September 2013 I-130 Filers

[r060106 109]

Yes, I am!

They figured out how to clear the backlog with K-1s and now they get approved super fast.

Overland Park, KS is a solution to the I-130 backlog.

I do believe it.

I really am hoping and praying you're right, that they solve this like they solved the K-1 problem. How bad was the K-1 backlog? And how long ago was that? Just curious. I don't much about historical trends.

Look what I just found:

Posted Yesterday, 05:20 PM

The california center suffered a broken water pipe and serious flooding that is why we are all being shipped to other offices. My gf on here went to Texas, mine is out of california now and in Missouri and has MSC prefix also. I am happy for those of you who get visa. I have been waiting now for 4 years, married 3 and a half.

Found it here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/455406-question-about-service-center/ post #8

Maybe that's why the whole system is backed up. Do you think that could be the case? Maybe the other service centers are trying to pick up the slack for California and that's causing a huge backlog everywhere else.

[samni 5]

So they cashed my check. And I have not received my noa yet. Yet u received ur noa and they haven't cashed ur check. How odd. :\

[ashydad 1]

Wow just recieve my text/email.... On a Sunday

1150 pm

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

I really am hoping and praying you're right, that they solve this like they solved the K-1 problem. How bad was the K-1 backlog? And how long ago was that? Just curious. I don't much about historical trends.

Maybe that's why the whole system is backed up. Do you think that could be the case? Maybe the other service centers are trying to pick up the slack for California and that's causing a huge backlog everywhere else.

I think the K-1 petitions were still backlogged this past May. So fairly recently.

I do not know anything about this CSC drama... This was the first I've heard about it. Tried to Google it but couldn't find anything.

But CSC doesn't handle I-130s anymore, so I doubt they would transfer their petitions (I-129f/K1, I-130/F2A.. ) to Kansas? Although, who knows.

Just wanted Jenmatt to see her petition might not be at CSC anymore..

So they cashed my check. And I have not received my noa yet. Yet u received ur noa and they haven't cashed ur check. How odd. :\

I've got a feeling you'll get your NOA1 email tonight right before midnight! If you haven't already

Wow just recieve my text/email.... On a Sunday

1150 pm

Yay! Awesome!

[soulfulsplash 1]

Got my email confirmation last night as well!!

Odd that they send them on a Sunday night but I guess they have that automated.

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

Got my email confirmation last night as well!!

Odd that they send them on a Sunday night but I guess they have that automated.

Great!!

[samni 5]

So excited just received my noa1 text finally. now to wait some more

[soulfulsplash 1]

A question that we have since we're at the beginning of this process is around processing times (the beginning to end process).

Based on experience and what you all have observed on this forum do processing times differ based on the location of the applicant and beneficiary?

My spouse (beneficiary) and I are both living and working in Canada. Would the process and timing differ from that of an applicant and beneficiary living in the US or apart abroad?

My question is prompted by reading about the Consular process for handing applications. This process seems to be at the discretion of the Consulate that applies to the applicant/beneficary. Is this correct or completly off?

LIke everyone else I have a boat load of questions. Just a bit curious about how the process varies based on location.

So excited just received my noa1 text finally. now to wait some more

Congrats!!

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

A question that we have since we're at the beginning of this process is around processing times (the beginning to end process).

Based on experience and what you all have observed on this forum do processing times differ based on the location of the applicant and beneficiary?

My spouse (beneficiary) and I are both living and working in Canada. Would the process and timing differ from that of an applicant and beneficiary living in the US or apart abroad?

My question is prompted by reading about the Consular process for handing applications. This process seems to be at the discretion of the Consulate that applies to the applicant/beneficary. Is this correct or completly off?

LIke everyone else I have a boat load of questions. Just a bit curious about how the process varies based on location.

Congrats!!

Yes, sometimes filing from abroad is faster. A case like that would get auto-expedited. It used to be a norm, but I've heard it doesn't happen all that often anymore.

I'd ask in the Regional sub-forum http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/93-canada/

So excited just received my noa1 text finally. now to wait some more

Nice!

[k.dlg 300]

I know, you're right...

It's just that life hasn't been treating me too well lately and... it would be easier to go through it all if I were with my husband. I know it's not possible, though.. and I know I just have to suck it up and that's what I've been doing.

Sometimes I just have to get it out of my system, for the sake of my sanity, hah

"It's only temporary.. We'll get through this. It's only temporary... We'll get through this..." is my mantra!

Oh of course, if we didn't vent or talk it out, it would make this process go by so much slower and we'd be miserable, but I'm glad you're seeing it from this light that it won't last forever!

[k.dlg 300]

I try to tell myself it's temporary too, but sometimes I honestly feel like my wife and I will never be together and the pessimist in me comes out. Whose to say that the embassy or USCIS won't keep us apart indefinitely. They could deny her or issue her a NOID or NOIF, and the very thought of that breaks my heart. There's no guarantee this is only temporary, for all we know the powers that be could make any one of us wait for years and years and years. That is my greatest fear and I try to tell myself "it's a small part of our lives", but sometimes part of me says "no, it might be a very long part of our lives". If that makes sense.

Oh trust me, I completely understand and it's frustrating that we have to get permission to be with our loved ones. Makes no sense if you really think about it how we have to be granted our nation's blessing before we can be together unless they were born here first. So, what? We're only limited to choose a mate from the people within the boundaries of our country to avoid this kind of red tape and whatnot? I don't think so. Ridiculous that it takes so much work just to be with your loved ones, but alas, I would wait tenfold *knock on wood* what I've had to wait to be with my husband for good if it meant I got to spend the rest of my life with him.

I know it's hard but try not to let it get you down. Talk every day. If not possible, message each other every day, write letters, take silly photos to send to each other, anything to make this time go by a little easier and quicker. Don't let it get you down because in the end, your loved one is worth all the hassle and hard work, right?

[k.dlg 300]

Congrats on the recent NOA1s! I got my hard copy on Saturday with the Overland Park address.

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

Oh trust me, I completely understand and it's frustrating that we have to get permission to be with our loved ones. Makes no sense if you really think about it how we have to be granted our nation's blessing before we can be together unless they were born here first. So, what? We're only limited to choose a mate from the people within the boundaries of our country to avoid this kind of red tape and whatnot? I don't think so. Ridiculous that it takes so much work just to be with your loved ones, but alas, I would wait tenfold *knock on wood* what I've had to wait to be with my husband for good if it meant I got to spend the rest of my life with him.

I know it's hard but try not to let it get you down. Talk every day. If not possible, message each other every day, write letters, take silly photos to send to each other, anything to make this time go by a little easier and quicker. Don't let it get you down because in the end, your loved one is worth all the hassle and hard work, right?

Right!

Congrats on the recent NOA1s! I got my hard copy on Saturday with the Overland Park address.

Yay!! Congrats

[Murf & Reggie 37]

Congrats for all the NOA1

[urbangirluk 73]

We received our NOA1 today Yay, we're on the way ......