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IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

I agree. If feels like we are the second class group rather than any kind of priority. This was yet another abysmal week for approvals. After 3 weeks of this ####### I'm going to take a break and force myself not to even look anymore. It's just too disturbing. I'm also concerned that it may be the preparation for DACA renewals that was recently announced that may be the reason for the epic slowdown of IR/CR 1approvals. And I cannot even contemplate how furious I would be if that hunch were to prove to be a reality. So it's break time for me. I am going to refrain from looking at the numbers here on VJ for a while and stop watching USCIS' display of utter incompetence and lack of compassion for families. his thread needs to turn positive again and I know I'm not helping.


Daca won't have any impact until September. Forms are going out late May x

CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-26 11:15:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
I think the most disgusting thing is the lie that we are the priority. That the process is designed to keep, or get families together ASAP. If the k1 is designed to allow couples to marry in the US, then the i-130 should move faster. The only thing that stops me getting too upset or angry is that, being in a same sex relationship, I know people who have waited years, some decades, for this. But for Doma, I'd be with my wife now. The fact that a process doesn't give a toss about keeping people, especially with children (which I don't have thankfully) apart for so long is condoned by the authorities, disgusts me. I can't wrap my head around it. At least k1s can start a life together sooner. But us beneficiarys who want to work and contribute asap are punished. Maybe what I've said is harsh but I do think our uscis purgatory should not be this long and this nebulous.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-25 15:12:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
On the plus side, that at least has a time frame and an end in sight. I think it's worse waiting now, after 5 months, because it could be today or another three months.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-25 13:47:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

I didn't go back and count, but I think there are now as many, maybe even one more, December approvals to November approvals.  I've officially concluded a ouija board to be as valuable as anything else when predicting anything at all at USCIS.



Lol, at all SCs? Wth are pds for again?


CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-25 12:44:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
They need social skils training. I've already heard someone almost suicidal after being told another 6 months by them. I think they get a ###### kick out of it. It's spiteful and mean.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-25 02:00:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

Sorry for the double post, but it just occurred to me why this process is so infuriating. I think the process is much like road constructions. The orange barrels can be out there for months, delaying and backing up traffic inconveniencing everyone while no progress at all takes place. Then, miraculously, when the construction company is near their performance bonus deadline, 50 guys show up and they knock out a huge stretch of road in a matter of days. Totally infuriating as you knew they had the capability of getting the job done expeditiously with minimal impact to the community all along but they simply chose not to. As they had other more important priorities.

The way the USCIS can delay for weeks then blow through a huge volume of petitions in a short time indicates that they have the ability t get everyone approved expediently if they chose. f they could manage themselves to do so and if reuniting families was really a priority. Just like every other government agency out there, if these folks actually had to be efficient to stay in business they would be bankrupt.

/end rant

Sorry, for the venting....






Hold tight, nearly there x

CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-24 14:17:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Or you could get approved before then :D
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-24 14:14:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

there was another vermonter today with pd 12/2/13
 
http://www.visajourn...e.php?id=178698


Dude, does it sound to you like they might have picked up the box that we're in? Those dates are only just either side of us. Keeping everything crossed.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-24 02:53:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Good lord, so VSC really are all over the show. So we could hear anytime, lol.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-24 02:26:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

Just been reading about a 15 day approval, not expedite. That's lovely for them but it's a bloody terrible insult to people waiting months. 


CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-23 14:31:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
It's not like we're riding on a taxpayer jolly, we fund uscis directly. Expedite unless a matter of life or death or military anger me. There is untold stress and financial hardship put upon all during this process.

 
Here is the response my congressman's staffer got from the VSC:
 
"On November 12, 2013, your constituent filed a Form I-130 Immediate Relative petition with U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).  Your constituents Form I-130 Immediate Relative petition is currently pending processing with the Vermont Service Center (VSC). 
 
The VSC is currently processing Form I-130 Immediate Relative petitions 6 months from date of receipt (5 months processing + 1 month buffer).  Your constituents Form I-130 Immediate Relative petition is within 30 days of the processing times.
 
Thank you,"
 
So when they say "5 months" apparently that means 6, since they get one extra month to do anything. I swear that they're just making this sh!t up. What a worthless and talentless group of people. 









