I-129F TRANSFER THREAD - If you have been recently transferred, please post here!!!

[StephanieC 43]

This is amusing to me in a slapstick comedy way. Due to the unknowns of being approved, no one can plan for a wedding. So I haven't. Instead, we've planned for him to just bank extra money while we wait since he didn't renew his lease and is staying with family. So we can't plan a wedding, and if we are moved up sooner we don't save money. LOL

[TabeaK 517]

Alright, another morning without news...come on USCIS!

[khaleesi_719 1]

How much longer do we have to wait???? Not knowing what's happening is the worst feeling I ever had. Jeez!!!!!

[Amhara 460]

LOL! Oh, Tabeak, you are driving yourself nuts, just like I am on this news! I really hope TSC transferred ALL those 2014 cases to CSC!

Just remember that fiance visa's aren't the only kind being transferred. Since you are the end of Dec 2014, you have two potential advantages - you will either be included in the transfers or you will rise to the top of the list after the transfers!!!!! I decided that I need to give myself two weeks without looking at my case status. No news on this matter is difficult, but to me, you have such a high chance of getting worked if USCIS manages this transfer well!

[StephanieC 43]

I wrote this somewhere else, but it seems to me like their idea of transferring responsibilities is by routing applications received after march 26th directly to California.

[LEL 20]

Has anyone phoned and asked for clarification or asked their congressman's office to do so?

Of course USCIS would probably just be really vague and not give any helpful answers.

[stef_curls 42]

Has anyone phoned and asked for clarification or asked their congressman's office to do so?

Of course USCIS would probably just be really vague and not give any helpful answers.

Hardly seems worth the time and effort. You'll get the same vague answer some of have called and heard already. No one will truly know what's going on until official petition update notifications go out.

[Kyle and Linh 64]

Lets put all of this in perspective. The announcement states they recently began shifting I-130 from VSC to CSC. Then it lists (Balance of workload) movement in I-129F, I-140, I-485 I-821D, and I-765 applications.

Do you know how many applications this involves? Take a look at the latest quarterly report published by the USCIS website under Forms Report for activity in (Q1 2015 Gov't year) Oct 2014 through Dec 2014. I have tried to make a summary below (adding all the I-485 forms together). I also added a column of Backlog to Rate ratio which is just dividing the apparent processing rate for this last quarter by the Pending Backlog. This gives an idea of the length of processing time which for I-129F's is 1.35 quarters or about 4 months.

Form Apps Received App Processed Pending Backlog to Rate Ratio

I-129F 11,280 13,701 18,506 1.35 quarters

1-130 181,769 208,850 784,323 3.76 quarters

I-140 23,188 22,195 36,177 1.63 quarters

I-485 all forms 60,652 52,577 212,976 4.05 quarters

I-821D 152,419 162,203 136,419 0.84 quarters

I-765 384,977 317,535 358,485 1.13 quarters

What is glaring to me is that a) I-129f pales in comparison to other applications, b) That all of us eventually have to file I-485's and wow look at that backlog and c) Politics plays a role since I-821D are the infamous DACA applications and they are definitely getting priority.

Mind you that the data above combines both CSC and TSC for 129F processing so we are all hoping for the balance to take place in that department and not to balance say I-485's in lieu of I-129's in either place.

Interesting data and will be interesting in May when the March-Jan 2015 data will be published.

Good Luck to all. Stay patient.



Edited April 1, 2015 by Kyle and Linh

[LEL 20]

This is true, I'm starting to think there won't be a transfer of the backlog for I-129F just new applications being routed. It's unfair, but we all knew that!

[TabeaK 517]

The announcement stated that only I-485 from employment/asylum cases are transferred. That is a smaller number, I am assuming.

But yeah, we keep waiting...nothing new...

[rob999 51]

Looks like TSC has slowed down a little from the data that is available on VJ. If they are only transferring new applications then we should see NOA 2 expedites go to zero.

Week Week No, Avg Days Non-Expedite, No. of NOA 2's, Avg days expedite, No. of NOA 2 expedites

26 01 2015 5 197 22 23 12

02 02 2015 6 196 30 69 2

09 02 2015 7 200 24 22 2

16 02 2015 8 204 31 31 6

23 02 2015 9 208 25 20 5

02 03 2015 10 206 30 34 6

09 03 2015 11 199 25 23 11

16 03 2015 12 202 16 40 10

23 03 2015 13 195 16 41 4

30 03 2015 14 203 6 51 2

Edited April 1, 2015 by rob999

[Kyle and Linh 64]

TabeaK: Good get, still doesn't change much to the story. In fact the Ratio is worse now

Form Apps Received App Processed Pending Backlog to Rate Ratio

I-129F 11,280 13,701 18,506 1.35 quarters

1-130 181,769 208,850 784,323 3.76 quarters

I-140 23,188 22,195 36,177 1.63 quarters

I-485 all forms 60,652 52,577 212,976 4.05 quarters

I-485 (Corrected) 34,867 32,649 139,895 4.28 quarters

I-821D 152,419 162,203 136,419 0.84 quarters

I-765 384,977 317,535 358,485 1.13 quarters

[Kyle and Linh 64]

rob999: How many of the expedites are Philippines? Any breakdown there?

I agree my tracking is also saying TSC is slowing down. I saw them slow down last year on VJ data when they transferred from TSC to CSC in April and May. I think we need to track their rates the next few weeks. Tells us if they shifted in TX from I-129F to other forms.

[rob999 51]

rob999: How many of the expedites are Philippines? Any breakdown there?

I agree my tracking is also saying TSC is slowing down. I saw them slow down last year on VJ data when they transferred from TSC to CSC in April and May. I think we need to track their rates the next few weeks. Tells us if they shifted in TX from I-129F to other forms.

No, I just assume anything below 100 days is an expedite which at the moment has been reliable (...unfortunately).

[TabeaK 517]

I can't believe I am wishing back those weeks in Jan and Feb where TSC was at least consistently processing, lol.

March has been a complete disaster - data on VJ almost ground to a halt and processing is haphazard at best...

Edited April 2, 2015 by TabeaK