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We have been documentarily qualified since March 25th. And no interview. I heard that you can schedule the interview. But you will not get that interview. I heard that people are doing this, contributing to the backlog. It honestly would not surprise me if such a bad IT policy failure were the cause.

Our case status active review date changed to today, and in the documents drop down it showed the approval letter.

Yes. We submitted in November and the same day the status showed received, it was changed to actively being reviewed. There have been no changes since then, and just in case there was a website updating issue, I have attempted to check our case number at https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx. unfortunately it isn't there either.

Anyone have updates? Weird that so many that filed the same petition months later have approvals.

I did check and no data returned. On uscis case status it has said "actively reviewing" since November 2022 when we filed. There are no notices or documents in case status since that day

Apologies if you already tried it (no time to look at your comment history) but I believe you can enter the case number at this website and may get some information: https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx

Is yours nebraska service center?

I had some correspondence with someone who is also filing I-130 in Nebraska, submitted same month. They also are in the same position and had heard somewhere that Nebraska was the slowest office. Hopefully they are able to (re)allocate workloads to ensure equitable case processing times.

Is the Nebraska service center way behind? I am seeing the same petitions I-130 usc parent, filed online at a later date, being approved. I suspect they were at a different service center. Curious what others are seeing from Nebraska Service Center

We filed i-130 for parent of a US citizen in November 2022. We haven't received any RFE or anything. Almost immediately after filing it, our case was updated to "actively being reviewed" but nothing since. Are cases assigned to a person from the moment they are received? If that person goes on FMLA or something, are they reassigned? Curious why we haven't gotten an RFE nor a decision but others seem to have those things. Our case is nothing special. There are no divorces, no overstays, no misspellings, no immigrating children, not more than one place of employment for each person, and only one address each for all involved.

We filed November 2022 and still no RFE or action. So I would say you have a few months and that what you are seeing is ordinary.

November 2022 filing for a parent here, electronic, NSC. As I understand it, they assign an expected process date to your case. Until they update that date, it stays the same, and your time remaining estimate updates based on that date. If that date is in the past you get the "longer than expected" message. I have seen that suddenly appear when I had 5 months left. So someone changed our date. Then they changed it back to a date 5 months away. Our most recent date said "1 week" then "longer than expected" Then a few days later "3 months" or something. Then 8 weeks and I narrowed it down to January 2nd because for several weeks every Tuesday the week counts down by 1. I imagine it will pass and they'll update the estimated date again soon. Just know it doesn't mean much.

Processing time (Nebraska on original notice) changed from the "longer than expected" to "2 months" and within a few days to "4 weeks" As I understand it, USCIS has an estimated date of processing attached to each case. Your estimated processing time remaining is calculated based on that date. If that date is prior to now, it will say "longer than expected." My guess is that they update the dates every so often based on volume and redistribution of case work. Optimistic that this most recent update is somewhat accurate. It's much easier to estimate remaining time for any endeavor when you are closer to completion.

If it means nothing else, that's not bad either I guess!

Yesterday case read 1 week and today status says taking longer than expected. Hoping that means something good.

Wow nice congratulations!

Sorry to hear. What was the RFE for? Just in case it is something we can anticipate. Just to give information that I have, ours still says 3 weeks - no RFE yet. Our NOA1 was from Nebraska via electronic filing

My wife petitioned her mother last November. Case says 2 months. I believe the USCIS date is based on "80%" of all cases are approved by. Looking elsewhere, seems like Nebraska service center is 11-17-2022 for this category. https://www.visajourney.com/times/