January 2017 I-129F Filers

[Ban Hammer 13,474]

31 minutes ago, Steve & Ligia said:

Well said, thank you. We found the @Martin & Rona post to be very rude.

you always have the option to put someone on ignore.

charles
vj moderation

[eagle85 268]

7 minutes ago, RJandHamid said:

I wish everyone here still waiting for NOA2 sees movement on their case soon.

 

With that being said, I feel like maybe we are stressing ourselves out by comparing our cases to previous data. It seems like there has been some tension lately. Yes, earlier filers were rather lucky in summer/fall of 2016, where NOA2 was taking around 1-2 months on average. However searching through these forums, there are many periods of time where NOA2 was taking up to 5 or 6 months, so these long waits, while frustrating, are not entirely unusual. It is disappointing to see many cases after yours being approved, and sure that might not be the most fair process, but it is what it is. Unless you are outside of the current 6 month processing timeline, there isn't much that can be done at the moment but wait. 

 

Anyway I think I'm just rambling to calm my pre-flight nerves. I'll be boarding the plane in a few hours to see my fiancé, and I really hope that when I land tomorrow, I will be able to see some approvals on this thread. Either way, we are all in this wait together. Good luck to everyone still waiting and thanks for keeping me and probably many other sane during this crazy journey. 

@RJandHamid you've motivate us to wait patiently. You've wait longer than ours, yet you show your calmness and positivity to all of us here. 

We wish you enjoy your time with your fiance and hopefully you'll get the new notification about your file while you're there. So, you both can celebrate it together.  

[glmg21 330]

2 hours ago, Martin & Rona said:

 Please clarify. You first said that you can not help how to run the script and then you contradict yourself saying that you tried working this out with  5 ppl to do the scan before taking a break. I totally get that you have been running the data for us Jan Filers on your own time and everyone here appreciates your efforts. Where the frustration comes in is whoever the 5 ppl are plus "more ppl" obviously don't have the time in their schedule to do the scans.

 

The data is not being posted in a timely manner from the previous day and why is that? The ppl here that have offered to take on this responsibility have been blown off, me being one of them, so I don't feel that my comment about being selfish is inappropriate because my offer to help has falling on deaf ears.

 

Now that you have your NOA2 I'm sure your time is focused on the next steps of the process. For the benefit of the rest of us it seems the responsible thing to do is to assign responsibility of someone else running the scans so that you can hand off and to the next person that would be responsible for taking on this task. 

 

My two cents at least........

 

Look I'll be honest pal, life gets in the way sometimes. This process is testing on all of us, but none of us exist on here to give anyone data in a timely manner. With that said, either myself, @NatO23 or @AkesAngel have posted the data on pretty much every day for the past month. There's no obligation to do that whatsoever, and while I can't speak for the others,  if someone goes ahead and posts their numbers there's no need for the rest of us to do so either. The data that people want to see ends up on here every day, one way or another, and you really can't complain about that. So please don't.

 

 

This process isn't easy, but it doesn't last forever. Take a walk outside, appreciate the world around you, and realize that there is more to life than an NOA-2. It will all come together in time.

[XavierFR 38]

Good luck guys ! It's difficult now but good days are coming 

[sbane12 63]

As for my congressional inquiry I pretty much explained in detail everything i told USCIS on the phone. I wrote it all in a letter and signed a release form then faxed it all to my representative. I made sure to include that I have hard evidence that their current publicly posted  processing dates are completely dishonest. I included that I have evidence of many cases past my own that were NOT approved for expedite being approved. The primary issue I brought up which is also the reasoning I gave USCIS  for my expedite request was an emergent situation due to the increased tensions between the US and N Korea I believe represents a clear and imminent danger threatening the safety of my fiancee as N Korea has first and second strike capability range on Japan where my fiancee resides which is also a strong US ally

[TriloByte 1,818]

If someone can just send me a spreadsheet of all the January data, I think I have my code running good enough to be a backup.

 

I've been trying to understand what pattern USCIS is looking at to ban me each time I try to scrape the data. I can usually scrape for about 4 hours across about 4000 cases and then they block me. I think it's a lot to do with the need to get an initial set of data so that I can do lighter scrapes throttled even further back, in maybe batches of 500, every few hours. Like I said before, there are other types of cases between the K1s, and if you go back to December, you will see there's in the neighborhood of 100,000 cases. The only way to know if each receipt is a K1 is to look at the site. Hence why need the January data, so that I can finish my code and ignore any of those 100,000 that's not K1

 

Of course, I do code for a living, usually about 60 hours a week, and I have kids and am a single Dad half the time. It all depends on if I have time.

 

 

[XavierFR 38]

1 minute ago, dbmathis said:

If someone can just send me a spreadsheet of all the January data, I think I have my code running good enough to be a backup.

 

I've been trying to understand what pattern USCIS is looking at to ban me each time I try to scrape the data. I can usually scrape for about 4 hours across about 4000 cases and then they block me. I think it's a lot to do with the need to get an initial set of data so that I can do lighter scrapes throttled even further back, in maybe batches of 500, every few hours. Like I said before, there are other types of cases between the K1s, and if you go back to December, you will see there's in the neighborhood of 100,000 cases. The only way to know if each receipt is a K1 is to look at the site. Hence why need the January data, so that I can finish my code and ignore any of those 100,000 that's not K1

 

Of course, I do code for a living, usually about 60 hours a week, and I have kids and am a single Dad half the time. It all depends on if I have time.

 

 

Are you gonna push this on a github repository ?

[TriloByte 1,818]

3 minutes ago, XavierFR said:

Are you gonna push this on a github repository ?

No. 

[eagle85 268]

@AkesAngel.. Please correct me if I'm mistaken but I feel confused with the reveal hidden content on last update on May 3rd and May 2nd that you've posted since the last two days.

 

On May 2nd, it's written on your post the case untouched/left for January 17th is 55, the case left for January 18th is 10. 

 

But then when I read your post for May 3rd, I feel confused because on reveal hidden content said case untouched for January 17th is 89 and for January 18th is 69. 

 

I'm sorry if I talk too much. I hope you could help my confusion. Thanks in advance

[AkesAngel 585]

3 minutes ago, Noeyjohns said:

@AkesAngel.. Please correct me if I'm mistaken but I feel confused with the reveal hidden content on last update on May 3rd and May 2nd that you've posted since the last two days.

 

On May 2nd, it's written on your post the case untouched/left for January 17th is 55, the case left for January 18th is 10. 

 

But then when I read your post for May 3rd, I feel confused because on reveal hidden content said case untouched for January 17th is 89 and for January 18th is 69. 

 

I'm sorry if I talk too much. I hope you could help my confusion. Thanks in advance

It may have happened that the scan from may 2nd was a bit off ... maybe that's why they had a maintenance last night ... I assume that the data from today is correct but will keep an eye on it. Thank you for your post!

[AkesAngel 585]

13 minutes ago, dbmathis said:

If someone can just send me a spreadsheet of all the January data, I think I have my code running good enough to be a backup.

 

I've been trying to understand what pattern USCIS is looking at to ban me each time I try to scrape the data. I can usually scrape for about 4 hours across about 4000 cases and then they block me. I think it's a lot to do with the need to get an initial set of data so that I can do lighter scrapes throttled even further back, in maybe batches of 500, every few hours. Like I said before, there are other types of cases between the K1s, and if you go back to December, you will see there's in the neighborhood of 100,000 cases. The only way to know if each receipt is a K1 is to look at the site. Hence why need the January data, so that I can finish my code and ignore any of those 100,000 that's not K1

 

Of course, I do code for a living, usually about 60 hours a week, and I have kids and am a single Dad half the time. It all depends on if I have time.

 

 

Already sent you a pm ... maybe just reply and we can work that out

[Martin & Rona 157]

1 hour ago, Ban Hammer said:

you always have the option to put someone on ignore.

charles
vj moderation

Charles - I wasn't aware my comments were going to cause such serious controversy.

 

I have learned to keep my suggestions to myself, especially now when people in this forum have been waiting for over 3 months to get any response from USCIS.

 

I'll beg forgiveness if I offended anyone here again and will take you up on your one time offering on your earlier post:

 

[sbane12 63]

As to help whomever is trying the scan: there is a limit on the USCIS system for amount of queries from a single IP within 72 hours. I believe it is 5000. That is why the best way  to do a scan that consists of a daily or nightly update is to use Amazon  Web Services EC2 and simply stop the instance and start it back us every night which will give the server a new UP. Just Remote desktop and run the scan from a Windows based micro. All of this information was given to me by geo as I was going to do the scans for everyone here but simple found I don't have enough time and spending too much time on this site stressed me out more

Edited May 4, 2017 by sbane12

[MrMizo 144]

2 hours ago, sbane12 said:

As for my congressional inquiry I pretty much explained in detail everything i told USCIS on the phone. I wrote it all in a letter and signed a release form then faxed it all to my representative. I made sure to include that I have hard evidence that their current publicly posted  processing dates are completely dishonest. I included that I have evidence of many cases past my own that were NOT approved for expedite being approved. The primary issue I brought up which is also the reasoning I gave USCIS  for my expedite request was an emergent situation due to the increased tensions between the US and N Korea I believe represents a clear and imminent danger threatening the safety of my fiancee as N Korea has first and second strike capability range on Japan where my fiancee resides which is also a strong US ally

It's not a bad idea to contact a congressman about the issue, i will pursue the same way if I do not hear a response about the case by this week.

 

 More importantly, i believe that everybody's case is as equal in importance.Unfortunately, I don't believe they will expedite a case unless there is an actual war going on, otherwise everybody would have their case's expidited.

 

What we all can do is complain to our Congressman to get the USCIS in regular working order instead of being slowed down nearly 3x the rate. Maybe enough inquiries will force a positive change in the workflow. 

[sbane12 63]

39 minutes ago, Chris&RunnyRun said:

It's not a bad idea to contact a congressman about the issue, i will pursue the same way if I do not hear a response about the case by this week.

 

 More importantly, i believe that everybody's case is as equal in importance.Unfortunately, I don't believe they will expedite a case unless there is an actual war going on, otherwise everybody would have their case's expidited.

 

What we all can do is complain to our Congressman to get the USCIS in regular working order instead of being slowed down nearly 3x the rate. Maybe enough inquiries will force a positive change in the workflow. 

I disagree if a war was already started she would then be by definition a refugee. I'm pretty sure that would be a much easier and faster process to get her here. I highly doubt USCIS is going to say "we can only expedite if Japan was already hit by N Korean missiles and your fiancee potentially injured or worse"