Filed I539 to extend visit visa. What does MCT mean?

[IndigoSkies 168]

Case started with MCT prefix. What service center does this mean? Also it's been about month and half and still case hasn't been approved. Already bought the ticket for my grandmother to go back if they don't approve the visit visa extension in time. But we are still hoping she can stay an additional 3 months with us. I need to know MCT service center so I can check on processing time. Or if you guys know anything about this let me know. Case was filled on Jun 10, 2019. Already had the fingerprints taken on 5 July 2019. 

[arken 4,197]

It specifies the Service Center in the receipt notice if you look closely. 

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

It’s not surprising it hasn’t been adjudicated after just a month and a half, last average across all service centers for i539, admittedly a few months out of date now (first 6 months of current fiscal year), was 4 months (slightly better than the average of 4.5 months last fiscal year).  https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt .

 

[IndigoSkies 168]

16 hours ago, arken said:

It specifies the Service Center in the receipt notice if you look closely. 

Found it. Texas Service Center. But I couldn't find it as a processing center for I539. Looks like my grandmother will have to go back by her 6th month anniversary of coming here as visitor. Meanwhile i will have wasted 455 dollars for nothing. I539 from said file it at least 45 days prior to the visa end. I filed it 60 days prior to the visa end. They are processing I539 from back in March 1st, 2019. Some are processing from back in 2018. So many people will have spend the fee for no reason.

[arken 4,197]

It’s the risk everyone applying for extension has to take. You can legally stay beyond i94 expiration while i539 is pending. If it gets approved, everything is good. If it gets denied after i94 expiry, one has to leave ASAP. I believe the existing visitor visa gets cancelled as well in that case.

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

3 hours ago, IndigoSkies said:

Found it. Texas Service Center. But I couldn't find it as a processing center for I539. Looks like my grandmother will have to go back by her 6th month anniversary of coming here as visitor. Meanwhile i will have wasted 455 dollars for nothing. I539 from said file it at least 45 days prior to the visa end. I filed it 60 days prior to the visa end. They are processing I539 from back in March 1st, 2019. Some are processing from back in 2018. So many people will have spend the fee for no reason.

Perhaps you should have checked before filing what the processing time was? I know we have often discussed it on here and advised people against it because of both the wait time and individual case factors. I don’t have time to look back at your previous thread but I’m sure you were advised that it was risky & certainly you must have known the risk it wouldn’t be decided before her i94 was up, a  possibility that was already in your decision tree above?

 

(by the way if it is adjudicated before she leaves but is a refusal - would that still be “a waste”?)

[IndigoSkies 168]

21 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

Perhaps you should have checked before filing what the processing time was? I know we have often discussed it on here and advised people against it because of both the wait time and individual case factors. I don’t have time to look back at your previous thread but I’m sure you were advised that it was risky & certainly you must have known the risk it wouldn’t be decided before her i94 was up, a  possibility that was already in your decision tree above? / (by the way if it is adjudicated before she leaves but is a refusal - would that still be “a waste”?)

Yeah. I should have checked the current processing times seeing as I have done this for other forms in other context. As for you point about would it be a waste if she was denied, the answer is yes or no. There's not reason to deny her. She has visited US dozens of times and every single time she left on time. Never became a public charge. Any cost she incurs, we paid from out pocket. Besides now she's 90+ years old. She's not going to be taking anyone's jobs or hiding in the bushes as illegal immigrant or something like that. Visa extension should have been automatic for her. And if it was denied, it should have been for a very specific and reasonable cause. The answer is also no because if they deny it in time, at least we would have known that she's denied. I'm fairly certain she will be approved  but sadly and unfortunately this approval will come after she left USA. She can quite literally come back a week after she goes to UK. Which she's not planning on doing anyways. if she comes back again, it will be at least another year later. But you are right... this is a risk I knew going inwith my $455. And I knew the fee is non-refundable. I'll be okay. 

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Nothing about any visa extension process is automatic, and certainly not for a B visa. They don’t need to give you the kind of “very specific and reasonable cause” reason you seem to expect for denial either, they just need to quote you a section number.  The onus is on you (her) to prove the reason for extension, not on them to prove a reason for denial.

 

And no she can’t just “literally” expect to come back a week after she leaves either, someone who has been here almost 6 months and tries to return after a week is highly likely to be denied entry. I think there is much you think there is automatic about visit visas, that isn’t.

 

She certainly might be granted an extension, but your expectation of that as a base case just isn’t how these things usually seem to work.

Edited July 19, 2019 by SusieQQQ

[SalishSea 18,073]

Why not just have an eligible relative petition for her?  Seems like she wants to live in the US anyway, if six months was not enough.

[HappyAndIKnowIt 24]

FWIW, my MIL's application is being processed in Lincoln, NE and we just passed 3 1/2 months without a peep.

[Zmoney 5]

Any updates?

[Pitaya 2,577]

13 minutes ago, Zmoney said:

Any updates?

Likely not on a five (5) month old thread.