May 2010 CR1 filers

[Jen and Geert 4]

I thought I'd mention for anyone who didn't know or might benefit to know about igor's list

I think the best way to view it is select view all petitions and sorting by first NOA of course as well as your cr1/ir1 visa and service center that way it's a more complete picture.

I do notice more on the april list are getting the NOA2 so thats good news nothing extra for may yet, but they go in order so they won't get to may till they've finished april excluding expidites and other circumstances.

[mamamimi 8]

Thanks Emily =)

I've been looking forward to hearing about your case it looks like it wasn't too long of a wait for NVC so thats good news.

I have some questions

1. When do you get the NVC# ? I remember reading something about it but forgot.

when you get NOA-2 wait 3-4 days and start calling NVC you follow the prompts and enter your USCIS # I got mine 9 days after NOA-2

2. How does the Barcode thing work? Do you get it after submiting a payment?

YES you print out and send with your documents

Thanks again,

Jen and Geert

good luck on your interview when it comes along~

As soon as you get your NVC# call back and give them your email and your spouse then send out the DS3032 choice of agent by email. I used the template that I found in Ling-Che shortcuts, mine was accepted in 11 days take a look at my signature at end of this response

Edited September 19, 2010 by mamamimi

[Angelheart1962 6]

This is kinda odd!

I checked my case status on Friday and it had been touched - the first time! I got all excited then realised it was probably because my USC hubby has moved this week and notified USCIS of change of address so they must have been updating that on the file. THEN...I checked again tonight, dont know why, just being anally retentive lol, and I got a touch today as well. Also I noticed there is a thread on the home page from several other VJ'ers saying they have been touched today too. Could it be USCIS have got extra staff in or are doing overtime to help with the backlog? That would be great if so! I dont want to get my hopes up too much, but I am intrigued.....

Oh also, we have 3 petitions, 1 for me and 1 each for my 2 sons. One of them hasnt been touched at all. Thats worrying me a bit, why would they do something to 2 and not the other one? Dont they keep family groups together?

[Jen and Geert 4]

This is kinda odd!

I checked my case status on Friday and it had been touched - the first time! I got all excited then realised it was probably because my USC hubby has moved this week and notified USCIS of change of address so they must have been updating that on the file. THEN...I checked again tonight, dont know why, just being anally retentive lol, and I got a touch today as well. Also I noticed there is a thread on the home page from several other VJ'ers saying they have been touched today too. Could it be USCIS have got extra staff in or are doing overtime to help with the backlog? That would be great if so! I dont want to get my hopes up too much, but I am intrigued.....

Oh also, we have 3 petitions, 1 for me and 1 each for my 2 sons. One of them hasnt been touched at all. Thats worrying me a bit, why would they do something to 2 and not the other one? Dont they keep family groups together?

The uscis case updates through the website isn't 100% accurate from what I read, I haven't gotten a touch since May so I guess I could end up being one of those who don't get a touch but then gets an NOA2 or still might get a touch. If you filed them together they are suppose to process them together, but if your worried you might look into it or you could wait a bit longer to see what happens.

[Love is patient 4]

They started moving!! Hope they keep the good pace!! Come on CSC you can do it!!!! 1, 2, 3... is like a workout, need plenty of repetitions, i mean approvals!! haha

[Minted7 3]

They are moving? awesome!!!! I'm so happy for everyone, I'll contine to pray for all of us. HOpe everyone is doing well. I have 2 more weeks left then I'm coming back to the states from visiting my hubby in Canada. Our anniversaary is this Sunday...so that will be nice. I also look forward to autumn, and winter. I luv thanksgiving, pumpkinss, Christmas!! =D

Oh and we are also working on getting everything ready for the NVC stage.

Take care everyone!

[Jen and Geert 4]

There are 2 service centers named CSC and VSC. CSC employs 1010 I-130 adjudicators and VSC employs 505 I-130 adjudicators.

In the U.S, every year there are 750,000 I-130 petitioners say all are USC petitioners. They send their package to Chicago Lock box. TLA for it, let's say CLB. CLB checks the load of each SC and forwards it to them. Say 500,000 went to CSC and 250,000 went to VSC.

Always at a particular time, 10 employees in CSC and 5 employees of VSC are on vacation since they are humans. Now let's do a math again. Balance employees in CSC is 1000 and in VSC 500.

A Quiz - How many petitions each CSC and VSC employee gets for an equal distribution?

Ummmmm... Nobody answers. Let me calculate. CSC employee gets 500 and VSC employee gets 500.

Some of the employees in each SC are hardworking. What does that mean? They don't smoke, don't go to pantry so often and do not discuss about their dogs and cats at office. They process 5 petitions a day. Those hardly working employees process 4 petitions a day.

Now another quiz! How many working days in a month? Take out 4 Sat, 4 Sun and 1 or 2 holidays. Let's assume 20 working days.

During this process, some name checks are initiated. This is really not a spelling check. First name, Last name, DOB etc. are fed into another system and they get an output. Some names bleed, some not. Sometimes, some innocent names also bleed. Bleeding names will be hospitalized to get some more cure. Non-bleeding ones come back to the SC.

