Future I-129f filers for Manila, Phils (merged)

[Corgent 93]

1 hour ago, top_secret said:

It would be unreasonably to expect to get as lucky as we did

We're on track to complete the process after only 5.5 months if my wife passes her interview on the 5th. The difference between our two cases is that we benefited from an expedite with conditions meaning NVC forwarded our case to the Embassy immediately after DQ, and we were able to book an appointment online very quickly, but nothing up until our DQ on April 11th was expedited. I'm guessing it would have ended up being about 7 months for us as well without the expedite. Needless to say I'm happy we went CR1.

Edited April 23, 2022 by Corgent

[top_secret 2,421]

51 minutes ago, Corgent said:

We're on track to complete the process after only 5.5 months if my wife passes her interview on the 5th. The difference between our two cases is that we benefited from an expedite with conditions meaning NVC forwarded our case to the Embassy immediately after DQ, and we were able to book an appointment online very quickly, but nothing up until our DQ on April 11th was expedited. I'm guessing it would have ended up being about 7 months for us as well without the expedite. Needless to say I'm happy we went CR1.

 

It looks like your i-130 got approved 4 days quicker than ours, but where we lost some time is we were caught off guard when our I-130 was approved so quickly.  So, we lost two weeks getting my wife’s NBI clearance that we had planned to have ready.  Then my big screw up was my stepdaughter got a RFE from NVC since I did not submit the Marriage Certificate separately along with her documents.  It was only a listed requirement for my wife so I didn't include it a second time with her daughter’s documents.  A dumb mistake that cost us 2 months in NVC waiting for the resubmitted Marriage Certificate to be reviewed.  So.... If I had done everything perfectly, we could have completed in just 5 months, but I can't complain about 7 months.
 
We didn’t expedite anything or have anything special about our case though.  Just good luck I suppose.   There are several others here who got blazing fast approvals recently too but realistically people starting out have to plan on it taking longer since such good luck doesn't extend to everyone.
 

[marjandchri 22]

Things are moving faster now for those that did it during the corona thingy (see my time line).  Normal time is around 9 months, but expect a year, at least.  

[AnnamaeRobert 11]

On 4/23/2022 at 1:27 PM, Corgent said:

We're on track to complete the process after only 5.5 months if my wife passes her interview on the 5th. The difference between our two cases is that we benefited from an expedite with conditions meaning NVC forwarded our case to the Embassy immediately after DQ, and we were able to book an appointment online very quickly, but nothing up until our DQ on April 11th was expedited. I'm guessing it would have ended up being about 7 months for us as well without the expedite. Needless to say I'm happy we went CR1.

Our process is also moving along pretty quickly. We turned in our I-130 paperwork on January 2nd and we are currently waiting to be DQed at the NVC. What reason did you use for expedition and did you expedite after being DQed or while waiting to be reviewed?

[Corgent 93]

6 minutes ago, AnnamaeRobert said:

Our process is also moving along pretty quickly. We turned in our I-130 paperwork on January 2nd and we are currently waiting to be DQed at the NVC. What reason did you use for expedition and did you expedite after being DQed or while waiting to be reviewed?

Medical/hardship. Before DQ, while waiting to be reviewed. My wife did pass her interview so we're just waiting for the visa now.

[AnnamaeRobert 11]

3 minutes ago, Corgent said:

Medical/hardship. Before DQ, while waiting to be reviewed. My wife did pass her interview so we're just waiting for the visa now.

That's great! Glad to hear that. I guess we will take a shot at expediting our case as well.

[GinoNiña 182]

On 4/30/2022 at 8:02 AM, marjandchri said:

Things are moving faster now for those that did it during the corona thingy (see my time line).  Normal time is around 9 months, but expect a year, at least.  

Can you give us explanations as to why you made this comment? 

[marjandchri 22]

56 minutes ago, GinoNiña said:

Can you give us explanations as to why you made this comment? 

If you examine our time line, you will see a large amount of time between NVC Received and NVC Left.

[GinoNiña 182]

8 hours ago, marjandchri said:

If you examine our time line, you will see a large amount of time between NVC Received and NVC Left.

I am satisfied with your come back. Thanks. 

[GinoNiña 182]

I  made an  assumption earlier that K1  backlog  is around 10K. I was  wrong on that assessment. Even the website visawhen is wrong on  the graph  they made. And the immigration for couples on Youtube, that lady says 2years backlog, I think  she is wrong as well. 

 

I dont know the real backlog is but here is what I know through researched.

 

For the whole year of 2021, with some exemptions, phils was not accepting foreigners. So there should be no new applicants for 12 months. 

For the year 2020, phils closed their border from March through December. Also no new applicants for 9 months.

But from January through march 2020. During this period, potential K1 applicant are already in the country spending time with their fiancees for evidence of meeting in person. These people are  the backlog. They may be just a hundreds of them.

 

Also, according K1 fiance visa timelines, about 80% of applicants from 2019 has been interviewed. Only a small percentage of them, from October - December 2019, are still awaiting interview.  These are the backlog. 

 

So 3 months from 2019 and 3 months from 2020, its just 6 months backlog. At 500 interviews a month, we looking at 3,000 give or take backlog? 

 

What you guys think?  far-fetched?

 

 

 

 

[Ryan H 3,812]

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4 hours ago, GinoNiña said:

I  made an  assumption earlier that K1  backlog  is around 10K. I was  wrong on that assessment. Even the website visawhen is wrong on  the graph  they made. And the immigration for couples on Youtube, that lady says 2years backlog, I think  she is wrong as well. 

 

I dont know the real backlog is but here is what I know through researched.

 

For the whole year of 2021, with some exemptions, phils was not accepting foreigners. So there should be no new applicants for 12 months. 

For the year 2020, phils closed their border from March through December. Also no new applicants for 9 months.

But from January through march 2020. During this period, potential K1 applicant are already in the country spending time with their fiancees for evidence of meeting in person. These people are  the backlog. They may be just a hundreds of them.

 

Also, according K1 fiance visa timelines, about 80% of applicants from 2019 has been interviewed. Only a small percentage of them, from October - December 2019, are still awaiting interview.  These are the backlog. 

 

So 3 months from 2019 and 3 months from 2020, its just 6 months backlog. At 500 interviews a month, we looking at 3,000 give or take backlog? 

 

What you guys think?  far-fetched?