APRIL 2021 I-129F K-1 FILERS

[DSBeijing 303]

1 hour ago, MeG@Am said:

EXACTLY!!! 

I'm from the Philippines.  It's a 3rd-world country.  But we (Philippines - cuz I'm still a Filipino) are catching up.  I mean, it's not perfect, but I can tell you, it's better than our (US - cuz I'm also an American) current situation.  Yes, definitely not covid.  Maybe, they will blame.... PUTIN????  Regardless, it's just RIDICULOUS!!!  

I went through all the process from working visa, to immigrant, to citizenship over the last 15 years.  The only delay in the process is because I was slacking.  My company's been bugging me to give all the docs to apply for immigrant then citizenship.  But the processing is far better than now.  

I work in the healthcare field, it makes me feel jealous for those who can work at home, that way I can maybe take a longer vacation and be with my fiancé a lot longer than just few days.  😒

I always find it funny when Westerners (EU and USA) come to China:D. In many cases they think of is like it was in 1990, but in reality China is in many areas light years infornt of both EU and USA, especially anything related to digitalization, or other IT topic (example i have not used paper money for last 3 years, since everything can de done digitally, Submitting my residence permit also online, i get it finished in 5 days).

 

When they(Europeans and Americans) see Shanghai, they cannot believe, because Shanghai has no equal either in US or Europe (NYC and LA look like stuck in 1980 compared to Shanghai).

 

And I am saying this European who lived in all three places. So if you ask, why are you going to US if it is so great in China, only due to personal reasons, my fiance/wife wants to be close to her old grandparents in their last years and then to see her get married.

 

Crazy is that we started this process 3 of her Grandparents were alive, 4 Months ago, one of them died, today i jost got the news second grandparent died, now there is only one is left alive. We hope that at least he will survive long enough to see her get married...

She is devastated

[wenweichang 22]

3 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

It is actually extremely bad look for USA, since honestly i thought this was advanced country. 

 

I am foreigner living in China, and here everything is digitized thus all government business is super fast, and delays are minimal. 

Looking to US now, I am honestly starting to ask myself are we(my fiance and I - she is American) really making the right choice should we stay in China(she would come back to China)?!?

If the immigration is this broken in land of immigrants, what else is f*cked beyond repair?!?

I think we can all agree the delays aren’t caused by backlogs or previous administration or the filing method. It is a choice made by USCIS that they no longer prioritise k visa so they reallocated the manpower to other categories since the newly appointed agency director is onboard. The number of reviewed cases went down as the number of pending cases went up. However, USCIS will never disclose any of the information to public, i just hope they can pick up the speed so the rest of the filers will not suffer as much as we do. 

 

Edited April 8, 2022 by wenweichang

[DSBeijing 303]

15 minutes ago, wenweichang said:

I think we can all agree the delays aren’t caused by backlogs or previous administration or the filing method. It is a choice made by USCIS that they no longer prioritise k visa so they reallocated the manpower to other categories since the newly appointed agency director is onboard. The number of reviewed cases went down as the number of pending cases went up. However, USCIS will never disclose any of the information to public, i just hope they can pick up the speed so the rest of the filers will not suffer as much as we do. 

 

K1 is not only visa affected by slowdown. 

Check other forums, every single visa type is having same issues, EAD, CR1 and others.

And if you are Indian or Chinese (Mainland) forget about getting green card, since there have been reported cases with wait time estimation of not years but decades 

There are reports of Indian doctors working in USA loosing Jobs due to slowdown in EADs.

[S I A N 98]

1 hour ago, DSBeijing said:

I always find it funny when Westerners (EU and USA) come to China:D. In many cases they think of is like it was in 1990, but in reality China is in many areas light years infornt of both EU and USA, especially anything related to digitalization, or other IT topic (example i have not used paper money for last 3 years, since everything can de done digitally, Submitting my residence permit also online, i get it finished in 5 days).

