AndiB

agree with this. The early 2021 are a mystery though. I never see filers from then who are still waiting so it's unclear what the situation is, whether they're 'active' cases or something happened that we're unaware of. If these include RFEs, many get an RFE and never respond and it can take months+ for USCIS to circle back and change the status to denied.

it was one approval. It happens sometimes, always has. It's literally one in thousands. Either something in her case was not obvious to us or it was a simple USCIS error. 1 in 4k+ is a really really small % error. I understand it's unfair but it's not like they're skipping you for jan 2023. We don't know the USCIS process but cases require background checks etc which will take different times for different applicants, even a straight forward applicant can have a slow security check. There's also diff case workers that work at diff speeds. April started a lil over a month ago. That's barely a delay at all in terms of paperwork/processing. It obviously feels like a long wait, totally valid but on paper...it's totally normal and they're not 'choosing' to just leave you behind.

It exists but since they converted to a website, it is not allowed to be shared on here 🤷‍♂️ I would ask in an fb group or other K1 site

it increased a few months ago as well then came back down. Am curious to see if it will stay or if they'll readjust

Maybe the decrease is still too recent 🤔

I check regularly and you always seem to catch it first 😂 Honestly surprised the median is still so high

I'm so sorry about the news. I just want to add incase it does become an issue, you can't marry on a k1 while delaying the process. You will become ineligible for the k1 and would have to switch to spousal. You can only marry after being granted and entering US on visa.

June has started! Still on the new month every 3 weeks trend

Yeah has to be a glitch

Even with holiday, what a week!!

That's crazy, there's even a part of the form that asks if they're currently in the country. Why are lawyers like this 😭 Hopefully with speed up, the delay won't be too felt

Every immigration process I've been through has a 'window' you expect to get an answer. It's usually a few months between earliest you can expect it and latest. I'm pretty sure the k1 has always had some variance but obviously it's worse at the moment as they try to speed through and get times down. They're still actively working on April and only started April a lil over a month ago. The average atm seems to be 13-15months so you're still very much in the normal time. I know it sucks and I think it especially hurts early 2022 filers as you weren't due such a long wait at filling so every additional bit of wait is extra felt. I would try not to focus on people who had late approvals, majority are after RFEs and for the odd one that had no RFE, we can't truly know their situation. You're almost at the finish line 🙏

They're still processing mostly in order so how does LIFO make sense? The number of approvals 'ahead' of the queue are minimal

Yup. Prob start June in about a week

Ah i thought that may be what you meant and I didn't know which is why i didn't originally answer (+buried at work) I think you can get a good idea based off 'what months are they working on' 'by day'

Over 5800 processed this month so do I win wheel of fortune 😂 Also my vj estimate decreased a lot over night. Almost fully in nov where i was still in dec yday

Hover over the month on website and it'll say

agree, I think we see a peak on Mon/Tues usually from weekend work. For whatever reason approvals don't get filed on non-work days while RFEs etc go through so seems people work then submit it in system on a normal work day. (ie Sat-Mon approvals filed Tues leading to peak)

420 today 👀 Wouldn't expect it a new norm as may be people working over long weekend but wooh! We passed 5500 with one more day to go

Thanks @Boilerand @Chancy ! I'll get both to be safe. I'm visiting my birth country in a few months and application is far easier in person so may just go for it rather than panic after interview if it's an issue. Seems may be a case of if interviewer decides to care rather than 100% not req.

ah maybe I should just say in case anyone knows birth country: South Africa (dubious nationality situation) second nationality: new zealand

Any way to check or maybe best to just try and get both to be safe? My brith country is a bit of a nightmare but second country seems straight forward-ish

Hiya, I've asked around and gotten different answers so hoping the more experienced folks here or someone in a similar situation will know. I was born in another country, left age 11 and lived in a second country until I was 15. I have not returned as a resident to either. I still have citizenship to the second country. I will be interviewing for K1 in London, my current nationality and home. I know I need a police report for UK and any country I resided in post-age 16 but I've seen people get refused pending documents for countries they haven't lived in since under 16. It seems due to fact either they don't have UK nationality (settled status) or because they have nationality for another country. My question is, will I need a police check for the first and/or second country? One is my birth country and the other I hold active nationality for. Once again, I know what the embassy website says but it doesn't explain why people are being asked for criminal records for countries they haven't lived in since like age 11 so some detail is missing here...

COVID has been added to the regular schedule of vaccines (that Hep-B, MMR, Polio and Tetnus are a part of) so I don't see it getting removed for AOS requirement. They've basically classed it as mandatory and expected. Obv people can refuse to get their kids vaccinated with MMR etc but an immigrant can't unless they manage to get a waiver. People equating it being dropped from travel req with immigration are equating completely different risk assessments. The US wants tourists and to allow families to visit each other, they do not care about immigrants. As vaccines are not required for non-immigrant, this spares workers needing it so wont' affect visas related to economy. Tl;dr: it is *highly* unlikely COVID is being removed any time soon as it sits in the same class as MMR, Hep-b, polio and tetnus which are required of immigrants. As far as I can see the immigration vaccine list = the routine vaccine schedule list. source: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html

Was shared on fb, main points here are gc and work auth. So happy to see work auth decreasing!! Haven't followed gc so can't comment on how it's varied