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IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhats wrong with USCIS?

 

Its easy for someone from a privileged country to judge, quite a narrow view I might say. The purpose of the Tourist Visa is to visit and go home, while the K-1 is for immigration into the country, quite different purposes. 

 

Many, many others here on VJ have followed the K-1 route and are now living happy lives. I don't know why anyone would want to deny them this right. 

That's exactly what I said. Perhaps we are misunderstanding each other. I said that you can get married in the US on a tourist visa if you don't plan on staying in the US after the wedding.  The K1 is for immigration purposes only. 

 

I don't want to deny them that right. I don't know where you're getting that from. That 'privileged' country is the one who we're working on getting my husband into, and are being made to wait way longer than we should be with no information. That is the country that we're discussing the laws for. I don't think that it's a narrow view when we're talking specific countries. I did say some others might not allow it in their country. I think you may be misunderstanding me.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-31 15:38:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhats wrong with USCIS?

 

Coming on a tourist Visa for purpose of marriage is fraud. And even if that wasn't the case many people are unable to obtain a tourist visa because of the country and/or financial status. 

 

Regardless of the legalities, if you love someone you want to be with them, and its painful not to be. 

 

We should all supportive here and fight the system, not each other. 

No, coming on a tourist visa and getting married is not fraud. Coming on a tourist visa, getting married, and then trying to stay in the US is fraud. If you return to the spouse's country, then you don't need to file for a fiance visa. It says specifically in the instructions that the fiance visa is for those who are planning on marrying and staying in the US.  You also have the option of trying to get married in your spouse's country. I know for us it wasn't an option as we were waiting for my residency permit, and it wasn't allowed until I was a legal resident in the Netherlands, but that's not necessarily the case for everyone. If your financial status or country is a problem with getting a tourist visa, it shouldn't be *easier* to get a fiance visa.

 

As for the rest of this, I entirely agree. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-31 14:20:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhats wrong with USCIS?

 

My fiance and I have also "started our lives" together.  We make daily decisions together, "landlord" a house together, make financial decisions and plans together, are each others' legal beneficiaries, cry when we're missing the other, feel like throwing things at the wall when we hear of yet another delay, support one another, and do everything that a married couple who lives 4,000 miles apart and is also trying to be together would do (except on top of all of that, we also have to try to plan a wedding when we have no idea when we'll be able to get married). That stuff is already happening.  It's not like we live completely separate lives until one day we get this magical piece of paper and suddenly our lives are joined.  They are already joined.  We have already started our lives together.  Or as much as anyone can from this distance. 

 

I agree that USCIS should not be a root cause for divorce, but it ALSO should not be a root cause ANY couple to split.  The end result is the same: Two people who were in love are now going their separate ways.  I don't want that to happen to anybody.  

 

I've been married before, I know what it's like from both sides.  Marriage is not a magic wand that amplifies the pain of being separated.  It's a piece of paper.  Being separated from the person you love is being separated from the person you love, period.  And if my fiance and I were to split up for some reason, it's not like I'd just shrug my shoulders and "get another" fiance (any more than you would just turn around and "get another" spouse).    

 

I am very sorry for the couples here that have to be separated for so long, and it does appear that CR-1s have to wait longer and there is no excuse for that.  It should be equal.  Loved ones should be reunited at the same pace.  

But the things you've said here about being "legitimate" and "more powerful" or that you experience "more pain" are pretty darn offensive, especially when the only reason we're not already married is because we're waiting for the government to let us!  

 

I don't think the married couples are more legitimate, more power, or more painful. (Unless there are kids involved, then yes, it is way more painful than people with no kids. That doesn't mean your pain is invalid, it just means that carrying your own pain, plus the pain of your little ones is worse than just carrying your own.)  

