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[KBA 542]

9 minutes ago, Sarac9 said:

I feel like what you told me might be the reason for delay might actually be that reason. Ive noticed people who are waiting longer from certain countries like algeria, armenia, etc without as much as an rfe. Or if they ve traveled a lot and traveled to certain countries which are considered "high terrorism countries" are taking a lot longer...

I know it's case by case but i am just tryibg to understand the pattern here for delayed responses..

We think one reason might be travel in the Middle East years ago for work but we are only guessing at this point. 

[HTMW 378]

56 minutes ago, Sarac9 said:

I feel like what you told me might be the reason for delay might actually be that reason. Ive noticed people who are waiting longer from certain countries like algeria, armenia, etc without as much as an rfe. Or if they ve traveled a lot and traveled to certain countries which are considered "high terrorism countries" are taking a lot longer...

I know it's case by case but i am just tryibg to understand the pattern here for delayed responses..

 

46 minutes ago, KBA said:

We think one reason might be travel in the Middle East years ago for work but we are only guessing at this point. 

I'm definitely with this line of guessing, it's unfortunate......   Love is love

[Texas stylist 63]

Glad you started this because I was starting to think I was alone! I’m at 243 days today. Spoke to a tier 2 officer and they said the same thing that I’m in line for adjudication. What line! It’s so frustrating 😡

[Sarac9 1,122]

7 minutes ago, Texas stylist said:

Glad you started this because I was starting to think I was alone! I’m at 243 days today. Spoke to a tier 2 officer and they said the same thing that I’m in line for adjudication. What line! It’s so frustrating 😡

Woahh 

This is so crazy. Did you file an inquiry? 

[Texas stylist 63]

49 minutes ago, Sarac9 said:

Woahh 

This is so crazy. Did you file an inquiry? 

Yes I did twice. The first one said it was on line to get adjudicated in March. Now this time they are doing one to see what is taking so long. It’s just frustrating. I’m going to see my fiancée next month so at least that will kill some time. This system is highly broken 

[Sarac9 1,122]

33 minutes ago, Texas stylist said:

Yes I did twice. The first one said it was on line to get adjudicated in March. Now this time they are doing one to see what is taking so long. It’s just frustrating. I’m going to see my fiancée next month so at least that will kill some time. This system is highly broken 

Wtffffff this seriously makes me mad. Ahhhhh why why? I want to vent for you lol

What reason do you think there could be for such a long delay??? 

 

[dazed'nconfused 14]

9 hours ago, Sarac9 said:

My lawyer has told me that some adjudicators work faster than others..the cases are reviewed in order but some cases are simpler and easy to obtain information on so that's why cases after ours are adjudicated before us... that's why i am trying to understand the causal factors which delays a descions on certain cases

 Ive noticed it's travel to more than one country, and living ina country otger than your national one. Other causes are filing for the petition for the second time, etc. 

This is the case of all people.   It's the case between me and the girl I sit next to!   I'm a touch typist with a decent WPM and confident using computers, whereas she's 25 years older than me, is a 2 finger typist and despite working here for years, still needs help doing anything more than the absolute basics. 

I've obviously never worked for USCIS or any US Government department, but I have worked in a "case worker" type of environment for a Government owned company (but not direct government) so I'll put my 2c in for this conversation.

 

We were "case managers" - so we had cases assigned to us (a minimum of 3 cases per day during normal periods, when it was super busy it could be up to 5). We had to work on those cases. Plus we had to answer phone calls as they came in. And we had to attend meetings, training sessions, take our federally mandated breaks AND in a lot of cases cover for the cases of our co-workers (ie: if someone was taking a week off, or was sick, or out on maternity leave etc - those cases had to go somewhere). 

 

So say I've already got 30 cases in my pile.  Out of those 30 cases, say there's 10 which are "active" (as in, that I can physically work on, the other 20 may have been waiting on another department, manager approval for something, more information from the people who raised the case or even direction from an escalated pathway - same as if someone called their congressman about a delay in their case). 

Great. 13 cases in a day, that's doable! (The original 10 plus the 3 new ones)   7.5 hours in a day (really 8 hours, but taking away lunch) means I should be able to give a decent 35 minutes to each case.  

Oh but wait, I've taken 5 x 10 minute phone calls from people whose cases I have nothing to do with and I can't give a solid answer about.   So that means I've actually got 30 minutes per case. 

And today is the first day of Monica's 2 weeks vacation, which means that her 30 cases just got reassigned out to the team.   So now I've got 3 new cases from her that I will need to review so that I can know where they should fit into my work flow for the next 2 weeks. Now I'm down to 25 minutes per case. 

