California Service Center To Texas Service Center

[U&S 8]

We are at 5 months and 1 week. Last touch was Nov 23 post-decision activity. Heard back from my Congresswoman's office today.

Summary of Response

[*]My file is at TSC, not at the National Visa Center.

[*]Based upon my NOA1 date (July 1), my petition is close to being ready to be pulled for adjudication.

[*]The Congresswoman's contact will pull my file to have a supervisor assign my case to an officer for adjudication.

[*]I should receive either a decision or an RFE in 45 to 60 days.

[*]If I have not heard from TSC by the end of February 2011, I should contact Congresswoman again and they will check for me

When I asked why it was taking longer than the 5 months, the answer was that processing times expand and contract according to workload. Which begs the question: why were August filers approved before July filers?

Would like to know how others who are past their 5 months are taking action and what they have heard about their case status. Does anyone have confirmation on what is going on at TSC?

NOA1 - July 1

Transfer from CSC to TSC - Nov 2

Post decision activity notice stating file was transferred from NVC back to USCIS. (Except it wasn't) - Nov 23

Edited December 7, 2010 by U&S

[CanadianRedneck 8]

it's the gov't..they do what they want..guidelines...not guarantees.

[J e n n y 26]

We are at 5 months and 1 week. Last touch was Nov 23 post-decision activity. Heard back from my Congresswoman's office today.

Summary of Response

[*]My file is at TSC, not at the National Visa Center.

[*]Based upon my NOA1 date (July 1), my petition is close to being ready to be pulled for adjudication.

[*]The Congresswoman's contact will pull my file to have a supervisor assign my case to an officer for adjudication.

[*]I should receive either a decision or an RFE in 45 to 60 days.

[*]If I have not heard from TSC by the end of February 2011, I should contact Congresswoman again and they will check for me

When I asked why it was taking longer than the 5 months, the answer was that processing times expand and contract according to workload. Which begs the question: why were August filers approved before July filers?

Would like to know how others who are past their 5 months are taking action and what they have heard about their case status. Does anyone have confirmation on what is going on at TSC?

NOA1 - July 1

Transfer from CSC to TSC - Nov 2

Post decision activity notice stating file was transferred from NVC back to USCIS. (Except it wasn't) - Nov 23

I think you are one of the very few people who have had luck contacting a member of Congress.

My plan of attack is as follows:

12/24/10: Five-month mark. No approval?--> cry, bake a cake and eat it.

12/27/10: Contact USCIS. I'm assuming they will be of no help but at least I can say that I did try to call them.

1/4/11: Fax Consent for Release of Information form to senator with detailed description of problem. After a week if they haven't gotten back to me I'm going to hound them with phone calls.

After that I have no idea.

Probably will bake more cakes, though.

Edited December 7, 2010 by jenny477

[lucas_34 4]

U&S - thanks for your feedback. Do you think that TSC will pull all those post decision activity I-130s and adjudicate, or only those that member's of Congress will follow up upon? I don't think it is good news as USCIS is not admitting to their administrative error while processing I-130 cases. I have contacted an immigration lawyer and all I got back is that it is 99% error on USCIS part and it should be resolved soon. Nothing new to me though!

[xelance 31]

I knew that this wasnt good news when we were sent to TSC... being the guinea pig group sucks really bad. Oh thats right, we were sent to TSC so we would be within the 5 month timeframe hahaha..yeah thats why it has been 5 months and 1 week for me and still no NOA2 while some September CSC filers have theirs already. What a f'ing joke.

Edited December 8, 2010 by apeters

[lucas_34 4]

Guys - I have a completely other idea of what might be the cause for TSC USCIS making some cases (mine among them) marked Post Decision Activity with no NOA-2 approval, but statement State Dept returned this case for a review to USCIS. Maybe, all USCIS service centers received a directive from NVC to stop sending approved I-130s (if they were processes in less than 5 months timeframe), because NVC does not want to get backlogged? Hence, TSC that speeded up all those I-130s was ready to send them to NVC and someone higher up said to stop, as NVC would not be able to handle so many of them. So, in case of those that were well within a 5 month timeframe, USCIS had to assign them some category that they could keep them for a while, before 5 months is up for them and they can be send to NVC. Unfortunately, USCIS might have not reviewed each case thoroughly and they stopped some cases that were already ready to be send to NVC, because of their internal mess or a directive stating: I don't care what cases you have on your desk, but these stay here for the next ??? days/months before we send them to NVC. Just a thought. Maybe not a very intelligent one, but still a thought.

[xelance 31]

doesnt make sense lucas,why would they approve September filers then? I dont buy that

[celldoc 21]

After having read what some of you guys have written, I thought I'd call our friends up at the USCIS to have a chat.

