Why are NOA1s not being processed?

[stag 51]

Will NOA1 notification come as an email and/or text first? (I sent the form for that notification). Also I guess it's best to be monitoring the credit card account for when the money will be charged, since I believe that would be the first sign. 

[igoyougoduke 1,656]

20 hours ago, BreeMB said:

It appears there have been no NOA1 receipt notices received by I-129F applicants since mid-December. I am one of the people that haven't received my NOA1 (packet received by lockbox on 13th Nov). Does anyone know whether they are actually processing the K1s right now? I don't understand how it could possibly take SO long even if there is an influx of applications. It's getting really frustrating. 

About 2-3 million from India filed for Adjustment of Status applications in October and November + Covid social distances = unlimited delay. 

[Charlie_SK 4]

2 hours ago, igoyougoduke said:

About 2-3 million from India filed for Adjustment of Status applications in October and November + Covid social distances = unlimited delay. 

Where is this info from?

[igoyougoduke 1,656]

16 minutes ago, BreeMB said:

Where is this info from?

just look at the priority dates movement for India for the month of October/ November .  plus i know some one who works at USCIS. 

[yvonme 124]

23 hours ago, BreeMB said:

It appears there have been no NOA1 receipt notices received by I-129F applicants since mid-December. I am one of the people that haven't received my NOA1 (packet received by lockbox on 13th Nov). Does anyone know whether they are actually processing the K1s right now? I don't understand how it could possibly take SO long even if there is an influx of applications. It's getting really frustrating. 

I noticed the same. Right after I submitted mine in Sept there were members in November stating the same issue. You’ll probably be spammed for not researching more in the site. Don’t worry. We all seem pretty frustrated. I hope all goes well fellow Australia timeline! 

[Charlie_SK 4]

19 hours ago, ryvfader said:

I'm using an application to batch query WAC numbers as they are issued then picking out the new I-129Fs. 

 

 

 

Very likely this was my post

Though I'll note the entire post is assumative based on information posted from the Lockbox that the delays will not affect the receipt date of files, and historical situations where they also specified that Lockbox delivery dates would be honored. Also all the NOA-1 receipt notices I'm reading follow the same trend that the notice is written as if the I-129F was processed without delays. For example one from today uses the following verbiage "On October 30, 2020, we received your form I-129F...if you do not receive your receipt by November 29, 2020, contact the USCIS Contact Center...". So this was processed today, but they are giving the receipt date from when it was delivered to the Lockbox in October, not even changing the deadline date. My hopeful thinking based on their verbiage is that you could still expect an adjudication in July based on current timelines even though it was not processed at the Lockbox until January since the adjudication backlog is so long right now even with background checks it still has time to find it's place in the rough chronological order of delivery for adjudication within the current USCIS timeline as if it was processed at the Lockbox in October without any NOA-1 delays. Basically you can still keep some faith in the USCIS estimated timelines based on your delivery month rather than whatever month our NOA-1s end up getting issued. Again, entirely speculative/assumative on this, but logically it's making sense to me and that leaves me with some hope. 

 

Though I think it's safe to say if your initial payment has not been charged and you have no NOA-1 then your I-129F is definitely not being adjudicated yet, since contacting USCIS shows they have no case existing in the system under your identifiers and March-May NOA-1's are still being adjudicated as of now leaving a minimum of five additonal months of adjudications before ours. Apologies if my initial post or this post is confusing, I'll blame the American education system. 

How are you finding the WAC numbers that are being issued? Where is this information/data?

[yvonme 124]

2 hours ago, igoyougoduke said:

About 2-3 million from India filed for Adjustment of Status applications in October and November + Covid social distances = unlimited delay. 

Wow!! Well, that I’m sure includes various of visas that requires AOS. What a number. For K-1’s my SO and I thought, well who’s really “meeting right now?” Guess a lot of people 🤣

[yvonme 124]

7 minutes ago, BreeMB said:

How are you finding the WAC numbers that are being issued? Where is this information/data?

Lol at American education system. Okayyy

[ryvfader 45]

14 minutes ago, BreeMB said:

How are you finding the WAC numbers that are being issued? Where is this information/data?

They seem to be entered in numerical order for new cases being entered with a fiscal year and catch all date identifier.

