Any recent approvals out of the Texas Service Center

[us1415 0]

my wife's case got transfered to VSC on Jan 31st as well....dont know if its a good thing or not....but I would still prefer having delayed at this point than when we applied our I130 since we got our loved ones with us......

Joel in the hizzy! You've been scarce yourself. I agree, ultimately the important thing is that we got our spouses here relatively quickly in the CR-1 process. My wife actually could care little about this since she's not working. But for those who need this for work purposes, I'm sure this is a royal pain . . . .

hey James....I agree...my wife isnt working either....too busy with our 2 daughters.....

[moben 0]

are you freaking kidding me, while we all were expecting an approval, we get this transfer to vermont. Great, another year of waiting.

[James 2]

The question I have is:

1. Are all the TSC cases that get transferred go to the back of the line?

I can't believe they would do that and make all of the TSC Losers® -- regardless of whether they filed in March or June -- all wait another six months. But who knows. When it comes to people making decisions that are either fair or unfair, I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt and assume the fair decision will be made, and therefore we'll be at the front of the line. After all, the normal I-751 petitions that currently have been pending the longest at VSC were only filed back in late July/early August, all well after ours. But then again we're talking about USCIS here . . . .

[James 2]

my wife's case got transfered to VSC on Jan 31st as well....dont know if its a good thing or not....but I would still prefer having delayed at this point than when we applied our I130 since we got our loved ones with us......

Joel in the hizzy! You've been scarce yourself. I agree, ultimately the important thing is that we got our spouses here relatively quickly in the CR-1 process. My wife actually could care little about this since she's not working. But for those who need this for work purposes, I'm sure this is a royal pain . . . .

hey James....I agree...my wife isnt working either....too busy with our 2 daughters.....

Hey, I didn't know you had a second one! Congratulations! Yeah, two infants/toddlers will keep a mom busy. My wife probably won't work at least until both of ours are in school (Gaby just started pre-school this school year.)

[us1415 0]

my wife's case got transfered to VSC on Jan 31st as well....dont know if its a good thing or not....but I would still prefer having delayed at this point than when we applied our I130 since we got our loved ones with us......

Joel in the hizzy! You've been scarce yourself. I agree, ultimately the important thing is that we got our spouses here relatively quickly in the CR-1 process. My wife actually could care little about this since she's not working. But for those who need this for work purposes, I'm sure this is a royal pain . . . .

hey James....I agree...my wife isnt working either....too busy with our 2 daughters.....

Hey, I didn't know you had a second one! Congratulations! Yeah, two infants/toddlers will keep a mom busy. My wife probably won't work at least until both of ours are in school (Gaby just started pre-school this school year.)

we had to since USCIS wanted too much evidence and we thought who would have time to go thru all the processes and having babies seemed easier...hehehe

[drakulea 0]

Wow. That's a LOT of people. [being transferred to Vermont]. I bet a bunch of people are being really confused since yesterday, the day of 31st of Jan........

I'm really confused. I'm so tired of these long immigration processes, and thinking that naturalization NOW should take 16-18 months? Holy #######!!!!!! That if everything will go smooth, I bet..

[junglee069 0]

..and now i can't tell if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

vsc shows processing dates of march 1, 2007

tsc was april something 2007

all i remember is the last time i got an application transferred - back with the i130, from texas to california, it took me two weeks to get an approval.

hoping for the same kinda luck here. thanks.

I got transferred, too. Looks like we all have.

I think it SUCKS OUT LOUD!!! The actual approval times from VSC have been very steady -- about six months, regardless of what the official processing times show. That means we have to wait until August???

Unless of course they put us at the top of the pile. Hell, that's precisely what they should do, given that right now they are approving people who sent their I-751s to VSC in early August 2007. We were ahead of all of those suckers.

James - are your stats on VSC approvals based on VJ? The USCIS website shows they are working on March 2007...

I have a feeling that the USCIS has a defined threshold of back-log - for example 6 months, 9 months - something to that affect. It might even vary by processing center derived from their available resources. So for example - TSC should be 6 months backlogged, whereas VSC can be 4 months backlogged. If one service center exceeds their backlog for x number of months, while another hasn't reached their threshold, it spills over.

