First Come First Served

[ksu1 0]

We all know about the first come first serve for petitions, K1 visa applications as well as other applications.

But what about all the October filers that still are not approved for their I-129F or even touched for that matter. We all need to be excited about all filers, but October comes before November and December.

I feel for you October filers, so hopefully the goal of the USICS will be closing out this month before moving too far ahead.

[TracyTN 237]

Wow - are there still October filers left?

I think the 'first come first served' is a load of bollocks. I suppose it is true if you don't get the slowest adjudicator on God's green earth, but if you happen to get in the box of someone who either doesn't do family/marriage related visas, or a noob, then you're screwed.

[Cassie 8]

I would recommend checking out the first thread started by HUSKERKIEV, a former adjudicator at Nebraska Service Centre. He describes the process very well of how petitions are processed, and how the boxes of files, which are in order, can get out of order a bit. Personally, I found it very interesting.

[HUSKERKIEV 8]

Wow - are there still October filers left?

I think the 'first come first served' is a load of bollocks. I suppose it is true if you don't get the slowest adjudicator on God's green earth, but if you happen to get in the box of someone who either doesn't do family/marriage related visas, or a noob, then you're screwed.

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No, thats simply not true. All cases are processed in a first in first out date order. Petitions may lag behind because they get siphoned off for security screening, awaiting Responses to RFE's and other reasons.

Also Adjudicators only work/adjudicate one type of petition at a time. Meaning an officer adjudicating I129F's won't be adjudciating I-131's or 485's or something else at the same time. You work in a section, meaning you are assigned to a section who is processing I129F's and you stay there processing only 129F's everyday unless you are cross trained in something else, request a transfer or are tapped to work in another section for a short assignment. But CIS will never "Mix n' Match".

[Jim&Gemz 0]

Wow - are there still October filers left?

I think the 'first come first served' is a load of bollocks. I suppose it is true if you don't get the slowest adjudicator on God's green earth, but if you happen to get in the box of someone who either doesn't do family/marriage related visas, or a noob, then you're screwed.

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No, thats simply not true. All cases are processed in a first in first out date order. Petitions may lag behind because they get siphoned off for security screening, awaiting Responses to RFE's and other reasons.

Also Adjudicators only work/adjudicate one type of petition at a time. Meaning an officer adjudicating I129F's won't be adjudciating I-131's or 485's or something else at the same time. You work in a section, meaning you are assigned to a section who is processing I129F's and you stay there processing only 129F's everyday unless you are cross trained in something else, request a transfer or are tapped to work in another section for a short assignment. But CIS will never "Mix n' Match".

Husk, if they decide to do security checks can that add a significant delay? Do they ever run local police checks and have to wait on paper replies?

[Jim&Gemz 0]

Wow - are there still October filers left?

I think the 'first come first served' is a load of bollocks. I suppose it is true if you don't get the slowest adjudicator on God's green earth, but if you happen to get in the box of someone who either doesn't do family/marriage related visas, or a noob, then you're screwed.

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No, thats simply not true. All cases are processed in a first in first out date order. Petitions may lag behind because they get siphoned off for security screening, awaiting Responses to RFE's and other reasons.

Also Adjudicators only work/adjudicate one type of petition at a time. Meaning an officer adjudicating I129F's won't be adjudciating I-131's or 485's or something else at the same time. You work in a section, meaning you are assigned to a section who is processing I129F's and you stay there processing only 129F's everyday unless you are cross trained in something else, request a transfer or are tapped to work in another section for a short assignment. But CIS will never "Mix n' Match".

Husk, if they decide to do security checks can that add a significant delay? Do they ever run local police checks and have to wait on paper replies?

[HUSKERKIEV 8]

Wow - are there still October filers left?

I think the 'first come first served' is a load of bollocks. I suppose it is true if you don't get the slowest adjudicator on God's green earth, but if you happen to get in the box of someone who either doesn't do family/marriage related visas, or a noob, then you're screwed.

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No, thats simply not true. All cases are processed in a first in first out date order. Petitions may lag behind because they get siphoned off for security screening, awaiting Responses to RFE's and other reasons.

Also Adjudicators only work/adjudicate one type of petition at a time. Meaning an officer adjudicating I129F's won't be adjudciating I-131's or 485's or something else at the same time. You work in a section, meaning you are assigned to a section who is processing I129F's and you stay there processing only 129F's everyday unless you are cross trained in something else, request a transfer or are tapped to work in another section for a short assignment. But CIS will never "Mix n' Match".

Husk, if they decide to do security checks can that add a significant delay? Do they ever run local police checks and have to wait on paper replies?

YEs, Security screening can add significant delays depending upon what issues need to be cleared before further processing. And chance are in Post 911 there are a lot of people in line ahead of you in the security screening que. As for local police checks, everything is via database access, no paper.

[TracyTN 237]

No, thats simply not true. All cases are processed in a first in first out date order. Petitions may lag behind because they get siphoned off for security screening, awaiting Responses to RFE's and other reasons.

Also Adjudicators only work/adjudicate one type of petition at a time. Meaning an officer adjudicating I129F's won't be adjudciating I-131's or 485's or something else at the same time. You work in a section, meaning you are assigned to a section who is processing I129F's and you stay there processing only 129F's everyday unless you are cross trained in something else, request a transfer or are tapped to work in another section for a short assignment. But CIS will never "Mix n' Match".

Sorry - my internet went down yesterday afternoon so I couldn't reply.

Would siphoning off for security checks, etc not register some kind of 'touch'?

We're told to call customer service for things, yet in the same breath, they say that they will tell us on the phone what we see online (which in many cases is nothing). I realize no system is perfect, but if the same system that scans and registers 'touches' is what scans and registers where your case is, then I'm really afraid!

Edited February 25, 2007 by TracyTN