DECEMBER 2021 1-129F K1 FILERS

gks · April 11, 2023

I also got RFE on 03/24 and still haven't received it in the mail.

Ngillet · April 11, 2023

2 hours ago, mw & rg k1 said:

Actually was approved 3/29/2023 and now waiting on NVC o receive (did slip that into one of my updates, but also didn't want to make a big splash about it)
Letter to Senator was a Dud - Got back a "we need you to send of even more forms before we can consider taking any action" (yuck)

Did a Case Inquiry to NVC today ...

Just lots of waiting overall

My update script is running and will be posting Monday's report soon

I thought maybe I saw that but I couldn’t remember. Congrats!

mw & rg k1 · April 11, 2023

31 minutes ago, gks said:

I also got RFE on 03/24 and still haven't received it in the mail.

1 hour ago, Saeid said:

They sent me RFE on last Wednesday and still haven't received it in mail! They should have uploaded it online as well... Just so much waiting in each steps 🤯

for both of you.

My RFE actually happened on a Monday night (late) and was dated for Tuesday... I live 2 cities over and it took till Friday's mail to receive.

I was at the mailbox on Friday and it went back into the mail the same day. Took until end of day the next Tuesday for them to receive.

Then ... over 2 weeks of silence ... and approved.

Once approved (end of March), silence again while waiting for NVC to "create a case"

Expect there will be more ... but even 2 cities away, it isnt fast.

Gary Rich · April 11, 2023

9 hours ago, mw & rg k1 said:

for both of you.

My RFE actually happened on a Monday night (late) and was dated for Tuesday... I live 2 cities over and it took till Friday's mail to receive.

I was at the mailbox on Friday and it went back into the mail the same day. Took until end of day the next Tuesday for them to receive.

Then ... over 2 weeks of silence ... and approved.

Once approved (end of March), silence again while waiting for NVC to "create a case"

Expect there will be more ... but even 2 cities away, it isnt fast.

Good Day... I'm sorta in the same category.. Received RFE 3/28/23. They request a few documents, in which i will have tomorrow, and returning all the information back to USCIS, on an over night express mail.

So know after that, it could be a week or 2 for approval.

mw & rg k1 · April 11, 2023

6 hours ago, Gary Rich said:

Good Day... I'm sorta in the same category.. Received RFE 3/28/23. They request a few documents, in which i will have tomorrow, and returning all the information back to USCIS, on an over night express mail.

So know after that, it could be a week or 2 for approval.

Hoping it stays to a week or 2 for you ....
In my scans of RFE, the answers got very depressing ... no order to which were approved in days or took months to approve.
It was so depressing in fact that I (outright) deleted the script to process that ....

Ngillet · April 12, 2023

Brutal Update

28500: 1 RFER (0 new / 1 in progress)

29500: 1 RFER (0 new / 1 in progress)

30500: 2 RFERs (1 new / 1 in progress)

33000: 1 RFER, 1 Withdrawal (1 new / 1 in progress)

33500: 1 RFES (1 new / 0 in progress)

34000: 1 RFES (1 new / 0 in progress)

4/11/23: 8 Total Updates: 2 RFESs, 5 RFERs, 1 Withdrawal

26500: 3 Untouched, 73 Approvals, 9 RFESs, 3 RFERs, 12 Denials, 8 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction, Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 84.1% || 110 total cases ||

27000: 2 Untouched, 89 Approvals, 16 RFESs, 4 RFERs, 8 Denials, 7 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction, Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction) || Completed Percent 80.6% || 128 total cases ||

27500: 4 Untouched, 76 Approvals, 25 RFESs, 7 RFERs, 12 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 8 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 70.1% || 134 total cases ||

28000: 5 Untouched, 123 Approvals, 25 RFESs, 5 RFERs, 17 Denials, 2 Expedites(Denied: 2), 8 Withdrawals || Completed Percent 79.4% || 185 total cases ||

28500: 8 Untouched, 90 Approvals, 22 RFESs, 11 RFERs, 12 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 9 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Notice Explaining USCIS Actions Was Mailed, Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Form Not Signed) || Completed Percent 69.4% || 155 total cases ||

29000: 12 Untouched, 117 Approvals, 19 RFESs, 11 RFERs, 11 Denials, 2 Expedites(Denied: 2), 7 Withdrawals, 3 Others (Document Was Mailed, Name Was Updated, Notice Explaining USCIS Actions Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 72.5% || 182 total cases ||

29500: 10 Untouched, 49 Approvals, 5 RFESs, 2 RFERs, 13 Denials, 4 Withdrawals, 5 Others (Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Form Not Signed, Name Was Updated, Document Was Mailed, Case Closed Benefit Received By Other Means, Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 74.4% || 88 total cases ||

