I-130 Upgraded - How long Now ?

[Airman 35]

Hi everyone, i filed I-130 for my spouse on Oct 27, 2017 when i was LPR and once i became USC on April 18 this year, i sent paperwork to California service center to upgrade my petition. I received confirmation on April 25th that petition was upgraded. Also received email with below message. 

 

We have updated your relative petition to reflect that you are now a U.S. citizen. As a result, your petition has moved to a new visa category for an immediate relative of a U.S. citizen. This category does not have numerical restrictions, and a visa is immediately available from the U.S. Department of State. 

Your case will be placed in line for processing and you should receive a notice of action* within five months.

 

My question is, it has been 6 months since petition was filed, is this going to take another 5 months ? anyone had any experience with it. I would appreciate if you could share your experience. 

Also if everything goes as it should,  what would be the reasonable time frame i should expect my spouse to be here ? May be around Dec this year ? 

 

Thank you,

 

[pushbrk 13,176]

Nobody can tell you how long it will take.  Usually, the difference in timeline between an LPR case and  USC spouse case is at the NVC stage, not the petition approval stage.  Your petition is likely to take as long as any other I-130 for a spouse at your service center takes.

[Airman 35]

thank you pushbrk. I understand no one can give me exact time of how long it will take but i was just trying to get guesstimate from people who might have gone through 130 upgrade process. 

[pushbrk 13,176]

24 minutes ago, Airman said:

thank you pushbrk. I understand no one can give me exact time of how long it will take but i was just trying to get guesstimate from people who might have gone through 130 upgrade process. 

I'm telling you that your "upgrade" will have no impact on the USCIS part of your process.

[saladboye 166]

On 5/1/2018 at 7:22 PM, Airman said:

thank you pushbrk. I understand no one can give me exact time of how long it will take but i was just trying to get guesstimate from people who might have gone through 130 upgrade process. 

 

 

So whats going on with your case?

 

I have my interview next month and will be upgrading my spouses petition

 

 

But based on what I have been told, your PD stays current so since you arelady finished 6 months in Q you should be technically approved sooner.

 

 

What the poster sayes applies, but Since CSC mostly does Family preference category which has a NVC wait as it is, they will just push back those cases and start wokring on yours immediately and get it out of the way so that its out of their area of responsibility

[Airman 35]

@saladboye, my case was approved yesterday Sep 18th. I saw a text msg this morning when i woke up and logged into uscis.gov and saw it was approved. It took exactly 5 months from my naturalization. I became citizen on April 18th and case was upgraded to CR1 on April 25th, Case was approved on Sep 18th. 

[saladboye 166]

4 hours ago, Airman said:

@saladboye, my case was approved yesterday Sep 18th. I saw a text msg this morning when i woke up and logged into uscis.gov and saw it was approved. It took exactly 5 months from my naturalization. I became citizen on April 18th and case was upgraded to CR1 on April 25th, Case was approved on Sep 18th. 

Thanks for the details, helps me prepare mentally