February 2021 K1 Filers

[Gail and Derrick 270]

Friday morning (October 22) update.

 

Holding steady at about 30 per day this week. At this rate, it'll take 56 days to clear the rest of the month. I know they had done a few in March in one lucky WAC range but I don't think they're really into March yet. And it sounds like there's not much happening in January even though they still have a lot that haven't been done yet so I have no idea what's slowing them down. 

 

We're now at 35% processed/in processing (approved, withdrawn, denied, or RFEd) so it's up ~4% from Tuesday. 

 

Spreadsheet

[Abhik30 16]

4 hours ago, daddybella said:

How do u submit your case inquiry ..thanks 

Processing time

 

this link right here. Just select I129F and your service center. They’ll have an option for the request. 
 

but as you can see from many posts here that mostly everyone is getting a generic answer. 

[Benny4352 90]

Just been nosey on the USCIS website and found this! Just shows how much the pandemic has messed things up

 

If we all applied for I-129F 4 years ago it would have been looked at in 3.6 months! What I would do for those processing times now.....

[slavaskii 886]

45 minutes ago, Gail and Derrick said:

Friday morning (October 22) update.

 

Holding steady at about 30 per day this week. At this rate, it'll take 56 days to clear the rest of the month. I know they had done a few in March in one lucky WAC range but I don't think they're really into March yet. And it sounds like there's not much happening in January even though they still have a lot that haven't been done yet so I have no idea what's slowing them down. 

 

We're now at 35% processed/in processing (approved, withdrawn, denied, or RFEd) so it's up ~4% from Tuesday. 

 

Spreadsheet

Interesting that they grabbed a random batch in March, perhaps they’re insistent on keeping the processing dates 6-8 months on the website? I figured they’d push the inquiry date back to account for the low February numbers, but perhaps not. Thank you for your diligence! Do you know which numbers were in the ‘lucky March group’?

[Gail and Derrick 270]

27 minutes ago, slavaskii said:

Interesting that they grabbed a random batch in March, perhaps they’re insistent on keeping the processing dates 6-8 months on the website? I figured they’d push the inquiry date back to account for the low February numbers, but perhaps not. Thank you for your diligence! Do you know which numbers were in the ‘lucky March group’?

They did the same for Feb back in January. And for January back in December! It was mostly Feb 25 for us that got looked at well ahead of schedule. I think the March magic batch is 77000 but you can check on that thread for verification. And yeah, it seems to be a way for them to say the processing times are within 6–8 months. 

[daddybella 8]

2 hours ago, Abhik30 said:

Processing time

 

this link right here. Just select I129F and your service center. They’ll have an option for the request. 
 

but as you can see from many posts here that mostly everyone is getting a generic answer. 

Thanks

[lastrose 60]

After 253 days, finally got approval today! I was starting to think we never would. Woohoo - on to the next step!

[Benny4352 90]

2 minutes ago, lastrose said:

After 253 days, finally got approval today! I was starting to think we never would. Woohoo - on to the next step!

Congratualtions!!!! Great to see some movement for people!  

 

[Gail and Derrick 270]

7 minutes ago, lastrose said:

After 253 days, finally got approval today! I was starting to think we never would. Woohoo - on to the next step!

Awesome news! Congratulations!!

[MysticFalls 21]

13 hours ago, lastrose said:

After 253 days, finally got approval today! I was starting to think we never would. Woohoo - on to the next step!

Wonderful  Congrats ! You deserve it 🎉

[Benny4352 90]

I have now added a cases processed per day chart, with a moving average of 2 days, to the spreadsheet using the data we keep up to date.

 

Thought it would be interesting to see the data on it. Seems to have been moving at a steady state. One thing to remember is that as observed some cases are having their approved date updated to a couple of days later so it may skew the data somewhat so take these figures with a pinch of salt. Also these cases are Feb only cases so doesnt include cases from Jan or March that get processed.

 

 

Edit: Just realised the moving averages is wrong lol so ignore that for now

Edited October 23, 2021 by Benny4352

[Clairebear 3]

4 hours ago, Benny4352 said:

I have now added a cases processed per day chart, with a moving average of 2 days, to the spreadsheet using the data we keep up to date.

 

Thought it would be interesting to see the data on it. Seems to have been moving at a steady state. One thing to remember is that as observed some cases are having their approved date updated to a couple of days later so it may skew the data somewhat so take these figures with a pinch of salt. Also these cases are Feb only cases so doesnt include cases from Jan or March that get processed.

 

 

Edit: Just realised the moving averages is wrong lol so ignore that for now

Thanks for the information!

What happened there, why is it so slow now? Is it because of Covid or vaccination? 😥

[RJones 4]

6 hours ago, Benny4352 said:

 

I wonder how many cases they used to process per day for the Dec/Jan cases

[Benny4352 90]

7 hours ago, Clairebear said:

Thanks for the information!

What happened there, why is it so slow now? Is it because of Covid or vaccination? 😥

Yea I kninda messed it up, the lastest cases are on the left instead of the right so it looks like has time as gone on its gotten worse.

This morning i fixed it to make it look easier to read and got the average working as well so now you can see it reads oldest date on the left and latest day on the right. Hope this clears the confusion up a little!

 

 

Edited October 24, 2021 by Benny4352

[Gail and Derrick 270]

3 hours ago, Benny4352 said:

This morning i fixed it to make it look easier to read and got the average working as well so now you can see it reads oldest date on the left and latest day on the right. Hope this clears the confusion up a little!

 

This is awesome Benny! I had kinda been eyeballing it, but seeing it laid out is interesting. For example, it feels like they've slowed way down but in actual fact they've been processing more consistently in the last week or so. Even so, an average of ~30 per day isn't going to cut it. 

 

And that spike on 9/28 is when I got my NOA2. Need a lot more days like that.