sonnyboy0323

it's very difficult to be patient and stay positive when there's those like myself and others like me who's cases have been very obviously skipped over, waiting for just about 150 days at this point, while others get their NOA2 in barely over a month. 
but congrats to you, all the best.
if i may ask, how was the CFO process? did they ask for a certificate of no marriage and police/fbi clearance for the petitioner? 

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

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

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

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

Feb23 still waiting ... 💔

Man, they're sure knocking those cases out right? 
How's that "rapid clip" going there buddy? 

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!

Still waiting for my case (march 4) to get approved, but there were several approvals from Feb 23 (the first of the skipped days) on friday of last week. Waiting to see what happens this week; they also started approving the first day of June (3rd). 
 
Also seriously this thread in general is just so comical - complaining the process is "so" fast and you want to slow it down, where's the consideration lol, some of us are STILL waiting and have had to continuously watch people who filed months after us get approved whilst we wait and have no movement for our entire week. talk abut complaining about having it good 

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Folks, we've all felt like cursing, punching walls, and worse during this infernal process.  It's perfectly understandable to express frustration, but please do so in family-friendly fashion.
 
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They've probably done it because it's an election year. Apparently rhe K-1 isn't the only type of application where they've moved on to new cases and pushed old ones to the side. Now that the "average" time is lower, they can say "look how well we've done getting processing times down!" I still find our cases to be a strange exception though..

Yeah really the unfairness and the lack of communication is more frustrating than the wait.   Feb 23 here.    But for us, both of us are small wallet peasants who’s struggling to put together our proof of financial support thing     So skipping us over is actually giving us an extra month or two to get to that 125% poverty line number.  Blessing in disguise for us maybe?

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

a K1 group chat my fiancée is in posted this message that they received from what i assume to be any one of those visa tracker programs.
what an absolute joke. and absolutely no accountability. again i ask, is this malice, or just incompetence? or is it because they can do whatever the hell they want and we have no power because they hold all the cards with their noses in the air and their fingers up their "rear".
 
i understand being patient, being positive and hoping and praying, but at some point enough is enough and positivity just doesn't cut it anymore. this is obviously some kind of anomaly and we have every right to be pissed about this. why us? because we weren't aware that its a "super duper oopsie" to file in this super specific timeframe? "oops, too bad" its so tiring, more than that, its infuriating. get your "stuff" together.

Don't get hung up on just the visa processing time. While getting a CR-1 visa may take a few more months, it will allow you to start working, driving, etc, immediately after arrival in the US. With the K-1, you will basically be stuck at home for many months after arrival.
 
And to get back to your original question: the chance of winning the DV lottery is very small, so don't count on it. Your marriage-based immigration option has a much higher chance of success, so don't wait to find out the DV lottery results.

The timing difference may have been true many years ago.  Right now, K-1 and CR-1 are both taking 1-2 years.  CR-1 is the far superior way to go.

LMAO where are you pulling that from? thin air? there's still TONS of late feb-early march cases that are just sitting there skipped. 
 
"rapid clip" LMAO what a joke. still at a screeching halt. and the best part is those of us with PH beneficiaries are SOL because the medical exam cost is going up in August, and we have no choice but to pay because we were unlucky enough to file in this HYPER SPECIFIC set of dates that just got skipped for no good reason, with no communication or explanation. but yeah, we should just be all smiles and give USCIS all the kudos and backpats while a we wait, and a decent number of filers AFTER us, get approved before us, and in barely over a month at that. yeah, good. 👍

it's very difficult to be patient and stay positive when there's those like myself and others like me who's cases have been very obviously skipped over, waiting for just about 150 days at this point, while others get their NOA2 in barely over a month. 
but congrats to you, all the best.
if i may ask, how was the CFO process? did they ask for a certificate of no marriage and police/fbi clearance for the petitioner? 

it's very difficult to be patient and stay positive when there's those like myself and others like me who's cases have been very obviously skipped over, waiting for just about 150 days at this point, while others get their NOA2 in barely over a month. 
but congrats to you, all the best.
if i may ask, how was the CFO process? did they ask for a certificate of no marriage and police/fbi clearance for the petitioner? 

Feel exactly the same. March 4 filer here, part of the skipped period, and there is still no movement from our week, only expedite approval cases. The approvals from march and Feb are just dates that are already mostly approved already, not the untouched days. & USCIS doesn't want to acknowledge that at all and just pretends like nothings going on with it. Meanwhile there has been mass approvals in May and a lot of them under 50 days.

LMAO where are you pulling that from? thin air? there's still TONS of late feb-early march cases that are just sitting there skipped. 
 
"rapid clip" LMAO what a joke. still at a screeching halt. and the best part is those of us with PH beneficiaries are SOL because the medical exam cost is going up in August, and we have no choice but to pay because we were unlucky enough to file in this HYPER SPECIFIC set of dates that just got skipped for no good reason, with no communication or explanation. but yeah, we should just be all smiles and give USCIS all the kudos and backpats while a we wait, and a decent number of filers AFTER us, get approved before us, and in barely over a month at that. yeah, good. 👍

My observation is that if the counselor somehow decides to make things difficult for a particular applicant then they can totally do that.  They CAN make up rules as they go along. Your guess is as good as anyone's about what ticked them off.  The best course of action to put on a big smile and just play along with whatever the ask for and get it over with.  It's no use trying to second guess them.

The original article is here: 
https://www.ueunion.org/ue-news/2024/service-contract-act-locals-fight-for-jobs-effective-immigration-process?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2Q3vx_D0ESEzAJMgbanb-AQLMKWJ2UVCZVi25QwaXqz-htrOhozxOtvW4_aem_GC8BOOlfRY5Oqo6bNRPG9w
 
But this article is EXTREMELY incorrect and spreading misinformation.
UE Local 1008 means contract workers for USCIS not permanent jobs..
 
 
Those were not federal case workers.
There's a USCIS employee who responded to that original article and said 
 
"This article is misleading at best. The workers who were "laid off" are NOT federal employees. They do not adjudicate cases. They are federal contractors. USCIS just opted to not renew the contract and instead hire more officers.
 
Also, officers are not non-union workers. We have our own union." 
 
"They were contractors. Not Federal employees. USCIS did not lay off any employees the contracting company did." 
USCIS didn't fire those employees, they decided not to renew a contract for federal contractors.
 
And that 
 
"CSC is moving but it isn't moving to Texas, it is moving to a different office in California"
 
 
Also for some context USCIS is not a government funded organisation / agency. It is ran entirely off of the fees that people pay to submit their applications. 
 
& also those employees that were "laid off" that happened even before USCIS slowed down.

Thanks for the reference.   It sounds like this is not a permanent reduction in cases.  I am sure there will be a temporary disruption but once things settle down; everything will be good.  It is just a pain because those of us that are affected feel cheated.  However, in the big picture, what is a few months delay?  Nothing really.