Marriage might just be a piece of paper, relationship wise, but it's also a legal contract. As such, there is a legal commitment there that someone coming in on a fiance visa doesn't have. For instance, when I moved to the Netherlands, our relationship was filed as a civil union. So we were living together, etc, but it could be dissolved immediately by either party without having to go to court. We were only entitled to those assets that we brought into the relationship, etc.  As a married couple, we would need to divorce in the court (thus dissolving the legal contract between us) and split up our marital assets 50/50 because that's the way the law works in that country.  Fiance's do not have that legal contract in place, is all that I'm saying. And I think that having a legal contract should work in the favor of those who are married, which does not seem to be the case, currently. 

 

I don't think that fiance's should be slowly adjudicated. I think they should hire more people and speed up the process for all of us. 

 

And if you want to get married, you don't need a fiance visa to do so. You can do it on a tourist visa, you just can't adjust your status or immigrate. My husband and I got married here in NJ while he was on a tourist visa, and then we went back to the Netherlands. You only file for the fiance visa if you're planning on immigrating.  Yes, you need to adjust status afterwards, but you get to stay with your spouse while you're doing it.  I really do understand, I've done it, and it sucks having to go through that, but it's a completely different kind of suck when your spouse can't even visit you (without a serious chance of being denied entry) for months or possibly years.  

 

But I honestly don't blame the K1's. Not one little bit. I'm jealous as all hell that they are getting their files processed so quickly. I miss my husband so much there aren't even words. I cry every day. My kids cry every day. And I HATE the USCIS for doing this to all of us.  But it's not the other petitioner's faults. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-31 12:21:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhats wrong with USCIS?

 

I'm sure I'm not the only parent separated from their children who would disagree with you.  In fact, I'd venture that you might even agree that where kids are involved it ought to be a priority to reunite families before fiancés...

I absolutely agree with you. It wouldn't be so hard if we didn't have kids. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-31 11:09:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhats wrong with USCIS?

I am K-1 and that took over nine months so it's not that quick, what you spousal visa people seem to forget is that you will get a GC almost straightaway where I now have another 6 to 8 month wait for that as well, plus another $1070 just to file, then there will be removal of conditions and assoc fees to come.

 

Which sucks. When I moved to the Netherlands, I spent more than 2 years waiting for my residency permit, during which time I was not allowed to work, go to school, even be insured. I married my husband during that time, because we weren't willing to wait for some stupid government agency to get their heads out of their butts. But the difference was that we were together. We weren't separated overseas from each other. We also didn't have children.  

 

I'm sorry, but as far as I'm concerned it should go IR/CR/Fiance if there NEEDS to be a priority. IR people should be VERY easy to adjudicate because you don't stay married to someone for years and years, possibly living together in another country for that time, just so one spouse can get a GC.  But we shouldn't have to make this kind of distinction. The crappy service given by the USCIS means that we turn against each other instead of working together to get something done.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-31 09:58:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhats wrong with USCIS?

 

I am confused by this.. I didn't see this when I was there. But that I am sure that it is possible. I love the Dutch.. they were good to me. Maybe when can talk ... But I can't see bringing my Husband here after being there... because it appears way better there.. We were in Maastricht..

 

We were in Heerlen. And I'll tell you honestly, it wasn't like I moved there and immediately started disliking Dutch people. It was a gradual, grinding process. It was being told repeatedly that I couldn't find a job in customer service (by the government! And the temp agencies, which are a big deal there.) because I didn't speak ENGLISH. (I wound up working in a restaurant as a dish washer for more than 5 years. Good people, but crazy hours, and physically crippling work.) The woman at the CWI (old government employment agency) told me I'd never find a job there because my Dutch wasn't even good enough to clean houses, and maybe I should just go back to my own country where I belonged. (She said it in the most broken English I've ever heard in my life. I actually asked her to just speak Dutch to me because I couldn't understand her English at all.)  I've had people cross the street with their children because apparently I'm too short, my complexion is olive, and my dark eyes and hair labelled me as a scary foreigner. I had some guy come up to me while I was walking my dogs and ask me if I was an illegal Polish hooker. (No, I wasn't dressed provocatively, either. Jeans and a T-shirt.) We had neighbors who asked my husband if I was allowed to be there, if I was allowed to leave the house by myself (apparently, they thought I was an illegal muslim mail order bride or something), and who told him the neighborhood was going to ###### because of all the immigrants moving in. I was hounded because I dared speak in English to my kids. We were both hounded by family because he didn't treat me like an indentured servant. 

