I129F April 2017 filers

[tcovington 175]

15 hours ago, PygmyPuff said:

Just curious, what do you mean by "online notice"? Is there some way to see your NOA2 before it comes in the mail?

If you go online and sign up to view case status you can click yes to receiving both email and texts about your case although people seem to not be receiving them. 

[Estibaliz 3,037]

1 minute ago, tcovington said:

I stated the received and notice dates. The didn't know about it until two days ago was the implied received date as it didn't post online. 

Oh, great, thank you for correcting me, since I was talking about info I saw here on Igor's list

 

Even more great news. Someone with a 3/28 received date (4/3 Notice Date) has a USCIS letter coming in the mail today. Just saw that on the March fillers thread. Exact same timeline that some of our fellows here, so Aprilites time is coming for sure

 

And as for me...

DAY 102 (107 since received date)

Nothing in the mail today... except since we got Informed Delivery I got to know how annoying is my fiance's mail. He keeps getting letters for a bunch of girls. We had Pamela and Jenifer, and today we have a Grace... Had to ask him if he has a harem living there when I'm not around

 

 

 

 

 

[spike198 506]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

my timeline gets pushed back, again.  

 

On a different note, is Informed Delivery sporatic for anyone? I feel like at least once a week I don't get a notification. It's certainly not a big deal, but when I travel it'll be nice to know if something important arrives so I can have my roommate bust it open for me to confirm what it is!

[lon552 437]

24 minutes ago, spike198 said:

On a different note, is Informed Delivery sporatic for anyone? I feel like at least once a week I don't get a notification. It's certainly not a big deal, but when I travel it'll be nice to know if something important arrives so I can have my roommate bust it open for me to confirm what it is!

I have it for both my house in Orlando and my apartment in Jacksonville and the Orlando mail is very reliable. My apartment in Jacksonville is next door to the mail facility and I may or may not get the mail that's pictured. That's where I'm expecting my NOA2 notification and I have cause for concern. Just yesterday I failed to get the mail pictured. It was someone else's junk mail with my address so I won't complain. I've been living there 3 years and only one out of five mail items has my name on them.

Edited July 22, 2017 by lon552

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1 minute ago, lon552 said:

I have it for both my house in Orlando and my apartment in Jacksonville and the Orlando mail is very reliable. My apartment in Jacksonville is next door to the mail facility and I may or may not get the mail that's pictured. That's where I'm expecting my NOA2 notification and I have cause for concern. Just yesterday I failed to get the mail pictured. It was someone else's junk mail with my address so I won't complain. I've been living there 3 years and only one out of five mail items have my name on them. 

Lol, that's what I was talking about before, My other half has been living at his current place for little over two years, and he keeps getting letters for girls that used to live there.

 

@spike198 Can't confirm, since I don't get to see the actual mail and Gary normall checks once a week and he doesn't check Informed Delivery really. But yeah, somedays it doesn't report because (supposedly)

[USC1961 251]

3 hours ago, tcovington said:

If you go online and sign up to view case status you can click yes to receiving both email and texts about your case although people seem to not be receiving them. 

Yes only NOA-2 by regular mail. 

 

3 hours ago, Estibaliz said:

Even more great news. Someone with a 3/28 received date (4/3 Notice Date) has a USCIS letter coming in the mail today. Just saw that on the March fillers thread. Exact same timeline that some of our fellows here, so Aprilites time is coming for sure

I think it is safe to say that the ball is rolling for April filers. The next 4 weeks should be fun!  Hold on for the ride folks, it will be a wild one!

[S*UK 543]

Hi all, 

I'm new to this thread and have a couple of questions to ask about what I've been reading! Not sure if this is the right place but here goes... 

At first I assumed I was a 'April filer' since we received our 'application received notification on April 10th'. But I now see that there is a received date and notification date and am super confused because we only have one date to go off. 

Im also confused as to how NAO2 will be received. Since my fiancé is in the army we put his home address for all mail thinking this would be fine as we also signed up for electronic notifications. But now I see that NAO2 comes by mail only. I guess my question is... will the online case status be updated also? 

Thanks in advance! (Sorry if these questions have already been answered multiple times) 

[Maria124 98]

5 hours ago, Estibaliz said:

Oh, great, thank you for correcting me, since I was talking about info I saw here on Igor's list

 

Even more great news. Someone with a 3/28 received date (4/3 Notice Date) has a USCIS letter coming in the mail today. Just saw that on the March fillers thread. Exact same timeline that some of our fellows here, so Aprilites time is coming for sure

 

And as for me...

DAY 102 (107 since received date)

Nothing in the mail today... except since we got Informed Delivery I got to know how annoying is my fiance's mail. He keeps getting letters for a bunch of girls. We had Pamela and Jenifer, and today we have a Grace... Had to ask him if he has a harem living there when I'm not around

 

 

 

 

 

same received date and NOA1 date with me 😳 hopefully 🤞 iLL come close to their Noa2. ☺️🙏 

 

and hello to pam , Jen and Grace 😂😂 

that made your waiting game for Noa2 more annoying .. 

[lon552 437]

41 minutes ago, S*UK said:

Hi all, 

I'm new to this thread and have a couple of questions to ask about what I've been reading! Not sure if this is the right place but here goes... 

At first I assumed I was a 'April filer' since we received our 'application received notification on April 10th'. But I now see that there is a received date and notification date and am super confused because we only have one date to go off. 

