CSC

[TraciB 0]

The longest part of NVC is just waiting for the case number to be assigned. For the last few months, it's been taking around 3-4 weeks to get it. Once you have the case number though, the remaining time spent in NVC is mostly up to you to send in packages (and sending them in without mistakes).

I don't remember to be honest. But my case was approved at the end of January and my husband sent the application at the end of August.

I just wish there was some rhyme or reason to it all. We watch the processing timelines and according to those, they are working on August 27, 2011 so a month past us.

[Saylin 1,605]

I just wish there was some rhyme or reason to it all. We watch the processing timelines and according to those, they are working on August 27, 2011 so a month past us.

Yeah, remember, those are just estimates based off VJ members' timelines who filled them out. There's still all the VJ members who don't update their timelines, plus all of the people not on VJ.

[TraciB 0]

Yeah, remember, those are just estimates based off VJ members' timelines who filled them out. There's still all the VJ members who don't update their timelines, plus all of the people not on VJ.

So true, sigh.

[Stefaan_Leslie 10]

According to the USCIS, cases may be expedited if they involve a serious financial loss, an extreme emergency, a humanitarian situation, the request comes from a nonprofit organization advancing the cultural or social interests of the United States, it's a matter of national interest or security (the request must be made by a U.S. government official), or a USCIS error or compelling USCIS interest.

[OgaMum 4]

So true, sigh.

I understand your frustrations and CSC from my understanding has the slowest response rate than other service centers according to the people I know personally. They say that it can take up to 2 years before you can hear anything not saying it will happen in your case but it sucks though.

In the meantime, just prepare all documents that you think they will need to proceed to the next stage and continue visiting your partner if you can.

I even asked if one can get a tourist visa for their partner and they said no because family visa takes precedent over tourist visas. I think it is bullcrap but hey.

[Joseph & Pari 0]

After 5.5 months, I check our status every day in: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/Dashboard/CaseStatus.do

but noting changed. Does anyone know that after approving I-130, the status "Initial Review" will be changed or not????

[Roe 3]

After 5.5 months, I check our status every day in: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/Dashboard/CaseStatus.do

but noting changed. Does anyone know that after approving I-130, the status "Initial Review" will be changed or not????

yes, it will be changed! and if you asked for an e-mail or sms... you will get it.

Patience! I had to learn patience...

[TraciB 0]

yes, it will be changed! and if you asked for an e-mail or sms... you will get it.

Patience! I had to learn patience...

Patience is becoming a bore...now I want results!

[foobaz123 39]

You have to remember that cases land on officer's desks and the officers process cases at their own pace. So if there's one slow officer and one fast officer, then it's "normal" for not all applications to be approved from the summer, and some that have been approved from November.

Or the other possibility is that they don't process them in the order they receive them at all? How else can we see CSC seemingly randomly spit out approvals in 7 days flat? Even if what you say is true, then it still shows abysmal management on their part. Though, that should hardly be surprising...

[VisaJourney2011 14]

C'MON People at CSC !

What are you doing? or What are you Not Doing ! thats a better question.

How can applications take over 4 months to process?

After 5.5 months, I check our status every day in: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/Dashboard/CaseStatus.do

but noting changed. Does anyone know that after approving I-130, the status "Initial Review" will be changed or not????

yes, it will be changed! and if you asked for an e-mail or sms... you will get it.

Patience! I had to learn patience...

Patience is becoming a bore...now I want results!

Edited December 28, 2011 by VisaJourney2011

[foobaz123 39]

C'MON People at CSC !

What are you doing? or What are you Not Doing ! thats a better question.

How can applications take over 4 months to process?

That is probably the most frustrating part. They don't take months to process. They take months to finally get on someone's desk for 15 - 30 minutes. How bloody fast would this process be if it was online and 80% - 95% automated?

[foobaz123 39]

I understand your frustrations and CSC from my understanding has the slowest response rate than other service centers according to the people I know personally. They say that it can take up to 2 years before you can hear anything not saying it will happen in your case but it sucks though.

