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USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

 

My original question was not posted to VJ in general but to the OP in particular. He seems wound up with statistics and petitions and lambasting the US government at each and every opportunity.

 

Since you brought up your relationship I will comment on that.

 

IMHO, those that have been married for a period of time such as you and especially with kids should have a fast track section.

I appreciate that. But even though I want to be done with this, I honestly want the people who have been waiting longer than me to get their approvals first. I don't think it's right that they're approving people randomly, while still stating that they process petitions in the order in which they are received. I just want them to actually do what they state they are doing, and stop lying to us. 

 

I'm wound up with statistics, and petitions, and complaining about the USCIS a lot. I've had a long time to get to their point where this is the case.  I was fine with waiting, up until about the 6 month mark. At that point I started trying to figure out what exactly was happening with my case, and kept running into this wall as far as information goes. 

 

I don't want to fax, write letters, and call them out on social media. I really don't. I hate having to prod people to do their job. But I really, really dislike being lied to on a regular basis by my government. I dislike there being no accountability, transparency, or recourse for us in this process. I hate that people are in limbo and not given any kind of a reliable timeline. I think it's wrong.  And if I see wrong, I have an ethical obligation to try to improve the situation. (That's just my personal ethos, other people have to behave how they think is best.)

 

My husband is worth fighting for. My marriage is worth fighting for. I just find it sad that I have to fight so hard for even the most basic of information. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-18 12:44:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

The new numbers have come out for October. 

 

http://dashboard.usc...e=6&charttype=1

 

As will surprise no one, the # of all currently pending I-130 petitions went from 357,511 to 379,608 in October. for us Vermonters, that (dis-)Service Center completed 812 cases and had 1,964 pending customer action, but it got 1,500 new cases so it ended the month with 11,918 pending sad.png

 

That really scares me, at that rate my petition won't be processed until next October sad.png Hopefully the VSC picked it up in November......

Those numbers are pathetic, and show the outright lie that their stakeholder letter statement was.  I think that we should send this information to the Ombudsman and the Public Engagement people as soon as their processing times are updated.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-18 12:18:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

 

The welcome is not an issue, even a day labourer at Home Depot can do that.

 

She won't be a visitor but a permanent resident.

Personally, I've been married for almost 8 years. Yes, I'm fully prepared for my husband, the father of my two small children, to come here. I know what being married and living with him entails. We'd already been doing it for YEARS before we decided to move back to the states. We already have our plan ready to go, and have discussed it with our extended family who are also on board. I'm not at all worried about what will happen once he gets here. What I'm worried about is that it's going to take nearly another year to get to that point.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-18 12:16:00
USCIS Service CentersStupid question

They check everything including the color of your underwear.

 

Just kidding about the underwear (I hope)

 

I know they check criminal background at least.

Yeah, they don't check underwear color until the interview. (I wish I was joking, this is apparently a real question asked people at the interview.)


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-31 11:07:00
USCIS Service CentersCalling USCIS

I believe you can type 1, 1, 1, 1, case number, 3 to get a tier 1.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-30 23:41:00
USCIS Service CentersCase transferred to Local Office??? Why!!??

Hey VJ members I am a little confused.. My case was transferred on Dec 27, 2013 from NBC to another service center. Now I received another email saying that its being transferred to my local office. Has any one gone through this experience? How does the process work in a local office? Why is it being transferred to my local office? Any response will help thank you in advanced. 

It's not being transferred to your local office. You can expect that you will get 2 more emails. If you can't wait to find out where your case has been transferred to, call the 800 #, and ask for a tier 2 officer because you're confused as to where your petition is going. They will tell you where it was transferred to.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-30 13:01:00
USCIS Service CentersWhere do you locate your priority date?

Your priority date should be  the same as the Received date. On my NOA1, it actually lists my Priority date under my receipt number. However, when they transferred it, they left the priority date blank, and stated that my receipt date was 1 day later than it was originally. On my NOA2, My priority date is again listed as the original priority date, but the receipt date is listed as a day after that. 

 

Like this: 

1rst notice: 

 

Receipt Date: March 20, 2013

Priority Date: March 20,2013

 

2nd notice: 

Receipt Date: March 21, 2013

 

3rd notice: 

Priority date: March 20, 2013

Receipt date: March 21, 2013

 

Not that priority dates appear to be particularly useful for our immigrant classes. :P


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 12:37:00
USCIS Service Centerssolution to delays: close TSC, NSC ; increase CSC workforce three times.

