congressman...I'm wondering if the Congressman's lack of experience dealing with USCIS is going to render them pretty useless in this endeavor. It's all just very bizarre. And 200 is looking good to me now. And that is a scary thing to imagine...I just still can't believe this all happening..I really hope I can have some good news this week..Don't know what the issue is with adjudicating petitions from 1/18...but it's definitely scaring me. And everyone else who filed here has also been done a disservice. It's honestly embarrassing and really should not be happening. It's not like this service was free either...

yeah exactly! they keep looking for excuses, like I130 petition being concentrated on right now... Ok it's fine but why do we see people from end of Jan/ beginning of Feb being approved... if they are concentrating on I130 we should see no movements at all! That is why I don't believe that, it's just a response to keep us "happy"... I am really not coping well with all this...I hit the bottom I think...

[P+J 47]

yeah exactly! they keep looking for excuses, like I130 petition being concentrated on right now... Ok it's fine but why do we see people from end of Jan/ beginning of Feb being approved... if they are concentrating on I130 we should see no movements at all! That is why I don't believe that, it's just a response to keep us "happy"... I am really not coping well with all this...I hit the bottom I think...

I've hit rock bottom too. There's only so many times you can receive their random excuses before you really start feeling complete and utter despair. They have no reason to focus on I-130s. Why in the world would they being doing that with the backlog that they have on K1s? It's just an attempt to placate and deflect any questions again. Keep us all submissive just like how they advanced the processing date a mere week from the 9th to the 16th after working on that one week for about 1 and a half months. Things are so bad right now that when they really do start approving we are going to see close to the worst average processing time ever on Visajourney. It's got to be at least in the 180s now. Guess they're going for their 189 day record again... ..It seems they answer to no one. We're certainly going to set the record for the largest thread here at some point. But unfortunately, it's not normal. It shouldn't be like this...wish I had filed just a week earlier and this would have been maybe done by now...

Edited July 30, 2012 by Paul86

[sabi 148]

I've hit rock bottom too. There's only so many times you can receive their random excuses before you really start feeling complete and utter despair. They have no reason to focus on I-130s. Why in the world would they being doing that with the backlog that they have on K1s? It's just an attempt to placate and deflect any questions again. Keep us all submissive just like how they advanced the processing date a mere week from the 9th to the 16th after working on that one week for about 1 and a half months. Things are so bad right now that when they really do start approving we are going to see close to the worst average processing time ever on Visajourney. It's got to be at least in the 180s now. Guess they're going for their 189 day record again... ..It seems they answer to no one. We're certainly going to set the record for the largest thread here at some point. But unfortunately, it's not normal. It shouldn't be like this...wish I had filed just a week earlier and this would have been maybe done by now...

wish we had filed some other time too... we were just so unlucky! 192 days now, for you 194... I checked a lot of timelines and it looks like there weren't many that hit 7 months... if we knew, we would have got married and go CR1 way, at least that way the wait would be similar but we wouldn't be wasting more time and money on AOS... oh well we are still in a learning process...

Edited July 30, 2012 by sabi

[P+J 47]

wish we had filed some other time too... we were just so unlucky! 192 days now, for you 194... I checked a lot of timelines and it looks like there weren't many that hit 7 months... if we knew, we would have got married and go CR1 way, at least that way the wait would be similar but we wouldn't be wasting more time and money on AOS... oh well we are still in a learning process...

Exactly. I really regret that I did not get married and just go CR1. It would have saved money and time. And although the processing times can always vary, I just feel like they take the CR1 more seriously. (Both elected representatives and USCIS) I know some people have advocated just eliminating the K1 completely because although we're all very serious about it here, so many people file the K1 petition incorrectly or randomly and just slow down the whole system. Guess I just had a little more faith in the USA since it's been the immigrant capital of the world for so long...But now it's a very hard dose of reality. I really haven't seen too many petitions go into the 200s. I want to believe it will finally be over this week...but something tells me we're in for it, it's going to be a struggle to the end. Don't know how or why this happening...But it's bad. Well I know what the bottom feels like in this process now. I think I've finally reached it. California is pumping these out in 120-130 days. And we're literally waiting into the 200s now..This is crazy. The imbalance before never reached this level. Heck CSC has never allowed its average processing time to increase above the 180s for the K1..did everyone at VSC just quit their job or something? Last time this happened there was a labor problem..

Edited July 30, 2012 by Paul86

[vosnmars 25]

Thank you guys!!! Approved!!!! Will write a proper review later but had a really good experience, no problems, very nice interviewer who asked the usual things (how we met, whether i wanted to work in US, if we'd spent much time with each others families, when our wedding was planned for). I was wiping away tears when she said i was approved and she said "stop it, or i'll start too!".

Called Andrew to tell him and I'm pretty sure he will need to be told all over again when he actually wakes up, i think he was sleep-skyping!

Thank you for all your support, jan filers, you all rock I don't think it's sunk in yet but right now i'm gonna have a big glass of irish champagne (TEA!) xxxx

Great news!!! Congrats on the approval! Glad it went so smoothly for you YAY!!!

