I-130 February 2020 Filers

[Ann Blair 39]

I didn't submit online. I mailed everything in to the Dallas address (for Kentucky filers) including the payment because that's what the checklist said to do. I have confirmation from the post office that it arrived in Dallas, but have not received an email yet that they've started on it. Anyone else send by mail? Anyone know how long the confirmation email takes?

[Ma Daniel 15]

On 2/11/2020 at 10:03 PM, B&ANZ said:

I did not see a thread for February 2020 filers so I started this one, unless someone has found one already? We are doing one last look on all of our documents and then we are submitting our I-130 via the online form tomorrow!! Then the countdown begins...

Submitted mine on 02/14 and got notice in the mail an day case was sent to Nebraska

[B&ANZ 134]

Our case got transferred out of Nebraska after speaking with a USCIS agent.

[T&S_MTL 113]

1 hour ago, B&ANZ said:

Our case got transferred out of Nebraska after speaking with a USCIS agent.

I hope this is good news!

Some 2019 filers got transferred then got approved within a few weeks. I think we'll have to wait longer though if we are transferred too.

How did you find out ? I'd like to know about our petition too , on our case status online, the message remains the same.

Edited March 5, 2020 by T&S_MTL

[T&S_MTL 113]

38 minutes ago, T&S_MTL said:

I hope this is good news!

Some 2019 filers got transferred then got approved within a few weeks. I think we'll have to wait longer though if we are transferred too.

How did you find out ? I'd like to know about our petition too , on our case status online, the message remains the same.

Oups, I did not read your entire message. Thanks!

[B&ANZ 134]

I hope it is good news too! Means we would have a much shorter waiting time for NOA2🙃. Basically would cut our wait time in half!

[YellowDuneBuggy 59]

Hi from the Netherlands.

We filed the i130 online the 19th of February and got Nebraska, too.

I have found this article: https://www.boundless.com/blog/green-card-processing-time/.

Although it's not an official source, it seems that some cases can be transferred from Nebraska.

 

[Ann Blair 39]

Does anyone have any thoughts or heard anything about how the coronavirus mess might affect timelines?

[LilyJ 1,258]

16 hours ago, Ann Blair said:

Does anyone have any thoughts or heard anything about how the coronavirus mess might affect timelines?

In terms of USCIS and NVC I heard it should be mostly unaffected since they can work from home easily

[SteveInBostonI130 3,434]

Hello,

 

Adding myself to this list.

 

My situation is someone unusual.  My wife arrived here on Feb 2019 on a K1 visa.  That visa took 8 months to get approved.  We married in April 2019, but my wife had to return to Ukraine due to family emergency, before we could do the AOS and AP.  

 

I should have applied for I-130 in June, but I messed up by trying to see if we could get a faster path to a greencard by some other method.  In the end, I submitted our I-130 (paper) at the end of January and got our NOA on Feb 6.

 

The time wasn't all wasted - it gave me more proof of bona fide relationship to gather and submit.

 

Our service center is Texas.  Yay?

 

[Daniel & Marie 2]

Applied online Feb 19. Receipt mailed from Nebraska...  😰

 

[B&ANZ 134]

Make sure to contact USCIS to double check your service centre. Our receipt notice said Nebraska and then in the end of February with all the transfers, our account updated and we found out we were "transferred" to Potomac. We were told it was not a transfer and that by default the receipt notice said Nebraska until it got routed to the appropriate centre. So we are in Potomac and not Nebraska.  From what they said, all IOE's get routed to Nebraska first and then they go to their respected service centre. Some receipt notices reflect the update and others do not. 

[YellowDuneBuggy 59]

On 4/9/2020 at 4:23 AM, B&ANZ said:

Make sure to contact USCIS to double check your service centre. Our receipt notice said Nebraska and then in the end of February with all the transfers, our account updated and we found out we were "transferred" to Potomac. We were told it was not a transfer and that by default the receipt notice said Nebraska until it got routed to the appropriate centre. So we are in Potomac and not Nebraska.  From what they said, all IOE's get routed to Nebraska first and then they go to their respected service centre. Some receipt notices reflect the update and others do not. 

Is there any way to know which service center is managing our application using Emma on the USCIS website? 

[B&ANZ 134]

On 4/12/2020 at 1:51 AM, YellowDuneBuggy said:

Is there any way to know which service center is managing our application using Emma on the USCIS website? 

You go on Emma and ask to speak with a representative. From there you can ask about your service centre.

[Eladnolnod 36]

Hi guys,

 

We filed online on February 3rd and our NOA1 stated that we received Texas as our service centre. 

 

We just found out today that we were transferred to Nebraska service centre on February 23rd and we are a little confused - has anyone heard this happen to anyone else?