August 2017 I-129F Filers

[MandW 310]

I cant find this information anywhere here or online so hopefully someone that knows can chime in...

My fiancé is in Taiwan, we are now in month 2 going on month 3 noa1=noa2 waiting, when we get the noa2 , when is the interview scheduled? does she schedule it online? when do pay for the visa? at the interview or before or after? and if approved at the interview when does she get the visa in her passport? that day? next day? 3 days after? 5 days after? I heard different times but also was different consulates so I'm trying to get answers specific for the consulate in Taipei Taiwan.....by the way I'm heading to Taiwan tonight for a 28hr trip to see her :-) I will be there for 3 weeks!!!! yeah!!!!!!

[John & Rose 7,239]

56 minutes ago, MandW said:

I cant find this information anywhere here or online so hopefully someone that knows can chime in...

My fiancé is in Taiwan, we are now in month 2 going on month 3 noa1=noa2 waiting, when we get the noa2 , when is the interview scheduled? does she schedule it online? when do pay for the visa? at the interview or before or after? and if approved at the interview when does she get the visa in her passport? that day? next day? 3 days after? 5 days after? I heard different times but also was different consulates so I'm trying to get answers specific for the consulate in Taipei Taiwan.....by the way I'm heading to Taiwan tonight for a 28hr trip to see her :-) I will be there for 3 weeks!!!! yeah!!!!!!

Once you get the NOA2, the petition is forwarded to the NVC.  They review and eventually send it to the embassy.  Once you have the number that is assigned by NVC you can schedule the interview.  Keep in mind that NVC can take a month (usually 2 weeks) and your interview might not have openings for 45 to 60 days average (some as quick as 30 days).

 

After the successful interview it is usually a week to get your visa but can be longer depending on how you elect to receive it and how long your petition is in AP (Administrative Processing) after the interview.  Once you have the visa in hand, you are free to leave.

 

You pay the DS-160 fee before the interview.  In the Philippines, we can schedule online.  I'm not sure about Taiwan.  

Edited October 24, 2017 by John & Rose

[geowrian 22,337]

10 minutes ago, John & Rose said:

Once you have the number that is assigned by NVC you can schedule the interview.

This is embassy/consulate specific. Some schedule the interview for you once they get the packet 3 response. Some don't even have a packet 3 to submit (like USEM).

 

10 minutes ago, John & Rose said:

You pay the DS-160 fee before the interview.  In the Philippines, we can schedule online.  I'm not sure about Taiwan.  

Usually*. I think there's a handful of embassies that you pay on the day of, but don't hold me to that. Or maybe it's just the receipt that's needed on the day of?

[John & Rose 7,239]

Just now, geowrian said:

This is embassy/consulate specific. Some schedule the interview for you once they get the packet 3 response. Some don't even have a packet 3 to submit (like USEM).

 

Usually*. I think there's a handful of embassies that you pay on the day of, but don't hold me to that. Or maybe it's just the receipt that's needed on the day of?

Thank you!  I love learning things and I really don't want to give bad information.  I will keep this in mind now too!!!  Thanks again for the clarification.

[TexasGuy0101 75]

38 minutes ago, geowrian said:

dasdfThis is embassy/consulate specific. Some schedule the interview for you once they get the packet 3 response. Some don't even have a packet 3 to submit (like USEM).

 

Usually*. I think there's a handful of embassies that you pay on the day of, but don't hold me to that. Or maybe it's just the receipt that's needed on the day of?

@geowrian 
Please forgive my laziness in not fully reading/comprehending. 
But currently my fiancé and I are waiting on our NOA2 document. I am still fuzzy on the process after NOA2.

Can any one provide clear or concise steps required after? I know that we will have her interview in Juarez Mexico. If I remember right, I think the fees due at the counseled is about $600. But I am not sure.

 

Also, the $1,200.00 is due after we get married and file the adjustment of status? 

 

Sorry for my confusion, and thank you in advance for any assistance.

Edited October 24, 2017 by TexasGuy0101
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[geowrian 22,337]

47 minutes ago, TexasGuy0101 said:

Please forgive my laziness in not fully reading/comprehending. 
But currently my fiancé and I are waiting on our NOA2 document. I am still fuzzy on the process after NOA2.

Can any one provide clear or concise steps required after? I know that we will have her interview in Juarez Mexico. If I remember right, I think the fees due at the counseled is about $600. But I am not sure.

 

Also, the $1,200.00 is due after we get married and file the adjustment of status?

Once the I-129F is approved, the petition will be sent to NVC, get assigned a case number, then sent to the embassy. Those steps take about a month.

 

From then on out, the process is embassy-specific. Typically they send a notification via mail or email to the beneficiary with the next instructions (aka "packet 3" (pre-scheduling) or "packet 4" (interview instructions)). The general steps (not necessarily in this order), are:

• Pay the $265 MRV fee (aka "DS-160 fee" or "K-1 visa fee")
• Complete a DS-160
• Schedule/Complete a medical examination by a panel physician
• Schedule the interview
• Attend the interview
  • If you were missing documents or they need additional verification of something, you will get a 221g, pending additional documents being sent in and reviewed
• Go through Administrative Processing (AP)...every case has this so don't get worried if you see it...it's usually only a few days, sometimes a few weeks, and rarely longer (you'll see the longer ones on VJ more often than they normally occur, so don't get scared!).
• Get the passport with K-1 visa attached + the sealed envelope to present at POE
• POE
• Marriage within 90 days of entry
• File for AOS ($1225)

Unfortunately, I don't have Juarez's packet info for the specifics for your embassy. I will refer to https://mx.usembassy.gov/visas/fiancee/how-to-apply/, which lists the steps. The beneficiary will get a packet 3 with steps prior to the interview. Here is one from 2014 I found....this is a good read to get an idea of what you will need, but it may be outdated so be sure to follow the one that the beneficiary should receive for the actual interview.