 

It's one thing when you deal with the occasional jack-wad. It's something else when it becomes a constant thing. When you hate leaving your house and dealing with people because you're sick of the asinine comments.(Which, btw, I didn't get when I first got there because I didn't know Dutch. People used to say completely obnoxious things to me and then laugh because I didn't understand that they were making fun of me. Once I learned Dutch well enough, I made sure that they understood I was not going to deal with that #######.) I integrated, spoke Dutch, had a job and paid taxes, was active in community groups, and had two cute little Dutch girls who were definitely learning more Dutch ways than American. Acceptance and tolerance may be their marketing ploy, but as far as I've seen, the vast majority of the Dutch are fairly intolerant to anything the moment you get the label of 'darky'.  To be sure, there were some very nice people around. But to me, they were few and far between.  

 

And after 8 years, I seriously couldn't deal with it anymore.  I don't accept that behavior in my own country, and I sure as heck was not about to accept being treated like that anywhere else.  Even my husband, who IS Dutch, would get harassed every single day he walked out the door because he has red hair. It's not something he's ever had to deal with when he's been here in the states. At all.  No one harasses him because of his hair, and if anyone would try to be an anti-immigrant jerk to him, everyone *I* know would stick up for him and defend him, instead of trying to excuse the person harassing him, or explaining why he was to blame for being harassed by virtue of being a foreigner.

 

There were plenty of things that I liked about living there, don't get me wrong. Otherwise I really wouldn't have lasted 8 years. But at some point, it was just too much. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-30 23:42:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWhats wrong with USCIS?

I hate it so much when people ask me "You got married? Why didn't she come back with you to the States?" Idiots, no one knows how completely useless, lazy, and badly-run the USCIS is! And no one understands that we have the worst immigration system in the world! If my wife was from a developed country I would never even think about bringing her to this rotting cesspool we call America!


Seriously I have no idea why someone married to a German, Canadian, or British citizen would want to bring their spouses to live here, this country sucks. If I could get work over there I would move in 1 second and never come back. 


I married a Dutch person and lived over there for 8 years. There are a multitude of reasons why we came back, but the biggest was that my family is all still here in the US. Also, I really couldn't stand most Dutch people anymore, aside from my husband, and I couldn't deal with all the Xenophobic, racist, anti-immigrant bullcrap that I had to deal with every day. It was becoming a very toxic situation for me, and we decided that we wanted to stay married and that was not going to happen if we didn't look after my mental health.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-30 13:11:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsUSCIS-AILA meeting October 23

Keep tweeting and getting the word out. Enough pressure WILL cause action. Seriously, what else can we do in this situation. It's not like we have any other recourse whatsoever.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-05 11:07:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsUSCIS-AILA meeting October 23

i crack up at the lawyers some of you are in contact with or even hired..they are totally useless to our cause..

Except to get the word out for us. Lawyers tend to run in circles with more influence than me. It's smart to try to win them to our side. I haven't hired any of them, but that's because they seem superfluous for my situation. Mine is a straight-forward case. I can see why other people would need a lawyer to help them though.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-05 10:53:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsUSCIS-AILA meeting October 23

Very dissapointing....they still are ignoring us

Yes, I think they're referring to the reduced time for I130's for LPR's.  Obviously, even to the lawyers who represent us, we count for nothing.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-05 10:29:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports2nd Embassy Visit Post-Interview

Good luck!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-06 02:53:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsToo much evidence?

Yeah it sucks we both have nothing recent saved really. We really, for the longest time, had no idea what to do in terms of who was going where....since at the time when we were talking, DOMA was still in effect and my only option to go to states was either a student or work VISA and since I don't have a GED, that was gonna be another couple months. And don't get me started on the Canadian immigration process. That is confusing as heck!! You think people on here can't get straight answers....welll let me tell you a thing XD

So once DOMA was struck down, and I found this site a few weeks ago....It seemed pretty straight forward....

