ALL Texas I-130 Filers

[Bengoj 133]

40 minutes ago, missileman said:

The entire process from filing to having a CR-1 visa in hand averages about a year or a little longer......

@missileman I have a question about including my husband (beneficiary) income and assets from his country to help with the i 864. I’m not sure I’m understanding how it works. Can you help please?  I know it’s off topic. 

[portorusa 431]

Got an approval letter today! PD 11/14/18, approved 7/9/19, Texas. Almost 8 months of suffering is done!🙏 Good luck to all who are still waiting! Remember, that we are luckier than poor people of Nebraska. Be patient and believe that the happy day will come! 👌

[Juliet57 304]

On 7/13/2019 at 8:44 AM, Lau-joh said:

I hope to receive good news soon, Can it take more than a year?

Noa2 is taking an average of 8 months, so you might have an approval/rfe/denial by end of September, and the NVC process depends on the beneficiary's country so you should check facebook groups or others threads on here where people post when their case closed and when they got their interview. 

My advice is to do your own research and find groups of people from your country who are going through the same thing.

[Mayi & MiMi 172]

Hello All !

 

Mailed: December 31, 2018

PD: January 2, 2019

Found this thread so need to catch up all the good and bad of it.

Currently waiting on NOA2

[Kimchi 190]

Just got an RFE on July 15th - 7 months after sending in the petition (mailed on December 14) 

we are now waiting on the letter in the mail to find out what they need. 

[Ross and Dina 12]

On 7/6/2019 at 10:41 AM, KrisandCrystal said:

I just got an email saying an action had been taken on my case.

 

https://my.uscis.gov/account/applicant -- the account that requires two-factor authentication shows:
"On July 05, 2019, we approved your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, Receipt Number SRCXXXXXXXXXX. We will mail your approval notice. Please follow the instructions in the notice."

 

https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus -- the account that doesn't require two-factor authentication and where the case can be checked without a login shows no change; the last change showing there being the Date of Birth on the NOA1.

 

I'm guessing they query separate databases and that the latter account will be updated soon and a notification will be received via mail.

 

• 2018-11-07 - Marriage.
• 2018-12-12 - I-130 mailed.
• 2018-12-24 - NOA1 received.
• 2018-12-28 - File to change the Date of Birth for the Petitioner on the NOA1 as it was off by one year.
• 2016-01-15 - Date of Birth changed.
• 2019-07-05 - Approval/NOA2

 

• Service Centre/Center: Texas
• Beneficiaries Country: Scotland/United Kingdom
• Weight of the I-130 packet: 1417g/1.4Kg |3lb, 2oz

 

My spouse is in Scotland too! Let me know how the NVC processing goes in London/timeline to interview once you find out. Praying it’s not too bad 

[Kris & Crystal 47]

8 hours ago, Ross and Dina said:

My spouse is in Scotland too! Let me know how the NVC processing goes in London/timeline to interview once you find out. Praying it’s not too bad 

 

I've got some slight changes and updates after getting the documentation:

• 2018-11-07 - Marriage.
• 2018-12-12 - I-130 mailed.
• 2018-12-14 - Priority Date.
• 2018-12-24 - NOA1 received.
• 2018-12-28 - Filed to change the Date of Birth for the Petitioner on the NOA1 as it was off by one year. Guessing a data entry mistake on the part of USCIS.
• 2016-01-15 - Date of Birth changed.
• 2019-07-03 - Approval/NOA2.
• 2019-07-09 - Case sent to NVC.
• 2019-07-16 - NVC received case - I called them to confirm this and get the date.

I'm just waiting for the NVC to assign me a number now before continuing. I've applied for a ACRO/Police Certificate and contacted my GP regarding vaccinations to pre-empt the medical. I'm not looking forward to having to travel to London twice from the far North East Highlands for the medical and the interview. It would have made more sense to put the immigration stuff in the Edinburgh consulate as it's more central to the entire UK.

 

Even though my wife earned about $48k last year and will earn more this year. I'm a bit paranoid at all the stuff I'm seeing requesting joint-sponsors. I'm hoping it's just people people from high fraud countries or where they don't have at least a years worth of income.

[DGF 730]

10 months today

[Bengoj 133]

42 minutes ago, DGF said:

10 months today

I’m sorry to here that. Have you inquired?  I’m in the same boat, still waiting. I tried to do an expedite and it was denied this week. Hopefully this upcoming week will be our week. Good luck to us still waiting. 

[DGF 730]

14 hours ago, Gojo said:

I’m sorry to here that. Have you inquired?  I’m in the same boat, still waiting. I tried to do an expedite and it was denied this week. Hopefully this upcoming week will be our week. Good luck to us still waiting. 

Yes, but it hasn't been assigned yet. Technically the range is 10.5 months even though that doesn't match the inquiry date they have posted so I'm hoping that we don't just get "you're within processing time, you can inquire again in 30 days". 

I'm sorry to hear your expedite was denied, that's rough   Good luck to all of us indeed! 

[SNJOHNSON 59]

This was a great idea for helping people get a more of a realistic idea of their timeline.  Please see ours below:

 

My timeline:

•  Marriage: 2019-02-14
• I-130 mailed: 2019-2-28
• Priority Date: 2019-03-01 
• NOA1 received: 2019-03-06
• NOA2: Pending

Edited July 22, 2019 by SNJOHNSON

[DGF 730]

Our service request was assigned today (it took 10 days from when we submitted it). I'm a little nervous about it because when my husband submitted it he couldn't remember our PD and it said to give your best guess so he put September 1st since he knew it was September. It's actually September 20th and as of today the inquiry date is only September 16th so I'm really hoping we don't just get a response of "still in normal processing time". We're at 306 days while most Texas filers are hearing around the 240 day point so even if we're not quite out of posted processing time, we're clearly out of average processing time. Hopefully whoever it was assigned to has some sympathy and we get one of those boilerplate brushing us off responses because at least then someone will have looked for our case and we'll know it isn't lost or stuck on the desk of someone who is on a very long vacation. 

 

Anyway, I know this is a pretty boring update but as part of dealing with having our case delayed I've been trying to find posts of people who have gone through the same thing because it's comforting to read their stories so I just want to add ours for anyone in the future who is in the same position. 

[DGF 730]

"We have received your service request and researched the status of your case. Your case is currently in line for processing and adjudication. We generally process cases in the order that we receive them. Current information on our processing times is available at WWW.USCIS.GOV."

I don't know if that is their new boilerplate for "still in normal processing time" or what because I've seen screenshots of emails that actually do say that, but either way:

[portorusa 431]

I love you .gif, made me smile😃 

Good luck with your service request, hopefully the happy news will come soon for you🙏

[Peter and Kat 52]

Hello! We were recently approved!

 

PD 12/18/18

I 130 NOA1 12/21/18

I 130 NOA2 07/19/19 

Texas Service Center 

 

Good luck to everyone! 😊