Seeking advise for IR-1/Cr-1 processing

[sweet_juti 0]

I hope someone can advise me on this. I file I 130 for my wife dated 10/6/2011. After 7 months I contacted USCIS thru senator's office and got following reply:

"A check of USCIS records indicates that this case is currently under extensive background check review and it should be processed within 180 days. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience caused. Thank you and have a wonderful day."

Neither me or my wife ever broke any law (except speeding tickets). She never been to USA. We have wedding videos, pictures.....anything they can ask for to proof that we are married. They didnt ask for RFE.

I got my citizenship thru prior marriage which lasted over 5 years. We got divorce in good term, wasn't a massy divorce.

My questis are:

1. Did any one of you had similar situation? If yes how long it took you to go thru the process?

2. Do you advise that I should file I 129f?

3. I contacted Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman today. Will it help?

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks

[sweet_juti 0]

hope someone can advise me on this. I file I 130 for my wife dated 10/6/2011. After 7 months I contacted USCIS thru senator's office and got following reply:

"A check of USCIS records indicates that this case is currently under extensive background check review and it should be processed within 180 days. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience caused. Thank you and have a wonderful day."

Neither me or my wife ever broke any law (except speeding tickets). She never been to USA. We have wedding videos, pictures.....anything they can ask for to proof that we are married. They didnt ask for RFE.

I got my citizenship thru prior marriage which lasted over 5 years. We got divorce in good term, wasn't a massy divorce.

My questis are:

1. Did any one of you had similar situation? If yes how long it took you to go thru the process?

2. Do you advise that I should file I 129f?

3. I contacted Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman today. Will it help?

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks

[RandomRealityShif 5]

hope someone can advise me on this. I file I 130 for my wife dated 10/6/2011. After 7 months I contacted USCIS thru senator's office and got following reply:

"A check of USCIS records indicates that this case is currently under extensive background check review and it should be processed within 180 days. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience caused. Thank you and have a wonderful day."

Neither me or my wife ever broke any law (except speeding tickets). She never been to USA. We have wedding videos, pictures.....anything they can ask for to proof that we are married. They didnt ask for RFE.

I got my citizenship thru prior marriage which lasted over 5 years. We got divorce in good term, wasn't a massy divorce.

My questis are:

1. Did any one of you had similar situation? If yes how long it took you to go thru the process?

2. Do you advise that I should file I 129f?

3. I contacted Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman today. Will it help?

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks

It's possible they saw some kind of red flag in processing your application. I'm not sure if contacting the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman will do you much good, you may just have to wait out the background checks.

Edited May 10, 2012 by gwdenton

[WrightFamily 34]

I got my citizenship thru prior marriage which lasted over 5 years.

This is a major Red Flag being that you are petitioning someone into the U.S. as if the first marriage was staged!!

You just have to wait it out, good luck!

Edited May 10, 2012 by WrightFamily

[Cathi 5,610]

It's possible they saw some kind of red flag in processing your application. I'm not sure if contacting the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman will do you much good, you may just have to wait out the background checks.

The I 129F is a fiancee visa, you're already married so there's no point in trying to file for it.

i 129f is also k-3 visa..non immigrant visa for spouse. this was used many years ago when the wait for the i 130 was very long. Now the and cr1/ir1 are processed much faster making the k-3/129f obsolete

[Darnell 8,478]

Sorry - you've a red flag, so they (USCIS) is pulling the prior casefiles for review. This takes time.

[Confused 2 94]

You have to wait it out. Filing different (& several) visas will not get you out of background checks. Patience.

[1love 2]

same here we are waiting over 6mths now going to 7-God forbid.

Not sure what else to do at this point besides calling uscis everyday.

I guess maybe it is time to get the senator involved.

It seem someone lazy took over from the efficient person who started processing octbober filers in late march, then whole of april we were waiting, then came May and we are still waiting.

if memory serves me right i think it happened to some sept filers too.

Fingers crossed though.

goodluck

[sweet_juti 0]

This is a major Red Flag being that you are petitioning someone into the U.S. as if the first marriage was staged!!

You just have to wait it out, good luck!

