Waiting for a NOA2 from VSC for your I-129F?

[Bobalouie 0]

3. AT THAT time name checks are ordered...

THIS is where i have the issue.......This is no longer about WHOSE name checks come back first...MINE weren't even pulled yet...NOTHING has been touched on my file since June 19. SOOOOOOOOO HOW are others getting approved from JULY, SEPT, OCT????????????????? No excuse to use it for training, why not just grab the NEXT create??? This isn't making sense...dont get me wrong..im HAPPY for those approved...NOT happy with the system.

4. After name checks come back, the file is worked

EAch file DOES take about 15 minutes, up to 30 minutes she said. THAT means that ONE create is only 2 days worth of work. So, the idea of my file sitting on someones desk waiting for name checks, or under a HUGE pile of backlog doesn't add up to WHY others so much later are getting approved.....

Anyone else find this odd???? Does this make sense how Im seeing it??? Its a broken system to say the least.

Look at it this way, in each box there are 30 petitions. Lets say, for arguments sake the the first 5 petitons in that box (which are at the bottom) are the last of the May petitions in the mailroom, that means that the other 25 are June petitions. So the officer snags a box and puts it on his desk. The first 25 petitions he works on are from june, then gets to the may petitions. Now, since that guy got the last of the May petititons, all the other adjudicators are pulling june petitions. Maybe the guy who got the last of the Mays is slow, or there are a lot of problems with the petitions, or whatever, then you are seeing Junes adjudicated before Mays. Now add in the additional variables of adjudicators who work from home, and they pull that box and doesnt come back for a week, then everyone in that box is a week behind. Or and adjudicator goes on vacation and leaves the box on his desk because he already ordered the name checks. Multiply this by however many adjudicators there are and it becomes overwhelming. And dont forget the shear numbers game that we have. Using VJ numbers only, there is only about 1 box of may, 2 boxes of june, 4 boxes of july, 1 box august and 1 box sept. Multiply those numbers by whatever to account for nationwide, and you can see how a fast adjudicator could already be working some boxes of june and july while a slow guy is still working on may.

With no understanding of the actual nuts n bolts of the process due to no transparency, there are so many variables that you cant account for them all.

I know everyone will shoot holes in this theory, and I am not condoning these actions or saying that it doesnt suck, because it does. I also know that I could be perfectly correct or perfectly incorrect. No one knows for sure except the people in the cube farm at VSC.

Well, one problem with that theory is it doesn't match what we have seen. When I joined vj in june they had just started to work on may and had some april leftover. They worked on those exclusively for almost 5 months before ANY june got approved.

So it does not make sense that they skip to july (or september/october) a couple weeks after starting june. It seems more likely they are flying by seat of their pants and giving in to whatever political muscle comes at them than that how they are working is logical somehow.

You will notice in my post, I specifically did not mention the Sept. stuff because it is some kind of an abboration. I am just pointing out that it is possible to have quite a bit of overlap, however, I also believe that you are correct, that this much overlap has some other explanation, but that explanation is lost to me.

[monagoz 2]

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I cannot belive it, I got approved (NOA2). I checked my online status, and here it says:

Receipt Number: EAC0720******

Application Type: I129F, PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On November 25, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.

Congratulations. I am happy for you; at least you're not one of those using this board to vent their innate frustrations in life generally. You waited on the Lord and He answered you. Goodluck.

[monagoz 2]

Approved!!!!!!!!!!!

Yayyy... just wanted to let you all know - VSC is still working!!

I've had NO touches since my NOA-1, not even when I changed my address!! Also, I remember some people wondering whether they were issuing RFE's for not having including the beneficiary's birth certificate - I didn't include that, and was starting to freak out... but I guess you don't need it!

Congratulations, and God continued blessings on the rest of your journey. Faith, hope and patience together with prayers, ALWAYS WORKS!!!!

[Mel and Syl 0]

Well, I'm tired of being on a limbo...waiting to know what is going on...I don't know how many times I've been complaining but this is just all ridiculous! Enough is enough man.....!! And this whole christmas spirit is just driving me freakin nuts! I'm running away from christmas and from all the houses (neighbors), stores who have their christmas decorations since the first week of november. Here, I'm the one who does the xmas decoration....I'm not doing anything this year.....my dad will have to find someone else to do it...or maybe himself!

