What does touched mean?

[LVS0506 0]

Hi everyone! I'm new here. How does anyone know when their case is "touched"? Where do I need to register so we would also get updates for our case? This forum has been a big help for us. Thanks!

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Any time your application is handled by someone at a Service Centre, the barcode is scanned, which results in an update to the "last date" for your case on the USCIS website. When the date changes, this mean that someone has physically handled or "touched" your case. There are many reasons your application may be "touched" - from simply being moved from one desk to another, to RFE's, to being approved.

There are 2 kinds of touches. There are the ones that show some kind of update, there are the ones that don't bring a new message. By logging into the account, take a look at the date that shows next to your case number. If it's changed, you've been touched.

By clicking on the case number, you get to check whether it was an update touch or not. The ones that don't show updates are connected with some kind of work done with regard to your case - it merely shows that they've taken a look at it somehow.

[LVS0506 0]

Thank you very much Catharina_dAlbi The info has been very helpful to us!

Edited November 20, 2006 by LVS0506

[Jeff and Boo 0]

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Any time your application is handled by someone at a Service Centre, the barcode is scanned, which results in an update to the "last date" for your case on the USCIS website. When the date changes, this mean that someone has physically handled or "touched" your case. There are many reasons your application may be "touched" - from simply being moved from one desk to another, to RFE's, to being approved.

There are 2 kinds of touches. There are the ones that show some kind of update, there are the ones that don't bring a new message. By logging into the account, take a look at the date that shows next to your case number. If it's changed, you've been touched.

By clicking on the case number, you get to check whether it was an update touch or not. The ones that don't show updates are connected with some kind of work done with regard to your case - it merely shows that they've taken a look at it somehow.

But my case was touched only once and everytime i checked on my account its the same date... is it a bad sign? Does it mean that they are not touching my case somehow? why others got many tracked on their cases?

[TongandWei 0]

not being touched doesn't mean anything. have seen people had no touch until the approval.

[mchina34 0]

not being touched doesn't mean anything. have seen people had no touch until the approval.

so far here is my i129f touches:

november 15 - update uscis website says update made, but no email sent

november 17 - update uscis in chicago mails my i129f to CSC on november 15

november 21 - update touched

november 22 - update touched

november 27 - update touched

What can i make of this? I called on the 21st at 8am and waited for 50 long minutes just to find out that the reason it was touched on the 21st is because the CSC recieved the transfer from Miss.. Then I thought perhaps the 22 was due to them actually opening the mail or somethinng.

but today, the 27th, it was touched again and the status is still the same. does this seem to lean more toward the idea that they are processing my application, or is this normal touching? if it's touched again on the 28th or 29 is it safe to assume it is certainly being processed?

[Libersolis 0]

not being touched doesn't mean anything. have seen people had no touch until the approval.

so far here is my i129f touches:

november 15 - update uscis website says update made, but no email sent

november 17 - update uscis in chicago mails my i129f to CSC on november 15

november 21 - update touched

november 22 - update touched

november 27 - update touched

What can i make of this? I called on the 21st at 8am and waited for 50 long minutes just to find out that the reason it was touched on the 21st is because the CSC recieved the transfer from Miss.. Then I thought perhaps the 22 was due to them actually opening the mail or somethinng.

but today, the 27th, it was touched again and the status is still the same. does this seem to lean more toward the idea that they are processing my application, or is this normal touching? if it's touched again on the 28th or 29 is it safe to assume it is certainly being processed?

Trying to find any sort of pattern from touches will drive you insane, as will trying to figure out statistical probabilities for when your case might get approved. There is simply too much randomness within both the touch and approval processes to find any link. The best thing to do is simply wait and realize that your case will be approved when it is approved.

[mchina34 0]

not being touched doesn't mean anything. have seen people had no touch until the approval.

so far here is my i129f touches:

november 15 - update uscis website says update made, but no email sent

november 17 - update uscis in chicago mails my i129f to CSC on november 15

november 21 - update touched

november 22 - update touched

november 27 - update touched

What can i make of this? I called on the 21st at 8am and waited for 50 long minutes just to find out that the reason it was touched on the 21st is because the CSC recieved the transfer from Miss.. Then I thought perhaps the 22 was due to them actually opening the mail or somethinng.

but today, the 27th, it was touched again and the status is still the same. does this seem to lean more toward the idea that they are processing my application, or is this normal touching? if it's touched again on the 28th or 29 is it safe to assume it is certainly being processed?

Trying to find any sort of pattern from touches will drive you insane, as will trying to figure out statistical probabilities for when your case might get approved. There is simply too much randomness within both the touch and approval processes to find any link. The best thing to do is simply wait and realize that your case will be approved when it is approved.

That's what everyone says, but I find (through scouring the forum) that more times than not when someone is touched often they will soon be approved, or at least have an RFE. Meaning that the people that weren't touched often and got approved doesn't really suggest that the people who are/were touched often also has no meaning.

Does tha make sense? anyways, as you said, i'm tyring to find some reasonableness in the madness of which there seems to be little of.

[Libersolis 0]

The problem is there are simply too many outliers within the number of approvals and approvals that are preceded by touches. Anytime you do a statistical analysis you try to look for relationships between one event and another, ultimately hoping to find a relationship between the two. While I haven't actually done a chart on this particular case, I think there would be too many random factors that would prevent there from being a relationship between the two.

[john_and_marlene 162]

What does touched mean?

It's a mental condition.