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Yeah, I keep the Weekly tab open rather than the Daily one too – I'll glance at Daily, but trying to predict the variances between daily progress makes me a little crazy. It was a good week at the immigration factory this week though!

I'll let someone with more experience answer that – I would personally make a new one out of pure anxiety, but that's me, and you may not need to! Good luck!

I believe the consulate has the authority to extend the validity of a NOA2. Pretty sure all you need to do is get new letters of intent to marry from you and your partner (signed) and take them to the interview with you. Congrats on getting your interview scheduled!

I am currently living in Halifax, NS as a temporary foreign worker, and have been since May 2022. I'm fairly sure this means that when I go back to England for my eventual interview, I will need a Canadian police certificate. Does anyone have any tips on securing the correct certificate, since I gather a lot of people end up with the wrong one? I've heard something about Commissionaires maybe being able to help? Sorry that this is such a wide-ranging question, and thank you in advance for all your help.

Thank you for this – it does make sense, and it's extremely useful to have this insight into how things happen further down the road. You are also totally right that I need to breathe and focus on what's in front of me! The joy of Visajourney is that so many people have already done everything I'm doing; there's such a lot of wisdom here and it is a comfort.

I am so apprehensive about what comes after this stage – like, at least at this point in the journey we have dedicated data-gathering projects, you know? There's a degree of insight, even if it's limited and imperfect. I've seen how long wait times are at the field office we'll probably be using for AoS/RoC (San Francisco) and it fills me with anxiety. Sending you strength.

I don't pray and never really have, but god, imagine if they did that!

Yeah, some absolute scenes on the spreadsheet today! I remain super grateful for all the insights (and how about March getting over 5000, right?).

Yeah, we were heavily spooked by the levels of AP at Montreal! There's an entire subthread in the Canada regional forum about it. The letter to USCIS is already on the way, on the advice of the lawyer we consulted, but I agree with you that NVC will be the route that actually works, haha.

This is really helpful – I am also not resident in the UK right now (temporarily on a working holiday in Canada), so it's a big relief to know that citizenship is what matters. To update anyone still following this thread, we did send a letter to USCIS indicating that I intend to relocate back to the UK before our case goes to the consulate. I have no idea if they will do anything about it, or if we'll hear anything either way. But whatever happens, we plan to submit an inquiry to NVC about it when we get to that point. (We're K-1, so the DQ date won't be a problem for us.)

There was some talk in another thread about the numbers from the past few days showing up soon! I don't know exactly how reliable that all is, but hopefully you're right and the cases will be added to the system soon.

The breath of relief I just unleashed! Oh my god I did not realise how reliant I had become on the regular supply of data. Huge thanks to @Obllak and everyone else working to stay on top of it – you really do make things more bearable, at least for me.

Comfortably over 200 cases every day! I'm so excited!

Yeah, I read the Q1 post the other night and was briefly startled by the estimated backlog until I realised how early Q1 is for USCIS. Hopefully Q2 (or more likely Q3) will look better on paper?

They actually did hit 4700 in March! I'm amazed and hoping the pace keeps up for April.

The whole process can be so demoralising, but you aren't alone! Your fiancé is in it with you—I take a lot of strength in knowing that I'm not doing any of this by myself—and this community is such a source of insight and affirmation, too. It's normal to feel hopeless, but the stories from people who have made it through the process are a great reminder that it's worth the stress and the waiting to be with the person you love. Hold fast! We're all rooting for you.

Yeah, we went into K1 with a pretty clear understanding of the drawbacks and advantages of each process. Ultimately, we figured that being apart while actually married would be more depressing than being apart while engaged. We were also really aware of having been together for a relatively short time (like, months) and of only having met in person very shortly before we filed our I-129F. K1 has given us a bit of breathing room to ascertain that yes, we really want to do this! We've been able to 'rehearse' cohabiting, if only for relatively short periods at a time, and we've had some opportunities to travel together (a real stress test for a relationship). I understand why IR1/CR1 is less of a financial burden, in the end, but I stand by our decision to take this route; we feel so much more certain of our commitment, and it will make getting married that much more of a sure thing for us.

I have been so cagey about joining K1 FB groups and it is... I mean, obviously grim and kind of sad to know they're basically what I expected, but also a relief that I haven't invested any time into them. It's been such a relief to find VisaJourney, and honestly this thread in particular – you all are as interested in the data of it all as I am, plus there's a culture of supporting each other's progress rather than tearing it down. Happy to be here with you all!

I just saw yesterday's numbers on the spreadsheet and came racing over here to celebrate with you all! A dent!! I don't want to get too excited prematurely (I'm a June 22 filer, I assume I have a good number of months still to go) but we have to seize the little victories, right?

Yeah, I think that's a good compromise! For our part, my fiancé has been married before, and I honestly never considered marriage for myself until I fell in love with someone in another country – so I don't think either of us is placing a huge amount of weight on the day itself. It will be enough to spend it with our loved ones and know it's the start of the rest of our lives together! (We are also very lucky in that San Francisco's city hall is stunning, haha.)

I am so amazed that you all have concrete wedding plans! My fiancé and I are probably just going to go to City Hall with his family – hopefully that will save us a little money after everything we'll be spending on immigration. I would really like to get a nice suit tailored for the special day if I can, though? Like, even if we're not doing a capital-c Ceremony, I think that would be nice to have.

Right! What's wild is that July was the date we were originally expecting it to be (we filed in the halcyon days of 13.5-month wait times), so this is less 'progress' than it is 'a reset of our expectations.' But I had resigned myself to an inevitable September/October NOA2 date, so this is really nice to know!

Oh my god I could hear something by July?? I will admit I am a bit emotionally labile today but I genuinely could cry; this is such a wonderful projection and I hope it's real!

Not great, but there are inevitably going to be ebbs and flows – we know next week will probably be lower, too, but based on the Monthly tab on the spreadsheet, even a slow week next week will put February on a par with January for cases processed. And February's a shorter month! I'm still cautiously optimistic about the overall trends, despite the slight lag this week.

Honestly I'm kind of with you – I'm on a working holiday in Canada right now and am counting on the NOA2 taking at least another half a year, so I can get back to the UK for processing without losing too much of my time here. Also I love predictability, which is to say this entire process is already messing with me! I do not need it to mess with me more.