Feeling left out

[Mina90 134]

Recently, a lot of people who filed around August-September-October-November have all been getting approvals. I keep getting my hopes high and check the status of our case every day, but in vain I wonder if location or other things matter in the way that these I-130s have been getting approved. My case was transferred to NBC (priority date is 9/10/12) and is being processed at a USCIS office. So I checked to see what my local office would be out of curiosity and it's the Washington D.C. office. What do you guys think? Is there some particular strategy for approvals or is it really just random? Sorry, I just needed to vent, I just hate getting my hopes up and then feeling let down.

[EmilyS 11]

count me in, My priority date is late Oct and I've seen approvals that were filed after me in a matter of 40+ days...This process is so random and I'm hating every minute of it although some of these approvals are being processed at local offices which don't have the volume of petitions that other places do. Every time I see someone posting about their approval I get my hopes high, so I guess there's nothing I can do but be patient which I don't know how!

Edited December 15, 2012 by EmilyS

[hikergirl 277]

Me too! Plus I have the added worry about the field office sending me the NOID and whether or not they've married up my birth certificate with my file.

Hopefully ours will all come in short order! I don't think it's random it's supposed to be in a queue.

Edited December 15, 2012 by hikergirl

[TBoneTX 44,786]

*** Thread moved from CR-1 Process forum to USCIS Service Centers forum -- topic applies to multiple visa types and pertains to USCIS processing operations. ***

[Mina90 134]

If it isn't in random, I'm trying to find trends but it just seems random since people who have filed even after us got approvals very quickly. I haven't received an RFE or anything either, it's just been in one place since September. I hope we all see good signs soon.

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

It is all very random - people who filed from within the US are getting approved in under 2 months and some of the file from abroads are taking 3+ months.

I'm just hoping they don't transfer my case to the Hartford, CT field office because they are slow slow slow.

[NickD 202]

If the USCIS is slow, wait until you get to the NVC stage, have limits on the number of visas they can issue and controlled by the executive branch now favoring mid-easterners that are supposingly helping our military and people from Africa. Forget about Latin America, been over four years now and still waiting for an unmarried stepson.

[Apapaia 25]

Recently, a lot of people who filed around August-September-October-November have all been getting approvals. I keep getting my hopes high and check the status of our case every day, but in vain I wonder if location or other things matter in the way that these I-130s have been getting approved. My case was transferred to NBC (priority date is 9/10/12) and is being processed at a USCIS office. So I checked to see what my local office would be out of curiosity and it's the Washington D.C. office. What do you guys think? Is there some particular strategy for approvals or is it really just random? Sorry, I just needed to vent, I just hate getting my hopes up and then feeling let down.

My petition is in Vermont, where's yours? I've been waiting for 6 months now and even though they said they would approve our case fast because my husband is in the military, nothing has happened yet.

Good luck to you

[bigdog 376]

If the USCIS is slow, wait until you get to the NVC stage, have limits on the number of visas they can issue and controlled by the executive branch now favoring mid-easterners that are supposingly helping our military and people from Africa. Forget about Latin America, been over four years now and still waiting for an unmarried stepson.

:thumbs:Slow and slower.

[Shiobhan 235]

Every case to check is different, some depends on country one is from , others have common names, while crosscheck

for others may not be adding up.

[WaitingforOregon 10]

June 4th and have heard NOTHING! It is disheartening to see people who applied just weeks ago approved. It's been over 6 months for us! I think it's just each center and the volume of paperwork they have. My advice - don't get your hopes up, and when it does happen - then you can be excited! We can't do anything to make it go faster, so we just need ot trust that ours will be approved in the right time

Good luck to you!

[DigitalSxKitten 1]

Glad to see Im not the only one. Been so disheartened lately.

[Mina90 134]

I just wished there was some closure to this whole process. Bringing over a husband, wife, brother, sister, or any family member is a big deal. We all want to be close to our loved ones, so it's natural to be upset. This is the reason we all have our hopes high yet because the USCIS doesn't give any specifics, we're left in the dark to guess. I wish we all had some sort of way to find out the specifics of our cases without having to shoot darts in the dark. It would be much less stressful if the USCIS updated more than just "your case has been transferred at a USCIS office" or "you will be notified of any changes". I think it should have something like "your case has been transferred to such and such USCIS office..." etc. So many people try to call and find out where their cases are, what's the status but get no answers or the typical "wait 60 days" answer. I don't know if that is asking for too much.

[Nick1980 11]

I understand you Mina90!We are also still waiting for any news from them,RFE,NOA2 whatever really at this point.We did file from abroad so we were hoping of getting it a little bit faster.I have seen ppl that filed from US and abroad later than us getting approved so fast.Not that I am not happy for them,but it's so frustrating not knowing what they are doing over there.The last time we spoke to an ISO he told us that are case is still at NBC,which probably is where it is going to stay till the end because we don't have a local office since we put our foreign address on all the forms. I really don't know when it's going to happen,all I can do is check it every single day lol actually few times a day and hope that the damn status is going to change from being transfered to something else.Also I wish I knew what dates are they processing at NBC at this point,but there is no way to find out I guess

[Pookah 0]

I haven't been waiting as long as you all but I have been researching this with my husband for a long time and I agree that there should be more transparency on the part of these agencies towards us.