ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsour AP is over

Congrats. Eight months is outrageous, but kudos to you for being tougher than the DHS and State Department. Enjoy your new life!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-17 22:51:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsFailure of the USCIS Executive Leadership - Separation of US citizens from their foreign spouses for almost 1.5 years

Be sure to send this NPR and any other news org you can think of. More media attention=good, people of all persuasions will be shocked when they learn what we have to go through.


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-18 21:02:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsFailure of the USCIS Executive Leadership - Separation of US citizens from their foreign spouses for almost 1.5 years

Fox News? Yeah, they care a lot about immigration over there. 

 

They care about illegal immigration and stopping President Obama, that is enough for us. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-18 18:27:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsgot approved just now

April way to go!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-20 19:59:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

Over in the October thread we have another 4-week Vermont approval.Might be because she's Philipina, bit it looks to me like the USCIS is trying to play with the numbers.....


Edited by thedude6752000, 24 November 2013 - 05:52 PM.

thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-24 17:52:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

Yes it was a K-1 in our case. No one is comparing. You seem like an angry person.

 

I am trying to save you a little grief. If you look back in this thread, you can see that another K-1 filer did the same thing and about 1 million angry CR-1 people piled on to them and told them not to post here. Also, if not to compare, then why did you post that? "Angry" or not I am just trying to help. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-22 17:35:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

Congrats !! That's great. WE got approved in 49 days. 

 

Again, you applied for a K-1 VISA, not a CR-1 VISA. You applied for your fiance, we have applied for our wives and husbands. Please do not compare the two as currently the processing times could very hardly be farther apart. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-22 17:27:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

Three posts violating the Terms of Service have been removed (personal attacks).  I can appreciate the frustration people have when something like this happens but please do not resort to name calling and insulting each other in your frustration.  If you can't post constructively, then do not post.

 

moderator hat off . . . .

 

greenivy, congratulations on your quick approval.  Over my years here I have seen a few cases like this - and during my own visa journey there were a few instances.  Upon investigation, it turns out that when USCIS is training new staff they will often just grab a petition/application from the most recent applications received that haven't yet made it to an adjudicator's desk.  They aren't trying to circumvent the waiting time, just that those are the applications that are just coming up from the mail room and are readily available.  It looks like they are training new adjudicators right now so there are going to be a number of petitions/applications processed quickly, and as we have a large membership here on Visa Journey, it is not surprising that some of these quick approvals will go to our members.

 

Is it fair?  Nope.  Is it frustrating?  Absolutely.  Is there anything you can do about it other than wish the beneficiary of this largess congratulations?  Not likely.  Many people - including me - have complained to USCIS about this over the years, and yet, it still happens.

 

So I should not get my hopes up? :/


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-22 11:59:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

When did your NOA1 arrive physically in the mail?


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-22 11:48:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

OMG I am at Vermont too!!!!!!!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-22 11:21:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI797 notice weird wording or is it normal?

OMG I left this blank too! Even though I showed it to a lawyer the moron did not catch it!

 

Edit: I did not leave it blank but instead put NA for all of the fields. 


Edited by thedude6752000, 25 November 2013 - 06:43 PM.

thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-25 18:40:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI 130 July 2012 Filers

Contact the USCIS Ombudsman 

http://www.dhs.gov/o...case-assistance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-25 21:05:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCase Completed-India!!

badhaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!  May you have an easy interview and no AP!


Edited by thedude6752000, 27 November 2013 - 03:45 PM.

thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-27 15:43:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsEmail from USCIS!!

Please alaskafan see my thread. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-21 13:40:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsEmail from USCIS!!

Great job people! But let's keep up the pressure! 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-20 18:13:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportstoday is 10 month on noa1 and nothing yet

 

That is severely messed up in SO MANY ways. How are LPR getting priority over US Citizens.

 

We've been over this in other threads, once the LPR's get their approval they go to the NVC where they have to wait many months and sometimes years for their PD's to become current before the NVC will even touch them (this is due to caps on LPR family visas to slow so-called "chain migration"). Citizens, however, get their petitioner processed immediately since there are no caps on our family visas. In all fairness LPR's should be processed faster because they have a long wait time ahead at the NVC. I am all against illegals getting any consideration at all, but LPR's are legal immigrants to this country and they deserve the same considerations that we get. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-29 10:56:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsExpedited Processing for the Philippines

McCaw is at the VSC. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-11-24 18:28:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsi-130 really stucks

I already in toucjed wth my senator bt thy repoled me my file is in normal processing time . The processing time for i-130 petition is 6-12 mnths so thy told me to wait till one year. Now i dnt knw wht to do .

 

Well then your Senator (or his/her immigration liason) is an idiot. According to the USCIS's (cooked, fraudulent) processing times you are NOT within normal processing times. 