[TexasGuy0101 75]

9 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Once the I-129F is approved, the petition will be sent to NVC, get assigned a case number, then sent to the embassy. Those steps take about a month.

 

From then on out, the process is embassy-specific. Typically they send a notification via mail or email to the beneficiary with the next instructions (aka "packet 3" (pre-scheduling) or "packet 4" (interview instructions)). The general steps (not necessarily in this order), are:

• Pay the $265 MRV fee (aka "DS-160 fee" or "K-1 visa fee")
• Complete a DS-160
• Schedule/Complete a medical examination by a panel physician
• Schedule the interview
• Attend the interview
  • If you were missing documents or they need additional verification of something, you will get a 221g, pending additional documents being sent in and reviewed
• Go through Administrative Processing (AP)...every case has this so don't get worried if you see it...it's usually only a few days, sometimes a few weeks, and rarely longer (you'll see the longer ones on VJ more often than they normally occur, so don't get scared!).
• Get the passport with K-1 visa attached + the sealed envelope to present at POE
• POE
• Marriage within 90 days of entry
• File for AOS ($1225)

Unfortunately, I don't have Juarez's packet info for the specifics for your embassy. I will refer to https://mx.usembassy.gov/visas/fiancee/how-to-apply/, which lists the steps. The beneficiary will get a packet 3 with steps prior to the interview. Here is one from 2014 I found....this is a good read to get an idea of what you will need, but it may be outdated so be sure to follow the one that the beneficiary should receive for the actual interview.

@geowrian WOW! Thank you for that!!! This really helps me prepare for the steps ahead.

 

Your help is greatly appreciated.

[LexiAnn 4]

So I was checking out other files months and people in May (11-12th was the latest i saw) are now receiving their noa2s!! We're finally off of April so at least that's some good news for Everyone! Gotta celebrate the small victories right lol

[Naes 12,205]

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

---------------------------

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

[Jesus 54]

1 hour ago, Naes said:

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

---------------------------

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

I''m sorry but what does the excluded in the table mean? for example for September it says 292 excluded , what does that mean? Thank you. I submitted mine in August 31st, the waiting time is killing me specially how things are in Venezuela and every day getting more dangerous and worse. ) =   

[Naes 12,205]

Just now, Jesus said:

I''m sorry but what does the excluded in the table mean? for example for September it says 292 excluded , what does that mean? Thank you. I submitted mine in August 31st, the waiting time is killing me specially how things are in Venezuela and every day getting more dangerous and worse. ) =   

I am so sorry for the conditions there..

excluded's are rejected files such as wrong form, wrong amount..

Actually let me make a table for everything for this month too.

[Jesus 54]

Just now, Naes said:

I am so sorry for the conditions there..

excluded's are rejected files such as wrong form, wrong amount..

Actually let me make a table for everything for this month too.

I see, thank you so much!  

Yes, its very sad. But the best i can do is to keep hopes up like all of us. I am hoping that things go faster. My timeline says for February do you think our time lines are close or would we have to add to that?

[Naes 12,205]

Explanation of the graph and Status for overall August Petitions:

Approved
Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	6
Pending (Case Received - Untouched)
Your Current Status: Case Was Received	3577
Pending (RFE, Updates etc.)
Your Current Status: Date of Birth Was Updated	23
Your Current Status: Name Was Updated	41
Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	1
Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	2
Excluded
Your Current Status: Case Rejected Because I Sent An Incorrect Fee	105
Your Current Status: Case Rejected Because The Version Of The Form I Sent Is No Longer Accepted	173
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Form Not Signed And Incorrect Form Version	7
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Form Not Signed	3
Your Current Status: Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee, Payment Not Signed And Incorrect Form Version	2
Your Current Status: Case Was Received At My Local Office	1
Your Current Status: Case Was Rejected Because I Did Not Sign My Form	37
Your Current Status: Case Was Rejected Because It Was Improperly Filed	29
Your Current Status: Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction	5
Your Current Status: Decision Notice Mailed	1
Your Current Status: Document Was Mailed	12
Your Current Status: Document Was Returned To USCIS	42
Your Current Status: Withdrawal Acknowledgement Notice Was Sent	8
TOTAL	4075

[Naes 12,205]

1 minute ago, Jesus said:

I see, thank you so much!  

Yes, its very sad. But the best i can do is to keep hopes up like all of us. I am hoping that things go faster. My timeline says for February do you think our time lines are close or would we have to add to that?

From what I see it will depend on the move in this next few weeks. If it doesn't pick up now we all may add a few weeks.

But I do not believe they are going to make the wait an average of 190 days in the long run. So it has to pick up at one point. 

I am hoping it will pick up for people in July and hoping our timelines will go back a few weeks.

But at this moment unfortunately february looks correct.

[Jesus 54]

Just now, Naes said:

From what I see it will depend on the move in this next few weeks. If it doesn't pick up now we all may add a few weeks.

But I do not believe they are going to make the wait an average of 190 days in the long run. So it has to pick up at one point. 

I am hoping it will pick up for people in July and hoping our timelines will go back a few weeks.

But at this moment unfortunately february looks correct.

Lets hope it picks up!