Previously i-130s were done only at VSC and CSC - which are larger and have staff trained AND EXPERIENCED to handle i-130s. 

 

NSC and TSC usually handled other non complicated kinds of petitions etc - prior to all this transfer business.

 

They're not poorly resourced - i HIGHLY doubt that they have horrible adjudicators ( like the movie "horrible bosses" hahahah)

 

Its the fact that they probably haven't done this large of a volume of petitions - and there's national security concerns and fraud removal issues that must be handled before i-130 approval. CSC can do all that faster because they have been doing it forever.

 

The new SCs are not experts when it comes to i-130. 

Or if they're experts - they're not experts who can handle ridicuosly high intake

 

This is not the first time that all of the service centers have been adjudicating I130's. They are not novices at it. This volume is also not ridiculously high.  They *created* this issue, and now they are having to deal with the consequences of holding hundreds of thousands of applications for months at a time. And I don't think that they're devoting the kind of resources required to clear this backlog in a reasonable amount of time. (The K1 backlog was smaller, and when they wanted to actually clear it, they did in a fairly short amount of time.)  I don't believe that there is any sense of urgency in fixing the problem. And they won't get serious about clearing it until there is enough pressure from outside to do so. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-13 14:00:00
USCIS Service CentersInsufferably incompetent

:) 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-16 11:04:00
USCIS Service CentersInsufferably incompetent

Yes, time certainly does fly when you're enjoying time with your spouse. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-16 03:19:00
USCIS Service CentersInsufferably incompetent

Wow! You did go through really fast! Do you think it's because you're an F2A? I've seen others saying that they were processing those faster because their dates were current on the Visa Bulletin. Good for you! I'm glad that some of us aren't getting stuck. Especially with the way retrogression works.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 01:21:00
USCIS Service CentersInsufferably incompetent

It amazes me how people try to interpret an agency. Not one person out here who isn't on the inside of this organization can make foolish statements on how or why applications get processed. It is pure speculation based on very few samples with a small number of statistics of filiers who have decided to join this forum.

 

Until you are sitting in the meetings of the people that head this organization you have no idea how the process works and neither do I. As long as I have been in this forum the process, the people, the questions and the order of which applications are processed is relvolving. The same comments made today are the same comments made five years ago.

 

Everyone thinks they are standing in a line at Disneyland and they get to get on the ride next and everyone wants to be just as important as the next person. I salute you for a great reply JA_Martinez. To label the USCIS "Insufferably incompetent" is only because your patience is thin. the process does and will happen. Then you will never have time to be here whining again

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Good Luck!

 

 

If they are still having the same problems now that they were having 5 years ago, that shows that no action on their part has fixed the underlying problem or system that is in place. I don't think sitting back and having patience is going to have ANY positive effect. I don't want people who file 5 years from now to be dealing with the same exact problems that we've had because every one needs to have patience, and accept that there's no transparency or answers from this government agency. 

 

My assumptions are not just based on Visajourney's information. In fact, the vast majority of my theories are based on the past behavior of the USCIS, and their very own information. I have read the FOIA documents that were released. I have read the Ombudsman reports and the USCIS's response to them. I've read lawsuit documents. I've read statistics. I've read up on everything I can get my hands on. If I'm wrong, then I want to know about it so I don't hold the wrong people accountable. Visajourney may be a small sampling, but it, and the other immigration sites out there seem to indicate the same things, which are eventually also corroborated with the data that the USCIS puts out. 

 

I hate to tell you, but I'm just as important as the next person. The people who are still waiting are just as important as I am. This isn't some stupid ride at Disneyworld. These are people's husbands, wives, children, and parents. These people and their relationships are not insignificant and should not be compared to some stupid ride at an amusement park.  

 

And if I'm too busy to come on visajourney once my husband is here, there are plenty of friends on here that I plan on keeping in contact with. And I plan on continuing to work towards helping to fix the immigration system's problems, because it's important. My husband *also* thinks it's important. My whole family and extended circle of friends thinks it's important. You don't think it's important, so don't work towards it. Just telling people to wait and suck it up is not helpful to anyone.

