Jaded I-130 Waiters

[squirrelisan 23]

LOL!!!!!!!!

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

more than 6 months now and still no end in sight.

Other people are getting approved quicker (who applied after me) and that makes the process that much more worse to bear. I paid the same fees as everyone else, so I don't feel a bit happy when others who filed later are getting approvals because some egg head at USCIS doesn't understand FIFO.

It would have made more sense to route files to local service centers for people who have been waiting since May, June and July then to reroute new applications.GRRRRRR!!!

The worst part is that it is completely random which filers who got routed to field offices are being approved! Some August re-routes are not approved, but some December and January ones are!

1/3 of the people who filed on our date have been approved, but they can't even be bothered to look at our expedite and it isn't even line jumping when so many other have been approved. USCIS is bizarre.

[Darnell 8,479]

Well, today is 108 days for me. I was really hoping for something fast at MSC, but that didn't happen.

[speedwell 224]

God, we need a party to cheer ourselves up. Who can make it to Houston some weekend soon? Bring cookies and I'll make some patisserie special to show off

[DigitalSxKitten 1]

Jello shots all around >.< Im still sitting here...waiting...Watching the new ones get approved in a month and biting my lip like O.O Grawr mumble grumble...a**hats I tell you...I feel like Im playing the lottery and never winning lol

[Darnell 8,479]

ya know, I've been monitoring stuff here at VJ for almost 4 years, and I always thought -

when it was my turn up to bat, I'd never complain about the wait at USCIS.

I had some hope that when I submitted the I-130 with the expedite request, the same pattern as before would 'hit' - the expedite request (all 40 pages of it) would be reviewed by a human at the 3 week mark and a decision made (yes or no) to expedite and I would hear back at the 5 or 6 week mark, either way. Not that the petition was approved, but that the expedite request was reviewed. This was the pattern that CSC and VSC had, in the past.

Fast forward to today, and look back? Sheesh, that's one expedite request with the I-130, original submittal, two service requests asking that a human review the expedite request, an infopass appointment carrying a full copy of the expedite request in, having it added to the casefile, and a recent congressional inquiry started.

Whew ! What the heck is going on? I've some thought that MSC didn't work in the same fashion as CSC or VSC for expedite requests, and I've proof that the casefile was never reviewed at the local office till I got in on an infopass, being beligerent about the expedite request.

Over the course of all of the calls I've made, to get to an ISO - it's been sporadic for data - some ISOs were able to tell me when the casefile was transferred to the local office, others couldn't see that data. Same thing for the date assigned to an adjudicator, and the date the audit was started. Some can see that stuff, some cannot.

When talking with the ISOs, they seem to want to give me the basic diatribe of 'wait 5 or 6 months, as that's the normal processing time'. I mention the expedite request, I mention MSC rerouting, I mention the fast approvals that occurred at MSC - and basically - I'm a gleaning -

MOST ISOs are clueless. I sense they are clueless because of the data disconnect in the tracking system. So far, I see two major disconnects - one after first submittal, and another after it's sent to the local office. I won't write more about these two data disconnects, but I've written about them before.

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Sure, a lot of this is conjecture and opinion, but it's based on data gisting of what you fellas write here. Thanks for that, for writing yer stuff here at VJ.

[abezyo 35]

5 months and 2 weeks here for me...and found out last week Atlanta field office hasnt started processing I-130s sent to them from the NBC yet. Its killing me...driving me CRAZY!!!! But I will continue to be patient and Ive contacted my Senator and sent letters to the Field Director and District Director

[speedwell 224]

5 months and 2 weeks here for me...and found out last week Atlanta field office hasnt started processing I-130s sent to them from the NBC yet. Its killing me...driving me CRAZY!!!! But I will continue to be patient and Ive contacted my Senator and sent letters to the Field Director and District Director

I did actually send a letter to one of my Senators today. I wasn't asking for special favors or jumping ahead in line; I addressed the fact that ISOs on the customer service line can't see what's going on with our cases, that one of the ISOs I spoke to put in a service request without me asking (and I would have rather they didn't), that the response to the service request came back with alarming mentions of "additional processing" and "6 months" and no reason for it, that some local offices have not begun processing petitions that they accepted to reduce workload on the service centers and know nothing about how or even why to process them...

I asked the Senator's office specifically for three things:

- Determine what is needed for the Houston local office to timely process the I-130s they were transferred for workload reasons

- Find out whether I-130s are being deliberately overlooked as a matter of policy, and what other petitions are being given priority

- Find out what is really going on with my case and whether I need to do anything, since I'm so in the dark and worried about case progress

So I'll let everyone know what the answers are, assuming I get any. Cheers.

[The Mean Lady 604]

I did actually send a letter to one of my Senators today. I wasn't asking for special favors or jumping ahead in line; I addressed the fact that ISOs on the customer service line can't see what's going on with our cases, that one of the ISOs I spoke to put in a service request without me asking (and I would have rather they didn't), that the response to the service request came back with alarming mentions of "additional processing" and "6 months" and no reason for it, that some local offices have not begun processing petitions that they accepted to reduce workload on the service centers and know nothing about how or even why to process them...

I asked the Senator's office specifically for three things:

- Determine what is needed for the Houston local office to timely process the I-130s they were transferred for workload reasons

- Find out whether I-130s are being deliberately overlooked as a matter of policy, and what other petitions are being given priority

- Find out what is really going on with my case and whether I need to do anything, since I'm so in the dark and worried about case progress

So I'll let everyone know what the answers are, assuming I get any. Cheers.

I only asked mine if they could confirm that stand alone petitions ARE being approved, and if they could find an approximate time frame.

[speedwell 224]

I only asked mine if they could confirm that stand alone petitions ARE being approved, and if they could find an approximate time frame.

If I had been writing to someone who actually gave a flying #%&$^, I would have simply asked something like that, yes. But my Senator is a Texas Republican and heavily involved with immigration reform; I think he'd just as soon get rid of the whole thing.

[MrsOyetunji 9]

its 139 days for us . moving close to 5 months. just so disheartening.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

[akingandqueen 0]

Today is day 179 for me. You 200+ day waiters are seriously my heroes!

You give me hope when facing USCIS' totally unfair (random?) processing order.

[Novembro 1,763]

I sent our I-130 off on the 28th of January. We got our NOA1 today. So the waiting begins....now!

However, we applied for the K1 visa in April of last year and waited seven months to the day to have that denied, sooooo I'm pretty jaded.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

Today is day 179 for me. You 200+ day waiters are seriously my heroes!

You give me hope when facing USCIS' totally unfair (random?) processing order.

We waited about 150 days before we got married with the I+129F. I am totally kicking myself for that because we ended up filing the I-130 a month later when I couldn't take it here anymore. If only we had just waited a month.

I sent our I-130 off on the 28th of January. We got our NOA1 today. So the waiting begins....now!

However, we applied for the K1 visa in April of last year and waited seven months to the day to have that denied, sooooo I'm pretty jaded.

Why was it denied?