Nikobe

Like every Tuesday to be honest.

You do not need to cry for 99% of those because it happens for a reason. After all, this entire process is about the country's due diligence on immigrants and family-based categories are usually the most "dangerous" in terms of fraud.

I'll bump this up. Is anybody scanning for February? I think it should be time for some movement.

They are still working on November with roughly 30 daily cases but they will likely start February very soon, maybe even next week. I can promise you however that they will not start March together with February.

Putting things into context is not aiming at taking away your happiness. The less filers the faster the process for your own case.

January is one of the months with the fewest filers - that is why it's already low. Total filers were 3280 compared to 4425 in March 22 for instance.

A dent 😳 The tiniest dent we may have ever seen but it is still a dent 🤪

From the FB group (scanned a couple of minutes ago): Approved 17; RFE 4; RFE response 19; Withdrawn 1 Total Updates: 41

Insane to finally see approvals below 14 months - so cool! Makes me hopeful to see my own approval in June as a May filer.

That is based on VJ users updating their timelines. I hope that people with NOA2 have other priorities than that 😅

The spreadsheet includes closed cases (approvals, denials and withdrawals), while most of the daily scans on VJ includes touched cases (including RFEs, RFERs, etc.). The spreadsheet is therefore a better prediction of a decrease in overall backlog. The problem is that it also includes backlog reductions that are located behind most of our cases (i.e. denials for Jan'23 filers). The estimated wait time is a great sheet for everybody who's interested in seeing how many cases (cases received, RFEs, etc.) are still "open" in front of them. I have seen a lot of people trying to get as close as possible to actively tracking the entirety of the USCIS backlog and this spreadsheet definitely comes closest. As this is a December forum, I do not think it makes much sense for you guys as you have users doing great charts to track that specific month. In case of any further questions, you can write the editors themselves: contact: Telegram and Reddit @Obllak (Nikä Obllak), e-mail: nika.sumer@gmail.com

Super Bowl Monday + Valentine’s Day are major days for people to call in sick or leave early.

All filers (2021 - 2023)

Based on the I-129F Report:

They do not show different processing times for K-1 category. It is solely that the I129F is also used for K3s and K4s. For those, I129Fs are processed at all service centers. Here is the page where they indicate the allocation of service centers: https://www.uscis.gov/forms/all-forms/service-center-forms-processing

Your NOA number starts with the unique SC identifier “WAC” which stands for the CSC. All K1-related I129Fs are assigned to the CSC.

My initial thought was based on the "early" denials (clear filing errors that lead to immediate denial (lack of money etc.)). 74 approvals/denials/withdrawals from their sheet are post-May 22 filers based on their database from Wednesday onwards --> file: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lccWAt0D7eMrs70E4507TJias9fTFEwj5grxU5TbQlQ/edit#gid=0.

In addition to the 878 approvals, there are 188 withdrawals and denials (mostly for Jan 23 and Feb 23 filers, I guess) - I would not necessarily count them as a backlog reduction for myself because they are most likely located behind my case (May 22). They also gave access to their detailed database records: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lccWAt0D7eMrs70E4507TJias9fTFEwj5grxU5TbQlQ/edit#gid=0 Their work is honestly insane to me. It is the first complete data base I have come across and I have therefore just donated.

They have now succeeded. I reckon that the spreadsheet is the most complete data base out there at the moment. They are supposedly scanning all months from January 2021 until January 2023 filers, which is insane work. Total approvals were 878, which would mean a decrease in backlog.

For Super Bowl Monday, this isn't bad at all. I expected way worse.

Everybody had a lot of trouble scanning due to tools outage.

Everybody had a lot of trouble scanning due to tools outage.

Why would the USCIS processing times exclude expedites in the first place? They are approvals, too. 🤷

They are processing 1,000 cases a week vs. previously 400 cases without caring about I129F?? Make it make sense.

It is number of touched cases (including RFEs).