Processing Times

[miranda 0]

How often do the service centers update their processing times? I saw that the CVC just updated on the 24th. The I-129F date stayed the same so I'm awaiting their next update.

[apeach601 0]

Its usually around the 5th and around the 20th of the month.

[Jaylen Brit 0]

I wouldn't put too much store in the times tho - to be honest - there seems to be exceptions and special cases and - you get the idea.

There are NOA2 coming out of CSC right now for an NOA1 date of november - yet there are plenty PRE that date still waiting - makes no sense really. Assume between 90-120 days at the first instance - and if it goes over that then you can start panicking. My 2 cents

[zyggy 9]

People need to understand what the processing dates exactly mean....

What the processing date on the USCIS website means is that oldest date in which a case is still "on the shelf". Meaning the date in which a case has not yet been given to an adjudicator to be reviewed. It does not mean the last date in which a case has been approved.

So after the cases have been taken from the shleves, there can be a wild difference in the rate of which tose cases are approved, since each case has a specific set of details associated with it. One adjudicator may be slower than others, one adjudicator may be on vacation, one person's case may need an RFE, anothers may need a name check cleared, one adjudicator may deal with how they process RFE's cases with cases that have no RFE's.. The different possibilities are endless.

All you can ever know is that if your cases is older than the date that is given on the website, that it is on an adjudicators desk waiting to be approved, RFE'd or denied.

I wouldn't put too much store in the times tho - to be honest - there seems to be exceptions and special cases and - you get the idea.

There are NOA2 coming out of CSC right now for an NOA1 date of november - yet there are plenty PRE that date still waiting - makes no sense really. Assume between 90-120 days at the first instance - and if it goes over that then you can start panicking. My 2 cents