FEBRUARY 2022 I-129F K1 FILERS

[Bh_sarah 942]

6 hours ago, Nikobe said:

I'll bump this up.

Is anybody scanning for February? I think it should be time for some movement.

I don't use a script like the others, but I scan it weekly manually using the CaseTracker app. Later today or tomorrow I will scan the groups and add to my spreadsheet.

And nope, no movement at all so far. Maybe in the next two weeks February will be touched!

[Bh_sarah 942]

Ok, so I ran the numbers right now and what really surprised me was the numbers of RFE yesterday and today on ranges 48000 and 48500. There was even a "Request for Initial AND Additional Evidence Sent". That's a new one for me. Seems someone opened the 48000-48999 files just to check the incomplete ones and decided to send RFEs?! No idea.

There was one approval though, not expedite, from a previous RFE. But the numbers didn't go up because an early approval was now sent back to USCIS by the department of state. Even though the RFEs surprised me, can't say they started February yet. Maybe next week, hopefully.

Here are the numbers from today and a graphic whose idea I stole from @mw & rg k1/ @Ngillet, but mine is different because they use custom script. The (+x) means the difference from last week, March 10th.

Full data is always found here.
 

112 Approved Cases

278 Denied/Rejected (+2)

18 RFE Sent and Received (+8)

2959 Untouched/Other Action

104 Withdrawals (+3)

 

Edited March 18, 2023 by Bh_sarah
Typo

[Bh_sarah 942]

Sorry! I can’t edit the post anymore but the graphic above should read “as of March 17th”. Forgot to change it.

[Mar u 54]

15 hours ago, Bh_sarah said:

Sorry! I can’t edit the post anymore but the graphic above should read “as of March 17th”. Forgot to change it.

Great job @Bh_sarah! Hoping to see more obvious movements for feb ‘22 cases by this coming weeks! 🤞

[Msmit39 14]

18 hours ago, Bh_sarah said:

Ok, so I ran the numbers right now and what really surprised me was the numbers of RFE yesterday and today on ranges 48000 and 48500. There was even a "Request for Initial AND Additional Evidence Sent". That's a new one for me. Seems someone opened the 48000-48999 files just to check the incomplete ones and decided to send RFEs?! No idea.

There was one approval though, not expedite, from a previous RFE. But the numbers didn't go up because an early approval was now sent back to USCIS by the department of state. Even though the RFEs surprised me, can't say they started February yet. Maybe next week, hopefully.

Here are the numbers from today and a graphic whose idea I stole from @mw & rg k1/ @Ngillet, but mine is different because they use custom script. The (+x) means the difference from last week, March 10th.

Full data is always found here.
 

112 Approved Cases

278 Denied/Rejected (+2)

18 RFE Sent and Received (+8)

2959 Untouched/Other Action

104 Withdrawals (+3)

 

May be dumb question why not start at February 1st just curious? My NOA 1 letter is dated FEB 1ST.

[Bh_sarah 942]

Just now, Msmit39 said:

May be dumb question why not start at February 1st just curious? My NOA 1 letter is dated FEB 1ST.

Not dumb at all, no worries. You are an early filer, so that means you're probably on a range with more January cases than February cases (probably 46000-46499). Since the majority of cases are from January, to save time I excluded this range knowing that January filers would scan it already. Same thing with range 56500, most cases are from March 22, not February, but there are some end of February there.

Probably no February 1st cases are in the range I start with, that's why it says Feb 2, the earliest date I could find. It is really just a matter of saving time, unfortunately, since scripts and CaseTracker can't be precise and filter only Feb cases

[Msmit39 14]

1 hour ago, Bh_sarah said:

Not dumb at all, no worries. You are an early filer, so that means you're probably on a range with more January cases than February cases (probably 46000-46499). Since the majority of cases are from January, to save time I excluded this range knowing that January filers would scan it already. Same thing with range 56500, most cases are from March 22, not February, but there are some end of February there.

Probably no February 1st cases are in the range I start with, that's why it says Feb 2, the earliest date I could find. It is really just a matter of saving time, unfortunately, since scripts and CaseTracker can't be precise and filter only Feb cases

Actually I'm 47500 range and there are several January filers in it. It's like from 46500 to 47500 the shuffled a deck of cards and said here's your number.🤣🤣🤣

[Bh_sarah 942]

5 minutes ago, Msmit39 said:

Actually I'm 47500 range and there are several January filers in it. It's like from 46500 to 47500 the shuffled a deck of cards and said here's your number.🤣🤣🤣

Oh wow, probably you're one of the only ones from the beginning of Feb in this range so I didn't catch that! It's crazy, since it's all paper based, I feel they sometimes just find lost boxes and get them into the system out of order!
I tried to get the groups in sequence that had the majority of Feb cases in it, but it's always approximate with groups of 500 like that. Well, you won't need to check on January numbers then! haha and on the graph above you're on the first bar from Feb 2-6 as well.

 

[Msmit39 14]

1 hour ago, Bh_sarah said:

Oh wow, probably you're one of the only ones from the beginning of Feb in this range so I didn't catch that! It's crazy, since it's all paper based, I feel they sometimes just find lost boxes and get them into the system out of order!
I tried to get the groups in sequence that had the majority of Feb cases in it, but it's always approximate with groups of 500 like that. Well, you won't need to check on January numbers then! haha and on the graph above you're on the first bar from Feb 2-6 as well.

 

To fair I had a failed expidite attempt so date doesn't reflect properly.

[Bh_sarah 942]

13 hours ago, Msmit39 said:

To fair I had a failed expidite attempt so date doesn't reflect properly.

Hm, denied expedite requests don’t change your received date at all (only if you sent the expedite along with your i-129f form? Not even sure if this is possible!). What’s the received date on your NOA1 letter? If it’s February 1, that’s the date you should focus on, forget about the expedite denial.

[Eddie101 87]

I was curious and it seems they started on February. I saw an approval just today (March 20th) of an February 7th 2022 petition.

[Bh_sarah 942]

4 minutes ago, Eddie101 said:

I was curious and it seems they started on February. I saw an approval just today (March 20th) of an February 7th 2022 petition.

I saw an approval also for a Feb 1st case and just thought to myself it's random because they're too close to January.

I'm scanning other ranges superficially and it's blowing my mind how many are being approved today. It does seem they started February, I just don't want to jinx it yet! haha I will scan it fully once their work day is over, will post here later. Good luck everyone!

[Bh_sarah 942]

Hey, February filers! Don't freak out... but it seems they just started working on our cases! Nothing that I would say that they actively started working on it because I expect more than 50 approvals per day when it happens, but it's a great sign nonetheless.

Here's the new activity today (when it comes to approvals and RFEs).

46500 - 5 approvals, 1 RFE

47000 - 1 approval

47500 - 2 approvals

48000 - 2 approvals, 5 RFEs

48500 - 11 approvals, 4 RFEs

49000 - 1 RFE

Totals for today: 21 approvals, 11 RFEs

Month totals:

133 Approved Cases (+21)

278 Denied/Rejected Cases

28 RFEs/RFERs (+10)

2927 Other Action/Untouched

106 Withdrawals (+2)

Please be mindful CaseTracker shows me approximate data and there could be manual mistakes from my end. I also count closed K3 cases as approved.
Complete spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15yTdQDjmS6ik3bPNGmThSc0jFUszsiGcXurI1hT_Jcw/edit?usp=sharing

 

[Bh_sarah 942]

Wow, their work day started 10 minutes ago and there's already 16 new approved cases on range 48500 alone. Help.
I will only run the full numbers when the day is over but wow.

[Ok-Mix 117]

How exciting! Yah!