Aug 2013 I-130 filers

[TJsMomSarah 5]

It was actually mentioned during the initial consultation with the lawyers, that we had a particular circumstance where it would go directly to the Embassy and would be rather quick. I just didn't two and two together until now.

Just emailed my partner. She's calling the lawyers tonight if we don't get an email back from them by evening UK time.

Wife called the attorneys. She asked to speak with our lawyer directly, he wasn't available. (No surprise.) Asked to speak with our case manager. She was there, but didn't want to talk to us as the lawyer was going to respond to our email directly.

I don't want to read too much into this, but it's giving off the impression that things aren't as straightforward as a "We did it because of X." reason if the case worker is passing the buck back to the lawyer.

[Eastyo 100]

Wife called the attorneys. She asked to speak with our lawyer directly, he wasn't available. (No surprise.) Asked to speak with our case manager. She was there, but didn't want to talk to us as the lawyer was going to respond to our email directly.

I don't want to read too much into this, but it's giving off the impression that things aren't as straightforward as a "We did it because of X." reason if the case worker is passing the buck back to the lawyer.

Im not sure on your background, so i cant judge your case, but i don't see why you cant DCF, as long as you meet the criteria....

.... From what i see, many people don't use lawyers for DCF in London.....

[TJsMomSarah 5]

Im not sure on your background, so i cant judge your case, but i don't see why you cant DCF, as long as you meet the criteria....

.... From what i see, many people don't use lawyers for DCF in London.....

From everything I've checked out today, we check all the boxes for a DCF. I'm US citizen, she's UK citizen, we married in the USA 7 years ago. I moved over to the UK a month after that on a spousal visa. Been living here, gainfully employed, have a 3yo son (dual citizen). No police issues, no health issues, no previously denied visas (she had a student visa for a year, ended when course did), enough money to support ourselves.

The DCF looks pretty straightforward as well. We certainly won't be laying down any more cash to get the lawyers to sort it out if that's the route we take.

[Eastyo 100]

From everything I've checked out today, we check all the boxes for a DCF. I'm US citizen, she's UK citizen, we married in the USA 7 years ago. I moved over to the UK a month after that on a spousal visa. Been living here, gainfully employed, have a 3yo son (dual citizen). No police issues, no health issues, no previously denied visas (she had a student visa for a year, ended when course did), enough money to support ourselves.

The DCF looks pretty straightforward as well. We certainly won't be laying down any more cash to get the lawyers to sort it out if that's the route we take.

Exactly! Still speak to your lawyer though, the rub is you need to withdraw your previous petition (after 5 months!) so

You take a risk, but you can mail USCIS London and ask them to confirm.

I'm not sure how bad withdrawing an i130 then refilling is?

From everything I've checked out today, we check all the boxes for a DCF. I'm US citizen, she's UK citizen, we married in the USA 7 years ago. I moved over to the UK a month after that on a spousal visa. Been living here, gainfully employed, have a 3yo son (dual citizen). No police issues, no health issues, no previously denied visas (she had a student visa for a year, ended when course did), enough money to support ourselves.

The DCF looks pretty straightforward as well. We certainly won't be laying down any more cash to get the lawyers to sort it out if that's the route we take.

Or just chance it, send a petition off ASAP and see what they say, they can only say no right

[Lisa y Miguel 62]

Canary, still here to report ....NOTHING!

[aditya3245 113]

Canary, still here to report ....NOTHING!

Maybe we should go into a hibernation till Feb

[Eastyo 100]

Maybe we should go into a hibernation till Feb

I think so! Hopefully we will see some movement today. USCIS is just terrible, now

it's just flat out being unfair to people, just to make it's numbers look good!

[aditya3245 113]

I think so! Hopefully we will see some movement today. USCIS is just terrible, now

it's just flat out being unfair to people, just to make it's numbers look good!

According to my lawyer friends, USCIS is supposedly the worst of all government agencies (true story).

Just to give you a comparison, compared to the UKBA, it is 100 times worse. For real.

[Eastyo 100]

According to my lawyer friends, USCIS is supposedly the worst of all government agencies (true story).