30000: 9 Untouched, 105 Approvals, 15 RFESs, 7 RFERs, 12 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 5 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction, Name Was Updated) || Completed Percent 77.2% || 156 total cases ||

30500: 5 Untouched, 122 Approvals, 31 RFESs, 10 RFERs, 7 Denials, 6 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Document Was Mailed, Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction) || Completed Percent 72.3% || 183 total cases ||

31000: 1 Untouched, 70 Approvals, 22 RFESs, 5 RFERs, 12 Denials, 7 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Incorrect Form Version) || Completed Percent 74.3% || 118 total cases ||

31500: 5 Untouched, 74 Approvals, 28 RFESs, 10 RFERs, 3 Denials, 6 Withdrawals, 6 Others || Completed Percent 59.8% || 132 total cases ||

32000: 9 Untouched, 90 Approvals, 28 RFESs, 4 RFERs, 6 Denials, 5 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 69.8% || 143 total cases ||

32500: 27 Untouched, 63 Approvals, 28 RFESs, 6 RFERs, 12 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 3 Withdrawals, 3 Others (Name Was Updated, Name Was Updated, Case Rejected For Form Not Signed And Incorrect Form Version) || Completed Percent 52.6% || 143 total cases ||

33000: 24 Untouched, 95 Approvals, 18 RFESs, 5 RFERs, 5 Denials, 2 Expedites(Denied: 2), 5 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 66.7% || 155 total cases ||

33500: 20 Untouched, 61 Approvals, 17 RFESs, 2 RFERs, 9 Denials, 6 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Name Was Updated, Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction) || Completed Percent 64.3% || 117 total cases ||

34000: 27 Untouched, 132 Approvals, 46 RFESs, 4 RFERs, 5 Denials, 4 Expedites(Denied: 4), 8 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Name Was Updated, Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 62.9% || 228 total cases ||

34500: 28 Untouched, 52 Approvals, 9 RFESs, 2 RFERs, 5 Denials, 2 Expedites(Denied: 2), 5 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Name Was Updated, Name Was Updated) || Completed Percent 58.3% || 105 total cases ||

Total for this month: 199 Untouched, 1481 Approvals, 365 RFESs, 103 RFERs, 161 Denials, 16 Expedites(Denied: 16), 108 Withdrawals, 37 Others

Biliz · April 12, 2023

21 hours ago, mw & rg k1 said:

for both of you.

My RFE actually happened on a Monday night (late) and was dated for Tuesday... I live 2 cities over and it took till Friday's mail to receive.

I was at the mailbox on Friday and it went back into the mail the same day. Took until end of day the next Tuesday for them to receive.

Then ... over 2 weeks of silence ... and approved.

Once approved (end of March), silence again while waiting for NVC to "create a case"

Expect there will be more ... but even 2 cities away, it isn't fast.

Send a Ask NVC every week until you get a number. You actually need 2 numbers one starts with the 3 letters for embassy abbreviation followed by 10 numbers. It takes about 5 to 6 days to get a reply from Ask NVC. The other one 8 numbers it is called the invoice I. D number. I sent about 5 or 6 inquires before the numbers were both sent. I got 1 number on 3/28 and the other number on 4/3/23. They are so confused.

mw & rg k1 · April 12, 2023

1 hour ago, Biliz said:

Send a Ask NVC every week until you get a number. You actually need 2 numbers one starts with the 3 letters for embassy abbreviation followed by 10 numbers. It takes about 5 to 6 days to get a reply from Ask NVC. The other one 8 numbers it is called the invoice I. D number. I sent about 5 or 6 inquires before the numbers were both sent. I got 1 number on 3/28 and the other number on 4/3/23. They are so confused.

so inefficient ... first ask sent in ... will see what I get if anything

mw & rg k1 · April 13, 2023

Wednesday normal report - Tracking changes since Monday.
As @Ngillet reported ... a rather brutal few days for cases updates.

Hopefully we will see more activity in the coming days.

I know it is still a long ways off and may move again - Closer or further who is to say.
But as May approached, pay very close attention to the case inquiry date.
Currently, May 27, 2023 for case filed on 1 Dec 2021
(towards bottom of page at https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/)

Changes on April 11 2023: 19
Changes on April 12 2024: 0

Report of significant changes since 2023_04_10
DEC 1-3: Untouched:15
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 5
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 0 Term\Withdrawn: 0 Rejected: 0

DEC 6-10: Untouched:30
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 5
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 1 Term\Withdrawn: 0 Rejected: 0

DEC 13-17: Untouched:56
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 3
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 0 Term\Withdrawn: 0 Rejected: 0

DEC 20-24: Untouched:97
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 2
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 0 Term\Withdrawn: 1 Rejected: 0

DEC 27-31: Untouched:95
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 3
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 1 Term\Withdrawn: 0 Rejected: 0

Elays · April 13, 2023

4 hours ago, mw & rg k1 said:

Wednesday normal report - Tracking changes since Monday.
As @Ngillet reported ... a rather brutal few days for cases updates.

