I-129f June 2017 filers (merged)

[GInAustin 164]

If any new filers are reading this, my strongest recommendation is to obtain an immigration lawyer. My fiancé and I have been dragged through the mud on every corner.  Yes, some people that have obtained an attorney have received RFE’s but they tend to be processed much faster. We did not get an RFE and it took me contacting my congressman, calling nearly every day and doing inquiry after inquiry just to get an NOA2.   After 231 day we finally got out NOA2.  That doesn’t mean much of anything until you pass every single step of the way in which at any point you get get denied.  Now we are in NVC black hole of Adminiatrative Procrssong.  Another step of who the heck knows what will happen next.   I’m not affiliated with any legal form but I sure wish I was.    Again, get any attorney so you don’t go through what we are going through now.  So freaking depressed right now.  Again, in my personal and strongest opinion, GET AN ATTORNEY!!!!   Any of you  can disagree with me and say what you will, that’s fine, but all of the newbies out there, good luck on doing it yourself.  I wish to goodness I had obtained one right now.  

[Swissmiss82 1,620]

2 hours ago, GInAustin said:

If any new filers are reading this, my strongest recommendation is to obtain an immigration lawyer. My fiancé and I have been dragged through the mud on every corner.  Yes, some people that have obtained an attorney have received RFE’s but they tend to be processed much faster. We did not get an RFE and it took me contacting my congressman, calling nearly every day and doing inquiry after inquiry just to get an NOA2.   After 231 day we finally got out NOA2.  That doesn’t mean much of anything until you pass every single step of the way in which at any point you get get denied.  Now we are in NVC black hole of Adminiatrative Procrssong.  Another step of who the heck knows what will happen next.   I’m not affiliated with any legal form but I sure wish I was.    Again, get any attorney so you don’t go through what we are going through now.  So freaking depressed right now.  Again, in my personal and strongest opinion, GET AN ATTORNEY!!!!   Any of you  can disagree with me and say what you will, that’s fine, but all of the newbies out there, good luck on doing it yourself.  I wish to goodness I had obtained one right now.  

sorry that you had to wait sooo long!

this is certainly not normal. well nowadays maybe it is.

 

I understand your frustration, but in most cases a lawyer can not do more at all.

on this form I read several times how an attorney was actually slowing down sometimes, as he did not forward the NOA2 info or RFE's immediately and the couple has waited 2-3 weeks on his update.

For the extra fee you pay a lawyer you would expect completely opposite and immediate reaction and everything.

I don't think a lawyer is necessary unless you have  very complicated case from the beginning (several divorces, many children and possibly not having the custody etc).

After all, it's not in our hands how quick they work on the piles of files but... I hope you get your next step quicker through and hopefully you can be in your fiancé's arms very very soon <3

All the best and positive to you

[AZSunshine78 437]

5 hours ago, The Squirrel said:

Well, before stories we go with reality 

 

3 more cases of approvals that are not updated from May crew. One case of RFE from 5 days ago not updated as of a final scan. We are waiting for @Naes to see April work today, it may be confusing, or it may be monumental for predictions. (update: @Shoegum is scanning as we speak). Coming soon .... 

 

Facts: 

12 days of untouched cases in May

5 working days left in October

 

3 of those 12 are heavy 2x300+ and 1x400+ cases

 

3 days of those 12 have under 100 filed cases:

May 19th - 71 case

May 24th - 83 cases

May 31st - 80 cases

To get those 3 days cleared up, it can be a day or day and a half 

 

Should this be the case, than some 10 working days from now, we can see a strong push into June ! And it gets even better ........

Hold the phone. Is this June theory actually a possibility?...😮

[AZSunshine78 437]

3 hours ago, Swissmiss82 said:

at this point - I don't even know anymore if this is sarcasm or not lol

ahhhhhhhhh this waiting got at me!

Ditto!!

[Lotts 1,433]

Good morning everyone. 

Here's to being another day closer. 😁

I have my popcorn ready for when this thread goes off.

 

Hang in there, folks. We're getting there. Slowly but surely. 😚

[KBA 542]

8 hours ago, Elaine282017 said:

My case is expedited, got an RFE yesterday. How I wish we get the request ASAP, so we can response RIGHT AWAY!!!

Your case is expedited and it still took this long? Yikes that stinks! 