Just hoping it wont be an issue with just stuff from 2012...but we have stuff from 2010-2012 and photos from 2009-2013. Just no saved confirmation emails or chat logs....>__<; 

But thanks for your advice! I think what we have should be okay, aside from nothing in the last year except photos but they can question me about that at he interview wink.png If it gets that far.





Contact these people: They're giving free legal advice and help for same sex couples who are trying to get their spouses here. https://www.facebook.../TheDOMAProject Good luck!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-07 02:06:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsList (months) of transfers for workload in October from NBC

I need to be added to the list! Transfered on the 6th from the NBC to Nebraska. PD March 20, 2013. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-08 04:18:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsWorkload transfers. NBC-> Service Centers

I thought that this announcement said that were going to other service centers, not local offices...


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-21 23:24:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsPlease any Information about The meaning of this Msg

Plenty of the Feb. Filers also got approved. It appears to be the luck of the draw as to where we're being transferred to or how fast we get approved. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-13 11:25:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsContacted our senator

Who didn't write you back, Menedez? Just noticed were both from Jersey :X. My grandfather was actually close to Menedez, so trying to pull strings to get an answer from him.

Booker hasn't contacted me back about his Senatorial contact information. After attempting to reach Menendez through email repeatedly, and faxing the information, I went ahead and snail mailed him a copy. No call to tell me that they received it , I had to chase them down by phone for 3 days to even confirm that they got my mail. Then they told me I might have an answer within 3 weeks. And Congressman Smith, I started contacting first, back at the beginning of September. No answer for over a month. So I emailed again. Then I called. They told me that they'd have to send me a privacy waiver. That took them over a week. I got it and sent it back in the same day, then same bullcrap. I called a few days to confirm that it'd been received, and I couldn't get a straight answer for four days. Finally, someone from his office called me back this morning (close to a month since I called for the privacy waiver)... And they told me that my case had been transferred to Nebraska on Nov. 7th, and I'd probably have about 4 more months to wait, and if I didn't hear anything back by March, to contact them again. (Actually, my transfer letter says I should see action within 60 days. Also, my case was never touched during them "looking into" it, so yeah.) They haven't told me anything I didn't already know, actually gave me information that directly conflicts with the information I just got from the USCIS, and were a giant waste of my time.

 

It's not just my case. I want them to look into just what happened here with ALL of our files, and hold someone accountable for this. I want them to work towards a resolution so that safe guards are in place and this can't happen again in the future. What little recourse we have in this system, they have been working overtime to circumvent. It's bull, and they should not be able to do this. If they're going to have this much power, then SOMEONE needs to be responsible, and held accountable when they screw up.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-13 22:31:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsContacted our senator

I contacted the Senators and Congressman in my state. I started in the beginning of Sept. I've gotten just about no response from them except that I should expect more delays. Luckily, my case got transferred to Nebraska last week without their intervention.  Because one Senator doesn't respond to any contact, another is too busy worrying about Illegal Immigration, and my Congressman is busy winning right-wing awards from people who want to make Fundamentalist Christianity the law of the land and has no time to do his actual job. (Seriously, telling me the same thing I can read on the USCIS website is not friggin' helpful.) 

 

(o_o)  I'm not bitter at all. (o_o)

 

What I'm saying here is that other people's mileage may vary. For some people it seems to help a lot. For me, all it's done is given me three more people to put on my "waste of resources, don't vote for" list.  

 

 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-13 01:41:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCongressional Inquiry Results

 

But hey, what do I know, I suppose.  I've only had a hugely successful long distance relationship for the last 4+ years that's finally coming to it's rightful fruition.  The bitter hearts will erroneously say I'm just here to cause trouble.

 

I don't think that you're just here to cause trouble. But I do think you're coming off as smug here and people are not reacting well to that (probable) miscommunication.  

