Service Center Question- Which will I get

[JustinS 44]

Sorry if this has been answered before.  Is the service center you get based on pure luck?   I know the TSC (assuming Texas Service Center) is about the fastest and I live in Texas but everything is saying I must send my documents to Phoenix. Will they be forwarded to the closest center to me or just sent to Nebraska as a cruel joke?

Edited May 3, 2017 by jseals0421@gmail.

[JustinS 44]

And more research produced this.  Texas to Texas  :-)   Immihelp has a service center page showing. Tried to post the link but I don't have rights.  Darn newbie

Edited May 3, 2017 by jseals0421@gmail.

[ASMS 86]

6 hours ago, jseals0421@gmail. said:

Sorry if this has been answered before.  Is the service center you get based on pure luck?   I know the TSC (assuming Texas Service Center) is about the fastest and I live in Texas but everything is saying I must send my documents to Phoenix. Will they be forwarded to the closest center to me or just sent to Nebraska as a cruel joke?

Is pure luck, your file get routed in a random way to different service centers, sometimes you end your process in the first your were routed, sometimes you get transferred, but always randomly

[Ryan H 3,830]

***Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to USCIS Service Centers forum.***

 

**Moderator hat off*

 

You won't know which service center your file will go to until you are informed of which one it was sent to.

[JustinS 44]

Well I have found the routing matrix on multiple sites.  It's sad to hear that is wrong. 

[JustinS 44]

Well I have found the routing matrix on multiple sites.  It's sad to hear that is wrong. 

 

I did find this on the USCIS site 

 

Stand-Alone Immediate Relative (IR) I-130, Petition for Alien Relative

Office with jurisdiction over the petitioner’s place of residence.

 

 

And then then on ***removed*** a chart saying Texas has jurisdiction over itself...   its crazy how different information is depending on what site you're on

 

 

[agripa 100]

 

Sorry if this has been answered before.  Is the service center you get based on pure luck?   I know the TSC (assuming Texas Service Center) is about the fastest and I live in Texas but everything is saying I must send my documents to Phoenix. Will they be forwarded to the closest center to me or just sent to Nebraska as a cruel joke?

It appears to be totally random. I did some analysis of I-130 threads from the past one year, and there was seemingly no correlation based on where you lived or what country your beneficiary was from. I think any site claiming to have some kind of knowledge of how applications are routed are not grounded in any actual data.

[Mido&Emi 33]

It is completely random. I lived in Houston, Texas when I filed. I sent my application to the phoenix lockbox since that's where it had to go and they sent it to the Nebraska Service Center. It arrived to this center on October 31, 2016. 3 days after i mailed it. However on March 23, 2017 they transferred to the Texas center. I didn't request it but I'm glad they did since it's the fastest. So I'd say it is at random. I hope this helped you since you mentioned phoenix as well so I wanted to clarify that is just the lockbox. After that it'll go to a specific center. Goodluck!