July 2017 I-129F Filers

[Chicagoseal 373]

Just now, Naes said:

You know better not to fall to those emotional traps! You are trained during your wait in May and June!

Haha. I actually told people not to get emotional due to delays. But my fiancée is very antsy and moody, and it’s rubbing off on me. Sometimes I wish I could hibernate and have someone wake me up when we have everything approved.

[Dave and Kate 154]

Well.. today marks 150th day since our received date !!!
...to think that waaaay back in the days when we filed, I assured my fiancee that it wouldn't take longer than 60 days for our K1 visa petition to get approved !! :)
maaan, we were so young and naive and now we've grown old and wiser...lol

I wish I lived in California close to CSC so I could go check to see how many breaks the USCIS employees are allowed to take ... knowing how lazy some employees can be, I can see some sneaking outside to smoke knowing well that files are piling up on their desks :(

[Jemilyn 159]

1 hour ago, Chicagoseal said:

Haha. I actually told people not to get emotional due to delays. But my fiancée is very antsy and moody, and it’s rubbing off on me. Sometimes I wish I could hibernate and have someone wake me up when we have everything approved.

 

1 hour ago, Naes said:

You know better not to fall to those emotional traps! You are trained during your wait in May and June!

Yes that's true... I do.... i am  trying to get busy at work. so that i wont be thinking this process.... but deep inside i really want to check everyday the app and this forum if USCIS already touching July filers... I am starting to get excited and nervous each day... 

 

Also what i do if i am starting to get pissed off... I call my fiance ( facetime/ video call ) it helps a lot . 

[Jabberwocky1969 127]

Don't be negative, it'll stick with you for a while. Our country is great, Everybody on the planet wants to live here.

[Eu_Sou_Douglas 75]

3 hours ago, Pquinter said:

My application was received on July 10.... I started to wonder last week why I had not heard back... we should be at the consulate stage by now (based on the timeline given to me back in July). Then I come here and discover the horror. What has caused these horrific delays? There has to be an explanation. My fiance's lease ends in March, and we have our wedding planned for April....  I had thought I had given ourselves a good buffer by applying early July...guess I was wrong...

Yes I hired an attorney who told us 4-6 months, but he would be disappointed with 6 months.  Well now it looks more like 8-9 months as today is day 159 for us.  My only speculative guess is that their case volume spiked significantly over the summer months and they have been backlogged ever since.  I have been very disappointed at the perceived lack of movement last week and this week but all we can do is hope they start to pick things up.  This waiting has been one of the most difficult times of my life - it is difficult waiting for something so important with no way to make plans or have any idea of when you will hear news from USCIS.  Good luck and hang in there.

[Chicagoseal 373]

1 hour ago, Dave and Kate said:

I wish I lived in California close to CSC so I could go check to see how many breaks the USCIS employees are allowed to take ... knowing how lazy some employees can be, I can see some sneaking outside to smoke knowing well that files are piling up on their desks

I have a picture of tier 1 agents...

[Chris J 111]

Good to see the agents hard at work...

[BVGApeach 288]

Reminds me of this meme...at least Herbert is working! 

[Christy&J 837]

6 hours ago, Dave and Kate said:

Well.. today marks 150th day since our received date !!!
...to think that waaaay back in the days when we filed, I assured my fiancee that it wouldn't take longer than 60 days for our K1 visa petition to get approved !!
maaan, we were so young and naive and now we've grown old and wiser...lol

I wish I lived in California close to CSC so I could go check to see how many breaks the USCIS employees are allowed to take ... knowing how lazy some employees can be, I can see some sneaking outside to smoke knowing well that files are piling up on their desks

USCIS xD

[Christy&J 837]

6 hours ago, Dave and Kate said:

Well.. today marks 150th day since our received date !!!
...to think that waaaay back in the days when we filed, I assured my fiancee that it wouldn't take longer than 60 days for our K1 visa petition to get approved !!
maaan, we were so young and naive and now we've grown old and wiser...lol

I wish I lived in California close to CSC so I could go check to see how many breaks the USCIS employees are allowed to take ... knowing how lazy some employees can be, I can see some sneaking outside to smoke knowing well that files are piling up on their desks

USCIS xD

[Naes 12,205]

Hi everyone,

 

By now, you know I am crazy right?

