Potomac Center I-130 Filers 2019

[Nelly_M 7]

On 4/9/2020 at 2:25 PM, Lolonyo said:

I130 Priority Date October 14, 2019

Sent I129F which was received on Jan 23, 2020 - I think this helped expedite our case.

I130 approved - April 9, 2020!

So, we can actually file I-129f while 1-130 is already in process? What is the processing time for this form?

[IsItLekker 183]

Oh my goodness you guys. I am so sorry I have been MIA. I just came back to check in and found out what has been happening with Potomac center.  I've been digging to make up for all the time that was missed since my last report, so hopefully this will help. Update time for October 2020 - March 2021!

 

For the entirety of this period, 505 VJ member petitions have been approved by the USCIS across all the centers (by timeline).

Approximately 4 cases a day (work day) by the organization as a whole.

Of those 505 petitions approved, 115 of them were at Potomac - about 1 petition a day.

The first petition of October was approved on the 1st.

The latest NOA1 approved in March 2021 was July 7th of 2020, potentially due to expedite. The latest NOA1 approved without expedite or I-129f was probably around May 20, 2020. 

 

The current estimated range for application completion on the USCIS website is between 12.5 - 16.5 months from your PD. If you filed before December 9th, 2019, and you still have not received any notifications about your case, you should call USCIS and find out what is going on. This is especially true given the instability in processing times we've been experiencing over the past year (yay COVID). Get any issues resolved as quickly as possible. Same goes for RFEs. If you haven't received a response to your RFE within 60 days, you should be contacting them.

 

Potomac is a small center (only 2,224 petitions recorded) and right now the daily rate of approvals is pretty slow. Keep in mind, some filers do not have their timelines set up and so their data is not contributed to the pool, so it may be even more effective than my numbers show here. Please encourage any and all Potomac filers in the forums to go ahead and set them up so we can start to get more accurate readings on your timelines.

Congratulations to all of you who were approved over the past 6 months! We hope things continue to go favorably for our fellow filers and that many more will receive good news over the next month! 

[Khatera DS 11]

8 hours ago, IsItLekker said:

Oh my goodness you guys. I am so sorry I have been MIA. I just came back to check in and found out what has been happening with Potomac center.  I've been digging to make up for all the time that was missed since my last report, so hopefully this will help. Update time for October 2020 - March 2021!

 

For the entirety of this period, 505 VJ member petitions have been approved by the USCIS across all the centers (by timeline).

Approximately 4 cases a day (work day) by the organization as a whole.

Of those 505 petitions approved, 115 of them were at Potomac - about 1 petition a day.

The first petition of October was approved on the 1st.

The latest NOA1 approved in March 2021 was July 7th of 2020, potentially due to expedite. The latest NOA1 approved without expedite or I-129f was probably around May 20, 2020. 

 

The current estimated range for application completion on the USCIS website is between 12.5 - 16.5 months from your PD. If you filed before December 9th, 2019, and you still have not received any notifications about your case, you should call USCIS and find out what is going on. This is especially true given the instability in processing times we've been experiencing over the past year (yay COVID). Get any issues resolved as quickly as possible. Same goes for RFEs. If you haven't received a response to your RFE within 60 days, you should be contacting them.

 

Potomac is a small center (only 2,224 petitions recorded) and right now the daily rate of approvals is pretty slow. Keep in mind, some filers do not have their timelines set up and so their data is not contributed to the pool, so it may be even more effective than my numbers show here. Please encourage any and all Potomac filers in the forums to go ahead and set them up so we can start to get more accurate readings on your timelines.

Congratulations to all of you who were approved over the past 6 months! We hope things continue to go favorably for our fellow filers and that many more will receive good news over the next month! 

Thank you for the info. I am getting so worried about my case

[sheikhmax 0]

Hello All,

 

First time posting. I am in a weird scenario. I filed the petition i-130 for my spouse on September 2020 online.

I received the the acceptance and got the case number assigned.

Nebraska was the assigned center.

I kept following up on the processing times for Nebraska and when Cases from September 2020 started to process, I waited for a week.

I reached out to USCIS via phone to see whats going on and why no approval so far.

To my "bad luck" or surprise they told me that my case is at Potomac Service Center and Not Nebraska and wait times over there are long so its still inside normal processing times.

I also sent a message via My Account and got the same reply that its assigned to Potomac Service Center. I have sent them another message and told them that's not what I have been seeing for last 7 months. I have requested them to process my application based on the processing time of the center that is shown in my case status.

 

Even as of today I get the following Case Status:

 

******Case Status as of April 29, 2021********
September 14, 2020
Case Was Received and A Receipt Notice Was Emailed

On September 14, 2020, we received your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, Receipt Number IOEXXXXXXX, and mailed you a receipt notice or acceptance notice. It is being processed at our Nebraska Service Center location. The notice describes how we will process your case. Please follow the instructions in the notice. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.

Current as of today at 2:09 p.m.

**********************************************

 

What do you guys think? What should be my next move? Or There's nothing practically I can do except waiting?

 

[Strawberrymermaid 346]

4 hours ago, sheikhmax said:

Hello All,

 

First time posting. I am in a weird scenario. I filed the petition i-130 for my spouse on September 2020 online.

I received the the acceptance and got the case number assigned.

Nebraska was the assigned center.

I kept following up on the processing times for Nebraska and when Cases from September 2020 started to process, I waited for a week.