 

They already are getting that answer on a regular basis from the USCIS. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-09 23:09:00
USCIS Service CentersInsufferably incompetent

It really isn't fair! People who filed after me are getting approved already and it makes no sense. Even if I did suppose have..an RFE, I should have gotten it already! I don't even know what to say. So tired of hearing that they are processing only Feb 13 Filers! 

Good news! Next week, they'll probably update it to Feb. 14th Filers! 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-09 17:56:00
USCIS Service CentersInsufferably incompetent

 

I know its random because I actually bothered to look through the receipt numbers (in batches) and empirical evidence proves that they leave out receipt numbers willy nilly and move onto transferring batches that are not consecutive. I am a computer scientist by profession and I consider myself sane enough (whatever sane means right now) to identify nonsensical patterns of processing. 

 

 

Also CSC, NSC and TSC dont have anything to do with decision making about who gets transferred.

They are recipients of the transfer.  What does the fact that they exist have anything to do with the transfer ? 

NBC is where they are transferring and they are doing it like they're on crack cocaine. 

 

 

What does the number of cR1/IR1 applicants have anything to do with the order in which they are processed ??

 

 

What does RFEs etc have to do with processing first-in first-out ?

 

 

Why not process them in a certain order ? They're mixing up PDs to the point where people with PDs from later in the month are being processed than those with PDs from earlier dates for no damn reason. 

Oh, I think there's a reason. It's the easiest way to be able to report a faster processing time. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-09 10:49:00
USCIS Service CentersWhere is the USCIS processing time update ???

Actually, the processing time went from 7.4 months to 8+ months.  I expect a date of Feb. 14, 2013 in the update. I'll be pleasantly surprised if that's not the case.  We'll also get the new trend/volume charts, which I think are even more important information for us to have than the new date. 

 

Just about time to get that letter together, everyone. :)


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-17 12:50:00
USCIS Service CentersWhere is the USCIS processing time update ???

They do take their sweet time updating. Probably trying to put it off as long as possible to avoid the flood of service requests they are sure to get. Even if they only move forward a day.

 

I think they started trying to update it. Their Volume charts have all been zeroed out for about 2 days.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-17 12:15:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

I'm sorry to say that you may have quite a while to wait before you will see an approval on your case. :(


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-25 10:57:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

I don't think it's fair or helpful to throw the K1's under the bus. They're in their own special immigrant class, and were also impacted negatively by the DACA applications last year. We have the information about the DACA petitions and their approvals. Hell, Mayorkas was praised over and over again for how he made sure they went through quickly.  The K1's are ALSO US Citizens. Unless you're talking about showing how they were negatively impacted as well.

 

The last thing we want is them just switching the backlog back over to them. We want them to actually FIX the problems. Not just shift them to someone else. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-23 02:09:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

My husband is actually really good at creating graphics. I'll ask him if he's interested in trying to create one and let you know.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-21 02:01:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

A decent infographic would also be easy to pass around in social media.  :)


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-18 11:49:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

This is a great letter. I think we should send it out to our congress people.  I'll be faxing it over to his offices later today. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-17 12:52:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

Tomorrow is the 15th, so you know what that means! New I1-30 data should be posted before Friday. 

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As usualy, I think we can expect a big disappointment from the USCIS. I think we should start on a letter now.

 

Things to emphasize:

 

1. May is fast approaching and if they keep moving the processing date 1 day at a time it will take them about 10 years to get to that vaunted 5-month processing window. 

2. Public attention is mounting. There's some news over in the progress report forums, you can look for it there. We shouldn't say too much but we should indicate that we have been in touch with "media figures" for many months and some are starting to take notice. 

3. I was checking out the USCIS outreach page. We ought to remind them that though it's wonderful that they're having teleconferences on such intellectually stimulating topics as

 

"O and P Nonimmigrant Visa Classifications: Performing Arts and Entertainment

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to participate in a teleconference on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Eastern) to provide feed..."

 

there are millions of US citizen relatives, torn apart from their families, and they ought to hold a teleconference (in ENGLISH) to discuss the concerns of all their US citizen relatives, for whom the USCIS supposedly exists to serve.

 

Also I was checking out their Feedback Opportunities page:

http://www.uscis.gov...k-opportunities

 

While I think a lot of it is just blowing smoke up our proverbial @$$es, it does present a lot of targets from whom we could try to induce a response. 