Ok! Now out of non-bleeding ones, some missed to include a previous divorce decree, some included a copy of marriage certificate which not clearly readable, so on an so forth. Now the employee is interested to see those originals. They issue another sweet TLA named RFE. Some petitioners will respond immediately to this RFE. Some may be on vacation or busy getting some of the documents from various sources.

Ok, final quiz! How many months it takes for a petition to be processed? Let's take a ball park.

Hard working employee gets 500 petitions and 20 working days in a month and process 5 per day. To process a petition on an average takes 5 months! Oh boy! This doesn't mean the first petition is processed on day 1. Since previous petitions are in his/her queue. Hence the term - recurring process!

Hardly working employee gets 500 petitions and 20 working days in a month and process 4 per day. To process a petition on an average takes more than 6 months! Oh geez!

Finally they take a cumulative average and put in this website: https://egov.uscis.g...TimesDisplay.do

Loto

Footenote: This work out is purely hypothetical for an illustrative purpose!

A quote from LotOfPatience that I though was interesting and also logical, but unfortunately most of us are thinking more on an emotional rather than logical point of view, most people in today's society are impatient and want things now/quickly and that can be logical too because life is short and we all want to live and love to be with our families to move on with our lives, but the double edge of the sword is most things worth waiting for in life take time.

It is just another trial that we must go through, but I'm thankful that we are the one's who have the kind of resources like visa journey and others to get through a difficult time, that we don't have to wait as long as people have before us so when I look at it that way I can find a bit of a positive balance and pray that things really don't take forever even though it may feel that way right now.

[Atencio 43]

The quote on time/man power needed to process form makes sense. The hard part to understand especially for us that are waiting is that the 6 or so months leading up to March applicants there were a lot of people getting their NOA-2's very fast. In my case at least, I was looking at those numbers originally.

[Love is patient 4]

So, if we do the math CSC approves 100 petitions a month. What I hate is the presence of k1, because i think they approve like 75 k1s & 25 cr1/ir1!! Anyway now I think they will turn to us because ppl are already calling saying that they exceeded 5 months. I cant hardly wait to get to 5 months to call them and bugg them!!!!

[LotofPatience 65]

So, if we do the math CSC approves 100 petitions a month. What I hate is the presence of k1, because i think they approve like 75 k1s & 25 cr1/ir1!! Anyway now I think they will turn to us because ppl are already calling saying that they exceeded 5 months. I cant hardly wait to get to 5 months to call them and bugg them!!!!

That's why I feel, we should NOT send I-129F for K3 path while I-130 is pending. They will have to review I-129F and it might fetch additional time and further slow down of I-130 for the rest of the people.

Loto

[Love is patient 4]

That's why I feel, we should NOT send I-129F for K3 path while I-130 is pending. They will have to review I-129F and it might fetch additional time and further slow down of I-130 for the rest of the people.

Loto

Such a sweet baby you have!!! Aw................ Definitely no I-129F for K3 path. The pile is already too big, if we add more. God help us!!!!!!!!!!

[Jen and Geert 4]

So, if we do the math CSC approves 100 petitions a month. What I hate is the presence of k1, because i think they approve like 75 k1s & 25 cr1/ir1!! Anyway now I think they will turn to us because ppl are already calling saying that they exceeded 5 months. I cant hardly wait to get to 5 months to call them and bugg them!!!!

From my case status the I-130 for us was filed May 11 so October 11 makes an official 5 months so I'll be calling that day also if no NOA2 before then, we've been patient although they'll probably say to wait an aditional amount of days, but I've been anxious to take some kind of initiative, so we'll see what happens.

[Love is patient 4]

From my case status the I-130 for us was filed May 11 so October 11 makes an official 5 months so I'll be calling that day also if no NOA2 before then, we've been patient although they'll probably say to wait an aditional amount of days, but I've been anxious to take some kind of initiative, so we'll see what happens.

Jenny, I heard really heartbreaking news, bad news. Some ppl that got approved & now are at NVC say that just to asign nb takes 6-8 weeks or if not NVC stage will probably take 3 months. I thought we're going to fly through it, use shortcuts & stuff. Dont know what to belive anymore!!

[mari0711 4]

I just wont believe!! I think ppl were saying that it was taking just 2 months, so I will just wait to see what happens, anyway, we van be sure it wont take that long as we are waiting right now!! and yes, I agree my hubby will call next monday too, we are kinda upset... we want our NOA2 now, its been crazy all this time waiting, so next october 4th I will update you with news about USCIS answer although I am afraid they will same the same than they have been saying for all this time

to WAIT !!!!!!!!!!!!! :crying:

[Love is patient 4]

I just wont believe!! I think ppl were saying that it was taking just 2 months, so I will just wait to see what happens, anyway, we van be sure it wont take that long as we are waiting right now!! and yes, I agree my hubby will call next monday too, we are kinda upset... we want our NOA2 now, its been crazy all this time waiting, so next october 4th I will update you with news about USCIS answer although I am afraid they will same the same than they have been saying for all this time

to WAIT !!!!!!!!!!!!! :crying:

GOOD LUCK!! We will be able to call on 28 Oct... I want them to be pressured by all the ppl calling & just approve, approve & approve. Regarding NVC maybe was just rumors with no real base...Cant be worse than USCIS anyway!! Take care & we hope you to be approved in no time!!