I129F April 2017 filers

[LabOz 915]

4 hours ago, etteniMTtocs said:

Come October 1, there will be  increased in medical fee in St Lukes Medical Extension Clinic (SLEC). Just giving heads up.

There is actually more to the announcement.

They are replacing the Tuberculosis Skin test with IGRA which is a new and more reliable type of blood test used to detect Tb.

This is great news as some people get held up for weeks if not months due to possible TB which many times it turns out they do not have as the skin test was not

that reliable. So this extra fee will save some folks even further wait.

 

Thanks for posting this.

[LabOz 915]

6 minutes ago, JimInUS said:

LabOz, my timeline is in my signature. Doesn't it show up?

 

I couldn't figure out how to do the timeline thing, and I figured the signature route was more useful for everyone. 

Hi, Yes I can see the one in the signature. 

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/

Here is the link for the VJ timeline entry.

It is helpful later down the road for you with AOS as well.

No biggie though. Up to you.

 

 

[LabOz 915]

1 hour ago, Ricky_Randhawa said:

What's happening .no updates today for april filers except some of from march filers. Are they ain't touching anything today ,i wonder how many files do they process on one day.

 

Some folks waiting 170 to 200 days for NOA 2.

This must be a record below. My Hero LOL

NOA 1 to Interview NON-expedite all done in 66 days.

Only took him 22 days to get NOA 2.

 

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?cfl=&id=246091

[Ricky_Randhawa 20]

19 minutes ago, LabOz said:

 

Some folks waiting 170 to 200 days for NOA 2.

This must be a record below. My Hero LOL

NOA 1 to Interview NON-expedite all done in 66 days.

Only took him 22 days to get NOA 2.

 

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?cfl=&id=246091

I guess last year things were much faster ,let's talk about this year .Some people already done with their interview whose NOA1 date's are after April 19 2017

Edited September 8, 2017 by Ricky_Randhawa
wrong description

[LabOz 915]

1 hour ago, CopperChem said:

I didn't get any updates for any cases near mine today, 1790292953

I was just thinking last night they have been approving between 5 and 6 VJ members per day.

There are 65  Unapproved February cases, 98 Unapproved March and 206 Unapproved April cases.

Assuming a 1/3rd of these are inactive members or members who forgot to update their time line that leaves approximately 266 Unapproved cases for VJ members for Feb through April.

Approving 5 to 6 per day means it will take them approximately 8 weeks or just over 2 months to clear out all of those 3 months.

It's my Fuzzy math so hope they start cranking out 10-20 approvals a day like in the past.

    

[Ricky_Randhawa 20]

2 minutes ago, LabOz said:

I was just thinking last night they have been approving between 5 and 6 VJ members per day.

There are 65  Unapproved February cases, 98 Unapproved March and 206 Unapproved April cases.

Assuming a 1/3rd of these are inactive members or members who forgot to update their time line that leaves approximately 266 Unapproved cases for VJ members for Feb through April.

Approving 5 to 6 per day means it will take them approximately 8 weeks or just over 2 months to clear out all of those 3 months.

It's my Fuzzy math so hope they start cranking out 10-20 approvals a day like in the past.

    

This makes me wonder that they are freaking very slow.  Seems like they only have 1 employee working haha

[LabOz 915]

Just now, Ricky_Randhawa said:

This makes me wonder that they are freaking very slow.  Seems like they only have 1 employee working haha

3 managers and 1 employee. 

[Ricky_Randhawa 20]

Just now, LabOz said:

3 managers and 1 employee. 

Roger that ......

 

I hope some lazy ### picks up my file ,this process is taking forever .....

[LabOz 915]

2 minutes ago, Ricky_Randhawa said:

Roger that ......

 

I hope some lazy ### picks up my file ,this process is taking forever .....

According to the VJ estimates you were to have been approved 3 days ago.

Maybe tomorrow is your lucky day.

[Ricky_Randhawa 20]

1 minute ago, LabOz said:

According to the VJ estimates you were to have been approved 3 days ago.

Maybe tomorrow is your lucky day.

Lol those estimates doesn't work anymore before it was saying 29 august. I heard that they only work 4 days ,10 hrs each day Mon- Thu .If this is true then i guess i have to wait till next week but m sure it won't gonna approve before i go over 150 days. 143th day for me.

[CE and JR 92]

2 hours ago, Ricky_Randhawa said:

What's happening .no updates today for april filers except some of from march filers. Are they ain't touching anything today ,i wonder how many files do they process on one day.

close to our date (Apr 18) just saw 4 RFE's compared with yesterdays scan.

to me seems like at the beginning of the week is a big boost of approvals and alter slow down at the end of the week

 

we are around 141 day from received date

 

EDIT: just adding that Friday next week (Sep 15 will be 150 days for us)

Edited September 8, 2017 by CE and JR

[falcao79 76]

2 hours ago, Ricky_Randhawa said:

What's happening .no updates today for april filers except some of from march filers. Are they ain't touching anything today ,i wonder how many files do they process on one day.

They are taking time to clear out the March backlog right now as they are preparing to update the processing page to March from February. It slows down the April approvals however it is the reason my case was able to finally be approved this week on September 5. If they just processed in order this wouldn't happen however they seem to have a reason to randomly chuck cases into a backlog like mine from march and then move onto processing 50 percent of April cases before finally going back to work on my case on September 5.

[Ricky_Randhawa 20]

2 minutes ago, falcao79 said:

They are taking time to clear out the March backlog right now as they are preparing to update the processing page to March from February. It slows down the April approvals however it is the reason my case was able to finally be approved this week on September 5. If they just processed in order this wouldn't happen however they seem to have a reason to randomly chuck cases into a backlog like mine from march and then move onto processing 50 percent of April cases before finally going back to work on my case on September 5.

Yea I feel you ,it should be better if they work on first come first serve basis instead of randomly picking u those files plus it help people to know exactly where they stands in line.

[CE and JR 92]

anybody knows an estimate (+/-) how long the background checks might take? for example from 1 to 2 month or how much is the maximal time it could be?

[Jb1 11]

Do k1 applicants have to follow the 6 NVC steps? Can we start the DS160 before the case goes to the embassy? Or should we wait?