Why is the 2nd NOA taking so long

[Archangelmiko 0]

We sent in our I-130 beginning of May and got back the 1st NOA mid May and here it is almost Oct. and we haven`t heard anything back. I see the avg. wait is 90 days, but it is over 120 days now. Any insight into this.

[Ryan H 3,812]

I saw the following reply in another forum, but I think it's applicable here.

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!

[sachinky 465]

Usual waiting time is 90-150 days. 120 days, things begin to get itchy.

My NOA2 took 118 days.

[Darnell 8,478]

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[Brian113 0]

I called the USCIS and there about 23days behind now. They told me it i didn't here anything after 6 months to call back and they would check on my file.

[Shenzhen 34]

I called the USCIS and there about 23days behind now. They told me it i didn't here anything after 6 months to call back and they would check on my file.

I waited the 6 months and called. I saw they touched my file 2x since that call, now I am getting an RFE. More delays more waiting. Be patient.....

[Bob g 11]

I saw the following reply in another forum, but I think it's applicable here.

And we can see that some filers think it is best to send in an enormous amount of documents, like 5000 or 7000 pages note booked, stapled, paper clipped, glued, sealed, and tabs at one end or another. Can you imagine how much time it would take a Visa worker to scan 5000 pages into a computer?

[LotofPatience 65]

And we can see that some filers think it is best to send in an enormous amount of documents, like 5000 or 7000 pages note booked, stapled, paper clipped, glued, sealed, and tabs at one end or another. Can you imagine how much time it would take a Visa worker to scan 5000 pages into a computer?

They may review few pages and keep it in the petitioner's file . If they think that is too much, some of them will be trashed.

Loto

[Atencio 43]

Can you imagine how much time it would take a Visa worker to scan 5000 pages into a computer?

It is not as painful as it seems if they have a good scanner. We have scanners at the hospital I work at to scan and save as a PDF patient charts, audits, etc. They are really fast.

[Jill & Jeff 3]

My NOA2 took about 6 months. When I called after the 5 month wait time, they told me I needed to be a month over the minimum wait time before I could officially file anything to find out what the heck was going on.

I didn't know how to check touches, so we just sat and waited. We got the NOA2 in 6 months, with no extra requests. I have no idea what held it up so long.

J-

[Bob g 11]

It is not as painful as it seems if they have a good scanner. We have scanners at the hospital I work at to scan and save as a PDF patient charts, audits, etc. They are really fast.

Could be fast as long as many of the documents are not bound together in many different ways, with paper clips, binders, staples, etc...

[Sunshine Girl 0]

The bottom of my NOA1 is addressed USCIS California Service Center. Does this mean that the CSC is processing our application? I noticed processing dates on Visa Journey and wanted to keep track of where they're at.

[Ryan H 3,812]

The bottom of my NOA1 is addressed USCIS California Service Center. Does this mean that the CSC is processing our application?

I believe so.

[Heather&Matt 0]

We sent in our I-130 beginning of May and got back the 1st NOA mid May and here it is almost Oct. and we haven`t heard anything back. I see the avg. wait is 90 days, but it is over 120 days now. Any insight into this.

Our NOA1 date was April 6th, and got our NOA2 on Sept 23rd, which was 170 days between NOA1 and NOA2. It was a long and stressful wait....we called just after the 5 month processing time and was told to wait another month.

[Jon and Krissy 452]

We sent in our I-130 beginning of May and got back the 1st NOA mid May and here it is almost Oct. and we haven`t heard anything back. I see the avg. wait is 90 days, but it is over 120 days now. Any insight into this.

Dude, I sent mine in April 15 and just got approved today. That's how long it is taking. Sit tight. :-)