NBC vs Local Office

[ndu26 114]

Not true at all. I just got a request for evidence asking for my husbands birth certificate from the Dallas office and my hubby is not here stateside.

I think the post meant spouse as in the USC. so the the USC spouse is abroad, it stays at NBc and if the person is here, it gets sent to a local office. the reason? I cannot fathom

[ndu26 114]

Ours appears to have stayed at NBC since we never received notice that it was being transferred. My husband is the petitioner and is in the U.S.

sometimes they dont send notice abt the transfer. i would not have known my file has been transferred to a local office if I hadn't called USCIS few days ago to ask. I probably would have assumed my NOA 2 came straight from NBC when it does happen(without any RFE)

[NikLR 13,227]

They specifically state on the USCIS website that you will NOT be getting a notification of a transfer to a local office. The reason people know about their petitions at local offices is because they've called and have been told or they've received an RFE or a NOID from a local office or they've received an approval letter from a local office. Otherwise you do not know if the case is at NBC or a local office.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=c3c7ca7c5fed9310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e7801c2c9be44210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

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Effect on Customers

As a result of these changes, customers may receive transfer notices, requests for evidence (RFE) notices, notices of decision, or other correspondence from a different USCIS location.

Stand-Alone Immediate Relative I-130s will be transferred from the Service Center to the National Benefits Center (NBC), and then routed to the appropriate Field Office. Customers will receive a notice indicating the case was transferred to the NBC, but that notice will not indicate the final local Field Office location

[jdba 22]

Is there anyway to know how far behind each local office is? I'm in Michigan so I'm sure my local office is Detroit . It would be nice to know how fast they are processing the I-130's they get from the NBC

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

Is there anyway to know how far behind each local office is? I'm in Michigan so I'm sure my local office is Detroit . It would be nice to know how fast they are processing the I-130's they get from the NBC

This is about the best you are going to get.

http://dashboard.uscis.gov/

[NikLR 13,227]

I think the bigger cities are slower honestly. We've seen approvals from random small towns but Atlanta is slow for example. They just have more regular cases beyond these I-130s that they're now having to deal with too. Our local office is in Denver, so I know I won't have far to travel to ROC in a few years! Lol. I was always expecting this whole process to take a year from start to finish, not including moving, so anything faster is awesome. But it IS hard to be patient.