Nebraska K3 filers with IOE case number (for I-130)

[BunyanP 89]

13 hours ago, Wcalmt1 said:

I haven't see or heard any success Either.  I am wondering, will we see some K-3's actually getting approved in a month or so? Nebraska is showing a processing time of 7.5 to 9.5 months on the I-129F (K3) with some people getting close to that time. or will it finally start to help the I-130's?

I’m 134 days in for my K3 so I won’t know for another 3-4 months. I would think if anyone filed a K3 sometime in July not long after their 130 we should see movement in Mid Feb-March. 

[B&C2017 123]

1 hour ago, BunyanP said:

I’m 134 days in for my K3 so I won’t know for another 3-4 months. I would think if anyone filed a K3 sometime in July not long after their 130 we should see movement in Mid Feb-March. 

@S&J2013 is in 152 days (4 months and 31 days) for their K3. I'd assume that NSC won't make a move until at least end of March (would be 7.5 months which is the min. processing time according to USCIS website).

I'm sure hoping we all don't need to wait that long though 😞🙏

[S&J2013 117]

29 minutes ago, B&C2017 said:

@S&J2013 is in 152 days (4 months and 31 days) for their K3. I'd assume that NSC won't make a move until at least end of March (would be 7.5 months which is the min. processing time according to USCIS website).

I'm sure hoping we all don't need to wait that long though 😞🙏

I guess as we are one of the earliest IOE cases using this forum that’s then applied for the k3 too our timeline is going to be watched a lot to see if it’s going to show how any future i130 and 129fs will be processed too 😬 I was hoping we’d have heard something before now 😞 It’s our 2 year anniversary in April and my husband is coming to visit so we’d love to get some good news to make a double celebration!

 

You'll be the first ones to know as soon as we hear anything!! 

[Patricia Owuh 175]

1 hour ago, B&C2017 said:

@S&J2013 is in 152 days (4 months and 31 days) for their K3. I'd assume that NSC won't make a move until at least end of March (would be 7.5 months which is the min. processing time according to USCIS website).

I'm sure hoping we all don't need to wait that long though 😞🙏

My I-130 has been in Nebraska for 8 months. I filed the I-129f in October  and nothing on either. Looks like the 16 month processing time is accurate for Nebraska even though tbey transferred over 1000 cases to other service centers. It's very frustrating. Good luck everyone.

[B&C2017 123]

22 minutes ago, Patricia Owuh said:

My I-130 has been in Nebraska for 8 months. I filed the I-129f in October  and nothing on either. Looks like the 16 month processing time is accurate for Nebraska even though tbey transferred over 1000 cases to other service centers. It's very frustrating. Good luck everyone.

You still have about 4 more months to go until the average 12 months NSC processing time for the I-130 - and 5 more until the 7 months for the I-129F - is reached.

 

Since they‘re around the same time, I‘d assume your earliest approval for either one is in April. I‘m making this guess as it seems the USCIS went back to normal processing times for the I-129 and not accelerated ones.

 

I‘m sure hoping it‘ll be faster though! I‘m sure it won‘t be 16 months.

Edited January 15, 2020 by B&C2017

[B&C2017 123]

25 minutes ago, Patricia Owuh said:

My I-130 has been in Nebraska for 8 months. I filed the I-129f in October  and nothing on either. Looks like the 16 month processing time is accurate for Nebraska even though tbey transferred over 1000 cases to other service centers. It's very frustrating. Good luck everyone.

 

NSC has 12.5 - 16 months with the 16 months being the upper limit of 130% of the processing time. So 100% would be 16/130*100=12.3 months. This is what it will most likely take for your I-130 if the I-129F has no effect. But since both of yours are „due“ around the same time, I‘d expect a decision from USCIS in April/May 2020.

 

Good luck! 😊☘️

[LilyJ 1,258]

On 1/14/2020 at 7:35 PM, Paul & Mary said:

And for a K3 to be approved the underlying I-130 has to be approved.

A correction. The underlying I130 does not have to be approved. In fact, an approved I130 actually kills the K3 case. As a K3 is used to come to the US while waiting on a decision for the I130, a K3 won't be issues if the I130 is approved. That's why the I129f was always denied at the same time/within a day or two of I130 approval: because once the I130 is approved it defeats the need for a K3. Denial reason for I129f "the petition for an immigrant visa has been approved and your spouse no longer requires the issuance of a K3 visa to await adjudication of the immigrant visa petition. Therefore, your I129f visa petition is denied".  A K3 is an approved I129f and I129f only. And even if a petition for a K3 were to be approved, the K3 would likely die at NVC as policy is to now go through will CR1/IR1 cases rather than K3s. That being said, the "1-2 months" after I129f no longer seems to be the case. I guess we will see what happens when some of these petitions reach the 7.5 months for I129f

Edited January 18, 2020 by LilyJ

[AMS13 120]

On 1/18/2020 at 2:13 AM, LilyJ said:

A correction. The underlying I130 does not have to be approved. In fact, an approved I130 actually kills the K3 case. As a K3 is used to come to the US while waiting on a decision for the I130, a K3 won't be issues if the I130 is approved. That's why the I129f was always denied at the same time/within a day or two of I130 approval: because once the I130 is approved it defeats the need for a K3. Denial reason for I129f "the petition for an immigrant visa has been approved and your spouse no longer requires the issuance of a K3 visa to await adjudication of the immigrant visa petition. Therefore, your I129f visa petition is denied".  A K3 is an approved I129f and I129f only. And even if a petition for a K3 were to be approved, the K3 would likely die at NVC as policy is to now go through will CR1/IR1 cases rather than K3s. That being said, the "1-2 months" after I129f no longer seems to be the case. I guess we will see what happens when some of these petitions reach the 7.5 months for I129f

Well put. I do wonder however what would happen if the I129f was to be withdrawn at that point, prior to approving/denying the I-130?

