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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
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i don't know if its true or not but has the processing times changed for US citizens filing for brother and sisters upto 4 yrs. right now it says USCIS is processing 2006 cases under california service center but under vermont service center it says it takes 5 months????

what happened to all the processing times all of a sudden? it was 10 yrs b4 and now 4 yrs??? i''m surprised.

IR-1 / CR-1 Visa

2010-04-19: approved online wohoooo

2010-04-24: NOA2 hardcopy received

2010-04-26: gave 2 email addresses and assigned case #

2010-04-27: received/sent ds3032, AOS bill

2010-05-01: IV bill became available online/paid

2010-05-06: sent in DS230 package via express mail 9:07am

2010-05-11: NVC acknowledges the receipt of AOS on 05/05

2010-05-13: operator told me that AOS sent to supervisor for review....

2010-05-14: AVR changes to received the checklist letter response on 5/13

2010-05-23: RFE for original birth cert. (i did sent original).......arghhh

2010-05-24: BC under review by some department

2010-06-02: sent in original BC again and previous BC is still under review

2010-06-10: NVC recognizes BC into their system

2010-06-15: BC under review

2010-06-21: SIF!!!!!omggggg soo happy 57 days in NVC process

2010-06-28: interview on Aug. 19, 8am.

2010-08-19: interview went fine but he's put into AP :(

2011-01-09: almost 5 months in AP "still pending"

2011-02-06: 5 and half months and still counting......when is this torture going to end....

2011-02-20: 6 months still no answer..........

2011-03-08: more than 200 days passed in AP..................(

2011-03-24: visa has been issued today. hurayyyyyyyyyy finally wait is overrrr.

2011-03-26: got the passport wohoooo

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milimelo   4,224

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Bosnia-Herzegovina
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i don't know if its true or not but has the processing times changed for US citizens filing for brother and sisters upto 4 yrs. right now it says USCIS is processing 2006 cases under california service center but under vermont service center it says it takes 5 months????

what happened to all the processing times all of a sudden? it was 10 yrs b4 and now 4 yrs??? i''m surprised.

1. You're looking at wrong data set - USCIS may be done with the application (approved) but 2. the NVC is the one assigning available visa numbers. You want to look at the visa bulletin on state.gov webpage. Current processing time is around 8,5 years for most countries except Mexico and Philippines.

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muskan4eva   0

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Pakistan
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i am looking at the state website and it says the following:

https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processingTimesDisplay.do

U.S. citizen filing for a brother or sister September 1, 2006

IR-1 / CR-1 Visa

2010-04-19: approved online wohoooo

2010-04-24: NOA2 hardcopy received

2010-04-26: gave 2 email addresses and assigned case #

2010-04-27: received/sent ds3032, AOS bill

2010-05-01: IV bill became available online/paid

2010-05-06: sent in DS230 package via express mail 9:07am

2010-05-11: NVC acknowledges the receipt of AOS on 05/05

2010-05-13: operator told me that AOS sent to supervisor for review....

2010-05-14: AVR changes to received the checklist letter response on 5/13

2010-05-23: RFE for original birth cert. (i did sent original).......arghhh

2010-05-24: BC under review by some department

2010-06-02: sent in original BC again and previous BC is still under review

2010-06-10: NVC recognizes BC into their system

2010-06-15: BC under review

2010-06-21: SIF!!!!!omggggg soo happy 57 days in NVC process

2010-06-28: interview on Aug. 19, 8am.

2010-08-19: interview went fine but he's put into AP :(

2011-01-09: almost 5 months in AP "still pending"

2011-02-06: 5 and half months and still counting......when is this torture going to end....

2011-02-20: 6 months still no answer..........

2011-03-08: more than 200 days passed in AP..................(

2011-03-24: visa has been issued today. hurayyyyyyyyyy finally wait is overrrr.

2011-03-26: got the passport wohoooo

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milimelo   4,224

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Bosnia-Herzegovina
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i am looking at the state website and it says the following:

https://egov.uscis.g...TimesDisplay.do

U.S. citizen filing for a brother or sister September 1, 2006

Again, looking at USCIS website - what you linked is NOT state website - does not get you any faster to the visa number...

ROC 2009
Naturalization 2010

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belinda63   2,981

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This is the link to the Jan 2011 visa bulletin. A sibling of a US citizen is category F4 and they are currently assigning visa numbers for case with a priority date of Jan 2002. So the current wait is about 8 years. This is subject to change each month. If your priority date is Sept 2006 you still have about 4 1/2 years until a visa number becomes available.
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milimelo   4,224

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Bosnia-Herzegovina
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This is the link to the Jan 2011 visa bulletin. A sibling of a US citizen is category F4 and they are currently assigning visa numbers for case with a priority date of Jan 2002. So the current wait is about 8 years. This is subject to change each month. If your priority date is Sept 2006 you still have about 4 1/2 years until a visa number becomes available.

Her mother applied for her brother (OP's uncle as I understand) in the past couple of months and that's why she's asking. Regardless, still 8 yr wait.

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Filed: FB-4 Visa Country: India
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i don't know if its true or not but has the processing times changed for US citizens filing for brother and sisters upto 4 yrs. right now it says USCIS is processing 2006 cases under california service center but under vermont service center it says it takes 5 months????

what happened to all the processing times all of a sudden? it was 10 yrs b4 and now 4 yrs??? i''m surprised.

F4 Visa Filers has to also undergo 3 stages, USCIS, NVC & Consulate.

The timeline is spread across evenly too..:crying:

If you finish USCIS stage early, then you wait at NVC & Consulate for the remaining years..

If you take long time at USCIS, then your NVC & Consulate Stage will be early..

:crying:

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