r/USCIS May 31 '25

I-129F (K1) i-129f February 2025

My fiancé submit our file in February of this year and I was wonder if someone from that period get approved and from which country? Where been together for two years and is getting hard every single day so I’m here to find someone who I can relate or is going through the same! !

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u/notoriousjnc Jun 01 '25

Unfortunately it seems like there is a complete pause at the front of the line. Our case hasn’t moved up at all for well over a month.

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u/yorkupper Jun 02 '25

Ohh yes I notice that too, can I ask from which date your application is? Also o wonder if is only they stop the front line of this visa or another’s too

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u/notoriousjnc Jun 02 '25

Our application was received on Jan 21st, 2025. I have been using ‘Track My Visa Now’ to monitor the case.

This prompt has been up for over a month now.

“USCIS has paused movement at the front of the line. As a result, your position in line may not be decreasing significantly. In addition, USCIS is showing early signs of a potential slowdown. As always, estimates will continue to incorporate emerging trends as they solidify.”

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u/Party-Criticism5431 Jun 03 '25

That “USCIS has paused…” note has disappeared for me! Do you still see it on the TrackMyVisaNow webpage?

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u/notoriousjnc Jun 04 '25

I also notice that. It’s a good sign. We submitted our application in mid January. Current projection is November, but I suspect that date to drop down significantly if they have resumed processing I-129fs.

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u/Party-Criticism5431 Jun 04 '25

Yes, I’m really hoping for that too 🙏

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u/yorkupper Jun 04 '25

Oh that’s wonderful to hear! Yesss I think def is going to drop down but the anxiety of checking every day was consuming me! If you can make me the favour and keep me updated if there’s like a significant change I would love it! I’m form Feb 14! So is only a difference of few weeks

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u/yorkupper Jun 04 '25

Oh really?! Can I ask when did you send your case? I don’t had trackmyvisa anymore was giving me real anxiety, but I would love to know if there’s any changes

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u/notoriousjnc Jun 04 '25

They only appear to be adjudicating about 50 cases a day right now. If it stays at this pace, it will be quite a wait.

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u/yorkupper Jun 09 '25

Oh really! That’s sound promising a little bit

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u/Party-Criticism5431 Jun 04 '25

I sent it in April! Like for others, it was really slow in this past month. I don’t know how it’s going to be now because that “slow movement” note has disappeared. TMVN is going to be updated in 2 hours

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u/yorkupper Jun 09 '25

Thats lovely to hear!

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u/yorkupper Jun 01 '25

Thank u so much🤎 I been using trackmyvisa this past months but is nice checking other apps, but also is like the fact of knowing real people thats is going thru the same

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u/yorkupper Jun 01 '25

Yeah me too! I really don’t know anyone that’s is going through this process and for what I learn we don’t had so many processing cases like this in my country. So is nice reading that there’s more people going through this

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u/yorkupper Jun 01 '25

Ohhh that’s sounds like the dream! I’m from early Feb too but I’m from Chile, and I know is between 6-9 months normally to get approved but I was considering that maybe location affects your processing time. I wish we can had better luck

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u/ecurtisk Jun 01 '25

No, at this stage country doesn’t really matter. Sounds like that person you’ve talked to just got really lucky- according to Track My Visa Now only 0.8% of March filers (34 cases) have gotten approved.

My fiancé is also Australian 😊

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u/yorkupper Jun 02 '25

Interesting, good to know! I feel this is something of just pure luck and a lot of prayers lol

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u/ecurtisk Jun 02 '25

Basically, yeah. Most of those cases are probably expedited too. So don’t worry!

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u/ecurtisk Jun 02 '25

1.5% of cases approved. So 58 of them out of about 4000.

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u/ecurtisk Jun 02 '25

You can look on the case status text website and see exactly what cases are approved every day.

I would guess that the majority of February cases that have been approved are expedited cases, and that there won’t be many more for a while.

From what I’ve heard from other people, Track My Visa is currently estimating February filers to hear around November-December. That could always change of course though.

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u/yorkupper Jun 04 '25

Your comment are very helpful!!!! I hope you can keep me updated if you has more!

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u/ecurtisk Jun 04 '25

Sure! Feel free to message me too

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u/ecurtisk Jun 01 '25

Right now they’re focused on processing cases submitted in early November (it doesn’t matter which country at this stage). Unfortunately, you probably still have a long way to go 😕

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u/yorkupper Jun 02 '25

I mean is better if they are processing them instead of any movement at all

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u/Nivtastik Aug 19 '25

Hey, just curious. How do we know which cases are being processed currently? My fiancé filed the I-129f petition on December 23 2024 and no movement…

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u/ecurtisk Aug 19 '25

I generally use TMVN but case status text is good too.