 

Also of note is the USCIS ideas page, where I have been posting. 

http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/

 

I think we ought to post our letter here and try to vote it to the top, or else spam everyone off the page.

 

Thoughts?

I think that will be a good way to get us kicked off the page. There are others who have tried that tactic for other subjects, and as far as I can tell, a moderator removed both the posts and the poster from the site.  Perhaps it would be a good idea to wait until they have an appropriate topic and then post and upvote it. 

 

Obviously you're aware of what's going on with me, Dude. (I keep wanting to call you Mick Foley, btw. LOL) I do hope that it results in the kind of attention that we want. And I do hope that I do the subject justice. 

 

I think that our best bet is to wait for the numbers to come out, and write our response accordingly. And I think that we need to seriously write everyone we can possibly think of, go all out on social media, traditional media, etc, and really drive home the point that we're NOT going away, and they can't ignore us until we shut up. I don't honestly think they should be behaving this way towards *any* immigrant class. 

 

I also think that we need to strongly consider attempting to write and gaining support for a legislative remedy to our problems. It is obvious that the USCIS has problems, and if they are unwilling or unable to solve them, then it may be time to try to force them to fix them. However, I believe this would be a huge undertaking that would require some advice from legal professionals, and researching/proof of a consistent problem. We would need to be clear and concise as to what our expectations are with this, and provide a real and workable solution that does not provide loopholes for them to slip through. Because we all know that if there is a loophole, they will exploit it to their advantage and our detriment.     


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-15 03:09:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

The new processing date, as well as the national and Service center specific processing data for the month of November. (Volumes and trends) 

 

The images I've included here are examples and show you what the information looks like.

 

This information can be accessed through the dashboard: 

 

http://dashboard.uscis.gov/

 

If you scroll to the bottom of the screen on this page you can get the average processing times:

 

https://egov.uscis.g...rd/ProcTimes.do

 

And you can check processing times here:

 

https://egov.uscis.g...sDisplayInit.do

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KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-15 02:43:00
USCIS Service CentersNew Processing times

She's probably seeing it here on Visajourney and thinking that it's the same as the USCIS info. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-26 11:43:00
USCIS Service CentersNew Processing times

I think that you may be misunderstanding what's going on and what's been happening.  

 

I can explain it, but it'll be long, and I'll have to do so tomorrow. Bed time for me! 

 

(If anyone else wants to jump in here, please feel free!)


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-26 02:26:00
USCIS Service CentersHELP!!! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE! 5 MONTHS SINCE NOA2 AND NOTHING!!!!

You can call them too: 

Contact Information

Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman
Department of Homeland Security
Mail Stop 0180
Washington, D.C. 20528


Phone: 1-855-882-8100 (toll free) or 202-357-8100 (local)

Fax: 202-357-0042

For general case inquiries: cisombudsman@hq.dhs.gov

 

I also would contact the USCIS, get a tier 2 on the line and ask where your case physically is. If they can't help you insist on being transferred to a supervisor.    What you need to confirm is that your case was actually sent to the NVC and not the NRC.  Ask them to send your file to the NVC again if possible.  I think that you also may be able to contact the NVC and tell them the situation and ask them to contact the USCIS on your behalf. 

*hugs* I'm so sorry that you're going through this. It's such utter bs. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-25 23:48:00
USCIS Service CentersHELP!!! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE! 5 MONTHS SINCE NOA2 AND NOTHING!!!!

No one has yet suggested to contact the USCIS OMBUDSMAN.

I have to agree with this. Contact them by email though. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-04 14:43:00
USCIS Service CentersI-130 Performance Data Published

I wonder whom we can contact about the obvious contradictions in the data. Or the fact that they wiped out the data for the service centers prior to Oct. ?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-28 22:42:00
USCIS Service CentersI-130 Performance Data Published

We know that information for Vermont is not true. They had pending applications at that point in time. I would dare say that the information for Texas is also not true.  I'm going to have to crunch some numbers here.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-25 10:52:00
USCIS Service CentersCase at california service center

Those emails are glitches, kind of. They do tell you that you got transferred, but you were not transferred to your local office. You were transferred to one of the service centers. Where it goes is a ####### shoot. You got luck, California is fast. :) 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-28 10:47:00
USCIS Service CentersUSCIS Redesigned IVR System

Yes, I'd be very interested to find out what kind of changes they've made. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-31 03:40:00
USCIS Service CentersUSCIS service centers are on the BBB

Ooooooo. Shiny. 


