March 2021 K1 I-129F filers

[Pangoleen 66]

Man, I just recently learned about the newly increased processing times, which hit me like a truck as I was still operating under the blissful assumption that the average time frame for a NOA2 was 5-8 months.

 

I genuinely hope that all March filers will get their approval within the next few weeks.

 

Definitely bummed out, but not completely hopeless (albeit kicking myself for not filing earlier). What do you think, is there any hope at all for things to pick up speed over the next few months? Or do you think they will stay just as dire? I'll take anything, secret intel about upcoming policy changes, gut feelings, scrying lol

[slavaskii 886]

12 hours ago, Pangoleen said:

Man, I just recently learned about the newly increased processing times, which hit me like a truck as I was still operating under the blissful assumption that the average time frame for a NOA2 was 5-8 months.

 

I genuinely hope that all March filers will get their approval within the next few weeks.

 

Definitely bummed out, but not completely hopeless (albeit kicking myself for not filing earlier). What do you think, is there any hope at all for things to pick up speed over the next few months? Or do you think they will stay just as dire? I'll take anything, secret intel about upcoming policy changes, gut feelings, scrying lol

I mean, the problem is that NOA2 is a guaranteed 11 month+ wait time from this week onwards; they're very unlikely to move on to April before completing March (like we saw with February filers), and with February 2022 almost over, nearly all of us left are waiting over 11 months for NOA2. April 2021 is unlikely to start until April 2022, so you can imagine how that will compound. The 9-10 month side of the estimated processing time is already long gone, I'm afraid. 

 

Now, about it picking up? Last week we did tremendously well, 400+ cases done was wonderful. Sadly, 400/week will mean that it'll take 2 full months to clear out each filing month. For things to stay as they are (i.e., 11-12 months NOA2) they'll need to process around 700-800 a week; to improve, over 1,000. That's why we follow the numbers so closely, but the numbers haven't been too kind for us until only very, very recently.

 

Good luck tomorrow, everyone 

[Re Mo 36]

I look forward to Day 351 holding onto a string hope that myself and many other early March filers are blessed with the great news of NOA2

[Mari_Justin 91]

I follow along a bit with my own tools, running the updates a couple times a day or so and its interesting I saw 6 approvals and an RFE come in today. So someone is working on a holiday.

[I129f49619 96]

1 hour ago, Mari_Justin said:

I follow along a bit with my own tools, running the updates a couple times a day or so and its interesting I saw 6 approvals and an RFE come in today. So someone is working on a holiday.

Ya I saw that too in the 65000 range. I was like oh some lucky people got approved today! 

[slavaskii 886]

1 hour ago, Mari_Justin said:

I follow along a bit with my own tools, running the updates a couple times a day or so and its interesting I saw 6 approvals and an RFE come in today. So someone is working on a holiday.

 

4 minutes ago, I129f49619 said:

Ya I saw that too in the 65000 range. I was like oh some lucky people got approved today! 

Huh, that's very interesting to see! I guess that does suggest that at least some employees are still working from home; I can't imagine commuting to the office on a holiday and being the only one there, lol. Nonetheless, congratulations to those lucky filers. 

 

Edit: the main March chart ran it on Saturday and found 9 updates on 2/19. I ran the chart myself just now and noticed 2 of those were in 640x and 3 in 645x, which were not updated at all on Friday. Very strange indeed. I'm happy that this seems quite definitive, though, that there's more attention being put on our applications. We've never, ever seen work on weekends, after-hours, or on federal holidays before. Let's hope for a great Tuesday tomorrow, everyone. Perhaps if we're very lucky, we can get over 500 done and only have <1,000 of us left  

[Pangoleen 66]

May I ask which tool you are using to track daily cases? Sorry if it's been mentioned before, I haven't been able to find it so far.

[I129f49619 96]

2 hours ago, Pangoleen said:

May I ask which tool you are using to track daily cases? Sorry if it's been mentioned before, I haven't been able to find it so far.

