ALL Nebraska I-130 Filers - 2

[Mrs Prestige 329]

2 minutes ago, tiyyo said:

305 days later we got our NOA2 today!!!! Dated 09/21/17!!!!!! There's hope everybody!!!

Congratulations 

[tiyyo 68]

Just now, EDurevic said:

😂😂😂😂 so that means we need to wait 105 more days. We hit today 200!!!! 

 

Congrats 

I surely hope not!!!! It's been hard all the way around!!!

[Dianalorena 1,153]

305 days, Jesús María y José, @tiyyo 

and I feel like I'm losing it on day 229.

Congratulations I am truly happy for you!

 

[applerose 94]

53 minutes ago, EDurevic said:

😂😂😂😂 so that means we need to wait 105 more days. We hit today 200!!!! 

 

Congrats 

I waited 304 days, 10 months an a day. I was so glad when the congresswoman called an said we were finally approved. 

[acidrain 325]

1 hour ago, EDurevic said:

I just looked at it to!!!! Thats  weird. I just seen a post 

 

I sent a letter to my Senator like a month ago and they did contact the USCIS and was told the same” normal processing time”. So last night I emailed my congresswomen, hopefully she can do something about it. We are going on 7 months. This is horrible and nooo help.

I took it a step further in stating the problem is not with the normal processing times but over the distribution of work at USCIS offices. If all processing centers were taking 9-10 months to approve i130's it would at least be fair all around. But there is something seriously flawed when people are approved in 5 months in Potomac and others are approved in 10 months at Nebraska. We aren't talking about 5 days or even 5 weeks but rather 5 MONTHS. That's almost half a year or twice as long! I can't believe USCIS has allowed things to get this out of hand. The published timelines on the USCIS page is deeply flawed. There is no way Texas is behind Nebraska, in fact they are about 2 1/2 months ahead.

 

I said that I want to be treated the same as I would if I got any other service center. The fact is my i130 would be approved by now. I didn't want the same run around if I made a generic case inquiry with the Senator so I wrote to USCIS headquarters and targeted the executives who run these offices. We shall wait and see if they continue to ignore me and the problem.

Edited September 25, 2017 by acidrain

[jpbm 7]

1 hour ago, Binna Binna said:

Oh Most definitely you lifted a lot of hopes. Congrats!!!

 

Based on some random cases I am tracking on "Case Tracker" app, I see quite a handful approvals today (Sept 25) for January PDs mostly 1st and 2 week in January.

 

My heart continues to go out to folks with Aug to Dec PDs cases that are still pending. There is hope for Nebraska, all these waiting will soon be over.

Where did you see the hand full of cases that was approved for nebaraska? Andriod USCIS app only has 1 approval for neberaska today.

[jpbm 7]

1 hour ago, tiyyo said:

305 days later we got our NOA2 today!!!! Dated 09/21/17!!!!!! There's hope everybody!!!

Congrats!!! Plz update ur status on VJ. 

9 minutes ago, acidrain said:

I took it a step further in stating the problem is not with the normal processing times but over the distribution of work at USCIS offices. If all processing centers were taking 9-10 months to approve i130's it would at least be fair all around. But there is something seriously flawed when people are approved in 5 months in Potomac and others are approved in 10 months at Nebraska. We aren't talking about 5 days or even 5 weeks but rather 5 MONTHS. That's almost half a year or twice as long! I can't believe USCIS has allowed things to get this out of hand. The published timelines on the USCIS page is deeply flawed. There is no way Texas is behind Nebraska, in fact they are about 2 1/2 months ahead.

 

I said that I want to be treated the same as I would if I got any other service center. The fact is my i130 would be approved by now. I didn't want the same run around if I made a generic case inquiry with the Senator so I wrote to USCIS headquarters and targeted the executives who run these offices. We shall wait and see if they continue to ignore me and the problem.

Thanks for doing this. Hopefully we get some changes soon.

[melusine10 89]

day 300 today and still no NOA2

[acidrain 325]

8 minutes ago, EDurevic said:

Where did you get their information so I can also write them? I know every where else is 4-5-6 months, Nebraska takes their  precious time. 

These were the two people I contacted at USCIS:

1) Donald Neufeld - Associate Director, Service Center Operations Directorate

2) James McCament - Deputy Associate Director, Service Center Operations

UCSIS Headquarters

111 Massachusetts Ave

Washington, DC 20529-2140

 

I know there is an email address for Donald Neufeld if you google it but thought it would be more effective to write a real letter to him personally.

 

Donald Neufeld's bio via website: Donald Neufeld is the associate director for Service Center Operations. In his current role, Neufeld oversees all activities at the five USCIS service centers located in Dallas, Texas (Texas Service Center); Laguna Nigel, California (California Service Center); Lincoln, Nebraska (Nebraska Service Center); Burlington, Vermont  (Vermont Service Center); and Arlington, Virginia (Potomac Service Center).

 

James McCament bio via website: Since August 2015, McCament has served in the capacity of deputy associate director, Service Center Operations, overseeing the work of the five USCIS service centers in their processing of more than four million applications annually. He previously served as the chief of the USCIS Office of Legislative Affairs beginning in January 2009.