 

I get your points, I really do. I've already been through this process when I went to Europe. And like I said before, that also sucked, but in a different way.  I was also in a wildly successful long distance relationship. So successful that we married years ago, had two beautiful little girls, and built a life for ourselves in my husband's country.  I've been with my husband for more than 9 years. Why is your 'rightful fruition' more valuable than mine, or should be given more weight than mine? The answer is, of course, that they're not and you can't really make blanket comparisons like that. Of course your relationship with your fiance is going to be more important to YOU. But for people who are separated from their spouses, it will be like just another slap in the face from someone who isn't and wasn't going through the same long term separation issues.  During your 4 year long term relationship, you and your fiance were the ones determining how often you got to see each other. You were not forced to be apart by outside apathetic and uncaring forces. And when you finally decided to be together, your process went very quickly. I'm happy that it did. At least that's two people who don't have to deal with this garbage.  But your perception is entirely predicated on your particular experience and you seem to have no compassion for those who are in a different situation than you.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-07 01:54:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCongressional Inquiry Results

It's a friggin' travesty. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-04 22:08:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 January 2013 Filers !!! Is Every One Approved ???

NO ! I am a January 22nd 2013 filer and made an info pass Thursday just for them to tell me

they have no file of mine that it had been lost. 9 months of waiting for nothing. What a great

government we have.

Do you have your NOA1? 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-16 21:54:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsguy best suggestion from me ..

 

I'm not quitting. You can if you want. *shrugs*

No, I'm not quitting. I would rather spend my time trying to fix the broken process than throwing up my hands and walking away. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-16 22:29:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsguy best suggestion from me ..

i think we should quit thinking before 11 months ..cuz its just like to making our brain sick and upset ..so better if we stop it right away ..n start making evil pray for uscis :'(

No offense, but the person I'm petitioning is my husband of 7 1/2 years. The father of my children. The person I've lived with for 8 years. The love of my life. My marriage would absolutely have to be in the toilet for me to stop thinking about it until it's been after 11 months.

 

I feel it every day that he's not here, as do my children. I feel it when I wake up and he's not there.  I feel it when we eat breakfast, and he's not there. I feel it the entire day when I'm caring for our children, and I know he's not going to be coming back from work at night.  I feel it when I go to sleep at night and he's not there. My children talk about him all the time. They tell me how much they miss him. They cry because he's not here, and I cry because I know that it's MY fault that they are missing their father, because I couldn't cope with living abroad any more. This was supposed to be almost over by now, and we haven't even gotten past the initial review yet.  

 

I love my husband.  If he was the kind of person I could forget about, I wouldn't have married him.  I can't just put one of the most important people in my entire life out of my head. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-16 22:24:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 Approved

Congrats!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-16 12:46:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 Petitioners: Be heard!

In a nutshell, you are slowing down USCIS with a coordinated version of a Denial of Service attack. That application that got slowed may actually have been yours.

 

Um... No. We're trying to get the word out, not shut them down. 

 

My petition is already slowed down, because of their bad decisions and ineptitude. That's entirely on them, not me. Have you actually read the letter that we're sending?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-20 10:38:00
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

Ooo! Look what I just found: http://ofa.barackoba...igration-story/


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-19 14:01:00
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

Problem... All of the faxes are failing. I sent the emails out, but haven't been able to get a single fax to go through.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-19 11:49:00
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

Doing it. :)


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-19 11:40:00
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

I really don't think race has anything to do with anything.  And as far as immigration being a right, there was a lovely response that someone else posted the other day. I'm going to quote it here. 


 

The USCIS and the NVC are mandated by U.S. law to provide this service to U.S. citizens.  It isn't optional for them and it is actually a "right" to which you, me and everyone else on here are entitled to - they are not extending a privilege to us and they do not have discretional authority to deny a visa without cause.  If you, a U.S. citizen, apply for the Visa for your immediate relative and you meet the guidelines for approval, then they are absolutely obligated to provide you that Visa for your immediate relatives.  Their only authority is to exam your case and determine if you meet the approval requirements.  Issuing a Visa to other Visa categories, not involving the immediate relative of a U.S. citizen is where the discretionary "privilege" comes into play.  A person who is not a citizen of the U.S. and who is not being petitioned as an immediate relative of a U.S. citizen certainly doesn't have a "right" to a Visa, but I believe if they are willing to contribute to our country, they should be extended that privilege and welcomed.  This country was built by immigrants and our diversity is one our greatest assets.

