My husband filed I-130 to Nebraska center on April 28. But we haven't received NOA1 yet... why it takes so long? and the check hasn't been cleared either.
I see most member here get their receipt just in 10 days....
Do I need to call the center?
I am getting worried that we are so unlucky right from the begining.....

Don't worry, I think you're still ok. The dates people post are the date that's written on the NOA1 which is about 1 week before you physically receive the paper notice. So 10 days is really more like 17. Once the check clears get the case number off the back from the image online, then you can check your status off the uscis website.

Whitesnail, Don't worry yet. NOA1 for I130 have been slow lately. There were a few of us that had this problem from April. It took 24 days for my check to be cashed, and 26 days before I received the actualy NOA1 in the mail. I remember other members who waited in the range of 20+ days recently.

I called the customer service line at 23 days, and they said that NOA1s for I130s can take up to 45 days these days. There is a big slowdown. Be patient, it will come.

There are several of us who filed in April that have not had there checks cashed. I called at 21 days and was also told that it can take up to 45 days. At 30 days you can request action to find out why nothing has been done, but that can take up to 30 days.

Patience is a virtue, but it is difficult without knowing anything.

I didn't receive the NOA1 for the I-130 until I called them. It's a struggle getting anything from them, unfortunately.

I sent mine late last month too. . . I have a lawyer helping me and I called him right after I got married in march. . . . i don't understand why I am waiting a total of 2 months for a 797 receipt (now projected to be 3 months). I was bothering my lawyer a lot until I called the USCIS and they told me that this month has a backlog due to the amount of people filing. They told me 45 days too yesterday when I called them.

* hey! I am supposed to file with the NSC but, my lawyer from California filed with the California one. . . will this make things take even longer for me?! Or will they treat it the same? I am hoping I don't wait 45 days and then, get it back to file with the correct center. I live in Seattle! You guys already know how stressed I am.

* on a side note, If my lawyer had filed in March, I would not be in this boat.

* My wife got mugged there while I waited for paperwork here. Is that just?!

I appreciate any comments to my situation . . this is my first post. )

We got our NOA1 in the snail mail after 3 weeks.

My alien fiancee and I sent ours along on the 16 of April and the money order was cashed on the 26 of April. We're still waiting too. This sucks and needs to move quicker.

I still haven't recieved mine either, nor has the check cleared. When my husband called USCIS, there was a recorded message saying it can take up to 4 weeks :/

Working on that patience

so it seems i found the appropriate place to whine
heh

my USC husband mailed our I-130 packet last april 23
received two days after but still no NOA1
going one month this coming may 23


yup, the machine said 4 weeks
asdf

Yep, the recording says 4 weeks, if you call after 4 weeks and talk to a live person because it has been more than 4 weeks, they will tell you 45 days like the rest of us. I was really nervous too that it was taking so long, and it seemed everyone on VJ was getting their NOA1 so quickly, and there were only a handful of us discussing this delay in the last 2 and half weeks. I asked people that I knew who had done this before and the longest I heard was 8 days. But, we all just filed at the wrong time and ran into this huge backlog for NOA1s.

NOA1 will come rest assured

whut?
gosh dang 45 days?!


it better!
i can't believe this backlog
so much for efficiency, eh?
:sigh:

i wonder if USCIS is aware that their processing timeline is directly proportional to the time we spend waiting til we are reunited with our partners
and not everyone can afford the luxury of a frequent flight out of united states

Hello, we are definatly on the same boat...
I still haven't recieved mine either, but the check has been cleared.
When my husband called USCIS (almost everyday) tehy said it we have to wait for 30 days?

We file for I-130 on April, 20, 2007
They casched the check on MAy, 05 and I still haven't received the NOA1....please god help us!

patience...patience...

As I posted elsewhere recently, I just got my NOA1 yesterday (May 21) which is almost 1 month after they RECEIVED my I130 at TSC. CSC apparently received my package May 17 (according to my case status online), and they were the ones that sent the NOA1 of course, since TSC is not processing I130's or I129F's. In other words, for those of us that need to send stuff to TSC rather than CSC, that's at least 2-3 weeks more of a delay to our timelines due to TSC forwarding cases to CSC. What's up with that?

I wonder if at TSC they do some sort of pre-processing of the I130, so that when it arrives to the CSC all they have to do is send the NOA1 so quickly (NOA1 in mail took two business days from CSC to my house).

Oh well. For those of you who haven't waited for more than 30 days, I wouldn't be worrying so soon.

OK! I finally have an update. . . i called the USCIS and I got a guy that told me that he can not even check anything for me unless it was 45 days after. . . .

So, i called back and told them that i sent it in 45 days ago. I fianlly got someone and they tracked my I-130 and gave me my WAC number that has been cleared on the 16th of may! if I could have talked to someone earlier 2 weeks ago, I would have gotten my number. . . I don't understand why they can't just look it up for us.
She told me to expect the confirmation in my mail in 2 weeks. . . do they understand that every day matters to us?

So, bottom line, I finally got my number and I am sending in my I-129F today. Gees. But good news!

Thanks
Song

wow... this just sucks... It looks like it will take you 2 months to get the actual NOA1. Are yo usure you do not need a copy of it to send along with the I-129F? You just referenced the WAC in the cover letter? has this been successfully done before?

Yep, its been done before. There were a few members who discussed doing this. You can search the forums, and look here too:
http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...c=69703&hl=