I-130 MARCH 2013 FILERS!! NBC

[Karmalicious 60]

I wish you much luck with your letter Kaylara. Fingers crossed for you.

I'm about ready to give up on the whole process.

[Marhaba 49]

@ Kaylara

That sounds great!!

To which email did you send? Last night, I did research to send a letter, but the only email i found says it is for if ur inquiry does not get addressed within 30 days, like service requests and whatnot. So, i am thinking if i send my letter to

ncscfollowup.nsc@dhs.gov

It may just get deleted.

There is a fax and phone number for the lincoln srv ctr but i dont know i it is correct and I dont want to fax my info into the 'unknown'

Thank you

[Jasminka8 16]

I doubt that's accurate. My husband is from the Netherlands, and the consulate there is fast, efficient, and very, very good. (I've dealt with them enough to know. The guards even recognize my husband and I. ) We still don't have an answer on our petition. And if they were doing anything with your case, I believe that you would have seen the touch in your portfolio.

But who knows. They could be right, they could be wrong, and we'd never know.

I just sent the following email to the NSC. I will let you know if they actually answer me:

Dear Officer,

I am the applicant on the above listed petition. I would like to please verify that my case is physically present at the Nebraska Service Center. I received a transfer notice that stated my application arrived and is being processed there as of November 7th, 2013. Due to conflicting and confusing information I received form the USCIS's NCSC 800#, I requested a congressional inquiry into my case in order to gain some clarity on the situation. However, the letter I received from them stated that my file was transferred to Nebraska on November 11, 2013. My account on the USCIS website shows that my case has not been touched since November 7th, 2013.

In addition, my transfer letter states that my case should be adjudicated within 60 days following the transfer, however, when I called the NCSC, the automated message I heard when I inquired about my case says that I should be adjudicated within 180 days. I am very concerned about this, as there is considerable difference between those two time frames. My congressional inquiry gave me an entirely different time frame of 3-5 months of additional processing time. This conflicting information combined with the processing time tables (Currently stating Feb. 12, 2013) and average processing time of 7.4 months has meant that I have no clear idea about what is happening with my petition. As I've been waiting nearly 9 months for adjudication on my husband's case as of today, any further delay means that we will be separated considerably more than a year. This means that we will incur more emotional and financial stress the longer that we are attempting to maintain two households. As such, I would like some reliable information regarding our case.

In speaking with other petitioners regarding our stand alone I130 petitions, I have learned that there are a large number of people who were transferred to the Nebraska Service Center more than a month after my case was, and who are not from the Philippines, who have already received adjudication on their case. (Either an approval or a request for more information.) This is very concerning to me, and other petitioners who were transferred to your service center at about the same time. As per the information on the USCIS website, petitions are processed in the order in which they are received. In light of the self reporting of other petitioners and the other inquiries I've made, I am very concerned that my file may be lost.

Can you please verify that my case is physically present at the Nebraska Service Center? Can you also please clarify what further processing time I can expect?

Thank you, and have a nice day.

Sincerely,

Kaylara

Great letter! I hope you hear back from them. I really does blow my mind that they had so many cases just sitting there and they did not recognize that this was a issue .. I really have no words for this.... Our group March 19 and 20 has been the slowest so far

[vegas12 12]

I was thinking if we could do a fax blast. My idea is to shut down there fax machine once a week for a month. Here is how this could work. We need to choose a Monday, Wednesday or Friday. We choose a service center like NSC or TSC we may want to leave CSC since they seemed to be the only one working. We just fax our application number with transfer date to the center also ask for a date of process of our application. If enough of us do this we may get more action then non action we been getting from both our Representatives. We to publish the fax of the center we are faxing. I am out of the US with my family. I encourage anyone who has been transfered.

[Kaylara 814]

@ Kaylara

That sounds great!!

To which email did you send? Last night, I did research to send a letter, but the only email i found says it is for if ur inquiry does not get addressed within 30 days, like service requests and whatnot. So, i am thinking if i send my letter to

ncscfollowup.nsc@dhs.gov

It may just get deleted.

There is a fax and phone number for the lincoln srv ctr but i dont know i it is correct and I dont want to fax my info into the 'unknown'

Thank you

I sent it to the NSC follow up. Because the answers I got from the USCIS and Congressional Inquiries were stupid and contradictory. If your letter to the service center doesn't get an answer of some type in the time frame listed, then you can escalate it to the next, higher up email.

[Kaylara 814]

I was thinking if we could do a fax blast. My idea is to shut down there fax machine once a week for a month. Here is how this could work. We need to choose a Monday, Wednesday or Friday. We choose a service center like NSC or TSC we may want to leave CSC since they seemed to be the only one working. We just fax our application number with transfer date to the center also ask for a date of process of our application. If enough of us do this we may get more action then non action we been getting from both our Representatives. We to publish the fax of the center we are faxing. I am out of the US with my family. I encourage anyone who has been transfered.

