F2A Spouse Visa Processing Times

[sportsman1 0]

Hi All, 

 

I am green card holder and filed an I-130 for my wife last year on July 1st, 2021. I checked today, the processing times for Permanent Resident filing an I-130 and got the following times in the five Service Centers:

 

 1. Nebraska : 6 months 

 2. California : 24.5 months 

 3. Potomac  : 30 months 

 4. Texas : 5 months 

 5. Vermont : 29 months 

 

My case is being processed in Potomac service center according to USCIS. Since I did file over a year ago, shouldn't the processing time now be less than 30 months? I am hoping that Potomac service center would transfer the case to Texas (I am also based here). Has anyone had experience with their case being transferred from Potomac Service Center to another one? Is this normal to have short processing times in some and long in other service centers? Is there anything I can do from my end to speed things up? 

 

Thank you all in advance! 

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

If you enter your filing date in the section on the relevant service center processing page, it will give you a vague (this can and does change) indication of expected processing time remaining, by telling you when you can file a case inquiry (in other words that is the date at which your case would be outside normal processing time if not yet complete) For Potomac for your filing date, this is indicated as Sept 26, 2024. This is probably not what you want to hear 😞 

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

 

They can and do transfer cases between service centers, to distribute the workload among them. It does not seem to be based on the place of residence of the filer.

[sportsman1 0]

23 hours ago, SusieQQQ said:

If you enter your filing date in the section on the relevant service center processing page, it will give you a vague (this can and does change) indication of expected processing time remaining, by telling you when you can file a case inquiry (in other words that is the date at which your case would be outside normal processing time if not yet complete) For Potomac for your filing date, this is indicated as Sept 26, 2024. This is probably not what you want to hear 😞 

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

 

They can and do transfer cases between service centers, to distribute the workload among them. It does not seem to be based on the place of residence of the filer.

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it. To reduce the backlogs, USCIS has introduced time goals including 6 months to process I-130. 

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/reducing-processing-backlogs

 

Hopefully these new cycle time goals would be implemented soon rather then later.