Mirla, i can understand your frustration you know how long i've been waiting and im still waiting just like you. I invited myself into my aunt's house in austria and that's where i will spend christmas and New Year at. I will use this Christmas and New Year as a kind of a goodbye-thing because i know next year by this time i will be with Mel. I met him over 4 years ago and yes i want to spend the rest of my life with him BUT i have known my family all my life. So try to spent time with your family and keep the tradition going as long as you can. You will soon leave them to live with Pat and nobody knows if and when you will get the chance to be with them for christmas again so try to look at it from that point. Of course you need to call Vermont and see if you can get some Info but don't forget that everything happens for a reason so don't punish your dad for the unprofessional doings of Vermont. You are in my prayers everyday and i hope we gone have a great christmas present which will be our APPROVAL so please keep the faith, you are not alone.

OMG!! I forgot to congrats the recent approvees, CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU!!

[amrssnowangel 0]

3. AT THAT time name checks are ordered...

THIS is where i have the issue.......This is no longer about WHOSE name checks come back first...MINE weren't even pulled yet...NOTHING has been touched on my file since June 19. SOOOOOOOOO HOW are others getting approved from JULY, SEPT, OCT????????????????? No excuse to use it for training, why not just grab the NEXT create??? This isn't making sense...dont get me wrong..im HAPPY for those approved...NOT happy with the system.

4. After name checks come back, the file is worked

EAch file DOES take about 15 minutes, up to 30 minutes she said. THAT means that ONE create is only 2 days worth of work. So, the idea of my file sitting on someones desk waiting for name checks, or under a HUGE pile of backlog doesn't add up to WHY others so much later are getting approved.....

Anyone else find this odd???? Does this make sense how Im seeing it??? Its a broken system to say the least.

Look at it this way, in each box there are 30 petitions. Lets say, for arguments sake the the first 5 petitons in that box (which are at the bottom) are the last of the May petitions in the mailroom, that means that the other 25 are June petitions. So the officer snags a box and puts it on his desk. The first 25 petitions he works on are from june, then gets to the may petitions. Now, since that guy got the last of the May petititons, all the other adjudicators are pulling june petitions. Maybe the guy who got the last of the Mays is slow, or there are a lot of problems with the petitions, or whatever, then you are seeing Junes adjudicated before Mays. Now add in the additional variables of adjudicators who work from home, and they pull that box and doesnt come back for a week, then everyone in that box is a week behind. Or and adjudicator goes on vacation and leaves the box on his desk because he already ordered the name checks. Multiply this by however many adjudicators there are and it becomes overwhelming. And dont forget the shear numbers game that we have. Using VJ numbers only, there is only about 1 box of may, 2 boxes of june, 4 boxes of july, 1 box august and 1 box sept. Multiply those numbers by whatever to account for nationwide, and you can see how a fast adjudicator could already be working some boxes of june and july while a slow guy is still working on may.

With no understanding of the actual nuts n bolts of the process due to no transparency, there are so many variables that you cant account for them all.

I know everyone will shoot holes in this theory, and I am not condoning these actions or saying that it doesnt suck, because it does. I also know that I could be perfectly correct or perfectly incorrect. No one knows for sure except the people in the cube farm at VSC.

Well, one problem with that theory is it doesn't match what we have seen. When I joined vj in june they had just started to work on may and had some april leftover. They worked on those exclusively for almost 5 months before ANY june got approved.

So it does not make sense that they skip to july (or september/october) a couple weeks after starting june. It seems more likely they are flying by seat of their pants and giving in to whatever political muscle comes at them than that how they are working is logical somehow.

You will notice in my post, I specifically did not mention the Sept. stuff because it is some kind of an abboration. I am just pointing out that it is possible to have quite a bit of overlap, however, I also believe that you are correct, that this much overlap has some other explanation, but that explanation is lost to me.

[amrssnowangel 0]

You will notice in my post, I specifically did not mention the Sept. stuff because it is some kind of an abboration. I am just pointing out that it is possible to have quite a bit of overlap, however, I also believe that you are correct, that this much overlap has some other explanation, but that explanation is lost to me.

That is just the thing thats getting to me...a MONTH overlap or more is not understandable. I do understand say 2 weeks...but a MONTH? And as far as the explanation that some are slower..no excuse..thats just poor management to not know where these files stand and which adjudicators need a push. These are peoples lives they are dealing with. I know most probably are working hard...but to me...this big of an overlap is just unexcusable.