 

Edited January 21, 2020 by AMS13

[Patricia Owuh 175]

On 1/17/2020 at 6:13 PM, LilyJ said:

A correction. The underlying I130 does not have to be approved. In fact, an approved I130 actually kills the K3 case. As a K3 is used to come to the US while waiting on a decision for the I130, a K3 won't be issues if the I130 is approved. That's why the I129f was always denied at the same time/within a day or two of I130 approval: because once the I130 is approved it defeats the need for a K3. Denial reason for I129f "the petition for an immigrant visa has been approved and your spouse no longer requires the issuance of a K3 visa to await adjudication of the immigrant visa petition. Therefore, your I129f visa petition is denied".  A K3 is an approved I129f and I129f only. And even if a petition for a K3 were to be approved, the K3 would likely die at NVC as policy is to now go through will CR1/IR1 cases rather than K3s. That being said, the "1-2 months" after I129f no longer seems to be the case. I guess we will see what happens when some of these petitions reach the 7.5 months for I129f

On visa journey May 2019 Nebraska had only approved 7 cases and I know some of those cases were accelerated by the I-129f. That petition is not helping any more so the rest of us will be in limbo  until whenever. I have written, called and emailed uscis about how unfair it is and to ask why Nebraska is so slow. When you look at the other service centers, in a lot of cases the processing is months shorter than those in Nebraska. What I see is unfair is that if NSC is going to pull those few that filed the I-129f and approve them, then they should do it for everyone that filed the I-129f. 

[LilyJ 1,258]

2 hours ago, Patricia Owuh said:

On visa journey May 2019 Nebraska had only approved 7 cases and I know some of those cases were accelerated by the I-129f. That petition is not helping any more so the rest of us will be in limbo  until whenever. I have written, called and emailed uscis about how unfair it is and to ask why Nebraska is so slow. When you look at the other service centers, in a lot of cases the processing is months shorter than those in Nebraska. What I see is unfair is that if NSC is going to pull those few that filed the I-129f and approve them, then they should do it for everyone that filed the I-129f. 

Hard to tell what they are doing anymore or why they stopped going by the I129f. Maybe they caught onto it or changed their policy. They’ll have to do something with it eventually though, so maybe once it gets to the processing time listed on their website for I129fs at NSC, maybe we might see some movement. Just no way to know until we get there

[S&J2013 117]

Well the last few days I’ve seen Texas and Potomac cases from September and October who have IOE numbers and also applied for I-129f (don’t know why when those centers are so fast anyway) get their k3s denied and their i130s approved.... this has thoroughly annoyed me!! Not only is Nebraska the slowest, it’s now not processing the k3s as fast as they were so we are still stuck in the never ending black hole.... sorry! Just having a bit of a vent!!!! 

Edited January 23, 2020 by S&J2013

[Tbaker747 7]

I130 9/18/19 IOE

I-129f 10/21/19 LIN 

 

Has anyone seen any progress? 

[BunyanP 89]

8 minutes ago, Tbaker747 said:

I130 9/18/19 IOE

I-129f 10/21/19 LIN 

 

Has anyone seen any progress? 

Nope. July 15th and k3 August 30th. Still nada..

[B&C2017 123]

3 hours ago, S&J2013 said:

Well the last few days I’ve seen Texas and Potomac cases from September and October who have IOE numbers and also applied for I-129f (don’t know why when those centers are so fast anyway) get their k3s denied and their i130s approved.... this has thoroughly annoyed me!! Not only is Nebraska the slowest, it’s now not processing the k3s as fast as they were so we are still stuck in the never ending black hole.... sorry! Just having a bit of a vent!!!! 

Yeah, it definitely sucks that the wait is so long! Specially, since the electronic case files should really be process from every center and not get assigned to a specific one in my opinion. What benefit should there be in implementing a more efficient process when it’s not used to it‘s full potential? 🤷🏼‍♀️
 

My husband and I were actually thinking about having another baby while we wait. Even that’d be faster than NSC 😂⏳

Edited January 23, 2020 by B&C2017

[S&J2013 117]

10 minutes ago, B&C2017 said:

Yeah, it definitely sucks that the wait is so long! Specially, since the electronic case files should really be process from every center and not get assigned to a specific one in my opinion. What benefit should there be in implementing a more efficient process when it’s not used to it‘s full potential? 🤷🏼‍♀️
 

My husband and I were actually thinking about having another baby while we wait. Even that’d be faster than NSC 😂⏳

Go for it 😂 it will probably be out of nappies by the time Nebraska have done anything haha 

 

I’m just having a bad day and seeing those moving so quick got to me. I’m getting tired of the questions of why it’s taking so long and when are you moving and I think I need to stop reading things for a bit (in the hope that I’ll get good news too)