Steven.Plant

Alot of delays with Air China Flyts. The pilots can make up most of time in the air. So it works out to departing later but arriving almost on time. I have had 2 unexpected layovers at PEK one 6 hours and one 26 hours. Winter time bad weather for the long one. So i would have a carry on with the right stuff to spend a night handy. You should be ok, But I go thru Hong Kong now.

No, i dont want to slow anyone down. I'm happy for anyone that gets approved.
I just think the USCIS could do alot better in this day and age of the internet and scaned files. Letting things slow down this much is not what good managers do. Not over and over at least.
Heartless that the K3's dont process as fast as the K1 are lately. Thats not a luck of the draw, volume based problem.
I think we should be careful to not fight each other (meaning the CR1/IR1 vs the K1 or F2a,s). Like horses bitting each other in a burning barn.
What we all need is more people working at USCIS getting the work done in a timely manner for everyone.

No, i dont want to slow anyone down. I'm happy for anyone that gets approved.
I just think the USCIS could do alot better in this day and age of the internet and scaned files. Letting things slow down this much is not what good managers do. Not over and over at least.
Heartless that the K3's dont process as fast as the K1 are lately. Thats not a luck of the draw, volume based problem.
I think we should be careful to not fight each other (meaning the CR1/IR1 vs the K1 or F2a,s). Like horses bitting each other in a burning barn.
What we all need is more people working at USCIS getting the work done in a timely manner for everyone.

hahahahaha......Well said. Me too

I have studied this somemore, the transfers I mean. First let me say that this is just what I think and subject to input from others. I did a search for who contracts to do work for the USCIS.
Now I think that the files are moved a truck load at a time from some warehouse out to the NBC and service centers. At the rate of a truck a week. Maybe 3 trucks to three service centers per week, something like that. There is a contractor (FCI Federal) that sorts and handles the files and packs them on pallets for the truck drivers to load and then they seal the truck and send it on. The Boxes of Files are sorted with Bar Code Readers before being shipped and again each time they are redirected or sorted.
I think it could be that they are shipping 3 weeks worth a week now.
For a long time i thought the USCIS web site was broken, now i see that the USCIS really was just not working on the I-130's for the CR1/IR1's. Now maybe every service center will be.
Sad fact is i know my file is still sitting in that warehouse, never touched yet.

Wow, Stirring the pot? No just asking for a K3, that should be an option for us but is not. K3's are set up to process in 30 days. I see your timeline (got thru to interview in 220 days) so I can understand why you would think this is a matter of months for everyone. But alot of us are now waiting 11 months (or more) just for a NOA2 on the I-130. Then the NVC which is slowing down alot now. But then again, you sound like you got it all figured out so tell me how long is it taking for a CR1-IR-1 today?

Wow, Stirring the pot? No just asking for a K3, that should be an option for us but is not. K3's are set up to process in 30 days. I see your timeline (got thru to interview in 220 days) so I can understand why you would think this is a matter of months for everyone. But alot of us are now waiting 11 months (or more) just for a NOA2 on the I-130. Then the NVC which is slowing down alot now. But then again, you sound like you got it all figured out so tell me how long is it taking for a CR1-IR-1 today?

Wow, Stirring the pot? No just asking for a K3, that should be an option for us but is not. K3's are set up to process in 30 days. I see your timeline (got thru to interview in 220 days) so I can understand why you would think this is a matter of months for everyone. But alot of us are now waiting 11 months (or more) just for a NOA2 on the I-130. Then the NVC which is slowing down alot now. But then again, you sound like you got it all figured out so tell me how long is it taking for a CR1-IR-1 today?

I too have asked this question over and over. If you get an answer with proof please let me know. There are some here that will tell you that it slows the I-130 to match the I-129f. But they will not show you how they know this if you press them for more information.

trying to understand this.
So they are saying that there is a big hurry up now at the field offices? We April filers should be NOA2 in 2-3 weeks? The August and later files are going to be faster at the NBC?
BUT
From now on the USCIS will start telling people that the I-130 will take a year (because it is). So then there is no reason to file for a K3 any more?
So I must be missing the point of them even talking about a K3. You would think it would be "tell you future clients this is a one year waiting process now, so you may want to file for a K3 while your waiting."
I must be missing something, I just dont understand it.

Hi, nice to hear from you.
Our life is on hold and painful now too. We are strong in our love but still even 3 hours a day on the net is in its self a painful situation.
Yes it is crazy that the K3 visa are so hard to get. I think that our government thinks we are all covered by that option and do not understand that we are being cheated out of our rights by the USCIS. A catch 22. I'm sure it is intended to be used by us that are caught up in this forever on hold with no updated information hell. Congress did make it an option with out a filing fee to boot. I have been in total shock since the first time I tried to log on to my case on the USICS site.
I wish the conversation I see were of people bubbling over with excitement and anticipation of their pending life together in the USA. But it is pretty cold helpless feeling most of the time. I think it would be good to share some other things not related to the wait also.