March 2021 K1 I-129F filers

[Naeem67 16]

8 minutes ago, TheadorJohnson said:

It was through the case tracker app. Its the one with the American flag and bird seal. It told me this morning the good news.

Thank you! Im happy for you! Wish me good luck.

[slavaskii 886]

Urgent: Inquiry date moved to February 10. I-129F now takes 9 - 12 months per USCIS. Ruh-roh...

 

(appx. 23 cases looked at today so far btw, including in 625x)

Edited January 28, 2022 by slavaskii

[Fil&Em 285]

3 minutes ago, slavaskii said:

Urgent: Inquiry date moved to February 10. I-129F now takes 9 - 12 months per USCIS. Ruh-roh...

 

(appx. 23 cases looked at today so far btw, including in 625x)

I was actually wondering when this would happen. The amount of people that have been inquiring for months... They also concede this is the new normal. Although if they do not start approving more cases soon enough they will have to increase lead time again.

 

Does that mean people that had submitted inquiries before and are waiting to submit a new one, but date is after February 10 cannot do it again?

[slavaskii 886]

19 minutes ago, Fillipe said:

I was actually wondering when this would happen. The amount of people that have been inquiring for months... They also concede this is the new normal. Although if they do not start approving more cases soon enough they will have to increase lead time again.

 

Does that mean people that had submitted inquiries before and are waiting to submit a new one, but date is after February 10 cannot do it again?

Correct, all March filers are locked out from doing so. In a way, this is arguably good - USCIS shouldn't be *only* approving people that are outside normal processing time (as has happened for 3-4 months now). In that case, normal processing time isn't anything at all. I've said for a long time now reality is 10-12 months, and this reflects that.

 

Second thing, is that it keeps people working on cases rather than having to keep responding to inquiries. I'm not sure if someone has the specific job of responding to inquiries or something, but honestly, you have to assume around 50 K1 filers a day were filing inquiries. That's incredible work, especially considering that the answers to 99% of those would be "no update."

 

Lastly - we need to keep the inquiries reserved for people who actually need them. We know they're working on mid-March now, and clearly aren't going to stop doing that anytime soon. But if you're a February filer, and are getting the same treatment as someone from late-March, that shouldn't be fair. We ourselves are very much aware of where USCIS is working. I feel awful for February (and January) filers who aren't getting the attention they need. This update, even if automatic, shows that there's severe problems that will hopefully soon get addressed. I feel that it's more than a coincidence we "finally" got this expected update a few days after Ombudsman said they were working to address "systemic issues with certain forms."

 

I fully believe they're investigating the I-129F problems and this is, maybe, the first step in that. Make sure you get your I-129F questions into the Q&A before it closes soon.

[slavaskii 886]

Good luck today, troops! When I remember this message, we seem to have a good day lol. Here’s hoping!

[Juan&Rocio 44]

Good Luck to everyone this week ! Lets hope for another 250 lucky ones and a month to finally get us all through!!

[keickhoff 104]

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[slavaskii 886]

Okay I pray, I pray with all I have, this is not a glitch - but as of 11:41 California time, there are 19 new updates for 620x alone. These are the March 11 filers. This came out of nowhere; we had like 3 approvals for most of the morning. 

 

Edit: 5 in 625x

Edited January 31, 2022 by slavaskii

[Re Mo 36]

3 minutes ago, slavaskii said:

Okay I pray, I pray with all I have, this is not a glitch - but as of 11:41 California time, there are 19 new updates for 620x alone. These are the March 11 filers. This came out of nowhere; we had like 3 approvals for most of the morning. 

 

Edit: 5 in 625x

Great!👏🏼 and mind boggling 😵‍💫 news being a March 8th 635x peep.

Thanks for the heads up 👍🏽

[Naeem67 16]

18 minutes ago, Re Mo said:

Great!👏🏼 and mind boggling 😵‍💫 news being a March 8th 635x peep.

Thanks for the heads up 👍🏽

I have a question: Isn't 635x as the last 5 digits of the case? Mine is 616x and i am march 10th. How does thatvwork?

[dalindeck 390]

1 minute ago, Naeem67 said:

I have a question: Isn't 635x as the last 5 digits of the case? Mine is 616x and i am march 10th. How does thatvwork?

Correct, 635xxx which is mid-March cases.

There's not really any logic or reasoning to the order that cases are processed in. My assumption is that certain people take certain stacks of cases and work through them, and some get through their stacks faster than others.

My NOA1 is March 4th and I am still waiting.

[Naeem67 16]

9 minutes ago, dalindeck said:

Correct, 635xxx which is mid-March cases.

There's not really any logic or reasoning to the order that cases are processed in. My assumption is that certain people take certain stacks of cases and work through them, and some get through their stacks faster than others.

My NOA1 is March 4th and I am still waiting.

It could be that is the case. Good luck to you and good luck to all of us.

[dalindeck 390]

On my lunch break so checking in on our favorite March case ranges (57000-62500) ~~

57000 - 0
57500 - 0
58000 - 0
58500 - 1 Approval
59000 - 0
59500 - 0
60000 - 1 Approval, 5 RFEs
60500 - 0
61000 - 0
61500 - 4  Approvals
62000 - 15 Approvals, 3 RFEs
62500 - 5 Approvals

After running these cases, I decided to check a little bit past the usual "wall" since they seem to be favoring mid-March now over early-March to see if anything is happening there:

63000 - 0
63500 - 0
 

Total updates today, we're looking at 34. Curious to see how these numbers change tonight once the office closes.

These numbers are promising for those in mid-March, but I do want to throw out a warning to those in that group who are getting excited -- do so, but cautiously.

As a March 4th NOA1, I got excited when I saw cases around mine being processed, and was hopeful for the 4 weeks that it happened, but now they have moved past my group with a handful of people still untouched.

They seem to like to process 50% - 75% of a group before moving on to a new group and leaving the rest hanging for seemingly forever (a bit hyperbolic, haha).

[TheJs 34]

14 minutes ago, dalindeck said:

 

As a March 4th NOA1, I got excited when I saw cases around mine being processed, and was hopeful for the 4 weeks that it happened, but now they have moved past my group with a handful of people still untouched.
 

Same here as a 61xxx applicant, seems like they’ve moved on from hitting that range heavily and mine was one of the only ones in a large chunk of the range that wasn’t approved. I get why they do it the way they do but it’s still so frustrating, and I can’t even imagine how it must feel for some people left behind from January and February. 

[dalindeck 390]

1 minute ago, TheJs said:

Same here as a 61xxx applicant, seems like they’ve moved on from hitting that range heavily and mine was one of the only ones in a large chunk of the range that wasn’t approved. I get why they do it the way they do but it’s still so frustrating, and I can’t even imagine how it must feel for some people left behind from January and February. 

I feel really bad for those in the January/February blocks. There was a January case today from (looking at those around it) around the 26th or so that finally got updated and it was a denial. I would be absolutely devastated if I waited over a year and ended up with that.