 

For example WAC219002XXXX is where i'm seeing cases entered in right now. I initially found it through trial and error searching WAC number ranges in a batch query tool. 

 

WAC: California Service Center

21: Fiscal Year

900: Not sure what specifically this pertains to, it threw me off because some other forms will use a julian date format for the workday day the case was entered. However I-129F's and some other seem to just fall under the "900" catch all. It wasn't until I looked at some WAC numbers posted by others on this forum that I realized this. 

2XXXX: Just the case number, FY21 started off at XXXX1 and increases numerically with each case as it's added. 

 

It's entirely possible that there is another number area they are issuing NOA-1s, but I havn't been able to find them as of yet. 

 

Also my hopes that NOA-1 rates increased today based on most NOA-1s issued from November-Christmas being on Thursdays and Fridays was wrong, counting 3 new NOA-1s today ranging from 30 November - 29 December. 

[SalishSea 17,834]

3 hours ago, igoyougoduke said:

About 2-3 million from India filed for Adjustment of Status applications in October and November + Covid social distances = unlimited delay. 

This thread isn't even about adjustment of status.  AOS applications are also not adjudicated at the same USCIS service centers as I-129F petitions.

[Charlie_SK 4]

3 hours ago, Jorgedig said:

This thread isn't even about adjustment of status.  AOS applications are also not adjudicated at the same USCIS service centers as I-129F petitions.

But maybe the AOS applications are first sent to USCIS lock box like i-129F is.

[igoyougoduke 1,656]

13 hours ago, BreeMB said:

How are you finding the WAC numbers that are being issued? Where is this information/data?

number sequence is numeric 

 

WAC is standard for all applications that are for california service center

 

Next 3 digits are sequence for quarters. Every october it starts with 900,901,902,903,904,905,906,907..... + 1 increments once they run out  

 

Next 5 digits are individual application numbers that run from 00001 to 99999 for each of the above series

 

so starting october 2020 the number sequence is like below

 

WAC2190000001 to WAC2190099999  ( MOSTLY for filing between october 1st to Dec 31st)

WAC2190100001 to WAC2190199999  ( MOSTLY for filing between Jan  1st to Mar  31st)

WAC2190200001 to WAC2190299999  ( MOSTLY for filing between Apr  1st to Jun 31st)

WAC2190300001 to WAC2190399999  ( MOSTLY for filing between  Jul  1st to Sep 31st)

WAC2190400001 to WAC2190499999  ( MOSTLY as an add on when they have more applicants )

WAC2190500001 to WAC2190599999  ( MOSTLY as an add on when they have more applicants )

WAC2190600001 to WAC2190699999  ( MOSTLY as an add on when they have more applicants )

WAC2190700001 to WAC2190799999  ( MOSTLY as an add on when they have more applicants )

[SalishSea 17,834]

14 hours ago, BreeMB said:

But maybe the AOS applications are first sent to USCIS lock box like i-129F is.

Nope.  Totally different filing lockboxes.

[ryvfader 45]

7 hours ago, igoyougoduke said:

WAC2190000001 to WAC2190099999  ( MOSTLY for filing between october 1st to Dec 31st)

WAC2190100001 to WAC2190199999  ( MOSTLY for filing between Jan  1st to Mar  31st)

Are you sure on this? I've been catching the Jan 1st - Current filings still falling under the WAC 21 900 2XXXX queries still. 

 

  

21 hours ago, BreeMB said:

How are you finding the WAC numbers that are being issued? Where is this information/data?

I'm aggregating it using batch queries for receipt numbers, since they are entered numerically as items are inprocessed at the lockbox I can generally just search for cases higher numerically than the last entered each day. 

Edited January 16, 2021 by ryvfader

[igoyougoduke 1,656]

21 minutes ago, ryvfader said:

Are you sure on this? I've been catching the Jan 1st - Current filings still falling under the WAC 21 900 2XXXX queries still. 

 

  

I'm aggregating it using batch queries for receipt numbers, since they are entered numerically as items are inprocessed at the lockbox I can generally just search for cases higher numerically than the last entered each day. 

There is no strict defined ruled here 

 

On October 1st they start with WAC21900XXXXX where xxxx  ranges from 00001 to 99,999

once they run out at 99,999 than they move on to WAC21901xxxx and than WAC21902xxxxx.