I can see loads of other forms but no I-130... can anyone clue me up as to why..??

Heres direct link it SHOULD appear on right? : https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/Proc...Center=Nebraska

This is interesting... Do a search for this on Google: I-130 USCIS pdf

The top result will be 'Page Request Not Found' and if you go to the Google cached page it says this:

404 - Requested Page Not Found on Site

The page you requested, http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:xWSjx...t=clnk&cd=1, is not on our site.

It may have been available before our redesign in October 2006.

Please look for related information on the USCIS Home Page.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Does Nebraska even do I-130's? I think maybe it is only Vermont and California....

Everything I've read and been told says that is the case. We sent ours to the Texas Service Center and it was transferred to the California Service Center where it is now.

whaaaat?

fwaguy means they don't have I-130's listed there because they don't process them. Where your I-130 is processed depends on where you live. I live in FL so my I-130 is sent to the Texas Service Center (link to them here). As you can see they don't process them there either. Mine was transferred to the California Service Center where it will be processed.

Nikki

Is your question regarding the location of the physical form that you can download from the USCIS website, or are you asking why the I-130 application does not show up on the processing dates it's because all the I-130's are being processed at Calafornia.

I think it's the latter. When I first read the thread I took it as he was looking for the form and that's how I replied. Unfortunately, it was too late for me to edit and correct my mistake.

So even though it tells us to file with nebraska... your saying we shouldn't? On the I-130 itself it says if your from wisconsin you are to file to nebraska... MORE confusion...

Also... Robor... they don;t show any I-130's on that link you gave for Texas? haha wtf

Sounds like you've got it right. The I-130 is sent to the service center assigned to you by your geographical location. Send yours to Nebraska and it will probably get transferred to California or Vermont. I'm living in FL so mine goes to Texas. They don't process I-130's there so mine was transferred to California. Once you get the NOA1 document you have the option of doing sending the I-129 (K-3). Unless there's been a change in the procedure recently all of the I-129's go to Chicago. Our transferred from Chicago to Missouri to California.

Nikki,
You MUST send your I-130 to Nebraska.
They WILL transfer it to California.
If you want to check official I-130 processing dates, you will have to check them at the California Service Center. I don't believe these dates mean much, but they do give you a basis for complaining loudly if your petition takes longer than the government says it should.
I know it seems ridiculous that you can't just send it directly to California, but when dealing with USCIS it's best to just do EXACTLY what they tell you to do, no matter how insane it seems. My I-130 was handled just like Robor007's except that I first sent it to Nebraska, since I live in Iowa. Good luck with your visa and may you have a quick journey!

devblt,

Except for those being processed at Vermont.

Yodrak

Robor007,

Point of clarification - the Chicago lockbox is Missouri. Chicago is where the NBC's receiving station for new filings is located. No adjudication goes on in Chicago, they just open the mail, check the submission for completeness, and bind the application or petition into a file.

Sending the file to Missouri is not a 'transfer', it's the same as sending it down the hall except that the way the NBC is set up it's a rather long hall.

Yodrak

Thanks for that clarification. I guess that would explain why our NOA1 came from Missouri rather than Chicago (I wondered about that). Excellent info!