California Service Center To Texas Service Center

[LotofPatience 65]

Our case was also transferred from CSC to TSC. When it first happened a few days ago before I started reading this thread, I sent an email to a friend of mine that specialized in immigration law. Here was her response:

"This is a good thing that your case got transferred to the Texas Service Center. In our practice, we see cases being transferred to another Service Center because the Center that has the case has too many cases, and they need to transfer cases out to another Center for faster processing. "

Additionally, I spoke with a USCIS agent at the local (Minnesota) USCIS office about a month ago and he explained that I-130's go through several departments for approval. I understood him to say that one agent doesn't work on an individual petition start to finish but that different departements review and approve different aspects of the petition/I-130 (i.e. one for citizenship of petitioner, one for fraud, one for legitmacy of relationship, etc.) The USCIS had received our I-130 about 2 months prior to this conversation and, at the time, the only posting on the USCIS website for our I-130 was the receipt date. There were no other indications on the USCIS website as to where our case was in the process or that it had even been looked at. The agent assured me that our case had already been reveiewed and sent on by 5+ departments and that these internal USCIS movements are not posted on the status screen that we (the public) can see.

The USCIS officer also told me the service centers are being pushed very hard to deliver within the 5 months window. As a result, they are pretty consistant about processing them in the order they were received so there is a better chance of achieving the 5 month goal for all. If you look at the stats onine, the CSC was waaaaaaaay behind and TX doesn't appear to be receiving or processing any I-130's.

Between the info from my friend (the immigration lawyer) and my conversation with the USCIS agent, I believe that CSC was way behind and transferred A LOT (maybe thousands) of I-130's to the TSC to speed up the processing. I also believe that even though we don't see any actions taken on the USCIS website, all of our cases (Jun, Jul, Aug, etc) have been reviewed by many departments and just need to continue to the end of the line (like an assembly line). The movement to TX was done to speed up the I-130's in process and it is a benefit to all petitions that moved and all that stayed.

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[Val and Gary 29]

It looks like good news then for all of us, as the workload is now being shared. I have never been so optimistic, and believe we'll hear something withion the next two weeks. Any other info that anybody can glean about the transfer to Texas would be most welcome!

[smunie 5]

Our case was also transferred from CSC to TSC. When it first happened a few days ago before I started reading this thread, I sent an email to a friend of mine that specialized in immigration law. Here was her response:

"This is a good thing that your case got transferred to the Texas Service Center. In our practice, we see cases being transferred to another Service Center because the Center that has the case has too many cases, and they need to transfer cases out to another Center for faster processing. "

Additionally, I spoke with a USCIS agent at the local (Minnesota) USCIS office about a month ago and he explained that I-130's go through several departments for approval. I understood him to say that one agent doesn't work on an individual petition start to finish but that different departements review and approve different aspects of the petition/I-130 (i.e. one for citizenship of petitioner, one for fraud, one for legitmacy of relationship, etc.) The USCIS had received our I-130 about 2 months prior to this conversation and, at the time, the only posting on the USCIS website for our I-130 was the receipt date. There were no other indications on the USCIS website as to where our case was in the process or that it had even been looked at. The agent assured me that our case had already been reveiewed and sent on by 5+ departments and that these internal USCIS movements are not posted on the status screen that we (the public) can see.

The USCIS officer also told me the service centers are being pushed very hard to deliver within the 5 months window. As a result, they are pretty consistant about processing them in the order they were received so there is a better chance of achieving the 5 month goal for all. If you look at the stats onine, the CSC was waaaaaaaay behind and TX doesn't appear to be receiving or processing any I-130's.

Between the info from my friend (the immigration lawyer) and my conversation with the USCIS agent, I believe that CSC was way behind and transferred A LOT (maybe thousands) of I-130's to the TSC to speed up the processing. I also believe that even though we don't see any actions taken on the USCIS website, all of our cases (Jun, Jul, Aug, etc) have been reviewed by many departments and just need to continue to the end of the line (like an assembly line). The movement to TX was done to speed up the I-130's in process and it is a benefit to all petitions that moved and all that stayed.

Nile_Romance...I don't see your timeline and was wondering when your NOA1 date was? If I understand your message right, you may have a September NOA (like me)? If so, I think you are the first September NOA1 that has been transferred to TX...

[xelance 31]

I got the letter in the mail today saying my case was transferred...but still no update on my case status, no touches...nothing. I think I will call them in a few days to make sure they received it in Texas.

[Timosha 7]

I got the letter in the mail today saying my case was transferred...but still no update on my case status, no touches...nothing. I think I will call them in a few days to make sure they received it in Texas.

We got mail too but site still shows we are in CSC and the last touch was 8/04 . So you are better

[xelance 31]

I wonder if the website is even reliable at all

[Timosha 7]

Keep posted if you call. Interesting to know what they tell you

[skynaut 29]

Keep posted if you call. Interesting to know what they tell you

Can't wait to hear news from TSC, do you think they have already approved someone?

[Timosha 7]

Can't wait to hear news from TSC, do you think they have already approved someone?

I dont know.. with this stupid non-updatable site i can only wait snail mail...

It is out of control

Does Tier 1 read information from internet like we are or they still have their one similar system?

[mrs.T 1]

Hello! i am new to this forum and i am glad to see everyone is on the same path as me. USCIS received our I-130 on July 10 and that was the date in the NOA. Decided to check my case status today and lo and behold it was updated saying i was transferred to Texas, but mine was for November 1st 2010. i see some of you touched two times and i am quite worried because i have only been have the one date and its already the 5th. i hope they didn't lose mine.

Our timelines have similar dates, we got NOA1 on the July 7th and got transfered to TSC on Nov.1st also!

Good luck!!

[digital82 3]

Any News... Anymore Touches... I hope This week we get to see some approvals...

JP

[hindustani24 7]

Any News... Anymore Touches... I hope This week we get to see some approvals...

JP

We all are waiting for that first approval from TSC and then we can all hope for some good news

[mahalia 5]

We all are waiting for that first approval from TSC and then we can all hope for some good news

finger's crossed!lol :) :) :) :)

[ezzie 7]

It should cause everything to speed up. If you look at the trends at the CSC, they received quite a few petitions in March and April which would explain why it seemed to take forever to get through these. May things started trending down and June/July were down quite a bit. Based on this alone, the process should start picking up again for the June/July/August filers. Adding the TSC manpower in to the mix will speed it up even more. I know our petition was "projected" for the third week of November, but we got a touch on 10/27 and then another on 11/2 with an RFE notice (I expected the RFE so I was ecstatic to receive the notice so soon).

Hang in there

hello everyone..I also received an email Nov 2 stating that they transferred our 2 I-130 petitions for my 2 children (my USC husband is the petitioner) to TSC...I got the shivers, and this is not exaggerating...Sent the I-130's on Aug 21st. I hope and pray we will all have good news, as we only want to be with our family. As a mom, my heart grieves each day I don't have my children with me.

Knowing though, that there are a lot of us, I am optimistic..VJ is truly a blessing. You just don't know how much weight was lifted on my chest when I saw the comments here.

[Never_lose_hope 10]

Same here, I just recieved the notice at home, our case was transferred at TSC on 2 NOV . On the internet our case have not been touched since 08.12.2010.

Cip.