June 2013 I-130 Filers (merged)

[mimistar44 5]

Hello Mimistar44! We are filing from France as well. Our Priority dates are days apart.

Will follow your timeline closely!!

Bon dimanche

hope we get NOA2 soon! i am returning to L.A later this month. are you in U.S already?

[rudyzn 2]

hope we get NOA2 soon! i am returning to L.A later this month. are you in U.S already?

Hey! Wish you guys the same.

No, we are still in France. Waiting for my child's file to move forward.

Hopefully by the end of the year we will be in the US (positive thinking).

[Ivy. 113]

So, I'm in the US now. Guess what I found in the dresser?

My G325a signed, original. My husband sent a copy. Also, he did not send the photo I prepared, with my name on it in a ziplock bag, he sent the other one.

Can you imagine how pissed I was?

[BOS_LHR 829]

So, I'm in the US now. Guess what I found in the dresser?

My G325a signed, original. My husband sent a copy. Also, he did not send the photo I prepared, with my name on it in a ziplock bag, he sent the other one.

Can you imagine how pissed I was?

Oh no!! Such a good thing you caught the mistakes when you did. Sending the docs in now should avoid an RFE since your file probably hasn't been touched yet. What an awful discovery though!

[Ivy. 113]

You think we should send it in now with a copy of NOA1? Would that work?

[BOS_LHR 829]

I'd say call to make sure they'll accept an addendum. It's worth trying to avoid time lost waiting for an RFE, but USCIS is such a mess, you want to be sure your documents would be matched up to the original petition.

[BOS_LHR 829]

Heads up for interested parties, June data has been posted for the field office volume and trend page on USCIS: http://dashboard.uscis.gov/

Spoiler alert: pending petitions are quite literally about to go off the charts.

For Boston, June receipts were barely lower than May's. I'm hoping to see a drop off soon to indicate NBC has started retaining petitions to adjudicate themselves, but it looks like it hasn't happened as of June.

[Hollyday 122]

Spoiler alert: pending petitions are quite literally about to go off the charts.

The thing with charts like this, when something is growing it always is almost going off charts because the top line is a variable. Lol.

Edited August 20, 2013 by Hollyday

[BOS_LHR 829]

The thing with charts like this, when something is growing it always is almost going off charts because the top line is a variable. Lol.

Haha, yup Probably for next month they'll have to bump the upper limit and there'll be more of a margin there. I've just never seen it so precariously close before!

The discouraging bit is the ratio of approvals to receipts. A 10 month wait is looking pretty likely from this -- at least until the new adjudicators start in on the backlog next month. Hey, I can hope, right? Really though... hoping to see some approvals rolling in. Igor's list has had another week with no approvals out of NBC. August has been a rough month.

[Hollyday 122]

Haha, yup Probably for next month they'll have to bump the upper limit and there'll be more of a margin there. I've just never seen it so precariously close before!

The discouraging bit is the ratio of approvals to receipts. A 10 month wait is looking pretty likely from this -- at least until the new adjudicators start in on the backlog next month. Hey, I can hope, right? Really though... hoping to see some approvals rolling in. Igor's list has had another week with no approvals out of NBC. August has been a rough month.

I prefer those statistics to Igor's list (seem more accurate to me), but yes, that's been fairly slow. I was just checking Seattle rates for June today, and it went to approx. 300 approvals in June from approx. 500 in April and May (and almost 700 in March). I blame the holiday season though i understand that everyone's entitled to a holiday.

[Donkey81 7]

Hi all - I've been following the June filers forum for a while. I'm a fellow filer with a PD of 7th June. Just wondering if you are all in the US already without your partners or are any of you overseas filers? I'm assuming most of you are in the US as you already have you local office assignment whereas we are still at NBC as we filed from Australia (although I'm a Brit and the husband is the USC). This is a very frustrating process to say the least but I guess we must all just wait in line. I was trying to explain this to the US in laws and they can't belielve that we have to wait so long! It's sounds stupid explaining it to people who think that because you've been married for 8 years you should just be able to pitch up at the airport and get automatic entry! Wouldn't that be nice!

Anyway I read somewhere that they are trying to get all overseas filers done (from NOA1 to NOA2) in 60 days (Q4, Point C http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Outreach/Notes%20from%20Previous%20Engagements/2013/May%202013/NBC-AILA-QA-2013-05-01.pdf), we're currently at 75 days so that's not working too well for us! Anyway, just wanted to say hi to everyone seeing that we're all in the same boat! And would be great to hear from people who are also overseas filers and what experiences they have had.

Edited August 21, 2013 by Donkey81

[En-oh-eh-to now 147]

And would be great to hear from people who are also overseas filers and what experiences they have had.

It seems that overseas petitions are not moving along as quickly as they used to. Then again, the same can be said for all I-130 petitions. One abroad filer is using that transcript as evidence that their case is not being handled correctly. Let's hope that approach has some success.

Overseas petitioner thread:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/357465-usc-petitioner-living-abroad/

[mimistar44 5]

ours is there: Oakland Park Field Office

depressing...

http://dashboard.uscis.gov/index.cfm?formtype=4&office=37&charttype=1

[BOS_LHR 829]

Hi all - I've been following the June filers forum for a while. I'm a fellow filer with a PD of 7th June. Just wondering if you are all in the US already without your partners or are any of you overseas filers? I'm assuming most of you are in the US as you already have you local office assignment whereas we are still at NBC as we filed from Australia (although I'm a Brit and the husband is the USC). This is a very frustrating process to say the least but I guess we must all just wait in line. I was trying to explain this to the US in laws and they can't belielve that we have to wait so long! It's sounds stupid explaining it to people who think that because you've been married for 8 years you should just be able to pitch up at the airport and get automatic entry! Wouldn't that be nice!

There are a couple of filers from abroad on this thread (Ivy has been maintaining an overview) but most of us are in the US. I don't know that anyone has confirmation of being transferred to a local office yet, though. It may not happen for our group, since the plan going forward is to keep petitions at the new service center.

Most people I talk to seem to think that being married means a free and easy pass into the US. If only, right? They're really making us work for it these days. I've seen filers from abroad posting in other threads that they're past the 90 day mark in processing, so even that has gotten quite slow. Here's hoping we have just another month of painfully slogging before we start seeing some progress.

[corlitoa 6]

from what I understand if you are in the us and your spouse is overseas you petitions will be adjudicated in the NBC thats wat a supervisor told me ..Please correct me if im wrong