NOA1 and NOA2

[Wooderz 314]

And your response answers my question...how?

You just basically said the same thing the poster said that there are two service centers for K1 I129f's...or am i missing something?

I filled a I130 and a I129f...rolling the dice to see which one would come in faster as also there was no fee to file the I129f after you receive the NOA1 from the I130.

Yeah, I am sorry I am kinda of angry them damn people did nothing the whole month of December. I work for the governement myself and they just perputuate that common conception that government workers are slow and lazy.

It makes no sense to me that leg of the government affect so many lives and knows they do and dont do a damn thing about it to fix the damn broken process and system!

Okay rant over....Calling USCIS again....Im gonna keep calling till they get tired of me and approve my application!

Not sure how you expect us to know what's going on with your petition? Good luck calling uscis. Hope you can get some answers out of them.

[Wooderz 314]

and so does anyone know why there is such a huge wait between tsc and scs?

Your guess is as good as mine. The service centers ebb and flow. Sometimes one is faster than the other and it has apparently been this way for quite a number of years. Perhaps TSC is handling more types of petitions and so has less adjudicators to allocate to ours. Maybe TSC is just receiving more petitions than CSC right now. Maybe it's something else entirely.

[gabijajanc 1]

thanks! I guess the best thing right now is not to get frustrated and just hope everything will turn out fine

Good luck for you!

[brett40000 24]

I suggest you use a California address for your filing of a I-129F. I'm stuck inTSC and my noa1 date was june 5th, and i still have no answers. I've inquired at local office on the hotline, with tier 2 supervisors, and they don't give a s***!! TSC is a s*** hole!

[gabijajanc 1]

oh wow!!! I am so sorry to hear about this.. Unfortunately, we already have sent I-129F and we got NOA1 and our file was transfered to TSC ... So I guess we can't do anything about this anymore...

I hope you will get your NOA2 soon!

[brett40000 24]

Don't expect anything for at least 6 months then.

[sco/wen 3]

There are 2 service centers that process the i-129f. All petitions are sent to the dallas lockbox and then uscis decides which service center the petition will go to for processing depending on the state the petitioner lives. Currently CSC is processing very quickly while TSC is very slow. Unfortunately, there isn't anything that can be done to influence what service center your petition goes to. It's strictly up to uscis.

Currently petitions where the beneficiary is from Philippines are being expedited due to the typhoon that hit there last year. Those people are approved in a few weeks while the rest of us just wait even longer as a result. Again, there isn't anything we can do about this.

You'll learn to dig deeper into people profiles when you see quick approvals to see that they are almost always either Philippines or people at CSC who filled out their timeline wrong and put TSC accidentally. For non-Filipinos at TSC, expect a 6 month wait for noa2.

I am CSC , August 4 NOA1.........Haven't heard a peep since and they won't even let me put in a service request for being past normal processing time, they tell me it's 6 months and I've only waited 5 but their website says 5 months ?

[Bjorn&lyne 20]

Texas does approves Philippines very fast, in many cases 4-8 weeks. In our case, 6 weeks. So country does seem to matter, and the Philippines are processed extremely fast. As suggested earlier in the thread, look at the countries processed fast.

Edited January 7, 2015 by Bjorn&lyne

[kimmygeee 7]

Welcome to the club TSC is really behind & we don't know why. We are all hoping that things will speed up or hope they at least transfer some cases to CSC. They seem to be starting to work on July filers who are close to hitting the 6 month mark.

[SantyAndAllie 155]

I wish people would read more forums, lol. I'm saying the EXACT same thing on every single forum. We all are! Read more forums!! Especially any having to do with TSC. There are forums for each filing month, like Aug filers, Sept filers, etc. That'll help you gauge where your fellow TSC-ers are at and all suffer together, hahahaha.

I suggest you use a California address for your filing of a I-129F. I'm stuck inTSC and my noa1 date was june 5th, and i still have no answers. I've inquired at local office on the hotline, with tier 2 supervisors, and they don't give a s***!! TSC is a s*** hole!

You should absolutely look into an Info pass appointment. Even with the holidays, they're more behind with yours since they are finishing June up at this point. They must've put you towards the end of the line, which isn't right, as most of June has been finished. They definitely slowed down the last month, but when you hit 7 months, it's going over the line. Calling won't do much. Make an appt.