Im also confused as to how NAO2 will be received. Since my fiancé is in the army we put his home address for all mail thinking this would be fine as we also signed up for electronic notifications. But now I see that NAO2 comes by mail only. I guess my question is... will the online case status be updated also? 

Thanks in advance! (Sorry if these questions have already been answered multiple times) 

Welcome! 

 

The notification date listed on the NOA1 is what VJ goes by and is your official date for processing. As far as the NOA2, not being there to get the letter doesn't affect your timeline at all. It's just allows you to breathe a little easier in between approval and notification from the embassy. Unfortunately the choice of USCIS to not update approvals can have a much more negative impact on your stress level in your situation. But in the larger scheme, it has zero impact on the time from filing to POE. 

Edited July 22, 2017 by lon552

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37 minutes ago, S*UK said:

Hi all, 

I'm new to this thread and have a couple of questions to ask about what I've been reading! Not sure if this is the right place but here goes... 

At first I assumed I was a 'April filer' since we received our 'application received notification on April 10th'. But I now see that there is a received date and notification date and am super confused because we only have one date to go off. 

Im also confused as to how NAO2 will be received. Since my fiancé is in the army we put his home address for all mail thinking this would be fine as we also signed up for electronic notifications. But now I see that NAO2 comes by mail only. I guess my question is... will the online case status be updated also? 

Thanks in advance! (Sorry if these questions have already been answered multiple times) 

Welcome!

So regarding your questions... We talk about received date and notice date, referring to both dates showed on your NOA1 hardcopy. Received date is when they received your petition, as you can read also when checking in the case tracker ("On April xx we received your case..."), while notice date is when they actually processed it on the system... Usually same date you received the email/text.

 

And yep, you got that right. Unfortunately the case tracker hasn't been working for Approval since early May, just RFE's, so keep an eye in the mailbox. Maybe check if USPS Informed Delivery works for your address?

 

37 minutes ago, Maria124 said:

same received date and NOA1 date with me 😳 hopefully 🤞 iLL come close to their Noa2. ☺️🙏 

 

and hello to pam , Jen and Grace 😂😂 

that made your waiting game for Noa2 more annoying .. 

It might be on its way, who knows? So let's cross fingers for it

And yep, keep in mind he lives currently in Utah. He's not a Mormon, but you never know

(With all my respects to Mormon culture, I know that doesn't happen anymore ).

[S*UK 543]

1 minute ago, Estibaliz said:

Welcome!

So regarding your questions... We talk about received date and notice date, referring to both dates showed on your NOA1 hardcopy. Received date is when they received your petition, as you can read also when checking in the case tracker ("On April xx we received your case..."), while notice date is when they actually processed it on the system... Usually same date you received the email/text.

 

And yep, you got that right. Unfortunately the case tracker hasn't been working for Approval since early May, just RFE's, so keep an eye in the mailbox. Maybe check if USPS Informed Delivery works for your address?

 

It might be on its way, who knows? So let's cross fingers for it

And yep, keep in mind he lives currently in Utah. He's not a Mormon, but you never know

(With all my respects to Mormon culture, I know that doesn't happen anymore ).

Thanks for the reply! I actually just scrambled back through texts off my fiancé to see the letter again and realised that there are two dates! So looks like I'm a NAO1 4/13 😊 And I've changed my timeline. 

All this time I have been checking the case status online! I'll have to have him check with family if there is any mail for him. 

Hopefully we all see some progress soon. I'm tired of seeing my estimated approval dates pushed back. 

[S*UK 543]

9 minutes ago, lon552 said:

Welcome! 

 

The notification date listed on the NOA1 is what VJ goes by and is your official date for processing. As far as the NOA2, not being there to get the letter doesn't affect your timeline at all. It's just allows you to breathe a little easier in between approval and notification from the embassy. Unfortunately the choice of USCIS to not update approvals can have a much more negative impact on your stress level in your situation. But in the larger scheme, it has zero impact on the time from filing to POE. 

Thanks for the info! I may have to have him change the address to his military address. It will certainly be more stressful not knowing day to day if we have been approved. I've been checking daily on USCIS.gov.... now I know that was pointless. 

But hey, at least I'm aware now, we could have been waiting forever 🤣

[Estibaliz 3,037]

Quick update on the 3/28 (4/3) approved case. NOA2 dated this past Tuesday, July 18th

 

Enjoy your weekend, you all! 

[Chris2870 721]

Ok this is the best illustration of what happens at USCIS that I've found

 

 

[Chris2870 721]

7 minutes ago, Chris2870 said:

Ok this is the best illustration of what happens at USCIS that I've found

 

 

This appears to fall in line with what I've been told by a retired USCIS examiner. They aren't just sitting on our applications (although it feels that way) they actually have staff that gathers all the background checks and other case related documents and reviews petition for accuracy. sometimes this preliminary step prompts a quick RFE. If not then gathered documents are included in the petition packet and forwarded to assigned Examiner.

When the examiner receives our petitions it goes in the back or bottom of their case load unless a successful expedite request bumps it to the front.

The examiner reviews the petition again for any missed mistakes from previous staff inspection, then reviews petition in it's entirety. sometimes the examiner notices something that the earlier review missed, prompting the dreaded third month RFE.

If the examiner is satisfied with the petition, it's approved. Now that being said. If an examiner has a case load filled with either easy to process or a bunch of messed up petitions requiring RFE's then your case moves to the top faster ( Lottery affect ).