 

Today is also the day that we're scheduled for that 60 minute training session on the new system/process/payment schedule/form change/whatever.  Down to 20 minutes per case. 

 

Bear in mind this is an average day as a case manager, and that many of the cases would take vastly longer than 20 minutes to review - the paper-trail that we had to fill out was enormous - you'd need to tag yourself as working on it, then tag the start time, read what was needed, review paperwork to ensure it was filled out properly, make sure the right form was used, make sure the right person signed the right thing, check against all the records that we had access to (generally other government departmental systems, many of which were slow to load, slower to respond and routinely kicked us out while we were in the middle of something, meaning we'd have to start again).  I might only get to work on 5 of those 16 cases. 

 

So while it's frustrating (and believe me, as someone who hasn't yet filed, seeing the wait times get longer and longer, I'm starting to feel very anxious about the whole thing) - I can absolutely understand how it happens.   I don't condone it, but there's no easy fix.    What can they do? Stop taking applications until the backlog is fixed? That will only create a huge backlog when they flood in after applications are accepted again.  Hire more staff? Ok, fine, but fees will go up exponentially AND there'll still be a huge backlog while those staff are trained and embedded (plus they will be very slow to start with AND will be slowing their co-workers down while interrupting them asking for help).  Cross-skilling staff to adjudicate other cases will do the same - take forever and slow everything down (plus there are delays for EVERYTHING, not just K-1/CR-1).

Hopefully at 200+ days y'll are getting closer and will soon get your NOA2. 

[Texas stylist 63]

1 hour ago, Sarac9 said:

Wtffffff this seriously makes me mad. Ahhhhh why why? I want to vent for you lol

What reason do you think there could be for such a long delay??? 

 

I honestly don’t know and I can’t get information when I call. Some people say it’s just sitting on a slow persons desk which makes me even more annoyed 

[Sarac9 1,122]

1 hour ago, Texas stylist said:

I honestly don’t know and I can’t get information when I call. Some people say it’s just sitting on a slow persons desk which makes me even more annoyed 

I think you have every right to request to speak to a supervisor. Try to get them to speak to managemen because they were unable to process your inquiry in the time they provided you. This is seriously ###### up. Have you tried to contact a local congressman/woman or senator to help you?

[Texas stylist 63]

35 minutes ago, Sarac9 said:

I think you have every right to request to speak to a supervisor. Try to get them to speak to managemen because they were unable to process your inquiry in the time they provided you. This is seriously ###### up. Have you tried to contact a local congressman/woman or senator to help you?

Thank is my next step

for sure. My home flooded in August so I have been dealing with contractors to finally finish my home so now that is almost done I can focus on this full time before I travel. 

[NateAndJessica 200]

13 hours ago, SONIA AND MICHAEL said:

when we arrived at 7 months ... what process does USCIS ...?

Will find our package and give priority for finish the process?

we do not know of any similar case... 

10 months before noa2 right here. over 1 year to interview... some are just unlucky

[NateAndJessica 200]

43 minutes ago, Sarac9 said:

I think you have every right to request to speak to a supervisor. Try to get them to speak to managemen because they were unable to process your inquiry in the time they provided you. This is seriously ###### up. Have you tried to contact a local congressman/woman or senator to help you?

nothing will help... except relaxing. the good news a delay does not correlate to declined in fact you would already be declined if they were going to. The bad news there zip you can do and no reason you got screwed with the slow boat shuffle. congressmen and senators just will cause your anxiety to increase as will the ombudsman.

[NateAndJessica 200]

4 hours ago, Texas stylist said:

Yes I did twice. The first one said it was on line to get adjudicated in March. Now this time they are doing one to see what is taking so long. It’s just frustrating. I’m going to see my fiancée next month so at least that will kill some time. This system is highly broken 

inquiries are useless. they said my case would be adjudicated in 45 days... several times. the good news they get to everyone eventually and in my experiences being the very very last of an entire month it seems the very last are all approved. what sucks is watching people who applied 5 months after you fly through to approval before you while complaining about the length of process to boot. its all relative, and relaxing is the only healthy option for mind and body. this process can literally end strong relationships and make you sick. you have to gain acceptance or it will drive you to bad places. keep in mind if your really unlucky you could have 5 more months to go, prepare for the worst, daily fretting compounds your mental situation

Edited May 9, 2018 by NateAndJessica

[NateAndJessica 200]

infopass appointments are useless as well. There is nothing you can do, except relax... and every person who corralates that last thing they did to the approval they finally got drives us all to insanity and thinking we need to actively be working somehow. this machine will not be coerced, it was set up that way. and there is zero accountability for the workers from us applicants. sucks but the honest truth.

[NateAndJessica 200]

hope that helps someone... no one ever laid the truth on me, it would have been appreciated