Edited by Kaylara, 01 February 2014 - 05:40 PM.

KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-01 17:39:00
USCIS Service CentersK-1 process going faster?

So I have to call if I want mine to go fast too?

Seriously, if calling a lot sped up your case, there are quite a few IR/CR people who would have their spouses in the states already. I think that they're just processing the K1 cases faster. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-31 03:56:00
USCIS Service Centersnebraska and california service center slow or fast?

I got transferred to Nebraska 14 days ago, and nothing yet. I've only seen 4 approvals from Nebraska. I've seen several from California.  Nothing from Texas..


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-19 02:38:00
USCIS Service Centersnebraska and california service center slow or fast?

Its normal. Its a structured pattern of email that state a case has been transferred to local office. But in hardcopy of notice, they will mention name of service center. Most probably,it would be nebraska. Our case has been transferred from vermont to nebraska and its definitely faster than vermont. We received approval on Nov 6.

Was that because of the F2A?  Sorry, the dates in your signature are confusing the heck out of me.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-19 02:32:00
USCIS Service Centersnebraska and california service center slow or fast?

 

for my case, we were notified yesterday that they will transfer it to another office for further processing..then today, another email saying that they sent it to my husband's local office that has a jurisdiction on our case..i don't know whats happening..hoping for good news soon..

People have been getting 3 emails on average before they get the hardcopy of the transfer notice in the mail. The hardcopy you get in the mail should tell you which service center it was sent to. If you don't want to wait to find out, then call the USCIS and tell them that you're getting conflicting information in the emails and need to speak to a tier 2. They should be able to tell you where your case actually is.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-11-16 01:01:00
USCIS Service Centers11months now,still waiting for NOA2- under security check

Vermont is hardly doing any I130's. If you've been pending more than a year, first contact the USCIS through all possible means: Infopass, Ombudsman, phone call, contact senators and congress people, put in a service request. Document each step. If you still have not gotten movement on your case, retain a lawyer and file a Writ of Mandamus.  They can take a while to process your case, but since Congress has defined an appropriate time frame as 180 days, once they go over twice that, after having done everything possible to resolve your case, a Writ is your last recourse.  Go google it. Do some research. 2 years is way too long.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-28 12:06:00
USCIS Service CentersRFE chicago office

Can you do an infopass?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-04-07 21:35:00
USCIS Service CentersWhyyyyyyyyyyy????

I'm an IR filer, and waited 9 1/2 months for my NOA2. We still don't have a case complete at the NVC. Total process for us is probably going to be about 15 months. No RFE's. No Checklists either.  

 

I'm sorry that it's taking so long. I know how much it sucks. 

 

 

As much as I hate to say it....after you get the visa...the hard part begins. My wife now complains she can't work or drive. She can't contribute to the family. She can't buy her own things. She is 100% dependent on ME! We are doing our AOS...K1 took 6 months (we felt lucky compared to some) We waited 3 months just for an Employment Authorization and Advanced Parole. It took my wife months of getting used to American food. Her English is improving daily but she worries its not good enough to get a job. Trust me...be patient...you may have many more months left before the real fun begins. Its been rough! We will be happy with the green card so she can start getting her own car and driving. Don't get me started on the medical hell the last 6 months has been! Wait is all I can say.

I had the same thing when I moved over to the Netherlands. It took me more than 2 years to get my residency permit, and during that time I wasn't able to work, go to school, drive, etc. I didn't know the language, so was working on learning it. But going shopping was... interesting. Eating Dutch food was also something I had to get used to. I got sick quite a lot during that time too, because all of the sudden I was surrounded by people spreading germs around that I hadn't had contact with previously. Going from being independent to entirely dependent was very difficult, and as soon as I could, I went out an got a job. The only plus side of that was that I was with my husband while I was going through it. You really won't know how culture shock is going to effect you either, or how severe/how long it will last.  Hang in there! I hope things get better for you! 

 

 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-04-05 00:07:00
Waivers (I-601 and I-212) and Administrative Processes (221g)2 year of administrative processing :(

I think they're telling to to wait still, but to get another medical report and submit it. But perhaps someone who has dealt with the same consulate/embassy would be able to better answer your question.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-16 22:10:00