[John & Rose 7,239]

1 hour ago, AZSunshine78 said:

Hold the phone. Is this June theory actually a possibility?...😮

Well, there was one June 9 unexpedited approval. It is interesting for sure but it can also be an anomaly. We will have to wait and see. Deep down I do not expect USCIS to just skip an entire month but maybe they have changed how petitions are divided. I believe some employee grabbed the wrong file. There are still 5000 April and May petitions out there. 

 

Time will tell. 

[Naes 12,205]

This is a repost from May to give the information to everyone!

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Good News Everyone, I made a mistake! 

 

@June2017UKtold me there were duplicates in June. And I will input corrected numbers in this post.

However, Why does this important for May Filers?? 

Because I manually put every April and May approval of 10/24 and realized a few things.

 

1) I am 99.9% sure some of April RFE's were to gain time.

     Other than 2 of the April approvals & RFE's from yesterday was already RFE'd. 

     Some were responses BUT some were really weird. Such as the case that got RFE on 10/23 and approved on today.

     Some RFE's changed to approval without status change to "RFE received" 

2) I am certain their system is not working properly.

    We already know this by people here telling us, however, now I am certain there are way more of these cases than we thought.

3) I am guessing some new trainee or other people are at work, and their training period might have also affected April Filers.

     This also has the affect on RFE levels, they keep RFEing more than once, some of them late in the game, so I believe some RFE's are without screening the whole petition. What I read in the past was most of the time you get 1 RFE and it usually covers everything if given in 2 close timeline.

 

Now as I am going to post this in all months;

 June Filers from my estimate, depending on things picking up to 700+ per week, your cases should start in 2-3 weeks.

 Yes it is longer than expected. However, this week and next week supposed to be May's peak time.

 

 July Filers should have a rather easy process however we cannot predict the effect of holidays.

 Although there may be some case workers coming back from holidays with bunch of status updates (all fingers are crossed ladies and gentlemen)

 

 Now the numbers;

   Virgin cases (As I'll be calling received cases from now on, cause why not? ) of April is going down slowly, 

   However, RFE's are moving way faster. But May has the weekly 70%, which is good for May filers, as most will finish eventually but awful for rest of us, for now.

 

  

 

So when did the April started to pick up? Because It was really hard for me to believe it took this long for them.

 And obviously this is way more fun than what I am supposed to be doing at work (Let's thank to the 16 hour time difference that I am awake and my fiance is not...) So I did this 

 

 

It's ok... I'm known to be crazy.. My future mother in law is as crazy so they accepted me extremely easily...

Sooo I also did this cause I wanted to see a possible peak point! (by then I was hoping I had a predictive analysis software on my PC... but they don't let me use my work PC )

 

 

So Everyone let's gather around and whichever power you believe in start doing your thing!

Cause for your sake and ours and all the future K1s.. and probably your AOS to GC.

 We need 700s and then some (at least a few) 1000s...

 

 (Have I mentioned I used to work as a fortune teller in a Turkish Coffee shop when I was in high school? Yeah nah, we say don't believe in it so you won't get hurt; but listen to it so you will have hope)

     

Now the links (UPDATED)

  I did check all the links, and the data. However, mistakes happen.

 If you have any concern or can't find your number, or seen duplicates, please let me know!

 

May

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7VjUxUGJCZlJYVDA

June

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7Y0dUU2szSVV6UUU

July

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7SGphWmI4blc4ZFU

August

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7RFlBekpGYUExLWM

September

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0aCNV0zY3I7UkpONjltVzI0bGs

[Naes 12,205]

1 hour ago, John & Rose said:

Well, there was one June 9 unexpedited approval. It is interesting for sure but it can also be an anomaly. We will have to wait and see. Deep down I do not expect USCIS to just skip an entire month but maybe they have changed how petitions are divided. I believe some employee grabbed the wrong file. There are still 5000 April and May petitions out there. 

 

Time will tell. 

April petitions are really scary.. But I believe they're going to start June around 3/4 of May cases 

 

But then again it can very well be wishful thinking... 

[John & Rose 7,239]

1 hour ago, Naes said:

April petitions are really scary.. But I believe they're going to start June around 3/4 of May cases 

 

But then again it can very well be wishful thinking... 

Wishful thinking is not a bad thing as long as it comes with a small dose of reality!  I would love things to move quicker but there are a lot of people past day 160 and even 170.  We all hope it turns around but only time will tell.