In the meantime, just prepare all documents that you think they will need to proceed to the next stage and continue visiting your partner if you can.

I even asked if one can get a tourist visa for their partner and they said no because family visa takes precedent over tourist visas. I think it is bullcrap but hey.

The real difficulty is that for those of us whose spouse isn't from a VWP country, we have to prove to a VO who doesn't give a ####### and just wants you to go away that they'll return to their home country. Given that it is more or less impossible to do that when you're coming to visit your husband/wife, trying for a visitor visa while married to a USC is pointless.

People from VWP countries can at least fly over here and roll the dice that the people at the point of entry won't even ask about the visa in progress or why they're there. Even if they do, I cannot help but think that the pressure to let someone in who is standing at the threshold after flying over here is far far higher than what it is on a VO sitting behind a window waiting to go to lunch while thinking of a way to say no. Given the proclivity for VOs to say no to visitor visas to people like us in the first place, it makes it damned easy when there is a spouse in the US to use as a denial reason, no?

Just to add more suck, once you say "I do" your chances of ever getting a visitor visa go to zero.. even if you've got family members which will die before they ever meet your wife... fun, no?

No, I'm not bitter at all. Why do you ask?

Edited December 28, 2011 by foobaz123

[TraciB 0]

The real difficulty is that for those of us whose spouse isn't from a VWP country, we have to prove to a VO who doesn't give a ####### and just wants you to go away that they'll return to their home country. Given that it is more or less impossible to do that when you're coming to visit your husband/wife, trying for a visitor visa while married to a USC is pointless.

People from VWP countries can at least fly over here and roll the dice that the people at the point of entry won't even ask about the visa in progress or why they're there. Even if they do, I cannot help but think that the pressure to let someone in who is standing at the threshold after flying over here is far far higher than what it is on a VO sitting behind a window waiting to go to lunch while thinking of a way to say no. Given the proclivity for VOs to say no to visitor visas to people like us in the first place, it makes it damned easy when there is a spouse in the US to use as a denial reason, no?

Just to add more suck, once you say "I do" your chances of ever getting a visitor visa go to zero.. even if you've got family members which will die before they ever meet your wife... fun, no?

No, I'm not bitter at all. Why do you ask?

Ok, clarification please, VWP (Visa Waiver Program?) and VO is??? I believe Belgium is a country with the Visa Waiver but from what I have read it is dicey for my husband to come here while deeply embedded in the immigration process so this is why I go there. Am I incorrect in thinking this???

[OgaMum 4]

The real difficulty is that for those of us whose spouse isn't from a VWP country, we have to prove to a VO who doesn't give a ####### and just wants you to go away that they'll return to their home country. Given that it is more or less impossible to do that when you're coming to visit your husband/wife, trying for a visitor visa while married to a USC is pointless.

People from VWP countries can at least fly over here and roll the dice that the people at the point of entry won't even ask about the visa in progress or why they're there. Even if they do, I cannot help but think that the pressure to let someone in who is standing at the threshold after flying over here is far far higher than what it is on a VO sitting behind a window waiting to go to lunch while thinking of a way to say no. Given the proclivity for VOs to say no to visitor visas to people like us in the first place, it makes it damned easy when there is a spouse in the US to use as a denial reason, no?

Just to add more suck, once you say "I do" your chances of ever getting a visitor visa go to zero.. even if you've got family members which will die before they ever meet your wife... fun, no?

No, I'm not bitter at all. Why do you ask?

No, I didn't call you bitter but I wouldn't say you are bitter because you have the right to be frustrated and upset at foolishness.

I understand wholeheartedly. It sucks!

[foobaz123 39]

No, I didn't call you bitter but I wouldn't say you are bitter because you have the right to be frustrated and upset at foolishness.

I understand wholeheartedly. It sucks!

I was being sarcastic

Sigh.. nothing to do but wait... and wait.. and wait...