I-129F May 2017 Filers

[Brntorun 48]

On 9/19/2017 at 4:01 AM, Saki said:

 

I don't know about your Taiwan policy clearance, but do you need it for beneficiary's interview? If so, six week doesn't sound THAT bad to me....  Cuz you probably will receive your NOA2 in a week or two. Then about another three weeks for your beneficiary to receive the package go get ready for the interview. Approximate total is gonna be five or six weeks from now until your beneficiary receive the package.

When we applied for this visa, we were expecting I could enter the states beginning of November but this long waiting game was a big unwanted surprise for me and my fiancee in the states. But all we can do is wait, it's so frustrating though. We stay positive and are trying to make ourselves feel everything is gonna be fine. Time will go faster than we think, here's another day with bunch of approvals!

She worked there 1 year ago, so she needs it before we can make appt for interview, 6 weeks takes it into nov, the make appt for interview, 3 week wait, now its end nov, then try find flights, its gonna b crazy $$$$$$$

[LabOz 915]

2 hours ago, AnaMolina said:

I don't know. To be honest, I was REALLY expecting to hear something from USCIS this week. Even a RFE, I wouldn't mind at all. Now, since they were super slow after July and there are still March and April filers waiting, I think I may hear something next week or the other. In my opinion, the average waiting will only increase from now on.. I'd say 160 days for May, and as the end of the year is closer, probably close to 6 months for later filers  when we started to fill the forms in march/April we thought we would have it in 3 months max. Oh the innocence! Lol

Ha exactly. 

Well a bit of good news. The apps don't seem to be updating so far BUT people are getting notices of approvals

The daily average of 5 including one approved RFE has been met for 9/20.

Hopefully more to come.

Maybe the CSC Zumba Wednesday was cut short there in Cali.

The other good thing is there was another 4/27 NOA 1 approved in the batch today.

[bcoakley06 280]

13 minutes ago, Brntorun said:

There like 500 who dont update

It woould not surpise me. VJ only shows a small percent of who applied. All we can do is wait. There is like 20 to 30 percent from Jan and Feb not done.

[Hey Jude 266]

19 hours ago, bcoakley06 said:

You doing ok Jude been a few days?

All good here pal, just busy with work! My Pinay princess is getting restless tho lol. She does not have the patience I do. But we just continue to have faith and let God do the rest. I just know as each day passes it is one day closer. At this point I am hoping she will be here for Christmas. I couldn't ask for a better xmas present. Hows things going for you?

[LabOz 915]

1 hour ago, pmeyer1229 said:

I bet the government workers would move more quickly if their pay was tied to how many cases they process. They have no incentive to move quickly.  I have worked for the Federal and Florida State government and had to leave do to the culture of mediocrity and apathy. That is what we are facing. The processors get paid regardless of how fast or thorough they are. They have no skin in the game....shoot, I hope they don't read this and deny me and my lovely pina princess  

I'm a former Fed worker and I would have to disagree immensely at least the Agency I worked for (Non- DOD) most of the employees took their job very seriously and did outstanding work with limited budget and resources. The folks working our petitions and the people answering the USCIS hotline are all NON-Government employees. They are contract workers and they are held accountable for number of cases that they work.

Another member posted a day to day activity log of what goes on as a contracted case adjudicator . As you can imagine it is a literal mountain of papers they have to deal with and that is part of the reason they are insulated from the call center folks otherwise they would spend all their time on the phones and none working cases. I just mentioned that they have Zumba Wednesday's as a light hearted joke. I imagine they are doing the best they can. They are directed by the USCIS which types of cases to focus on at any given time. The fee increases also added to the surge of case work plus the change in political climate all resulted in the perfect storm for a massive back-log which has nearly doubled the past average yearly wait times of 90 days for I-129F approval.