[P+J 47]

Oh god..saw some movement around my petition. And it's a good old: Request for Evidence. Keeping with the morning trend I suppose. First movement I've seen since July 11th...So we have a 1/18 RFE today for July 30. Hope that's not the start of a disappointing trend..Really hope I'll just get out of this with an approval...My attorney will have been useless otherwise.

Edited July 30, 2012 by Paul86

[miguel.angel 11]

Oh god..saw some movement around my petition. And it's a good old: Request for Evidence. Keeping with the morning trend I suppose. First movement I've seen since July 11th...So we have a 1/18 RFE today for July 30. Hope that's not the start of a disappointing trend..Really hope I'll just get out of this with an approval...My attorney will have been useless otherwise.

Paul, we all feel your frustration bud. Hang in there its sooo close. For some reason after i see you approved im going to feel like im next ( im from March)

[Texas22 50]

Thank you guys!!! Approved!!!! Will write a proper review later but had a really good experience, no problems, very nice interviewer who asked the usual things (how we met, whether i wanted to work in US, if we'd spent much time with each others families, when our wedding was planned for). I was wiping away tears when she said i was approved and she said "stop it, or i'll start too!".

Called Andrew to tell him and I'm pretty sure he will need to be told all over again when he actually wakes up, i think he was sleep-skyping!

Thank you for all your support, jan filers, you all rock I don't think it's sunk in yet but right now i'm gonna have a big glass of irish champagne (TEA!) xxxx

Congratulations Kitty! Very happy for you both!

[P+J 47]

Thank you guys!!! Approved!!!! Will write a proper review later but had a really good experience, no problems, very nice interviewer who asked the usual things (how we met, whether i wanted to work in US, if we'd spent much time with each others families, when our wedding was planned for). I was wiping away tears when she said i was approved and she said "stop it, or i'll start too!".

Called Andrew to tell him and I'm pretty sure he will need to be told all over again when he actually wakes up, i think he was sleep-skyping!

Thank you for all your support, jan filers, you all rock I don't think it's sunk in yet but right now i'm gonna have a big glass of irish champagne (TEA!) xxxx

Congratulations! It's great to see that everything went well at the interview. Now the real fun begins. No more waiting around to be with the person you love. Although the journey continues, the worst is over, and I guess helps us all to remember all things shall pass. Congrats again

Paul, we all feel your frustration bud. Hang in there its sooo close. For some reason after i see you approved im going to feel like im next ( im from March)

Thanks man. Yes. I hope you will get a speedy approval. No one should ever be waiting this long. I think things will have improved when they get to your petitions. At least I'm seeing some activity around my petition now. Just hoping for a good result. Maybe they're working on my batch today...Maybe this week really will be it.

[miguel.angel 11]

At this rate, we are hoping for the best but we are preparing for the worst. We even have a plan already in case they deny us. I think we should have gotten married from the beginning and just filed for the CR!but hey we all thought it was only 4,5 months right?

At this point im so frustrated im ready to go get married and live 1 yr abroad

[KTandTommy 31]

Thank you guys!!! Approved!!!! Will write a proper review later but had a really good experience, no problems, very nice interviewer who asked the usual things (how we met, whether i wanted to work in US, if we'd spent much time with each others families, when our wedding was planned for). I was wiping away tears when she said i was approved and she said "stop it, or i'll start too!".

Called Andrew to tell him and I'm pretty sure he will need to be told all over again when he actually wakes up, i think he was sleep-skyping!

Thank you for all your support, jan filers, you all rock I don't think it's sunk in yet but right now i'm gonna have a big glass of irish champagne (TEA!) xxxx

That's awesome!! Congratulations!

[Knope2012 10]

Congrats Kitty! I still can't believe there as so many of you still waiting I really hope this week is the week for all of you.

We're just at another short wait in the process- we're waiting to get the police cert in the mail so he can go to the medical. When he called Knightsbridge, they said as soon as he had the e-mail confirmation that the police certificate was in the mail, the medical can be scheduled. So hopefully we'll get our interview date scheduled in the next few weeks.

[sabi 148]

updates for today:

January 18:

1 x RFE

1 x approval

January 19:

1 x RFE

[P+J 47]

updates for today:

January 18:

1 x RFE

1 x approval

January 19:

1 x RFE

at least some consistency. maybe they'll focus on 18, 19, and 20 received date now..seems to be the biggest void of approvals. And glad to see an approval in the morning again. Was seeming like all we'd ever get in mornings was RFEs.

Edited July 30, 2012 by Paul86

[MissAAA 9]

Thank you guys!!! Approved!!!! Will write a proper review later but had a really good experience, no problems, very nice interviewer who asked the usual things (how we met, whether i wanted to work in US, if we'd spent much time with each others families, when our wedding was planned for). I was wiping away tears when she said i was approved and she said "stop it, or i'll start too!".

Called Andrew to tell him and I'm pretty sure he will need to be told all over again when he actually wakes up, i think he was sleep-skyping!

Thank you for all your support, jan filers, you all rock I don't think it's sunk in yet but right now i'm gonna have a big glass of irish champagne (TEA!) xxxx

Congrats girl!!!! Was rooting for you.....so happy for you..... :dance: :dance: