I-129F March 2017 Filers

[MentalVoid 191]

Just now, twoDs said:

 

Congratulations!

 

I'm assuming the USCIS case status is still saying received?

 

Yeah, there was no update there. I hope everyone gets their NOA2 soon, I know how frustrating it is. I started crying once I opened the letter, just because of all of the emotions.

[AfricanQ 241]

1 hour ago, twoDs said:

It's 18 applications and 10 NOA2 approvals for that date.

Got it....thanks! Hope am in that 10 approvals

[twoDs 590]

1 minute ago, AfricanQ said:

Got it....thanks! Hope am in that 10 approvals

These are based on self-reported NOA2s from timelines on VJ so... I got bad news.

[AnJ Co 1,676]

54 minutes ago, MentalVoid said:

My mailman must have thought I was crazy, because I basically was waiting for him to finish sorting mail and as soon as he closed my thing, I opened it right back up. But I'm happy to say, the letter was an approval!! 

 

NOA1: 03/28

NOA2: 07/18

Congratulations!  Between the email and mail delivery....This must have been a very long day   

(personally, I think I would have accosted the mailman, dumped his bag on the floor, foraged through the pile until I found my letter, then ran off like a lunatic screaming 'I got mail, YES! I got mail!!!') LOL

[BahamaIslander242 244]

1 hour ago, MentalVoid said:

My mailman must have thought I was crazy, because I basically was waiting for him to finish sorting mail and as soon as he closed my thing, I opened it right back up. But I'm happy to say, the letter was an approval!! 

 

NOA1: 03/28

NOA2: 07/18

Happy to see they're still moving! CONGRATULATIONS!!! 🎉🎊🎈🍾 

[MentalVoid 191]

12 minutes ago, AnJ Co said:

Congratulations!  Between the email and mail delivery....This must have been a very long day   

(personally, I think I would have accosted the mailman, dumped his bag on the floor, foraged through the pile until I found my letter, then ran off like a lunatic screaming 'I got mail, YES! I got mail!!!') LOL

I was tempted, but I figured telling my fiance that we got the NOA2 followed by "...but I'm also in jail right now" would've been hard to explain 

[amishbaby 407]

8 hours ago, twoDs said:

Three NOA2 have been issued for the 28th. While this data is available looking it up on the timelines pages, I was curious and did some crunching of numbers last night. This should be mostly correct.

You can see that quite a few dates through the 14th have about 3/4 of their applications approved.

 

I actually dot-plotted every app and there is a trend line that decreases over time, as you'd expect if they process older applications first, but it's not a clean plot at all.

 

Date		% with NOA2		# Apps		#NOA2
2017-Mar-01		68%				22			15
2017-Mar-02		71%				7			5
2017-Mar-03		60%				15			9
2017-Mar-04		50%				2			1
2017-Mar-05		0%				1			0
2017-Mar-06		75%				32			24
2017-Mar-07		76%				17			13
2017-Mar-08		80%				5			4
2017-Mar-09		47%				19			9
2017-Mar-10		22%				9			2
2017-Mar-11		70%				10			7
2017-Mar-13		74%				19			14
2017-Mar-14		75%				12			9
2017-Mar-15		56%				18			10
2017-Mar-16		46%				24			11
2017-Mar-17		33%				9			3
2017-Mar-20		33%				27			9
2017-Mar-21		30%				20			6
2017-Mar-22		60%				10			6
2017-Mar-23		56%				9			5
2017-Mar-24		43%				7			3
2017-Mar-25		100%			1			1
2017-Mar-26		50%				2			1
2017-Mar-27		29%				14			4
2017-Mar-28		27%				11			3
2017-Mar-29		38%				13			5
2017-Mar-30		0%				3			0
2017-Mar-31		0%				9			0

 

I also did this for a few of the major countries with a lot of applications. The results were a little counter-intuitive, part of this may be the timing of the applications, but some countries are clearly getting a lot more attention than others. In particular March applications for India, Nigeria, Ukraine and Vietnam all have  2/3s of their NOA2s approved, and USCIS must hate Mexico:

 

Australia	63%	8	5
Brazil	61%	18	11
Canada	58%	19	11
China	50%	6	3
Colombia	33%	9	3
Dominican Republic	36%	11	4
Germany	40%	5	2
India	67%	9	6
Japan	57%	7	4
Mexico	20%	5	1
Nigeria	67%	12	8
Philippines	46%	81	37
Russia	50%	10	5
Ukraine	67%	9	6
United Kingdom	50%	28	14
Vietnam	67%	6	4

 

Thanks for the data! Looks like they didn't work on March 28th much and according to others it confirms this to be true. 

[amishbaby 407]

11 hours ago, Estibaliz said:

I usually try to check and askbout received dates, and don't reckon seeing anyone for last week of March yet. However, I saw they issued a RFE for at least one 3/27 received date on Thursday, so I'm quite positive they should be working on your days right now

Let's hope! Lol, I see everyone getting theirs. I'm so happy for everyone, but I'm like a little kid in an ice cream shop just dying to get mine next! 

[amishbaby 407]

8 hours ago, Majuuu said:

Received day is March 27th. No NOA2 yet...feel like it's slowing down again. I don't see many approvals

Its hard, but we got this! Soon we will get our NOA2. I feel it.

[amishbaby 407]

 

5 hours ago, daffodilla said:

We are also March 28th, nothing yet. I know there are a few others with the same date, but I don't think much has happened with them either. Hang in there, our time will come! 

 

It's good when you know you're not the only one waiting. 

[BigRedCat 36]

Finally got my NOA2 approval today marked 7-19!  (I'm NOA1 March 20th for those still waiting). 

[BahamaIslander242 244]

1 minute ago, BigRedCat said:

Finally got my NOA2 approval today marked 7-19!  (I'm NOA1 March 20th for those still waiting). 

Congratulations to ya!!!🎉🎈🍾🎊 

[twoDs 590]

13 minutes ago, amishbaby said:

Thanks for the data! Looks like they didn't work on March 28th much and according to others it confirms this to be true. 

I think we have one more 3/28 NOA2 as of today. But yes, the end of the month is clearly thin.

 

Also, in case anyone cares, here's how the July NOA2 approvals break down by date as

of last night -- looks like we need to add a couple more, thankfully!

 

Note that there's going to be some bias towards earlier dates because as we've seen, it

can take nearly a week for recently NOA2s to show up in the mail:

 

2017-Jul-01	1
2017-Jul-03	2
2017-Jul-05	7
2017-Jul-06	2
2017-Jul-07	3
2017-Jul-10	1
2017-Jul-11	1
2017-Jul-12	3
2017-Jul-13	7
2017-Jul-14	3
2017-Jul-17	1
2017-Jul-18	1
2017-Jul-20	1

The 5th and 13th look like the biggest days so far. This is still hardly anything compared to May and early June.

It looks like there's roughly 160 of us March filers still waiting as of last night.

3 minutes ago, BigRedCat said:

Finally got my NOA2 approval today marked 7-19!  (I'm NOA1 March 20th for those still waiting). 

Awesome! Congrats!

 

Nice to see at least some good news coming out today!

[troika 307]

10 minutes ago, BigRedCat said:

Finally got my NOA2 approval today marked 7-19!  (I'm NOA1 March 20th for those still waiting). 

Your fiance must be so relieved ... congrats !

[MentalVoid 191]

I'm not sure anyone here has the answer to this (If anyone knows of any other Australian filers, let me know!) but what customs forms do I need for sending over forms to my fiance? It's just the forms he needs for the interview, which don't have a commercial value (right?), so I'm a bit confused. I've never sent him anything before, so it's all new to me.