I read some conflicting information about what date to work off of. I have a Received Date of 25 July 2007 and a Notice Date of 28 August 2007. Which one should I consider for calculation the NOA2 approximate date?

M.

Service Center : California Service Center
Consulate : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marriage : 2002-02-02
I-130 Sent : 2007-07-25
I-130 NOA1 : 2007-08-28

From what I understand its the Notice date. But I would wait for several more responses as I am not that far yet and cannot say for sure. Others have been there and should be able to shed some light. But from what I have seen around the forums, its generally the notice date.

Sorry, I know that adds an extra month that you didn't want.

I would think the receive date is when they entered your application into the systemand the notice date when they printed the NOA #1

Congrats!!

I just called using the RFE trick and a nice lady told me that the Received Date that they consider is the Notice Date. The Priority Date is the Received Date, whatever that means. Nevertheless, she said that they are processing I-130s from July 30th right now and I should expected something based off of my Notice Date of 28 August. I feel bad for those people that have 2 or 3 months between the dates. At least mine is only 30+ days.

So if all goes well I should have mine processed around the 2nd to 3rd week of February.

I guess we will have to do the Bahamas trick to extend the B1 visa for another 6 months as this looks like its going to drag on.

M.