August / September I-130 2007 Filers

[bnm 0]

I think you are right. No quotas for family. This USCIS delay hopefully is temporary and will not affect the later processes. But what I am wondering is the dates in VSC for I-130 filers moved from 7/29/2007 to 7/22/2007. It is really frustrating. What is the logic? I dont understand is I-130 is the slowest of all. The problem didnot start because of I-130 filers. It started with other cases though I am not quiet sure what it is. 300000 applicants in July are not I-130 applicants. So why should I-130 applicants take the burden. Strange and unfair.

[Germanchick2502 0]

The reason is that there was a communication mistake between the Department of State and Homeland Security. As said before they had to change priority away from I-130 petitions because (at least this is my guess) the non-immigrant workers who were now allowed to file all have lawyers and those will be willing to sue. Who of us immigrants has a lawyer who would be able to threaten with a law suit? Hubby and I certainly don't because we don't have the money. And those non-immigrant worker petitions have companies behind them who pay big bucks for those petitions and for taxes etc. Therefore the spousal cases have lost priority. In any case this should not be reason to give up hope. USCIS is almost up to date with all the other petitions therefore they will have to start working on our petitions again a) because otherwise they have no work to do and B) because the 15 weeks are drawing nearer for the July/August filers and I don't think USCIS wants to deal with a lot of congressmen inquiring about their work methods.

[bnm 0]

Thanks for the explanation. Lets hope things will go smooth and they will not creat another error.

[robertg 0]

I-130 was sent to VSC on Sept 11

Received by VSC on Sept 12th

I don't have NOA1 yet

[sharif 0]

any applicant called the USCIS after 90 days. what was there answer?

[HOHOHO 0]

So, what you're really saying is that in your case the outlook is not all too positive. I am sorry to hear that. But please, we all deal with the same slow process here but still each of us is affected differently. There are NO quotas (as far as I know) for spouses or children of US citizens. We are NOT affected by the number of available visa numbers. All we are affected by is the mistake the department of state and USCIS made by allowing thousands of non-immigrant workers to apply for their greencards earlier than usually possible. Meaning they are now prioritizing those cases which is why there is no movement on the I-130 petitions. Plus, we are affected by the larger number of petitions due to the raise of fees at the end of July.

I don't think it is time to panic yet. All the July and August filers are getting closer to the newly set 15 weeks for a NOA1 mark and as we do USCIS may either prepare themselves for a lot of complaints and congressmen getting involved or they will start moving along again. In any case. Once our cases are in the system it should not be much worse than the usual wait. At least it doesn't look that way yet. Lets not panic and keep our hopes up.

Interesting.

Sadly congressmen don't give a flying flip about it. I'd expect that to be a huge waste of time.

My 90 day deadline will come in two weeks. I expect to hear nothing and maybe 2 weeks later I expect them to issue another no answers update saying to wait another 15 weeks.

By the way, I read USCIS were REALLY busy last week: they had Halloween parties to go to and were getting down making hillarious costumes making fun of stupid feriners. wonderful.

[Evgeniya 3]

This is so frustrating. We filed in October. I had a J-1 visa so I had to go back home for two years. If this immigration process will take longer than 10 months it will mean for me being separated for longer than two years. I think if the USCIS came up with the best way to distroy marriages by making people to go through this immigration hell.

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10/20/2005 Married in city court

08/12/2006 Married in church

08/27/2006 Left for Russia

10/01/2007 Filed I-130 with NSC

10/15/2007 Sent additional letters and documantation

[Germanchick2502 0]

I think this is not about destroying marriages. They have made a mistake, they admitted it, they admit there is a back log. Now all we can do is be patient and wait. This is hard but it is better than not being with my husband at all. I enjoy every day of being married although we can't be together (Physically) right now. All will work out and all will be good in the end.

On the but side: Another week has gone by without any progress.