Great work Dude, my phone added the wrong post. Good to know. Let's hope it's true. Would you mind if I shared that with the facebook group?
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-23 13:40:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
They said 5 months by May. I'll be five months on Monday. May starts Thursday. They better get a shift on, lol.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-23 13:30:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Seems a lack of activity this week. Do they tend to send out approvals in one big lot? There are 3 guys on the facebook vj site all late October at VSC. Hoping to hear they hear something before April is out.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-23 10:59:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Why can't they just be honest and say six? But, in USCIS lingo, it is what it is. Still, we are getting closer, some people were looking at 9-12 months.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-23 02:52:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
The only time the hard copy would be useful is if the non American spouse wanted evidence of filing going through US border control I would imagine.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-22 14:32:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Sounds like a bog standard response to a service request. They are saying 5 months but not many are seeing anything until at least 6. It stinks.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-22 14:01:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
You can send AOS and IV stuff together only if you have a lawyer is my understanding. Has to do with not needing to fill in the Ds-261
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-22 08:22:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

I think Easter much like Xmas is far more secular now than ever before... which I'm totally Happy with... I get to eat delicious chocolate and I don't have to believe in anything If don't want to! :D
  lol, with you x
in a different subject... I need to complain... what's up with all the people from previous months that got their NOA2s and just will not fill in their time lines... I will grant them the benefit of the doubt and say that they're far too excited to do that... but... ugh! 

I think Easter much like Xmas is far more secular now than ever before... which I'm totally Happy with... I get to eat delicious chocolate and I don't have to believe in anything If don't want to! :D
 
in a different subject... I need to complain... what's up with all the people from previous months that got their NOA2s and just will not fill in their time lines... I will grant them the benefit of the doubt and say that they're far too excited to do that... but... ugh! 


Edited by Cathymac, 20 April 2014 - 05:23 PM.

CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-20 17:21:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
And happy wait an extra two days for no reason for us atheists ;)
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-20 16:37:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

Long weekends, pah, no news, pah ;)


CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-20 15:13:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

Wish the same could be said about Vermont. God only knows where they are, they sure don't.


CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-18 12:47:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
:D
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-17 17:43:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
When you check your case status, you can add contact details to see when your case was last looked at. It's when you sign up for email/txt notifications.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-17 16:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Normal. Mine not touched since 5 days since pd.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-17 16:02:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Whoohoo, another November approval. Congratulations xxx
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-16 09:26:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

According to the October spreadsheet, they are halfway though. VSC is at 40% after they sent out a shed load of approvals yesterday :)

 


CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-15 11:48:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Well Oct 3rd still puts in with a shout of approval before the end of May. I can live with that but not much longer.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-14 15:07:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
I suspect they say they are further behind than they are to put people off calling.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-14 14:58:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Texas does show June 2012 for permanent residents on its list as well, is that correct?
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-14 13:39:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
They been letting the interns at the IT system? Lol.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-14 13:23:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

DACAs won't be a problem. Only the forms are being released late May, they won't be getting filed until September. My gut feeling is they will be mostly through November by mid May.


CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-14 11:58:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
I wouldn't worry. If they stop doing October and November, it'll push their 5 month goal back to 8 or 9 months. I doubt service requests help but getting your congressman involved doesn't harm. I have no idea why people are over a year waiting but I doubt they'll let it happen again. The reason they are moving fast(ash) now is because they got rapped for letting that happen in the first place.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-13 03:31:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Hope you're right dude, I'm right behind you at VSC so I hope to hear you get approval soon ;)
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-12 08:27:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
That's probably why they said they were aiming to get it down to 5 months by May. They seem to be moving fast. I couldn't take another four or five months of this. They should have 2013 done by end of May.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-11 14:56:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Wow, congratulations. W hat was your pd and service centre?
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-11 09:07:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
So it is then
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-09 16:13:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Surely an expedite?
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-09 15:49:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers

I'm starting to get a bit excite now, even though it's another 2 weeks to my 5 months. Be sweet to start seeing some of us getting approved soon. I know the next bit could be 5 months to visa in hand but at least we have more control over the process and there's movement. Waiting for noa2 is like waiting for the end of constipation.


CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-09 11:30:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
Check out 'am I ready to go' on the forum page. A guy has done a check list of returned documents from his successful application. Really useful.
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-08 11:11:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 November Filers
I've seen one for VSC in November. But that was four months, could have been a military expedite. There are still people waiting from August. I think the number crunching has left a few behind tbh :(
CathymacFemaleUnited Kingdom2014-04-08 11:06:00