I specifically inquired about my I130 being in the "Post-Decision" phase. The tier 1 representative was nice enough to escalate me to tier 2 after I thoroughly and petiently explained my concerns. The operative word here is "patient"- you should at least sound patient. Remember folks, these people don't have to escalate your call unless your specific case necessitates it- so being outwardly polite will, without a doubt, get you farther along in this conversation, as opposed to verbally expressing whatever anger you may be experiencing.

Mr. Tier 2 explained that workload can be moved around from one service center to another- as we all are well aware of by now. In our case, our files had obviously been transferred to TSC.

Mr. Tier 2 then mentioned that TSC, for the past few years, has been used to processing only employment and refugee-related submissions. They had stopped, for whatever reason, processing I130s some time ago, at least for the past 3 or 4 years. With that in mind, TSC then received our batch of I130 applications (hundreds, thousands?).

So Mr. Tier 2, in an indirect manner, basically said that those of us who received emails/texts/snail mail letters stating that we were in the "Post Decision" phase were in all likelihood victims of some peoples' incompetence- also euphemistically referred to as there being a "training issue" with some folks. This is an issue they are "looking into".

Even though my I130 status on the USCIS website states that I am in the "Post Decision" phase, I was clearly told by Mr. Tier 2 that my application had never left TSC, and furthermore, still hadn't been looked at! -Which is fine, I suppose, since I haven't hit the 5 month mark. It just sucks that I had unnecessarily- and apparently needlessly- gotten excited thinking some sort of decision had been made in regards to my I130. Wishful thinking.

In sum, Mr. Tier 2 suggested to call back 90 days after the CSC-TSC transfer date- for all of us, that would be early-February. He did add however, without offering any substantial proof, that my application, just like the rest of yours, may be looked at sooner than the 90 day period ends. I suppose that there may be some truth to that because, if I were in their shoes, and I had hundreds to thousands of applications to go through, I would deliberately give a very lengthy grace period (like say, 90 days), as opposed to giving a more "realistic" yet shorter grace period, knowing it really wouldn't take me that long to do the processing, simply to avoid getting irate phone calls from people saying they hadn't heard anything within their allotted timeframe.

I didn't get around to inquiring about the reason(s) behind other August/September filers getting approved- I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten any specific coherent answer.

That's all the news I have for now.

Edited December 8, 2010 by celldoc

[J e n n y 26]

After having read what some of you guys have written, I thought I'd call our friends up at the USCIS to have a chat.

I specifically inquired about my I130 being in the "Post-Decision" phase. The tier 1 representative was nice enough to escalate me to tier 2 after I thoroughly and petiently explained my concerns. The operative word here is "patient"- you should at least sound patient. Remember folks, these people don't have to escalate your call unless your specific case necessitates it- so being outwardly polite will, without a doubt, get you farther along in this conversation, as opposed to verbally expressing whatever anger you may be experiencing.

Mr. Tier 2 explained that workload can be moved around from one service center to another- as we all are well aware of by now. In our case, our files had obviously been transferred to TSC.

Mr. Tier 2 then mentioned that TSC, for the past few years, has been used to processing only employment and refugee-related submissions. They had stopped, for whatever reason, processing I130s some time ago, at least for the past 3 or 4 years. With that in mind, TSC then received our batch of I130 applications (hundreds, thousands?).

So Mr. Tier 2, in an indirect manner, basically said that those of us who received emails/texts/snail mail letters stating that we were in the "Post Decision" phase were in all likelihood victims of some peoples' incompetence- also euphemistically referred to as there being a "training issue" with some folks. This is an issue they are "looking into".

Even though my I130 status on the USCIS website states that I am in the "Post Decision" phase, I was clearly told by Mr. Tier 2 that my application had never left TSC, and furthermore, still hadn't been looked at! -Which is fine, I suppose, since I haven't hit the 5 month mark. It just sucks that I had unnecessarily- and apparently needlessly- gotten excited thinking some sort of decision had been made in regards to my I130. Wishful thinking.

In sum, Mr. Tier 2 suggested to call back 90 days after the CSC-TSC transfer date- for all of us, that would be early-February. He did add however, without offering any substantial proof, that my application, just like the rest of yours, may be looked at sooner than the 90 day period ends. I suppose that there may be some truth to that because, if I were in their shoes, and I had hundreds to thousands of applications to go through, I would deliberately give a very lengthy grace period (like say, 90 days), as opposed to giving a more "realistic" yet shorter grace period, knowing it really wouldn't take me that long to do the processing, simply to avoid getting irate phone calls from people saying they hadn't heard anything within their allotted timeframe.

I didn't get around to inquiring about the reason(s) behind other August/September filers getting approved- I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten any specific coherent answer.

