November 2017 I-129F Filers, Part II

[Ben & Jela 140]

Is anyone else in the group going through the Abu Dhabi embassy? I've tried searching and there's not much info on Visa Journey (at least that's current. Unless I'm just not using the right search terms... feel free to point me in the right direction if I'm missing it 😉).

 

I'm curious if the wait time is still 3 months from the time it reaches NVC till they send packet 3? We've already waited almost 8 months for our NOA2 (without any RFE's) so really not looking forward to another long wait... That would put us right at 11 months just to receive packet 3, that doesn't count wait time for interview and such. 

 

We just received our NOA2 on Monday (June 18th) so still waiting to call for our case number. Just trying to prepare ourselves for the wait that's ahead of us. 

 

Still rooting for all those still waiting!! 👍

 

 

[x_driven_x 1,778]

1 hour ago, Ben & Jela said:

Is anyone else in the group going through the Abu Dhabi embassy? I've tried searching and there's not much info on Visa Journey (at least that's current. Unless I'm just not using the right search terms... feel free to point me in the right direction if I'm missing it 😉).

 

I'm curious if the wait time is still 3 months from the time it reaches NVC till they send packet 3? We've already waited almost 8 months for our NOA2 (without any RFE's) so really not looking forward to another long wait... That would put us right at 11 months just to receive packet 3, that doesn't count wait time for interview and such. 

 

We just received our NOA2 on Monday (June 18th) so still waiting to call for our case number. Just trying to prepare ourselves for the wait that's ahead of us. 

 

Still rooting for all those still waiting!! 👍

 

 

Did you see these in the portal?

 

http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=United Arab Emirates&cty=Abu Dhabi

 

http://www.visajourney.com/portals/index.php?country=United+Arab+Emirates

[Greenbaum 12,259]

3 hours ago, Ben & Jela said:

Is anyone else in the group going through the Abu Dhabi embassy? I've tried searching and there's not much info on Visa Journey (at least that's current. Unless I'm just not using the right search terms... feel free to point me in the right direction if I'm missing it 😉).

 

I'm curious if the wait time is still 3 months from the time it reaches NVC till they send packet 3? We've already waited almost 8 months for our NOA2 (without any RFE's) so really not looking forward to another long wait... That would put us right at 11 months just to receive packet 3, that doesn't count wait time for interview and such. 

 

We just received our NOA2 on Monday (June 18th) so still waiting to call for our case number. Just trying to prepare ourselves for the wait that's ahead of us. 

 

Still rooting for all those still waiting!! 👍

 

 

 https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-ae/niv

https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-ae/niv/information/niv

[mital 16]

5 hours ago, Jeffreyyu said:

Whats the problem? They didn't receive it?

Ya that’s right they didn’t receive our file even uscis conform by mail that they have sent file on 16/05/2018 😞 any idea or get help ?

[K1visaHopeful 2,771]

14 minutes ago, mital said:

Ya that’s right they didn’t receive our file even uscis conform by mail that they have sent file on 16/05/2018 😞 any idea or get help ?

You are still within the "8 week" allotted processing time. You will just have to keep calling the NVC to find out when it gets there.

[Ben & Jela 140]

4 hours ago, x_driven_x said:

Did you see these in the portal?

 

http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=United Arab Emirates&cty=Abu Dhabi

 

http://www.visajourney.com/portals/index.php?country=United+Arab+Emirates

Thanks @x_driven_x Yeah, I saw those.  It just looks like most of the comments or links are from last year. There might he one or two new ones. And several aren't filling their timeline... so I've no idea how long they've been waiting or what stage their at (kind of frustrating). Really wish there was a blog or link where they detailed what's happening next. 5 to 6 months wait time from NVC sounds REALLY long to me 😕 Can that actually be right? I'm hoping not... we've already waited almost 8 months just for our NOA2.

 

Thanks @Greenbaum When I click that link it just takes me back to the state.gov website... which has mostly generic info - nothing detailed and no time lines given.  I guess I was looking for new information.  Maybe what I'm looking for isn't out there yet?

 

Thanks again guys! Appreciate your responses. 

Edited June 21, 2018 by Ben & Jela

[Rocko20 159]

20 hours ago, x_driven_x said:

November Full Scan  8:05pm CST

 

10 Approvals out of 44 Updates

 

Virgins Remaining: 1578 or 865 using the 30% silent benchmark

 

Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	10
Your Current Status: Document Was Mailed	4
Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	15
Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	14
Your Current Status: Withdrawal Acknowledgement Notice Was Sent	1
Grand Total	44

 

Approvals:

11/02/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/09/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/13/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/13/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/20/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/21/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/21/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/22/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/24/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18
11/24/17	Your Current Status: Case Was Approved	06/20/18

 

RFEs

11/09/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/10/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/10/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/14/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/14/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/14/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/15/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/15/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/22/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/24/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/28/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/20/18
11/03/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/06/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/06/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/10/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/19/18
11/10/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/19/18
11/13/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/14/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/15/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/17/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/19/18
11/20/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/19/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18

 

 

I have to ask a dumb question real quick. What is the proper way to read this graph? Is it a scan of statistics from those who have input information into VJ? For example, my NOA1 date was on November 14, 2017 so would the proper way to read the bottom part would be that there were 77 petitions received on 11/14, 45 of the 77 were RFE and updated, and 30 of the 77 were approved? And what does the virgins remaining and silent benchmark mean?

[Ben & Jela 140]

@Rocko20 I think @x_driven_x will have to explain most of this. 

