Seriously TSC... #######???

[soba3 7]

Thank you CatherineA

Can you please explain what you mean by the red flag I got lost sorry

[Pennycat 880]

Thank you CatherineA

Can you please explain what you mean by the red flag I got lost sorry

If you were to send a new I-129f right now, when it gets to the Lockbox, you would still have your current one active. No one really knows if anyone checks for this (they probably do), or when they check for it. But it could look suspicious. You have to think about it from USCIS's and State's perspective. They deal with *every day*, people who pay other people to marry them for a green card, or to file a K1 for them but never even see them in the US, or people who file for multiple people as a form of human trafficking to "help out" some really bad people etc etc. Literally every single day they handle cases like this.

You don't want to look like one of them. And having two active cases (even for the same person) could raise a flag, or just look plain old suspicious enough that you wind up getting additional background checks/ identity verification checks than you otherwise would. Is it worth that kind of risk? Probably not, at least not at THIS stage when the OP's NOA2 is probably right around the corner. Was it worth it, for me, back in April? Maybe. I still bet that whatever potential complication this would have brought up still would have been handled quicker than waiting at TSC.

Or, if you wanted to cancel your current petition first, you would need to do that, wait for the verification of the cancellation (weeks, maybe months) and then re-file. Again, for someone whose NOA2 is probably a few weeks away, this is still a losing strategy. Would it have been smart for me in April? Maybe. I don't know.

For you, though, unless your timeline is filled out incorrectly, you are filing for a CR-1 which is really, really, really different in timelines than K-1s and with a different set of circumstances. For you, 3 of the 5 service centers all seem to be processing CR-1s at about the same speed, with CSC being very fast and NBC being very slow. But all 5 service centers are taking in new applications still. So if you were to cancel at TSC in the hopes of your 1 in 5 chance of going to CSC.... that is a really bad idea. http://www.visajourney.com/content/ir1cr1historical

For K-1s, though, you are all but guaranteed that if you send in a new application NOW it will go to CSC. Why? Because only two centers (TSC and CSC) were processing us. TSC was taking an average of 210 days, CSC an average of 21. Ten times faster. So they stopped sending any applications to TSC in late March. So now, if you're a new filer, you know for sure where your application is going. As a CR-1, you still don't. For all you know, you cancel, re-file and get put right back at the back of the line at TSC. Things are just so so so different between these two processes, you really need to be careful and be clear about if the advice given applies to one or the other.

[Eric The Wait 40]

So, here's our status. NOA1 was January 13. I got an RFE on August 22 requesting divorce records for both myself and my fiance who lives in Japan. USCIS actually had my divorce record if they read it very carefully. But, rather than say anything about that mistake I just got sent a new certificate. For my fiance's documentation I hired a Japanese lawyer to write a letter of explanantion because the divorce was done at City Hall, not at a Courthouse. In Japan, City Hall divorces are the most common way to get a divorce. Anyway, to get all that junk....I mean stuff together it took a few weeks so I didn't get the RFE response back to Texas Service Center until September 17th. Thankfully TSC does at least recognise that I responded to the RFE before its expiration date.

I spoke to someone at TSC real friendly like. For RFE's the guy said I have to let 60 days go by from September 17th before I can piss and moan and ask them to do an inquiry or something. Of course, I want to scream because this whole process is close to soul destroying, but I talk real nice to the USCIS people when I call because sometimes they will give a hint or two. I asked how the process the going for approvals in general and the guy said their official data shows they've processed through January 19th. He said some people beyond that date have been approved.

My own impression from just checking the forum is that things seem to be slowing down at the TSC, but that's not based on data. It's just a feeling......I could be wrong.

The whole thing really sucks and sometimes I feel like there is no way this is going to work and that they'll find some unfair and unlawful reason to deny us or just lose something and say it's our fault or just string it out another year, etc. etc. I have my "loss of hope" moments but then I pull back, take a breath, realize we are not the only couple suffering and that somehow there is a light at the end of this tunnel, even though I can't see it yet. I know many people around the world are suffering terrible indignities and horror. But this K-1 process really asks some of us to persist through crushing uncertainty and it can be barely endurable. But, we endure.

