anyone LPR who file i-130 for spouse...

[Lebanese Girl 1]

Hi, I got approved in July 2009, PD April 2007.

I am a bit bummed by the new bulletin too. Just 1 month, may be we got spoilt in the last few months, its been moving just 1 month for years.

@sweetapple-- where did you get the info about visa allotments for FY2010 ?,

Sorry to be nosie but you applied for i130 n ur a green card holder? You applied in April of 07?

[-mitch- 3]

hi everyone! its been a while since i was able to visit this site again and its soooo good to see everyone with different stories and accomplishments! Since i received my approval last July hubby and i didnt recieved anything from the immigration. Its been 7 months since the approval. Now just wondering when can we start receiving papers from them =)

hi mitch! i hope you can still remember me!

its been a while since you last visited... its been 7 months now??? OMYGOODNESS... that means to say .... i have to wait longer than that too.. i was approved oct 28. its been almost 4 months.. did your hubby received a letter with case# from NVC though??? it'll be a longer wait now since they just updated the processing date for just a month forward

[kareen_g. 0]

its been a while since you last visited... its been 7 months now??? OMYGOODNESS... that means to say .... i have to wait longer than that too.. i was approved oct 28. its been almost 4 months.. did your hubby received a letter with case# from NVC though??? it'll be a longer wait now since they just updated the processing date for just a month forward

yup hubby received a letter with a case no.from NVC but since then we haven't received anything from them. yeah i know its still going to be a long wait but lets just hope and pray that we can all go through all of this smoothly.

[SweetApple08 2]

Hello Nekomyu,

Did you apply again for your I-485? According to the new visa bulletin you are good to go. Update us! I am so excited that your date is now current.

Hi, LPR Family & SweetApple08

---let me sum up my situation ---

I am F1 student, Married to LPR, living in USA.

I-130 petition filed March 2006, priority date is March 10,2006

Approved I-130 May 27 2009 ( I-797)

Sent out I-485 on Jan 13,2010.

---------------------------------

Little bit of bad news for me...

I received Rejection Notices from USCIS.

They sent back all document and fee check with I-797C Rejection Notice (each notice attach to I-485,I-765.I-131).

The Rejection Notice of I-485 said,

' The check amount is incorrect or not has been provided. The correct filing fee is $930. --abbr.-- also include an

additional $80 fingerprint fee.' ( I sent correct amount of $1010.00...)

' Based on the information you provided,your priority date does not appear to be current. --abbr.-- When your priority

date is earlier than the correlating cut-off date listed in the current Visa Bulletin,you will then be eligible to submit your

I-485 application.'

Other Rejection Notices of I-765,I-131 said, ' The check amount is incorrect or not has been provided'

So, I should have waited to send document till my priority date become current !

Even though USCIS person told me that I can send them now... Oh, yeah, I can't trust them anymore

I know It's gonna be soon to be current and I will be able to resubmit.

But still feel pretty bad ,because my priority is only 10 days behind the Visa Bulletin!

(now it is March 1 2006, mine is March 10 2006 ), result is that block me off ...

I have to redo my paper work with lack of energy .... sigh ...

To SweetApple08

Regarding your question, yes,I did not get anything after I-130 Approval notice.

No contact from anywhere made me worried and called both NVC and USCIS

(also e-mail to NVC for inquiry), then figure out the procedures.

I am still attending school and keep maintaining I-20.

Once I get a NOA for I-485, I am going to stop attending.

I will update again

[twulf 0]

Sorry to be nosie but you applied for i130 n ur a green card holder? You applied in April of 07?

Hi,

My wife applied for my green card (I-130) and she is an LPR. We applied in April 2007.

[SweetApple08 2]

Hi, I got approved in July 2009, PD April 2007.

I am a bit bummed by the new bulletin too. Just 1 month, may be we got spoilt in the last few months, its been moving just 1 month for years.

@sweetapple-- where did you get the info about visa allotments for FY2010 ?,

Hi twulf,

I said that because I have been reading and observing the movement of the visa bulletin for our category. Every year (NVC) starts their Fiscal year on october 1rst and ends it on september 30th. Currently we are in FY 2010 which started in Oct 2009 and ends Sept 2010, this is how they allocate the visa numbers each year for the GC lottery, GC categories (through employment and family-based visas). Notice from the archives that each year in October they move fast and after some months they start moving slowly (a month or less than that).

The case below applies to our visa categories besides the employment based visas.

