I-130 July 2019 Filers

[S&J2013 117]

7 hours ago, RM&NT said:

Yes, I have an IOE receipt.

This is great news! Congratulations 🥳 

[Ptitchou 117]

Any new Potomac approvals? The list shows there hasn't been much movement. I'm staring to wonder if I should've filed the I-129 after all. Has anyone noticed it's sped things up? 

[ayestaci 121]

8 minutes ago, Ptitchou said:

Any new Potomac approvals? The list shows there hasn't been much movement. I'm staring to wonder if I should've filed the I-129 after all. Has anyone noticed it's sped things up? 

My PD is the 15th (recently adjusted my timeline as I had the dates mixed up) and still nothing. I feel like filing the I-129 would be a waste of my time since we're SO close but BOY I wish we'd done it when we first filed. Or that we'd gotten Texas, to think I was so excited when we got Potomac. 😂

[Ptitchou 117]

4 hours ago, ayestaci said:

My PD is the 15th (recently adjusted my timeline as I had the dates mixed up) and still nothing. I feel like filing the I-129 would be a waste of my time since we're SO close but BOY I wish we'd done it when we first filed. Or that we'd gotten Texas, to think I was so excited when we got Potomac. 😂

I'm definitely wishing I filed it ages ago, but I honestly expected we'd have been approved months ago already. Knowing my consulate has a 6 month backlog for interviews doesn't help either. Almost wishing we'd gone the AoS route but I wanted to be able to keep working. :(

[corntop 129]

I was honestly expecting approvals for most of us in December and January, considering they did a lot of June a few months ago already. I wish we'd filed K3 soon as we got NOA1 now. They are really teasing it out for us mid-to-end July filers since those early July approvals were a few weeks ago already. Every Monday I'm like "maybe there will be movement this week" 😹

[Thaparaj 6]

1 hour ago, corntop said:

I was honestly expecting approvals for most of us in December and January, considering they did a lot of June a few months ago already. I wish we'd filed K3 soon as we got NOA1 now. They are really teasing it out for us mid-to-end July filers since those early July approvals were a few weeks ago already. Every Monday I'm like "maybe there will be movement this week" 😹

i can't agree more with you. this is frustrating for all of us.fingers crossedd, hopefully soon

[WalkThroughFaith 14]

Hi everyone!

 

August filer here! Just wondering if there are new July Texas approvals lately?

[ayestaci 121]

Potomac now showing 8.5-11 month wait. Ahhhh.

 

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

[IsItLekker 183]

2 minutes ago, ayestaci said:

Potomac now showing 8.5-11 month wait. Ahhhh.

 

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

I saw that in the September filers group. It's so mental.  I think there must have been a huge influx of transfers that we don't have any record of on here. Maybe some of the other visa types were given preference? 

[ayestaci 121]

Just now, IsItLekker said:

I saw that in the September filers group. It's so mental.  I think there must have been a huge influx of transfers that we don't have any record of on here. Maybe some of the other visa types were given preference? 

Right? That's crazy. Damn. May have to start planning a visit trip though I was hoping to avoid it. 

[Fergie876 26]

My case approved PD 12/7/19

Just now, Fergie876 said:

My case approved PD 12/7/19

Potomac 

[ayestaci 121]

19 minutes ago, Fergie876 said:

My case approved PD 12/7/19

Potomac 

Congrats! Was it approved today?

[Fergie876 26]

22 minutes ago, ayestaci said:

Congrats! Was it approved today?

Yes 

[Fernthony 11]

5 hours ago, IsItLekker said:

I saw that in the September filers group. It's so mental.  I think there must have been a huge influx of transfers that we don't have any record of on here. Maybe some of the other visa types were given preference? 

Nebraska transferred a ton of cases to Potomac, and I think Vermont transferred some too. I saw it on a .gov site somewhere, but I can't remember where. If I remember correctly, they didn't transfer any cases to Texas which was already nearly as fast as Potomac, but they just transferred a ton to Potomac. It's so obvious too cuz they approved basically all of June petitions and then just stopped when they got to July lol. They've approved some from July, but it's still more sparse than the June ones even. It's really disappointing. I was hoping for approval before the end of January, but at this point I feel like I'm going to be lucky to see anything before the end of March (PD is July 31st, 2019).

[PK_ 43]

21 minutes ago, Fernthony said:

Nebraska transferred a ton of cases to Potomac, and I think Vermont transferred some too. I saw it on a .gov site somewhere, but I can't remember where. If I remember correctly, they didn't transfer any cases to Texas which was already nearly as fast as Potomac, but they just transferred a ton to Potomac. It's so obvious too cuz they approved basically all of June petitions and then just stopped when they got to July lol. They've approved some from July, but it's still more sparse than the June ones even. It's really disappointing. I was hoping for approval before the end of January, but at this point I feel like I'm going to be lucky to see anything before the end of March (PD is July 31st, 2019).

https://www.uscis.gov/workload-transfers

 

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We transferred some of the following cases from the Nebraska Service Center to the Potomac Service Center, the Texas Service Center, the California Service Center and the Vermont Service Center:

• Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, IMMEDIATE RELATIVE PETITIONS

We transferred some of the following cases from the California Service Center to the Potomac Service Center, the Texas Service Center, the Nebraska Service Center and the Vermont Service Center:

• Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, FAMILY-SPONSORED PREFERENCES (F2A) for spouses and children of permanent residents