I129f September 2017 filers

[LoveTakesOver 100]

56 minutes ago, ana e jordan said:

Hi guys, we've been reading everything but we haven't said anything in this group, so our warmest hello to everyone 😄

 

We are going to meet up in February 🙌 but as we think the visa will only be finished in june\july, we are already missing each other after this visit next month. We were wondering if I can go from Brazil to the U.S. While we are waiting, we read that I couldn't, but we keep questioning if that information is true, since Is much more easy for me to go then for him to come.

 

Good luck everyone, soon we'll all be married to the love of our lives!

 

Btw, any other couple Brazil & US? 

 

Best wishes everyone

 

We are a same sex couple from USA & Brazil. My fiancé came in twice to USA as a tourist B2. His first visit was when we decided to meet and stayed with me in the USA for a month. Then, we submitted our petition for K1 Sept. 5, 2017. He returned to Brazil with me on Sept. 8 and I stayed there for three weeks. Three weeks later after I returned to USA, my fiancé once again visited me again Oct. 14 and he stayed with me until January 16. He could have stayed in the USA until April if we had known the process will take longer. We were anticipating that we would receive our NO2 this month. It's unfortunate that he had to leave me and separate from me for awhile. The cost to change the return flight is outrageous.  It's been 3 days now since he just left and I totally miss him a lot 😩. But I know time will come and we'll be together again. 😊

Edited January 20, 2018 by LoveTakesOver

[geowrian 22,338]

2 hours ago, ana e jordan said:

On February he will come, a lil bit of sun and carnival to cheer us up! We are just wondering about april, what could be an issue? Like not letting me in or holding me for questioning?

Enjoy!!!

Going through secondary inspection is one possibility, as well as being denied entry. It won't hurt your K-1 case, but obviously it's not the desired result. And don't let me scare you...very few people are denied entry. It's just an abundance of caution when you're that far along in the process.

[Naes 12,205]

@geowrian I want to ask something about that I-94 question, I opened a thread and got 1 reply but as it came out I would really like 1 more person's advice.

 

Unlike many who forgets to put the info.. We ended up putting that info even though I left America by that time.

Do you think this will cause a problem for us, in a way that we should handle it right now? Or we should wait for an rfe (if they even send one for this)? 

 

Now I know not to send anything unless I receive an rfe, but I am wondering because we made a mistake on the form itself.

[geowrian 22,338]

7 minutes ago, Naes said:

@geowrian I want to ask something about that I-94 question, I opened a thread and got 1 reply but as it came out I would really like 1 more person's advice.

 

Unlike many who forgets to put the info.. We ended up putting that info even though I left America by that time.

Do you think this will cause a problem for us, in a way that we should handle it right now? Or we should wait for an rfe (if they even send one for this)? 

 

Now I know not to send anything unless I receive an rfe, but I am wondering because we made a mistake on the form itself.

It's possible they would RFE requesting evidence, but they probably won't. At least that's my take on it....I haven't seen many RFEs for anything having to do with the I-94 on an I-129F.

[Naes 12,205]

4 minutes ago, geowrian said:

It's possible they would RFE requesting evidence, but they probably won't. At least that's my take on it....I haven't seen many RFEs for anything having to do with the I-94 on an I-129F.

Thank you. that's how I thought too. And after two confirmations of the same thought+ fiancé saying the same thing.. Now I can stop my overthinking head...

[ana e jordan 140]

1 hour ago, LoveTakesOver said:

We are a same sex couple from USA & Brazil. My fiancé came in twice to USA as a tourist B2. His first visit was when we decided to meet and stayed with me in the USA for a month. Then, we submitted our petition for K1 Sept. 5, 2017. He returned to Brazil with me on Sept. 8 and I stayed there for three weeks. Three weeks later after I returned to USA, my fiancé once again visited me again Oct. 14 and he stayed with me until January 16. He could have stayed in the USA until April if we had known the process will take longer. We were anticipating that we would receive our NO2 this month. It's unfortunate that he had to leave me and separate from me for awhile. The cost to change the return flight is outrageous.  It's been 3 days now since he just left and I totally miss him a lot 😩. But I know time will come and we'll be together again. 😊

Good luck to us, maybe we'll meet in the embassy here 😊

 

But ya, this delay is very frustrating, we are really tense about the distance between February and the date that the visa will be ready, right now it has been very hard to be apart. But I think we are all in this boat...

 

Let's hope they will surprise us with a faster processing time. 

[ana e jordan 140]

25 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Enjoy!!!

Going through secondary inspection is one possibility, as well as being denied entry. It won't hurt your K-1 case, but obviously it's not the desired result. And don't let me scare you...very few people are denied entry. It's just an abundance of caution when you're that far along in the process.

Thanks! 

 

Well, I don't think we want to risk any of those situations, this process is already too long and painful. Thank you for all the information provided, it really helped to clear a lil bit!

 

Good luck to us!

[Naes 12,205]

Hellloooooooo Everyone  

 

June and July had a big update of case statuses yesterday.

They updated backdated approvals too. 

 

This is the details of work done in January (only updated cases)

 

 

	June	July	Total
Jan W1	231	4	235
Jan W2	311	22	333
Jan W3	551	323	874
Total	1093	349	1442

 

I'm sure you can see how different it looks when they actually update things online!

We still have lots of cases (dates) that are not updated in the first part of June. 

