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Feb26 is still waiting... 💔

Feb 26th...still waiting. Sending warm thoughts.

On the 20th August began many feb 23 approvals, I saw it by searching a feb 23 case number on the case track app, filtering by chronological order and then by i-129f, there's several pages of approvals and RFE from the 20th-30th august showing that they're starting to process that day consistently, presuming they'll resume this week too since the holiday for the US is over now. Keep your head up!

fab.29 filed. March 1st NOA1. no movement, still waiting.

Feb 26th...still waiting. Sending warm thoughts.

Feb 26th...still waiting. Sending warm thoughts.

Feb23 still waiting ... 💔

Y'ALL!!! We got approved yesterday. My fiancé just showed me. Apparently they are working! We did not get an email though, we had to check the USCIS website. 

We got approved!! 23rd August!!! Just a week before we would hit 6 months!
 
I knew being patient would pay off!! 
 
March 4 filer!

As much as it sucks and I am upset and mad and it's unfair, they do say the process can take up to a year and we personally were prepared for that to be the case when we filed. No one can control USCIS and there's genuinely nothing we can do, it'll happen when it happens. I know we all miss our partners etc but at some point you have to focus on the positive.
 
The official USCIS estimations have reduced; used to be 12 months, then 11.5 months, now it currently displays 10 months. In addition, my inquiry date (filed March 4) is now April 25th 2025, whereas it was originally June 26th 2025. It's reduced 3 times so far and so that's good news.
 
I know a lot of us thought it would be a fast process because it was for the majority of the 2024 filers, but we personally didn't base too much dependency on that happening; USCIS is so unpredictable and even historically you can see that. It's not fair and it's not right, but please remember to put your health first; I'm not saying don't be sad or mad, but being too angry etc it'll only affect your health more. I know it's easier said than done, but I know first hand how bad my mental health was getting in the last few weeks and I really just took a step back & realised that it'll all be okay. 
 
I hope you guys will be okay, I worry about people a lot because I know it's such a struggle. 
Hang in there

Normally I'd agree but it wouldn't make much sense to do that for just 2 months. (April and May) where the majority of the really fast approvals, including the end week of March, but the election is in November. It doesn't make much sense to say hey look how fast we are, when they were only (currently) fast for less than 2 months. There's still hundreds waiting from April and May too. & The fact they haven't begun June and afterwards yet means it wont be that fast either, those filers already waited 2 months + now, and they've shown no signs of beginning June still - yet. In order to actually make themselves look better they'd need to keep it up for longer than what they have.
 
It's realistically probably more likely they did it to attract more filers. USCIS is funded entirely off of visa submission fees, it isn't a tax funded organisation. So by making the processing times seem faster by skewing their data (skipping thousands between Jan and March) in favor of processing April and May at extremely fast rates, the filers from the end of May, June and July and now August, are a lot of the by-product of "omg it is so fast now lets apply and we'll be together in 2 months max". The amount of filers I've seen on reddit that purposely filed recently because they were convinced it'll be fast because of the movement in April and May is actually crazy + their increase in fees = USCIS being very happy right now.
 
Another factor in them slowing down could be the fact they are moving offices in California. The CSC is moving to a different location in California and I'm assuming on some level this would contribute to the slowing down in general of CSC productivity - this was announced in late around June-July, which is where the processing activity really slowed down. They used to process on average 1.7k cases per month, then the end of May hit and now it barely hits an average of 800.
 
But they still haven't processed June - which, for a lot of us in the facebook March filer group, think is a good sign. I hope that skipped period gets processed before September ends. I'll be happy with that still. It's really all dependent on whether they continue to focus on previous months instead of June. 
 
Honestly just hope to see approvals from that time soon - even if it isn't our case; I'd just be happy to see the people who are hurting to get approved, like they deserve. 
 