I reached out to USCIS via phone to see whats going on and why no approval so far.

To my "bad luck" or surprise they told me that my case is at Potomac Service Center and Not Nebraska and wait times over there are long so its still inside normal processing times.

I also sent a message via My Account and got the same reply that its assigned to Potomac Service Center. I have sent them another message and told them that's not what I have been seeing for last 7 months. I have requested them to process my application based on the processing time of the center that is shown in my case status.

 

Even as of today I get the following Case Status:

 

******Case Status as of April 29, 2021********
September 14, 2020
Case Was Received and A Receipt Notice Was Emailed

On September 14, 2020, we received your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, Receipt Number IOEXXXXXXX, and mailed you a receipt notice or acceptance notice. It is being processed at our Nebraska Service Center location. The notice describes how we will process your case. Please follow the instructions in the notice. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.

Current as of today at 2:09 p.m.

**********************************************

 

What do you guys think? What should be my next move? Or There's nothing practically I can do except waiting?

 

Unfortunately I think this is common  many of us get Nebraska as an online status and even on the NOA1 but end up at Potomac with no explanation or notification. I’ve seen it a lot on here and no one is notified. You have to message uscis yourself to check, which sucks. I’m sorry this happened. 

[B777X 12]

7 hours ago, sheikhmax said:

Hello All,

 

First time posting. I am in a weird scenario. I filed the petition i-130 for my spouse on September 2020 online.

I received the the acceptance and got the case number assigned.

Nebraska was the assigned center.

I kept following up on the processing times for Nebraska and when Cases from September 2020 started to process, I waited for a week.

I reached out to USCIS via phone to see whats going on and why no approval so far.

To my "bad luck" or surprise they told me that my case is at Potomac Service Center and Not Nebraska and wait times over there are long so its still inside normal processing times.

I also sent a message via My Account and got the same reply that its assigned to Potomac Service Center. I have sent them another message and told them that's not what I have been seeing for last 7 months. I have requested them to process my application based on the processing time of the center that is shown in my case status.

 

Even as of today I get the following Case Status:

 

******Case Status as of April 29, 2021********
September 14, 2020
Case Was Received and A Receipt Notice Was Emailed

On September 14, 2020, we received your Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, Receipt Number IOEXXXXXXX, and mailed you a receipt notice or acceptance notice. It is being processed at our Nebraska Service Center location. The notice describes how we will process your case. Please follow the instructions in the notice. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.

Current as of today at 2:09 p.m.

**********************************************

 

What do you guys think? What should be my next move? Or There's nothing practically I can do except waiting?

 

I was in the same situation and even tried to request that our case be transferred to another service center from Potomac but USCIS said they can't do it. Unfortunately you just have to wait. When you end up calling USCIS ask them when your case was last touched (looked at/reviewed). That might be a sign that there's some activity with your case and it's not just sitting there collecting dust. You might also want to ask whether your case has been assigned to an adjudication officer. When they told me this about our case it was approved about a week later. Good luck!

[sheikhmax 0]

21 hours ago, B777X said:

I was in the same situation and even tried to request that our case be transferred to another service center from Potomac but USCIS said they can't do it. Unfortunately you just have to wait. When you end up calling USCIS ask them when your case was last touched (looked at/reviewed). That might be a sign that there's some activity with your case and it's not just sitting there collecting dust. You might also want to ask whether your case has been assigned to an adjudication officer. When they told me this about our case it was approved about a week later. Good luck!

I will try this ask them if the case has been assigned to adjudication officer.

Thanks for the help.

[IsItLekker 183]

Hi guys! Monthly update time for April 2021!

 

For the entirety of April, 73 VJ member petitions have been approved by the USCIS across all the centers (by timeline).

Approximately 3 cases a day (work day) by the organization as a whole.

Of those 73 petitions approved, 24 of them were at Potomac - about 1 petition a day.

The first petition of the month was approved on the 2nd of April.

The latest NOA1 approved this month was February 1st of 2021, due to exceptional circumstances. The latest NOA1 approved without expedite or I-129f was likely around June 29, 2020. 

 

The current estimated range for application completion on the USCIS website is between 13 - 16.5 months from your PD. If you filed before December 26th, 2019, and you still have not received any notifications about your case, you should call USCIS and find out what is going on. This is especially true given the instability in processing times we've been experiencing at this particular center. Get any issues resolved as quickly as possible. Same goes for RFEs. If you haven't received a response to your RFE within 60 days, you should be contacting them.

 

We are a small center (only 2,252 petitions recorded) and right now our daily rate of approvals is pretty slow. Keep in mind, some filers do not have their timelines set up and so their data is not contributed to the pool, so it may be even more effective than my numbers show here. Please encourage any and all Potomac filers in the forums to go ahead and set them up so we can start to get more accurate readings on our timelines.

Congratulations to all of you who were approved this month! We hope things continue to go favorably for our fellow filers and that many more will receive good news over the next month!

Edited May 7, 2021 by IsItLekker
Wrong Date

[ArwaE 25]

OMG I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT! OUR CASE HAS BEEN APPROVED *does the happy dance*

 

NOA1: June 27, 2020

NOA2: May 6, 2021

 

Now we're preparing our documents for the NVC stage. Can anyone send me a link to a thread for people in the NVC stage? I searched but nothing came up

 

I hope all of your cases get approved and you cry the happiest of tears