 

The scans come from the "old site" where they pull our numbers.  I'll link x_driven_x's previous explanation here:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/655791-i-129f-december-2017-filers/?do=findComment&comment=9242348

 

Also, I believe the approved & RFE/Update numbers are taken from the "Received" column.  I don't believe it's the total for that day, as that number has gradually reduced at each scan. I'll let him clarify that for you. 

 

Hope this helps some. 

[BJ & Christine 1,392]

48 minutes ago, Rocko20 said:

I have to ask a dumb question real quick. What is the proper way to read this graph? Is it a scan of statistics from those who have input information into VJ? For example, my NOA1 date was on November 14, 2017 so would the proper way to read the bottom part would be that there were 77 petitions received on 11/14, 45 of the 77 were RFE and updated, and 30 of the 77 were approved? And what does the virgins remaining and silent benchmark mean?

All stats are from old site from doing scans. Green is approved, pink rfe, orange cases received. 

Statistics show that there is about 30% silent approvals which are not factored into the graph.

[CO & RK 39]

14 minutes ago, Ben & Jela said:

@Rocko20 I think @x_driven_x will have to explain most of this. 

 

The scans come from the "old site" where they pull our numbers.  I'll link x_driven_x's previous explanation here:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/655791-i-129f-december-2017-filers/?do=findComment&comment=9242348

 

Also, I believe the approved & RFE/Update numbers are taken from the "Received" column.  I don't believe it's the total for that day, as that number has gradually reduced at each scan. I'll let him clarify that for you. 

 

Hope this helps some. 

Correct. @Rocko20 The caption indicates the status that applications are at. Theoretically when all applications have been either approved or sent an RFE, the "received" row would be zero. If you add up the 3 numbers for any given day, that's how many total applications were received on that day. 

 

Virgin's remaining is another term for those that are in the received line. They haven't yet been updated to approved or RFE (or other).

 

The silent benchmark is there because there are more and more approvals that are coming through on the new website and not the old website, which is where the scans are run. The current estimate is that 30% of applications are not reflected on the old site. So if you look at 11/14 it's estimated that there are only 54 applications that haven't yet been adjudicated. Unfortunately yours looks to be one of them. 

 

Hope that helps!

 

 

[x_driven_x 1,778]

1 hour ago, Rocko20 said:

I have to ask a dumb question real quick. What is the proper way to read this graph? Is it a scan of statistics from those who have input information into VJ? For example, my NOA1 date was on November 14, 2017 so would the proper way to read the bottom part would be that there were 77 petitions received on 11/14, 45 of the 77 were RFE and updated, and 30 of the 77 were approved? And what does the virgins remaining and silent benchmark mean?

I think the others answered most of it, but just to summarize... the counts are based on "current known status" and get updated each night after I run my scan for the day. The data is taken from the "old" site, (https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do)

 

So, for 11/14, 30 cases with a a received date of 11/14 have been approved, 45 more are in either an RFE status or have been updated in some way, and then 77 are still in the initial "Case Has Been Received" status, which means they have never been touched since USCIS received the case back on 11/14/2017. This chart does not show rejected / denied cases either, only the above groupings of statuses.

 

The "Virgin" terminology is just another way to say "Cases that are still in 'Received' status"

 

The 30% silent reference is because we know the old website is not always updated when the case is actually worked, and from historical charts and analysis we determined that percentage to be about 30%, though we suspect it could be higher these days since the new website has rolled out - but we can't prove anything until USCIS releases 2018 Q2 numbers and then go back and compare how many they say they approved vs how many we "see" approved. 

 

Hope that helps! 

 

 

[x_driven_x 1,778]

November Full Scan   7:45pm CST

 

12 Updates today, No Approvals

 

Virgins: 1569, 853 using 30% silent estimate

 

RFEs

 

Receive Date	Status	Date
11/02/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/21/18
11/10/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/21/18
11/29/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/21/18
11/30/17	Your Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Was Mailed	06/21/18
11/14/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/21/18
11/14/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18
11/15/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/21/18
11/16/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/21/18
11/16/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/21/18
11/24/17	Your Current Status: Response To USCIS' Request For Evidence Was Received	06/20/18

 

[Noemi & Ivan 32]

GUYSSSS I FINALLY GOT APRROVED THE 19th !!!! Sorry ive Beeen Sooo excitedd HaVent Posted Yett This Wait Was Long But Oh Am i Happyy... Whatss Next 😅😂

[Rocko20 159]

VJ posters, thanks for answering my question. It makes so much sense now

 

Noemi & Ivan, congrats on your approval!!!

Edited June 22, 2018 by Rocko20

[Greenbaum 12,259]

4 hours ago, Ben & Jela said:

Thanks @x_driven_x Yeah, I saw those.  It just looks like most of the comments or links are from last year. There might he one or two new ones. And several aren't filling their timeline... so I've no idea how long they've been waiting or what stage their at (kind of frustrating). Really wish there was a blog or link where they detailed what's happening next. 5 to 6 months wait time from NVC sounds REALLY long to me 😕 Can that actually be right? I'm hoping not... we've already waited almost 8 months just for our NOA2.

 

Thanks @Greenbaum When I click that link it just takes me back to the state.gov website... which has mostly generic info - nothing detailed and no time lines given.  I guess I was looking for new information.  Maybe what I'm looking for isn't out there yet?

 

Thanks again guys! Appreciate your responses. 

Go up to the top, at the blue ribbon, select "portals" and scroll down the left side till you get to VJ Abu Dhabi Timelines. Select it and out populates a chart of all those who are in the process for a visa at AD. Try and connect with one of them that have been on recently. You should be able to get some help from one of them.  The instructions are out there, I personally haven't found someone who can share a copy with me. If you get one PM and I will give you my personal email so you can send me a scanned copy to use for the next applicate for AD.