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tsabbas   47

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
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I don't see much about the NBC but still hoping someone you might read this and answer some questions!

Our case was transferred last week to the NBC and we filed the I-130 only. They don't list any processing times for that petition and the information on here seems a little out of date. Does anyone have any idea of how they work there? The notice I received yesterday states it was transferred "to speed up processing". Has anyone else had their case recently transferred? We only filed the petition in December.

Also, I can't seem to update my Timeline with the new service center. I entered all of the transfer information and I updated my profile but my timeline still shows TSC.

I would love any information anyone wants to share and, for any other NBC I-130 members, let's share our experience!

Thanks!

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dhlunar   25

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Filed: IR-5 Timeline
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Is this a stand-alone I-130 or did you file other forms at the same time?

Let me guess you mailed your I-130 to the Chicago lockbox? The Chicago lockbox is an intake center for NBC. More then likely at some point in the future your case will be transferred to another service center.

With my in-laws I-130 petitions it was submitted to the Chicago lockbox in May 2013 then straight to NBC. Ended up sitting at NBC till almost December 2013 before it got transferred to the Nebraska Service Center. It wasn't until early March 2014 before someone at Nebraska approved the petitions.

Here is the information regarding the cases for my in-laws (wife, their daughter, is the petitioner under the IR-5 category, Parents of a USC):

Submit I-130 (2 petitions) to USCIS on May 30, 2013

USCIS approved the cases on March 10, 2014.

Received notice online from USCIS the cases were sent to NVC on March 17, 2014.

NVC received the cases on March 28, 2014

The case numbers were created on Monday, April 28.

We received the numbers by phone on Friday, May 2.

DS-261 became available on both cases late in the evening on Friday, May 2. Both DS-261 filed on Saturday, May 3.

Received emails to my wife regarding AOS at around 8am on Wednesday, May 7. At the same time received emails that were cc of letters sent to my in-laws. However, the date of all of the letters was Monday, May 5.

Received emails regarding the Immigrant Visa Fee at around 11:15am on Wednesday, May 7. IV fees became available online at around 1pm on Wednesday, May 7. Date of invoice was Tuesday, May 8.

Paid all the fees on Wednesday, May 7 at around 1:15pm.

All fees marked as paid and DS-260 become available sometime late on Friday, May 9.

Dropped off IV and AOS packages (in two different envelopes - 1 for AOS and 1 for IV documents) at the local post office at around 2pm on Saturday, May 10.

Submitted DS-260 (for both cases) around 10am on Sunday, May 11.

Both document packages received by NVC on Monday, May 12 (according to Post Office Tracking - one around 1pm and the other around 4pm. Don't know why they got separated.)

Received checklist email for both cases at 4pm on Thursday, June 12 regarding the IV civil documents

Wife called NVC in the afternoon of Friday, June 13 to inquire about the checklist. Told by a representative they are normal and automatic and not to worry. AOS under review. Call back after Tuesday, June 24.
Received a checklist for my father-in-law on Monday, June 16. NVC reviewed his AOS paperwork, but waiting for the documents the requested the week before.

Wife called NVC in the morning of Tuesday, June 17. Told by the agent they don't have the document requested for dad, and they don't have the AOS package for her mom.

Put in a request with our Senator to get more information. Response was mother-in-law is documentary complete and father-in-law was in document review for the military document.

Wife called NVC on the morning of Tuesday, July 1 and spoke with a supervisor regarding her dad's military document. Supervisor said she would look into it.

Supervisor called us and left a voicemail on the morning of Wednesday, July 9 and stated they have located my father-in-law's military documents. Case sent back to document review.

Per conversation with an agent, the expedited request originally requested by email on July 7, was sent to the Embassy on Thursday, July 10.

Received by postal mail on Thursday, August 21 from our Senator regarding the response of another inquiry. Still the same.

Early in the morning on Friday, August 22:

Wife calls the Embassy and was told the IV section doesn't accept calls, and was given a number in the states that turned out to be scheduling assistance for NIV interviews.

Called NVC as soon as they opened and was told the Embassy denied the expedite request, but the case was completed by NVC on Monday, August 18. Wife inquired about interview scheduling, and was given some good information.

At 5 PM on Thursday, September 11, received the interview letters. Interview is scheduled for the morning of October 9.

Mother-in-law approved. Father-in-law placed in Administrative Processing due to follow-up TB test.

CEAC stated ISSUED for my mother-in-law on October 15. DHL had the package for pick up on October 17 but called the wrong number. Package picked up on October 27.