 @PangoleenThe app is called case tracker. But there's a Google excel sheet lemme see if I have the link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-KrCTr9vliewjQfS0omnCI7eW8IqiLPJ2US4rRtpxAE/edit

[I129f49619 96]

5 minutes ago, I129f49619 said:

 @PangoleenThe app is called case tracker. But there's a Google excel sheet lemme see if I have the link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-KrCTr9vliewjQfS0omnCI7eW8IqiLPJ2US4rRtpxAE/edit

This is just March filers FYI, the case tracker app will show you ranges of 500 in the search for other months

[Lin_linxo 0]

Hello everyone July 2021 filer here ! Checking in every now and then to get updates from you guys and hopefully get my hopes up. Just want to say that of course we all know how it feels but lets hang in there today is 2/22/22 and im not a huge believer but ill take what I can get so lets manifest nothing but positive vibes today !!!!! Good luck everyone 💙

[Pangoleen 66]

I do have the app but I can't seem to figure out how to look up cases other than my own. Sorry, still very new to this - I'm probably just blind.

[I129f49619 96]

5 minutes ago, Pangoleen said:

I do have the app but I can't seem to figure out how to look up cases other than my own. Sorry, still very new to this - I'm probably just blind.

That's ok. On the bottom if you click search then type in your case you can search up to a range of 500 other cases. Just change the range of the search. Then if you want to look at 500 below just change your search criteria

[dalindeck 390]

Back after the 3-day weekend! It appears as though some action happened yesterday as well. I'll go ahead and include those changes in today's updates.

 

The updates are structured as: February 21st Numbers / February 22nd Numbers

 

57000 - 0 / 0
57500 - 0 / 0
58000 - 0 / 0
58500 - 0 / 0
59000 - 1 Approved / 0
59500 - 0 / 0
60000 - 1 Approval / 0
60500 - 0 / 0
61000 - 0 / 0
61500 - 0 / 0
62000 - 0 / 0
62500 - 0 / 0

63000 - 0 / 0

63500 - 0 / 0

64000 - 0 / 0

64500 - 0 / 0

65000 - 0 / 3 RFEs

65500 - 2 Approvals / 0
66000 - 1 Approval, 1 RFE / 1 RFE

66500 - 1 Approval / 0

67000 - 0 / 0

67500 - 0 / 0

 

So, not entirely sure what's going on but we're looking at an abysmal 11 updates today, with 4 of those happening today. I suppose we'll see what happens by the end of the day. Curious as to what range they are tackling, or if they were shifted to prioritize something else.

[Newbie27 6]

5 minutes ago, dalindeck said:

Back after the 3-day weekend! It appears as though some action happened yesterday as well. I'll go ahead and include those changes in today's updates.

 

The updates are structured as: February 21st Numbers / February 22nd Numbers

 

57000 - 0 / 0
57500 - 0 / 0
58000 - 0 / 0
58500 - 0 / 0
59000 - 1 Approved / 0
59500 - 0 / 0
60000 - 1 Approval / 0
60500 - 0 / 0
61000 - 0 / 0
61500 - 0 / 0
62000 - 0 / 0
62500 - 0 / 0

63000 - 0 / 0

63500 - 0 / 0

64000 - 0 / 0

64500 - 0 / 0

65000 - 0 / 3 RFEs

65500 - 2 Approvals / 0
66000 - 1 Approval, 1 RFE / 1 RFE

66500 - 1 Approval / 0

67000 - 0 / 0

67500 - 0 / 0

 

So, not entirely sure what's going on but we're looking at an abysmal 11 updates today, with 4 of those happening today. I suppose we'll see what happens by the end of the day. Curious as to what range they are tackling, or if they were shifted to prioritize something else.

Thank you for doing this everyday! 

[Mari_Justin 91]

12 minutes ago, dalindeck said:

Back after the 3-day weekend! It appears as though some action happened yesterday as well. I'll go ahead and include those changes in today's updates.

 

The updates are structured as: February 21st Numbers / February 22nd Numbers

 

57000 - 0 / 0
57500 - 0 / 0
58000 - 0 / 0
58500 - 0 / 0
59000 - 1 Approved / 0
59500 - 0 / 0
60000 - 1 Approval / 0
60500 - 0 / 0
61000 - 0 / 0
61500 - 0 / 0
62000 - 0 / 0
62500 - 0 / 0

63000 - 0 / 0

63500 - 0 / 0

64000 - 0 / 0

64500 - 0 / 0

65000 - 0 / 3 RFEs

65500 - 2 Approvals / 0
66000 - 1 Approval, 1 RFE / 1 RFE

66500 - 1 Approval / 0

67000 - 0 / 0

67500 - 0 / 0

 

So, not entirely sure what's going on but we're looking at an abysmal 11 updates today, with 4 of those happening today. I suppose we'll see what happens by the end of the day. Curious as to what range they are tackling, or if they were shifted to prioritize something else.