October 2017 I-129 K-1 filers

[scott&camila 77]

5 minutes ago, scott&camila said:

Exactly! And with technology nowadays a good AI system could just sort everything out within seconds with some people overseeing it! And we could just all apply online with electronic signatures and then verify anything in person at a small local office or FaceTime! This whole process is extremely inefficient and archaic!

With K1 Visas the embassy of the beneficiary should immediately be assigned to look into the beneficiary (with a background check or any phone calls taking mere days) and schedule an interview right away with the beneficiary. And in the US the USCIS should just run a background check and schedule an interview with the US citizen at a local office immediately. In the interview is where all the documents proving a relationship/marriage intent to marry and so forth are looked over. Then if it all checks out on both ends the embassy is notified to issue a visa (through email not paper mail!) and then the process is ended.

[excited11 107]

3 minutes ago, LizM said:

 

In a perfect world you would create an online application, encrypt and send it, and a computer program would do the basic checking against different data bases. RFEs would only be sent out if the evidence you submitted was not enough, because the application software would not let you send the application before it was filled out properly. Any applications with red flags or hits in the databases would be reviewed further. The rest would be auto-approved, possibly they would to some sort of sampling on the auto-approved ones to make sure no mistakes were made. Adjudicators would get more time to spend on the cases that actually need some investigation. I think auto-approvals wouldn't be a risk; that's essentially what happens to those applications anyway, except now they also take up someone's time. And, beneficiaries still have to interview in the end.

Well, they are very far from perfection...

[scott&camila 77]

51 minutes ago, LizM said:

 

In a perfect world you would create an online application, encrypt and send it, and a computer program would do the basic checking against different data bases. RFEs would only be sent out if the evidence you submitted was not enough, because the application software would not let you send the application before it was filled out properly. Any applications with red flags or hits in the databases would be reviewed further. The rest would be auto-approved, possibly they would to some sort of sampling on the auto-approved ones to make sure no mistakes were made. Adjudicators would get more time to spend on the cases that actually need some investigation. I think auto-approvals wouldn't be a risk; that's essentially what happens to those applications anyway, except now they also take up someone's time. And, beneficiaries still have to interview in the end.

Great and easy to implement system. Its extremely baffling knowing that the system has not improved all these years and most likely will never improve, possibly a few decades from now as they get caught up on the technology that we have in 2018.

[excited11 107]

YAY a little happiness today, timeline went down 1 day xD

 

[L and E 305]

This might be a stupid question but is USCIS considered part of the state department? 

[vsforlife 75]

1 hour ago, excited11 said:

YAY a little happiness today, timeline went down 1 day xD

 

same here but then mine went back 1 day up

[excited11 107]

5 minutes ago, L and E said:

This might be a stupid question but is USCIS considered part of the state department? 

"United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)"

[DonAnn 266]

6 hours ago, excited11 said:

That is very sad, if this was a corporation at least client would have pressured them with amount of complaints or resignations...there is no one that nags them about things and they have no standard timing even to stick to. They are not loosing anything processing it slower and they still made the same and good amount of money for it.

 

I just wonder how many officers work there, if it`s a big or small team. I know they have lots of different types of applications to work on, but the update on the website that they`re working on September 1st cases as of January 31st is funny...it`s March 20th!! Let alone these stuck in July or August.

 

 

They don't care! Maybe the idea is to see how many couples will survive the torture or maybe the idea is to give couples more than enough time to make sure that they really want to marry their fiancé/fiancée

[L and E 305]

1 hour ago, excited11 said:

"United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)"

Thanks... just wondering if this clusterf* has anything to do with the massive budget cuts and hollowed out state department. Guess we can’t associate the two. 

[Ire 139]

24 minutes ago, DonAnn said:

They don't care! Maybe the idea is to see how many couples will survive the torture or maybe the idea is to give couples more than enough time to make sure that they really want to marry their fiancé/fiancée

Exactly! But not to see I we really wnto marry our loved, but to hope that lots o us give up so they get ride of massive immigration. Call me crazy, but I reply think they do it on purpose. 

[DonAnn 266]

6 hours ago, LizM said:

 

In a perfect world you would create an online application, encrypt and send it, and a computer program would do the basic checking against different data bases. RFEs would only be sent out if the evidence you submitted was not enough, because the application software would not let you send the application before it was filled out properly. Any applications with red flags or hits in the databases would be reviewed further. The rest would be auto-approved, possibly they would to some sort of sampling on the auto-approved ones to make sure no mistakes were made. Adjudicators would get more time to spend on the cases that actually need some investigation. I think auto-approvals wouldn't be a risk; that's essentially what happens to those applications anyway, except now they also take up someone's time. And, beneficiaries still have to interview in the end.

They should consider this because USCIS would even make more money from impulsive filers. These filers would lose their application fees if they ended up changing their mind during shorter processing time. I think that happens regardless of wait time but at least more people would apply for K1 visas if they see faster processing...

[DonAnn 266]

9 minutes ago, Ire said:

Exactly! But not to see I we really wnto marry our loved, but to hope that lots o us give up so they get ride of massive immigration. Call me crazy, but I reply think they do it on purpose. 

Yes it could certainly be a way of limiting the amount of immigrants entering the United States at any given time

[Todd L F 49]

Hey everyone, is it too early to get the forms filled from my avidat of support? My timeline e is saying my interview should be around 10-16th April. (I know this may not be accurate) Thanks 

[Nikki Nik 33]

2 hours ago, Todd L F said:

Hey everyone, is it too early to get the forms filled from my avidat of support? My timeline e is saying my interview should be around 10-16th April. (I know this may not be accurate) Thanks 

Your timeline indicates the estimated time you will receive your NOA2 if everything is approved, not for your interview. As far as the form I think you can start preparing it but I think it has to be recent to when your actual interview date comes around. Not too sure, good question, because I was wondering the same, when I should get started on mine.

[Todd L F 49]

46 minutes ago, Nikki Nik said:

Your timeline indicates the estimated time you will receive your NOA2 if everything is approved, not for your interview. As far as the form I think you can start preparing it but I think it has to be recent to when your actual interview date comes around. Not too sure, good question, because I was wondering the same, when I should get started on mine.

Sorry yeah that’s what I meant, I beleive it’s around 6 weeks from NOA2 approval to interview.