On December 11 mother-in-law received a phone call from the Embassy that the medical is back for my father-in-law and to DHL his passport to them. Passport sent on December 12.

On December 18 CEAC updated to ISSUED for my father-in-law. My wife is happy!!!! Embassy said they gave it to DHL on December 19

Due to a DHL delay the package did not become available for pick up until December 24. USCIS Immigrant Fee paid the same day.

POE: JFK Terminal 1 - December 26, 2014 - They are finally here!!!

Took them to a local SSA office to get SSN on January 6, 2015. Cards received on January 10, 2015.

Green Cards received by priority mail on January 23, 2015 (four weeks after arrival).

Both went to motor vehicles and got state issued ID cards on April 11, 2015.

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tsabbas   47

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
 Timeline
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Is this a stand-alone I-130 or did you file other forms at the same time?

Let me guess you mailed your I-130 to the Chicago lockbox? The Chicago lockbox is an intake center for NBC. More then likely at some point in the future your case will be transferred to another service center.

With my in-laws I-130 petitions it was submitted to the Chicago lockbox in May 2013 then straight to NBC. Ended up sitting at NBC till almost December 2013 before it got transferred to the Nebraska Service Center. It wasn't until early March 2014 before someone at Nebraska approved the petitions.

Hello and thanks for your response. Yes, it is a standalone I-130 sent to the Chicago lockbox on December 15. I received the receipt notice on December 18 saying it was received and sent to the Texas Service Center for processing. It stayed there (apparently) until January 27 when I received an email that it was being transferred. I didn't know where until I got the paper notice today. So you think it will be transferred again? Ugh!

dhlunar Collaborator

dhlunar   25

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Filed: IR-5 Timeline
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One of two things:

1. NBC is handling it directly.

2. NBC is collecting petitions in order to assist in re-balancing the workload and will send it out to another service center. However, I doubt this one because usually the service centers handle the transfer themselves and don't usually use NBC as a middleman.

Here is the information regarding the cases for my in-laws (wife, their daughter, is the petitioner under the IR-5 category, Parents of a USC):

Submit I-130 (2 petitions) to USCIS on May 30, 2013

USCIS approved the cases on March 10, 2014.

Received notice online from USCIS the cases were sent to NVC on March 17, 2014.

NVC received the cases on March 28, 2014

The case numbers were created on Monday, April 28.

We received the numbers by phone on Friday, May 2.

DS-261 became available on both cases late in the evening on Friday, May 2. Both DS-261 filed on Saturday, May 3.

Received emails to my wife regarding AOS at around 8am on Wednesday, May 7. At the same time received emails that were cc of letters sent to my in-laws. However, the date of all of the letters was Monday, May 5.

Received emails regarding the Immigrant Visa Fee at around 11:15am on Wednesday, May 7. IV fees became available online at around 1pm on Wednesday, May 7. Date of invoice was Tuesday, May 8.

Paid all the fees on Wednesday, May 7 at around 1:15pm.

All fees marked as paid and DS-260 become available sometime late on Friday, May 9.

Dropped off IV and AOS packages (in two different envelopes - 1 for AOS and 1 for IV documents) at the local post office at around 2pm on Saturday, May 10.

Submitted DS-260 (for both cases) around 10am on Sunday, May 11.

Both document packages received by NVC on Monday, May 12 (according to Post Office Tracking - one around 1pm and the other around 4pm. Don't know why they got separated.)

Received checklist email for both cases at 4pm on Thursday, June 12 regarding the IV civil documents

Wife called NVC in the afternoon of Friday, June 13 to inquire about the checklist. Told by a representative they are normal and automatic and not to worry. AOS under review. Call back after Tuesday, June 24.
Received a checklist for my father-in-law on Monday, June 16. NVC reviewed his AOS paperwork, but waiting for the documents the requested the week before.

Wife called NVC in the morning of Tuesday, June 17. Told by the agent they don't have the document requested for dad, and they don't have the AOS package for her mom.

Put in a request with our Senator to get more information. Response was mother-in-law is documentary complete and father-in-law was in document review for the military document.

Wife called NVC on the morning of Tuesday, July 1 and spoke with a supervisor regarding her dad's military document. Supervisor said she would look into it.

Supervisor called us and left a voicemail on the morning of Wednesday, July 9 and stated they have located my father-in-law's military documents. Case sent back to document review.

Per conversation with an agent, the expedited request originally requested by email on July 7, was sent to the Embassy on Thursday, July 10.

Received by postal mail on Thursday, August 21 from our Senator regarding the response of another inquiry. Still the same.

