Procedure times taking longer than expected/estimate

[PriscilaMU 0]

Hey guys,

 

I’m going through some supposed delay on my NOA2. We’ve applied in September 2019, got our NOA1 on the 23rd and nothing till now.

 

Is there anyone else going through the same? Is so nerve wrenching!

 

please share your experiences! ❤️

[Duke & Marie 1,389]

8 minutes ago, PriscilaMU said:

Hey guys,

 

I’m going through some supposed delay on my NOA2. We’ve applied in September 2019, got our NOA1 on the 23rd and nothing till now.

 

Is there anyone else going through the same? Is so nerve wrenching!

 

please share your experiences! ❤️

Immigration isn’t an over night process.. it took a year for ours to process.. go check USCIS website for processing times of your service center it will give you an indication as to how long you’ll be waiting 

[PriscilaMU 0]

3 minutes ago, Duke & Marie said:

Immigration isn’t an over night process.. it took a year for ours to process.. go check USCIS website for processing times of your service center it will give you an indication as to how long you’ll be waiting 

Yes, I’m completely aware of that.

 

And checking the estimates it looks delayed. 

 

I understand that there’s nothing we can do about but talking sometimes can be helpful...

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

You're still in a pretty good timeframe especially given the fact that there where a lot of holidays in the past months. The estimates here on VJ don't take that into account and in the end they're nothing official, just estimates based on other members entrys during the past. 

Edited January 10, 2020 by Letspaintcookies

[PriscilaMU 0]

1 minute ago, Letspaintcookies said:

You're still in a pretty good timeframe especially given the fact that there where a lot of holidays in the past months.

Those holidays were the worst because were in the middle of the week and probabily a lot of people had extended weekends.

[geowrian 22,337]

Honestly, the best advice I can give is to try to stop thinking about it. Don't neglect the case if it goes far out of the norm, but things will happen when they happen.

Never compare your case to anybody else's, either. You'll drive yourself crazy.

Good luck.

Edited January 10, 2020 by geowrian

[Greenbaum 12,259]

15 hours ago, PriscilaMU said:

Those holidays were the worst because were in the middle of the week and probabily a lot of people had extended weekends.

Keep in mind that no promises were made to you as to when your case will finish adjudicating. Not USCIS nor will upcoming government agency's NVC or the embassy. This is a game of patience. Just keep busy. Your case will get approved and you will move on to the next step with all things considered.

[N0mad 16]

OP, just wanted to confirm that we're in the same boat as you. Our NOA1 was also 9/23 and we're still waiting, seeing people from 9/26 getting approved before us got me worried as well, but I was told to expect some variance by other members. Overall, doing a timeline search between 9/20-9/27 (approximate timeframe) I see 31 applications and 7 approved, so it looks like they're about 25% into processing them. Hopefully we'll hear from them sometime in the next week.

[PriscilaMU 0]

9 minutes ago, N0mad said:

OP, just wanted to confirm that we're in the same boat as you. Our NOA1 was also 9/23 and we're still waiting, seeing people from 9/26 getting approved before us got me worried as well, but I was told to expect some variance by other members. Overall, doing a timeline search between 9/20-9/27 (approximate timeframe) I see 31 applications and 7 approved, so it looks like they're about 25% into processing them. Hopefully we'll hear from them sometime in the next week.

I have the same info as you. People from “after” us with NOA2 but also people from before sep. 23rd without it. I know people from August that didn’t got it either.

 

Add to that people who don’t update the timeline or update it wrong.

 

I believe that is very random but at least there’s no RFE so far.

[N0mad 16]

So I may be reading tea leaves here, but based on looking at NOA1 dates for members who did and didn't get approved already, as well as trying consecutive WAC numbers on USCIS website tracker before and after our own (which also mostly correspond to I-129F), I'm seeing the following:

• Very few cases from 9/23 got reviewed yet (so it doesn't look like the real processed ratio is higher than the 25% we see here, if anything it seems even lower portion was processed, and that's official USCIS data, so it's not affected by people forgetting to update their timeline)
• Of ones that did get reviewed, all but 1 are RFEs, with 1 approval (I doubt they single out RFEs so most-likely explanation for this is they already reviewed our applications for preliminary errors and sent RFEs to ones that were obviously wrong, submitting the rest to additional background checks, which we're now waiting for)
• I'm seeing more cases reviewed on 9/25 than 9/23 (so maybe different days are processed in batches, somehow the 9/25 batch made it ahead)

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

When you start looking at cases from just one day, it's a small enough number that random things about each individual case can affect things.

It's not very useful to drill down that far.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

20 hours ago, PriscilaMU said:

 

We need a little housekeeping on your end. Many of our answers are predicated on the information you supply in your profile. When we look at the left column and can't determine your timeline OR your Embassy it's hard for us to give you a factual answer. Our answers will sometimes be tailored to a specific Embassy hence the reason for you to complete your profile. If you look at the profile of others here, they have a flag for their country, so it makes it easy for us to reply as we can quickly determine their Embassy. The country that should be used is the country where the interview will take place.

 

So, if you could help yourself out and complete your profile that sure would help us out when we want to reply to your question with factual information.

 

Go to the top right of this page select your name (it's on the upper right-hand corner)>my profile>[below your picture on the right column] edit my profile. Scroll to the bottom and fill in "Immigration Info". There now we can better serve you.

 

Once you finish that then return and you will see a flag in your profile. Select it and see what wonderful information will open up for you.

 

Thanks

[Prizm123 1,086]

There will be ebbs and flows, sure some people may be getting approval before you, but in turn you will be getting approved before people who filed before you also. A lot of it is due to luck to be honest, which box your petition is in and when it gets processed vs the other 10000 boxes containing more petitions. This is literally the hardest part of the entire process. the waiting. Hopefully you wont have to wait too much longer. This is one of those things that tests people.

[Zaraliaya 122]

My noa1 is Sept 16th, and I am also getting frustrated seeing people who applied weeks after us getting accepted.

 

Ours is probably sitting on a desk with the slowest person ever - at least that's what I keep telling myself.

 

However, you'd think the workers who are filing faster would be nice and grab the pile that's been waiting longer from other employees, instead of going too far ahead.. but who knows how it works.

 

I use one of the apps, and I also noticed a ton of ppl even before us even waiting, sooo I guess eventually....eventually we all will get it...