Guys, sorry to kill your hope, lol, but they did a transfer already from TSC back in August. It's unlikely that they will do one again. From the VJ guy that does research, he explained the process and that it's VERY unlikely that ANY of us will see a transfer based on the 'amount that they have when they decide to do a transfer' and the amount of time/work (didn't someone mention their laziness? lol). Unfortunately it'll stay around 6 months for now and, as the researcher concluded, will hopefully get back to 5.5 months very soon. Meaning right now it's still 6 months to NOA2. The website is wrong (if you can even find the data anymore), and the USCIS agents will tell you wrong (they either know nothing or are trying to cover their butts for being able to make you wait longer to call!). It's 6 month wait right now, and they're ending June filers and starting some of July's.

Also- TSC has always historically been slower than CSC. It's definitely been faster than this before, but right now is way backlogged. Holidays didn't help.

If you are a later than June filer, of COURSE you can't really put in a service request. It said 5 months as the goal, but they're currently processing at the 6 month mark, and even then if you call they won't do ####### for you (edit: they blocked out the not bad word for poop, hahahaha. classy, VJ!). Once you hit 6 months, you should make an info pass appointment. Probably better than calling til your head falls off! Or you can contact a Senator. I've seen that help in a few cases, depending on how helpful your Senator is.

Until you've hit 6 months, of course they're going to give you the run-around about processing times. But right now it's a pretty solid 6 month waiting period. Few people are left waiting after the 6 month mark- other than the massive delay around the holidays. (I apologize, Brett40000, that you're one of them )

And, as April said, Philippines is being EXPEDITED. That's why they seem to be going faster. Because they are, lol. Otherwise for the most part, country doesn't matter in the waiting for NOA2 stage (unless the country is being expedited at the time of filing).

Good luck to everyone! OP, if you haven't, join one of your month's filer groups. Not sure when you applied, but there may be one. If not, start one!

Edited January 7, 2015 by lovecometruex

[brett40000 24]

I have an appointment for the 15th. Last time I went they said I had an RFE, but I got nothing in the mail. Called the hotline and was told by a tier 2 there was no rfe. Going to try and get the same guy and see ####### is going on. If only they would say hey your case is here or there or is in this phase and this needs to be done, but nothing. Hopefully, we'll get some answers this time, and when we go over normal processing times go to my Congressman. Chop wood, carry water. One foot in front of the other.

[SantyAndAllie 155]

I have an appointment for the 15th. Last time I went they said I had an RFE, but I got nothing in the mail. Called the hotline and was told by a tier 2 there was no rfe. Going to try and get the same guy and see ####### is going on. If only they would say hey your case is here or there or is in this phase and this needs to be done, but nothing. Hopefully, we'll get some answers this time, and when we go over normal processing times go to my Congressman. Chop wood, carry water. One foot in front of the other.

Ugh, so annoying. Hopefully your appointment does something. And hey, like I think someone mentioned, you can always sue. LOL. But let's hope they get their stuff together and approve your file ASAP. It's not fair to have had all of June approved ahead of you when they "go in order". Good luck to you guys!!

[raven52 233]

If you see a 30-40 day NOA 2, then it is probably from the Philippines.

They are still on "expedite" due to two "history making" typhoons, in back to back years, that has devastated, major parts of that country.

How long the expedite will last is anyone's guess.

I have a friend that got NOA 2 in 26 days! I think NVC has forwarded his file to the embassy in Manila. He filed 11-26-14, or about then.

[Marco&Bettina 502]

Ugh, so annoying. Hopefully your appointment does something. And hey, like I think someone mentioned, you can always sue. LOL. But let's hope they get their stuff together and approve your file ASAP. It's not fair to have had all of June approved ahead of you when they "go in order". Good luck to you guys!!

They are not done in order. There are many factors that play into the actual processing times. Factors we don't know much about. But some of it involves checks done for higher fraud countries.

Edit: Here is the map that shows the dividing line of which SC handles the petition after it leaves the Dallas Lockbox:

Edited January 7, 2015 by Marco&Bettina

[Marco&Bettina 502]

I can no longer edit my previous post. But I was gonna add that most of the most populated states in America are handled at TSC, so they receive significantly more I-129F petitions than CSC does. Just ignore the VSC on the map. TSC handles all the purple state's petitions.

Edited January 7, 2015 by Marco&Bettina