I-130 transferred to Nebraska, other Questions

[jworld34 0]

Hey all,

My wife and I applied with the I-130 on May 31st, 2013 and our case was received and transferred to the USCIS National Benefits Center on June 3rd. For a while we didn't hear anything, however last Friday, (January 3rd, 2014) we received some mail from the National Benefits Center. As I have seen happening quite often here, our case was transferred to the Nebraska Service Center to help speed up the process. However, I saw many people receive this notification mid-2013, or sometime in September 2013. Now I just have a few things I'd like to have cleared up with some help from our friends here at VisaJourney!

1.) Since I saw a lot of these Nebraska Service Center transfers last year, I was wondering if many people have been approved since they have been transferred and how long it took to be approved?

2.) I have also seen a lot of people mentioning PD (Priority Date?) and F2A. If someone could help us out with this, it would be great. We are not completely clear on what PD and F2A mean. And if PD is Priority Date, I am wondering what this is, as on the letter we recently received, the "Priority Date"box was empty.

3.) We have been pretty much out of the loop on this as it has been about 6 months since we heard anything, and now receive this. Will we receive another notice when our case has been received at the Nebraska Service Center?

4.) Also, we would love to hear from others that are still waiting at the Nebraska Service Center, or if you have already been approved and how long it took everybody. When we checked on the USCIS website we are still at the Initial Review Stage.

Any and all help is much appreciated! We understand a lot of these questions have been answered, but as many, or all, of you know, scrolling through page after page is really tedious and sometimes best to sort this out on a case by case basis. We really appreciate everyone's help and wish the best for everybody!

Thanks,

T+J

[Terry J 50]

Hey all,

My wife and I applied with the I-130 on May 31st, 2013 and our case was received and transferred to the USCIS National Benefits Center on June 3rd. For a while we didn't hear anything, however last Friday, (January 3rd, 2014) we received some mail from the National Benefits Center. As we have seen happening quite often here, our case was transferred to the Nebraska Service Center to help speed up the process. However, we saw many people receive this notification mid-2013, or sometime in September 2013. Now we just have a few things we'd like to have cleared up with some help from our friends here at VisaJourney!

1.) Since I saw a lot of these Nebraska Service Center transfers last year, we were wondering if many people have been approved since they have been transferred and how long it took to be approved after being transferred to the Nebraska Service Center?

2.) We have also seen a lot of people mentioning PD (Priority Date?) and F2A. If someone could help us out with this, it would be great. We are not completely clear on what PD and F2A mean. And if PD is Priority Date, we are wondering what this is, as on the letter we recently received, the "Priority Date" box is empty.

3.) We have been pretty much out of the loop on this as it has been about 6 months since we heard anything, and now receive this. Will we receive another notice when our case has been received at the Nebraska Service Center?

4.) Also, we would love to hear from others that are still waiting at the Nebraska Service Center, or if you have already been approved and how long it took everybody. We checked on the USCIS website, we are still at the Initial Review Stage.

Any and all help is much appreciated! We understand a lot of these questions have been answered, but as many, or all, of you know, scrolling through page after page and topic after topic is really tedious and sometimes best to sort this out on a case by case basis. We really appreciate everyone's help and wish the best for everybody!

Thanks,

T+J

Hi there,

PD = Priority Date

F2A = category for US permanent residents who are petitioning for their spouse or child under 21.

A lot of the transfers to Nebraska that happened in September were those were under the F2A category. The vast majority of them have gotten their I-130 petitions approved. The PD only applies to them as those in the F2A category must wait for a visa number to become available to them and it is based on their priority date. The PD is the day that USCIS inputs the receipt of their I-130 into their systems. In August 2013 the visa number for the F2A category became current and the USCIS pushed through as many I-130's as possible to use up the extra visa numbers that had been accumulating for years. That explains why a whole bunch of F2A's were approved so quickly.

USC's are immediately eligible for a visa number once their I-130 is approved so no additional wait time. This is why you wouldn't likely see any date in the Priority Date field of your NOA if the petitioner is a USC.

In the past couple of months a lot of I-130 petitions filed by USC's have been transferred from the NBC to the Nebraska, Texas and California service centres.

People are getting approved in all service centres but Nebraska is the slowest of them all. You will receive an official Transfer notice in the mail confirming when your petition has been transferred to Nebraska.

Petitions are being approved and it looks like they are mainly working on those filed March through June at the moment based on the approvals being posted on VJ.

Several are those with beneficiaries of the Philippines due to the typhoon they suffered last year - these are being fast tracked.

Our petition was transferred from Vermont to Nebraska in mid-September 2013 and we're still waiting for an approval (my husband is the USC). Our date received was July 2.

Hope this helps.

[etrangais 947]

Hi there

Nebraska is te slowest service center so far. I was transferred there myself 5 days ago. They average about a month for processing (it goes from 3 weeks to 59 days to more in some cases).

Priority date is the date when your I-130 was received by USCIS. In your case it is June 3rd.

F2a is when the petitioner is a LPR (Legal Permanent Resident) and not a USC (US citizen).

There is a thread for I-130 June 2013 filers, you can follow it and it has lots of info from people that files in June also.

Good luck

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from Process & Procedures to Progress Reports; duplicate threads merged.

Edited January 7, 2014 by Ryan H

[Cunuck waiting 7]

Hey jworld34.

I have been using the attached VJ link to help track the processing time. At the bottom of the gird you can see there are varies filters; filter to your requirements.

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/k1list.php?cfl=&op3=5&op5=&op6=All

Looks like they are still working on March and April, I'm a March filer myself and still waiting.

Good luck to you!

[jworld34 0]

Thanks for the replies and info everybody.

I can see they are still in March/April, however does anybody have an idea of how much longer we all might have before we finish the process. Are we (My wife and I) looking at another 6 months+ until the process is finally over?

My wife and I are making arrangements on our living situation here in Brasil based off the idea of how much time we still have left until we can move to the US.

Would it be expected to plan long-term (Expecting we may not finish the process and move back to the US until sometime late this year).

Or would that be pretty drastic? I guess I'm just asking if anyone has heard from anyone else who has finished the process on what to expect from here. Are we looking at 6+ months to a year until we are done with the process and starting our new life in the US? Or is it reasonable to expect a resolution (Interview and approval, etc.) within the next 2-4 months.

Like I said, we know there are a lot of people in our position waiting it out, just trying to get an idea of if we should plan on being here a while longer through the year, or have some reasonable expectation it will be done sometime before July/August/September with an idea of when we will be in the US and done with process.

I'm a US citizen, so I am hopeful the process won't be too drawn out.

Best of luck to everybody, and we appreciate all the info and well wishes!

T+J

[indiandude1111 27]

I'm curious as to if there are any nebraska approvals?

anyone?

[maxww 0]

We filed i130 and i485 at the end of May 2014, no news yet...Just said Nebraska center is processing the i485.