URGENTLY NEEDED SOME HELP

[Randy&Marie 8]

Your case is not delayed, USCIS has 180 days to process a petition.

Transferring petitions from one processing center to another is not new, they have been doing it for years now, Back in 2009 petitions were flying all over the place between processing centers due to not enough officers.

Thank you all so much for all the responses. My fiance just called the USCIS hotline. The only reason she said was "they transferred our case to increase the efficiency". Other than that reason she can't say more. Plus my fiance haven't mentioned if she said which Service center it was transferred. He just vibered me about it. I'll know more when he gets home and we talk.

[Randy&Marie 8]

Has your fiance filed for another K1 before? Or do either of you have any legal issues in your past?

Unless they're re-opening TSC to I-129fs (which is certainly possible), your case may have been transferred to VSC, which anectodally it seems handles cases that are a little more complex for certain reasons. This is just a random guess, and doesn't mean anything bad other than a slightly longer than average processing time, but you're still well within the USCIS-stated 5 months.

Yes thank you so much for the reply. My fiance never filed for anyone in the past. Actually he's been single for 21 years and then we started our relationship 2011. I don't think an age gap would be an issue because it wasn't an issue for us. He is 54 this year and I am 32. He visited twice here in the Philippines and every evidence that we pass seemed to us that it'll prove our bonafide relationship. Anyway, my Fiance vibered me and told me that he gets to talk to an USCIS agent. But the only reason she can tell him was " the reason for transferring our application is to increase efficiency". I also don't know what Service center its been transferred. I'll know more later when he gets home and we talk.

[usmsbow 801]

Back when I went through the K1 process, they transferred nearly everyone at TSC to CSC because TSC was soooo slow. Since CSC is no longer super fast, maybe they're going to start using TSC again for K-1s.

Regardless, the transfer has nothing to do with your petition specifically, but USCIS operations (as the person on the phone said).

Edited August 11, 2016 by usmsbow

[IcezMan_IcezLady 582]

I think you are comparing your timeline to other cases from Philippines.

Your case is within the processing time. Most of Philippines' cases get auto expedited while others wait for 5 to 8 months.

if you feel your case is been delayed unnecessarily, call USCIS and im sure you will get the same robot message.

The message you received from them says they gave you the reason for the transfer. I dont think you will get any different msg from them other than that.

Hang in there until it is past the processing time then you can get a different explanation from them.

Good luck!

[Pennycat 880]

I think you are comparing your timeline to other cases from Philippines.

Your case is within the processing time. Most of Philippines' cases get auto expedited while others wait for 5 to 8 months.

if you feel your case is been delayed unnecessarily, call USCIS and im sure you will get the same robot message.

The message you received from them says they gave you the reason for the transfer. I dont think you will get any different msg from them other than that.

Hang in there until it is past the processing time then you can get a different explanation from them.

Good luck!

Not anymore. That was true after the typhoon when both CSC and TSC were taking cases. The auto expedite ended over a year ago and about a year ago all cases were sent to CSC who was taking under 3 months to do most cases (8 was normal at TSC for a while due to a huge backlog. At that same time CSC was taking under a month, so the move). Sounds like maybe that CSC is averaging over 4, they're opening TSC again to balance it out.

[IcezMan_IcezLady 582]

Not anymore. That was true after the typhoon when both CSC and TSC were taking cases. The auto expedite ended over a year ago and about a year ago all cases were sent to CSC who was taking under 3 months to do most cases (8 was normal at TSC for a while due to a huge backlog. At that same time CSC was taking under a month, so the move). Sounds like maybe that CSC is averaging over 4, they're opening TSC again to balance it out.

Where did you see that auto expedite is over? Go check the processing times for CR1/IR1 for Philippines against any other country.

Those who got NOA1 in June are getting NOA2 in August while other nationals are waiting 3 to 5 months.

[Pennycat 880]

Where did you see that auto expedite is over? Go check the processing times for CR1/IR1 for Philippines against any other country.

Those who got NOA1 in June are getting NOA2 in August while other nationals are waiting 3 to 5 months.

For the K1 when we were waiting for NOA2 at TSC from Feb 2015 to Aug 2015, there were Phillipine applicants taking 6+ like the rest of us. Could still be a thing for spouse visas but the OP is a K1 applicant.

[Randy&Marie 8]

For the K1 when we were waiting for NOA2 at TSC from Feb 2015 to Aug 2015, there were Phillipine applicants taking 6+ like the rest of us. Could still be a thing for spouse visas but the OP is a K1 applicant.

