I-129F November 2016 Filers

[Adriana&Marko 58]

47 minutes ago, Chelleyandaaron said:

you might be lucky - they do seem to be picking handfuls from an assortment of dates at the moment so you could possibly get your NOA2 this week.  It should certainly be in the next two or three weeks.

You think so I hope my papers have been in since November 23rd

[Adriana&Marko 58]

2 hours ago, Quiinng said:

I thibk that not true! I called to uscis and they say at least have to wait 120days! Then we could call them for your considerations 

Okay yeah my papers have been in since November 23rd 

[MajaMukanowska 38]

12 hours ago, JimJesDuma said:

For 10/31 there were 364 cases and as of tonight there are now 38 left unworked.

Where do you guys get that info from?

Edited February 11, 2017 by MajaMukanowska

[Fantasy 1]

Hi every body im new here I file k1 on November 2016 any idea for timeline for approval please respond if any idea thanks 

[Chelleyandaaron 528]

NEWBIES! (for those who have joined the thread in the past few days...)

 

if you have time, read the posts back three or four pages - as many of your questions have probably been answered - there is lots of really useful information in the previous posts.

 

November filers have been tracking the progress of cases using the USCIS app case tracker.  Each day @geowrian posts reports as to the progress of November's cases by using the USCIS data and running it through a program he wrote.  This gives us a good idea of which case are being processed each day.  He posts the spreadsheets so you can have a look and find out how many cases are ahead of yours and whether your date is being processed yet.  Doing a few sums (how many cases are ahead of mine? how many cases are being processed per day?) will give you a better indication of how long it might take for your case to be processed.

 

Be aware that the cases are NOT processed in a strictly 'date received' order - but they are tracked at USCIS by the date the case was received NOT by the NOA1 date - so it is this that we use when talking about dates on this thread (though VJ timelines work on the NOA1 date).

 

The VJ timelines are not accurate in terms of their predicted date - or for the cases currently being processed at CSC.  This thread has more accurate info - due to Geo's great work.

 

 

[fishe23a 240]

13 hours ago, JimJesDuma said:

For 10/31 there were 364 cases and as of tonight there are now 38 left unworked.

Today is DAY 100 from NOA 1 for us. 

I have a feeling I will be one of the final 3 cases to get approved.

 

Jim -  safe travels and have such an amazing time with Jes! I am rooting for you every day and will probably keep checking 10/31 filers just keeping up with progress on what might be your case! May the time off in the gorgeous Phillipines relax you, and may you return to an NOA-2, an NVC number, and all of the next pieces in the process falling into place.

[fishe23a 240]

51 minutes ago, MajaMukanowska said:

Where do you guys get that info from?

 

13 hours ago, JimJesDuma said:

For 10/31 there were 364 cases and as of tonight there are now 38 left unworked.

 

MajaMukanowksa - please scroll back through these forum postings. As chelleyandaaron posted, the process has been explained in detail by Geowrian, vogaan, chelleyandaaron, and myself over the past few days. As for tracking 10/31 specifically, I use the iPhone USCIS Case Tracker App (free from app store, icon is a vertical American flag with eagle). Once in the app, the second icon from the left is a Search (magnifying glass). For "Start Receipt", you can enter any case number from USCIS. You can set the "Count" (number of cases searched) to 500 maximum. I use the number WAC1790049058 as the first receipt for October 31st filers, and then search forward in 500 chunks to encompass all of the receipt numbers from one calendar day. Yu find these numbers by playing around with case numbers nearing the end or beginning of each day; it's much easier to just follow Geowrian's weeknight nightly update posts and vogaan's nightly posts (for November 14th only). When it is done searching, you click on the bar graph icon at the top, and then select I-129F. You will see a graph of all approved cases, rejected cases, cases issued an RFE, and cases that have not been worked yet as "other" (which is mostly unworked cases, but a couple other categories fall in here as well). The app limists searches to a couple thousand daily, due to IP concerns, which you can get around if you know things about programming. Just play around with the app and you'll figure it out.