 

When they(Europeans and Americans) see Shanghai, they cannot believe, because Shanghai has no equal either in US or Europe (NYC and LA look like stuck in 1980 compared to Shanghai).

 

And I am saying this European who lived in all three places. So if you ask, why are you going to US if it is so great in China, only due to personal reasons, my fiance/wife wants to be close to her old grandparents in their last years and then to see her get married.

 

Crazy is that we started this process 3 of her Grandparents were alive, 4 Months ago, one of them died, today i jost got the news second grandparent died, now there is only one is left alive. We hope that at least he will survive long enough to see her get married...

She is devastated

Sorry to hear that! Fingers crossed that he will survive to see his grand baby get married!

 

On another note, my cousin lived in China for 5 years teaching English to students. Upon returning, I thought he’d be ecstatic to return home (US) to be with all his loved ones. To my dismay, he no longer likes it here. He says it’s slow here. Wasn’t sure what that meant, but your explanation breaks it down for me… I’d like to visit China to see for myself.

[wenweichang 22]

26 minutes ago, DSBeijing said:

K1 is not only visa affected by slowdown. 

Check other forums, every single visa type is having same issues, EAD, CR1 and others.

And if you are Indian or Chinese (Mainland) forget about getting green card, since there have been reported cases with wait time estimation of not years but decades 

There are reports of Indian doctors working in USA loosing Jobs due to slowdown in EADs.

I’m fully aware of the fact that K visa is not the only visa reporting delays but I do find CR1 visa review time has been reduced substantially since review time of k1 went the other way. For k1, weekly reviewed cases went from approximately 500 to less than 250. But little did I know, I would have chosen spouse visa over K1.

 

GC is another thing we gotta face after we file for AOS. It’s going to be a long journey but I already feel drained. Best of luck to all my fellow April filers, hope to see your approvals soon. 

 

[DSBeijing 303]

8 minutes ago, wenweichang said:

I’m fully aware of the fact that K visa is not the only visa reporting delays but I do find CR1 visa review time has been reduced substantially since review time of k1 went the other way. For k1, weekly reviewed cases went from approximately 500 to less than 250. But little did I know, I would have chosen spouse visa over K1.

 

GC is another thing we gotta face after we file for AOS. It’s going to be a long journey but I already feel drained. Best of luck to all my fellow April filers, hope to see your approvals soon. 

 

CR-1 (I-130) hasn't improved at all, it went from (10.2 Months to 9.7), this improvement came after same slump k1 had, so for me this "improvment" is more like statistical. 

One of the reasons for improvement is, that there have simply been less CR-1, since they are processing early 2021, and travel restrictions were still in place. And people simply could not get married to submit CR-1 (my fiance and I are in that boat, we planned wedding for February 2020, then February 2021, but due to travel restrictions, we decided to go with K1)

 

Only thing that CR-1 is better, is that it comes with green card and it is cheeper. It is not necessary faster.

 

Here is the overview of historical processing times.

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt

[Edward&Lily 29]

From UK here and seriously thinking why didn’t we try and move here together as I just feel US has more opportunities and better life but now I’m not so sure 😕 

 

does anyone think us April filers will have visa by end of this yea for do you think it’ll be more like 2023??? 😔😔😔

[lidiahxo 32]

6 minutes ago, Edward&Lily said:

From UK here and seriously thinking why didn’t we try and move here together as I just feel US has more opportunities and better life but now I’m not so sure 😕 

 

does anyone think us April filers will have visa by end of this yea for do you think it’ll be more like 2023??? 😔😔😔

God I seriously hope it’s this year 😭😭 last May I booked a wedding venue for July 2022 thinking for SURE the process would finish in a year and 3 months… ha. Now I’m scared to change the date to 2023 so I’m faced with possibly losing my $$$ deposit, I’ve lost all hope with uscis especially seeing how slow they’re STILL working.. I’m trying to hold off on making my decision to rebook or cancel altogether because it does give me hope that they’ve started April at least, but with how slow they’re working it could still be months from now considering it’s already almost mid April and I’m 77000. Then of course there’s the risk that I’m one of the ones left behind. Gotta love immigration 🥲

 

 

[leviiathan 206]

59 minutes ago, Edward&Lily said:

From UK here and seriously thinking why didn’t we try and move here together as I just feel US has more opportunities and better life but now I’m not so sure 😕 

 

does anyone think us April filers will have visa by end of this yea for do you think it’ll be more like 2023??? 😔😔😔

would really depend on the embassy.