[chvsky 1]

I have been waiting for my NOA2 since November 2014. Talking of frustration, hopelessness, powerless, angry, mad and the list goes on. I feel like steam is coming out of my ears. I involved my congresswoman last month and still, USCIS has not responded to her inquiry on my behave as to what is going on with my case. Got advised from my congresswoman's office to wait for another week (30 days from the day she filed for inquiry) before she takes other measures in order to get a response from USCIS. My case was filed in CSC.

My take on this part of the government is to overhaul, 100% personnel replacement and put people that can do the work. This is just frustrating.

[zeeeeeeek 9]

I have been waiting for my NOA2 since November 2014. Talking of frustration, hopelessness, powerless, angry, mad and the list goes on. I feel like steam is coming out of my ears. I involved my congresswoman last month and still, USCIS has not responded to her inquiry on my behave as to what is going on with my case. Got advised from my congresswoman's office to wait for another week (30 days from the day she filed for inquiry) before she takes other measures in order to get a response from USCIS. My case was filed in CSC.

My take on this part of the government is to overhaul, 100% personnel replacement and put people that can do the work. This is just frustrating.

I feel for yu so much. I have been waiting for my NOA2 since begining of March and i have already lost it. The fact that my applications is at the fastest servie center CSC, and seeing those who have sent in their applications months later get approval just several months later makes me question the competence of USCIS employees. They claim they process the applications in the order that they are received, if that is the case why are those who have applied months after me have already received their NOA2 and already received their case number at NVC, and yet here we are making calls to idiots who have no clue of what their saying, they barely can read off the script that they are provided. The moment i start askng them questions regarding my case all they do is put me on hold and tell me to wait a lttle longer. If i were in your place i would be dropping them a call daily until action is taken.

[hampguy 9]

So, here's our status. NOA1 was January 13. I got an RFE on August 22 requesting divorce records for both myself and my fiance who lives in Japan. USCIS actually had my divorce record if they read it very carefully. But, rather than say anything about that mistake I just got sent a new certificate. For my fiance's documentation I hired a Japanese lawyer to write a letter of explanantion because the divorce was done at City Hall, not at a Courthouse. In Japan, City Hall divorces are the most common way to get a divorce. Anyway, to get all that junk....I mean stuff together it took a few weeks so I didn't get the RFE response back to Texas Service Center until September 17th. Thankfully TSC does at least recognise that I responded to the RFE before its expiration date.

I spoke to someone at TSC real friendly like. For RFE's the guy said I have to let 60 days go by from September 17th before I can piss and moan and ask them to do an inquiry or something. Of course, I want to scream because this whole process is close to soul destroying, but I talk real nice to the USCIS people when I call because sometimes they will give a hint or two. I asked how the process the going for approvals in general and the guy said their official data shows they've processed through January 19th. He said some people beyond that date have been approved.

My own impression from just checking the forum is that things seem to be slowing down at the TSC, but that's not based on data. It's just a feeling......I could be wrong.

The whole thing really sucks and sometimes I feel like there is no way this is going to work and that they'll find some unfair and unlawful reason to deny us or just lose something and say it's our fault or just string it out another year, etc. etc. I have my "loss of hope" moments but then I pull back, take a breath, realize we are not the only couple suffering and that somehow there is a light at the end of this tunnel, even though I can't see it yet. I know many people around the world are suffering terrible indignities and horror. But this K-1 process really asks some of us to persist through crushing uncertainty and it can be barely endurable. But, we endure

This process is exactly as you described it.

[CamMarie 10]

I did not realize that all petitions were now being sent to CSC (I thought it was just a temporary two-or-three-month re-routing). That being the case, I can ease my frustration ever so slightly at USCIS (though increase it slightly at the folks who misread the directions for selecting their proper service center ). It does not change the fact that there seem to be hardly any approvals coming from earlier this year (unless people are so stoked to finally be approved that they're forgetting to update their timelines -- which I completely understand).

ANYway. Still frustrating. 204 days in. I feel reeeally bad for the people from 2014 who are still waiting. It's just unbelievable. Patience upon patience... I'm running out.

[CamMarie 10]

that what you need to do >>>> WOM is a court decision demanding that the USCIS make a decision in your case.

What does WOM stand for, and how is it more effective at getting a decision? Also, why wait so long to file it?

[hampguy 9]

What does WOM stand for, and how is it more effective at getting a decision? Also, why wait so long to file it?

Day # 213. It totally sucks.