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K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsK-1 fiance visa California Processing time

(This is my first post in the forum! yay :star: )

:wow: so you all have a receipt date of July 2012? Oh my gosh :( ... My receipt date for NOA1 is December 24, 2012. I was honestly hoping to get my NOA2 by July 2013 at the latest but seeing as how things are going, that may be wishful thinking... I am doing all I can to contact the ombudsman, my senators, congressman and request for expedite. At least if I exhaust every option then perhaps someone will listen? I wish you all the best of luck and honestly hope that the CSC gets their act together because waiting 8 months for the NOA2 is OUTRAGEOUS , especially when they set their goal at 5 months, and the "average" is 6.6 months.

All the best :)



Well the national average is at 8.9 months and CSC at 7.5 months but we know in most cases now they are taking longer than that. If CSC speeds up, which we are told that they should be doing (when is the question there!) then July isn't out of the question but just do not make any plans that can't be changed.

Yeah it sucks, was hoping to be with my fiance this summer but now am hoping we will be together for Christmas.
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-04 22:25:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsK-1 fiance visa California Processing time

Oh gosh reading that is really depressing ...As an August 7th filer I was praying that if we at least had the chance to file a service request there may be some hope. Have you heard any news since you posted this message? Looking at the USCIS page today and the processing times really brought me to my breaking point. Since we've filed the national average has gone from 6 to 10.2 months! This is getting absurd! At what point do we have any recourse? Its quite possibly the worst feeling in the world knowing that your happiness (and that of your partner's) is dependent upon a bureaucracy that probably couldn't care less. It takes a special kind of person and a special kind of love to work through all the barriers that we face in an international, distance relationship.. Having this be yet another obstacle to overcome (and being so helpless in addressing it) is too cruel. I just pray that things miraculously start moving along sometime soon. Please let me know if you have heard any news..



Hang in there. We will get to the front of the line one day. That's what I keep telling myself anyway :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-03-28 01:58:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCSC Approvals This Week
That's normal. You may have to look at a lot more than that
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-18 08:34:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCSC Approvals This Week

17 so far today here on VJ. :wow: I'm simply in shock... in a good way. I hope it stays like this and they focus more on July & August.



Yup I hear you! Nowhere near enough July/August approved yet. But the speed is good. Maybe July/August have a chance over the next couple of weeks.
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-17 23:40:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCSC Approvals This Week

I am right there with you! AND before this process I was touted as being a perpetual optimist..



And now your approved. Congrats :)

Meanwhile......I still wait :(
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-17 22:35:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCSC Approvals This Week

I'm waiting to see your NOA2 announcement ! :yes: :yes: :yes:



See it? I will be that happy you will be able to hear it :rofl:
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-17 06:20:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCSC Approvals This Week
Think I might move from completely pessimistic to cautiously optimistic :rofl:
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-17 05:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSEPTEMBER FILER - NOA2!!!!!
Congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-17 21:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCalled USCIS :)
That sounds hopeful :) Good luck
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-16 11:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCSC after 9 months....APPROVED!
congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-19 00:07:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWTF CSC????

6weeks that's crazy but first of all Iam a July 30th Noa1 and I wanna ask csc ####### are they doing?



I am only guessing based on the figures I can see. I may be well off. You are only a week ahead of me so who knows.

Trying calling and asking them what they are doing. We got nowhere trying that, you may have better luck.
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-10 13:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWTF CSC????
Personally, I think that when we are being told it could be about a year to get an NOA2 from CSC, it's gonna be about right :(

Would have loved a nice warm summer in oregon but looks like i will get a cold, foggy winter. Oh well, we will just have to snuggle up in front of the wood stove to keep each other warm. They say every cloud has a silver lining :) lol
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-10 13:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWTF CSC????

I am wondering...These late Nov-early december approvals are close to the 5 month goal. If they work only on the older cases, it will take a long time to reach the 5 month goal. Could it be that, for whatever metric is used, that it is better to have X% in the goal, and the older cases that are already past, it doesn't matter if they are 6, or 7, or 8, or 9, or...months, that they are late anyway, so it is low priority to work on those since it won't affect their metric?

This really could be the feared black hole.


This is what I have been saying. It's juggling figures to look good. I don't see anything happening for july/august filers for another 6 weeks or more.
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-10 12:15:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWTF CSC????
Read this thread

http://www.visajourn...27#entry6139827
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-10 06:23:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2-CSC APPROVED!!! :)
Congrats :)


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Edited by Oregon Bound, 17 April 2013 - 09:20 PM.

Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-17 21:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2!!!!!
Congratulations. You received it yesterday? 17th?
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-18 13:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOver 20 approvals today!!!!
Wow that's a lot of RFE's!
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-18 21:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsFinally... Best news for Friday Night: NOA 2
congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-20 04:28:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsVisa approved CSC
Congratulations. Don't forget to update your timeline :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-19 20:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsThank God I-129F Approved
yay! Congrats. Massive amount of NOA2's again for the 19th :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-20 06:12:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsaug 13th csc filer noa2 woohoo!!!
congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-20 04:30:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCSC Noa2 Appoved!!!
Congrats. Don't forget to update your timeline :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-21 06:18:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsYAY! It's Monday
Well it's is Monday here in the UK.