 

2023-2025 for beneficiaries from Nigeria, the Philippines, and maybe mexico (these arent the only countries with long waits, just ones that I personally know have long waits to present day.)

 

But the embassys in which are speedy and have interviews within 1-4 months, would mean April applicants could still close the distance in 2022.

Edited April 8, 2022 by MissLadyRea

[GemZero 0]

Hi everyone! I've been lurking a long time but thought I'd show my face since this forum has been keeping me (just about) sane. If it wasn't for the info on here - and knowing that literally thousands are suffering the same - I'd assume my case was lost in a black hole.   NOA2 was April 28th so I'm resigned to at least another couple months waiting but at this point I've given up trying to guess. Seems ridiculous now to think when we started this process I was meant to be heading to the US this month or next. Good luck to all of you, hold fast! :)

[MarJhi 962]

In many cases they think of is like it was in 1990, but in reality China is in many areas light years infornt of both EU and USA, especially anything related to digitalization, or other IT topic (example i have not used paper money for last 3 years, since everything can de done digitally, Submitting my residence permit also online, i get it finished in 5 days).

 

I am pretty certain having a digital currency isn't exactly a good thing. Sure it sounds convenient, but it can also lead to government coercion. If all of your finances are digital, can't the Chinese government just freeze all of your assets if you "misbehave"? Say or do the wrong thing and BAM, you have no money, no way to buy things. I love the convenience of paying with cards and not carrying cash, but I still keep cash on hand. 

 

So if you ask, why are you going to US if it is so great in China, only due to personal reasons, my fiance/wife wants to be close to her old grandparents in their last years and then to see her get married.

 

Makes you wonder why people aren't moving to China instead of the other way around😉. Sounds so...wonderful?

 

[DSBeijing 303]

45 minutes ago, MarJhi said:

In many cases they think of is like it was in 1990, but in reality China is in many areas light years infornt of both EU and USA, especially anything related to digitalization, or other IT topic (example i have not used paper money for last 3 years, since everything can de done digitally, Submitting my residence permit also online, i get it finished in 5 days).

 

I am pretty certain having a digital currency isn't exactly a good thing. Sure it sounds convenient, but it can also lead to government coercion. If all of your finances are digital, can't the Chinese government just freeze all of your assets if you "misbehave"? Say or do the wrong thing and BAM, you have no money, no way to buy things. I love the convenience of paying with cards and not carrying cash, but I still keep cash on hand. 

 

So if you ask, why are you going to US if it is so great in China, only due to personal reasons, my fiance/wife wants to be close to her old grandparents in their last years and then to see her get married.

 

Makes you wonder why people aren't moving to China instead of the other way around😉. Sounds so...wonderful?

 

If government wants to freeze your funds, they will do it with out digital currency:). Also government, yes Chinese government are represive :), this is true. But US government is not without its flaws, just ask Julian Assange - but lets live politics from this forum.

 

As for your claim "people are not moving to China" :D, you clearly have never ever been to China :D. 

 

People are moving to China. There is huge number of foreigners here, from all parts of the world. Be it business people (you know china has all the manufacturing), be it students (China has been giving huge number of scholarships foreign students). I am European, my fiance is aorn American (German/Indian parents) and we have met here working for different companies

 

Economy of China has been booming for over 30 years now. People are attracted to that.