As of November 9, 2007, USCIS has completed initial data entry and issued receipt notices for applications and petitions received on or before the dates indicated:

California Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-130 8/30/2007

N-400 8/09/2007

All Other Forms 10/25/2007

Nebraska Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-131 10/18/2007

I-140 10/18/2007

I-485 Employment

Based 10/18/2007

I-485 Refugee 9/13/2007

I-765 10/18/2007

N-400 7/30/2007

All Other 11/1/2007

Texas Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-131 Current

I-140 Current

I-485 Employment

Based 11/04/2007

I-765 Current

N-400 7/25/2007

All Other 10/04/2007

Vermont Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-130 7/24/2007

N-400 7/29/2007

All Other Forms 11/04/2007

USCIS Lockbox

Form Number Date Received

TPS 10/17/2007

[HOHOHO 0]

I think this is not about destroying marriages. They have made a mistake, they admitted it, they admit there is a back log. Now all we can do is be patient and wait. This is hard but it is better than not being with my husband at all. I enjoy every day of being married although we can't be together (Physically) right now. All will work out and all will be good in the end.

On the but side: Another week has gone by without any progress.

As of November 9, 2007, USCIS has completed initial data entry and issued receipt notices for applications and petitions received on or before the dates indicated:

California Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-130 8/30/2007

N-400 8/09/2007

All Other Forms 10/25/2007

Nebraska Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-131 10/18/2007

I-140 10/18/2007

I-485 Employment

Based 10/18/2007

I-485 Refugee 9/13/2007

I-765 10/18/2007

N-400 7/30/2007

All Other 11/1/2007

Texas Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-131 Current

I-140 Current

I-485 Employment

Based 11/04/2007

I-765 Current

N-400 7/25/2007

All Other 10/04/2007

Vermont Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-130 7/24/2007

N-400 7/29/2007

All Other Forms 11/04/2007

USCIS Lockbox

Form Number Date Received

TPS 10/17/2007

Of course its not about destroying marriages, BUT IT IS ABOUT DESTROYING IMMIGRATION TO USA.

It's completely clear. It's a way to discourage immigration.

Want to marry an american? think again....do you want to be separtated for YEARS and years with no estimates of when or IF you will be together.

[Germanchick2502 0]

I thought I'd bump our thread a bit again and also the new NOA1 update is out... They moved 5 days in VSC- that's at least something. So, lets keep our fingers crossed that now they keep on moving!

As of November 16, 2007, USCIS has completed initial data entry and issued receipt notices for applications and petitions received on or before the dates indicated:

California Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-130 8/30/2007

N-400 9/03/2007

All Other Forms 10/28/2007

Nebraska Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-131 11/04/2007

I-140 11/04/2007

I-485 Employment

Based 11/04/2007

I-485 Asylum 11/08/2007

I-485 Refugee 10/04/2007

I-765 11/04/2007

N-400 9/09/2007

All Other 11/12/2007

Texas Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-131 Current

I-140 Current

I-485 Employment

Based 11/12/2007

I-765 Current

N-400 7/26/2007

All Other 11/12/2007

Vermont Service Center

Form Number Date Received

I-130 7/29/2007

N-400 7/30/2007

All Other Forms 11/12/2007

USCIS Lockbox

Form Number Date Received

TPS 10/22/2007

[bnm 0]

Lets hope they will keep on forwards faster. It seems they want to stick with the 12 week for adjustment and 15 weeks for others. it would have been 15 weeks, had they not move to 29. they will inunduated with phone calls if they excced 15 weeks. So lets hope they will not increase to more than 15 weeks, the trend seems faster in all centers. Lets keep our fingers crossed .

Edited November 17, 2007 by bnm

[kns123 0]

finally got my check cleared...awaiting noa1

Congratulations ...

Thank you! Got NOA1 today by snail mail...Cheers!

HI,

is there anyone who filed I 130 at CSC around second week of sept and got the receipt???? i still did not get. i filed on 12th sept. pls let me know. im worried.

thanks

[Germanchick2502 0]

No need to worry. CSC is stuck at the end of August (see above) and VSC just started moving again but is still caught up at the end of July. Just keep on waiting there is nothing else you can do. My husband and I are closing in on the 15 weeks- lets see if they make it. Otherwise we will have to call and contact our Congressman, Senator and who else we can think of.

[kns123 0]

yes true... i know they are never gonna touch I 130 at csc. Im tired of waiting. i need to apply my I 129 asap. hope there will be any improvement atleats next week . lets keep our fingers crossed.

[simple_melanie 0]

Very strange, I thought the reason the CIS doubled their fees in August was so they could hire more help and speed this process up faster. It seems to be getting slower.