 

https://egov.uscis.g...RgTRiI3afbb8zlu

 

Form      Title        Classification or Basis for Filing:      Processing Timeframe:

I-130       Petition for Alien Relative  U.S. citizen filing for a spouse, parent, or child under 21            February 12, 2013

I-131       Application for Travel Document     All other applicants for advance parole          3 Months

I-539       Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status  All other extension applications       2.5 Months

I-600       Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative.               U.S. citizen filing to adopt an orphan              2.5 Months

I-600A    Application for Advance Processing of Orphan Petition.            U.S. citizen who plans to adopt a foreign-born child    2.5 Months

I-765       Application for Employment Authorization    Based on a pending I-485 adjustment application [©(9)]          3 Months

I-765       Application for Employment Authorization    All other applications for employment authorization   3 Months

I-817       Application for Family Unity Benefits              Voluntary departure under the family unity program   6 Months

I-824       Application for Action on an Approved Application or Petition   To request further action on an approved application or petition                3 Months

I-90         Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card       Initial issuance or replacement        April 11, 2013

I-90         Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card       10-year renewal  April 11, 2013

 

Either call up your representative or call the USCIS disinformation line and demand to speak to a Tier 2. Put in a service request as you are outside of normal processing times. If the Tier 2 gives you proverbial sh!t demand to talk to a supervisor. 


Can't get that link to past but go here and click on NBC at the bottom:

 

https://egov.uscis.g...OC9RCyFagQNRyeu


Edited by thedude6752000, 09 December 2013 - 07:44 PM.

thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-09 19:44:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsi-130 really stucks

My file is transferred from nbc to local
Office since March and i am
From India . Bt i never got a transfer notice from USCIS. When we took an info pass we knew tht our file was thr n transferred.

 

Your I-130 was NOA1'ed on the 5th of February, which means that you are now outside of official processing timelines. Please call your congressman or senior senator and have them put in an expedite request for you. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-09 08:22:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsSTILL IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS?!

Because it is undergoing "mandatory administrative processing" (whatever the hell that means). The government is basically doing a bunch of pointless, stupid BS to make sure your husband is not a gay flag burning Alqaeda terrorist (or something, no one can know exactly what goes on there because its for "National Security"TM) (brought to you by the same idiots who let 9/11 happen, then invaded Iraq to avenge this and killed more than 100,000 people, most of them innocent civilians, also let the Boston Marathon bombings happen and could not detect an officer in the army being converted to Alqaeda (Nidal Hassan) etc. etc. etc.).

 

Basically, it's going to stay there for a while, in India anywhere from 2 weeks to a few months usually. After the first two weeks you can start pinging your representative about it. Nothing to do really but wait unfortunately :/


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-10 08:46:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsMake Your Voices Heard!

Tomorrow is the day! Today's game was called on account of weather, but not tomorrow! 

 

Washington will be open for business, and that means we are too. Here the final version of our letter:

 

 https://docs.google....dit?usp=sharing

 

And here is the list of POC's to ping.

 

1. The Honorable Bob Goodlatte - Chairman House Judiciary Committee

Fax#1: 202-225-9681

Fax #2: 202-225-7680

Phone: 202-225-3951

 

Some [possibly] useful email addresses and fax number for Bob Goodlatte and his staff:

1. talk2bob@mail.house.gov

2. Bob.Goodlatte@mail.house.gov

 

Bob's chief of Staff Pete Larkin's email: pete.larkin@mail.house.gov

 

In addition to above:

Send email to following and request them to forward your email to Mr. Goodlatte:

Carrie Meadows: Carrie.meadows@mail.house.gov

Kathryn Rexrode: KathrynRexrode@mail.house.gov

John Manning: john.manning@mail.house.gov

 

 

This fax is for Bob?s office in Roanoke, VA

Fax (Roanoke office): (540) 857-2675

 

2.
Director USCIS: Alejandro  Mayorkas

Fax:
202-272-8118

Email:
alejandro.mayorkas@dhs.gov and alejandro.mayorkas@hq.dhs.gov and
uscisfrcomments@dhs.gov

Postal:
20 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 20529

 

3.
Deputy Director USCIS: Lori Scialabba

Fax:
202-272-8118

Email:
Lori.Scialabba@dhs.gov and Lori.Scialabba@hq.dhs.gov

 

4.
Maria M. Odom - Ombudsman USCIS

Fax:
202-357-0042

Email:
cisombudsman@dhs.gov; maria.m.odom@dhs.gov and maria.m.odom@hq.dhs.gov

 

5.
Brandi Blackburn, Assistant Center Director for NBC Division 8 in Overland
Park, KS

Fax:
816-350-5785

Email:
a. brandi.blackburn@uscis.dhs.gov; b. brandi.a.blackburn@uscis.dhs.gov
(http://www.zoominfo....burn/1845657423)

c.
brandi.blackburn@dhs.gov; d. brandi.a.blackburn@dhs.gov

 

6.
Director: Nancy W. Guilliams - Office of Administration-USCIS

Fax:
202-272-1553
 (did not work last time)

 

7.
Secretary DHS: Mr. Randy Beers

Fax: 202-282-84200

Email: rand.beers@hq.dhs.gov

 

8.
Washington Post - Letter to Editor

Email: letters@washpost.com

 

9.
AILA

Email:
executive@aila.org and newsroom@aila.org

 

10.
Sean Hannity - Fox News

Email: http://www.hannity.com/contact

 

11.
Senator John Cornyn - Ranking Member U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Fax:
202-228-2281 OR 202-228-2856

 

12.
Senator Chuck Schumer - Chairman U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Fax:
202-228-2281 OR 202-228-3027

 

Go get 'em VJ!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-10 22:56:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhere are they in I130?

