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January 2023 I-130 filers

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Our processing time dropped yesterday, too! Was 7 months just the other day, 2 months since yesterday. The note on the USCIS website sounds promising!

 

USCIS service centers are now prioritizing the processing of Form I-130 preference petitions for which an the Department of State Visa Bulletin shows that an immigrant visa is available. The visa bulletin, published monthly, lists available immigrant visas by priority date. USCIS uses the visa bulletin to determine the current visa categories and priority dates before processing a Form I-130 preference petition. Service centers have prioritized our adjudication efforts so that we can focus on those cases that have visas available.

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RekYan
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I-130 for wife and two sons approve 11 months. Jan 5 to Dec 4. 

illumined
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Just got approved yesterday!

mrev
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Just got our approval! Logged in, saw a new "Actively Reviewed", and the approval notice was under "Documents". Hilariously the estimated time, which had been "taking longer than expected" since

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On 5/31/2023 at 3:26 PM, ak89 said:

FYI my processing time dropped off from 11 months to 5 months today! Word on the street is they are reallocating cases and resources to the 1-130 standalone backlog 😁 we’ll see what happens, but it gives me hope! 

Hey! I just checked and mine dropped from 11 months to 4 months. This is great! I was so nervous. This makes me feel so much better. Hopefully there is some real action behind this!!

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So I logged on this morning and my processing time tab was back, and still said 5 months. 
 

Logged on a minute ago and now it says my case is taking longer than expected to process. 
 

I honestly can’t help but laugh lol, like what the hell are they doing over there in Potomac! Question Mark What GIF by The BarkPost

RekYan Apprentice

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17 hours ago, ak89 said:

So I logged on this morning and my processing time tab was back, and still said 5 months. 
 

Logged on a minute ago and now it says my case is taking longer than expected to process. 
 

I honestly can’t help but laugh lol, like what the hell are they doing over there in Potomac! Question Mark What GIF by The BarkPost

The processing time Is a joke. I have 3 filed for my wife and kids. 
Filed 5 Jan 4 Mo

Filed 6 Jan 3 Mo

Filed 6 Jan 4 Wks

The 6 Jan’s were literally filed 1 hr apart. We’re in no hurry however people put a lot of faith in the processing date and they shouldn’t. 

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4 hours ago, RekYan said:

The processing time Is a joke. I have 3 filed for my wife and kids. 
Filed 5 Jan 4 Mo

Filed 6 Jan 3 Mo

Filed 6 Jan 4 Wks

The 6 Jan’s were literally filed 1 hr apart. We’re in no hurry however people put a lot of faith in the processing date and they shouldn’t. 

Are they all at the same service center?  That would explain the difference in estimated processing times.  Each I-130 is a separate entity.  USCIS will not automatically "put them together".   Be prepared to hold the early cases at NVC until all have reached that point.

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In summary, it took 13 months for approval of the CR-1.  It took 44 months for approval of the I-751.  It took 4 months for approval of the N-400.   It took 172 days from N-400 application to Oath Ceremony.   It took 6 weeks for Passport, then 7 additional weeks for return of wife's Naturalization Certificate.. 
 

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On 6/3/2023 at 8:33 PM, Crazy Cat said:

Are they all at the same service center?  That would explain the difference in estimated processing times.  Each I-130 is a separate entity.  USCIS will not automatically "put them together".   Be prepared to hold the early cases at NVC until all have reached that point.

All at Nebraska. Doesn’t matter to me about holding. Just the point t assigned dates are random without any type of reasoning. 

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5 hours ago, RekYan said:

Doesn’t matter to me about holding

It should.

"The US immigration process requires a great deal of knowledge, planning, time, patience, and a significant amount of money.  It is quite a journey!"

- Some old child of the 50's & 60's on his laptop 

 

Senior Master Sergeant, US Air Force- Retired (after 20+ years)- Missile Systems Maintenance & Titan 2 ICBM Launch Crew Duty (200+ Alert tours)

Registered Nurse- Retired- I practiced in the areas of Labor & Delivery, Home Health, Adolescent Psych, & Adult Psych.

IT Professional- Retired- Web Site Design, Hardware Maintenance, Compound Pharmacy Software Trainer, On-site go live support, Database Manager, App Designer.

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In summary, it took 13 months for approval of the CR-1.  It took 44 months for approval of the I-751.  It took 4 months for approval of the N-400.   It took 172 days from N-400 application to Oath Ceremony.   It took 6 weeks for Passport, then 7 additional weeks for return of wife's Naturalization Certificate.. 
 

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2 hours ago, IntrusiveThief said:

Our processing time just dropped from 6 months to 5 weeks.

Yeah, same. Ours was at 7 months and dropped to 5 weeks last week, now 4 weeks.

This thread on Reddit's r/USCIS community suggests that there might be a legitimate operational change behind this, but there's no way to know for sure unless/until people actually start seeing faster-than-expected approvals.

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On 6/6/2023 at 6:27 AM, mrev said:

 

Yeah, same. Ours was at 7 months and dropped to 5 weeks last week, now 4 weeks.

This thread on Reddit's r/USCIS community suggests that there might be a legitimate operational change behind this, but there's no way to know for sure unless/until people actually start seeing faster-than-expected approvals.

 

Ours dropped again, this time from 2 months (May 31) to 5 weeks (today, Jun 10). Previously it went from 7 months (May 22) to 2 months (May 31).

 
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