2023 case I-130

[yangshang0 0]

As a citizen filed for my spouse, we waited 2 years and the estimated time still have 10 more month as shown below. I saw most people that posted their last Augest to September already processed are either approved or case got action taken.
I really don't know if I should just kept on waiting. 

[Crazy Cat 42,099]

2 years for an I-130 is excessive.  Is there more to this story?

[yangshang0 0]

10 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

2 years for an I-130 is excessive.  Is there more to this story?

No, when we first filed that was the status it was in. Literally no action taken. We did contact our local senator and ask for help on last Augest and the response from the summary was pretty much say that the case is very complicated and need to wait 2 month to follow up. Back then the normal processing time was about 13 month. On December we tried to contact the senator again and the follow up message said that it is still under normal processing time. Since the normal processing time was bumped to 16 month as current. So we need to wait until least end of Feb to let the case considered as outside of "normal" processing time.

 

[Rocio0010 5,615]

2 hours ago, yangshang0 said:

As a citizen filed for my spouse, we waited 2 years and the estimated time still have 10 more month as shown below. I saw most people that posted their last Augest to September already processed are either approved or case got action taken.
I really don't know if I should just kept on waiting. 

What country are we talking about? That's important information that will give you a more accurate reply.

Is there an age difference?

Has the petitioner applied for a visa before?

[yangshang0 0]

9 hours ago, Rocio0010 said:

What country are we talking about? That's important information that will give you a more accurate reply.

Is there an age difference?

Has the petitioner applied for a visa before?

I married my wife in Cambodia, and she is 24 and I am 35. She never applied visa before.

[appleblossom 2,971]

4 minutes ago, yangshang0 said:

I married my wife in Cambodia, and she is 24 and I am 35. She never applied visa before.

 

And just to confirm you’re a US citizen and have been throughout the process - you weren’t a green card holder when you first applied?

 

Did USCIS say why your case is ‘very complicated’? Might be worth doing a FOIA request to try and find out what’s been going on in the background that you’re not aware of. 

[yangshang0 0]

9 minutes ago, appleblossom said:

 

And just to confirm you’re a US citizen and have been throughout the process - you weren’t a green card holder when you first applied?

 

Did USCIS say why your case is ‘very complicated’? Might be worth doing a FOIA request to try and find out what’s been going on in the background that you’re not aware of. 

That's right, I been US citizen since I was 15 years old. So more than 20 years now. I have no idea what to expect right now. Also what is FOIA?

[appleblossom 2,971]

3 minutes ago, yangshang0 said:

That's right, I been US citizen since I was 15 years old. So more than 20 years now. I have no idea what to expect right now. Also what is FOIA?

 

https://www.foia.gov/faq.html

 

How did you become a USC? Any criminal record for either of you?

Edited Tuesday at 11:26 PM by appleblossom

[yangshang0 0]

8 minutes ago, appleblossom said:

 

https://www.foia.gov/faq.html

 

How did you become a USC? Any criminal record for either of you?

Never had a Criminal Record and got USC through parent

[Rocio0010 5,615]

Have any of you been married before?

[yangshang0 0]

1 hour ago, Rocio0010 said:

Have any of you been married before?

No, this is first marriage. 

[OldUser 7,323]

1 hour ago, yangshang0 said:

That's right, I been US citizen since I was 15 years old. So more than 20 years now. I have no idea what to expect right now. Also what is FOIA?

What proof of US citizenship did you send? Did you / your parents ever file N-600 to get your certificate of citizenship?

Edited Wednesday at 01:21 AM by OldUser

[yangshang0 0]

5 minutes ago, OldUser said:

What proof of US citizenship did you send? Did you / your parents ever file N-600 to get your certificate of citizenship?

 

Here are the list of material I have sent. Last year we just had our new born, I did added additional material there. 
So the materials are:
passport sized photo (me and my wife)
supplemental documents

marriage certificates
evidance of bondified marriage (due to we married two years ago we did not have jointed bank account or shared insurance/land or owning house, so document including photos of both families)
newer upload including our new born records of our child.

my neturalization record (to become USC)
one correction on the typo of original records.

[Willie_Overall 28]

I would say to sue, but you've waited so long that you might as well just wait until you could contact the ombudsmen at USCIS. Since you filed in February of 2023, you should be able to do that some time in February of this year, depending on the exact date of your PD.

[OldUser 7,323]

14 minutes ago, yangshang0 said:

my neturalization record (to become USC)

What do you mean by that? If you became a citizen by operation of law as a minor, you did not naturalize. Your parent did.

 

It's possible USCIS doesn't believe / cannot establish you're a US citizen. Hence my question, what evidence of US citizenship did you provide?

Edited Wednesday at 01:47 AM by OldUser