September 2023 I-130 Filers

[Josh B K 13]

Welcome to September 2024, friends. About a year has past since we all sent our I-130 applications to USCIS. Have you noticed that applicants with preference dates in June and July of 2023 are actively chatting in the forums? One individual reported they just received approval. Their preference date was the 14th of July. This means we have about 45 days of applications ahead of us in line. I won't make any predictions, but it does seem like a good sign that we are getting closer. 

 

[OldUser 6,979]

1 hour ago, Josh B K said:

Welcome to September 2024, friends. About a year has past since we all sent our I-130 applications to USCIS. Have you noticed that applicants with preference dates in June and July of 2023 are actively chatting in the forums? One individual reported they just received approval. Their preference date was the 14th of July. This means we have about 45 days of applications ahead of us in line. I won't make any predictions, but it does seem like a good sign that we are getting closer. 

 

The holiday season and election is also coming, which can potentially slow things down.

 

Good luck!

[Wolle 68]

@Josh B K

421 days of waiting behind me already….so the VJ Timeline is pretty accurate……

[Stiven26 17]

19 hours ago, Josh B K said:

Welcome to September 2024, friends. About a year has past since we all sent our I-130 applications to USCIS. Have you noticed that applicants with preference dates in June and July of 2023 are actively chatting in the forums? One individual reported they just received approval. Their preference date was the 14th of July. This means we have about 45 days of applications ahead of us in line. I won't make any predictions, but it does seem like a good sign that we are getting closer. 

 

Based on what I've seen and the experiences I've read, it's probable that they'll approve us at the end of November or the beginning of December.

[team-joric 2]

On 9/17/2024 at 5:16 AM, Wolle said:

@Josh B K

421 days of waiting behind me already….so the VJ Timeline is pretty accurate……

I'm at 422 so far! Expecting another 3 weeks for a mid-September filing date. Fingers crossed it's before then, this wait is absolutely ridiculous (and many of us still have the NVC stage to look forward to..)

[Josh B K 13]

September Filers, 

 

It will be so encouraging when we start to see approvals for our group. Please share with us here when you hear a response.

 

What is the "earliest" priority date we have in the group? My priority date is September 23. Do we have people closer to the start of September? 

 

Today my husband and I are celebrating 1 year since our family marriage celebration. We were legally married earlier, but this day is more special to us for the memories. 

 

Josh

[GABO507_PTY 10]

 

 

Hello my name is Gabriel and I´m from Panama.

I´ve been looking this site and topic for months now as I´m also an I-130 CR1 September 2023 filler. I´ve been looking for guidance and moral support as we all do in this lengthy and stressful process. I´m married to USC.

 

This are my dates:

 

Filed: Sept 13, 2023.

NOA1: Sept 23, 2023. 

NOA2 - 1-130 Approval: Nov 14, 2024.

 

I wanted to share with you that today we were approved =), my wife received the Approval Notice in her USCIS account, after 14 months of submitting.

 

We were expecting to wait like 15 months but what she did is that last week  she wrote a letter to her senator/congress office from NY and local representative.

 

Today she received a respond (EMAIL) from her senator office indicating that USCIS was still reviewing our case and that it was on the USCIS Brooklyn office. First our case was at Nebraska then in went to Brooklyn USCIS office apparently.

 

Later in the day my wife received and email from USCIS indicating that "We have taken action on your case".

 

I immediately told her to look in the document tab of her USCIS profile and there it was: I-130 Approval document 🤩

 

Surely writing to her congress office was a good help so I encourage you to write to your congress office representative or local representatives, it did help for us apparently.

 

Finally: Don´t loose hope, have faith in the process because if your marriage is legit and based in mutual love then it will eventually be approved, love will prevail. Now onto the NVC process (consular processing).

 

If you have any question I will gladly help you.

 

Cheers🥳

 

Edited November 14 by GABO507_PTY

[team-joric 2]

On 11/14/2024 at 7:28 PM, GABO507_PTY said:

 

Filed: Sept 13, 2023.

NOA1: Sept 23, 2023. 

NOA2 - 1-130 Approval: Nov 14, 2024.

 

You filed 1 day before me! I am keeping all of my fingers and toes crossed... and trying to nudge my USC husband to email his congress person 😅

[Cookie88 92]

Track My Visa website now shows August 2023 approvals at 60.4%. These last few months I've oberved (and commented under other posts) that when a month hits 60% we start seeing the next month's approvals coming in. We should be seeing September approvals coming through any second now, if the same pattern applies! Good luck everyone waiting on here.

 

[GABO507_PTY 10]

3 hours ago, team-joric said:

You filed 1 day before me! I am keeping all of my fingers and toes crossed... and trying to nudge my USC husband to email his congress person 😅

Writing to his congress person is the right path😉.

 

Quick update of our NVC process:

USCIS sent our case officially to NVC on: Nov 18th

NVC sent us welcome letter(email) creating our case: Nov 18th.

Already paid the proper fees and waiting for them to process our payment.

Also we are gathering all the documentation.

