Bh_sarah

The fact you said "in order to get her here quickly" makes me think you might be thinking of AOS on a tourist visa. This is fraud. There is no loophole if you already have immigrant intent. But let's say I misinterpreted you, and you only want to get her a visitor visa in order to just visit you in US. You said she never left the country, so I'm thinking she never had a US visa, correct? So that would be her first time ever applying for an American visa. Right now, waiting times for a visitor visa in Brazil are at 400 days or more. And it's 2 days of interviews now from accounts I heard. You can try speeding it up by constantly checking the website to see if earlier dates opened, but it's luck. Some despachantes (visa agents) promise you to get it quickly but I can't attest to that. Just another perspective. I am on day 436 waiting for my K1 petition to be approved, only planning on being in US by October now. My US tourist visa expired a few months before I applied for K1. I won't even risk renewing it because I am pretty sure it will be a waste of time and $160 (it's almost R$900 here) because I have immigrant intent and have weak ties to my country. I'm young, have an American fiancé, work from home and live with my parents. I have travelled abroad a couple of times and have a tourist visa/work permit from Canada, and I am 99% sure they will deny my renewal (note that there isn't an interview in my case for renewals, I still won't risk it). Her being young, recently graduated, with an American fiancé and living with her parents is a bad sign. When I first got my visitor visa I was also young and going through university, I was also going to travel with my parents, we went to Disney World. The officer gave me a hard time but in the end approved my visa. I don't think this will happen nowadays. The letter you intend to have her present won't mean much to the officer, same as her having crochet business or you being a soldier. You say you intend to get marry in Brazil. Can't get married in Brazil on a K1. But if you do it, apply for a spouse visa. And wait. And wait. And in-between, visit in other countries or come visit her in Brazil, forget about her in US before the spousal visa is in hands. I met my fiancé 2 times in Mexico, but your fiancé will need a visa to enter Mexico though if she doesn't have a US/Canada one. Maybe think of other countries you both can go and is easier for her to enter. We don't need a visa to enter many countries in Europe. Just my two cents being from Brazil, but do listen to all experienced users here on this thread.

This is so useful, thank you!!! I will need to check on Tetanus because it might be over 10 years when I finally get to the medical exam haha And I was really confused about the Varicella one but I had chickenpox when I was 3 years old, so that's why I never needed to take it. The list with no age categories really seems like it's a huge amount of vaccines required but it isn't for adults.

Wow, that age table is super helpful. I feel I may need to have less vaccines than what I was expecting – my childhood records are a bit messy and sometimes the vaccine name translations can be confusing. I also heard that they don't really care about the annual influenza one if your medical exam is on a period where the vaccine isn't available in your country, but I am not super sure about it. Need to research about it. I've found this link that contains the same table of the PDF above, I'll read it in detail when I'm done with work today too. https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/panel-physicians/vaccinations.html#anchor_1505834792677

Oh wow. They did include results after the scans then or maybe after the outage. The custom script scanner also got the same 3 approvals yesterday. Great news!!! I can't wait to scan it again today and see more numbers than I was expecting. Thank you for letting me know!!

It wasn't the tool outage. The tool outage happened way after I scanned. Other scanners got to the same result, only 3 approved. They just moved on from February. I know. I just feel defeated. But we'll get there. Wishing you have good news soon, you and the 6 people in your range also waiting ❤️

Today's numbers [May 3rd, 2023] Terrible day for us, just hitting a new low. Hoping it was just a delay in the system and we'll see others tomorrow, but no hope. Just some notes: I don't really count RFER (received) in the ranges below since it's not an active action from USCIS. Many ranges, including mine, only had RFERs. I also changed the percentage column on the spreadsheet because it was also counting RFEs, which is fine, but I just wanted to see the pending cases with no real action, and that does not include RFEs. Also, the two denials that were removed this week are now back in the system, it was just a lag. 47000 - 1 RFE 47500 - 2 approvals 48500 - 1 withdrawal 49500 - 2 RFEs, 1 withdrawal 50000 - 2 RFEs 56000 - 1 approval Today's totals: 3 new approvals, 5 RFEs, 2 withdrawals Totals so far: 1788(+3) Approved 297 Denied/Rejected 592(+4) RFE/RFERs 546 Pending Cases 151(+2) Withdrawals Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15yTdQDjmS6ik3bPNGmThSc0jFUszsiGcXurI1hT_Jcw/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you, I keep wishing today is the day every single day but seeing April approvals is making me a bit (just a tiny bit, huh?) frustrated. Appreciate it though ❤️ It is super random! And I am also biased being from the 22nd, range 53500, but looking at the numbers every day since they started February, I noticed they started with the first weeks, then when finally the bulk of activity went to the last two weeks, they slowed down to focus on March. If you look at pending numbers on the spreadsheet, there are more pending on the last two weeks, and I know the number of cases in each range differs, but the percentage of pending is also higher on those that filed later. I think you can also see that many early weeks' cases got their approval first, in March, while some later ranges only got more attention in April. But there's no way to predict it. I know people from the 47000s that are still waiting, and ones from the later ranges that got their approvals in the heat of activity. It's a slight, tiiiiny, probability if we want to get too technical about it. As a forgotten later filer, I do obsess about what I could've done differently, unfortunately.

Today's numbers [May 2nd, 2023] No approvals in my range this week yet. Am I going crazy? Yes. I am. 48500 - 2 approvals 49000 - 3 approvals 50000 - 2 approvals 50500 - 3 approvals 51000 - 2 approvals 53500 - 4 RFEs 54000 - 1 RFE 55500 - 4 approvals, 1 RFE, 1 withdrawal 56000 - 5 approvals, 1 withdrawal Today's totals: 21 new approvals, 6 RFEs, 2 withdrawals (& minus another denial for some reason!) Totals so far: 1785(+21) Approved 295(-1)* Denied/Rejected 588(-6) RFE/RFERs 555 Pending Cases 149(+2) Withdrawals Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15yTdQDjmS6ik3bPNGmThSc0jFUszsiGcXurI1hT_Jcw/edit?usp=sharing

Yep, nothing ever is set on stone with USCIS it seems! haha I feel it's even more random on NVC phase when it comes to USCIS sending the case to them. I wish I had not filed late in the month so I had a lower probability of being left behind, but then again I see people from the early weeks still waiting and I could've been one of them. It's a matter of luck. And I never won anything at all even in simple giveaways, so being left behind checks out in my case 😂

I noticed this in February but because I keep a spreadsheet with ranges so it's easy to see it. I wish I had to see those from other months so we can notice a pattern, but I remember seeing this in December too from @mw & rg k1's custom script. Seems those on the last weeks of the month have a higher probability of waiting more time. It's just a higher probability, doesn't mean you can't get an approval when they are actively working on a month or that if you file early you won't be left behind. It also depends on the number of cases in each range, I'm comparing it in percentages though.