 

On the plus side I highly doubt they read this forum as probably the last thing they want to think about when they get home haha

[LabOz 915]

DAY 140

[bcoakley06 280]

6 minutes ago, Hey Jude said:

All good here pal, just busy with work! My Pinay princess is getting restless tho lol. She does not have the patience I do. But we just continue to have faith and let God do the rest. I just know as each day passes it is one day closer. At this point I am hoping she will be here for Christmas. I couldn't ask for a better xmas present. Hows things going for you?

Working like a dog and waiting for my queen. As you we are homping for Christmas i told he we got to be with in weeks of the NOA 2. Hoping we made right choice to go at it alone. 

Edited September 20, 2017 by bcoakley06

[Hey Jude 266]

5 minutes ago, LabOz said:

DAY 140

DAY 129 here!

[bcoakley06 280]

7 minutes ago, LabOz said:

DAY 140

I am sure your down to days. Sending all the luck to you all.

1 minute ago, Hey Jude said:

DAY 129 here!

Day 127

[Hey Jude 266]

2 minutes ago, bcoakley06 said:

Working like a dog and waiting for my queen. As you we are homping for Christmas i told he we got to be with in weeks of the NOA 2. Hoping we made right choice to go at it alone. 

Yea I here ya,when this is all said and done we should throw a May filer reunion lol

[pmeyer1229 331]

1 minute ago, LabOz said:

I'm a former Fed worker and I would have to disagree immensely at least the Agency I worked for (Non- DOD) most of the employees took their job very seriously and did outstanding work with limited budget and resources. The folks working our petitions and the people answering the USCIS hotline are all NON-Government employees. They are contract workers and they are held accountable for number of cases that they work.

Another member posted a day to day activity log of what goes on as a contracted case adjudicator . As you can imagine it is a literal mountain of papers they have to deal with and that is part of the reason they are insulated from the call center folks otherwise they would spend all their time on the phones and none working cases. I just mentioned that they have Zumba Wednesday's as a light hearted joke. I imagine they are doing the best they can. They are directed by the USCIS which types of cases to focus on at any given time. The fee increases also added to the surge of case work plus the change in political climate all resulted in the perfect storm for a massive back-log which has nearly doubled the past average yearly wait times of 90 days for I-129F approval.

 

On the plus side I highly doubt they read this forum as probably the last thing they want to think about when they get home haha

I guess our experiences are quite different. As a psychologist, I have worked with government workers from the DOD to Post Office and nearly all complain about red tape, the inefficiency, and lack of incentive to go "above and beyond." That was my experience also (I worked in a State prison and was also in the US Army). If an employee was a "star" they were told to slow down "as we don't want the higher ups to expect all of us to meet that productivity." No lie, we had a new dentist in the prison that was very productive and got "slapped down" by his supervisor and peers. So in sum, I guess it depends where one works in the government. But 5 approvals per day appears to be quite slow...and my comment about them reading this post was a joke. This would be the last place I would look after working all day on K1 visa files.

[BCILUWAMH 72]

10 minutes ago, LabOz said:

DAY 140

Day 140 here too..soon our turn

[LabOz 915]

5 minutes ago, pmeyer1229 said:

I guess our experiences are quite different. As a psychologist, I have worked with government workers from the DOD to Post Office and nearly all complain about red tape, the inefficiency, and lack of incentive to go "above and beyond." That was my experience also (I worked in a State prison and was also in the US Army). If an employee was a "star" they were told to slow down "as we don't want the higher ups to expect all of us to meet that productivity." No lie, we had a new dentist in the prison that was very productive and got "slapped down" by his supervisor and peers. So in sum, I guess it depends where one works in the government. But 5 approvals per day appears to be quite slow...and my comment about them reading this post was a joke. This would be the last place I would look after working all day on K1 visa files.

Oh for sure I agree with what you are saying about Red Tape , inefficient processes that is a major issue with the Feds many of the employees are excellent at their job inspite of the interference by management. Hhaha yeah I knew you were joking about them reading here.

 

mean while.

Edited September 20, 2017 by LabOz

[bcoakley06 280]

Here we go lets see if we can get a tier 2 office to give some info.

