I mean sure, I will keep my expectations to May but like I said before, I hope for April. Of course I am going to hope for an earlier approval, why on Earth would I hope for a later one?
I don't really see how group number, which is determined by chronological order of submission, wouldn't be based on chronology aka time submitted. the 58500 group is mostly March so if they are moving to March submissions, would it not make sense to hope that mostly March groups are handled at the time they are processing mostly March cases? Yes there are times when cases get lost and/or delayed and to be fair, the process USCIS goes through to approve or deny cases does appear to be a mystery, but the script that has been floating around several different forums on VisaJourney has routinely shown that if your case is within a certain group that is currently being processed or will soon be processed, your application is likely to be processed soon as well. Instead of running that script, I asked someone what group they were a part of. Is it a dead giveaway of if USCIS will be processing the group my application is a part of? Absolutely not. But it shows they are very close and that was what I was looking for., the potential to begin on the group I am a part of soon.
Most people here have reasonable understandings of USCIS processes and what they should expect as far as timelines go, especially because if you generate your timeline, it tells you your anticipated approval timeframe on your own profile. I can read, I don't need someone to tell me the statistics or remind me I have to waste more months waiting on top of the dozen I already have. I am not sure what prompted you to reply to my message about being excited to have my fiancée home earlier than expected without even a reason about why that hope is unjustified, but instead to just temper my expectations. My expectations were tempered when I signed up for over a year of waiting to marry my fiancée, consider them sufficiently damped.
With the number of people who usually come to me, and I'm sure many other people in this forum, trying to ask why we decided on one type of visa application vs another or asking why the process is taking so long or in general just cajoling the nitpicky knowledge associated with this long, dehumanizing process of immigration in this country, I would hope members of the community would have the decency to let others feel excited about the possibility of being reunited again without trying to find a way to minimize that reaction and make them feel less than.
I am expecting May, yes, thanks for the reminder it could be 57 more days.
But I am hoping for April. Hopefully that doesn't require a reminder of further frustration this time.