Jaded I-130 Waiters

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

clarification*

for anyone not named NOLA

USCIS and I are just growing our relationship. Time will just make us stronger.

Edited February 5, 2013 by Nola123

[The Mean Lady 604]

USCIS and I are just growing our relationship. Time will just make us stronger.

nola & uscis 4evr

[Ms Hogan 295]

auto expedite for living abroad.

Gotcha. I guess I haven't paid much attention to those who are living abroad and whether or not they move that much faster due to the "auto-expedite."

[The Mean Lady 604]

Gotcha. I guess I haven't paid much attention to those who are living abroad and whether or not they move that much faster due to the "auto-expedite."

yah like three or four abroad came through recently around thirty days!

[lisap 10]

ITS BEEN 7 MONTHS AND 6 DAYS....NOW IM MAD...PISSSES OFFF AND DYING FROM ANXIETY, ITS JUST NOT FAIR TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE WHO FILED AFTER ME GET APPROVED...IM HAVING A HARD TIME FINDING HELP TO PICK UP MY KID FROM SCHOOL, IF MY HUSBAND WAS HERE WE WOULD WORK IT OUT TOGETHER, INSTEAD I HAVE TO SUFFER NOT TO MENTION MY KID SUFFERING FROM ALL THIS TOOO...IMMIGRATION DOESNT UNDERSTAND THAT SEPARATION DOESNT JUST HURT THE SPOUSES, IT HURTS TO ENTIRE FAMILY.

[hikergirl 277]

I do get irritated almost every time I see an approval where they sent in their package AFTER the stupid Charleston Field Office received our response from our STUPID NOID that should NOT have been.

And yes, at times it almost seems like the person posting is gloating. Although I’m pretty sure that the majority of the time they are just wanting to share their happiness and excitement.

I feel bad for the people still stuck at VSC. I hope they get some movement and very quickly!

And those poor people that get stuck in AP for what seems like forever. I don’t know how they do it.

I have a couple of windows where I can’t go to Montreal for an interview and will have to reschedule if my appointment is then (provincial exams for my daughter to graduate and her graduation) and I worry I may be homeless at the end of July.

[The Mean Lady 604]

I do get irritated almost every time I see an approval where they sent in their package AFTER the stupid Charleston Field Office received our response from our STUPID NOID that should NOT have been.

And yes, at times it almost seems like the person posting is gloating. Although I’m pretty sure that the majority of the time they are just wanting to share their happiness and excitement.

I feel bad for the people still stuck at VSC. I hope they get some movement and very quickly!

And those poor people that get stuck in AP for what seems like forever. I don’t know how they do it.

I have a couple of windows where I can’t go to Montreal for an interview and will have to reschedule if my appointment is then (provincial exams for my daughter to graduate and her graduation) and I worry I may be homeless at the end of July.

i have one small time frame in july for my sisters wedding.

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

2 year k1 journey, 16 months in AP, then petition returned and they will let it expire . Starting over with a I-130 this spring. Cheers !

[Novembro 1,763]

E-hugs for all of you!

[The Mean Lady 604]

opened my message center on my phone and saw a uscis text at the top

heart skipped a beat

remembered i had a full inbox earlier and deleted all texts

text was the locked reciept message from november

/disappointed

[DigitalSxKitten 1]

USCIS and I are just growing our relationship. Time will just make us stronger.

That cheating hoebag!!! And here I thought me and USCIS were like dis <3

[ca_poppy 1]

yah like three or four abroad came through recently around thirty days!

Auto expedite for Canada (and maybe elsewhere?) was always spotty to begin with. I listed my Canadian address ONLY on all forms and still ended up at Vermont--apparently the "auto-expedite" line was at the CA service center. Don't beat yourself up about it, it was never a guarantee, and I know I (and some other Americans in Canada who filed around the same time I did and got stuck in VERMONT HELL) certainly didn't benefit from it either.

[*Snowdrop* 604]

I really feel your pain. Like Darnell I have been seeing the ebb and flow of petitions at the service centers over the last five years and it never seems to get any better. And VSC is the worst.

When we went through the process in 2007 we were caught in a massive backlog caused by the petition fee increase. They were flooded by so many people trying to beat the price rise that they just seemed to collapse under the pressure.

We sent our petition in Oct 2007 and it took over three months just to get the NOA1 - yes you heard that right, it took 96 days to get the check cashed and the NOA1 before we could even relax and know they had received the petition at all.

Then it seemed as though they 'lost' a whole stack of petitions from between Oct 07 and Jan 08 because CSC started approvals for those and the VSC started approving petitions filed after Jan 08. I was tearing my hair out at this point. (of course many people on here told those of us venting about it that we just had to be patient. But it's hard deal with a situation where someone who files 3-4 months after you is getting approved before you)

Then ten months after we filed we got a notice that because of the backlog ( or perhaps because they had just discovered several thousand petitions misplaced in a dusty cupboard somewhere) that our petition was being transferred to CSC.

It took less than 2 week for it to be approved then.

The ironic things is the backlog was caused by a fee price rise and the fee price rise was supposed to be used to hire loads more staff and improve things.

Edited February 5, 2013 by *Lynne*

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

Auto expedite for Canada (and maybe elsewhere?) was always spotty to begin with. I listed my Canadian address ONLY on all forms and still ended up at Vermont--apparently the "auto-expedite" line was at the CA service center. Don't beat yourself up about it, it was never a guarantee, and I know I (and some other Americans in Canada who filed around the same time I did and got stuck in VERMONT HELL) certainly didn't benefit from it either.

FWIW, I think VSC was not really good with expediting file from abroads from a variety of countries.

[coip 1]

What is the reason for the discrepancies between the time it takes for certain applications to get approved and others? Some of you have been waiting a ludicrously long time that makes me anxious. Are the differences due to the fact we are all applying from different countries (i.e., some countries are faster than others), or what?