How long from pre-adjudication to final adjudication?

[takingtoolong 10]

Apologies for cross-postings. I posted this in the April 2013 I-130 string, but not everyone will visit that page.

I visited my local office with an infopass today. My priority date is April 4th.

1. The lady said that approvals were now taking 6-8 months (nothing new there).

2. She said that my I-130 application was at the NBC and that it was pre-adjudicated. She said that pre-adjudicated means that someone has looked at it and confirmed that I sent all the necessary documents. She said that she was not authorized to tell me when this pre-adjudication was done.

3. She said that it is now waiting for final adjudication from someone else. This process can take anywhere from a few days to a maximum of 2 months. (It is possible that she was saying a maximum of 2 months to be consistent with her earlier statement that approvals are taking 6-8 months overall)

My questions are:

1. Has anyone ever heard of pre-adjudication before?

2. Do you know how long it typically takes to go from pre-adjudication to final adjudication?

(Final aside. i handed her my paper work and she looked up my file based on that. Afterwards, I realized that I never confirmed with her that she was looking at the right file. (Suppose she had typed in the incorrect receipt number of some such)!! I worried about that afterwards. Lesson to all: It is always good to confirm with someone that they are looking at the right file. At least you do not sit there afterwards, like me, and wonder about it!!)

[Ryan H 3,821]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Progress Reports to USCIS Service Centers forum; topic is about USCIS operations that are applicable to all petition filings.

[dens 5]

What I understand someone has assigning your case to handle it. An agent who has been assigned to verify your identity and that takes couple of months but not more than 4months enough. there some cases will have been transferred to your local office for instance if Its occur I doubt it would be an RFE base on my experience am just shared to you my experience. Since it last to 7months I call USCIS and I was told that my case has been assigned and adjudicate.