Decrease wait time for I-130 Petition for Alien Relative

[r060106 109]

lol

[B & G 200]

There you go... now the National Visa Center is an average of 12 months and California is 7.7 months ...

My spouse is overseas and my case starts with MSC.. I sent my case to California, but the NOA1 says Overland Park. Which timeline should I be paying attention to?

Right now you are at NBC. There is no timeline you can follow right now as the only petitions being approved by them are either DCF or expidites, and those are coming from Lee's Summit.

USCIS are in the process of transferring April filers. It is reasonable to assume that May filers will be transferred to service centers as well, probably in Dec.

I would go by the NoA 1, and look at Overland Park, unless you get notification that it's been moved somewhere else.

There is no Overland Park to look at. There have been no approvals coming out of that place. Any approvals from NBC have been from Lee's Summit.

This is the reason why petitions are being transfered to other service centers. USCIS's shiny new toy "the Division 8 in Overland Park" was supposed to be operational end of Sep. Its not.

[Avery Cates 1,141]

Is it a "bit of a stretch" to start thinking you might work for the USCIS?

Well, now that you mention it...

Yes. Yes, it is.

Believe me, if I worked for USCIS, I wouldn't have waited no 7 1/2 months for our visa.

Edited November 20, 2013 by Avery Cates

[mksobe 31]

Right now you are at NBC. There is no timeline you can follow right now as the only petitions being approved by them are either DCF or expidites, and those are coming from Lee's Summit.

USCIS are in the process of transferring April filers. It is reasonable to assume that May filers will be transferred to service centers as well, probably in Dec.

There is no Overland Park to look at. There have been no approvals coming out of that place. Any approvals from NBC have been from Lee's Summit.

This is the reason why petitions are being transfered to other service centers. USCIS's shiny new toy "the Division 8 in Overland Park" was supposed to be operational end of Sep. Its not.

Thank you... I hope May and all filers hear something soon. The backlog doesn't make sense because cases will keep piling up. I hope some new order or plan comes up to fix this.

[Virtuous45 31]

Petition signed.

[mksobe 31]

Petition signed.

Thank you

[Tina Marnia 7]

why is this that they can't give sufficient information to your questions??

[Virtuous45 31]

Check this out. USCIS replied to the Petition (BOS_LHR)

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/466577-email-from-uscis/?p=6659300

[jhonster 23]

Don't be scared, be grateful that you found this site and that you are well informed. There is nothing you can do about the wait times, but at least there will be no surprises. There are many people here who will support you throughout the process, and if you stay active here, you will make many friends. No one wants to spend months and months being separated from their SO, unfortunately that is a part of immigration. As long as you are prepared mentally, and continue to live your life and try to stay busy, the time will go by quickly. At the time it seemed like it took forever, but after it was all said and done and your other half has the visa in hand, you forget about the wait in the blink of an eye.

Also there are many here whose petitions are approved in a few weeks or months, maybe you will be one of the lucky ones. Good Luck.

I'm sorry Mimolicious. I have to totally disagree with you here. To accept how this government is operating is un-acceptable. And there is NO reason why USICS (or any other agency within the Fed govt) should be working to provide services IN WHICH WE PAY FOR. And it's not only the fee's that we pay, but the Federal taxes (billions upon billions) that we send in every year to make the Federal govt work for US!!

This whole idea of the "security check" becoming a black hole is a real one. This is something that totally needs to be addressed. And if it takes Presidential, Senatorial or Congressional involvement....then so be it. I work in govt, and I know how things work within it. And much of the reasons why things don't get addressed is because of lethargy and poor management. It seems like anytime a better and more efficient idea is submitted to one group, division, or dept, it falls upon deaf ears at the upper management level. I'm sorry. I worked in the private sector for almost 25 years before coming work for the govt, and if you operated that way there....you'd be out of business in now time.

There is really no reason other than political when it comes to getting the staffing needed for Federal jobs. And if those departments are experiencing such backlogs, then the govt needs to address that and make changes. It's really that simple. But, we have one party in Washington DC right now that are becoming obstacles in funding Federal departments, and that is the the Republican party. Right now, the Federal govt is working with skeleton crews in comparison to what it had under Bush's tenure. And through the sequester, more departments have been slashed and cut. And this effects us DIRECTLY. And since USCIS is a specially funded (meaning they are a money generating dept.....unlike say police or the military), there is absolutely NO REASON for the massive fluctuations in processing times.

So....like I said. I work in govt and I can tell you FOR SURE, this is a mis-management problem purely and solely. They have the money in their depts to hire and get more officers to process Visa's. Now whether some of the bottlenecks come from other agencies which are not "specially funded" (like FBI, DHS, etc), then that's another issue. But if the USCIS is giving you static about their caseload, then that is THEIR PROBLEM, not ours. And believe you me....I'm stuck in this same "security check" black hole right now. And I've just had about all I can stand about this. I'm going to contact the director of the USCIS and demand he do something about giving us accurate information, regardless of where the application stands.

[Avery Cates 1,141]

why is this that they can't give sufficient information to your questions??

Depends on the questions that you're asking.