Increased processing time?

This is for I-129F as this post is specifically about that: These days how USCIS works is that they focus on a month of applications in the course of a month. From mid-February to mid-March, their priority was cases from December 2021. They processed as many cases as they could, and then moved on to the next month (January 2022), leaving almost 800 unprocessed cases behind. They will approve those remaining cases slowly in the next few months. Some will take another 4 months.

The outcome is, 80% of applicants are approved around month 14-15 after NOA1. The remaining are left to wait, and now they can’t even make an inquiry until they hit the 18th month mark. This way USCIS can maintain it’s “during the last 6 months, 80% of the cases were closed in 16.5 months” statistics, while the remaining 20% who is beyond 16.5 months are in a painful wait.

/r/USCIS Thread Parent