March 2010 CR1 filers

[BigSigh 12]

Wow Indigo, way to rally the troops! I for one hope you have to eat your words this week.

[kruz_patz 22]

My wife just called USCIS and talked to an immigration officer (not the first level rep.)......She said...it will take another 30-60 days to get approvel.......just bare with us......

I am done with this.......because in the past people have finished this in 6 mnoths.....including visa stamp in their passport......what is this.......

[LotofPatience 65]

My wife just called USCIS and talked to an immigration officer (not the first level rep.)......She said...it will take another 30-60 days to get approvel.......just bare with us......

I am done with this.......because in the past people have finished this in 6 mnoths.....including visa stamp in their passport......what is this.......

That's the standard message, kruz.

Loto

[IndigoSkies 168]

Wow Indigo, way to rally the troops! I for one hope you have to eat your words this week.

If I'm wrong, I will eat my words...in a sexy way...like they eat ice cream so provacatively on ice cream commercials.

[anthonyddiggs1 1]

Sorry have not been online for awhile, Just caught up with all that is going on.

@ Marie sorry to hear about your RFE. my prayers are with you. But just to let you know. Christine is the lady in charge of the Congressional oversight committee.

For all of those that were approved last week, congratulations!!!!!!!!

Also I have set up the September NVC thread for all of you that make to the NVC stage for the month of September.

See you all there.

[Heather&Matt 0]

I'm going to set everyone's expectation right. There won't be any good news this week. Mark my word. There won't be a single approval this week (posted on VJ.) Nothing. Nada. Zero. Ziltch.

Other than that, have a spectacular week.

That's very positive, thanks

[singh39980 0]

I think this is the reason why our I-130's are not being approved.

http://www.murthy.com/news/n_fb0910.html

Basically, the priority dates for F2A/F2B and other categories have advanced by years and USCIS probably is focussing on clearing out these cases that have been pending for years ..

[kevinandangel 1]

Sign In Fail. I'm off to the embassy.

[IndigoSkies 168]

Sign In Fail. I'm off to the embassy.

Congrats. Do you know how to track your case file from NVC to Embassy? If not, per-use this link: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/260815-dhl-tracking/

[Darnell 8,478]

Could this b the reason for slowdown??

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082705023.html

Nope, different department, different location, different humans, even different casefile types.

CSC/VSC resources were NOT 'pulled' to cover those, at all.

[IndigoSkies 168]

You tell 'em, Darnell. By the way, has anyone ever conclusively figured out why CSC slowed down so much?

[KBcrand1 1]

Nope, different department, different location, different humans, even different casefile types.

CSC/VSC resources were NOT 'pulled' to cover those, at all.

I disagree somewhat. They specifically state in the article that "those that were on a path to citizenship", I'm assuming that might include k1, cr1/ir1.... Since many Illegals try to take the short path. Then again, Vacation is over after labor day...... so maybe we will start seeing something next Tues, I sure hope I'm wrong and see something this week though.

[IndigoSkies 168]

I called USCIS to check on case status. Same 5 months mumbo-jumbo. I application is only 25 days away from being 5 months old. I tried to get the woman to tell me what are the dates on the application they are processing now. She doesn't know she said. I'm assuming they are processing early April applications. All the ones left from March are either goign to get denied or they've gotten RFE of some sort.

With my luck, I'm going to end up with an RFE. You just wait and watch. Argh. I'm getting mad already.

[LotofPatience 65]

I think this is the reason why our I-130's are not being approved.

http://www.murthy.co...s/n_fb0910.html

Basically, the priority dates for F2A/F2B and other categories have advanced by years and USCIS probably is focussing on clearing out these cases that have been pending for years ..

It seems true. Many family based petitions by LPR petitioners for their spouse and children are getting approved in couple of years (1 to 2) now. Previously, it used to take 5 or 6 years. This could slow down USC petitioners filing, if the I-130 adjudicators in the USCIS are same for both types.

Loto

[KBcrand1 1]

I called USCIS to check on case status. Same 5 months mumbo-jumbo. I application is only 25 days away from being 5 months old. I tried to get the woman to tell me what are the dates on the application they are processing now. She doesn't know she said. I'm assuming they are processing early April applications. All the ones left from March are either goign to get denied or they've gotten RFE of some sort.

With my luck, I'm going to end up with an RFE. You just wait and watch. Argh. I'm getting mad already.

I hope you don't end up with an RFE, but if you look at the timelines and numbers of "April Filers" that have been approved, their might be half a dozen. At least two of them I can contribute to expedite. Something has put I-130's on the back burner... Not sure what it is, but the approvals have pretty much stopped! I wonder how a file is handled when it comes in, does it get assigned to an adjudicator immediately, then it is up to the adjudicator to send it through the security checks, then when it comes back as clean ( no flags ), they actually look closely at it? If that is the case, and with the Summer coming to a close now, and vacations pretty much wrapping up, maybe we will see some approvals, however, if the case is not assigned to a specific adjudicator in the beggining, then maybe something else is going on such as the recent articles appearing in the papers relating to Immigration. Even though my wife has been approved at USCIS, my step son has not. His NOA-1 date is 4/14/10. I fully expect to see an RFE for him, because I did not send in a BC for him listing my wife as his mother. Initially I was very concerned with this, but, my wife wants him to finish the school sememster in Brazil, so it is not absolutely important for us to have him approved as of yet.

With that said, I'm still very concerned with the speed of how approvals are coming and the reasons behind them. Maybe someday, a USCIS rep will be doing the same thing and will enlighten all of us as to how things progress.

Good luck to you, hopefully we will see some action this week.