Is this accurate?

[bencarlson66 7]

I called USCIS yesterday, I was told that they will be looking at my I-129F in a few days. The reasoning that he gave? Because the receipt date for a case inquiry was October 22nd, and this means that this is the day of I-129Fs that they are beginning to look at. And my packet was received on the 24th. 

At first I believed him, I think mostly because I wanted too. But after thinking about this, this seems almost impossible. Especially considering that I've seen people on here who sent their packets in months after me, and already received NOA2.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

Here is what is happening as far as we can determined. They have put extra manpower on the cases at USCIS. The cases received in the past 3-4 months are being adjudicated before this of you hane been in processing for the past 5-7 months. The cases that have been in the pipeline for 3-4 months are being approved much faster then the oyhers. Fair. NO and not much you ca do about.

 

When we filed our AOS for a GC it was taking those whose files went to Vermont 14 months to be adjudicated while those in California was right at 6 months. It's never fair. Just the way it is.

[debbiedoo 2,339]

they get to it when they get to it. 

 

the sooner you accept that, the easier it is. 

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

28 minutes ago, bencarlson66 said:

I called USCIS yesterday, I was told that they will be looking at my I-129F in a few days. The reasoning that he gave? Because the receipt date for a case inquiry was October 22nd, and this means that this is the day of I-129Fs that they are beginning to look at. And my packet was received on the 24th. 

At first I believed him, I think mostly because I wanted too. But after thinking about this, this seems almost impossible. Especially considering that I've seen people on here who sent their packets in months after me, and already received NOA2.

It's not at all accurate. The "receipt date for case inquiry" is the cutoff for when your case is considered outside of normal processing times. It is not by any means the date they are currently working on. Sometimes tier 1 support people, lawyers, and prep services try to claim that's the date they're currently working on, but it's not. They set that date very conservatively; almost all cases are adjucated (with an approval, RFE, or denial) well before the cutoff date, even if yours was not.

 

Because everyone's case takes a different amount of time to process (between background checks, everything else they need to do, and different case workers working at different speeds, and because in some cases they're dealing with the response to an RFE rather than taking the first look at a case), they work on cases from a wide range of NOA1 dates every day. Right now, as reported by VJ users, most of the approvals being reported are from Feb and March 2019 filers, but there's still a fair amount of activity from cases filed earlier (albeit mostly response to RFEs at this point).

[DR_UA 26]

OMG, I can't even imagine how frustrating it is to be waiting since October while seeing other people approved in less than 60 days 🤬 This K-1 process is a completely new level of unfairness to me because there is absolutely no logic in it. When I had to wait for my own naturalization in Seattle for 15 months while another office in the same state processed applications in 5 months, it was painful but explainable (different number of applications per office, etc.). But variance of 300% within the same office is unexplainable. Some people say it's because background checks take different amounts of time. Well, I submitted my I-129F next day after going through a naturalization interview where USCIS supposedly did all kinds of background checks on me. Are they now doing more checks? I'm not buying it. The only explanation I can see is they randomly pull numbers out of a bag.

[Cryssiekins 976]

45 minutes ago, debbiedoo said:

they get to it when they get to it. 

 

the sooner you accept that, the easier it is. 

Should be the tag line for USCIS.  I’m over 3 years into this immigration journey (from K1 to pending RoC) and it’s much easier now because I have learned it just takes as long as it takes.  People who file later may get approved before me, and I have zero control over it.  Is it frustrating?  Incredibly, but I no longer desire to stress myself out about it.  Everything always works out in the end - just takes a ridiculous amount of time.