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  1.    Stiven26 reacted to a post in a topic: September 2023 I-130 Filers
  2. emeditz
    I had spoken to a lawyer before me and my wife ever got married, and that lawyer had warned us about the wait. My wife is from Iran, and there is no US consulate in Iran, so she gets thrown into Abu Dhabi, Ankara or Yerevan, which understandably prioritize their own citizens. Other geopolitical concerns and the possibility of "administrative processing" loom over everything for us. We were DQ'd in April 2025 and Ankara is currently scheduling interviews for those DQ'd in February 2024. Anyway, I'm numb to everything, so I'm not shocked that this is an added nightmare for couples even when spouses are from countries that neighbor the US. We have no choice but to endure and agitate for change.
  3. emeditz
    My wife has probably another year of waiting before she can get an interview in Ankara.
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    I doubt this answers your question, but there are some overall thoughts and graphs at the link below: "IR1 Visa processing is ramping up. There is likely a significant backlog that will take 8-12 months to clear given the slow down last year. It appears IR1 processing is taking priority over K1s at the moment. CR1 Visa processing (couples married less than 2 years) is following the same trend as IR-1 Visas." Otherwise you may need to look for a Facebook-specific group or elsewhere on social media. In my case, my wife follows Telegram channels where other Iranians post about what to expect at the different embassies, including the wait times. (Telegram is like WhatsApp.)
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    09/19/2023 initial filing 02/19/2025 active reviewing 02/19/2025 approval 17 months total
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    I'm glad your case is moving along, but I don't feel like being patient if people who filed just days before I did are already having their interviews scheduled, and I have nothing but a receipt from 16 months ago saying the case was accepted. When I first talked to a lawyer about my case the processing times for I-130s were 10 months and now they're half a year longer. I've paid this agency hundreds of dollars to look at my case and they haven't, so I have reached my expiration date on being patient, although there also doesn't appear to be much that I can do anyway.
  18.    Ara Burton reacted to a post in a topic: September 2023 I-130 Filers
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    I know it doesn't do any good to put this negativity out into the universe, but USCIS clearly has broken software platforms and/or employees who don't care about their jobs, and that is entirely the way our government prefers it. It's all by design. Present the illusion of a process that only the tough and dedicated, and likely financially capable, can endure. It's inexcusable that we pay hundreds of dollars to the government and possibly thousands to lawyers to be treated this way. But I would interpret a transfer to Nebraska as a positive development, if that is in fact what happened, if anyone actually knows what happened. There are so few data points from California that this website doesn't even give me an estimated approval window.
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    I very much hope that as well. My case is in California as well. Fingers crossed.
  24. emeditz
    Very relieved to finally see some more approvals in our cohort.
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    Do all of you have a status somewhere that says "Case is being actively reviewed"? Or does that happen shortly before you're actually approved? Mine has never evolved beyond "Case Was Received and A Receipt Notice Was Sent."
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  30. emeditz
    My wife is a citizen of Iran. There really isn't a route for her to come to the US quickly on any kind of visa — she has to do all this overseas, and not even in her home country. It's my understanding that that rules her out of a concurrent I-130 and I-485 filing.
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  32. emeditz
    Feels like most of the approvals I've seen lately are cases in which the I-130 has been filed concurrently with an I-485 — not an option for me and my spouse. I really don't understand why the government I pay taxes to, and to whom I paid a fee of hundreds of dollars, cannot at least be transparent with me about what's actually happening, or, for that matter, to even look at my filing within 16 months. Why do I have to haunt messaging boards and Reddit to commiserate with other people separated from their families, thrashing about in the unknown?
  33. emeditz
    Very happy to see someone in our cohort approved, @team-joric.
  34. emeditz
    When I look at "myProgress" on the USCIS website, it now says: "Estimated time until your case decision: 9 Months." A truly bone-chilling development that I will assume actually means nothing, just like "5 months" and "3 months" meant nothing previously.
  35. emeditz
    Just to echo what OldUser says: my congresswoman's and senator's inquiries have not gotten me anywhere. You may also end up talking to an intern who knows less about this than you do. Maybe such inquiries are useful when the normal processing times have been surpassed. Anyway, has anyone within this cohort gotten an approval yet? Most of the August 2023 cohort on here has, it seems.
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  38. emeditz
    Thank you. I have also given up on that timer. I did write some moderately irritated letters to my congresswoman about it. I guess I understand that there is a backlog and we all need to wait our turn and that these things take time ... but why is there a countdown that means nothing continually scrambling my brain on what to expect? When there's a whole separate website that says it's likely to take 14 months? &etc. Anyway, I'm just counting down until October. Good luck on your next steps, UK_Dreamer.
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