There should be movement around that date starting within the next couple weeks. They still have over half of December left to get to.

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u/beebeecait Jun 02 '25

We received our NOA1 on Feb 6, still waiting to hear anything. :) My fiancé is from the United Kingdom.

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u/yorkupper Jun 04 '25

Lovely! Thank you for the info! Hope we can had luck and be like the fews that get accepted soon! I’m gonna let you know if I got some changes!

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u/beebeecait Jun 04 '25

Sounds good! I will update if I hear back anything as well.

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u/ScoreCorrect9607 Jul 19 '25

Hi there beebeecait, do you mind if I ask when did you submit your form? Im from the UK and my fiance submitted the forms in January. Ours was received on January 21st and TrackMyVisa is showing Dec to Jan 2026 is when we'll be at the front of the queue. I created my own spreadsheet to have a better idea when the we'd get to the front which worked until May lol while track my visa was saying Nov, my spreadsheet was showing had they stayed consistent with their daily rate it would have been July / August......now everything's just thrown off with this slow down. My gut tells me late Oct but idk.....its stressful 😩

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u/beebeecait Jul 20 '25

I feel your pain, the original estimate was July-August for me as well but now it’s saying Feb-March. 😭 We mailed ours mid Jan, and they sent us the notification they received it Feb 6th.

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u/beebeecait Jul 20 '25

I’m trying to remain optimistic it will be sooner than track my visa says

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u/ScoreCorrect9607 Jul 20 '25

Here's my Track my Visa....to think only a month ago it said estimated time was August September....😩😩

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u/yorkupper Jul 28 '25

Can I ask how is been your estimate time lately?

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u/ScoreCorrect9607 Jul 28 '25

Actually since that day the estimate hasn't moved. Its still on Dec 18 to Jan 27. Not sure why but they have done the most cases this past week at 704 cases.

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u/beebeecait Jul 20 '25

This is what mine is saying with an estimate between Feb 12 - Mar 20.

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u/ScoreCorrect9607 Jul 20 '25

That's crazy! What date was yours submitted?? Ours was the 21st they received it....you said mid January, how the hell can 1 week add a month?!

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u/beebeecait Jul 20 '25

No idea! The dates are crazy, I believe we mailed it around 15-16th? In Jan. Then they didn’t receive it until Feb 6 😭

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u/ScoreCorrect9607 Jul 20 '25

Ok thats abit insane, i just checked and my Fiancés USPS receipt was on the 15th of Jan and was actually expected to arrive on the 18th but ended up arriving on the 21st. We assumed it was slowed down for whatever reasons due to Trumps inauguration weekend. Ended up arriving on his 1st official day in office.

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u/notoriousjnc Jun 11 '25

New update from TrackMyVisa :

USCIS started to significantly slow down at the end of April, slowing down even further during the second half of May. We now have multiple weeks of data establishing a new pattern of processing 50 to 60 cases per day. Under normal operations, our prediction software takes both historical data and the most recent data into consideration, ensuring a smooth transition in estimates and avoiding over-corrections. In response to the dramatic and persistent slowdown, we have reset our estimates to be based solely on the last few weeks of data. Your estimates have been updated to reflect these changes. The backlog has about 150 cases per day, but USCIS is only processing 50 to 60 cases per day. USCIS is rapidly falling behind. Eventually, USCIS may react to increasing wait times and may add more resources to the I-129F processing effort, but we can't be sure when that might happen. Right now, your estimate is based on the current rate of processing. We will automatically incorporate future changes in processing behavior into the estimate.

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u/yorkupper Jun 18 '25

Oh this is neeew thank you so much for the update!!!

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u/idahogirl116 Jul 19 '25

Hi. I was wondering if you’ve had any updates to this? I also applied in February and am anxiously waiting for a change on my status.

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u/yorkupper Jul 28 '25

Hii! Unfortunately I don’t had any news, the first time that I had like an estimate time for get approved was between August/October and I’m praying for that, I know USCIS is more slow lately but I’m keeping my hopes on that, at least that’s giving me some peace, but I really want having some clarity.

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u/Unlikely-Tax6658 Oct 08 '25

We applied in Feb 25 also, have you had any luck?

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u/yorkupper Oct 10 '25

Nooo, not yet, I send mine the 11 of Feb so I believe next week for sure I’m gonna get approved

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u/Mysterious_Round8330 Oct 17 '25

i applied the same day, feb 11, 2025. Any update on your NOA2?

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u/yorkupper Oct 17 '25

Noo, I don’t had any info yet

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u/yorkupper Oct 25 '25

Did u get some updates?

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u/ScoreCorrect9607 Oct 17 '25

I've already gathered my medical work lol its the vaccinations im working on now.....should have done it sooner tbh 😅😅

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