[The Squirrel 1,318]

AWESOME WORK @Naes !!!!! THANK YOU !!!!

 

First to wish a good morning to all ! Then, some slightly odd news, it is 9:30am in New York, and in the last half an hour I received 3 notifications of approvals  on my app already. Odd in a sense that it is only 6:30 am in California, and they are updating already. Cases are

 

April 27th - United Kingdom - was RFE now approved

May  10th - Philippines - was received now approved

March 23rd - Serbia - was RFE now approved

 

Judging by the morning, this could be a big day ! I have to go to work soon, but first I have to go over these graphs by @Naes, there is much to be said about the stats. One thing is for sure, we are well on our way. Also, I keep going back to that Q&A with the USCIS agent, as I agree completely with Naes for their data entry lagging, and judging by yesterday's work, I believe they are already at the June threshold, knocking on the door.  

 

[Naes 12,205]

Explanation of graphs and status for overall June petitions:   Approved
Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	8
Pending (Case Received - Untouched)
Your Current Status: Case Was Received	3589
Pending (RFE, Updates etc.)
Your Current Status: Date of Birth Was Updated	20
Your Current Status: Name Was Updated	42
Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	5
Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	4
Excluded
Your Current Status: Case Closed Benefit Received By Other Means	2
Your Current Status: Case Rejected Because I Sent An Incorrect Fee	140
Your Current Status: Case Rejected Because The Version Of The Form I Sent Is No Longer Accepted	76
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Form Not Signed And Incorrect Form Version	1
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Form Not Signed	5
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee, Payment Not Signed And Incorrect Form Version	3
Your Current Status: Case Transferred And New Office Has Jurisdiction	1
Your Current Status: Case Was Rejected Because I Did Not Sign My Form	41
Your Current Status: Case Was Rejected Because It Was Improperly Filed	21
Your Current Status: Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction	7
Your Current Status: Decision Notice Mailed	4
Your Current Status: Document Was Mailed	17
Your Current Status: Document Was Returned To USCIS	32
Your Current Status: Withdrawal Acknowledgement Notice Was Sent	23
TOTAL	4041

[AZSunshine78 437]

1 minute ago, Naes said:

Explanation of graphs and status for overall June petitions:   Approved
Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	8
Pending (Case Received - Untouched)
Your Current Status: Case Was Received	3589
Pending (RFE, Updates etc.)
Your Current Status: Date of Birth Was Updated	20
Your Current Status: Name Was Updated	42
Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	5
Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	4
Excluded
Your Current Status: Case Closed Benefit Received By Other Means	2
Your Current Status: Case Rejected Because I Sent An Incorrect Fee	140
Your Current Status: Case Rejected Because The Version Of The Form I Sent Is No Longer Accepted	76
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Form Not Signed And Incorrect Form Version	1
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Form Not Signed	5
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee, Payment Not Signed And Incorrect Form Version	3
Your Current Status: Case Transferred And New Office Has Jurisdiction	1
Your Current Status: Case Was Rejected Because I Did Not Sign My Form	41
Your Current Status: Case Was Rejected Because It Was Improperly Filed	21
Your Current Status: Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction	7
Your Current Status: Decision Notice Mailed	4
Your Current Status: Document Was Mailed	17
Your Current Status: Document Was Returned To USCIS	32
Your Current Status: Withdrawal Acknowledgement Notice Was Sent	23
TOTAL	4041

This is so generous of you to do this.

I genuinely appreciate the effort you’re putting into this for all of us.

[The Squirrel 1,318]

Thank you again @Naes ! So here is our mountain to climb, 3660 total cases in June (I like your "virgin" reference @Naes )

 

Pending (CasReceived - Untouchede ) VIRGINS
Your Current Status: Case Was Received	3589
Pending (RFE, Updates etc.)
Your Current Status: Date of Birth Was Updated	20
Your Current Status: Name Was Updated	42
Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	5
Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	4

[Naes 12,205]

1 minute ago, The Squirrel said:

Thank you again @Naes ! So here is our mountain to climb, 3660 total cases in June (I like your "virgin" reference @Naes )

 

Pending (CasReceived - Untouchede ) VIRGINS
Your Current Status: Case Was Received	3589
Pending (RFE, Updates etc.)
Your Current Status: Date of Birth Was Updated	20
Your Current Status: Name Was Updated	42
Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	5
Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	4

Everytime! "Like a virgin" was playing in my mind! EVERY TIME!