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USCIS Processing Trends Update

May 6th, 2008
by VJ News

During the last year the USCIS has made many promises to improve the processing of key benefits filed at their offices. They have consolidated filing locations as well as streamlined internal procedures. Did it help? Below are a few observations that stand out from VisaJourney’s Immigration Timeline Tracking System.

For K3 Visa Holders one major issue has been the delay in receiving a first Notice of Action (NOA1). As you can see below the USCIS has indeed corrected the problem (example shows the California Service Center):

For K1 Visa Holders the filing location was changed last year from four Service Centers down to two. Has it helped? On the whole the answer is “not yet”. In fact there appears to be an upward trend in processing time of I-129F’s for K-1 Visas:

The USCIS has also shown trends in post visa benefit processing times. Adjustment of Status applications have increased in processing time while Employment Authorization Document petitions are being processed faster:

For more information on other USCIS benefit processing times please see VisaJourney’s Immigration Timeline Tracking System.

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