Early in the morning on Friday, August 22:

Wife calls the Embassy and was told the IV section doesn't accept calls, and was given a number in the states that turned out to be scheduling assistance for NIV interviews.

Called NVC as soon as they opened and was told the Embassy denied the expedite request, but the case was completed by NVC on Monday, August 18. Wife inquired about interview scheduling, and was given some good information.

At 5 PM on Thursday, September 11, received the interview letters. Interview is scheduled for the morning of October 9.

Mother-in-law approved. Father-in-law placed in Administrative Processing due to follow-up TB test.

CEAC stated ISSUED for my mother-in-law on October 15. DHL had the package for pick up on October 17 but called the wrong number. Package picked up on October 27.

On December 11 mother-in-law received a phone call from the Embassy that the medical is back for my father-in-law and to DHL his passport to them. Passport sent on December 12.

On December 18 CEAC updated to ISSUED for my father-in-law. My wife is happy!!!! Embassy said they gave it to DHL on December 19

Due to a DHL delay the package did not become available for pick up until December 24. USCIS Immigrant Fee paid the same day.

POE: JFK Terminal 1 - December 26, 2014 - They are finally here!!!

Took them to a local SSA office to get SSN on January 6, 2015. Cards received on January 10, 2015.

Green Cards received by priority mail on January 23, 2015 (four weeks after arrival).

Both went to motor vehicles and got state issued ID cards on April 11, 2015.

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IF&SA   4

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
 Timeline
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We had a terrible experience with the NBC in 2013. We filed in august.

They kept our petitions there for about 6 months with no processing done there. They then transferred to the texas center which was terribly slowwwwww and took about 4 months more. So we are not yet done with NVC.

It seems things worked faster this year with average time for I130 taking about 5-6 months , so hopefully NBC has got its act together by now, and you guys wont have the rotten experience we had.

tsabbas Enthusiast

tsabbas   47

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
 Timeline
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We had a terrible experience with the NBC in 2013. We filed in august.

They kept our petitions there for about 6 months with no processing done there. They then transferred to the texas center which was terribly slowwwwww and took about 4 months more. So we are not yet done with NVC.

It seems things worked faster this year with average time for I130 taking about 5-6 months , so hopefully NBC has got its act together by now, and you guys wont have the rotten experience we had.

Thank you for the info. I am a little worried myself. Texas may be slow but at least we knew what to expect! With NBC, I can find hardly any information about processing times and it seems very few I-130s go there. So even on here, the information is sketchy.

It gives me a little hope that it was transferred supposedly to speed up processing but I just wish I had more reliable information to at least estimate a time! Plus, I haven't seen any other posts about cases being transferred to NBC so another reason to wonder, why ours??

I was hoping to visit once then return for the interview; now its hard to know what to plan...

But thank you! I'm glad your process is getting close to the end.

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ShubhaBala   1

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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Canada
 Timeline
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Have you had any updates to your petition? Ours was Chicago lockbox filed in February and went straight to NBC as well. I'm also frustrated that there is no information even on the uscis website, AND according to visajourney NBC is processing AOS petitions from last August! I hope it doesn't take us a year! Similarly I don't even really care how long it takes, I'd just like to plan some travel and without having any clue how long this is going to take it makes it hard to do.

2/8/2015 Married
2/14/2015 Applications Mailed via Fedex
2/17/2015 NOA Date
3/10/2015 Began long process to expedite EAD. Written about in detail here.
3/13/2015 Biometrics Appointment (I did it early, although after I received my letter)
3/30/2015 EAD approved
4/7/2015 EAD card received - Day 44

9/8/2015 Interview scheduled in NY

10/9/2015 Interview

tsabbas Enthusiast

tsabbas   47

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
 Timeline
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Have you had any updates to your petition? Ours was Chicago lockbox filed in February and went straight to NBC as well. I'm also frustrated that there is no information even on the uscis website, AND according to visajourney NBC is processing AOS petitions from last August! I hope it doesn't take us a year! Similarly I don't even really care how long it takes, I'd just like to plan some travel and without having any clue how long this is going to take it makes it hard to do.

The only new information I have is that I called USCIS on 3/25/15 and they told me Missouri was working on I-130's received November 30, 2014. Probably doesn't help you much - sorry! I tried calling again today to say that Texas is stating 5 months for processing and we are within a couple weeks of that and our petition was supposedly transferred for faster processing! They took my information and said someone would look into it and call me back but we will see if it actually happens.

I will post if I hear anything more. :( It's hard being patient.

 
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