Hopefully we will see more activity in the coming days.

I know it is still a long ways off and may move again - Closer or further who is to say.
But as May approached, pay very close attention to the case inquiry date.
Currently, May 27, 2023 for case filed on 1 Dec 2021
(towards bottom of page at https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/)

Changes on April 11 2023: 19
Changes on April 12 2024: 0

Report of significant changes since 2023_04_10
DEC 1-3: Untouched:15
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 5
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 0 Term\Withdrawn: 0 Rejected: 0

DEC 6-10: Untouched:30
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 5
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 1 Term\Withdrawn: 0 Rejected: 0

DEC 13-17: Untouched:56
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 3
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 0 Term\Withdrawn: 0 Rejected: 0

DEC 20-24: Untouched:97
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 2
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 0 Term\Withdrawn: 1 Rejected: 0

DEC 27-31: Untouched:95
Approved: 0 Denied: 0 RFE/RFER: 3
RFER->Denial: 0 RFER->Approval: 0 (Incl. in stats)
Updated: 1 Term\Withdrawn: 0 Rejected: 0

I think this should be some maintenance issue or something similar bcs any months are getting updates... but they should be working and spending approvals, RFE by mail✅

Ngillet · April 13, 2023

Looks like USCIS fixed their system issue. Here are the 4/11 and 4/12 Updates

28000: 1 Approval (0 new / 1 in progress)

28500: 1 RFER (0 new / 1 in progress)

29000: 1 Approval (1 new / 0 in progress)

29500: 1 RFER (0 new / 1 in progress)

30500: 2 RFERs (1 new / 1 in progress)

31000: 1 Approval (1 new / 0 in progress)

33000: 1 Approval, 1 RFER, 1 Withdrawal (2 new / 1 in progress)

33500: 1 Approval, 1 RFES (2 new / 0 in progress)

34000: 3 Approvals, 1 RFES, 1 RFER (5 new / 0 in progress)

34500: 1 Approval (1 new / 0 in progress)

4/11/23: 18 Total Updates: 9 Approvals, 2 RFESs, 6 RFERs, 1 Withdrawal

26500: 1 Denial (1 new / 0 in progress)

28000: 1 Withdrawal (1 new / 0 in progress)

29500: 1 Approval (1 new / 0 in progress)

30000: 1 Approval, 2 RFESs (3 new / 0 in progress)

30500: 1 Approval (1 new / 0 in progress)

31500: 2 Approvals, 1 RFES, 1 RFER (4 new / 0 in progress)

33000: 3 RFESs (3 new / 0 in progress)

33500: 1 RFER (1 new / 0 in progress)

4/12/23: 15 Total Updates: 5 Approvals, 6 RFESs, 2 RFERs, 1 Denial, 1 Withdrawal

26500: 3 Untouched, 73 Approvals, 9 RFESs, 2 RFERs, 12 Denials, 8 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction, Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 85.0% || 109 total cases ||

27000: 2 Untouched, 89 Approvals, 16 RFESs, 4 RFERs, 8 Denials, 7 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction, Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction) || Completed Percent 80.6% || 128 total cases ||

27500: 4 Untouched, 76 Approvals, 24 RFESs, 8 RFERs, 12 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 8 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 69.8% || 134 total cases ||

28000: 5 Untouched, 124 Approvals, 24 RFESs, 5 RFERs, 17 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 8 Withdrawals || Completed Percent 80.4% || 184 total cases ||

28500: 8 Untouched, 90 Approvals, 22 RFESs, 12 RFERs, 12 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 9 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Notice Explaining USCIS Actions Was Mailed, Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Form Not Signed) || Completed Percent 68.8% || 156 total cases ||

29000: 12 Untouched, 118 Approvals, 18 RFESs, 11 RFERs, 11 Denials, 2 Expedites(Denied: 2), 7 Withdrawals, 3 Others (Document Was Mailed, Name Was Updated, Notice Explaining USCIS Actions Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 73.1% || 182 total cases ||

29500: 9 Untouched, 49 Approvals, 5 RFESs, 3 RFERs, 13 Denials, 4 Withdrawals, 5 Others (Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Form Not Signed, Name Was Updated, Document Was Mailed, Case Closed Benefit Received By Other Means, Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 74.1% || 88 total cases ||