That's all the news I have for now.

Thank you, fellow Floridian!

[celldoc 21]

Thank you, fellow Floridian!

Representin' South Florida! Woot woot!!

by the way- what is up with the cold?! this is my first winter in Florida, having recently moved from Boston- I was expecting shorts weather all winter long.

-oops, there i go again with the wishful thinking

[_Erick_ 5]

LOL

Attention TSC Filers with Status with status that jumped from "initial review" to "post decition activity" -

It appears that TSC changed the status of some petition from "initial review" to "post decition activity" in Error.

The 2 postings below are from VJ-ers who had this situation. They both called and found that there petitions never left TSC.

My original posting -

Sorry for the lengthy multi-post. I'm starting to get the hang of how to post on this site and am having fun with the "advanced features". I am "kind of" a perfectionist (do you think ) and wanted to put it all together for you . Have a great week and success with your Visa Jouney -

[U&S 8]

After having read what some of you guys have written, I thought I'd call our friends up at the USCIS to have a chat.

I specifically inquired about my I130 being in the "Post-Decision" phase. The tier 1 representative was nice enough to escalate me to tier 2 after I thoroughly and petiently explained my concerns. The operative word here is "patient"- you should at least sound patient. Remember folks, these people don't have to escalate your call unless your specific case necessitates it- so being outwardly polite will, without a doubt, get you farther along in this conversation, as opposed to verbally expressing whatever anger you may be experiencing.

Mr. Tier 2 explained that workload can be moved around from one service center to another- as we all are well aware of by now. In our case, our files had obviously been transferred to TSC.

Mr. Tier 2 then mentioned that TSC, for the past few years, has been used to processing only employment and refugee-related submissions. They had stopped, for whatever reason, processing I130s some time ago, at least for the past 3 or 4 years. With that in mind, TSC then received our batch of I130 applications (hundreds, thousands?).

So Mr. Tier 2, in an indirect manner, basically said that those of us who received emails/texts/snail mail letters stating that we were in the "Post Decision" phase were in all likelihood victims of some peoples' incompetence- also euphemistically referred to as there being a "training issue" with some folks. This is an issue they are "looking into".

Even though my I130 status on the USCIS website states that I am in the "Post Decision" phase, I was clearly told by Mr. Tier 2 that my application had never left TSC, and furthermore, still hadn't been looked at! -Which is fine, I suppose, since I haven't hit the 5 month mark. It just sucks that I had unnecessarily- and apparently needlessly- gotten excited thinking some sort of decision had been made in regards to my I130. Wishful thinking.

In sum, Mr. Tier 2 suggested to call back 90 days after the CSC-TSC transfer date- for all of us, that would be early-February. He did add however, without offering any substantial proof, that my application, just like the rest of yours, may be looked at sooner than the 90 day period ends. I suppose that there may be some truth to that because, if I were in their shoes, and I had hundreds to thousands of applications to go through, I would deliberately give a very lengthy grace period (like say, 90 days), as opposed to giving a more "realistic" yet shorter grace period, knowing it really wouldn't take me that long to do the processing, simply to avoid getting irate phone calls from people saying they hadn't heard anything within their allotted timeframe.

I didn't get around to inquiring about the reason(s) behind other August/September filers getting approved- I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten any specific coherent answer.

That's all the news I have for now.

Great that you succeeded in pumping so much info out of them. They basically admitted their error. Fuel to the fire...thx for sharing.

Your handle leads me to believe you fix mobile phones or are an incarcerated physician.

[U&S 8]

I knew that this wasnt good news when we were sent to TSC... being the guinea pig group sucks really bad. Oh thats right, we were sent to TSC so we would be within the 5 month timeframe hahaha..yeah thats why it has been 5 months and 1 week for me and still no NOA2 while some September CSC filers have theirs already. What a f'ing joke.

Joke indeed - TSC cannot approve our cases because they have not looked at them. No one has looked at these cases in the entire 5 months. No officer has even been assigned to mine according to the response they provided my Congresswoman's case worker. I'm beside myself.

[Mr Er 3]

Joke indeed - TSC cannot approve our cases because they have not looked at them. No one has looked at these cases in the entire 5 months. No officer has even been assigned to mine according to the response they provided my Congresswoman's case worker. I'm beside myself.

Thats shocking indeed... did you got any touches meanwhile ? other people got touches on 11/24 and onwards

Whats going on

[celldoc 21]

Great that you succeeded in pumping so much info out of them. They basically admitted their error. Fuel to the fire...thx for sharing.

Your handle leads me to believe you fix mobile phones or are an incarcerated physician.

LOL... close but not really- i'm a physician, and i also do research on cancer stem cells