We got the letter from USCIS they said they transferred our case to Vermont Service center. Why is that? Is there something wrong with our case?

[Randy&Marie 8]

I am very anxious to get our letter from USCIS. I really thought that they transferred it to TSC but now that we have the letter. It says there that our case has been transferred to Vermont Service center. The processing dates for I-129F for Vermont was as of January 28th 2016. I don't understand why we have to be transferred in that place. Please does anyone have any idea? I need to understand why. What could be wrong in our case?

[Pennycat 880]

It doesn't mean anything is wrong. I just mentioned that cases that need extra background checks seem to go there but that isn't necessarily the case 100% of the time. I don't think you've got anything to worry about. The date for the processing time is a while ago but that's probably misleading because they don't handle many and they seem to only handle transfers, so that date will be pretty "off".

Don't stress about it, and see if you can find anyone else around the time you applied who was transferred too.

[Greenbaum 12,259]

There is nothing wrong with your case. This is a normal processing decision to transfer workload amongst the service centers when workloads become over bearing for a service center.

Here is an entry in VJ in 2013 about case transfers that is an interesting read: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/441796-faq-case-transfers-to-another-service-center/

Also, USCIS gives an explanation and allows you to use there new workload transfer website found here: https://www.uscis.gov/workload-transfers

[Randy&Marie 8]

It doesn't mean anything is wrong. I just mentioned that cases that need extra background checks seem to go there but that isn't necessarily the case 100% of the time. I don't think you've got anything to worry about. The date for the processing time is a while ago but that's probably misleading because they don't handle many and they seem to only handle transfers, so that date will be pretty "off".

Don't stress about it, and see if you can find anyone else around the time you applied who was transferred too.

Thank you so much for the reply. I really appreciate it. I did check our visa journey timelines for people that got transferred and its not many of them. There's one recent from India though. They filed February 05th 2016 and got transferred March 16th 2016. They haven't heard from Vermont yet too. They were last active August 12 2016 so I know they are still coming online here on Visa Journey. So they want more background check to my fiance? USC? Because I don't have any record.

[Randy&Marie 8]

There is nothing wrong with your case. This is a normal processing decision to transfer workload amongst the service centers when workloads become over bearing for a service center.

Here is an entry in VJ in 2013 about case transfers that is an interesting read: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/441796-faq-case-transfers-to-another-service-center/

Also, USCIS gives an explanation and allows you to use there new workload transfer website found here: https://www.uscis.gov/workload-transfers

Thank you so much for the reply. I was just worried about the Processing time date on Vermont Service center. That's why I panicked.

[Pennycat 880]

Thank you so much for the reply. I really appreciate it. I did check our visa journey timelines for people that got transferred and its not many of them. There's one recent from India though. They filed February 05th 2016 and got transferred March 16th 2016. They haven't heard from Vermont yet too. They were last active August 12 2016 so I know they are still coming online here on Visa Journey. So they want more background check to my fiance? USC? Because I don't have any record.

It's possible they want to look into him more for some reason (the issue would most likely be with him or maybe how you met--they look into you at the embassy and during AOS) or it could just be the beginning of CSC and VSC starting to split the work. No real way to know, but if you know of no reason to be concerned about how, there's not much to be concerned about.

Timewise is anyones guess. Because VSC hasn't done many over the past several years, only those transferred, and the date reported is the NOA1 date of the last one theyear processed, that date isn't a good indicator of how fast they're working. Basically, because there's not a lot of recent history, it's hard to tell what's going on there.

[Randy&Marie 8]

It's possible they want to look into him more for some reason (the issue would most likely be with him or maybe how you met--they look into you at the embassy and during AOS) or it could just be the beginning of CSC and VSC starting to split the work. No real way to know, but if you know of no reason to be concerned about how, there's not much to be concerned about.

Timewise is anyones guess. Because VSC hasn't done many over the past several years, only those transferred, and the date reported is the NOA1 date of the last one theyear processed, that date isn't a good indicator of how fast they're working. Basically, because there's not a lot of recent history, it's hard to tell what's going on there.

Thank you for the reply. My fiance have a previous conviction but it doesn't apply with all conviction that's in the application form that we submitted. There's question there about criminal history about certain category. But his past doesn't match with any Of them. That's why we didn't say or wrote anything about it. Could that be the reason on why we got transferred?