Explanation of Stagnation of Priority Dates

The Visa Bulletin explains the reason for the unchanged cutoff dates in some of the EB categories, noting that many of the EB categories were unavailable at the end of FY2009. This resulted in a high level of demand for visa numbers at the beginning of FY10, in October and November 2009.

©MurthyDotCom

The demand is created by approvals of adjustment of status to permanent residence (I-485) cases and immigrant visa approvals. The USCIS has been processing more I-485 cases, thus utilizing more visa numbers. When the USCIS processes enough cases to use the available visa numbers, then the DOS does not face the possibility of having immigrant visa numbers that go unused. The DOS often moves the cutoff dates forward in an attempt to increase the volume and rate of number usage during a given fiscal year. When USCIS processing happens more efficiently and at volumes high enough to deplete the available immigrant visa numbers as they become available, the DOS does not need to expand the number of cases eligible for approval by moving the cutoff dates forward. Of course, depletion of the universe of cases with priority dates before the cutoff date means the dates will have to move forward at some point.

Predictions of Priority Dates for FY10©MurthyDotCom

The Visa Bulletin for January 2010 provides some helpful predictions for the future movement of cutoff dates in the EB categories for the fiscal year 2010, which ends September 30, 2010. Of course, these are only predictions based on estimates of demand from various countries for immigrant visa numbers.

[-mitch- 3]

yup hubby received a letter with a case no.from NVC but since then we haven't received anything from them. yeah i know its still going to be a long wait but lets just hope and pray that we can all go through all of this smoothly.

so, a year is not a nice estimate time from approval-interview date then.... coz a few of our friends here (LPRS) had a year after approval and they already got their notice for interview... not to mention the whole process that comes with it....but yours has been 7months already... SAMKUNLE was advising me from the previous pages of this blog... to email NVC for the choice of agent request. well, NVC now is on APRIL 2006 for visas availability... so you have exactly a year...

[Eden1207 7]

Hi twulf,

I said that because I have been reading and observing the movement of the visa bulletin for our category. Every year (NVC) starts their Fiscal year on october 1rst and ends it on september 30th. Currently we are in FY 2010 which started in Oct 2009 and ends Sept 2010, this is how they allocate the visa numbers each year for the GC lottery, GC categories (through employment and family-based visas). Notice from the archives that each year in October they move fast and after some months they start moving slowly (a month or less than that).

The case below applies to our visa categories besides the employment based visas.

Explanation of Stagnation of Priority Dates

The Visa Bulletin explains the reason for the unchanged cutoff dates in some of the EB categories, noting that many of the EB categories were unavailable at the end of FY2009. This resulted in a high level of demand for visa numbers at the beginning of FY10, in October and November 2009.

©MurthyDotCom

The demand is created by approvals of adjustment of status to permanent residence (I-485) cases and immigrant visa approvals. The USCIS has been processing more I-485 cases, thus utilizing more visa numbers. When the USCIS processes enough cases to use the available visa numbers, then the DOS does not face the possibility of having immigrant visa numbers that go unused. The DOS often moves the cutoff dates forward in an attempt to increase the volume and rate of number usage during a given fiscal year. When USCIS processing happens more efficiently and at volumes high enough to deplete the available immigrant visa numbers as they become available, the DOS does not need to expand the number of cases eligible for approval by moving the cutoff dates forward. Of course, depletion of the universe of cases with priority dates before the cutoff date means the dates will have to move forward at some point.

Predictions of Priority Dates for FY10©MurthyDotCom

The Visa Bulletin for January 2010 provides some helpful predictions for the future movement of cutoff dates in the EB categories for the fiscal year 2010, which ends September 30, 2010. Of course, these are only predictions based on estimates of demand from various countries for immigrant visa numbers.

I guess your right...processing tends to move faster during the months of July to Sept. prior to closing of USCIS yearend calendar date. I did some checking on the archives for the last two years and during those months it moveds at a range of 3-4 months.

Currently they are processing the Mar 2006 and assuming that they are moving at a rate of 1 month only, and by July or Aug it jumps to over 3 months....i think its safe to say then that by Oct. 2010 we will see the PD of Jan 2007.

But then again..thats just my two cents..

[-mitch- 3]

I guess your right...processing tends to move faster during the months of July to Sept. prior to closing of USCIS yearend calendar date. I did some checking on the archives for the last two years and during those months it moveds at a range of 3-4 months.