 

Also when pandemic finishes :), come to Shanghai ;), and then go to NYC, LA, and SF. And then tell me which is more clean, safe(no junkies sh*ting on street) ;).

 

Westerners (especially US Americans) should get down from high horse, world has changed, US/Europe still have advantage in some areas, but believe me not in many, because world is moving fast .

 

We should really move away from western racist tropes, where only west is great, while other parts of world are in stone age, those times are thank god long over

 

 

Edited April 8, 2022 by DSBeijing

[DSBeijing 303]

3 hours ago, Edward&Lily said:

From UK here and seriously thinking why didn’t we try and move here together as I just feel US has more opportunities and better life but now I’m not so sure 😕 

 

does anyone think us April filers will have visa by end of this yea for do you think it’ll be more like 2023??? 😔😔😔

I understand you completely, my coworker took his fiance to Germany. They started process in June 2021, and were finished in 3 Months with everything, she moved from Beijing to Germany and got a job.

 

My fiance and I have not moved an inch for 11 months now...

[MarJhi 962]

3 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

As for your claim "people are not moving to China" :D, you clearly have never ever been to China :D.

My mistake, I should have clarified my statement. I meant they weren't moving in the same numbers. Nope never been to China, only Hong Kong😉

 

3 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

If government wants to freeze your funds, they will do it with out digital currency:)

Well it's hard to freeze funds if some of those are in paper, gold or something else of value. If the currency is all digital and you need a loaf of bread and your accounts are frozen/restricted, good luck. If you have cash on hand you can still go buy that loaf of bread.

 

3 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

Also when pandemic finishes :), come to Shanghai ;), and then go to NYC, LA, and SF. And then tell me which is more clean, safe(no junkies sh*ting on street) ;).

I would never consider any of those cites to visit, they aren't representative of most of the US and the lifestyles of middle America. I'll add Shanghai to that list. I suspect Shanghai doesn't represent how most Chinese citizens live.

 

3 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

But US government is not without its flaws, just ask Julian Assange - but lets live politics from this forum.

Just following your lead. Detected a bit of America bashing, which is odd considering people on this site are trying to get to the US. Has to make you wonder why. Of course America has flaws, every country, everything and everyone does.

 

3 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

(you know china has all the manufacturing)

Haha, I'll leave that one alone because the reason for that is pretty evident.

 

3 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

racist tropes,

Gee, who would have figured the "R" word would pop up. I am shocked!!

Edited April 8, 2022 by MarJhi

[Merica-n 65]

7 hours ago, DSBeijing said:

And if you are Indian or Chinese (Mainland) forget about getting green card, since there have been reported cases with wait time estimation of not years but decades 

Good luck DSBeijing, we are waiting for China visa too.

 

Just want to emphasize that this quote is referring to H1B visas and the country quota system, where people with work visas (H1b) from China, India and Mexico have like a decade waiting time on converting their work visa to a green card.  There is a limit on work visa>green card from each country, and Not other Indian or Chinese citizens waiting a crazy amount of time to

 

To be fair, the American immigration system is completely broken, because about half the population wants to curtail immigration and half want to completely expand it, so the result is that things are just statically staying the same and resulting in no change at all, so things aren't being fixed.  But we still do have a working immigration system and it is still possible to immigrate here, and the immigration laws aren't enforced much at all so many people do it illegally.

 

To be fair, it's not even possible to immigrate to China.  People largely aren't moving from USA to China in any sort of numbers, because it's basically impossible to do so.  You can't even cross the border into China now from the USA and most other countries right now.  It's a nice place to live in terms of decent disposable income.  They have really modern cities in China that are very advanced in a technological way, but it's still a very authoritarian country with a difficult language barrier where the government controls things strictly and people from western countries largely aren't interested in immigrating there anytime soon and wouldn't really be allowed to if they wanted to.

 

Just my perspective as an American/Chinese couple that had to decide which country to live in.

Edited April 8, 2022 by Merica-n
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