I-130 MARCH 2013 FILERS!! NBC

[LoveMyTico 999]

I filed in January and still have not received an approval. All the stories I am hearing on this board about March and April filers getting approved soon seems like wishful thinking..sorry to say. I hope we all get approved sooner than later but I believe the budget cuts is the main reason for this delay. Officers probably are working shorter hours and not enough staff to process petitions.

THE USCIS is mostly funded by FEES COLLECTED. We all paid a fee for services we are not receiveing in a timely matter. Sorry but I am all about customer service. If you are charging a fee for a service, that service better be completed. If they are bogged down by an overload of cases, they already cashed the check... HIRE MORE PEOPLE ! ! ! ! The fact that they don't hire enough people to do the job.... that might fly for a little while but not now. I hope the opening of the new facility gets situated and they start working.... The K-1s are flying out the door at the CSC. So depressing.

[stlMac 16]

@ LoveMyTico

I agree with you. But we should also remember that they have more applicant to deal with now then August 2012. DACA applications are also in queue so here we are standing in the same line and waiting longer than expected.

Another thing is USCIS don't have to compete for our service. They got it free. If you don't have to compete you will never give a good service. They know they dont' have to compete for your business and that's why they don't care.

[LoveMyTico 999]

@ LoveMyTico

I agree with you. But we should also remember that they have more applicant to deal with now then August 2012. DACA applications are also in queue so here we are standing in the same line and waiting longer than expected.

Another thing is USCIS don't have to compete for our service. They got it free. If you don't have to compete you will never give a good service. They know they dont' have to compete for your business and that's why they don't care.

I agree.. no competition=bad service.. Its a friggin MONOPLY

although... they have to have standards. I mean, the adjudicators have metrics they need to keep up with. They have numbers to meet daily. I hope hope hope this new Kansas facility will make the difference we are all hoping for. VJ filers are just a speck compared to the real workload... but I still say it is depressing to watch the K-1s fly outta here. why are they approving the UNMARRIED when the married people already made the commitment ?? Its all so backwards.

Also, alot of people don't come back and fill in their timelines. It makes Igor's list very inaccurate. Fun to look at but not very reliable.

[scholozy 8]

I agree.. no competition=bad service.. Its a friggin MONOPLY

although... they have to have standards. I mean, the adjudicators have metrics they need to keep up with. They have numbers to meet daily. I hope hope hope this new Kansas facility will make the difference we are all hoping for. VJ filers are just a speck compared to the real workload... but I still say it is depressing to watch the K-1s fly outta here. why are they approving the UNMARRIED when the married people already made the commitment ?? Its all so backwards.

Also, alot of people don't come back and fill in their timelines. It makes Igor's list very inaccurate. Fun to look at but not very reliable.

The best thing I noticed about igorignore list... if you look.. it appears that if your application was submitted before February 20th there is a 95% chance is was completed. After feb 20th applications were thrown into the never ending wearhouse until they get that service center set up. It seriously looks like they did exactly that. Its a shame we don't have a bigger picture of the processing totals other than the info that is essentially 2 months old on the uscis dashboard from their june totals. I feel like we are stuck on an emotional rollercoaster, one day we are good and the next we just want to set the world on fire. I've been working to bring the misses here since july 2012 so it seriously feels like an eternity for us :'(

[heytoot 4]

For sure it will increase especially when people are reaching the 6th month. lol My hubby already called them today and last week, he was told to wait 25 minutes but when somebody picked up, it dropped. Last week he also tried calling and he was ask to wait for 2 hours and when the 2 hours came up still nobody answered. lol I guess they are having a really rough week.

No not recently. Well, maybe it will continue to increase to 8-9 hrs that way they don't have to answer our calls.

Yeah, My friend's husband filed last january but up until now, no updates yet. But it does not make sense because they are receiving a pretty good amount of money coming from people who are filing for a visa and they don't have enough staff to do the job? that doesn't make sense at all!

I filed in January and still have not received an approval. All the stories I am hearing on this board about March and April filers getting approved soon seems like wishful thinking..sorry to say. I hope we all get approved sooner than later but I believe the budget cuts is the main reason for this delay. Officers probably are working shorter hours and not enough staff to process petitions.

[L and A 3]

Finally my senator is helping me with my case. My Senator called my local field office and asked them to request my file to be transferred from NBC to them for processing. Hopefully in next few days they will be on it.

[LoveMyTico 999]

Finally my senator is helping me with my case. My Senator called my local field office and asked them to request my file to be transferred from NBC to them for processing. Hopefully in next few days they will be on it.

just curious... what if the file wasn't supposed to be transferred in the first place. Not all files are getting transferred. My lawyer told me they transfer them if they need extra work or if they are missing items. Did they already get status for you?

[L and A 3]

just curious... what if the file wasn't supposed to be transferred in the first place. Not all files are getting transferred. My lawyer told me they transfer them if they need extra work or if they are missing items. Did they already get status for you?

They checked the status and said the file is just sitting and collecting dust at NBC. They asked for transfer and they going to expedite my case once it's here.

[LoveMyTico 999]

They checked the status and said the file is just sitting and collecting dust at NBC. They asked for transfer and they going to expedite my case once it's here.

all of our files are sitting there collecting dust.

[L and A 3]

all of our files are sitting there collecting dust.

Yeah true good thing my Senator is now willing to help me.

[stlMac 16]

Just called Tier2 officer and he said if I don't hear anything in next 3 months call us back. Funny how they have different statements.

[Ortolan 381]

We filed in March, and have a priority date of March 18, 2013. It's been 5 months, 4 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes ago....sigh.

[stlMac 16]

I liked your calculation:) I lost the track of days, hours,minutes and seconds but I think mine is 167 days LOL

We filed in March, and have a priority date of March 18, 2013. It's been 5 months, 4 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes ago....sigh.

[vegas12 12]

My calculation for approval of your NOA2 add 6 months 26 days. I am a March filer on 19 I have to add a day. Good luck I have lost confident in anything they tell you.

[alongway 1]

I filed I-130 for my wife in March and got PD March 20 and I'm in U.S.

I called USCIS today and waited about an hour to speak to a tier 2 officer.

He said they're backed up and it'd take 6 to 9 months on average.