USCIS announced today 1 year timeline for K-1 Apps

[StephAnn2012 50]

From USCIS - CSC - March 20, 2013 - "Thank you for your inquiry. We are experiencing a longer processing period than what is currently reflected on our national website. Your I-129F, Petition for Alien fiance, is pending review. We recognize your interest in a final determination on your pending petition. The California Service Center is committed to processing this workload, and will be making every effort to finish reviewing your case as soon as available under our resource constraints. If your Form I-129F remains pending 120 days or more from the date of this response, you may call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 to inquire further about the status of your pending petition."

I also went to the USCIS local office and they told me that the new expected timelines they are allowed to give are 1 year from date of application.

I believe this is just padding to get so many of us to stop calling expecting them to do what they say they are going to do in the timeframe in which they said they would do it. Of course they have a right to be upset with us. We are such unreasonable people.

[reginaglenn 25]

WHAATTTT!!? Oh my goodness,. Not everybody wants to hear. I was wondering what was that transferring of workload from CSC to TSC for. Waiting is killing everybody...

[rm love dc 10]

That's not good.... i don't know what else to say. It is so frustrating....

[C-ma'am 684]

**Post moved from K1 main to K1 Progress Reports

[B&L 19]

All the more reason to get involved with the plan of emailing/sending letters to the Director expressing concern about the long timeframes!

Here's the thread: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/421413-how-many-supporters-are-here/page__pid__6091865__st__90#entry6091865

There's also a Google Docs link to a template letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TkQGEsuhb9-THqopSCVcNGESQEJSR1hKEQGjo5iPEj0/edit

[Alex&Amy 28]

I really wonder how they can have one service center operating at 5 months and one at a year, surely that isn't legal for a federal agency to discriminate between one side of the country and the other. Also did you get the time frame in writing or is it just something someone said to you?

[Oregon Bound 30]

Well I have done the google doc letter and emailed it to my fiance to look at and send. It's not fair to ask us to put up with this kind of treatment.

[Alex&Amy 28]

Well I have done the google doc letter and emailed it to my fiance to look at and send. It's not fair to ask us to put up with this kind of treatment.

Good luck, its completely ridiculous and unacceptable what is happening! It's not as if they can't process K-1's, they clearly have the capacity to process K-1's very quickly along with all the DACA applications at one service center, why can't they do the same at California?

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

Perhaps they feel they can push the K1s to a lower priority because the fiance(e)s are not family members yet? (Just guessing their logic here).

[Oregon Bound 30]

Perhaps they feel they can push the K1s to a lower priority because the fiance(e)s are not family members yet? (Just guessing their logic here).

I think logic left the room (or rather USCIS) right after we filed our petition!

[StephAnn2012 50]

'Alex&Amy' "I really wonder how they can have one service center operating at 5 months and one at a year, surely that isn't legal for a federal agency to discriminate between one side of the country and the other. Also did you get the time frame in writing or is it just something someone said to you?"

I made an appointment with INFOPASS on the USCIS website and met with two representatives - This was my second meeting at the local office and I highly recommend that if you want real answers, you do the same. They told me that all service centers are

gearing up to handle more VISA applications since the DACA act was passed - They said that they were told to begin telling people to expect a 1 year timeline for processing applications. One of the two case officers said he was in a training class with a lot of new hires who have been recently added to the mix.

My opinion is that the one year date is to buy them time to get caught up. I imagine that the DACA act has been so successful that those who have already received their Golden Tickets have told their friends and that applicants are increasing by the day.

[Azsara 110]

Is this one year from NOA1 to NOA2 or from NOA1 to visa in hand?

[Love's JAA 100]

Is this one year from NOA1 to NOA2 or from NOA1 to visa in hand?

It must be to NOA2 because USCIS doesn't handle the rest. That's the State Dept.

[Oregon Bound 30]

Is this one year from NOA1 to NOA2 or from NOA1 to visa in hand?

That's just to receive the NOA2

[Azsara 110]

That's just to receive the NOA2

What thaaaa?