Why there is such a long wait for I-130 be approved for imm relatives?

[lucas_34 4]

I don't quite understand this. If one is a US Citizen and sponsors a spouse to come to the US as a legal permanent resident, why would the entire I-130 process by itself take such a long time? What is it they check that it causes to take on average 5 months now? I realize it takes much longer time for those petitioners who are LPRs sponsoring their spouses as immigrant visas are not immediately available. But why this is the case for US Citizens? Do I understand this correctly that it does not matter if you file I-130 for a spouse whether being an LPR or as a Citizen as it takes the same amount of time for both cases to be approved, but it would only matter at the NVC stage, since at this stage they check whether visas are immediately available for US Citizens there and limited in the case of LPRs?

I just don't quite get it what makes this I-130 process by itself take so long. Any thoughts. What do they check and how?

[Samoray 165]

One of the biggest factors is the hundreds of thousands of cases that they have to process.

[Inky 1,110]

So many of these posts lately, how about we just go back to the old way where it took years and years to get someone to america and nothing was online to check or look over or download quickly and took forever to do.

[finallyfree 2]

I don't quite understand this. If one is a US Citizen and sponsors a spouse to come to the US as a legal permanent resident, why would the entire I-130 process by itself take such a long time? What is it they check that it causes to take on average 5 months now? I realize it takes much longer time for those petitioners who are LPRs sponsoring their spouses as immigrant visas are not immediately available. But why this is the case for US Citizens? Do I understand this correctly that it does not matter if you file I-130 for a spouse whether being an LPR or as a Citizen as it takes the same amount of time for both cases to be approved, but it would only matter at the NVC stage, since at this stage they check whether visas are immediately available for US Citizens there and limited in the case of LPRs?

I just don't quite get it what makes this I-130 process by itself take so long. Any thoughts. What do they check and how?

Only 5 months? You should be glad it's not taking a few years anymore.

[Boiler 45,153]

Took me 11 months.

Resources vs demand.

[Ryan H 3,812]

I'll take 5 months over 2 years anytime.

It is what it is, I'm know I won't lilke having to wait anymore than the next person but my fiancee and I will deal with it the best we can. We obth know it will be worth it in the end.

[Darnell 8,478]

oh - queue load + namechecks automation.

Hey! what is a 'long time' to you?

[LotofPatience 65]

There are 2 service centers named CSC and VSC. CSC employs 1010 I-130 adjudicators and VSC employs 505 I-130 adjudicators.

In the U.S, every year there are 750,000 I-130 petitioners say all are USC petitioners. They send their package to Chicago Lock box. TLA for it, let's say CLB. CLB checks the load of each SC and forwards it to them. Say 500,000 went to CSC and 250,000 went to VSC.

Always at a particular time, 10 employees in CSC and 5 employees of VSC are on vacation since they are humans. Now let's do a math again. Balance employees in CSC is 1000 and in VSC 500.

A Quiz - How many petitions each CSC and VSC employee gets for an equal distribution?

Ummmmm... Nobody answers. Let me calculate. CSC employee gets 500 and VSC employee gets 500.

Some of the employees in each SC are hardworking. What does that mean? They don't smoke, don't go to pantry so often and do not discuss about their dogs and cats at office. They process 5 petitions a day. Those hardly working employees process 4 petitions a day.

Now another quiz! How many working days in a month? Take out 4 Sat, 4 Sun and 1 or 2 holidays. Let's assume 20 working days.

During this process, some name checks are initiated. This is really not a spelling check. First name, Last name, DOB etc. are fed into another system and they get an output. Some names bleed, some not. Sometimes, some innocent names also bleed. Bleeding names will be hospitalized to get some more cure. Non-bleeding ones come back to the SC.

Ok! Now out of non-bleeding ones, some missed to include a previous divorce decree, some included a copy of marriage certificate which not clearly readable, so on an so forth. Now the employee is interested to see those originals. They issue another sweet TLA named RFE. Some petitioners will respond immediately to this RFE. Some may be on vacation or busy getting some of the documents from various sources.

Ok, final quiz! How many months it takes for a petition to be processed? Let's take a ball park.

Hard working employee gets 500 petitions and 20 working days in a month and process 5 per day. To process a petition on an average takes 5 months! Oh boy! This doesn't mean the first petition is processed on day 1. Since previous petitions are in his/her queue. Hence the term - recurring process!