[fishe23a 240]

Also - NOA-2 arrived in the mail today for us! I wasn't expecting to receive it in the Saturday post - half the time I don't get any Saturday mail (even junk mail) at all, so it was a very pleasant surprise! We only heard Tuesday night 2/7 about the approval in the first place - so it came unexpectedly quickly!! Now just trying to make myself hold off until the middle of next week to start hounding the NVC for a case number...!

[geowrian 22,337]

4 hours ago, Adreeanuh said:

Does uscis process cases on the weekends well on Saturday's ?

Usually not, but rarely we've seen RFEs and even a handful of approvals on the weekends. I wouldn't count on it, but if it happens then it's a good surprise.

3 hours ago, Adreeanuh said:

And another question on our timeline it says estimated times for your paper work and they give a date is that true or never happens ?

It's an estimate based on the data from VJ members' timelines. In a "big picture" perspective, they're pretty good estimates. During transitions to faster or slower processing (especially on the slower side of things), they lag behind the real progress. So, if you look at cases for like the last 6 months or longer, they're pretty close. If you look at cases for the past 3 months, they're probably off by a couple weeks.

2 hours ago, KF & OS said:

Hey guys I was just wondering if any of you who have had success reaching out to your congressional reps have been requested to fill out a privacy release form before the Rep will speak to CSC. My girl reached out to her congressional Rep in California and they replied her email asking her to fill out a Privacy release form but she never saw the email for the last 11 days, sigh! And then they sent her a follow up email on Tuesday. She's gonna sign and send the form today.

Generally, there is not really anything a congressional inquiry can do until you are out of "normal" processing times (i.e. 5-6 months for I-129F). There's no harm either.

[Adriana&Marko 58]

43 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Usually not, but rarely we've seen RFEs and even a handful of approvals on the weekends. I wouldn't count on it, but if it happens then it's a good surprise.

It's an estimate based on the data from VJ members' timelines. In a "big picture" perspective, they're pretty good estimates. During transitions to faster or slower processing (especially on the slower side of things), they lag behind the real progress. So, if you look at cases for like the last 6 months or longer, they're pretty close. If you look at cases for the past 3 months, they're probably off by a couple weeks.

Generally, there is not really anything a congressional inquiry can do until you are out of "normal" processing times (i.e. 5-6 months for I-129F). There's no harm either.

So it can be any time I'm just wondering cause there on November applications 

[Chelleyandaaron 528]

1 hour ago, Adreeanuh said:

So it can be any time I'm just wondering cause there on November applications 

yes it can be any time.  Please - as suggested in a few posts - read the past few pages and reports and track by your received date.

 

There is a lot of information already on this thread regarding received dates and processing times that I'm sure you will find helpful.

[amye 158]

7 hours ago, MapleLeaf29 said:

Oh, that's helpful.  Like a lot of Canadians, my fiancé has been to the US a zillion times, starting when he was a child.  We were afraid we would have to list every single visit.  It's so nice to know that we only need to list the most recent nine.

most recent FIVE

[Chelleyandaaron 528]

1 minute ago, amye said:

most recent FIVE

the ds-160 I filled in let me fill in nine.  Older forms only asked for five most recent visits

[amye 158]

3 minutes ago, Chelleyandaaron said:

the ds-160 I filled in let me fill in nine.  Older forms only asked for five most recent visits

Okay, I understood your last message to mean they only require the last five visits.

[Chelleyandaaron 528]

1 minute ago, amye said:

Okay, I understood your last message to mean they only require the last five visits.

No, they had a page of boxes to fill in dates for previous visits to the US when I filled in my ds-160 the first time in January.  I went back in today to update it and it wouldn't let me add any more dates - the 'add' link was greyed out.  Previous forms (apparently) only asked for the five most recent visits - but the form I completed had let me add the nine most recent visits.  So I think that is as many as they need.  Some other threads had mentioned that the officers might discuss this at the interview - and they might not.

 

The 'other countries visited' asks for information about countries visited in the past five years.  I don't know what the maximum add is for that as I only had five countries to add (because most of my travel was to the US in the past five years).  I just wanted to allay the fears of anyone else who might have been a frequent visitor but didn't have enough space to add every prior visit to the US.