30000: 6 Untouched, 105 Approvals, 15 RFESs, 7 RFERs, 12 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 5 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction, Name Was Updated) || Completed Percent 78.8% || 153 total cases ||

30500: 5 Untouched, 122 Approvals, 31 RFESs, 11 RFERs, 7 Denials, 6 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Document Was Mailed, Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction) || Completed Percent 71.7% || 184 total cases ||

31000: 1 Untouched, 71 Approvals, 22 RFESs, 4 RFERs, 12 Denials, 7 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Case Rejected For Incorrect Fee And Incorrect Form Version) || Completed Percent 75.4% || 118 total cases ||

31500: 4 Untouched, 74 Approvals, 27 RFESs, 7 RFERs, 3 Denials, 7 Withdrawals, 6 Others || Completed Percent 63.6% || 128 total cases ||

32000: 9 Untouched, 90 Approvals, 28 RFESs, 4 RFERs, 6 Denials, 5 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 69.8% || 143 total cases ||

32500: 27 Untouched, 63 Approvals, 28 RFESs, 6 RFERs, 12 Denials, 1 Expedite(Denied: 1), 3 Withdrawals, 3 Others (Name Was Updated, Name Was Updated, Case Rejected For Form Not Signed And Incorrect Form Version) || Completed Percent 52.6% || 143 total cases ||

33000: 19 Untouched, 97 Approvals, 18 RFESs, 6 RFERs, 5 Denials, 2 Expedites(Denied: 2), 6 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Document Was Mailed) || Completed Percent 68.9% || 154 total cases ||

33500: 18 Untouched, 63 Approvals, 17 RFESs, 2 RFERs, 9 Denials, 6 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Name Was Updated, Case Was Transferred And A New Office Has Jurisdiction) || Completed Percent 66.1% || 117 total cases ||

34000: 24 Untouched, 136 Approvals, 45 RFESs, 6 RFERs, 5 Denials, 4 Expedites(Denied: 4), 8 Withdrawals, 1 Other (Name Was Updated) || Completed Percent 64.1% || 229 total cases ||

34500: 27 Untouched, 53 Approvals, 9 RFESs, 2 RFERs, 5 Denials, 2 Expedites(Denied: 2), 5 Withdrawals, 2 Others (Name Was Updated, Name Was Updated) || Completed Percent 59.2% || 105 total cases ||

Total for this month: 183 Untouched, 1498 Approvals, 364 RFESs, 102 RFERs, 162 Denials, 15 Expedites(Denied: 15), 110 Withdrawals, 36 Others

thatricepmaniac · April 14, 2023

Hey guys. Our date is December 13th. We finally got an RFE notice online today. Waiting for it in the mail. So exciting to get an update after so long. Hopefully the RFE is easy. 28500 series receipt number.

Gary Rich · April 14, 2023

On 4/11/2023 at 12:31 AM, mw & rg k1 said:

for both of you.

My RFE actually happened on a Monday night (late) and was dated for Tuesday... I live 2 cities over and it took till Friday's mail to receive.

I was at the mailbox on Friday and it went back into the mail the same day. Took until end of day the next Tuesday for them to receive.

Then ... over 2 weeks of silence ... and approved.

Once approved (end of March), silence again while waiting for NVC to "create a case"

Expect there will be more ... but even 2 cities away, it isnt fast.

I actually received mines on March 28th..I overnight it back on April 12th ( was waiting on paperwork ) and was alerted this morning it move from "RFE" to "RFE" response. check my account on USCIS website.. they are back working on it

mw & rg k1 · April 14, 2023

I am so sick of this process and looking forward to it being complete .... someday.
Yet another source of "unspecified" and yet unsurprising delay.
They did not answer the general question about what I-129F NOA2 dates they are processing ….
so I guess I will have to ask them again.

Based on the NVC's own "NVC Timeframes" page:
Current case creation time frame: As of 10-Apr-23, we are working on cases that were received from USCIS on 31-Mar-23.

The Keyword here is "Received" (apparently).
My case was approved 29 Mar 2023,
Sent AskNVC on 12 Apr and got this reply from them that as of today.
The case had not even been "Received" from USCIS and so therefore they have not started processing it.
Further (as highlighted in yellow), they are "expecting" cases to take longer to be "Received" then the normal blanket 30 day statement.
Not to worry though - If it takes a long time, the embassy "May revalidate" extend the K-1 expiration date.

Kristina582 · April 14, 2023

4 hours ago, mw & rg k1 said:

I feel your pain… The wait seems never to end…
Mine was approved on March 7th and as of April 12th NVC hadn’t received my case yet. The waiting time is much longer than 30 days.
I think after this whole process we are going to be the most patient people in the world!

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