Thus, we see a series of transfers from TSC to VSC.

In my analysis this simply means that VSC has the capacity to take on enough load thus that they would be 2-3 months more backlogged than they are now....in the end meaning we will get approved faster their than in TSC.

..Or maybe I've giving the gov't too much credit for planning their operations. ;-)

[James 2]

..and now i can't tell if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

vsc shows processing dates of march 1, 2007

tsc was april something 2007

all i remember is the last time i got an application transferred - back with the i130, from texas to california, it took me two weeks to get an approval.

hoping for the same kinda luck here. thanks.

I got transferred, too. Looks like we all have.

I think it SUCKS OUT LOUD!!! The actual approval times from VSC have been very steady -- about six months, regardless of what the official processing times show. That means we have to wait until August???

Unless of course they put us at the top of the pile. Hell, that's precisely what they should do, given that right now they are approving people who sent their I-751s to VSC in early August 2007. We were ahead of all of those suckers.

James - are your stats on VSC approvals based on VJ? The USCIS website shows they are working on March 2007...

I have a feeling that the USCIS has a defined threshold of back-log - for example 6 months, 9 months - something to that affect. It might even vary by processing center derived from their available resources. So for example - TSC should be 6 months backlogged, whereas VSC can be 4 months backlogged. If one service center exceeds their backlog for x number of months, while another hasn't reached their threshold, it spills over.

Thus, we see a series of transfers from TSC to VSC.

In my analysis this simply means that VSC has the capacity to take on enough load thus that they would be 2-3 months more backlogged than they are now....in the end meaning we will get approved faster their than in TSC.

..Or maybe I've giving the gov't too much credit for planning their operations. ;-)

You're not only giving them too much credit, you're also forgetting that VSC is technically operating at capacity.

I'm basing what I know on the master list in another thread. As long as that list is, there aren't a whole lot of VSC petitions. But there is a pretty clear pattern -- petitions filed in VSC all get approved in approximately six months. So there is no real back log at VSC because 6 months is what USCIS has set as its service goal. A backlog would be whatever extends beyond 6 months.

Contrast VSC with TSC, which has now apparently sent all of its I-751 petitions with NOA1s of March 1 and later to VSC. (A couple of our February TSC Losers just got RFEs, some have been approved, and a few others who haven't checked in since this mass transfer happened.) Since those are petitions that were filed up to 11 months ago, that would appear to be a 5 month backlog but is really only 4 b/c all the petitions received by TSC after July 1 were transfered to CSC and after December 1 or so to VSC.

So TSC really has no I-751s at all anymore, except maybe some odds and ends from February 2007.

VSC now has four months of old TSC petitions (and all new TSC petitions) in addition to the regular petitions it had been processing in 6 months. VSC would now seem to have a four month backlog with all of the stuff that's been dumped there now.

CSC has throughout all of this time managed to approve petitions in three months or frequently less, on the average, and is unlikely to cool off that pace now that the new TSC petitions are being dumped in VSC.

NSC is a basket case as bad as and probably worse than TSC, but I haven't heard about any mass transfers. Logic would dictate that they send their old cases to CSC. Logic, though, would have dictated they send all of our cases to CSC back in freakin July.

My theory is this: Nobody in USCIS has any idea ####### is going on!

[licianne 0]

I also got transferred to VSC on January 31st. My NOA date is April 20th, 2007. At least I feel better knowing that we're all in the same boat together. I don't know what I would do without VJ!!!!

[JASONandDAA 0]

[ihateemo 0]

Meh, at least I know something's happening.

[Muergana 0]

Oh my goodness, am i the only one that has not gotten notification of being transferred to VSC?

My NOA is 06/25/2007.

Is there anyone who did NOT get notified via email?

When you log in to your case status on the site, does the status reflect the transfer?

Dont know if i should be worried... Yikes!!!

[Cassie 8]

Well, add me to the transfer list....as of Jan 31, my case moved to Vermont too. Not sure if I am happy or sad about that!

[bho 0]

I also got an email saying I-751 (CR189) was transfered to VCS. Originally filed I-751 March 07... Good to know we aren't the only ones that got their cases transfered..

[femailpal 0]

OK, I guess I'm on this slow boat to VSC as well.