National Benefits Center Became As Slow As turtle

[you & i 16]

hello everyone that is still in line waiting for the nbc to get ahead in time and start approving petitions that are still waiting since a long time...well my concern is...compared to last year from what i got to see on the graphics that national benefits center starting from last year on august it was doing a good job but nowadays all you can see is they are so slowly and approving petitions really slow which is something really sad come on nbc move on we need our spouses with us...we are missing our lovers and we need to live with them and share and spend and do everything with them please NBC hurry upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

[NikLR 13,231]

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After 2-3 months most of the time the NBC is not adjudicating your petition. It goes to the local office of the petitioner. Some of these are faster than others.

[you & i 16]

they told me it is still in there and i talked with a tier 2 over than 8 times and all of them insisted that the petition still in there but my concern last months the processing were doing good and they were approving the petition compared to nowadays rarely you can see someone got approved

[Shirley& Dan2 9]

***moved to USCIS discussion from IR1/CR1 process and procedures***

After 2-3 months most of the time the NBC is not adjudicating your petition. It goes to the local office of the petitioner. Some of these are faster than others.

can we conttact our local office to inquire if our case is there?becuase everytime my husband contacted nbc they are telling us that our case is there but its almost 6 months we are feb. filer but still our case cannot be found thru online. thanks

[you & i 16]

well i dont think there is a way to contact a local office until they state by a letter or online on uscis that they trnsfered the case beside being told by a tier 2 that the case was transfered to a local office beside giving out the phone number to call and for this i dont think we can find the exact phone number to call

[Shirley& Dan2 9]

did you always call USCIS?my husband call them often, it cant affect our petition? and Uscis said that wait for another 6 months,we are already 6 m.so another of waiting so another six its one year, just wondering if you got same answer guys.thank you

[NikLR 13,231]

can we conttact our local office to inquire if our case is there?becuase everytime my husband contacted nbc they are telling us that our case is there but its almost 6 months we are feb. filer but still our case cannot be found thru online. thanks

You cannot contact the local office except by infopass. Your husband is not contacting the NBC, he is contacting the USCIS. Is he speaking to a tier 2 or the first person to answer the phone? The first person is a tier 1, CSR, and they can only tell you what you'd be able to see online (if you could.) The second person may or may not be helpful enough to dig in a little deeper.

What would your local office be?

[Shirley& Dan2 9]

my husband living in Jacksonville, how can we contact the NBC?yah he is speaking tier 2 .yah they said to my husband just this morning that another 6 motnhs of waiting..and my husband is very depressed about that info..thank you for the reply

how can we contact NBC?we are CR1..thank you

You cannot contact the local office except by infopass. Your husband is not contacting the NBC, he is contacting the USCIS. Is he speaking to a tier 2 or the first person to answer the phone? The first person is a tier 1, CSR, and they can only tell you what you'd be able to see online (if you could.) The second person may or may not be helpful enough to dig in a little deeper.

What would your local office be?

[NikLR 13,231]

they told me it is still in there and i talked with a tier 2 over than 8 times and all of them insisted that the petition still in there but my concern last months the processing were doing good and they were approving the petition compared to nowadays rarely you can see someone got approved

seems that there are quite a few I-130 approvals in the IR1/CR1 forum. Not everyone makes a post about it though.

As a note:

• Over a million people became a US LPR last year. Over 484,000 of those were new arrivals.
• Of the one million, over 478,000 were immediate relatives of a USC, of which over 273,000 were spouses.

I can imagine why it takes 4-12 months for a petition.

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ois_lpr_fr_2012_2.pdf

[NikLR 13,231]

my husband living in Jacksonville, how can we contact the NBC?yah he is speaking tier 2 .yah they said to my husband just this morning that another 6 motnhs of waiting..and my husband is very depressed about that info..thank you for the reply

how can we contact NBC?we are CR1..thank you

You cannot directly contact the NBC. You can only call the USCIS call center. You have to wait for 6 months to pass before the USCIS will initiate a service request. If over 6 months goes by he can also contact his congressman's or senator's liaison about the case taking too long. I have seen a few other Filipino cases on VJ where the wife has had to wait over a year for the I-130 approval. Maybe check in your regional forum. I don't understand why to be honest. But having your husband be proactive about contacting his ombudsman, congressman, and senator as well as calls to the USCIS is a good thing. Florida does not contain the fastest local offices by any means, but at least they're not Atlanta.

[Shirley& Dan2 9]

thank you for the info NLR, Hope we got approve soon, im worried about my husband he is very affected about what the USCIS said.

[you & i 16]

some of the tier 2 gets o mad because he got so many calls about the same reason that is why you can find some of them give some anwears starting from emotions but this is wrong thing he needs to be proffessional and give out the exact informations to us and not try to be frusrated or mad and make us even more depressed and if these kind of tier 2 dont like this they would step away and leave someone that worth these jobs and be so much helpfuls because they out in there just for assistance and not for misguidance that is something really so bad because we call them almost 2 times a week to keep the last update and nothing new actualy just the same old story turning like a wheel but the only thing that makes it even more bad are some workers that keeps us so depressed by their treatements and way of talking like if they are dealing with criminals

[kn8807a 1]

I am on the same boat with a lot of you....My forms are stuck in NBC and all I hear is inital process

[xprecious32 50]

What is the estimated wait time at NBC? Our application was sent there for processing, but when you look on line for processing times, it doesn't even list the I-130. Called costumer service to inquire on processing times for NBC and the lady was very rude. All I wanted to know was approx. wait times for NBC and she wouldn't even tell me because I was not the petitioner. I didn't want any info besides approx. wait times. I can see this is going to be a real fun few months. I've looked at VJ timelines and there hasn't been many approvals from NBC lately. Seems to be there a little back logged or just that slow.

[Hollyday 122]

What is the estimated wait time at NBC? Our application was sent there for processing, but when you look on line for processing times, it doesn't even list the I-130. Called costumer service to inquire on processing times for NBC and the lady was very rude. All I wanted to know was approx. wait times for NBC and she wouldn't even tell me because I was not the petitioner. I didn't want any info besides approx. wait times. I can see this is going to be a real fun few months. I've looked at VJ timelines and there hasn't been many approvals from NBC lately. Seems to be there a little back logged or just that slow.

Since NBC itself doesn't process the vast majority of petitions, it doesn't have a specific wait time for it. They're processed in field offices and waiting time depends on the staffing and workload of each office.