VERMONT SERVICE CENTER TRANSFERS THOUSANDS OF CASES

Due to high workload surges, the Vermont Service Center (VSC) recently transferred 5,000 Petitions for Nonimmigrant Workers (Form I-129) to the Texas Service Center (TSC) and 22,000 Petitions for Alien Relatives (Form I-130) to the California Service Center (CSC).

If you receive a notice from the TSC or CSC regarding a case initially filed with the VSC, you should direct any questions regarding your case to the service center that issued the last notice.


Sorry for those of you at TSC or CSC!! as for us in VSC I hope they are done the transfer and can start approving some people now!!

Well, that is great news! NOT!

All I can say is they take a back seat to our petitions. Take a look at the dates for I-130 relatives, years behind.

And as far as I am concerned, Spouses & Fiances take priority over anyone else.

Yeah! I guess it's not the adjudication of those types of visa's thats the problem. Just the move itself that slows things. Of course this is all assumption and you know what that's good for. Making an as* out of you and me!

I'm confused. Isn't the VSC the fast center and California behind?

I'm in FL and the way I understand it my petition will go to Texas only to be transferred to California.

Yeah! it's crazy sh*t!!

Actually it's not so crazy.. the USCIS is moving away from having the service centers process petitions based on residence to a system where different service centers process different workflows. CSC will be processing family-type immigration petitions which is why all I-130's and I-129F's are going there.

... ALL? Does that mean that us East coasters won't be free from the 6 month wait for a visa anymore?

From what I've read, CSC and VSC will take care of I-129fs and I-130's. I may be wrong, though. I can't remember the source of the information. I'll try and find it.

Oh, I-129F is different from I-129? Oops. I thought they were saying that all VSC fiance(e) visas were gonna be transferred to CSC.

I dont think cali needs ANY extra workload right now!

Lately CSC has been approving petitions at a faster rate. I wonder if this is an effort to get caught up particularly due to the extra cases transfered there in August.