hello all,
just wanted to make things clear about processing date. currently on the website it says
for I-130 -- july 17, 2006. I filed mine on january'2007 and received my NOA1 on january 27th. looking at the processing date, does that mean that it is going to take
atleast 6 (july'06 until january'07) months before they start considerig my application for approval..? any comments will do great! thanks...

that does not have to be the case. for example, let's say they are processing applications filed in july 17th, and not a lot of people filed that month or USCIS was surprisingly fast in going through those applications so they could immediately move to the filings of august without having to really be a whole month of processing. on the other had, if there were tons of applications filed in july or USCIS is going very slow, it could take them more than a month to go through the applications filed in july 17th.
ideally you would assume that in your case you would have to wait 6 month for them to get to your file but it could be sooner or could be later but by looking at trends, they move one month a time so ur wait is gonna be 6 month.

The timelines on the USCIS.gov site basically show the maximum time they are aiming for. The immigration timelines on this site are much more helpful for showing an average time - but it's impossible to know for sure how long it will take.

Good luck!