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[Cirkul 15]

Is there any rhyme or reason to the "estimated time until decision" on my USCIS account? Some of you may recall an earlier post from me this summer asking about dismissed charges that were flagged by Vermont Service Center because the dismissed charges were flagged AWA(even though they were dismissed). I went in for Biometrics, got fingerprinted and photographed. I didn't hear anything for four months. My USCIS Account would just say "your case is taking longer than expected". Then in September it suddenly said "5 months until decision", until 2 days ago I was down to "3 weeks". Two days ago I contacted my lawyer and told him we still never uploaded our PSA marriage certificate. He instructed me to upload it, which I did. The very next day my account jumped to "7 months until decision". Now it says "four months until decision. I was trying to avoid an RFE by uploading the PSA marriage certificate. We used the Municipal Certificate to get started on the I130. Is there any reason for these fluctuations? It is very frustrating because the embassy is doing interviews en masse every 6 months in the Philippines. I know we will miss the December slots. Would be devastating to miss the next slots which will be 6 months after the December interviews are done. Thank you.

[Boiler 45,468]

As far as I can tell they use a random number generator to produce those time estimates.

[Chancy 6,241]

*** Moved from IR1/CR1 Process & Procedures to IR1/CR1 Progress Reports, to be among other threads about processing time estimates ***

 

[Cirkul 15]

On 12/1/2023 at 11:23 AM, Boiler said:

As far as I can tell they use a random number generator to produce those time estimates.

Thanks, after reading posts on this part of the forum I've concluded that the estimated times don't mean much. Some people are getting approvals even when their account says 3-4 months until approval.

[Ara Burton 19]

On 12/1/2023 at 2:03 PM, Cirkul said:

Is there any rhyme or reason to the "estimated time until decision" on my USCIS account? Some of you may recall an earlier post from me this summer asking about dismissed charges that were flagged by Vermont Service Center because the dismissed charges were flagged AWA(even though they were dismissed). I went in for Biometrics, got fingerprinted and photographed. I didn't hear anything for four months. My USCIS Account would just say "your case is taking longer than expected". Then in September it suddenly said "5 months until decision", until 2 days ago I was down to "3 weeks". Two days ago I contacted my lawyer and told him we still never uploaded our PSA marriage certificate. He instructed me to upload it, which I did. The very next day my account jumped to "7 months until decision". Now it says "four months until decision. I was trying to avoid an RFE by uploading the PSA marriage certificate. We used the Municipal Certificate to get started on the I130. Is there any reason for these fluctuations? It is very frustrating because the embassy is doing interviews en masse every 6 months in the Philippines. I know we will miss the December slots. Would be devastating to miss the next slots which will be 6 months after the December interviews are done. Thank you.

I spoke to a live agent this week and they confirmed the timeline means nothing and we should be using the processing time on the processing page instead of estimate provided on "my progress" tab.