OCTOBER 2020 I-129F K-1 FILERS

[mitzab 294]

Oh and I don't kow if Vermont is processing K1s or not but they went back a month to September dates now.

[macorbin 25]

14 minutes ago, mitzab said:

Oh and I don't kow if Vermont is processing K1s or not but they went back a month to September dates now.

our center is california

[saini 0]

Any one know how long a case stays in transit and how long before you get a notification from consulate (India)... i know due to covid its all up in air but would love to know time that someone here got there interview .....cheers 

[AMA. L 13]

So how did USCIS get to November 15, when October 8th I haven’t heard anything, No NOA 2 ?? This is getting ridiculous… 

[JL & JT 135]

 

mid-week update: we're nearing 50% approved for October! only about 1/4 of cases that haven't been touched yet (pending) and 30% RFE. bad news is that the avg. cases processed per day is slowing - i think they've started moving into November filers now...i guess we'll have to see what rate they're able to maintain for October over the next few weeks

[dmeister3 92]

My RFE reply was received at the CA service center. Fingers crossed for quick processing.

[gm2020 17]

lol someone who submitted 5 days after oct 23 already got an rfe, got the rfe letter, returned the rfe docs and the service center received the docs. Meanwhile in the November thread people with dates into the middle of November are currently getting approvals. October 20, 23 and 29 all still sit ABOVE 70% UNPROCESSED. The fact so many are unprocessed proves they are not just waiting on our background checks, but instead the person or team responsible for those dates is incapable of doing their job. Why is processing continuing into November in this situation? It is ridiculous

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,096]

1 hour ago, gm2020 said:

lol someone who submitted 5 days after oct 23 already got an rfe, got the rfe letter, returned the rfe docs and the service center received the docs. Meanwhile in the November thread people with dates into the middle of November are currently getting approvals. October 20, 23 and 29 all still sit ABOVE 70% UNPROCESSED. The fact so many are unprocessed proves they are not just waiting on our background checks, but instead the person or team responsible for those dates is incapable of doing their job. Why is processing continuing into November in this situation? It is ridiculous

A few notes

• They do not look at cases strictly in date order, never have, and it's better that they don't because you wouldn't want your case to be held up for the handful of cases that take a very long time
• Looking at one day's worth of I-129Fs is very much cherry-picking your data; there just aren't very many petitions for any single day of notice dates, especially in the last year or so when there have almost certainly been far fewer petitions than normal (because if you can't meet in person, you can't file an I-129F)
• The above in no way is saying that USCIS is doing a good job (waiting months or years for them to do 15 minutes of work sucks, no matter where you are in process; we haven't filed Anastasia's ROC yet -- first eligible day is coming up very soon -- but it almost certainly won't be done before she files for US citizenship next year), just that the days you were looking at have fewer processed than others around them mostly by random chance or specific factors to the cases involved

[JeffDR 29]

17 minutes ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

A few notes

• They do not look at cases strictly in date order, never have, and it's better that they don't because you wouldn't want your case to be held up for the handful of cases that take a very long time
• Looking at one day's worth of I-129Fs is very much cherry-picking your data; there just aren't very many petitions for any single day of notice dates, especially in the last year or so when there have almost certainly been far fewer petitions than normal (because if you can't meet in person, you can't file an I-129F)
• The above in no way is saying that USCIS is doing a good job (waiting months or years for them to do 15 minutes of work sucks, no matter where you are in process; we haven't filed Anastasia's ROC yet -- first eligible day is coming up very soon -- but it almost certainly won't be done before she files for US citizenship next year), just that the days you were looking at have fewer processed than others around them mostly by random chance or specific factors to the cases involved

The thought they have asked 1.2 M dollars in Congress to solve the backlog .... they should just get to work.... these background checks are also questionable because at the end of the day both your fiancé and you still have to get the police certificates from everywhere you lived since you were 16 y/o and send it to NVC..... they are slow and the country (including CA) is open for business so they should work processing cases now without excuses because very soon we will have another holiday a d they will also say that because of it they are behind.... I find a disregard to us, citizens, these delays and the hardship we have to go through to be with the person we love and want to marry. If I keep traveling overseas I will end up paying taxes abroad too ......