I'm not certain that this is a wise course of action. The service centers do more than service us and our kind of application. We could be causing problems for other petitioners, and I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.

[Marhaba 49]

I sent it to the NSC follow up. Because the answers I got from the USCIS and Congressional Inquiries were stupid and contradictory. If your letter to the service center doesn't get an answer of some type in the time frame listed, then you can escalate it to the next, higher up email.

Thank you. I have no other email and i am leery to send it to the fax number i have. Stuck!!

Does anyone have fax or email contacts for the NSC?? The only ones i have are:

Phone line: 402-323-6031. I called it late last night and again this afternoon, there was no answer, not even a voicemail greeting. So, i dont think it is a correct number.

The fax number listed w it is: 402-219-6050. Bc the other number seems to be no good, i have my doubts if this one is really gg to the nsc. It is a fax but not sure to where

I forgot to include the link of reference:

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/88027.pdf

Edited December 13, 2013 by Marhaba

[Nonofurbusiness 13]

My hubby called the USCIS. to asked them if we were qualified for the expedite since I'm from Philippines.and my hubby said that they asked a bunch of questions. i told my hubby just to call them to ask but never lie to them. but we are not lucky like other people who said they got approval/expedite even they are from part of Luzon and was not affected by the typhoon. and still qualified for expedite. but to those people who lied just to get their case expedited. good luck on your guys interview. or if you guys done your interview yet..remember the sayings "honesty is the best policy". if the USCIS found out that some people lied just to get your case process by them. good luck in your future immigration application.

Edited December 14, 2013 by rinoa

[ssw 2]

Someone mentioned they thought they were at 650 of the last numbers in your application. My number is in the 400s no approval I am at NSC was sent on November 5. Sorry to spoil your theory or my applications at in a closet

Not one part of the process make sense to me. My number ends at 118. PD is 3/4. I got transferred same time with other March filers to NSC on 11/6. My wife is also from Philippines. So does that make you think I've got approved? No, I am still waiting and just seeing all those people with PD after mine got approved.

People from USCIS don't go by the recipe number and PD. People who have waiting for 10 months is the same as the guy who just file last week. They just pick out random files that they like. I guess I'm just the unlucky one. They must not like my name or something. Heck, I should have wait till SEP to file my case, maybe get approved faster.

Rinoa,

I agree with you, I wouldn't want to lie to speed up my case. Once you got expedite, that's going to be in you file. Unless you are very good liar, someone is going to find out before the interview.

Edited December 14, 2013 by ssw

[Nonofurbusiness 13]

Not one part of the process make sense to me. My number ends at 118. PD is 3/4. I got transferred same time with other March filers to NSC on 11/6. My wife is also from Philippines. So does that make you think I've got approved? No, I am still waiting and just seeing all those people with PD after mine got approved.

People from USCIS don't go by the recipe number and PD. People who have waiting for 10 months is the same as the guy who just file last week. They just pick out random files that they like. I guess I'm just the unlucky one. They must not like my name or something. Heck, I should have wait till SEP to file my case, maybe get approved faster.

If your wife doesn't live in the devastated area...I'm talking about visayas region she will not qualify for the expedite or approval. they only giving it to those who really affected by the recent typhoon haiyan.im saying this coz my husband called them up today. and we found out that we are not qualified for the expedite/approval benefits..since i live here manila and far from visayas.

[lucybelle 453]

I still have no notice of this RFE they supposedly put in my case. I'll call Monday to confirm it was sent. Because one month is already too much.

[JKSforever 7]

Not all from the philippines are being alprove till now im still waiting im from

Philippines i got an rfe from nebraska till now i dont have the letter.how long will it take to received the ref letter

[Rose and Mike 12]

I still have no notice of this RFE they supposedly put in my case. I'll call Monday to confirm it was sent. Because one month is already too much.

We are the same. We haven't received our RFE hard copy. Very frustrating and depressing.

[JbTin 51]

That's from Manila US Embassy's website. I think it's USCIS' decision to transfer and expedite cases with Filipino beneficiaries..? Coz people got transfer notices a few weeks ago even if they DID NOT call and put in expedite request.

Ugh idk how to attach files lol anyways here's what it says..

"The Department of State is aware of USCIS's decision to begin expediting i-130 petitions filed by US Citizens and Lawful permanent residents. Upon receiving approved, expedited, i-130 petitions for Filipino beneficiaries from USCIS, the Department of State's National Visa Center (NVC) will schedule Immigrant Visa (IV) interviews for the US Embassy in Manila as resources allow."

Edited December 14, 2013 by krispykreme

[ssw 2]

If your wife doesn't live in the devastated area...I'm talking about visayas region she will not qualify for the expedite or approval. they only giving it to those who really affected by the recent typhoon haiyan.im saying this coz my husband called them up today. and we found out that we are not qualified for the expedite/approval benefits..since i live here manila and far from visayas.

I know she's not going to qualified. She lived in bataan. I saw it first hand, since I was there when the typhoon came. All they got was rain.