Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	I think they are reading it already..... I do think so too And you know what? If so I'm sure they're not really happy with it...just like us	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-24 16:49:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	I miss one day and I have to read 5 pages, jeez this is a full time job just to keep up with this thread We should send this link to TSC & CSC	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-24 16:35:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Suggestion : Why shouldn't we try altogether to find a way to prove USCIS error. This will make us all benefit of Expedite Process.	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-24 15:59:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Yes, our senator had that response, and I believe many others have had it too. I think it's just another email that says "Hey, we're behind, we need more time". I THINK others have since been approved after receiving this email. Jenny was told to wait 9 to 12 months and she got approved	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-24 07:59:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	But - does anything EVER HAPPEN ON A MONDAY!! That's what they always said at my old job - have we any evidence of any approvals on Mondays? Nothing happened during Nov & Dec...Now anything can happen at any time!!! Remember new resources were/are trained, they should be more and more skilled!!!	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-24 06:43:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	I don't mean to rub it in, but it's going to be 74 and mostly sunny today -Yet one more reason I'm hoping you get to cross the pond sooner rather than later About the over-calling thing- I've heard elsewhere as well that we may need to be judicious. I've scheduled a teleconference with an active immigration attorney this evening, I'll ask him if he's heard anything about our CSC-TSC batch. I'm also going to contact a Congressman today and see if his office can help. Wishing for the best for all of us I don't mean to rub it in, but I'm going to have lunch with a co-worker and drink a nice glass of delicious French wine!! It's her birthday . It will allow me to forget TSC for a couple of hours. Tonight is the approvals night!!!	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-24 06:35:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	spouses are given preference over sibling petitions, not sure if that's what is meant DDOS attack might not be a good idea on a govt agency Good morning VJ!!! Preference categories does not concern USC's spouses. Cheers from a cold & grey Paris.	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-24 03:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	We know there are going to be approvals this new week and the weeks to come!!! Feels like when I was about to give birth, I knew it was going to happen but didn't know when Good night VJ friends, from a freesing Paris!!	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-23 17:49:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Ran across this i THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY Why is our I-130 petition transferred from california service to texas service center? "A good thing that your case got transferred to the texas service center..." BIG JOKE REALLY ! ! ! This is what someone with a similar experience posted on another forum: "Our case was also transferred from CSC to TSC. When it first happened a few days ago before I started reading this thread, I sent an email to a friend of mine that specialized in immigration law. Here was her response: "This is a good thing that your case got transferred to the Texas Service Center . In our practice, we see cases being transferred to another Service Center because the Center that has the case has too many cases, and they need to transfer cases out to another Center for faster processing. " Additionally, I spoke with a USCIS agent at the local (Minnesota) USCIS office about a month ago and he explained that I-130`s go through several departments for approval. I understood him to say that one agent doesn`t work on an individual petition start to finish but that different departements review and approve different aspects of the petition/I-130 (i.e. one for citizenship of petitioner, one for fraud, one for legitmacy of relationship, etc.) The USCIS had received our I-130 about 2 months prior to this conversation and, at the time, the only posting on the USCIS website for our I-130 was the receipt date. There were no other indications on the USCIS website as to where our case was in the process or that it had even been looked at. The agent assured me that our case had already been reveiewed and sent on by 5 departments and that these internal USCIS movements are not posted on the status screen that we (the public) can see. The USCIS officer also told me the service centers are being pushed very hard to deliver within the 5 months window. As a result, they are pretty consistant about processing them in the order they were received so there is a better chance of achieving the 5 month goal for all. If you look at the stats onine, the CSC was waaaaaaaay behind and TX doesn`t appear to be receiving or processing any I-130`s. Between the info from my friend (the immigration lawyer) and my conversation with the USCIS agent, I believe that CSC was way behind and transferred A LOT (maybe thousands) of I-130`s to the TSC to speed up the processing. I also believe that even though we don`t see any actions taken on the USCIS website, all of our cases (Jun, Jul, Aug, etc) have been reviewed by many departments and just need to continue to the end of the line (like an assembly line). The movement to TX was done to speed up the I-130`s in process and it is a benefit to all petitions that moved and all that stayed." Sounds like this could be good news!! I heard this one about 100 times from USCIS Maybe USCIS at TSC needs to read to also I suspect TSC pushed the wrong botton, instead of approving the petitions, the employee entered the files as received that day. They only noticed the mistake when they started receiving our claims. So, maybe that's why each time one of us insists by any mean to having an explanation on what's going on, they pick up the file and approve it. Nevertheless I'm afraid if you keep on harassing them, they may just forget our file for a while We will all be approved and in a very short time. There isn't much we can do. Some heads at TSC & CSC may fall, they will deal with it indoors. I don't believe that Laurel is not aware of this mess, if they told her they made a mistake and it's being solved, why should she make us more worried than what we already are. Just my thoughts	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-23 17:15:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Texas Service Center INQUIRY PROCEDURE The TSC fax number for NAFSA inquiries is 214-962-1450. Please read the procedures noted below for how the fax inquiry system should be utilized. Fax TSC at 214-962-1450. Tomorrow's action #1	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-23 16:50:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	When I e-mail the Dep. Dir at TSC and others on Monday, I am including this picture of my son undergoing a breathing treatment back in Thailand. He has had pneumonia and now bronchitis, hospitalized many occasions.......... Here is a copy of the expedite approval: I get pissed more and more as each minute passes............ Keep the faith!!! This nightmare will be over soon	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-22 17:59:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Not sure what the hold-up in my case is. Neither of us have been married before. My wife has traveled to middle-eastern countries for vacation, but that's not unusual among Europeans. I'm not sure if they have access to her passport at this stage anyway. I heard a lot of people say they think it's taking long because they do or once did work for the federal government or the military. That could be my problem. Ugh, I've had to go through 2 background checks for the federal government in the last 2 years, once as contractor and once as a federal employee. The second one was right after I sent in my I-130. You would think that they would share information but that is obviously not the case. I can't believe they don't share this kind of info. It wouldn't make any sense It was one of the reasons we thought our petition was going to be a no brainer process, me and my Taylormade man have to go through background checks for professional reasons. I'm getting more and more confused with their sense of logic	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-22 15:57:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Party sounds grande- I wonder where most of the folks are from on here... I know at least three of us are in Florida (myself, Jenny, and Val/Gary)... I'm in Paris and my TaylorMade Man is in Alabama	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-22 07:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	thanks guys, it's okay! i'm just acknowledging the "congrats!" while thinking "ugh! why not me?!" bc i've been there too. we have such a great group of supportive people here, and i love that. once all of us are in the US, we should have a party and get to meet each other. it's like a little family. Yeah!! And we'll call it "The TSC Survivors' Party"	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-22 07:12:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Thanks celldoc. Taylormade... approval date is 1/21. it's bittersweet because 1) you feel guilty that so many others are still waiting and you know everyone is saying "congrats!!" and thinking "you suck!"... i know... that's me over the last few months! also, 2) i think only one of us has actually made it to nvc... so as others have said, you get this approval which is cool, but it doesn't do much good if your file doesn't make it to nvc. so just remaining hopeful that the kinks in the system are getting worked out so we all can have a smooth ride from tsc to nvc. Hey you're the one who tells us to be positive, why feeling guilty? You reached the next step, we are just behind you, and we are all going to make it!!!	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-22 06:36:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	hi waitingondLord - the email came at 11:26 pm EST. someone asked if online status changes too, and yes it does. i think, but i'm not positive, that the email is maybe generated from the change in status. either way, some people have gotten notices that say they were approved several days before the date of their email, i think. so it's very possible that some people are approved but no one at USCIS has checked the right box in their system yet that will trigger the update to your online status and the email. if that was our office garza on myspace, i noticed he said he works sometimes until 3 am. don't give up hope for this weekend! Hi Jellybelly What's is the approval date?	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-22 05:47:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Hi all - Just got an email... approved as of today!! NOA1 July 8th, NOA2 Jan 21st. Transfer CSC to TSC on 11/2 and last touched 11/29. Got an expedite on 12/17 and have been working patiently with my awesome congressional liaison. CONGRATS!!!!! Just woke up after a few hours sleep, to check the approvals!!! This gives me hope, lots of hope Gary is right I once had a touch a Sunday, so...Who knows!!!	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-22 00:50:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Thanks Guys!!! You make me lough and it's something that became rare with this TSC torture!!!	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 18:11:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	He's a security guard. You guys are creeping me out with your MySpace stalking. Unless USCIS is outsourcing their processing to security guards... Why not? Somehow they have to get extra help to deal with the super extra petitions they're processing now..	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 18:06:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	thats impossible look at the pic Officer Garza That was 2 years ago!!! Come on California Guy let us keep on dreaming!!! At least we found something to hold on to...	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 17:37:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	He also lives in Texas. This is him. This is our Officer Garza!! And there's a USCIS field office in San Antonio	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 17:24:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Could this REALLY be our hero? http://www.myspace.com/claudiogarza Yeah it could be him...the way he answers the emails seems to be someone...I'd say peacefull, who wants to help...	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 17:14:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Gooooooood afternoon and Happy Friday from Miami, Florida gang! Just got caught up with the day's posts... eagerly looking forward to ALL of us getting approved starting this evening. Also, after having read about how much faith some of you guys have in the Legend of Garza, I too shall write to her/him this weekend. Like Gary/Val said, nothing ventured, nothing gained Llllllllllllet's go TSC!!! Cheers At the time being we've got nothing to loose	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 16:42:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	I kinda wondered exactly the same thing, and that was due to an early response about them giving us their decision whe "they have updated their systems". Makes you wonder.... Yes, well, I think I may just break the strings if I played right now!! I am REALLY hoping for a good run of approvals later on... I was afraid of the processing volume's chart, according to their rules, we can complaint after 6 months on hold, so can you imagine how stressed they are if they can't complete 36000 files til the end of Jan? They cannot afford having that much of complaints...it can ruin them. In every company, private or gov, there is a production chart, a results chart. Fingers crossed because my logic may not be theirs	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 15:02:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Just had an email from our lawyer. I think things are close for us, and all of us. Maybe they DO