Ok so that's established... I checked March hehe....hehe... distraction from the most needed fire....

It is getting extremely close to my wedding venue... (I feel so bad for even thinking like this )

 

These are the concluded cases - only concluded cases- that will appear as either denial or approval on USCIS reports for this quarter.

This data has March to November mostly up to date.

 

	March	April	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Total
Oct W1	74	163	111	7	8	7	16	31		417
Oct W2	58	109	191	4	2	2		62		428
Oct W3	70	95	161	1	1			42		370
Oct W4	60	84	239	2		1		47		433
Nov W1	63	105	345	12	9	11	3	56	8	612
Nov W2	23	59	223	8	3		3	1	41	361
Nov W3	29	83	278	20	2	4	1		26	443
Nov W4	17	74	172	69	1					333
Nov W5	31	63	187	115	2					398
Dec W1	4	35	93	105						237
Total	429	870	2000	343	28	25	23	239	75	4032

 

As it shows around 4000. I want to add something to that number.

I've checked all of March and April.

 

And this is how it looks (I have also checked February but not relevant to our numbers at the moment.)

 

	March	April	Total
Received	2105	830	2935
Pending	859	593	1452
Approved	1019	1898	2917
Excluded	679	636	1315
Total	4662	3957	8619

 

Apparently, especially in March the tracker wasn't working properly,  and I believe we can easily say the same for April & a 20% of May. 

However, as most of March was done by October, I'll only give a 500 cases concluded in this Q for them, and about a 1000 for April.

I believe we can also easily say a 500 cases in May goes into the same category.

 

So I'll be generous about denials and Make this a total of 3000 cases not updated on the tracker.

which makes a 4000(from above)+3000=7000

 

As a low expected number per quarter would be around 10000 cases. we have 3000 to go.

 

This is a close touch to the end of June to July.

I hope they won't suddenly slow down again, 

however at this point I am expecting for June to be touched every where by Christmas (just like May a few weeks ago, touched everywhere but a few Juners waiting around)

 

And for July to start slowly please understand this really means slowly.

Just like May and June it will start with small amount of 30-40s would be my estimation.

 

I really hope things can pick up further, because at this moment I believe VJ timelines are +-a week correct.

 

But hey I am still hoping for a Valentine day approval----romantic in me never dies and I like to live dangerously

 

*Notice for new comers:

(I'm sorry if anyone is new and never heard or read about the past calculations and discussions has been made here.)

 However, 2 important things to know would be

  1) They don't update every status correctly, we have seen many approvals without an update on the USCIS case tracker

  2) The new month tends to start when "case received" status is around 1000s 

[Jemilyn 159]

Just curious... USCIS also have christmas vacation right? so they will be back also on January? and they will stop the process during that vacation? 

[Naes 12,205]

4 minutes ago, Jemilyn said:

Just curious... USCIS also have christmas vacation right? so they will be back also on January? and they will stop the process during that vacation? 

Yes.

 

But this is nothing new they have it every year and still they have 60 work days in December. So even though it looks like a big back step, it is an expected time off on their side.

(I mean I've included that in this estimation)

 

---I hope I am not being too positive, I would feel awful to disappoint you guys, but this is the only positivish estimation I can give----

[Justmel 273]

Any other Canadians around here?

[------ 281]

On 12/5/2017 at 12:05 PM, Chicagoseal said:

Please do, as my fiancée and I are planning a trip for her, and I am curious as to what was asked.

OK, so essentially how things went down was that the customs area was super, super crowded, and the customs agents seemed to not be paying particular attention to each person and kind of just wanted to get the crowds moved through quickly.

So Tiger was asked what he was in the country for, and he responded "Christmas and New Year's."  And that was essentially it.  They didn't seem to have time to give him much scrutiny and just basically sent him on his way.

Tiger follows the dictum that you answer any question posed to you truthfully and concisely, and that's it.  Answer the question and only the question, and volunteer nothing further.  They can ask for more information if they wish, and in his case this time, they didn't.

Good luck to you two for your own visit!