December 2012 Filers

[WorldTravelers 5]

Guys! Anyone heard of any approval recently! I'm a Decemeber i130 filer too and have had no response since the NOA1 I got mid december. My wife called USCIS and they told that my file was probably at the Newark Office. that's pretty much it, thats all information I have. Any ideas how long this wait is gonna be.

There have been some approvals, but very few. Out of some 10,000 cases at NBC that they received during mid December, they are approving about 300 a week. Check out some data here:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/420200-msc-case-number/

[Robinhood 13]

Guys! Anyone heard of any approval recently! I'm a Decemeber i130 filer too and have had no response since the NOA1 I got mid december. My wife called USCIS and they told that my file was probably at the Newark Office. that's pretty much it, thats all information I have. Any ideas how long this wait is gonna be.

My file is at Newark and I am still waiting. 2 cases I know got approved in past 10 days from Newark, both cases had same NOA 1 date (10/02/2012) and got an RFE in early march. So I am guessing that after an RFE cases takes month or so to get NOA2. Early last week I contacted my congressman who contacted Newark office and after 2 days I received an RFE which does not make sense. They want me to resubmit my G325A which I did. So I am guessing if you have your congressman inquire, they may move fast. Also, I suggest you visit Newark office with an infopass.

[a1188323 0]

Got our 130 approval yesterday! Took a lot of calls/emails to congressman to make it happen but it did.

My question is now on the next phase...on this page:http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_bring_your_foreign_spouse_to_live_in_the_US

it says the 864 and 230 forms are independant tracks that run parallel, but how exactly does this work? I thought I had read once that you do the 864 and then immediately following that the 230...so can anyone tell me which it is? Do them at teh same time or one after the other?

[mygrade100 2]

My understanding is that I 864 is done by the petiotner/sponsor and DS 230 is done by the beneficiary. Beneficiary has to fill DS 230 and mail it .

I 864 is first and DS 230 follows after it.

Got our 130 approval yesterday! Took a lot of calls/emails to congressman to make it happen but it did.

My question is now on the next phase...on this page:http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_bring_your_foreign_spouse_to_live_in_the_US

it says the 864 and 230 forms are independant tracks that run parallel, but how exactly does this work? I thought I had read once that you do the 864 and then immediately following that the 230...so can anyone tell me which it is? Do them at teh same time or one after the other?

Edited June 19, 2013 by mygrade100

[a1188323 0]

Yea, she has already filled out all of the paperwork and is visiting me right now, the question is just on when it all gets sent in. We plan on doing the 3032 form as well

[*Milly* 3]

Any December filers who is waiting NOA2???

[jane21 11]

Any December filers who is waiting NOA2???

Me!!!!!

[PurpleLove 0]

Any December filers who is waiting NOA2???

Me too.

No local office transfer got stuck at NBC.

Yesterday tried to get B2 on the new passport and got denial.

This whole process is a joke

[jane21 11]

i know how it feels!! But we don't have control of everything, that's really sucks!we just have to wait and wait!!!

[JoseOr NJessica 4]

I finally got approved !!!! It took 6 month 13 days of waiting 2 info pass and still going to me 3rd one on the 21st. also i sub.3 service request. But I finally got it .. I wish you all the best of luck and the best advice i can give you is don't be patient, contact them by all the means you can and let them know you are tired of waiting

[WorldTravelers 5]

Got our 130 approval yesterday! Took a lot of calls/emails to congressman to make it happen but it did.

My question is now on the next phase...on this page:http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_bring_your_foreign_spouse_to_live_in_the_US

it says the 864 and 230 forms are independant tracks that run parallel, but how exactly does this work? I thought I had read once that you do the 864 and then immediately following that the 230...so can anyone tell me which it is? Do them at teh same time or one after the other?

Those two do run in parallel, but it usually happens that they ask for 864 first, then 230. You will not send any of those until NVC is ready for them.

The way it happens, you'll send 3032 as soon as you get the case numbers. It takes some time (1-2 weeks) for them to accept that, and you won't be able to pay IV fee until that's accepted. You can only send 230 after the IV fee is paid.

In the meantime, they'll invoice you for AOS bill. As soon as you pay that, you can send 864.

Come on over to the NVC Filers thread

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/433472-nvc-filers-june-2013/

[*Milly* 3]

Hi PurpleLove,

Why did they deny? What questions did they ask? Please can you share about your interview, I was going to apply B2 wanna visit hubby for two weeks because it's really too hard to wait almost 6 months passed God knows how long it

will take

Hi PurpleLove,

Why did they deny? What questions did they ask? Please can you share about your interview, I was going to apply B2 wanna visit hubby for two weeks because it's really too hard to wait almost 6 months passed God knows how long it

will take

[*Milly* 3]

Hi JoseOr NJessica,

Congratulations on your approval, you are right we can't just sit and wait, I will tell my husband to get an appointment for infopass.

When you went to infopass could you get any information?

[JoseOr NJessica 4]

Hi JoseOr NJessica,

Congratulations on your approval, you are right we can't just sit and wait, I will tell my husband to get an appointment for infopass.

When you went to infopass could you get any information?

Thank you so much... And yes you must get in contact with them any way you can. I would call and speak with a tier 2 twice a week. I also made two info pass appointments. The first one was useless but the second time i was able to sub. a service request in person. The officer handed me a form that he had me fill out to give to the officer assigned to my case. The question you need to ask is:

When was my case transferred?

Has my case been assigned to an officer already?

When was the last check in done on my case?

These well help you estimate at least when you will be hearing from them. I was told to weeks ago that my case was checked in to and it was assigned back in may. I wish you the best of luck and remember keep on insisting...

[PurpleLove 0]

Hi PurpleLove,

Why did they deny? What questions did they ask? Please can you share about your interview, I was going to apply B2 wanna visit hubby for two weeks because it's really too hard to wait almost 6 months passed God knows how long it

will take

Hi PurpleLove,

Why did they deny? What questions did they ask? Please can you share about your interview, I was going to apply B2 wanna visit hubby for two weeks because it's really too hard to wait almost 6 months passed God knows how long it

will take

Just don't waste time and money like I did for applying for a B2 visa.

Better get a ticket to your country for your hubby.

This process got separated us for 9 months already but at least my spouse has visited me two times for 6 weeks total and we had our honeymoon and a honeymoon reloaded all over the Europe

There were no questions at all as my papers were just perfect.

The simple thing they got onto was like we cannot issue you a tourist/visitor visa as you have already applied for immigration visa,

so you stated clearly by petitioning your intent is to immigrate to the US and this prohibits us to issue you a visitor's visa.

You can preload it with documents showing you are attached to your country as much as you can at the interview,

they just do not care. You are considered as a potential immigrant the way they do not like (applying from the US) so there is your denial.