Hopefully we will receive our RFE letter this week and can get it sorted and lets hope it's another great week for approvals from CSC.

Good luck everyone :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-21 22:08:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2
Congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-19 14:32:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsJust Called USCIS October Filer
Vermont is currently processing October. California is not. If you are a Vermont filer you should see your NOA2 soon, if your California, then it could be a year between NOA1 and NOA2 unless there is a drastic change.
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-11 06:47:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsThe road is long...

This entire process is enough to make you break down in tears. Some of us have been waiting for years for an NOA2, some of our relationships have deteriorated, some of us get too nervous at the interview, some of us have too little documentation, some of us are crying right now because the one person we love is across an ocean/ in a different hemisphere/ on a different continent. It is heartbreaking knowing so many of us have to put on a brave face for other people to scrutinize our relationships, our finances, when all we want is the person who makes us feel complete. Yet we tread on for love. We get rejected, told to "WAIT IT OUT". And lets be honest, it hurts.
VJ is really a safe place for us all, where we can say "I know how you feel", "It's going to be ok", "It'll work out, I've been there".
Good luck everyone.


Sat here waiting on our RFE letter.It hurts to be still on phase 1 after so long. Hope it comes soon so we can see our mistake, correct it and hopefully be another celebrating our NOA2 soon.

My fiance and I have a strong relationship built on years of friendship before we became more than just friends. Our relationship will survive but it is a long painful wait :(
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-23 00:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 9 CSC Approved!

Lol wow, why are we seeing them show up on igors list in the after hours?


Seems that there system to send the texts is running late. A lot of approvals seem to appear after they have closed their office. It must be automated to send them all out at a set time maybe?
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-23 00:21:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober 9 CSC Approved!

There has been really no approvals today. Sad day for the CSC



Look again at Igor's list :)

Congrats OP.

Looks like CSC is still rolling them out.
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-22 22:29:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSept. filer
Some just get lucky, some have help from congressman/senator, some are expedited cases.

Looking at Igor's list, if California keeps processing this fast you should have your approval very soon. Hang in there :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-21 22:49:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsoctober noa2
Congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-22 22:53:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOmbudsman's Response 7 Days Later

the whole July 18th ####### got old quick....


I understand your frustration but take a look at Igor's list. There are still quite a few July petitions waiting to be processed and August is not at the half way point yet. CSC is cranking out NOA2's at a high rate of knots just now. Hopefully your wait will not be too much longer.
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-22 22:51:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsService request
Not heard a thing yet from my fiance's congressman. Just seems hopeless! USCIS national average for processing I-129f is 10.2 months :(
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-03-27 22:50:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsApproved!!!!
Congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-22 22:54:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsAfter almost 9 month I just got RFE!!!
Wow you had a long wait! Good luck, hope it is a simple RFE :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-23 23:36:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSo nervous
Good luck on your journey :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-24 11:56:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCrying so hard
Congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-23 03:41:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsUSCIS processing time

Hi everyone,

I know there has been a lot going around about extremely long processing times for K1 but I have never seen anyone waiting a year!!! We have filed 23/july 2012 and have just received an RFE which turns out might have just been a computer glitch according to our lawyer???? The lawyer now says to us that she doesn't expect us to have an interview until June/July 2013 which would make it a year???? I saw a popular post the other day about a long account of steps with which someone succeeded in speeding up this process but I cannot find it anymore and don't remember the title :-( We have written to all congressmen/women we can think of, white house, have several service requests opened.... nothing. Does anybody have any advice at all? THANK YOU!



Hi take a few moments to fill out your timeline. It can be very helpful.

I doubt very much that it will be a computer glitch. Hopefully it will be something easy. Somebody said that if the RFE was not needed because it was an error on the service centre's part then you can send a letter saying so and asking for it to be processed faster. If it is an error on your part then you will have to wait.
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-25 04:42:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOctober Filers!
congrats :)
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-24 11:59:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsRFE query

There have been quite a few others asking the same questions. I did an RFE search on this forum and it turns out the first notice is when the decision is being made. Although the notice says an RFE was mailed, it isn't mailed till you receive the second notice. Good luck on your RFE, I just got one also.



Good luck to you too. We have the same NOA1!
Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-25 14:22:00
K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsRFE query
I know this has probably been answered before but I can't find anything relevant and to be honest my nerves are soooooo frayed I figured I better jump on here and ask.

We initialy received text notification 18th April that we had an RFE. My fiance just let me know that today he got another text notification. I looked on the USCIS website and the RFE date has now been changed to the 24th April from the original date of 18th April.

Does this mean there are two RFE's coming our way or is it normal? We haven't hard any hard copies yet.

Argh the stress!!!!!!

Edited by Oregon Bound, 24 April 2013 - 10:26 PM.

Oregon BoundFemaleUnited Kingdom2013-04-24 22:24:00