 

 

Regardless of my personal beliefs, we as U.S. citizens are absolutely not being extended a "privilege", the USCIS and the NVC are mandated by Federal Law to provide us this service - which makes it a "right", protected by U.S. law, and not a discretionary privilege.

 

It is reasonable for us to expect a fair and expeditious process.


 


Darn it, it was supposed to show that quote was by Jayjaym. Best response to this nonsense that we're being extended a privilege.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-19 02:20:00
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.

Oh, I have been even since we started discussing what we could do to improve the situation here. I'm almost ready to contact the Daily Show. :P


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-18 21:09:00
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

Tomorrow maybe?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-18 10:14:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCase being transferred

after 8 months 1 week and 3 days i finally got approved today just now guys wish you all the best of luck smile.png

Congrats!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-21 23:19:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsCase being transferred
 This is what I received in my email today,  On October 29, 2013, we transferred your I130, IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN, to  your local USCIS Office for further processing.  The new office has jurisdiction over your case and will send you a decision as soon as processing is complete or you will be notified if further information or action is needed.   If you move, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address.

My local USCIS office is Atlanta, GA. When I looked to see the processing times its only listing forms I-485, N-400, and N-600 time frames.. So I'm wondering what are the processing times for them with the I-130??

 

If what I'm seeing from other people is correct, you will probably get another one saying that they sent it to a service center. If you can't wait to find out, you can call tomorrow and ask where it was transferred to.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-10-29 17:43:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress Reportsurgent Hekp!!!!

Where did it get transferred to?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-23 11:33:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

Just above I Quoted the first message notice  the NOA1 in this message..

 

 

The NOA1 isn't an approval. OP, did you get your NOA2 in 19 days, or your NOA1?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-23 01:28:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

You're a K1 visa. That's an entirely different situation and processing time.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-22 19:51:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

 

Kaylara can you please tell me if USCIS sent you a email when they transferred your case? Thank you 

Yes, they sent me 3.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-22 18:21:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

There will always be 'odd balls out' and statistical noise.

If this becomes a trend, and I-130s start getting approved in under a month on a regular basis, something must have really gone down at USCIS.

However, there have always been fluctuations in I-130 processing times. February 2011 files waited an average of 3 months, while July 2011 files waited 7 - 8 months. We're dealing with a government agency and unpredictable case loads. Things will get backlogged. Once the backlog becomes too large, more manpower is diverted to sort out the backlog, and processing times go back down to the norm ~ 5 month. The best time to file is usually at the height of a massive backlog.

I'd estimate that people who file I-130s today will receive an NOA2 in roughly 4 - 5 months, while the processing times for I-129f petitions will become slightly longer as manpower is diverted from I-129f towards I-130s.





I understand this, however, in this case the backlog was entirely manufactured by the USCIS. The people who were in line first should be getting processed first. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-22 14:16:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

Very true. Since we're talking about averages. So, they're up to their usual tactics trying to game the numbers then. Gah. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-22 10:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

To everyone who is accusing me of being disingenuous, I do not find pleasure in (1) creating an account on this forum, and (2) the act of falsifying. All I wanted was to share my excitement with people on this forum, however, little did I anticipate the reaction I have been receiving so far.

You didn't anticipate that people who have been waiting for much longer would be looking at your post in disbelief?  I mean, seriously, good for you. But you're misreading the messages. We're not horrified at you. We're horrified at the USCIS.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-22 10:34:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsNOA2 APPROVED IN 19 DAYS

Use common sense? I've been waiting for 8 months for my NOA2. Is there some actual reason why YOU get to jump the line?  I mean, congrats and all that... But, SERIOUSLY?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-22 10:19:00