[*julez* 124]

:joy: VSC is up to 59 approvals for the month and 4 business days to go!!! Keep 'em coming!!! :joy:

[Kass 0]

.....OK....more new news......After finding out yesterday bout the RFE i called my lawyer right away.....I let her know that i knew for a fact that it was sent on the 18th and that there is no way it would take more than this week to arrive...I left that on an aswering machine....well today first thing i called her again and explained everything...she said "well i have a huge pile of mail which i will try to get to today or tomorrow" i told her i want news by friday the latest.....Well late this afternoon she left a message on my cell telling me that the RFE letter was in the pile....And to top it off...the evidence that they want...your going to laugh!!!! She forgot to have me sign one of the forms...that is all they asked for... .....NEVER EVER DEPEND ON A LAWYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well tomorrow im going to her office to sign it and im sending through my Fedex account right away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If we had it to do all over again we would not have used an attorney for various reasons. Most and foremost you can pretty much do everything yourself. Not too mention you are cutiing out the middle guy which in turn saves on time. We sent everything to him, then we had to wait for him to get to it and then send it out. Then wait for VSC to process stuff to then send stuff back to him to wait for him to get to it and then send stuff back to us. Just think of all of the time we could have saved without the middle man.

Not too mention we hired an attorney for the simple fact that we assumed that they know what they are doing! To alleviate any mistakes that we might make as again we assume that they know what they are doing. Well we received and RFE from VSC for paperwork that they had already received in the initial package. We had to do all of the leg work to sort this out while our attorney' advice was to sit and wait. Do we not wait enough and at their mistake no less. Then getting hold of the attorneys is sometimes as hard as getting hold of the right answer from VSC! But boy they respond real fast when it is payment to them time. Needless to say we would not hire an attorney if we had it to do all over again, it was a waste of our time and our money.

CHEERS!

[M&J 0]

hello!!! we were approved on nov 26!!!!!

no touches....no nothing!!! we got an e mail at night time!!!! we are approved!!! It feels so good!!!!

[sunnylight 0]

hello!!! we were approved on nov 26!!!!!

no touches....no nothing!!! we got an e mail at night time!!!! we are approved!!! It feels so good!!!!

Congratulations !

[Mel and Syl 0]

Congrats!

[Omizo_Tusha 0]

hello!!! we were approved on nov 26!!!!!

no touches....no nothing!!! we got an e mail at night time!!!! we are approved!!! It feels so good!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[rouguewave 7]

hello!!! we were approved on nov 26!!!!!

no touches....no nothing!!! we got an e mail at night time!!!! we are approved!!! It feels so good!!!!

Congratulations!!!!!

Here's hoping the rest of your journey is swift and effortless.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

If we had it to do all over again we would not have used an attorney for various reasons. Most and foremost you can pretty much do everything yourself. Not too mention you are cutiing out the middle guy which in turn saves on time. We sent everything to him, then we had to wait for him to get to it and then send it out. Then wait for VSC to process stuff to then send stuff back to him to wait for him to get to it and then send stuff back to us. Just think of all of the time we could have saved without the middle man.

Not too mention we hired an attorney for the simple fact that we assumed that they know what they are doing! To alleviate any mistakes that we might make as again we assume that they know what they are doing. Well we received and RFE from VSC for paperwork that they had already received in the initial package. We had to do all of the leg work to sort this out while our attorney' advice was to sit and wait. Do we not wait enough and at their mistake no less. Then getting hold of the attorneys is sometimes as hard as getting hold of the right answer from VSC! But boy they respond real fast when it is payment to them time. Needless to say we would not hire an attorney if we had it to do all over again, it was a waste of our time and our money.

CHEERS!

I originally contacted several lawyers about our process, but got that feeling. I had actually made a preliminary agreement with one lawyer, but she kept losing my number, forgetting to return calls, etc. So I decided to file on my own. I'm a smart, well-educated person and thought that I could do just as well as she could.

I'm glad I did now. They all seemed to imply that they could get approval faster than we could on our own, but that's not really true. The way I look at it, I was looking at paying way too much money for the limited service they were offering. It's not like they were going to fill out the forms for me.

[amrssnowangel 0]

WE WERE TOUCHED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can not believe it. I know that we may still get RFE...but at LEAST we know someone is looking at our file. Im in tears. I cant decide weather to laugh or cry...weather to be happy or scared. WOW. Mixed emotions. Almost 6 months of seeing the same date. Just to know someone opened our file and is looking at it. I wonder if a touch means they ordered our background checks? Or if it means the name check is done and now they are reviewing it. Either way...

PRAISE BE TO GOD!!