Vermont Dragging?

[Arthur Roberta 1]

I was looking at Igor's List...that is his statistics for the last 12 months. The I 130's still awaiting approval from Vermont go back to the beginning of 2008. The most recent approvals seem to have stemmed from the transfers we have seen to California. To me it's strange that there should be such a disparity unless of course there was an executive decision to do perhaps other work at Vermont which has led to this backlog.

I wonder if there is anybody who could throw some light on this?

Perhaps it has to do with the difference in climate? as it must be pretty cold in Vermont just now and I know I am sure slower when the temperature drops. Whatever the reason we are all in the same/similar boats. Waiting to get through this process and have some direction in our lives. Being in Limbo takes a lot of patience and resilience. This is an attribute we all have should we persevere and have faith.

Best wishes to all

Arthur and Roberta

[LUISH 0]

Hi there, bad weather can be a reason as to why Vermont is slow lately, but in this was not the case last year, I believe the reason is that since it was an presidential election year, both centers were mostly working on the naturalization documents, but now that's over, and still Vermont is dragging while California is really moving fast, this is deppresing because there are still people waiting fromMarh 2008, and whole lot of people from later days, every one is fustrated and even upset, but there is nothing we can do about it.....just wait and hope htat Vermont picks up the pace .....looks like th eaverae waiting time is now at 180 days, while California si sometimes taking only 60 days to process K-1 petitions...

Lets hope for a better process from now on ...

Good Luck

LUISH

[*Snowdrop* 604]

Vermont's been really slow for over a year now - it started in Aug 2007 after there was a visa fee price rise. Thousands of applicants raced to file in July to beat the price rise and it caused a huge backlog. Then this was compounded by the work on the naturalization applications.

When we filed in Oct 2007 it took 90 days just to get our NOA1 back. It took ten months for the application to be approved - that was ten months with out any RFEs, problems etc. We seemed to be simply at the bottom of a big pile. We were transfered to California and it took the CSC less than 2 weeks to issue the approval.

It's actually going a lot faster at VSC than it was but it's still way behind CSC - who knows when they will sort out their issues. But it seems to be affecting all sorts of petitions, applications there now from K1 through to Removing conditions etc.