Officially? Petitions filed on or before 12 February 2013

 

Unofficially? Data from VJ indicates that most February filers are already out the door, they are now working on March and April filers willy-nilly and getting ready to throw May and June into the mix within the next month or so.

 

Why the discrepancy? So that the USCIS can cover their @$$ and not have to do service requests for all of the March and April filers who have been waiting 8 and 9 months. 


Edited by thedude6752000, 10 December 2013 - 08:57 AM.

thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-10 08:54:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhat Is considered a normal processing time for a I 130

It's common knowledge that I-130s are extremely backlogged right now. Seven months might be the "official stance", but in reality it's closer to twelve, and for some people even a little more.

 

On VJ we are seeing approvals from March and April left and right. There's hardly anyone left waiting in the February thread. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-07 18:43:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhat Is considered a normal processing time for a I 130

Immediate relative I-130s are taking around a year to process right now.

 

How can you say that? The official stance is that it's taking 7-8 months (depending on which USCIS screen you want to believe) and people who filed in March and April are getting their acceptances now. Now way can that be a year, 8 months and 1 year are totally different ball games. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-07 18:38:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 Petitioners - Send today!

Faxed and emailed all on the list. I will send it to my own Senators and Representatives after hours today and call tomorrow. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-11 17:57:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 Petitioners - Send today!

About to go on my lunch break. Can't wait to send 'em all out!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-11 13:46:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 APPLICATION APPROVED IN 13 DAYS!!! ^___^

Congrats, but be ready for some heat from people who are still waiting......


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-12 10:30:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsShare your story

Nice job on the site BTW!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-17 15:45:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsShare your story

That's awesome, except for one thing. The current immigration reform proposals do not address our situations at all.  I support immigration reform, tbh. But what they're proposing does not fix the current broken system nor offer any real solutions, transparency, nor accountability, regardless of what the politicians are saying about it. If we don't fix the current system, any attempt at implementing what they are suggesting, again, imo, will be an unmitigated disaster. If they throw millions more people at the current system, it's going to be a cluster ######. 

 

I agree with what you're saying but it seems to me that her point is that so-called "immigration reform" is ignoring us entirely. With the House taking up reform in pieces, I think this is actually the best bet for us to get some change. Like it or not immigration "reform" seems to have all the political stars aligning for it so if we want change our best hope is to hook our wagon up to theirs. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-17 15:41:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsUSCIS Processing Time

secret7vf.gif I am feb filler still no Noa2 cray5ol.gif cray5ol.gif protest6wz.gif goofy.gif 

 

I said almost, but I am sorry :( Have you contacted your congressman or senator?


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-19 18:47:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsUSCIS Processing Time

Can you imagine? maybe they were siting in the offices doing nothing! lol.. so if as at DEC19,and still battling with Feb filers then those of us who filed in october will wait till 2015.. God help us o!

 

 

Needs to be pointed out that this is a bold-faced lie, almost all February filers are clear and somehow July(!) people are getting RFE's and acceptances now. The February date thing is just to keep the remaining (from VJ data somewhere around 33% of) March  filers from being able to file service requests. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-19 12:19:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsJune filer approved!!!!!!!!

Congratulations!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-23 20:57:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsJune filer approved!!!!!!!!

Congrats!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-23 15:17:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOct, Nov, Dec - TSC approval

My mistake, I thought the OP was asking about approvals in December and those months, if any had been approved. Again my apologies. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-20 22:00:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsOct, Nov, Dec - TSC approval

I had an email from the TSC that said:

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Your Case Status: Post Decision Activity

On December 17, 2013, we shipped this approved or re-affirmed case to the Department of State for visa processing. For more information, please contact them directly.



 

This is the spouse visa forum, please do not post here if you're not applying for your spouse. Thank you. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-20 19:38:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsResponse to I-130 Processing Times

Emails sent, will do the e-faxes once I get into the office. Go get 'em VJ!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-20 09:24:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportswaiting NVC to schedule my interview :(

Does it usually take this long for all embassies or is this just a "feature" of the Egyptian and Pakistani embassies?


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-07 00:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsRapidvisa.com

Best advice is to do it yourself but have a lawyer check everything. Then send it in yourself, the lawyer/service will be nothing but an extra middleman. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-31 16:57:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsUSCIS Greencard Petitioners' Committee Video Campaign

Anymore takers?


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-02 23:23:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsUSCIS Greencard Petitioners' Committee Video Campaign

Non-Muslims? What is that supposed to mean?

I am mocking the DOS's tendency to give anyone and everyone with a Muslim name extra "administrative processing" after their interview. It was a poor attempt at humor. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-01 09:03:00