January 2018 Filers

[PirateLiker 11]

I'm joining this group. I overnight FedEx'd my I129F on January 29. (What's another $57 after spending $535 for the fee, right?) I got delivery confirmation on January 30. So I'm a January filer just barely. Good luck all!

[ellemaj28 54]

Petition mailed on 01/26, delivered on 01/29. Got the text message and email today showing a receive date of 01/29! May the odds be in our favor for a speedy NOA2!

[Owenhughes22 6]

5 hours ago, Naes said:

Oh then you'll receive it next week probably! We sent it Monday it arrived there Next day also PO box they sent us a text on next Tuesday but our noa was the Friday before

 

really it changes a lot but it doesn't mean much 

Got the text with code today!

[northwest-boys 17]

Nice to see so many January filers getting their NOA1's! My fiance and I are in the process of booking a trip for me to visit him in the UK in April and we're really hoping that might have to be the last trip before we move him over here, but we're prepared to plan another just in case things don't move quickly.

 

Fingers crossed though!! 

[LuFlolady 881]

Hey guys we sent our petition on Friday the 26th and we got our txt notification today....hopefully we will get our hard copy soon......

[LuFlolady 881]

2 hours ago, ellemaj28 said:

Petition mailed on 01/26, delivered on 01/29. Got the text message and email today showing a receive date of 01/29! May the odds be in our favor for a speedy NOA2!

Congrats I got txt today too and we mailed our the same day as well....was there a special place you had to check to get the email?

[LuFlolady 881]

6 hours ago, PirateLiker said:

I'm joining this group. I overnight FedEx'd my I129F on January 29. (What's another $57 after spending $535 for the fee, right?) I got delivery confirmation on January 30. So I'm a January filer just barely. Good luck all!

Good luck to you

[LuFlolady 881]

20 hours ago, Owenhughes22 said:

Have you heard anything back yet? Like got the NOA1 or had electronic confirmation via text or email? We haven’t had anything so just a bit worried. 

We got txt msg today

[LuFlolady 881]

1 hour ago, LuFlolady said:

Congrats I got txt today too and we mailed our the same day as well....was there a special place you had to check to get the email?

Nevermind I checked my email and we received an email too

[Owenhughes22 6]

1 hour ago, LuFlolady said:

We got txt msg today

Same here!

[fern28 61]

Hi, joining this group because mailed i129f January 29th and it was delivered February 1st! Awaiting the text or email...

 

good luck to everyone! 

[Naes 12,205]

Hello january filers!

 

I know some of  you guys are still waiting on NOA1, but I wanted to give you guys an update as well as I am doing for every other month.

Especially now that February started!

 

I do not have data for January yet, and probably won't have it till late February because it takes time for them to update the system. 

Numbers will be added when I have a full set of it  

 

Good luck to all!

 

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Hello everyone below is a repost from August about the current situation;

 

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So far (well normally) there is no movement for August.

 

However a few note to give would be, They are,by looking at the numbers and past trends, mainly working on July.

 

They touched (even though with small numbers) up till the last date of July,however we still need to see approvals to say the latest date is July 31.

 I am personally expecting  to see some small movements in August this week.

I'll be scanning every night my time and post when there's movement.

You will be able to check the movement next day instead of midday and full day scans.

 

Please do not use the scans to check your personal case status.

Use USCIS web site to check your case status.

(Due to TOS and privacy of people who are not even in the forum we are only posting the dates not numbers)

(We learnt through these scans that, USCIS does not go with the number but the dates to give an example to this,

WAC do not go in an order for dates - not totally- So when most lets say 7/16 is around the number 356xxx,

a few 7/16 can be at the number 432xxx -yes they even mix it with other months; however we realized without the number in consideration,

that person gets their approval with the number 356xxx cases too. Overall the number is of no importance )

 

NVC is almost back to normal with a few exceptions of some cases still waiting to get a number; however mostly it is in between 10 days to 3 weeks 

 

Informed Delivery -if applicable in your area- is recommended.

 We have tones of approvals that does not get an online update!

Especially if you look below numbers the dates with almost no approval comes out to be the dates with mail only updates.

 

Monthly Overall

(*December has more cases than it looks in these numbers, because of an error on USCIS side, there are case numbers that gets a validation error,

Some people who has these numbers connected me however there is no way for me to add them.They also connected the USCIS and they don't seem to be able to do anything about it or well don't care probably...However, As long as you have your NOA1, and they can check your cases status when you call them there is nothing to worry about. They are not updating approvals properly anyway...)

 

	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec*	Total
Approved	1456	634	13	6		1		2110
Touched	1048	523	139	129	128	67	28	2062
Virgins	1159	2247	3519	3176	3770	3304	3297	20472
Excluded	378	392	404	287	244	205	184	2094
Total	4041	3796	4075	3598	4142	3577	3509	26738

 

For new comers of January:

Excluded means: rejected files due to wrong form, forgotten signature etc.(these happen before you even get a noa1 so nobody has to worry)

Virgins means: "case status is case received" meaning never been touched.

Touched include: rfe and name and birthdate updates (these can happen at any time so it does not mean a month started)

Approved cases on month other than the active month (which is now July) are mostly Expedited cases.

Expedite can happen in K1 mostly for Military personnel who is about to get deployed (you need the deployment order to expedite and some other evidence)

So it does not mean they started a case.

 

Once you see 10 case movements in one month in a somewhat orderly manner, we consider it as they are working on that month.

We are at the moment waiting for August to start somewhere in the next 10 days.

 

 

Weekly movement overall; The latest date touched July 31 latest date with an approval July 27

 

June     July     Total 01/29/18 28 43 71 01/30/18 32 87 119 01/31/18 47 135 182 02/01/18 40 23 63 02/02/18 51 112 163 Total 198 400 598

 

Approval Updates (Please remember the dates with close to no approval updates are the dates we expect more NOA2 in the mail)

 

	June	July	Total
01/30/18	8	9	17
01/31/18	26	93	119
02/01/18	4	11	15
02/02/18	20	62	82
Total	58	175	233

 

 

* For those who are waiting for excel sheets I am still updating them and will post them hopefully today as soon as I can.

[LuFlolady 881]

2 hours ago, fern28 said:

Hi, joining this group because mailed i129f January 29th and it was delivered February 1st! Awaiting the text or email...

 

good luck to everyone! 

Good luck to you

[J&K24 33]

Hi January Filers!

Avid reader here. It’s my first time to post in this thread. Praying for the speedy petition to all of us. 

My timeline so far:

📍January 18, 2018-  I-129F Sent

📍January 23,2018- Package Delivered

📍January 26, 2018-  Case Recieved

📍February 03,2018- NOA1 Hard Copy Received via mail.

                          

 

 

[Snuffles 394]

Hi! I've just found you guys! 

 

My fiance and I sent in the petition January 19th. Received January 22nd. 

He received a text and email on January 26th and a letter just this past week. Excited to be on this journey with you guys, and know we aren't alone.