Currently they are processing the Mar 2006 and assuming that they are moving at a rate of 1 month only, and by July or Aug it jumps to over 3 months....i think its safe to say then that by Oct. 2010 we will see the PD of Jan 2007.

But then again..thats just my two cents..

thats all good RAYMON.... we wont get our dollar if we dont have that 2cents.... so i can have that... and there's a chance too that they can go faster that we think... everything that we all have are all either predictions, feelings, personal views, and personal calculations..... i can hang on to that small hope that i have for they CAN BE faster than that.......

Edited February 9, 2010 by -mitch-

[kareen_g. 0]

so, a year is not a nice estimate time from approval-interview date then.... coz a few of our friends here (LPRS) had a year after approval and they already got their notice for interview... not to mention the whole process that comes with it....but yours has been 7months already... SAMKUNLE was advising me from the previous pages of this blog... to email NVC for the choice of agent request. well, NVC now is on APRIL 2006 for visas availability... so you have exactly a year...

I read about their stories and figured out that the time they received their approval letter theit PD is about to become current so i think that they have a year to complete the process. But for us we receive our approval way to early and our Pd is still so far. That is just my opinion, are you going to email NVC? if you do that maybe you can share it to us and we'll also do the same. =)

[twulf 0]

Hi twulf,

I said that because I have been reading and observing the movement of the visa bulletin for our category. Every year (NVC) starts their Fiscal year on october 1rst and ends it on september 30th. Currently we are in FY 2010 which started in Oct 2009 and ends Sept 2010, this is how they allocate the visa numbers each year for the GC lottery, GC categories (through employment and family-based visas). Notice from the archives that each year in October they move fast and after some months they start moving slowly (a month or less than that).

The case below applies to our visa categories besides the employment based visas.

Explanation of Stagnation of Priority Dates

The Visa Bulletin explains the reason for the unchanged cutoff dates in some of the EB categories, noting that many of the EB categories were unavailable at the end of FY2009. This resulted in a high level of demand for visa numbers at the beginning of FY10, in October and November 2009.

©MurthyDotCom

The demand is created by approvals of adjustment of status to permanent residence (I-485) cases and immigrant visa approvals. The USCIS has been processing more I-485 cases, thus utilizing more visa numbers. When the USCIS processes enough cases to use the available visa numbers, then the DOS does not face the possibility of having immigrant visa numbers that go unused. The DOS often moves the cutoff dates forward in an attempt to increase the volume and rate of number usage during a given fiscal year. When USCIS processing happens more efficiently and at volumes high enough to deplete the available immigrant visa numbers as they become available, the DOS does not need to expand the number of cases eligible for approval by moving the cutoff dates forward. Of course, depletion of the universe of cases with priority dates before the cutoff date means the dates will have to move forward at some point.

Predictions of Priority Dates for FY10©MurthyDotCom

The Visa Bulletin for January 2010 provides some helpful predictions for the future movement of cutoff dates in the EB categories for the fiscal year 2010, which ends September 30, 2010. Of course, these are only predictions based on estimates of demand from various countries for immigrant visa numbers.

Hi Sweetapple

Thanks for the informative post. I do remember reading something along the same lines a couple months back, but you input does clear some thing. So nice work and keep at it.

[Eden1207 7]

thats all good RAYMON.... we wont get our dollar if we dont have that 2cents.... so i can have that... and there's a chance too that they can go faster that we think... everything that we all have are all either predictions, feelings, personal views, and personal calculations..... i can hang on to that small hope that i have for they CAN BE faster than that.......

Your right Mitch..and like i said lets just hope and pray.

[Lebanese Girl 1]

I guess your right...processing tends to move faster during the months of July to Sept. prior to closing of USCIS yearend calendar date. I did some checking on the archives for the last two years and during those months it moveds at a range of 3-4 months.

Currently they are processing the Mar 2006 and assuming that they are moving at a rate of 1 month only, and by July or Aug it jumps to over 3 months....i think its safe to say then that by Oct. 2010 we will see the PD of Jan 2007.

But then again..thats just my two cents..

Do you think they also move faster or slower depending on the country you are applying for?

[Lebanese Girl 1]

Hi,

My wife applied for my green card (I-130) and she is an LPR. We applied in April 2007.

I applied on March 07 and I have yet to recieve a Approval notice..

WHATS GOING ON now I am nervous

[Eden1207 7]

I applied on March 07 and I have yet to recieve a Approval notice..

WHATS GOING ON now I am nervous

I applied on May 2007..and received my approval last July 2009. (NOA2)

maybe you should try calling them.