[LabOz 915]

480	Eli and Rey	2017-04-15	2017-04-20
481	Dustin and Maris	2017-04-14	2017-04-20
482	Christopher and Saltanat	2017-04-16	2017-04-20
483	Chris and Eerika	2017-04-14	2017-04-20
484	Nkem and Alozie	2017-04-14	2017-04-20
485	J and O		2017-04-20
486	Kevin and Thuy	2017-04-14	2017-04-21
487	Johnny and Oksana	2017-04-18	2017-04-21
488	Korey and Charlene	2017-04-18	2017-04-21
489	Joe and Janice	2017-04-19	2017-04-24
490	CML and Sunjay	2017-04-20	2017-04-24
491	Mac and Leidy	2017-04-21	2017-04-24
492	Don and Rei		2017-04-24
493	carmine and Agnes	2017-04-17	2017-04-24
494	Marty and Yuliia	2017-04-20	2017-04-24
495	Fallyn and James		2017-04-24
496	Nathan and Cassandra		2017-04-24
497	Ann and Nelson		2017-04-24
498	T and R	2017-04-20	2017-04-24
499	Edward and Jemmalyn	2017-04-18	2017-04-25
500	Jacob and Camila	2017-04-20	2017-04-25
501	Ashley and Ash	2017-04-11	2017-04-25
502	Eric and Tandi	2017-03-30	2017-04-25
503	Brian and Nery	2017-04-21	2017-04-25
504	James and Sarah	2017-04-21	2017-04-25
505	Reba and Chris	2017-04-20	2017-04-25
506	NAY CHI and NAING	2017-04-18	2017-04-25
507	Isabel and Vj	2017-04-18	2017-04-25
508	Shannon and Ibrahim	2017-04-24	2017-04-26
509	Amy and Anass	2017-04-21	2017-04-26
510	James and Jeanette	2017-04-21	2017-04-26
511	Luis Alberto and Bárbara	2017-04-19	2017-04-26
512	Matthew and Angeline	2017-04-21	2017-04-26
513	Dorice and Gerard	2017-04-21	2017-04-26	2017-09-15
514	Michael and Siriporn	2017-04-21	2017-04-26
515	J and S	2017-04-24	2017-04-26
516	Matt and Anjz	2017-04-24	2017-04-26
517	Michael and Siriporn	2017-04-24	2017-04-26
518	Greg and Hazel	2017-04-19	2017-04-26
519	Noemi and Mario	2017-04-20	2017-04-26
520	Dale and Leda	2017-04-24	2017-04-26
521	Unshakable and Faith	2017-04-21	2017-04-27
522	Andrew and Mayara	2017-04-21	2017-04-27
523	C and N	2017-04-25	2017-04-27
524	Richard and Mary Grace	2017-04-24	2017-04-27
525	ra and as	2017-04-24	2017-04-27
526	Bill and Charity	2017-04-24	2017-04-27
527	David and Mia	2017-04-24	2017-04-27
528	rakiya patterson and fabian turner	2017-04-19	2017-04-27
529	kd and sp	2017-04-24	2017-04-27
530	Kevin and Alina	2017-04-21	2017-04-27
531	Jim and Kat	2017-04-11	2017-04-28	2017-09-01
532	Karla and Hyeongjin	2017-04-18	2017-04-28
533	Marissa and John	2017-04-18	2017-04-28
534	Michael and Kathryn	2017-04-26	2017-04-28
535	James and Melody	2017-04-25	2017-04-28
536	Ron and Agatha	2017-04-23	2017-04-28
537	Michael and Nathalia	2017-04-22	2017-04-28
538	Aaron and Daniel	2017-04-25	2017-04-28
539	JJR and joyp	2017-04-26	2017-04-28
540	John Kupferschmid and Jorife Ejandra	2017-04-24	2017-04-28

164 entries found!

 

The last 60 cases for April on VJ from 4/20 to 4/28 so far 2 approvals.

Several of these members are inactive however.

VJ has 5 approvals per day on average..

Edited September 20, 2017 by LabOz