NOVEMBER 2020 I-129F K-1 FILERS

[kogu 11]

1 hour ago, J&D1008 said:

Ohh okay!! Yes most of these people received notices in February. But then what about the October filers. It still doesn’t make sense to skip them? And do you mean NOA-1 or NOA-2? Still we knew from USCIS that the lockbox  delay would not affect the NOA-1 and that that the notice date was irrelevant but to count the received date as the NOA-1. I filed in January and didn’t receive my notice until March. Still I knew that my NOA-1 was January not March. 

Agreed, makes no sense at all that they skipped a large portion of the September filers and basically all of October. And yep, I meant NOA1 in my first sentence. While the lockbox said they would base it off the received date, November filers had the situation where probably 15-20% of people got their NOA-1 within a month and the rest got theirs 3 months later, so given that none of us have any clue how they allocate the batches of cases to the reviewers,  there was uncertainty when it came to the real world of whether they would come across a stack of cases from December first over those received in February. At the end of the day, it makes no sense that Nov filers for specific days are getting the NOA2 already so the whole idea that there’s a hard rule that it’s based off received date is thrown out the window anyways!

[J&D1008 376]

1 minute ago, kogu said:

Agreed, makes no sense at all that they skipped a large portion of the September filers and basically all of October. And yep, I meant NOA1 in my first sentence. While the lockbox said they would base it off the received date, November filers had the situation where probably 15-20% of people got their NOA-1 within a month and the rest got theirs 3 months later, so given that none of us have any clue how they allocate the batches of cases to the reviewers,  there was uncertainty when it came to the real world of whether they would come across a stack of cases from December first over those received in February. At the end of the day, it makes no sense that Nov filers for specific days are getting the NOA2 already so the whole idea that there’s a hard rule that it’s based off received date is thrown out the window anyways!

Agreed!!! Just hope everything keeps moving at lightening speed lol 

[Lu & Ni 30]

All of this is so confusing🥲

I hope we all are in the upcoming batches and get approved asap lol 

[hedgemaze 49]

Uh wow, I checked my case status today for the heck of it, and it says our case was approved yesterday and a notice has been sent. I was a Nov 12 received date too.

 

This feels unreal; I wasn't expecting this until June-July. I hope everyone else gets theirs soon as well.

Edited April 1, 2021 by hedgemaze

[Lu & Ni 30]

23 minutes ago, hedgemaze said:

Uh wow, I checked my case status today for the heck of it, and it says our case was approved yesterday and a notice has been sent. I was a Nov 12 received date too.

 

This feels unreal; I wasn't expecting this until June-July. I hope everyone else gets theirs soon as well.

Congratulations! Go get that visa for your fiancé 🙌

[Navis Chra 6]

27 minutes ago, hedgemaze said:

Uh wow, I checked my case status today for the heck of it, and it says our case was approved yesterday and a notice has been sent. I was a Nov 12 received date too.

 

This feels unreal; I wasn't expecting this until June-July. I hope everyone else gets theirs soon as well.

That's awesome!! Congrats.  Hopefully the montreal consulate picks up their game quickly as well. Keeping my fingers crossed for mine to go through soon. I cant stand the need to book these government issued hotels in order to see my fiance. 

[J&J2021 25]

50 minutes ago, hedgemaze said:

Uh wow, I checked my case status today for the heck of it, and it says our case was approved yesterday and a notice has been sent. I was a Nov 12 received date too.

 

This feels unreal; I wasn't expecting this until June-July. I hope everyone else gets theirs soon as well.

Oh wow that's great news and well congratulations on another step closer in the journey. I hope they jump around some more hahaha I was a late November filer but I won't get too hopeful since I know there are plenty of people from October that have yet to receive a NOA2. So I will patiently continue to wait 😎

Edited April 1, 2021 by J&J2021

[Lu & Ni 30]

16 hours ago, J&D1008 said:

Ohh okay!! Yes most of these people received notices in February. But then what about the October filers. It still doesn’t make sense to skip them? And do you mean NOA-1 or NOA-2? Still we knew from USCIS that the lockbox  delay would not affect the NOA-1 and that that the notice date was irrelevant but to count the received date as the NOA-1. I filed in January and didn’t receive my notice until March. Still I knew that my NOA-1 was January not March. 

My received date is Nov 3 but they charged my card on Feb 1. I had a problem with my address so they had to resend the notice paper twice at the beginning of March. Do you think receiving the document on March would make any difference on how my case would be processed? 

I contacted the live agent through Emma when the problem arised and they said I was updated but my case status continues to say that they returned my notice (I already received it though) 

I'm getting so frustrated 😅

[vbj 13]

1 hour ago, hedgemaze said:

Uh wow, I checked my case status today for the heck of it, and it says our case was approved yesterday and a notice has been sent. I was a Nov 12 received date too.

 

This feels unreal; I wasn't expecting this until June-July. I hope everyone else gets theirs soon as well.

Congrats!

[Juanpa & Ari 8]

On 4/1/2021 at 12:54 PM, hedgemaze said:

Uh wow, I checked my case status today for the heck of it, and it says our case was approved yesterday and a notice has been sent. I was a Nov 12 received date too.

 

This feels unreal; I wasn't expecting this until June-July. I hope everyone else gets theirs soon as well.

Congrats! I must admit I am a little jealous since our NOA1 is Nov 10 hahaha

 

Nothing else to do than keep waiting and be patient. Hopefully this journey is shorter than we expect. 

[NeonParticles 126]

Wow!  My received date is Nov 12 as well, would be a really nice surprise to see that update.  

[love4theraza 1]

Quick question guys, i sent my packet to the texas lockbox, since im down the street from it, and i got my NOA1 with a California address, i also check for time frame on the USCIS site and for k1 in the Texas service center it shows nothing, are the cases being handled in the California service center?

[Vamp.nz 23]

Yes, Texas is only a lockbox for receiving petitions. 

california is generally the one that looks after

k-1’s 

[love4theraza 1]

2 minutes ago, Vamp.nz said:

Yes, Texas is only a lockbox for receiving petitions. 

california is generally the one that looks after

k-1’s 

Thanks for the quick answer, my mind is at ease now.

[Arsalan111 28]

On 3/31/2021 at 10:04 PM, kogu said:

There’s a handful of I-129F from the mid November receipt date timeframe that have been approved the past couple days if scanning through some case ranges. I think these are for the WAC’s where “Notice Date” was in mid December so this is going to be an interesting test of whether the delay in the NOA1 for many folks impacts when your case gets reviewed because they might be going off the WAC number rather than the received date. 

Most November filers got their NOA1 in February. I also noticed one more thing is that mostly November 12th filers are getting NOA2. It’s bizzare