Ridiculous K1 Processing Times (Trump?)

[JeanneAdil 6,510]

3 minutes ago, Boiler said:

K1 is an odd choice for Lagos.

yep  CR1 much better

 

[Just Paul 4,595]

Based on your timeline you are at the USCIS and they are still processing as normal.  Meaning it is hard to tell what the workflow really is at.

 

1 hour ago, KrissyEkwerike said:

People are working at these embassies but are literally doing nothing.

It isn't the foreign service officers.   Many of them are still stateside.

Edited November 11, 2020 by Paul & Mary

[ashley_ann 179]

I know this is crazy but... not everything is Trumps fault. 🤷🏼‍♀️ You just started this process hang on for a bumpy ride. 

[Duke & Marie 1,389]

Honestly can’t wait for you to start the AOS process... if you think it’s slow now your gunna have a whole heap of fun when you get to the next stage.. 

 

patience is the key, some of us have been at this 2+ years and still no green card or EAD

[Lucky2Lucky 2,526]

Unless you are working at the embassy you don't know that they are "literally doing nothing". Global health pandemic. 

[J&A1234 181]

41 minutes ago, Luckycuds said:

Unless you are working at the embassy you don't know that they are "literally doing nothing". Global health pandemic. 

I don’t even think it’s that they’re doing nothing, I think they’re just super understaffed overall at the embassy level.

[Ikhan 49]

I mean trump's 'extreme vetting' policies have added significant delays to the immigration process. Since USCIS is a vetting agency, it also makes sense their processing time has increased. Look at the statistics, wait time/processing time has increased quite a lot while trump has been president compared to previous presidents.

 

Ultimately i think USCIS is just mismanaged; they need better leaders. They inherited a surplus at the beginning of trump's presidency but because of their inefficient vetting process and overhiring they are in a bad spot. It sucks because the people suffer. 

[Just Paul 4,595]

Just now, Ikhan said:

I mean trump's 'extreme vetting' policies have added significant delays to the immigration process. Since USCIS is a vetting agency, it also makes sense their processing time has increased.

USCIS doesn't vet the beneficiary unless they have been in the US prior.  USCIS is self funded and never had enough money incoming from user fees to over the necessary staffing.  This goes back to before 2010.

 

 

 

 

[Just Paul 4,595]

8 minutes ago, J&A1234 said:

I think they’re just super understaffed overall at the embassy level.

COVID is still an issue and no one is being forced to go back to consulates.  And few are volunteering.

[Boiler 45,525]

6 minutes ago, Ikhan said:

I mean trump's 'extreme vetting' policies have added significant delays to the immigration process. Since USCIS is a vetting agency, it also makes sense their processing time has increased. Look at the statistics, wait time/processing time has increased quite a lot while trump has been president compared to previous presidents.

 

Ultimately i think USCIS is just mismanaged; they need better leaders. They inherited a surplus at the beginning of trump's presidency but because of their inefficient vetting process and overhiring they are in a bad spot. It sucks because the people suffer. 

So why was it so long under Obama?

[Just Paul 4,595]

3 minutes ago, Boiler said:

So why was it so long under Obama?

I know under GHWB was "fast".     USCIS K/CR/IR petitions are pretty much running a checklist in about a half and hour.

[African Zealot 1,455]

Trump allegedly is a dotard. He is capable of any malevolent self serving and action. I am pretty sure he is not directly responsible for this although he is indirectly responsible because his policies slowed down virtually all immigration processes.

 

After all North Korea's foreign ministry (which is highly credible) said Mr. Trump  "must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard". I didn't say it. 🤣😂🤣

[African Zealot 1,455]

30 minutes ago, Boiler said:

So why was it so long under Obama?

It got even longer under the Drumpf!

[PWB 213]

Frustration does not mean you have no right to believe something evil is going on.  The USEM has played every game possible to not  issue our Visa.  Multiple Medicals, Multiple Sputum Test, Lost NBI but the crowning blow was she completed the physical and 3rd sputum test, which of course was negative, mailed the passport back to USEM along with updated NBI and Cenomar on 3 November 2020 and I backed all that up with an email to USEM and they acknowledged that they had everything to include the new medical and instead of processing visa the embassy returned her passport on November 10th with a 221g saying she had to have new physical.  How much of this are you supposed to take?  Either the staff in Manila is incompetent or they are operating with a mandate to not process k1 visa's.  For all you old gold star members try to understand what is being done to us.

[JFH 12,190]

11 minutes ago, PWB said:

For all you old gold star members try to understand what is being done to us.

The “old” gold star members have reached that level here because they have been in the process a long time. You’re preaching to the choir here about frustrations and long waits in this process. Some of us on this thread went through denials, having to star out all over again,  AP that dragged on for a year or more, and then there were the times when a straightforward CR-1 spouse visa took upwards of 3 years to process. 
 

And it doesn’t stop when we get here. I’m in month 15 of waiting for my N-400 to be approved. And apparently I have at least another 2 months to wait. And I’ve already been “thoroughly vetted” by the government to get here in the first place. The N-400 should be a pure rubber-stamping process.  

Edited November 11, 2020 by JFH