Not In-Line Approvals??

[gogo 6]

good luck kalina!! I hope that you get to NVC as soon as possible.. I see that after you get to NVC (and out of USCIS), everything goes much smoother... usually about 1 month to the interview time?? that would be awesome to have for you... you applied in February, so October (end of October) will be nice to have... so a total of 8 months time... I was thinking of everything to be done within 8 months for me too.. guess we will see.. I put an estimate of "April 2008" (1 year) for me, but hopefully it won't come to that...

[pushbrk 12,569]

good luck kalina!! I hope that you get to NVC as soon as possible.. I see that after you get to NVC (and out of USCIS), everything goes much smoother... usually about 1 month to the interview time?? that would be awesome to have for you... you applied in February, so October (end of October) will be nice to have... so a total of 8 months time... I was thinking of everything to be done within 8 months for me too.. guess we will see.. I put an estimate of "April 2008" (1 year) for me, but hopefully it won't come to that...

I guess I'll keep plugging this key fact until somebody listens or my head bleads from pounding against the wall.

The whole premise that approvals come in the order of petition receipt is false. Cases are processed in order. They are not approved in order. From NOA1 to NOA3 is a multiple stage process with multiple activities involving multiple staff members. At any stage the processing time can vary. The widest variations may well be with security checks.

As a result, even two petitions a specific staff member first sees within minute of each other, can have approval dates that are weeks or potentially months apart.

[mayfiler 0]

good luck kalina!! I hope that you get to NVC as soon as possible.. I see that after you get to NVC (and out of USCIS), everything goes much smoother... usually about 1 month to the interview time?? that would be awesome to have for you... you applied in February, so October (end of October) will be nice to have... so a total of 8 months time... I was thinking of everything to be done within 8 months for me too.. guess we will see.. I put an estimate of "April 2008" (1 year) for me, but hopefully it won't come to that...

I guess I'll keep plugging this key fact until somebody listens or my head bleads from pounding against the wall.

The whole premise that approvals come in the order of petition receipt is false. Cases are processed in order. They are not approved in order. From NOA1 to NOA3 is a multiple stage process with multiple activities involving multiple staff members. At any stage the processing time can vary. The widest variations may well be with security checks.

As a result, even two petitions a specific staff member first sees within minute of each other, can have approval dates that are weeks or potentially months apart.

I guess what you say is right or atleast lets hope that is right, else it would be quiet screwed up process, i agree to the pt where different case officers can take different times to process, for one officer the case can be quiet simple and for other it mite need more evidence, but what is disturbing is that if all of them are processed in same order then atleast we should see our cases touched , but there are some filers from april and may with no touches and some june have started to get approved ....oh well i guess we just gotta wait it out ...i think after about 4 months the frustration starts building up ...knowing that u still have nvc and the visa interview ..