Petition for Fiancée - USCIS

[DanielNJ 1]

I agree. My original question was about the time it takes for the processing center to acknowledge that my form 129f was received. Thank you. 

[Crazy Cat 41,985]

22 hours ago, DanielNJ said:

I work in IT. With today’s technology it should be much shorter. 

That is a common misconception, imo.  Most all of the processing time is because petitions sit in a pile until a human can open them, check that the basics are there, process the payment, and finally send receipt notices.  That is just to enter them into the system.  When a petition arrives, there are already thousands of petitions in the pipeline awaiting processing.  At the California Service Center, there is More waiting and sitting in another pile.  There, every petition package must be scrutinized by human eyes to ensure that the petitioner and beneficiary meet the requirements to continue the I-129f process.  I am also knowledgeable in IT.  I see no way to take the human aspect out of the process.  The only solution, in my mind is hiring more humans.  To do that, fees would have to be an enormously increased.  This part of immigration is self supported by us. ---Just my observations over the last 8 years here. 

 

Edited July 20 by Crazy Cat

[Boiler 45,733]

When I first started the process a friend of mine had married a lady in India and filed to bring her over. The UK then had an option where you could pay more for an expedited process, it took about a month so he did not bother.

 

I assumed the US process would be similar.

 

Was I wrong.

 

Nothing to do with IT, all to do with process.

[widude 38]

 I think it takes so long, so they can see of the relationship will last the test of time.  At least I have visions of such.