Delay this time of year?

[Tamzo27 0]

Hi All,

Firstly, Congrats to all of you who have received your NOA2, I can imagine how you all must feel...I can't wait to experience that feeling for myself!

For those of us who are still waiting..I am just wondering if this time of year slows down a lot- with people working at the consulate going on vacation..and the offices being closed for the sesaonal period- do you think this delays us a lot? Logically, I think it would? Technically..most of late Septembers have been issued an NOA2...so if it slows down during this period..I wonder by how much??

Any thoughts?

I know we can just speculate...but this waiting isn't the greatest feeling in the world

[alohaspirit 0]

Don't forget to mention the backlogs. You can imagine how many petitions goes to each service centers a day.

[payxibka 10,047]

Hi All,

Firstly, Congrats to all of you who have received your NOA2, I can imagine how you all must feel...I can't wait to experience that feeling for myself!

For those of us who are still waiting..I am just wondering if this time of year slows down a lot- with people working at the consulate going on vacation..and the offices being closed for the sesaonal period- do you think this delays us a lot? Logically, I think it would? Technically..most of late Septembers have been issued an NOA2...so if it slows down during this period..I wonder by how much??

Any thoughts?

I know we can just speculate...but this waiting isn't the greatest feeling in the world

First of all, people going on vacation at the consulates has no influence on your petition approval. However, people taking time off at the USCIS service centers will. I expect that the USCIS is no different than any other business and that productivity slows down quite a bit from sometime next week until after the first of the year.

[Ladylethal 12]

Towards the holiday there will be delays as many employees take days off from work.

[Sinergy 3]

I remember last year at this time i was waiting for me and eds NOA2, and knowing that ppl at USCIS were on holiday and stuff just made it worse bc i knew it would be longer. i was so selfish hahahahaha

[zyggy 9]

In the federal government, it's use it or lose it... so you have a lot of people who didn't use a lot of vacation all year take a whole ton of it in December....

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I don't know what you can expect this year, however, in 2004 when we were waiting for our petition approval (we filed in June), we expected that the workload would decrease over the holidays and were very discouraged. We had even reached a point where we were thinking about giving up and wondering if we were meant to be. On December 30 - more than 6 months after our submission and several weeks past the last expected processing date, we received our NOA2. Later on it appeared that there had been a slurry of last minute approvals, and a number of us speculated that they were trying to process as many of the current year's outstanding applications as they could. So, while all of the evidence suggests things will slow down, it may not be so; they may try to process as much as they can before the year changes. Good luck to everyone who is waiting - may you get your approvals quickly.

Edited December 15, 2006 by Kathryn41

[zyggy 9]

I don't know what you can expect this year, however, in 2004 when we were waiting for our petition approval (we filed in June), we expected that the workload would decrease over the holidays and were very discouraged. We had even reached a point where we were thinking about giving up and wondering if we were meant to be. On December 30 - more than 6 months after our submission and several weeks past the last expected processing date, we received our NOA2. Later on it appeared that there had been a slurry of last minute approvals, and a number of us speculated that they were trying to process as many of the current year's outstanding applications as they could. So, while all of the evidence suggests things will slow down, it may not be so; they may try to process as much as they can before the year changes. Good luck to everyone who is waiting - may you get your approvals quickly.

On the contrary.. workload usually increases this time of year... because people have more time to do the things necessary to prepare the paperwork...