TSC Processing times

[SK2014 44]

Hello all,

Firstly congratulations to all who have been approved recently and good luck to those going to interviews!

I have a question regarding processing times.

On VJ it shows the NOA1 with March 26th dates are being processed at TSC

Igor's List shows dates in Feb/March being processed ( I know a few were transferred to CSC)

When you call up TSC they say they are processing Feb 2nd NOA1 dates

That is also the date in the ALIA data

What is correct? Where are TSC with processing exactly?

Thank you all in advance!

[nitsirk7562 82]

It's impossible to exactly know. There are too many variables. TSC is always going to be conservative about the date of the cases they are processing to avoid an influx of service requests.

I think the best estimate now is probably mid-late February as an average. That being said, there are still cases from January that haven't been processed.

[SK2014 44]

Thank you !

[TBoneTX 43,020]

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[gonzalezsantos 0]

Hello guys,

Question. Does anyone know about the actual processing time for TSC. Some places I see 5 months and other places I see 6 months.

Thanks,

Kiki,

Rep. Dom

NOA1 April 7th

[bellejimmy 10]

Hello all,

Firstly congratulations to all who have been approved recently and good luck to those going to interviews!

I have a question regarding processing times.

On VJ it shows the NOA1 with March 26th dates are being processed at TSC

Igor's List shows dates in Feb/March being processed ( I know a few were transferred to CSC)

When you call up TSC they say they are processing Feb 2nd NOA1 dates

That is also the date in the ALIA data

What is correct? Where are TSC with processing exactly?

Thank you all in advance!

Hey,

We are March 26 and we got approved just hours ago, September 16, from TSC ! (No transfer)

[SK2014 44]

Hey,

We are March 26 and we got approved just hours ago, September 16, from TSC ! (No transfer)

Hiya

Thanks for the update!!! I am at work and got very excited hahaha I got a few strange Looks.

Hopefully I will get an answer in the coming 2-3 weeks

[bellejimmy 10]

Hiya

Thanks for the update!!! I am at work and got very excited hahaha I got a few strange Looks.

Hopefully I will get an answer in the coming 2-3 weeks

Haha I was the same today, came back from a meeting and had a million missed calls and texts. They sent us our approval at 8:45PM Texas time which I thought was odd. 10:45AM Sydney time so it was awesome we were both awake for it!

It sucks you never can really tell when approval may be, fingers crossed even sooner than that, it could be tomorrow or it could be a month, but it will happen!! Goodluck !

[SK2014 44]

Haha I was the same today, came back from a meeting and had a million missed calls and texts. They sent us our approval at 8:45PM Texas time which I thought was odd. 10:45AM Sydney time so it was awesome we were both awake for it!

It sucks you never can really tell when approval may be, fingers crossed even sooner than that, it could be tomorrow or it could be a month, but it will happen!! Goodluck !

Thank you!!! I am so excited for you both good luck on the rest of your journey together

[Mdsny8 0]

I-129F received by TSC on Jan 16, 2014

NOA 1 Jan 21, 2014

September 18, 2014- Nothing

Good Luck!

[Faridanni 0]

My first NOA1 was April 14,2014. Still waiting on for the NOA2. Any updates lately from TSC?

[englishsun 4]

Good Luck to all ?✨ Our Case is at the TSC as well but our NOA 1 date was August 18th (got some ways to go) I saw the same thing with the flux of date data. Not holding my breath just hoping for a speedy process.

[Mdsny8 0]

I-129F received by TSC on Jan 16, 2014

NOA 1 Jan 21, 2014

October 14, 2014- Still Nothing!

[Slimptom7 10]

Anyone have any idea where VisaJourney gets their processing time dates located here: http://www.visajourney.com/content/times ? The dates here seem to be progressing everyday as opposed to the USCIS site which seems to be pretty static. For example, VJ says petitions from May 2nd are starting to be looked at as of this morning for Form I-129F at the TSC. How do they know that? Wouldnt USCIS have a better idea of what is currently being reviewed than VJ?

[njmike 0]

Hello all,

I had a little time this morning so I tried to use the data on this site to get a better idea of what the actual processing times are for those of us stuck at TSC. We all know that the June 21st date currently shown as the processing date is optimistic at best. Most of us also know that the main culprit causing these incorrect times are the many users who don't understand the difference between the Texas lock box and the actual TSC. So many filers who are actually CSC filers register as TSC filers because of the lock box and either never update their timeline, or update it as transferred. In either case their relatively quick approval times at CSC skews the TSC data.

So instead of using Igor's list I went to the K1 Visa Timelines page and sorted by what I think are the relevant details. I only looked at cases that were at TSC and were not transferred. So this should weed out most everyone confused about the Texas lock box issue. This also ignores the large group of files that actually were transferred early in the summer. But I assume if you were one of those you know it and also know your times are probably going to be faster than the rest of the TSC. Finally I broke out the data for the Philippines filers. As we know those applications are generally being processed very quickly and I didn't want that to skew the results for the rest of us. Finally I only looked at applications going back to November of last year, based on NOA1's. All of these times are based on time between NOA1 and NOA2. Ok here we go:

For NOA1's between June through September less than 6% of all applications have been approved (26 of 435). Average times vary between 30 days for September to 80 days for June.

For April and May, about 50% of the applications have been approved (57 of 109). Average times are between 90-140 days. These two months had a lot fewer applications than most other months. I'm assuming this is because a lot of these applications were the ones transferred to CSC.

For November 2013 through March 2014, more than 75% have been approved, with averages varying between 90 days (in November) to about 180 days.

The times above include applications that got RFE's. So if your application has no problems your times might be a little faster than the averages.

My take away. At this point TSC is taking about 6 months to process applications, maybe a little longer. The June 21 processing date we see should probably be more like April 15. If I were an April or May filer I would be cautiously optimistic about getting a NOA2 in the next 4-6 weeks. For the rest of us summer filers we will probably be waiting until after the New Year. And if you submitted earlier than April I would certainly be writing in to your Congressperson and Senator and anyone else you think will listen.

FYI for the Philippines filers. Nearly all of the applications from June or earlier have been approved with times of about 60 days. About 60% of July and August applications have been approved with times of 4-6 weeks.

Apparently I can't attach files to my post otherwise I'd give out the spreadsheet for others to play with. Obviously take all of this info with a grain of salt since it is only based on the relatively small sample of filers on this site. If there is anything you think I am missing or would like to see let me know and I'll see what I can do.

-Mike