California service centre Processing time

[Melbourne101 2]

Hi,

I was wondering if there’s any glitch or is this normal. Normally all other service centres have citizens date one year ahead of green card holders, my wife recently became a citizen. And we got married in 2019 September. And looking at the wait times, I’m just feeling a lot discouraged. Wait time 3 years even for citizens. I’m not sure what to do now.

 

 

1. 27.5 Months to 35.5 Months
   Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21
   January 07, 2019
2. 27.5 Months to 35.5 Months
   U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21
   January 07, 2019

[Crazy Cat 41,490]

Why would it be faster for US citizens? The process is not really different. It seems to me that, logically, that the queue for petitions from US citizens would be longer.  More petitions = longer processing queue.  You just have to be patient. 

Edited December 19, 2021 by Crazy Cat

[SalishSea 17,673]

33 minutes ago, Melbourne101 said:

Hi,

I was wondering if there’s any glitch or is this normal. Normally all other service centres have citizens date one year ahead of green card holders, my wife recently became a citizen. And we got married in 2019 September. And looking at the wait times, I’m just feeling a lot discouraged. Wait time 3 years even for citizens. I’m not sure what to do now.

 

 

1. 27.5 Months to 35.5 Months
   Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21
   January 07, 2019
2. 27.5 Months to 35.5 Months
   U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21
   January 07, 2019

It’s because the LPR spouse visa category (F2A) is numerically limited, but it has been “current” for awhile now-  that is subject to change at any time.   

[Alexandra1990 7]

As I seen on here their working on junes submissions. Seen a couple people approved in the same year. 

[igoyougoduke 1,641]

2 hours ago, Melbourne101 said:

Hi,

I was wondering if there’s any glitch or is this normal. Normally all other service centres have citizens date one year ahead of green card holders, my wife recently became a citizen. And we got married in 2019 September. And looking at the wait times, I’m just feeling a lot discouraged. Wait time 3 years even for citizens. I’m not sure what to do now.

 

 

1. 27.5 Months to 35.5 Months
   Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21
   January 07, 2019
2. 27.5 Months to 35.5 Months
   U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21
   January 07, 2019

these numbers are just as good as picking a random number from a blackbox 

[Redro 4,611]

3 hours ago, Melbourne101 said:

Hi,

I was wondering if there’s any glitch or is this normal. Normally all other service centres have citizens date one year ahead of green card holders, my wife recently became a citizen. And we got married in 2019 September. And looking at the wait times, I’m just feeling a lot discouraged. Wait time 3 years even for citizens. I’m not sure what to do now.

 

 

1. 27.5 Months to 35.5 Months
   Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21
   January 07, 2019
2. 27.5 Months to 35.5 Months
   U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21
   January 07, 2019

Three things:

 

1. ) California just recently started processing petitions filed by USC spouses (around 2019 or so- I wouldn't be surprised if this long processing time is a result of California taking up cases from other processing centers). 

 

2.) As you know permanent residents can apply for citizenship and convert their petition to USC filing for spouse, parent or child. California used to just do permanent resident petitions so I also theorize the reason behind processing times being the same for USCs and LPRs is because the approved cases from 2019 are conversion cases (LPR petitioning -> USC petitioning). 

 

3.) Don't pay attention to processing times listed on USCIS. If you look around the forum, you'll see some members have been approved in about 6 months after their petition was listed as being in California. 

 

CSC is at 193 days

VSC is at 130 days

TSC is at 311 days

NSC is at 276 days

NBC is at 197 days

 

 

According to VJ, California is the second fastest center.