CSC seems take longer to process

[Love's JAA 100]

Here are some numbers for you on this subject.

National Journal Article

USCIS Chart

Now, from what I have read, they are paying $400 + in fees for this process. Good, but they still should fall in line with the rest of the other petitions by date submitted. And to me, it appears that they are working on late September or early October petitions for these cases.

Here's an updated chart:

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/All%20Form%20Types/DACA/DACA%20Monthly%20Report%20AVer%20II%20PDF.pdf

At least it seems the inflow is tapering off. It's just a matter of time to get through these and get back to us K-1ers and others on here.

Edited February 13, 2013 by Love's JAA

[Jeikun 65]

Here's an updated chart:

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/All%20Form%20Types/DACA/DACA%20Monthly%20Report%20AVer%20II%20PDF.pdf

At least it seems the inflow is tapering off. It's just a matter of time to get through these and get back to us K-1ers and others on here.

But also keep in mind, the January stats are only for the first half of January. We should have the full Jan stats and first half of Feb available within the week.

[Waiting234 18]

Well the wait sucks no matter what approval you are waiting for!

I couldn't agree more. We have to wait and see how many people make it to the 300 or 400+ mark before putting too much blame on the DACA. While for now, it appears things are moving slower, nobody can predict the future except for those in charge!

[StephAnn2012 50]

<br />I'll let you make your own judgement from this info.<br /><br />From the USCIS website<br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/5150Jeep/daca_zpsff631386.jpg" /><br /><br />From timelines here and me entering data<br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/5150Jeep/uscis_zpsff63e84a.jpg" /><br /><br /><br />To me it's pretty clear there is a direct connection between the CSC and DACA. Just as DACA got really going in October, K1 NOA2's here on VJ fell off to almost nothing. CSC has had slow periods before but nothing like this. If you can show me on the timelines here or anywhere else a worse 5 month period, I'd love to see it.<br />

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I don't remember a lot about my statistics classes in college except the following: "If you put one foot in a bucket of boiling water and the other foot in a bucket of ice, on the average, you will not be very comfortable."

While entertaining, sometimes edutational, I find charts and graphs about things of which are out of my control, rather useless. I know that on the average, nobody here is very comfortable, but if we think about it, we are all looking forward to a very big reward at the end of this journey. My fiancee and I are investing this "extra" time just getting to know each other better.

<br />I'll let you make your own judgement from this info.<br /><br />From the USCIS website<br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/5150Jeep/daca_zpsff631386.jpg" /><br /><br />From timelines here and me entering data<br /><img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/5150Jeep/uscis_zpsff63e84a.jpg" /><br /><br /><br />To me it's pretty clear there is a direct connection between the CSC and DACA. Just as DACA got really going in October, K1 NOA2's here on VJ fell off to almost nothing. CSC has had slow periods before but nothing like this. If you can show me on the timelines here or anywhere else a worse 5 month period, I'd love to see it.<br />

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I don't remember a lot about my statistics classes in college except the following: "If you put one foot in a bucket of boiling water and the other foot in a bucket of ice, on the average, you will not be very comfortable."

While entertaining, sometimes edutational, I find charts and graphs about things of which are out of my control, rather useless. I know that on the average, nobody here is very comfortable, but if we think about it, we are all looking forward to a very big reward at the end of this journey. My fiancee and I are investing this "extra" time just getting to know each other better.

[Bayareaguy 156]

So it's the Dream Act's fault. Whose fault was it last year? And the year before that? And the year before?

So where in prior years has processing slowed down this much?

I haven't been able to find it.

[ChristianZane 70]

It hasn't. I looked at a few years of Timelines here, back to April of last year. If you filed and got a NOA1 in March of 2012, you would have got a NOA2 about 90-100 days on average. Now it's 210. Sad.

So where in prior years has processing slowed down this much?

I haven't been able to find it.

[Bayareaguy 156]

It hasn't. I looked at a few years of Timelines here, back to April of last year. If you filed and got a NOA1 in March of 2012, you would have got a NOA2 about 90-100 days on average. Now it's 210. Sad.

Well the thing is, it's 210 days if they start realy processing those late July applications now. If the processing rate stays the same as it has been since December 1, it will continue to increase up higher than 210 days.

Perhaps those who have already have long ago passed this part of the visa process should be giving comments based on real data instead of saying that they "feel" that our situation is just like it has been before, which it clearly is not.

The only positive thing I see from the data is that the DACA applications are falling down, so hopefully USCIS gets moving on the K1's soon. And I mean really moving.

[Ismail+Cassie 36]

People calling this "Just another Rant" are misguided. The figures are concrete. And this is not saying that the Dream act or even DACA is a bad idea. I fully believe that people brought here as children with no say in the matter, who are upstanding members of society deserve a chance to make their status legal. It is how it was forced on USCIS to process them at a truly breakneck pace, at the expense of other visa types, particularly those filed by American Citizens. K-1 visas are about reunification with our significant others. If the AOS part of it were slowed, that would be less detrimental. I have also seen criticizm that these DACA applications are going through so fast there are serious doubts that they are actually verifying the information contained in them unless it brings up an obvious red flag. Politics should not be driving this. USCIS is a fee-based service. There are American citizens who paid back in July last year who are now waiting behind non-citizens who just paid last month. And they keep getting shuttled to the front of the line. That is not right.

I like this

[Bayareaguy 156]

“Real reform means strong border security …—a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.”

Yeah, right.

Empty Rhetoric.

Edited February 18, 2013 by Bayareaguy

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

So where in prior years has processing slowed down this much?

I haven't been able to find it.

Things used to be a lot slower five, six, seven years ago.

[Bayareaguy 156]

Things used to be a lot slower five, six, seven years ago.

I couldn't see that far back on VJ.

So, how about 20 years ago? Or 40 years ago?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I couldn't see that far back on VJ.

So, how about 20 years ago? Or 40 years ago?

WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it continues to make steady progress in reducing the significant number of naturalization applications it received last year. USCIS now anticipates naturalization application processing will average 10-12 months nationally by the end of September 2008 – a substantial improvement from its estimated average processing time of 16-18 months first announced last year.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=72fd5d63502bb110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD

There is an archive site for VJ, that might have some data you can use.

[Bayareaguy 156]

There is an archive site for VJ, that might have some data you can use.

How about 37 years ago?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

How about 37 years ago?

Why 37 years ago?

[Bayareaguy 156]

Why 37 years ago?

Ok, how about 23 years ago? Or 76 years ago?