September Filers!

[mox 298]

LOL - well in the 41+ (celcius) degree heat that has been here in Adelaide for the past few days...

cold showers... well they are becoming the norm...

So why not make everyone else feel the need for them too...

ZOMG that's freaking hot. And I don't mean "hawt."

I hope I have more properly represented reality with my new USCIS desk images.

Ha! Cute! That's not my petition though. Mine is the one in the break room keeping the table from wobbling.

[TracyOz 0]

LOL.... LOVE the pics and YEP looks pretty close to me <grin>

have a GREAT day

Tracy

:-)

[7Rivers 0]

I called them yesterday to check if they are working on my case yet! and all what they say..it's the same status as what in online said..(still pending) and no touchs yet neither

[7Rivers 0]

I wish i was living in Vermont! now I'm thinking to move there

[mox 298]

Completely off-topic (sorta), I'd just like to say that I'm glad to see the September thread getting some life back into it! And while I don't think we have quite the volume that certain other threads have (July I'm looking at you!) I think we more than make up for it in class and style.

[Frank+Jocelyn 1]

Ya but September filers are all better looking than July filers! B)

[mox 298]

Ya but September filers are all better looking than July filers! B)

It certainly explains why they processed all of them so quick and then stopped when they got to us. They just can't let us go! I bet they have their lockers plastered with all the passport-sized photos we sent in...

[Frank+Jocelyn 1]

It certainly explains why they processed all of them so quick and then stopped when they got to us. They just can't let us go! I bet they have their lockers plastered with all the passport-sized photos we sent in...

Sure, I bet you all get RFE's for missing passport photos!

Edited January 11, 2008 by Frank+Jocelyn

[mox 298]

Hey now, I'm a September filer too! We shall not speak of the "R" word that ends in "E" and has a "F" in the middle!

[Bobalouie 0]

i've received USCIS (Application and Petition Receipting Update for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) updates so far on the 4th, 7th, 8th and today. kind of strange since it hasnt been updated since the 4th.

this is pretty painful just watching vermont plug along and CSC barely do anything.

I wasn't going to say anything, but your post has inspired me to post anyway.

Just a caveat: I'm firmly in the "touches mean nothing" camp. I have to admit that as my estimated approval date gets closer that my commitment to this stance grows a bit weak in the knees but I still believe that you can really only know what a touch means in hindsight, and therefore they are meaningless as a predictor.

Okay, caveats out of the way, I received a touch yesterday after I called for status on my case. (the real reason I called was to find out why approvals at CSC had slowed to nothing, but I got no information on that front.) I figure there's about a 95% chance that the touch was due to my call, and 5% that it had somehow wound its way onto somebody's desk. Well today I received another touch, and there's really no reason I can come up with as to why I would get it. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but it's intriguing.

Mox,

I got no touches (other than my address change on 13 Dec) before my approval. I checked it once in the morning, and once around noon and had nothing. So unless all the touches happened between noon and 730pm when I checked and saw my approval, I didnt get any. I dont know why some people get touches recorded and some dont.

Also, dont put ANY stock into what cust service says. On the day I got my approval, I was spending some time catching up on the VSC thread from what I had missed while in Russia. I saw that there had been some Sept approvals, so I did a timeline search and saw that they had me bracketed. About 4 approvals from after me and 3 approvals from before, so I got antsy because I need to talk to the NVC folk while they still have my petition at the reccommendation of the USCIS guys to make sure my address change took in the system, and I had been reading reports that the CRIS system was not notifying people again. I tried calling using the RFE trick, but it told me that there were no officers available and kept kicking me to cust service, so I would hang up and try again. I tried about 10 times and finally let it go to cust service, knowing I probably wouldnt get any info but figured I would try. They told me that "according to the selections you chose you have an RFE, what is your question?", so, I lied to them and told them that for some reason I could not access the website and I wanted to know if that meant I had an RFE. They did a status check on my petition and said that it was still in the PENDING stage and I had no RFE. They went on to tell me that the processing timeline for VSC was still 6 months and that they were currently working on June 19th petitions, so It looked like I had about 2 or 3 more months to wait for my approval. I thanked them and hung up. 3 hours later on the dot, the website showed I was approved and I checked my email and there was the CRIS notification of the same.

Those people dont know a damn thing when you call them. It is a waste of time and an exercise in futility. I believe her when she said my petition was still pending and that my approval came sometime in that 3 hour window, but to tell me that I have a 2-3 month wait still, and it turned out to be 3 hours is an order of magnitude incorrect. But, I guess that is where the saying "Close enough for government work" comes from.

Edited January 11, 2008 by Bobalouie

[mox 298]

Good post Bobalouie. I think the frustrating thing right now is that either:

CSC approvals have slowed down to a statistical zero.

-or-

CSC are not updating cases online.

In either case, because the data has completely dried up, we have no way of knowing where CSC stands. If they're not updating cases online, then for all we know they could be right up there with VSC, meaning that September filers might actually be being approved. If it's the former case, then...well then #######.

I agree with you that customer service are not to be trusted. Although I take the view that the customer service people are only as good as the tools they are provided by management, and those tools are #######. Your situation is a perfect case in point. I believe the rep told you exactly what he knew, and what he had been told to say in that situation. I.e., I think his computer showed that you were not approved yet, so the default answer based on your filing date was a couple months out. Had he been provided a tool that showed roughly where in the "queue" you were, he could have given you a much more granular answer. It really must be as disheartening for them as it is for us. I mean, they've got to know their tools are #######.

I don't really have a right to be too upset right now though. I'm still well inside the approval curve, and while I'm jealous as hell that you're sitting on the other side of that curve I'll try to be patient and let the process run its course. That's right, I've decided to take the high road and have abandoned my Bobalouie voodoo doll project. For now.

[Bobalouie 0]

'preciate the voodoo abandonment Mox. I can screw things up plenty well enough on my own, I dont need you with your hocus-pocus helping me

[mox 298]

[sofia2009 1]

where's my NOA2?

[mox 298]

where's my NOA2?

Don't worry, it's still a bit early. You filed through Vermont so I'm sure it's very close now.