October 2023 I 130 Filers

[seer8 7]

Just got a third email for the third week from visajourney that my approval estimate is "Any day now!". On February 2, 2025, that date will coincide with USCIS's case processing time for spousal stand-alone i-130 of 16 months. Will visajourney be as accurate or less than the estimate given by USCIS? I'm not sure if there are filers from September 2023 still waiting for an approval or have an RFE and still waiting for approval. It could be that some do not update their timeline. We will wait and see how things go after Trump's inauguration.

[OldUser 7,699]

21 minutes ago, seer8 said:

Just got a third email for the third week from visajourney that my approval estimate is "Any day now!". On February 2, 2025, that date will coincide with USCIS's case processing time for spousal stand-alone i-130 of 16 months. Will visajourney be as accurate or less than the estimate given by USCIS? I'm not sure if there are filers from September 2023 still waiting for an approval or have an RFE and still waiting for approval. It could be that some do not update their timeline. We will wait and see how things go after Trump's inauguration.

No estimates are accurate. Neither VJ nor USCIS.

[Ara Burton 29]

4 hours ago, seer8 said:

Just got a third email for the third week from visajourney that my approval estimate is "Any day now!". On February 2, 2025, that date will coincide with USCIS's case processing time for spousal stand-alone i-130 of 16 months. Will visajourney be as accurate or less than the estimate given by USCIS? I'm not sure if there are filers from September 2023 still waiting for an approval or have an RFE and still waiting for approval. It could be that some do not update their timeline. We will wait and see how things go after Trump's inauguration.

I just checked in a Facebook group I am in for my home country and 1 person who filed in September got an RFE recently

[seer8 7]

Again, an email (4th one) from VJ saying my i-130 approval estmate is "Any day now!". If I'm not approved by next week Monday, I'm going to try to contact USCIS and ask to speak to a tier 2 officer about the status. 

[WoodlandsFamily 22]

9 hours ago, seer8 said:

Again, an email (4th one) from VJ saying my i-130 approval estmate is "Any day now!". If I'm not approved by next week Monday, I'm going to try to contact USCIS and ask to speak to a tier 2 officer about the status. 

I don't think the VJ timeline is exact unfortunately 😕 hopefully won't be long now 🤞

[H-S 35]

Any update on your parent's cases? i recently received an email saying "we've taken an action on your case" i checked this morning and don't see anything updated, Case status still shows in progress. did anyone else get the same email? if so what does that mean?

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[Cookie88 109]

1 minute ago, H-S said:

Any update on your parent's cases? i recently received an email saying "we've taken an action on your case" i checked this morning and don't see anything updated, still in progress. did anyone else get the same email? if so what does that mean?

 

Did you check the documents tab?

[seer8 7]

Well, a fifth email from VJ with a differenr message about the approval estimate saying "Your estimate is past due" LOL. Recently, processing times for the i-130 increased from 16 months to 16.5 months. However, my processing time on Myuscis progress tab decreased from 11 months to 6 months. Between Sep '24 until Jan '25, it was sitting at 9 months. From what I'm seeing on the track my visa website, they are processing petitions faster. But VJ lacks recent approvals so it makes it difficult to predict one's approval. I will still inquire with USCIS at our 16.5 month mark this month and hopefully get an honest and reasonable answer

[Ara Burton 29]

3 hours ago, seer8 said:

Well, a fifth email from VJ with a differenr message about the approval estimate saying "Your estimate is past due" LOL. Recently, processing times for the i-130 increased from 16 months to 16.5 months. However, my processing time on Myuscis progress tab decreased from 11 months to 6 months. Between Sep '24 until Jan '25, it was sitting at 9 months. From what I'm seeing on the track my visa website, they are processing petitions faster. But VJ lacks recent approvals so it makes it difficult to predict one's approval. I will still inquire with USCIS at our 16.5 month mark this month and hopefully get an honest and reasonable answer

Yeah it's all over the place and quite annoying.

 

I too been checking both sites...I am guessing the VJ site is maybe judging persons who have adjusted status from November 2023 within the US being approved instead of consular processing.

 

Quite frustrating!!

 

I hope it is reduced from 16.5 months for approval.

[WoodlandsFamily 22]

2 hours ago, Ara Burton said:

Yeah it's all over the place and quite annoying.

 

I too been checking both sites...I am guessing the VJ site is maybe judging persons who have adjusted status from November 2023 within the US being approved instead of consular processing.

 

Quite frustrating!!

 

I hope it is reduced from 16.5 months for approval.

It is frustrating 😒 I dread to think how long people applying now will wait. We were told 14.5 and it's now 16.5. It hopefully won't be many more weeks now. 

 

[Cookie88 109]

I have noticed they give a margin of 2 weeks ontop of what the actual approval times are. Right now people are getting approved pretty much at the 16 month mark. If we see this go up to 16.5 months then they will probably update their website to start saying 17 months. The cycle will continue until they have made the changes they need to make to start bringing the times down. 

[Ara Burton 29]

17 hours ago, Cookie88 said:

I have noticed they give a margin of 2 weeks ontop of what the actual approval times are. Right now people are getting approved pretty much at the 16 month mark. If we see this go up to 16.5 months then they will probably update their website to start saying 17 months. The cycle will continue until they have made the changes they need to make to start bringing the times down. 

I don't want to be negative but I doubt they are doing anything to reduce processing times.

 

Legal Immigration is not a priority of theirs based on everything I have seen but I am trying to be positive and hope for the best.

[WoodlandsFamily 22]

3 hours ago, Ara Burton said:

I don't want to be negative but I doubt they are doing anything to reduce processing times.

 

Legal Immigration is not a priority of theirs based on everything I have seen but I am trying to be positive and hope for the best.

They're definitely doing September and I've heard of some October 2023. Like you say we will just have to be positive and hope it won't be ages more.