Edited September 25, 2017 by acidrain

[acidrain 325]

Just now, EDurevic said:

Thank you so much. I wrote an email to my congresswomen last night so will see if she can help. I did a month ago to my Senator but he couldnt do anything since they told him that my case was in the processing time. Almost 7 months to approve something thats horrible. If other places take normal time to approve then Nebraska should do the same. Even when you call the customer service they are rude, they act like that you are requesting a payment from them. 

When I google Donald Neufeld - Associate Director USCIS his email comes up as follows: Donald.W.Neufeld@uscis.dhs.gov

 

The more people contact USCIS and our elected officials the more prone they are going to be to fix the problem. I am in the process of contacting the Senator in my spouse's jurisdiction. Usually political offices refer your case to someone who works in their office. They make an inquiry and it doesn't really go anywhere. I do think if people make enough inquiries, Nebraska will be forced to confront the problem. If I don't hear anything back in the next few weeks from USCIS I am considering contacting the Chairman for both political parties for the Senate Judiciary Committee for Immigration and Border Security.

 

It's getting scary to see so many people in Nebraska reaching 10 months for an approval. I'd hate to see what another 2 months looks like if they don't do anything.

[Dianalorena 1,153]

I'll join in and contact as many people as possible. Maybe we can add the e-mails we find in here, encourage other Nebraska filers from November to March to do the same. it might not do anything, but we sure as hell are not going to keep sitting down without doing anything!

 

@acidrain I've been thinking the same, how worrisome it is that they just keep increasing the waiting time over other centers without addressing it, without transferring cases or hiring new people, as it is just normal to them to assume we will wait 4-5 months extra compared to other centers, without saying a word. First I hoped they were working on the backlog from November, but that would mean that they should've  picked up some speed by now, but no. 

 

Also, why would they decide to approve a March case when pressured by a congressman, over all the cases still pending since friggin November (not saying they didn't deserve the approval,  I'm glad contacting congress worked for them,  just stating how random that is) we all paid the same fees and send the same paperwork, we understand the concept of waiting for our turn and I respect it, but when we see how we are being left behind and Potomac is about to start April! then it's certainly not okay. 

 

@EDurevic My priority date is February 8th, and when we sent the e-request a few days ago they told us ''we are still in normal processing times'' yeah they don't seem normal

 

We certainly got the short stick of service centers. 

[Dianalorena 1,153]

GUYS:  Not only Nebraska can't handle the workload it already has, apparently in July of last year, they accepted thousands of 1-918 U applications from Vermont, which had a 200% increase without the proper staff.  Because of the U cases involving victims of terrible crimes, highly skilled officers should work on these. But because they literally couldn't handle the up to 2000 cases that were arriving every month (with only 100 trained officers !) they decided to transfer them to Nebraska, where they are now being handled by just about any officer. 

In an article from June last year, the reporter basically predicted the future when she wrote:  

This will head to increased work for the practitioners, increased fees and stress for clients and increased work (and backlogs!) for the NSC. I hope I'm wrong, I want to be wrong. I hope that the adjudicators at the NSC are efficient, effective and know the right standard of law to apply in these cases. I hope the backlog is reduced so that clients don't have to wait two years for an initial review, but only have to wait five months. Here's hoping!

 

 I don't know if I want to laugh or cry. Maybe a little bit of both. 

 

 

 

[tiyyo 68]

I truly in my heart think what triggered mine to get through was when I called after getting the generic email that it was in "background checks" was when I escalated to a tier 2 officer and ask could she verified that the application had been given to an officer for review. She put me on hold for like 5 minutes and said NO, it has not. That right there proven it hadn't been in background checks, nobody was working on it at ALL. Strangely enough my NOA2 is dated for the day after I called.

[Jhonny 472]

One approval, wooooohooooooooo

Andrea, congrats...Happy Dance 4 U

I'm so happy  the others are coming...... Are in the way.... Wooohoooooooo

I'm extremely happy.... 

[Sundee 270]

5 hours ago, acidrain said:

I just mailed a letter to the Senator where my spouse lives along with 2 USCIS executives that oversee all the field offices. It's almost 8 months with no end in sight. I won't post my letter as it is specific to my case but I did point out how Potomac & Vermont is taking 5 months while Nebraksa is taking 10 months. Why should it take twice as long for people in one service center compared to another? I also pointed out how people dating US citizens get to go into the US for 90 days to figure out whether they want to be together while we are having to pay for two residences while I'm lucky if I get to visit for 10 days. If I don't hear back anything within the next 2 weeks I am escalating this situation and contacting the Senate Judiciary Committee that oversees Immigration and Border Security. This is just ridiculous and I cannot find another time in history where a service center has taken so long to process i130 petitions. I also pointed out when I got to file DCF directly it took only 2 months. I encourage everyone else to start contacting their political offices because something needs to be done.

I like your spirit acidrain. Yes it's very outrageous that a service center takes so long when others process much faster. It pisses me off when I filed in Nov last year and others that filed after me are approved. It sucks..