Timeline clarity

[stevie b 141]

First of all thank you all for the information provided here on this site I have been using it for the past 9 months and it has been very helpful.

BACKGROUND:

I originally filed a 129F petition in august of 2012 with plans to do a cermonial wedding in Fiji and a legal wedding here. It was after the wedding I find out tht the priest filed the papers and we were legally married.

I have since withdrawn (and recieved confirmation) the 129F and have now filed for the 130, so far only recieving the email notification knowing the paperwork will take a little longer.

QUESTION:

When I originally filed the 129F the California Service Center according to the USCIS site was running about 5 months.

Now the USCIS shows it is taking 16.2 months with the national average at 14.9 months.

I was under the impression that the total time from filing to POE would be 7-10 months, but this has me a little worried.

Any Comments???

In the time being she will be applying for a visitor visa which I think will go fairly well, again knowing all the experiences others have had here at VJ.

Lastly a side note to everyone caught up in the process...

In August Obama signed the bill making it possible for millions of illegal immigrants to apply for legal status.

I hope everyone knows that all of these applications are being routed to the same facilities that handle our petitions.

I am sure that there was no additional staff hired to accomodate the influx of applications.. if you all remember there were literally thousands of people waiting in line to file their petitions back then.

This is why the NBC was brought on and you will see petitioners who went through the NBC getting approved at a much faster rate.

Too bad they can not set up two different departments

[X Factor 1,112]

For the reasons you mention, all of the applications seem to be taking much longer.

[The Mean Lady 604]

everyone here that isnt new is well caught up to date with the nbc and addition of approvals for illegals

if youe asking how long the cr1/ir1 process is, youre still looking at an overall avg of eight to ten months excluding ap

there are, of course, some field offices like atlanta that are moving slower than the vsc.

also, with the changes in august, thats what brought upon the field offices

[Greg n Veronica 17]

Yep, an article I read stated over 400,000 Deferred Action claims were filed with over 150,000 being approved as of late January. At the end of November they had processed just over 50,000 of them and by mid December over 102,000 claims. They are sure concentrating on these claims, just wish the article had stated the amount of claims submitted each month to see where they are on these claims. Are they processing Oct/Nov claims when they are still only on Jun/Jul/Aug claims for other processes.

Here is hoping that some cases get moved to other centers for assistance in speeding up the process, even though I highly doubt it.

[The Mean Lady 604]

Yep, an article I read stated over 400,000 Deferred Action claims were filed with over 150,000 being approved as of late January. At the end of November they had processed just over 50,000 of them and by mid December over 102,000 claims. They are sure concentrating on these claims, just wish the article had stated the amount of claims submitted each month to see where they are on these claims. Are they processing Oct/Nov claims when they are still only on Jun/Jul/Aug claims for other processes.

Here is hoping that some cases get moved to other centers for assistance in speeding up the process, even though I highly doubt it.

do the deferred actions petitions have a document number?

are they not trackable on the uscis progress and trends site?

all new i130 petitions are at a different center

though i think i saw someone recently go to the csc again.

prob because theyre catching up

[Greg n Veronica 17]

do the deferred actions petitions have a document number?

are they not trackable on the uscis progress and trends site?

all new i130 petitions are at a different center

though i think i saw someone recently go to the csc again.

prob because theyre catching up

Don't know about the form #/id for those claims but I also was looking at NOA2 approvals of K1 visas for the Philippines and the amount of VSC approved versus the CSC approved since sometime in November is drastic. CSC has hardly any compared to VSC and I believe it to be the cause of the new petitions.