approve, and then take a while to input into the system like yours Jenny - wasn't yours completed on the 14th, but not mailed to you until the 19th? I'm hoping that Officer Garza does her/his bit today. I suspect there is a lag between approvals and the submission to the computer system. The latest email from our lawyer said: I contacted the immigration office today in regards to the I-130application. Shesaid that the review of the case was completed on 1/19/2011, 2 days ago. Theapproval however is still pending. BITING our nails to the knuckle here... What about if everyone is approved? It took them more then 20 days to put int the system the petitions they had from CSC. They reviewed them til Xtmas holidays, so since begining of Jan they are entering the approvals in to it. Stom biting your nails, you need them to play the guitar	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 14:52:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	YAY! I think I am goin to email them 2day! Can anyone help me with a sample of what u guys wrote on ur email or an idea? My email was very simple, I put the cases #s as email title : "Dear Sirs, We have filed the petitions July 27 2010 (NOA1) on November 3 2010 they were transferred from California Service Center to Texas Service Center. We have not had any update on our cases since November 24 2010. Can you please inform us whether when the petitions are being processed? Looking forward to having your feedback." ______________________________________ I've been waiting for so long, they know it, so I think I don't need to write more than what the real situation is as far as they are concerned.	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 12:38:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	I didnt wait until my 30 days were up...but I have waited 6 months and 3 weeks so I figured emailing was fair. My 30 days is 27 jan too, so let's email today, wait and see ( I guess we are good on wait & see)	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-21 12:08:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	This guy/gal will become a GOD! He/she is already our Gardien Angel	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-20 15:45:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Lets hope so. I got a feeling...soon we will all be out of this nightmare, got no crystal ball, but something is giving me hope and some trustfullness in the coming days. Maybe is the fact of knowing a name, Garza who somehow touched the approved files. At least we have an alied in there	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-20 15:43:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Just got an email from Officer Garza. My package has been pulled for review. Maybe you need to write a factual and tactful email to TSC and CC god and the media. LOL TSC is "Absolutely Fabulous". So Garza is the Man!!! Sqdnguns you're next on the list!!!	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-20 15:33:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	The first two approvals in this thread came at 10:30 on a Thursday night. The last 3 came at 6:30 on a Wednesday. One thing they have in common is on a given night all came around the same time. At least I think they're coming at once per evening when they refresh their system. I would guess that there are more VJers who got approved last night but have not posted yet or will skip posting all together. I think that their estimates are correct, at this rate they should finish processing all 35,000 applications in 60 - 90 days or so. I would not get hopes up that everybody here is approved this week. Fermat we should take into account those that are not VJ members, then maybe mid Feb we will be done with TSC	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-20 08:31:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	I went through USCIS site and here is what they promote about themselves. The respect part of it is simply hilarious... http://www.uscis.gov/aboutus	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-20 05:26:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Good Morning VJ mates, I just woke up and guess what? The 1st thing I did was to turn on my laptop to see if there was any good news. Believe me I'm so happy to see that things are moving forward!!! CONGRATS to those who were approved!!! Let's say : NEXT!!!	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-20 00:20:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Guys it's 10:30 Paris time, isn't it now that people get approved?	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-19 16:31:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	I wrote and recorded this song about our ordeal, and put it together with some happy time pictures. Enjoy... http://www.facebook....654020 Men you made me cry!!! It's so beautiful and so true. Thanks for sharing it with us.	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-19 15:12:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	no new approvals today so far, and none yesterday... =/ I sent my letter to USCIS ombudsman today, hope it does us some good....I am not holding my breath though. It's not 6:30pm yet	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-19 14:59:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Yes but those are november posts.. lets wait in february I dare to hope that Feb we will be done with this mess, on our way from NVC to Embassy	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-19 13:46:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Unless the "speeding up of the process" was one of a series of "clerical errors". -In which case we've all formulated expectations based on an erroneous statement. Then, again, if so the 36000 petitions would be in the receipts column	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-19 13:40:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	If you call for a service request they actually say to wait 180 days from the date of your transfer to inquiry about your case when before that it said 180 from priority date. I spoke to a Tier 2 rep and we plain ask her because we file in July and it has been six months. They said to count from the date of transfer. It was not out of processing time. My husband clearly asked if we need to wait 5 months and she said it could be less but that was the official time frame. So that explains why our cases haven't been touched once since November 29 and still in initial review. I spoke to a friend who works for an immigration lawyer and she said it seems that yes it was reset when you get transferred just like the officer said. Unfortunately you are part of the batch it was tranferred If so, they woudn't write in the NOA transfer that it was to speed up the process	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-19 13:34:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures	California Service Center To Texas Service Center	Jenny: It says Nov 10 (up until?). Since most of us were transfered around Nov 2, then they wouldn't have had time to process our applications (by Nov 10). This is the first time that I have seen these charts. Do you know when Dec 10 will be posted? Thanks. The charts are updated every 15 of the month, Dec will be posted Feb 15	Lidia & JB	Female	France	2011-01-19 13:31:00