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Fidel   21

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My wife filed i130 in January 7 and it's been more than 11 month now we haven't heard from uscis now I'm thinking of filling i129 to speed it up being that has work for some Nebraska filer....on the other note I'm thinking of not filing i129 being that we can hear from uscis any moment from now..your opinion will be highly welcome

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52 minutes ago, Fidel said:

My wife filed i130 in January 7 and it's been more than 11 month now we haven't heard from uscis now I'm thinking of filling i129 to speed it up being that has work for some Nebraska filer....on the other note I'm thinking of not filing i129 being that we can hear from uscis any moment from now..your opinion will be highly welcome

It is not clear if co-filing for a K3 does anything to move the I130 forward 

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No harm in filing. Do you have an IOE receipt number or something else? IOE cases have not had any evidence of it helping.

I concur that at 11 months, you're likely to hear something back soon. No guarantees by any means, but you're in the ballpark already.

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8/15/2017: POE

 

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1 hour ago, geowrian said:

No harm in filing. Do you have an IOE receipt number or something else? IOE cases have not had any evidence of it helping.

I concur that at 11 months, you're likely to hear something back soon. No guarantees by any means, but you're in the ballpark already.

Yes we have a receipt number from i130.. She wanted to file i129 now but I feel like there's no need for that because the maximum days have seen do far to hear from uscis in visa journey is 365days which we are close to

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2 hours ago, Lil bear said:

It is not clear if co-filing for a K3 does anything to move the I130 forward 

Filing i129 has helped most Nebraska filer to shorten their i130 from 12-15month to 6-8months

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10 hours ago, Fidel said:

Filing i129 has helped most Nebraska filer to shorten their i130 from 12-15month to 6-8months

At this stage I consider this as anecdotal .. may or may not be related to filing I129..  too many unknown factors. 

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3 minutes ago, Lil bear said:

At this stage I consider this as anecdotal .. may or may not be related to filing I129..  too many unknown factors. 

7 minutes ago, Lil bear said:

At this stage I consider this as anecdotal .. may or may not be related to filing I129..  too many unknown factors. 

More than 10 January and February filer at Nebraska conformed on their time line that they filed i129 to fasten up their i130

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28 minutes ago, Fidel said:

 

The issue for me is that there is no way to know if the filing of the I129 had any influence in their petitions or if it was coincidental to the processing. No one except inside USCIS can tell us that. 

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6 minutes ago, Lil bear said:

The issue for me is that there is no way to know if the filing of the I129 had any influence in their petitions or if it was coincidental to the processing. No one except inside USCIS can tell us that. 

You are right but it can be coincidental for more than 10people have talk to on visa journey about i129 fastening up their i130 and make them earlier from Nebraska service centre

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1 hour ago, Fidel said:

You are right but it can be coincidental for more than 10people have talk to on visa journey about i129 fastening up their i130 and make them earlier from Nebraska service centre

10 people over 2 months is a very, very small sample. Too small to show any evidence of a pattern. Nebraska receives boxes and boxes of I-130 petitions every single day. It it were hundreds reporting this, there might be something in it. 

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8 minutes ago, JFH said:

10 people over 2 months is a very, very small sample. Too small to show any evidence of a pattern. Nebraska receives boxes and boxes of I-130 petitions every single day. It it were hundreds reporting this, there might be something in it. 

What do you advice?? It's been more than 11month and we haven't heard back from uscis

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All you can do is wait.  You can call USCIS, but they will tell you the same thing.  Visit each other in the meantime as often as you can, lots of video calls....  good luck!

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53 minutes ago, Fidel said:

What do you advice?? It's been more than 11month and we haven't heard back from uscis

Wait longer or file. What can it hurt. Everyone that I know that did it got approved within 30days. But most were waiting at least 6 months when they filed the I-129F.

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4 hours ago, Fidel said:

You are right but it can be coincidental for more than 10people have talk to on visa journey about i129 fastening up their i130 and make them earlier from Nebraska service centre

The only way that would be at all meaningful is if we also had statistics for the number of people who filed a concurrent I-129F and observed no change in average processing speed.

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5 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

The only way that would be at all meaningful is if we also had statistics for the number of people who filed a concurrent I-129F and observed no change in average processing speed.

It is obvious that the I129 help them to hear back earlier from Nebraska service centre 

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