Just to give you a comparison, compared to the UKBA, it is 100 times worse. For real.

To be fair I found UKBA to be ok, not great, but ok. It just seems no one is responsible for their performance!!

I'm wondering if this forum is also making me more anxious about my i130, I'm only 4.7 months in and all this talk of

Transfers gets us all excited.

My lawyer told me 9 months, which is just sooooo poor!!

[aditya3245 113]

To be fair I found UKBA to be ok, not great, but ok. It just seems no one is responsible for their performance!!

I'm wondering if this forum is also making me more anxious about my i130, I'm only 4.7 months in and all this talk of

Transfers gets us all excited.

My lawyer told me 9 months, which is just sooooo poor!!

Well, supposedly transfers happen at 6 months.

So you and I are well within that stipulation.

Given USCIS' goal of reducing the backlog by May to 5 months - faster transfers (which we did see for july) - give us all the more reason to think it WONT BE 9 MONTHS FOR THE WHOLE SHEBANG. That is what we expect for April.

For me, this forum gives me more comfort than vexation - mostly because you know what to expect - and to make some noise if this agency does not keep up to its goals.

[Eastyo 100]

Well, supposedly transfers happen at 6 months.

So you and I are well within that stipulation.

Given USCIS' goal of reducing the backlog by May to 5 months - faster transfers (which we did see for july) - give us all the more reason to think it WONT BE 9 MONTHS FOR THE WHOLE SHEBANG. That is what we expect for April.

For me, this forum gives me more comfort than vexation - mostly because you know what to expect - and to make some noise if this agency does not keep up to its goals.

True true, there is a great bunch of people on this forum!

How did you know transfers are 6 months? I thought most of July was 5 ish?

Regardless, it will be early feb when the transfers start, and I agree with you, they must be

approving us by April if they have a hope in hell of reaching 5 months by May!

[Kaylara 814]

True true, there is a great bunch of people on this forum!

How did you know transfers are 6 months? I thought most of July was 5 ish?

Regardless, it will be early feb when the transfers start, and I agree with you, they must be

approving us by April if they have a hope in hell of reaching 5 months by May!

Or, conversely, they could just process a whole bunch of newer applications very quickly and bring that average processing time way down without actually touching the bulk of the backlog.

Because the key word there is "average" processing time.

It blows, but we suspect that they're going to do this, or have been working on doing it already. Hence the crazily out of order processing.

[aditya3245 113]

True true, there is a great bunch of people on this forum!

How did you know transfers are 6 months? I thought most of July was 5 ish?

Regardless, it will be early feb when the transfers start, and I agree with you, they must be

approving us by April if they have a hope in hell of reaching 5 months by May!

That is what I'm thinking as well.

[Eastyo 100]

Or, conversely, they could just process a whole bunch of newer applications very quickly and bring that average processing time way down without actually touching the bulk of the backlog.

Because the key word there is "average" processing time.

It blows, but we suspect that they're going to do this, or have been working on doing it already. Hence the crazily out of order processing.

Oh for sure that is what they are doing! I think it's letter time!

Thing is, surely they are making a rod for their own back? If they bring down processing times, surely

this just opens up a load of service requests and letters from congressmen? Sure this would make them

look worse.....

However I can't think of any other reason to why they are approving July and leaving April/May/June? Unless they are going to finish April/May/June across TSC & NSC in 60 days and just threw a few through CSC mega quickly?

It doesn't explain the transfers through.

I would love to know where they really are.... From what I read, Texas = May CSC = June (plus the strange July approvals) and Nebraska = April....

[Kaylara 814]

If i look at the i130 (imm rel catagory) on this site...and only for CSC not national

http://dashboard.usc...e=2&charttype=1

Does this not mean that they have hardly any to process, look at the trend line... I dont get it?

I believe last month when they updated the information they wiped out some of the former information that was there. (I don't know how accurate the previous information was anyway, as the information for Nebraska looked like someone had a stroke while updating the information.)

But I don't think they're done putting the info in. The Volume chart there is showing 0's across the board, and we know that's not right.