Hang in there guys ❤️ 

so my fiancée found this video in one of her GC's and linked it to me. a video by TMVN attempting to explain the "unusual delay"
the long short of it more or less is, our dates were skipped for some unknown reason, but since June and July approvals "SEEM" to be slowing down, then it "MIGHT" mean that they're going back and looking at the cases from our timeline. at least that's the "HOPE"
 
so all in all, basically a whole lot of nothing and empty hopes with no solid proof of actual progress.
it really baffles me that there's no like, ex-uscis workers who have insider info. maybe they sign a NDA when they leave, i dunno.
just frustrated

Honestly it is a huge joke at that point, mine said May 17th 2024 and June 25th 2024.. I filed march 4th & I'm seeing approvals from late May now.. even in the 20s! But the specific last week of February and first week of march are literally untouched. My inquiry date is 15th June 2025 and that's ridiculous, I know people in the past waited over  a year etc but come on, the times have clearly sped up, if people are being approved from filing in late May which is just around a month ago or less, why are we left waiting more than 4 months, it's all the cases in specific time slots, first week of march end week of feb.. how is that fair. just because we filed in a certain week?
 
I don't know, the process has definitely made me salty/bitter. & I know people say people before waited over a year be patient etc and ok yeah but that was covid, backlogs etc etc, if there is mass approvals in under 60 days why are we waiting with no ability to inquiry or see why we are being skipped etcetc? the wild thing was seeing an approval in under a month.. I'm at 4 months now. Like seriously? It's so depressing.
 
We pay the fee too, we file earlier yet we get ignored and left behind simply because we fall in a specific week they decide "yeah that time frame can wait"..? what logic is that

I have a theory on this especially seeing the dates mentioned on this post. I had the same issue end of January filer. On track my visa now I noticed all weeks in January were processed fairly quick but then February started with no progress on the last week in January even some March started. I'm thinking they have a fast track and a slow trackfor procesing and applications coming in the last week of the month are slow tracked. This could just be a coincidence but I might recomend anyone about to file towards end of month wait a bit and file early the next month.

That's what we thought to but kinda different - a bunch of us filers from the first week of March (1st until 6th) have a theory that they just cut a % of cases regularly and consider them backlogs - kinda like what you said like a different pile. it's random etc. Since last week of Feb experienced the same as the first week of March. We think that those cases get randomly set into a different pile & processed at a slower rate. So, the majority or normal cases are being approved and they're currently approving April/may filers, even some June, as a fast rate, some even under 40 days, then there's the other pile considered 'backlogs' that get approved at a seriously slower rate than the newer cases. 
 
The way you said is really the only logical explanation - there is no way the cases being left behind are as a result of slower workers, there's hundreds if not a few thousand cases between Jan, Feb and March that are untouched, especially Feb and March having entire weeks (last week feb and first week march) completely untouched. There's no way that slow workers are responsible for that amount of cases haha. It can definitely contribute to it, but it can't possibly be the entire reason.
 
Hopefully they go back / start speeding up soon - it's comforting in some ways to see that we aren't alone, but it is darn emotionally challenging to work through and especially for those who have severe anxiety. I wish us all the best & will pray! ❤️ 

it really is such a joke. we just heard about someone's case getting approved in barely over a month. all the while those of us from this super specific timeframe are stuck waiting while they just ignore our piles of cases and fast track everyone else. i'm not sure if i should assume incompetence or just malice. either seems likely. while these people get approved in barely over 30 days, we're expected to what, wait 2 years?
and i'm not allowed to submit an inquiry until MAY of 2025? what a joke. take the money and then look the other way it seems. 
 
"Based on timeline data, your I129f may be adjudicated between May 27, 2024 and June 20, 2024*."
well that came and went, didn't it?

Unfortunately I'm in the same situation! Filed February 26th and received my NOA1 by the 29th...now silenced. It helps to know I'm not alone in being skipped but doesn't make the waiting easier. If anyone from this batch receives their next notification can you let us know? 

I-129F NOA1 dated February 28th, 2024; Somewhat disheartening that April filers are getting approvals, but there haven't been any indications of progress on our end.
***removed due to spam*** seems to indicate hardly any cases from the two weeks or so spanning our NOA1 date have been processed, even though the majority of cases before and after have been approved, and casestatusext.com says that relatively few cases from our batch (WAC-249-005) are being processed now.
 

 
I imagine that they do this because of some internal metrics for time to case approval that they're trying to reach, and processing more recently filed cases will improve their median time to case approval.
I suppose there's nothing that can be done other than to keep waiting and hope they eventually pick ours up from the pile, and I just wanted to vent my frustrations, but I suppose it would be nice if anyone had any useful experiences to share.
 
Obviously many people have waited much longer, but it seems we've gotten at least somewhat unlucky...