 

It seems that NVC is quite fast in sending you the welcome letter (email) after they receive the case from USCIS.

 

Dont loose hope, after all these months your cases will eventually be approved at USCIS.

 

Cheers😎

 

Edited November 20 by GABO507_PTY

[Shyler 5]

5 hours ago, GABO507_PTY said:

Writing to his congress person is the right path😉.

 

Quick update of our NVC process:

USCIS sent our case officially to NVC on: Nov 18th

NVC sent us welcome letter(email) creating our case: Nov 18th.

Already paid the proper fees and waiting for them to process our payment.

Also we are gathering all the documentation.

 

It seems that NVC is quite fast in sending you the welcome letter (email) after they receive the case from USCIS.

 

Dont loose hope, after all these months your cases will eventually be approved at USCIS.

 

Cheers😎

 

 

Congratulations on your NOA2!

We have a NOA1 date of 11th September so hopefully aren't too far off hearing back.

Will follow your timeline to see how you progress. Best of luck to you  

[Cookie88 92]

Someone with a PD of 2nd September 2023 got approved 2 days ago. Nebraska SC. September has started guys!

On 11/20/2024 at 8:20 PM, GABO507_PTY said:

Writing to his congress person is the right path😉.

 

Quick update of our NVC process:

USCIS sent our case officially to NVC on: Nov 18th

NVC sent us welcome letter(email) creating our case: Nov 18th.

Already paid the proper fees and waiting for them to process our payment.

Also we are gathering all the documentation.

 

It seems that NVC is quite fast in sending you the welcome letter (email) after they receive the case from USCIS.

 

Dont loose hope, after all these months your cases will eventually be approved at USCIS.

 

Cheers😎

 

Congress person can be tricky, depending on the person. When we tried, they just looked at the USCIS processing time webpage and said until we pass that timeframe they won't put in an enquiry for us. We've not passed the 15.5 months yet.

[GABO507_PTY 10]

3 hours ago, Cookie88 said:

Someone with a PD of 2nd September 2023 got approved 2 days ago. Nebraska SC. September has started guys!

Congress person can be tricky, depending on the person. When we tried, they just looked at the USCIS processing time webpage and said until we pass that timeframe they won't put in an enquiry for us. We've not passed the 15.5 months yet.

Definitely each person is different and therefore your congress person. My wife lives at NYC and somehow for us writing to him was beneficial for us. 
Whats interesting is that a few months ago she chatted with Emma and our case was at NSC.

Then when we received a respond from her congressman it said that our case was at Brooklyn USCIS office.

Maybe this transfer did helped us.

But when we received the I-130 approval notice it said at the NSC, so Im not sure which service center or office did approved us but it was ultimately approved.

 

Hope for good news for other Sep. 2023 filers, love will prevail ♥️.

 

Cheers🤗

Edited November 22 by GABO507_PTY

[Gboree 68]

On 11/14/2024 at 2:28 PM, GABO507_PTY said:

 

 

Hello my name is Gabriel and I´m from Panama.

I´ve been looking this site and topic for months now as I´m also an I-130 CR1 September 2023 filler. I´ve been looking for guidance and moral support as we all do in this lengthy and stressful process. I´m married to USC.

 

This are my dates:

 

Filed: Sept 13, 2023.

NOA1: Sept 23, 2023. 

NOA2 - 1-130 Approval: Nov 14, 2024.

 

I wanted to share with you that today we were approved =), my wife received the Approval Notice in her USCIS account, after 14 months of submitting.

 

We were expecting to wait like 15 months but what she did is that last week  she wrote a letter to her senator/congress office from NY and local representative.

 

Today she received a respond (EMAIL) from her senator office indicating that USCIS was still reviewing our case and that it was on the USCIS Brooklyn office. First our case was at Nebraska then in went to Brooklyn USCIS office apparently.

 

Later in the day my wife received and email from USCIS indicating that "We have taken action on your case".

 

I immediately told her to look in the document tab of her USCIS profile and there it was: I-130 Approval document 🤩

 

Surely writing to her congress office was a good help so I encourage you to write to your congress office representative or local representatives, it did help for us apparently.

 

Finally: Don´t loose hope, have faith in the process because if your marriage is legit and based in mutual love then it will eventually be approved, love will prevail. Now onto the NVC process (consular processing).

 

If you have any question I will gladly help you.

 

Cheers🥳

 

 

Congratulations 🎊 on your approval. We are patiently waiting for the next batch of the approval process to start.

[Josh B K 13]

On 11/22/2024 at 2:25 AM, Cookie88 said:

...

Congress person can be tricky, depending on the person. When we tried, they just ... said until we pass that timeframe they won't put in an enquiry for us. We've not passed the 15.5 months yet.

@Cookie88 I got the same response. It made me quite angry and frustrated since I have heard other petitioners get more helpful responses from their congressmen. I feel like all the political energy and division around immigration is hiding smaller failures in government that all citizens would agree need to be addressed. I don't think our leaders or we should be accepting a 15 month processing time for simple petitions from US Citizens. How do you feel about it?