But here are the latest view into every month!

 

	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Approved	1317	263	13	6		1		1600
Received	1358	2941	3519	3176	3770	3304	3297	21365
Touched	996	206	139	129	128	67	27	1692
Excluded	370	386	404	287	244	205	185	2081
Total	4041	3796	4075	3598	4142	3577	3509	26738

 

 

The latest date they touched at the moment is July 14.

 

DISCLAIMER: Here on are my personal educated opinion.

 

Now my thoughts on this from watching how it flowed in the past is that hopefully they are going to change processing times to July 1 as of November 31. in order to let the June filers be able to officially start inquiries (I am really hoping of this even though I know it is not correct)

 

July is definitely going stronger than how April, May and June did. by having this much ahead with this many approvals in only 1 week didn't happen for a long time.

Please continue watching around carefully. For those in the September, please still do not put money on anything and watch for when and how August will start.

For everyone else, If I were you, before making firm plans I would watch for how things are going on 3 months ahead of you.

 

Even though there is improvement (looks like it) the improvement is not from a perfect place, this improvement still makes lots of July filers get to 200 days. And June filers are already 200+ days. NVC right now is taking about 40 days (although not for everyone). So when you are planning ahead keep all these in mind and calculate as if K1 will finish in 10-12 months.

 

Basically calculate the worst but hope for the best!! Because your positivity will keep you and your relationship healthy and happy!! But being realistic will save your sanity!

 

I'll be here with any other update if I get anything else during the weekends!

 

Good luck to all of us!

[Naes 12,205]

2 minutes ago, LizM said:

Naes you are the best! Seeing all this movement made me so happy. Hopefully it’s the first indication of a downward trend in waiting times - but I’m not holding my breath  

I can't wait for the day I will come here to say we are on September

But I like my color and don't want to turn purple either so not holding my breath here.

[Swissmiss82 1,620]

like seriously! you are a rockstar guuuurl! 

thanks a million and 420924 times more for doing all of this!!!! 

it makes the wait so much better and i hope july will continue like that so it's our turn soon...

yaaaaay!

 

happy saturday everyone and have a great day

[Daniel P 2,022]

Update of the graphs comparing May and June regarding the length of time from Received to Approved one month later (as to 01/20/2018), this time including July under the same conditions.

 

As a reminder, in the graphs below I try to compare what happened within the next 190 days after that last day of May, June and July 14th (last day with approvals) received cases. In order to see them clearer I put them together in pairs.

 

In that time, with a total of 1877, 818 and 243 approved cases (after removing some outliers) respectively:

 

• May had a global mean of 175.25 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 14.06 days.
• June had a global mean of 186.05 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 9.16 days.
• July had a global mean of 193.91 days from Received to Approval date, with a standard deviation of 3.28 days.

 

Even if it doesn't look very good (way less approvals in the same period of time for July and also starting from 185+ days) just remember that, because of the holidays, they haven't worked the same number of days, and more importantly, haven't been very consistent updating approvals, which is why these results only apply to the information it comes from, the unreliable information updated by USCIS.

 

If they keep the rate of approvals seen in the last days, I believe we'll start seeing a clear improvement in the next one or two months. Let's hope!

 

 

[Daniel P 2,022]

Lastly, the trend line for the average processing time of all cases received every considered day and approved within the next 204 days, as to 01/20/2018.

 

This time I have added some extra data in case you're interested (number of approved cases, number of received cases and percentage of approved cases (out of received)). As before, note that only updated cases could be considered.

 

As expected it's still too soon for a downward trend, but hopefully we'll start seeing some change by next month!

 

 

 

 

[zamardii12 25]

On 1/20/2018 at 5:29 AM, Naes said:

And June filers are already 200+ days. NVC right now is taking about 40 days (although not for everyone). So when you are planning ahead keep all these in mind and calculate as if K1 will finish in 10-12 months.

 

 

 

When you say calculate as if K1 will finish in 10-12 months. What do you mean? You're saying we should plan to get our approvals in 10-12 months or until our fiances arrive in the country? Because the approvals are taking just over 6 months from what I could tell which is why I am asking clarification.

[Naes 12,205]

5 minutes ago, zamardii12 said:

 

When you say calculate as if K1 will finish in 10-12 months. What do you mean? You're saying we should plan to get our approvals in 10-12 months or until our fiances arrive in the country? Because the approvals are taking just over 6 months from what I could tell which is why I am asking clarification.

Approvals are around 190days to 220 right now so yeah 7-8 months (but we also finally saw some 185 days!!) all fingers crossed for it to stay at 180s

 

 K1 as in noa1 to visa on hand. (But this can get longer on personal level, embassy business or AP). This approvals are called  I-129f petition.

[Madeline & Matt 252]

As the end of January approaches, I'm starting to get so antsy. The closer I get to the "finish line," the more impatient I get.

I know another 2-3 months isn't really that bad. I know the process moves a lot quicker in the UK. But darn it, I just want to get married already!

 

I've noticed that processing times are picking back up, and my own timeline currently has an estimation of NOA2 between 29 March and 2 April. I'm just thinking about how awesome it would be to get NOA2 a little "early" on my birthday, which is 22 March! A girl can dream, right? 

 

Anyway, sorry for the rambling, incoherent post. I've just got a lot of pent-up, nervous energy.