US citizen applied for step son

[Violeta Womble 192]

Hello guys ,my husband send petitions for my son (17 year old he was on the date when uscis got paper works ,now he is 18 ) so they are got our papers on january 2018 (texas center ),we got noa 1 ,but still nothing for approval or rfe ....how i see  some people who applied  on january and february already got they approvals ,but they are skip us .

what this can be ?do they doing skipping cases  often it is normal procedures or is not ?i am little worried 😕

[TNJ17 1,329]

Yeah it’s gonna take longer than that. 

[Violeta Womble 192]

thanks .but i see many cases was approved from january and some from february ...

[geowrian 22,337]

It's not so much as them "skipping" cases as it is various circumstances...different officer gets your cases and has various priorities, background checks, verification of documents, some officers work faster than others, etc. There are some people that got approved before you. There are some that applied before you that have also not heard back. It's just a waiting period.

 

I usually thionk of the process similar to a supermarket. Some lanes are faster than others. Some are slower. It always seems that another lane is faster.