September 2012 filers

[JimmyFromSac 0]

Well, I just hope they are not discriminating it by what country our fiance(e) coming from, it's not fair for all of us.

[Scott65 27]

Well, they certainly aren't processed in chronological order LOL I wonder myself what is their system!

Not to be facetious but are we expecting too much? Timely, orderly, thoughtful process from a government entity.... :rofl:

[JimmyFromSac 0]

CSC is processing *extremely* slowly right now, and they're processing petitions from July onwards still (and their priority date is still only July 18th), so the September ones you've seen are SUPER lucky and there appears to be no logic to why they've picked up those ones ahead of July and August submissions still pending.

You could get yours this week, or it could be another 2 months+ - it's impossible to say right now.

I just hope that they are not discriminating it by what country our Fiance(e) are coming from, it's not fare for all of us.

[lost_at_sea 995]

I just hope that they are not discriminating it by what country our Fiance(e) are coming from, it's not fare for all of us.

I've not seen any evidence that they're doing specific countries over others. They're just generally slow/random.

[cornwallloz 1]

I read that each person gets a stack of files, and so they work through that. So I guess I can imagine that if you were at the top of a pile of September 5th petitions, for example, you get approved faster than someone at the bottom of a September 1st pile, as the workers just get through their own stack. Makes it totally random and annoying, but CSC do seem to be overly irratic at the moment...

[Laurka 65]

No new approvals since Friday. I hope it's not a bad sign. Are they slowing down again?

[Ant&Max 0]

They already are almost at a dead stop. The way this is all handled is beyond frustrating. Why even have estimated times if they literally mean absolutely nothing. I was going to fly down end of March for my Fiances birthday. But I am in the "estimated" time, so we decided to hold off since I am flying down for the interview. Now it's looking like four or so months to go. Or is it? No one knows. We made a deal that if I hear nothing by end of April, I am coming down for three weeks to visit. Sick of waiting on an approval that may or may not happen tomorrow, or is it June? So stupid...

[Laurka 65]

It really is beyond frustrating! I don't get what their problem is! Are they short of staff? Then hire more! So many people looking for employment! C'mon!

[JimmyFromSac 0]

They already are almost at a dead stop. The way this is all handled is beyond frustrating. Why even have estimated times if they literally mean absolutely nothing. I was going to fly down end of March for my Fiances birthday. But I am in the "estimated" time, so we decided to hold off since I am flying down for the interview. Now it's looking like four or so months to go. Or is it? No one knows. We made a deal that if I hear nothing by end of April, I am coming down for three weeks to visit. Sick of waiting on an approval that may or may not happen tomorrow, or is it June? So stupid...

I think they just really don't care, as long as they can collect our fees which is a hard earned money. Actually, I even went to USCIS local office here in Sacramento, CA and even the representative over there told me that I-129F is just a simple form for it to take that long to process. He was also puzzled about the long wait, even though they can't do anything about our case, if we flood our local office for follow up by requesting for an infopass, we might get noticed.

[Love's JAA 100]

First we got DACA, now we got sequestration.

[X Factor 1,111]

First we got DACA, now we got sequestration.

Yes this process is not for the faint of hear.

[Ighaepero 2]

They are government workers. They have steady job and good benefits. They don't care the least bit about how long you're waiting. Even if once upon a time, when they first began doing this job, they were full of ideals and had a goal of "helping people," years of monotonous drudgery will eventually suck the out of them and make them despondent automatons.

But indulging in negativity won't help anyone. Plan your visits if you can and hang in there, guys.

[cornwallloz 1]

Woah guys! Try to keep positive! Remember that not everyone applying for the visa is a member on visa journey, there will have been plenty of approvals that we don't know about. We've had a really good few weeks with lots of members approved and positive stories to read. Don't lose faith.

I'm pretty set on trying to do squeeze in another trip to see my fiancé...if things are tough then just do what you have to to try and better the waiting time. The time WILL pass. There's nothing we can do about the system an we can't assume to know what's going on, so why get add stress to the process getting caught up about it.

Personally, reading the posts of frustration only make me feel worse, I much prefer the messages of support from everyone going through the same process as me, and congratulating them when they hear news. So keep it positive guys! We'll get there! And we can all look forward to a summer of love in the USA

[Laurka 65]

Woah guys! Try to keep positive! Remember that not everyone applying for the visa is a member on visa journey, there will have been plenty of approvals that we don't know about. We've had a really good few weeks with lots of members approved and positive stories to read. Don't lose faith.

This is what I tell myself on tougher days I love to read positive stories too, but reading another post saying "Just hang in there" annoys me ;P

[RobBell 32]

Woah guys! Try to keep positive! Remember that not everyone applying for the visa is a member on visa journey, there will have been plenty of approvals that we don't know about. We've had a really good few weeks with lots of members approved and positive stories to read. Don't lose faith.

I'm pretty set on trying to do squeeze in another trip to see my fiancé...if things are tough then just do what you have to to try and better the waiting time. The time WILL pass. There's nothing we can do about the system an we can't assume to know what's going on, so why get add stress to the process getting caught up about it.

Personally, reading the posts of frustration only make me feel worse, I much prefer the messages of support from everyone going through the same process as me, and congratulating them when they hear news. So keep it positive guys! We'll get there! And we can all look forward to a summer of love in the USA

I totally agree with this. Each approval for someone else means that we're that much closer, so we should be excited for them. Also fretting over it too much takes away from the excitement of planning to be together and only causes negativity. Right now we just take each day as we always have, knowing that the approval will come. Of course I want her here as soon as possible, but there are also moments now to enjoy.

Sure I'll place my phone call sometime soon, and do some things to follow up when i can, but bashing my head against the wall isn't going to solve anything. Even a few weeks longer pales in comparison to having someone with you for the rest of your life.