Just filed my I-129F ...

[k.dlg 300]

Hello all,

I sent my I-129F last night and they received it this morning at the Lewisville, TX lockbox. (Luckily, I'm already IN Texas! )

I am new to this forum, obviously, and wanted to know if any of you would know if the processing time would be faster if I already have government clearance? I work for a government facility (a very very big one with confidential materials) and to get this job, I had to go through a process to receive government clearance to be able to work with proprietary information and the FBI ran my background check, they took my fingerprints, my family and friends were questioned, the whole shebang.

I was wondering, since I already have that extensive background check, once the USCIS office or whomever sees that, will that possibly speed up the processing time? I know they will still need to do a background check on my fiance, but I thought maybe that would speed things up a bit!

I appreciate any comments or personal stories relating to my inquiry.

Thanks!

[Allanah and Chris 8]

Hello all,

I sent my I-129F last night and they received it this morning at the Lewisville, TX lockbox. (Luckily, I'm already IN Texas! )

I am new to this forum, obviously, and wanted to know if any of you would know if the processing time would be faster if I already have government clearance? I work for a government facility (a very very big one with confidential materials) and to get this job, I had to go through a process to receive government clearance to be able to work with proprietary information and the FBI ran my background check, they took my fingerprints, my family and friends were questioned, the whole shebang.

I was wondering, since I already have that extensive background check, once the USCIS office or whomever sees that, will that possibly speed up the processing time? I know they will still need to do a background check on my fiance, but I thought maybe that would speed things up a bit!

I appreciate any comments or personal stories relating to my inquiry.

Thanks!

(We filed the 10th, received the 11th, NOA1 today the 16th)

We are wondering the same thing! Christopher has had extensive background checks for NSSE's. It would be nice if these counted in our favour!

[k.dlg 300]

(We filed the 10th, received the 11th, NOA1 today the 16th)

We are wondering the same thing! Christopher has had extensive background checks for NSSE's. It would be nice if these counted in our favour!

No kidding! And how funny that you just recently filed too! My fiance and I discussed it and the amount of time it took me to get my official government badge was a month or more because of the background check and FBI investigation verifying my residences and places of employment in the past 5 years or so.

[Villanelle 4,122]

As a petitioner no, the processing time is not going to be any faster. The delay in processing time is a result of under-staffing at USCIS, not because of how long background checks take.

As a petitioner you could be subject to two types of background checks-

the IBIS name check, which usually gives instant results, so its just a matter of waiting for someone to actually run it;

or the FBI name check, which typically takes about 2 weeks.

Again, because of the sheer volume of applicants and the understaffing, there are delays. Perhaps if you are run through the FBI, because I honestly dont know which screening method K1 petitioners are run through, if you have a high level security clearance you may get your results back in less then 2 weeks, but when you shave 2 weeks off the overall processing time, its a drop in the bucket.

[Tintin and Mike 127]

Good luck on your journey!!