E-REQUEST .....I-129F

[blabrada05 7]

I need some help, so I just spoke to somebody on the 1800 number for USCIS to get a status on my case I know its only been two months but just wanted to call to see what cases they were working on and so far they're working on February files, but this is my question, the agent I spoke to said that if I wanted to file a E-request form to request my case be transferred to another service center I could do it on the USCIS website, I don't know if that information is true or false because I see the link to file the E-Request but there is no option to have my case transfer so I don't know if the agent just gave me incorrect information.

is there such thing as filing an E-Request to have your case transferred to another service center, and if there is would that slower my case or make it faster since some service centers are approving cases much faster.

Thank you

[clairegie 265]

I don't know if there is such a thing as e-transfer, but I think that is counter productive. Why would you want to go back to the bottom of the pile? You've already waited 2 months, just be patient a little longer.

[Pitaya 2,577]

Welcome to the forum.

Sounds like another questionable dubious response from the infamous USCIS Customer "Mis" Information Center. I would have serious reservations about the veracity of the information provided.

In the almost three years that my family has been our immigration journey, the processing speed of ALL of the various service centers has been akin to the ocean tides. Sometimes it is high tide and processing is quick, sometimes it is low tide and processing is painfully slow. The difference is that a person can read or predict with good accuracy the tides of the ocean, not so with the service centers. Sometimes a certain service center is fast, and the other(s) are slow, or vice versa. There is no apparent rhyme nor reason, just the luck of the draw.

BTW, when we originally filed our I-129F petition at the CSC in Oct 2011. At that time, the VSC was blazing through the petitions, the CSC was barely coming in at a very poor second place, and the TSC wasn't even processing I-129F petitions. All we could do (and did) was to sit tight, avoid any RFEs (and the associated self-inflicted delays as a result) and wait for the NOA2.

in February 2012, I did make another trip China to visit my then-fiancee, we had a great time, sightseeing in tropical southern China (~50km from the Laotian-Burmese border). In other words, we went on living our lives, getting our immigration affairs in order, looking forward to the next step in your immigration journey.

YMMV

Good luck on your immigration journey.

Edited September 16, 2014 by A&B