I was married about 5 years and we lived together and went thru all the imigration process extensively including multiple interviews. Even USCIS took us separely and asked same questions. Everything went smoothly. USCIS should have all the records, pics, extended family pic etc. It's very unfortunate that we got divorce but things happens. Not sure why USCIS is making big deal about it now, since they already did background check very throughly first time.

[sweet_juti 0]

Sorry - you've a red flag, so they (USCIS) is pulling the prior casefiles for review. This takes time.

Have you seen anyone went thru similar processing?

Thanks for all the replies!

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

Things that hold you up are name hits. Your could be the best person in the world but if you name is Ima Crook you will probably take longer. ( or if you share the name with a bad guy) If either of you are from terror sponsoring countries it will take longer. You also have a past where you got here though marriage that lasted just a little longer than the ink drying on your papers. Many less than honorable people pay someone to marry them to get them here than turn right around and sponsor their partner that has been waiting. It might not be your case but USCIS wants to be sure.

[HazelConrad 0]

I hope someone can advise me on this. I file I 130 for my wife dated 10/6/2011. After 7 months I contacted USCIS thru senator's office and got following reply:

"A check of USCIS records indicates that this case is currently under extensive background check review and it should be processed within 180 days. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience caused. Thank you and have a wonderful day."

Neither me or my wife ever broke any law (except speeding tickets). She never been to USA. We have wedding videos, pictures.....anything they can ask for to proof that we are married. They didnt ask for RFE.

I got my citizenship thru prior marriage which lasted over 5 years. We got divorce in good term, wasn't a massy divorce.

My questis are:

1. Did any one of you had similar situation? If yes how long it took you to go thru the process?

2. Do you advise that I should file I 129f?

3. I contacted Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman today. Will it help?

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks

It took us 8 months going 9 mos. to get the NOA2 approval, my husband applied August 2011, received approval from USCIS for i-130 on May 2, 2012. No RFE's requested, non of us broke any laws, USCIS guys took long to review our case for some reason we don know why.

Edited May 10, 2012 by HazelConrad

[Darnell 8,478]

I was married about 5 years and we lived together and went thru all the imigration process extensively including multiple interviews. Even USCIS took us separely and asked same questions. Everything went smoothly. USCIS should have all the records, pics, extended family pic etc. It's very unfortunate that we got divorce but things happens. Not sure why USCIS is making big deal about it now, since they already did background check very throughly first time.

Please learn more, that stuff in bold, above.

Have you seen anyone went thru similar processing?

Thanks for all the replies!

Yup, and they've posted their experiences here on VJ.

Have you found the 'advanced search tool' yet?

[mike411 15]

I was married about 5 years and we lived together and went thru all the imigration process extensively including multiple interviews. Even USCIS took us separely and asked same questions. Everything went smoothly. USCIS should have all the records, pics, extended family pic etc. It's very unfortunate that we got divorce but things happens. Not sure why USCIS is making big deal about it now, since they already did background check very throughly first time.

This is a big deal NOW because you are trying to bring another person to the United States. USCIS has no control over your divorce, but they do have power now. This kinds of scam where a person scams an USC for permanent status, divorce, then apply the real love to the states happens a lot. You just have to wait!

If I was in their shoes, you are waiving a red flag.

[Matt & Rocio 28]

I hope someone can advise me on this. I file I 130 for my wife dated 10/6/2011. After 7 months I contacted USCIS thru senator's office and got following reply:

"A check of USCIS records indicates that this case is currently under extensive background check review and it should be processed within 180 days. We apologize for the delay and inconvenience caused. Thank you and have a wonderful day."

Neither me or my wife ever broke any law (except speeding tickets). She never been to USA. We have wedding videos, pictures.....anything they can ask for to proof that we are married. They didnt ask for RFE.

I got my citizenship thru prior marriage which lasted over 5 years. We got divorce in good term, wasn't a massy divorce.

My questis are:

1. Did any one of you had similar situation? If yes how long it took you to go thru the process?

2. Do you advise that I should file I 129f?

3. I contacted Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman today. Will it help?

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks

Seems to me that your case has been put into Administrative Processing. This can happen at the USCIS phase when a more thorough background check is required for the petitioner. What country are you from originally?

I'm not aware of a way to speed up this process unfortunately.