Hardly working employee gets 500 petitions and 20 working days in a month and process 4 per day. To process a petition on an average takes more than 6 months! Oh geez!

Finally they take a cumulative average and put in this website: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processingTimesDisplay.do

Loto

Footenote: This work out is purely hypothetical for an illustrative purpose!

[sandipdesai 0]

There are 2 service centers named CSC and VSC. CSC employs 1010 I-130 adjudicators and VSC employs 505 I-130 adjudicators.

In the U.S, every year there are 750,000 I-130 petitioners say all are USC petitioners. They send their package to Chicago Lock box. TLA for it, let's say CLB. CLB checks the load of each SC and forwards it to them. Say 500,000 went to CSC and 250,000 went to VSC.

Always at a particular time, 10 employees in CSC and 5 employees of VSC are on vacation since they are humans. Now let's do a math again. Balance employees in CSC is 1000 and in VSC 500.

A Quiz - How many petitions each CSC and VSC employee gets for an equal distribution?

Ummmmm... Nobody answers. Let me calculate. CSC employee gets 500 and VSC employee gets 500.

Some of the employees in each SC are hardworking. What does that mean? They don't smoke, don't go to pantry so often and do not discuss about their dogs and cats at office. They process 5 petitions a day. Those hardly working employees process 4 petitions a day.

Now another quiz! How many working days in a month? Take out 4 Sat, 4 Sun and 1 or 2 holidays. Let's assume 20 working days.

During this process, some name checks are initiated. This is really not a spelling check. First name, Last name, DOB etc. are fed into another system and they get an output. Some names bleed, some not. Sometimes, some innocent names also bleed. Bleeding names will be hospitalized to get some more cure. Non-bleeding ones come back to the SC.

Ok! Now out of non-bleeding ones, some missed to include a previous divorce decree, some included a copy of marriage certificate which not clearly readable, so on an so forth. Now the employee is interested to see those originals. They issue another sweet TLA named RFE. Some petitioners will respond immediately to this RFE. Some may be on vacation or busy getting some of the documents from various sources.

Ok, final quiz! How many months it takes for a petition to be processed? Let's take a ball park.

Hard working employee gets 500 petitions and 20 working days in a month and process 5 per day. To process a petition on an average takes 5 months! Oh boy! This doesn't mean the first petition is processed on day 1. Since previous petitions are in his/her queue. Hence the term - recurring process!

Hardly working employee gets 500 petitions and 20 working days in a month and process 4 per day. To process a petition on an average takes more than 6 months! Oh geez!

Finally they take a cumulative average and put in this website: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processingTimesDisplay.do

Loto

Footenote: This work out is purely hypothetical for an illustrative purpose!

Loto, you simply practical and great...everyone wish his/her loved one here USA ASAP. USA also wants more tax payers in coming years so why should they put you in a spot of bother. You are here in THE USA, a land of promise still.. live free or die..

[PGD 0]

took 11 months for me waiting before we got our noa2,. now we are still waiting the nvc processing and took me more than 1 year and few days sinced we got our noa1, have faith in God and be patience is the key to everyone's success,.

Edited September 25, 2010 by PGD

[RightClicK 17]

9 months and still waiting for RFE to respond to lol .

You might want to think again if you are late or not ?

Sam

[RICARDO4EVA2 194]

My 2 I-130s were approved in 4 months at UCSIS and now we are await an interview. The case was compeleted about 11 days ago.

I agree with the others above... I'd take 5-7 months over the previous processing time and have no access to a case online. Just Be Humble... It's a Benefit....

[msd 3]

It only took 6 months for me to get my visa from initial petition to interview. 6 months is brilliant! I wouldn't even have DREAMED of the process being so fast.

[LotofPatience 65]

It only took 6 months for me to get my visa from initial petition to interview. 6 months is brilliant! I wouldn't even have DREAMED of the process being so fast.

Our previous CR1 was also similar to yours, msd

I-130 Filing to Approval: 3.5 months

NVC Receipt to Completion: 1 month

Consulate Interview Completion: 1.5 month

Total: 6 months But it was in the first half of 2008!

Loto

[Darnell 8,478]

wow - where'd lucas go?

where's the righteous indignation, really? 6 months on I-130 approval, 2 to 3 months @NVC, another 1 to 2 months for Interview.

Somebody really 'splain to me why this is a problem ?