Processing now dates US immigration website

[hunnyko 0]

Hi I was just looking at the https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/jsps/Processtim...eviceCenter=CSC website that lets you see what petitions are being processed now. I am waiting for my wife's I-130 petition to be processed, it says processing Feb 12th now on the website. So after they process them at one of these district centers they send it to National right, is that then called the NOA2 which people have on there timelines? How long does it usually take at the national center until they send it to the country your spouse is in? Does anyone know to where I can get an exact idea of the whole processing process and approximate timeline for each place the I-130 petition goes to?

Thanks for any help

David

[Credzba 0]

Does anyone know to where I can get an exact idea of the whole processing process and approximate timeline for each place the I-130 petition goes to?

Look in the guides section in that tab at the top of the page, it has lots of these details you want to know.

A couple of things to keep in mind:

1) The uscis date is the OLDEST petition they are processing, in fact I have seen people who applied in May start getting noa2 forms, so for all practical purposes they are at May, 2007 for US citizen petitions.

2) The time for the whole process is very dependent on country of origin.

A short summary of how I think this all works:

1) US citizen sends in form I-130.

2) about 2 weeks they get a noa (I-797) form saying basically we received your petition.

3) Nothing happens until they finally get to it (about 2 months)

4) They spend 1 month doing background/security checks on the US citizen.

5) about 3 months after noa1 they forward your petition to NVC and send you another I-797 (noa 2)

## total so far is acutally about 110 days.

6) see the nvc flow chart for all the stuff that goes on here, but there are some ways you can shorten this time.

If you make the US citizen the agent, and send everything back as quick as possible This is probably another 3 months.

7) At end of NVC your paper work gets sent to the US embassy that will arrange the foreign citizens interview. My wife is from China, and for whatever reason this takes another 2-3 months.

8) There is a packet mailed out to the foreign citizen from the US embassy when it finally gets all the papers from America, and this is generally known as p3. Again the guides section will tell you what all is in this. probably 2-3 weeks spent doing this and mailing it back and getting it into their system.

9) An interview packet with MORE stuff to get done goes out to the foreign citizen and the interview date is scheduled. Again how far in the future they schedule the interview is country/embassy dependant.

Good luck.