[JeffDR 29]

1 hour ago, gm2020 said:

lol someone who submitted 5 days after oct 23 already got an rfe, got the rfe letter, returned the rfe docs and the service center received the docs. Meanwhile in the November thread people with dates into the middle of November are currently getting approvals. October 20, 23 and 29 all still sit ABOVE 70% UNPROCESSED. The fact so many are unprocessed proves they are not just waiting on our background checks, but instead the person or team responsible for those dates is incapable of doing their job. Why is processing continuing into November in this situation? It is ridiculous

I am a November 4th applicant and my case has not moved at all. It’s so bad they are making exceptions for applications from October 1st forward because they screwed up in Texas. 

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,096]

10 minutes ago, JeffDR said:

The thought they have asked 1.2 M dollars in Congress to solve the backlog .... 

I haven't seen anywhere that said any extra funding ($1.2 M is not very much money for a government agency, even one as relatively small as USCIS; that seems very low to be enough to do something significant)  has actually made it into a bill that has become law.

[JeffDR 29]

17 minutes ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

I haven't seen anywhere that said any extra funding ($1.2 M is not very much money for a government agency, even one as relatively small as USCIS; that seems very low to be enough to do something significant)  has actually made it into a bill that has become law.

UsCIS loves to say they are funded by the fees but then we have this “side requests” regardless it’s sad to see a government agency not working for the people as they should - and this is my opinion .... in the private sector if I didn’t do my job it’s pretty clear I won’t have a job .... the mess is so big that no money could fix it in my opinion .... so big they are actually creating exceptions for those applications that were grossly mishandled causing people to overstay their visas, etc. where is the accountability ? I leaving the country (again) to be with my fiancé because for some reason things are slow here .... not their fault ? Well not my fault either but they are the ones tasked with solving my problem .

[dmeister3 92]

I think it’s best we all try to stay positive...at the end of the day we have to play their game by their rules...even if it doesn’t make sense. 😕

[Meliodas 15]

I hope the rest get their approval soon.

 

In mean time I have a question. On the NOA2 letter there is approval of notice valid from 14/06/2021 till 13/10/2021 time frame. Does anyone know what this approval time frame mean?

 

Thank you in Advance

 

[goodra90 2]

12 hours ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

A few notes

• They do not look at cases strictly in date order, never have, and it's better that they don't because you wouldn't want your case to be held up for the handful of cases that take a very long time
• Looking at one day's worth of I-129Fs is very much cherry-picking your data; there just aren't very many petitions for any single day of notice dates, especially in the last year or so when there have almost certainly been far fewer petitions than normal (because if you can't meet in person, you can't file an I-129F)
• The above in no way is saying that USCIS is doing a good job (waiting months or years for them to do 15 minutes of work sucks, no matter where you are in process; we haven't filed Anastasia's ROC yet -- first eligible day is coming up very soon -- but it almost certainly won't be done before she files for US citizenship next year), just that the days you were looking at have fewer processed than others around them mostly by random chance or specific factors to the cases involved

I agree but I also disagree. On the website it's written that the "try" to process them by the date of the receipt. What bothers me is that we are perfectly able to classify each WAC number with a simple scraping tool, I wonder why they can't schedule a more of a fair processing. We're not talking about some cases that slow down the others, we are talking about 3 days being totally underprocessed, compared to the ones of the same months. 

 

I understand the cases are too low to do statistics. But it's not normal that 20, 23 and 29 october are way low compared to the rest of October.

 

I think that what happened to the Texas Lockbox in the end of october caused all this mess. But since we all have our receipt date, I wonder why it is so hard to follow that. And there's no way to contact them. We sent our petition back on the 6th of October. I see November filer being approved before us. Sorry if I'm frustrated. People with noa1 of 15 October, got approved, got their cases at their embassy and now have scheduled the interview by July. Again, sorry if I'm frustrated.

 

Now the processing times have shrinked and you can send an inquiry if you're before 17 November 2020. Are they serious?