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USCIS prioritizes permanent residents over US citizens?

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Letspaintcookies Experienced

Letspaintcookies   2,310

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2 hours ago, igoyougoduke said:

where do you see green card processing faster than naturalization ? its the other way around. 

OP means petitions filed by USCs vs petitions filed by LPRs for their relatives.

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Fried_Chicken Newbie

Fried_Chicken   0

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As few people have already stated, it's a smaller queue. Why it's the small queue could be multiple reasons. 

  • If you're an LPR, you were probably less likely to travel abroad during Covid-19 as there was lot of hoohaa about only citizens being allowed back in. Fine print might have said LPRs are OK too but the word "citizen" is enough to scare off enough LPRs.
  • Prior administration's views towards immigration in general may have discouraged LPRs (more than USCs) from petitioning for relatives/spouses. They may have waited/are waiting to become USC's before applying.

I'm sure there are other factors but overall why it's faster is because there just aren't that many in the line.

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Ryan H Grand Master

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Filed: Lift. Cond. (apr) Country: China
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Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to USCIS Service Centers forum.

Our journey:

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September 2007: Met online via social networking site (MySpace); began exchanging messages.
March 26, 2009: We become a couple!
September 10, 2009: Arrived for first meeting in-person!
June 17, 2010: Arrived for second in-person meeting and start of travel together to other areas of China!
June 21, 2010: Engaged!!!
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April 22, 2011: Mailed I-130 to Chicago
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Paul and Sopheap Enthusiast

Paul and Sopheap   91

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Also in terms of overall processing, after the USCIS petition is approved, a visa petitioned by a USC doesn't have to wait for a visa to become available like LPR-filed petitions do. LPR applications have to wait for a visa to become available and wait for potentially quite a long time.

Also like someone said, the processing estimates are not really accurate and each case really does vary tremendously.

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Waitingfor10 Explorer

Waitingfor10   41

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Mexico
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I've been following the Date of Inquiry date on USCIS website for Processing Times for Vermont and last month

on June 1st the Date showed 3/17/2018

on June 9th it showed 3/25/2018

yesterday June 30th it showed 3/06/2018, what kind of stupidity is that? We can't trust anything on that website as far as dates. They should just take the dates off of everything, what is the point? Is their point to just make people more hopeless and more confused than they are already are. More angry at our system? ugghh I'm done venting now. 

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Tanya@D Starcher Community Regular

Tanya@D Starcher   585

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It is because US citizen can apply for more categories of family members, than permanent resident.

     Darrel and Tatiana
            2017 year
29th March          I-129f Sent
6th April                NOA1 Received date
11th April              NOA1 Notice date
14th April              NOA1 Hardcopy
22nd August        NOA2 Approval date
5th September     NVC Received, NVC case#
8th September     Left NVC
11th September   Case Ready
28th September   Medical exam
5th October           Interview
25th October         POE date 
22 December        Wedding Day

 

 

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