Is it normal that uscis touched fiancee petition after it was approved?

[jab1976 0]

Hi guys, I have question, is it normal from uscis to touch a petition after it has been approved already? My fiancee petition was approved last September 2 2009, but nvc has not received it yet, and the weird thing is that i have checked my uscis email account, and our case has been touched everyday of this week, hmmmmmmmmm, so weird. I hope somebody can shed some light on this.

[Otto 83]

Kind of normal - I know we'd like to think USCIS sends out our approved petitions the day it is approved but in reality it is very likely that they send things in batches. Sometimes it takes a week, sometimes longer (as you know) - the fact that you can still see them scanning the bar code (touches) at least means it's not lost.

[Y's_habibitk 2]

yep, like K&O said. Its most likely when they sent your petition to NVC.

Ours was touched (presumably) the day they sent it out since NVC received a day or so later.

[jab1976 0]

thank you guys for your replies, much appreciated.

[jab1976 0]

Is just so weird, why would uscis be working on a petition that was approved over 2 weeks ago. it just does not make any sense.

[toma1 10]

Hi guys, I have question, is it normal from uscis to touch a petition after it has been approved already? My fiancee petition was approved last September 2 2009, but nvc has not received it yet, and the weird thing is that i have checked my uscis email account, and our case has been touched everyday of this week, hmmmmmmmmm, so weird. I hope somebody can shed some light on this.

I think anything can be normal. We never had a touch on ANY case ever.

[MikenKyhen 0]

Hey Joe, I gotta agree with ya. It doesn't seem to make any sense at all that there have been so many touches on a petition that has already been approved two weeks earlier but there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the way USCIS and the NVC handles any of the petitions. I guess I would take some comfort in the fact that atleast you know they haven't lost it but as long as you have waited and as patient as you have been I'm sure it's hard to find comfort in anything when dealing with USCIS in this incredibly long and ridiculously drawn out process.

Edited September 18, 2009 by MikenKyhen

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Just a random guess... They may be waiting for something before sending the packet to NVC. Maybe a security check document, who knows. Anyway, the packet may be sitting in a holding bin waiting for this whatever-it-is, and they may be pulling it each day to see if it's ready to be sent. If they scan it when they pull it then it would generate a touch.

[SCFsnoopy 0]

Just a random guess... They may be waiting for something before sending the packet to NVC. Maybe a security check document, who knows. Anyway, the packet may be sitting in a holding bin waiting for this whatever-it-is, and they may be pulling it each day to see if it's ready to be sent. If they scan it when they pull it then it would generate a touch.

That would be similar to what we do at work (we're a courier company) - all of the shipment being held at our base get kept in a big walk-in cage, and every day someone goes in there first thing in the morning and scans every single shipment in that cage with an "on hold" scan - in our situation, it's for visibility, since all our shipment are tracked and we need to account for where that shipment is at all times.

If this guess is close to the truth (I'm not saying it is, I don't know), I wouldn't be surprised if those touches were similar to the "on hold" scans that we use. I read somewhere that every time a USCIS employee physically handles a petition, even if they're just moving it from one desk to another, it has to be scanned. So if someone is checking it every day to see if it's ready to be sent out... voila, a touch.

For the record, my petition was approved 9th September, but I got another touch on the 10th - I assume that was them mailing it to NVC, but I'll never really know

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hi guys, I have question, is it normal from uscis to touch a petition after it has been approved already? My fiancee petition was approved last September 2 2009, but nvc has not received it yet, and the weird thing is that i have checked my uscis email account, and our case has been touched everyday of this week, hmmmmmmmmm, so weird. I hope somebody can shed some light on this.

it is impossible for them to "touch" your case after it has been sent to someone else.

It is entirely possible that the completely inaccurate CRIS system will REPORT a touch after it is sent to someone else. My wife has been here a year and I have given up on them EVER touching our case as it is still listed as "pending" Great system. You should never trust anything from that site, good or bad.