F2A to IR-1 Upgrade Timeline Thread

[bnbui 0]

Hi guys! I just became a US Citizen this morning, so this afternoon, I called USCIS to upgrade my profile from F2A to CR1. She said USCIS is going to send me an notice email that I requested, but I forgot to ask her when. Do you guys know when USCIS send me an notice email? Thank you so much!

 

Edited May 29, 2019 by bnbui

[Asquare88 18]

 

Hello all 

Following is my spouse timeline and waiting for i130 approval..

•  F2A PD - 20/02/2018
• Service Center - California
• Naturalization date - 15/03/2019
• Upgrade Date - 22/03/2019
• Upgrade Processed - 02/05/2019

[stech786 236]

4 hours ago, saladboye said:

I am at CSC. I did not get a mail letter, an email. If you see my prevous post on thread, you can see SR completed under the old my uscis case status

What is SR? So you haven’t got email & mail?

 

4 hours ago, bishnup said:

It takes me 38 days to upgrade the petition and i send them all documents through fax. I didn’t get any email about upgrade i called the uscis and representative not able to tell my status. When i talked to supervisor he told me my petition was upgraded to IR from F2A. Mine was on CSC they take so long yo approve and send to NVC as well.

Thanks, that helps a lot. It took me few days to upgrade. Maybe my process might be 38 days shorter than yours. I wasted 2 wks, just waiting for my mailed docs reply. So I called. 

 

4 hours ago, saladboye said:

Yes I did get confirmation it was upgraded. Got an email on 04/26/2019.

 

Congressman cannot expedite, they can request to expedite if it meets criteria. They can help move things along tough.

 

 

I went bananas I contacted:

1. Field Office Director via email (didn't get bounce back or vacation reply yay!)
2. Congressman
3. Senator
4. Ombudsman.

 

Yea, Congress office wasn’t even requesting to expedite. She said she sent inquiry in status. I told her I already know that status. Next wk I will ask her what is that criteria to meet. Don’t you think we meet that expedite criteria? 

 

[Canvas_123 1]

This entire process is so unpredictable. I know a person who upgraded case in january 17th 2019 and got approva in january 29th 2019. He filed petition on august 2018.  His wife is having interview in june 13th.

 

I am overwhelmed by entire thing. It is different for everyone. 

[stech786 236]

4 hours ago, bnbui said:

Hi guys! I just became a US Citizen this morning, so this afternoon, I called USCIS to upgrade my profile from F2A to CR1. She said USCIS is going to send me an notice email that I requested, but I forgot to ask her when. Do you guys know when USCIS send me an notice email? Thank you so much!

 

Email in few days and after that letter in mail in few days

[saladboye 166]

20 hours ago, stech786 said:

What is SR? So you haven’t got email & mail?

 

Thanks, that helps a lot. It took me few days to upgrade. Maybe my process might be 38 days shorter than yours. I wasted 2 wks, just waiting for my mailed docs reply. So I called. 

 

 

Yea, Congress office wasn’t even requesting to expedite. She said she sent inquiry in status. I told her I already know that status. Next wk I will ask her what is that criteria to meet. Don’t you think we meet that expedite criteria? 

 

SR = Service request.

 

I mailed the letter with copy the next day after naturalization and then 4 days later, I did a chat with USCIS via the website and requested to upgraded it there.

 

The request to upgrade generated a service request and that was completed in 3-4 days.

 

Check you case status in the old system:

 

 

 

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by Ontarkie
Removed attachment do to personal information.

[saladboye 166]

Also somethings up with service centers:

 

Notice the processing times between yesterday and the week before for Texas F2A.

 

Date Checked	NVC Processing as of	California Time Range	California Case Inquiry Date	Texas Time Range F2A	PD Date as of F2A	Texas Time Range IR1	PD Date as of IR1
04/24/2019	03/21/2019	19.5 Months to 25 Months	April 07, 2017			8 Months to 10 Months	July 3, 2018
05/01/2019	04/03/2019	18.5 Months to 24.5 Months	May 10, 2017	5 Months to 7 Months	October 3, 2018	6.5 Months to 8.5 Months	September 1, 2018
04/27/2019	03/21/2019	18.5 Months to 24.5 Months		5 Months to 7 Months		6.5 Months to 8.5 Months
05/14/2019	04/18/2019	18.5 Months to 24.5 Months	May 23, 2017	5 Months to 7 Months	October 16, 2018	6.5 Months to 8.5 Months	September 14, 2018
05/22/2019	04/29/2019	18.5 Months to 24.5 Months	May 31, 2017	5 Months to 7 Months	October 24, 2018	6.5 Months to 8.5 Months	September 22, 2018
05/29/2019	05/07/2019	19 Months to 25 Months	May 24, 2017	13 Months to 16.5 Months	January 26, 2018	8 Months to 10.5 Months	August 2, 2018

[carlislepike 0]

16 hours ago, bishnup said:

It takes me 38 days to upgrade the petition and i send them all documents through fax. I didn’t get any email about upgrade i called the uscis and representative not able to tell my status. When i talked to supervisor he told me my petition was upgraded to IR from F2A. Mine was on CSC they take so long yo approve and send to NVC as well.

bishnup, what are their fax number. Can you please give me.

[bishnup 44]

1 hour ago, carlislepike said:

bishnup, what are their fax number. Can you please give me.

They give me fax no as well as case no too . You need to have case no as well to send fax.9493893441 is the da fax no

[Alexus_f 1]

Hi Everyone,

 

I am in a similar situation. I became a U.S. Citizen on April 17th 2019, upgraded pending I-130  (PD October 4 2017) for my spouse the same day and received an email on April 24th. However, there have not been any changes/updates to the case and it only says "On October 4, 2017, we received your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, Receipt Number WACXXXXX, and sent you the receipt notice that describes how we will process your case". 

 

Does it show the upgrade on your case history for all of you guys? 

[saladboye 166]

55 minutes ago, Alexus_f said:

Hi Everyone,

 

I am in a similar situation. I became a U.S. Citizen on April 17th 2019, upgraded pending I-130  (PD October 4 2017) for my spouse the same day and received an email on April 24th. However, there have not been any changes/updates to the case and it only says "On October 4, 2017, we received your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, Receipt Number WACXXXXX, and sent you the receipt notice that describes how we will process your case". 

 

Does it show the upgrade on your case history for all of you guys? 

Track your case on the old system: https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/mycasestatus.do?appReceiptNum=

 

There it should show below on case updates

[Alexus_f 1]

12 minutes ago, saladboye said:

Track your case on the old system: https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/mycasestatus.do?appReceiptNum=

 

There it should show below on case updates

This is all I see. 

 

[saladboye 166]

2 hours ago, Alexus_f said:

This is all I see. 

 

Login and below it should be a table that says Case History and Next steps.

 

I would recommend reading the entire thread from starting, you will likely get answers to all questions

 

See example here: 

 

 

Edited June 6, 2019 by saladboye

[saladboye 166]

In honor of being 1 year anniversary of my wife's PD, I went ape mode and faxed, California center, both my senators and congressman.

 

I had submitted a request for case outside of normal processing time and that got a reply as per online case history but I have yet to receive said response

[saladboye 166]

On 6/7/2019 at 10:17 AM, saladboye said:

In honor of being 1 year anniversary of my wife's PD, I went ape mode and faxed, California center, both my senators and congressman.

 

I had submitted a request for case outside of normal processing time and that got a reply as per online case history but I have yet to receive said response

SR got a response, same as the email about them taking 5 months sigh