For those petitions transferred on may 24th.. They are in texas....My congressman found us the answers

[goodlucklife 44]

From my congressman John Lawson's office

Hi Angelina,

I spoke to the VSC and they verified that your case was transferred to the Texas Service Center for adjudication. The issue is that the TSC now has to train their staff to handle the incoming I-129Fs and the I-130s.

Our congressional liaison at the TSC said to call back in 10 days and hopefully she will have an estimated timeframe for processing these petitions. Texas knows these petitions are outside the normal processing times.

I will be in touch as soon as I have some more details.

Maureen

[Azsara 110]

wow interesting, thats a helpful congressman you have. I hope they finish the training quickly lol

[kari81 18]

That is not good. So why did they send them to TSC then if they don't have a trained staff to handle these applications?

[Azsara 110]

must be desperate

[QueenOfBlades 224]

Exactly. Why send all of our petitions to somewhere that they aren't even trained up to adjudicate? How long exactly will this take?! Arghhh

[St&Sv 33]

Great reply from your congressmen. I would think that the training would not take to long but could go either way. From my understanding only CSC and VSC process these kind of petitions, so it would make sense the other ones aren't trained in them. They very well couldn't send them to CSC because I think that would end up negating the purpose altogether. The good news is they are actively trying to do something about the backlog. Keep us posted if you could, especially after the 10 day wait. It would be great to have some sort of processing timetable.

Edited May 28, 2013 by St&Sv

[Azsara 110]

Still, im feeling optimstic for those that have been transferred...

[kari81 18]

I just called the customer service to find out TSC processing time for i-129f and I was told TSC doesn't handle this type of application so they don't provide processing time.

[zooropa 30]

Transfer 5/24/13...per the Congressman we are to wait another ten days...June 6 to get an estimate of the processing time. That's half a month delay (13) days these filers will lose if that's true. Talk about salt in the wound...

Edited May 28, 2013 by zooropa

[St&Sv 33]

Transfer 5/24/13...per the Congressman we are to wait another ten days...June 6 to get an estimate of the processing time. That's half a month delay (13) days these filers will lose if that's true. Talk about salt in the wound...

This is true, but if it just sat in VSC? If they think this route will be faster, just imagine what we might have been waiting for in Vermont. Though of course we will never know that answer, because plans are already in motion. Also the 10 days is just to drum up an estimation. They may be processing them sometime this week, and possible look at how many their agents are getting done a day/week. If they don't generally process them, they will have to do them first to get a rough idea. Either way lets all hope to start hearing acceptance letters from TSC soon.

Just another bump in the road, life will have many of these, and your gps unit will not divert you from them either. So we just slow down, hit the bump, and keep on driving....and yes that was a dead body we just ran over. Shh Shh! don't look back.

[goodlucklife 44]

That is not good. So why did they send them to TSC then if they don't have a trained staff to handle these applications?

If you read the response back ... They are trained now

[goodlucklife 44]

Transfer 5/24/13...per the Congressman we are to wait another ten days...June 6 to get an estimate of the processing time. That's half a month delay (13) days these filers will lose if that's true. Talk about salt in the wound...

I wrote ths back to the congressman s contact and she is going to follow up sooner to get to the bottom of it

[TBoneTX 45,536]

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[JerseyyyK 20]

thanks for the update! Not cool to hear they have to be trained but at least they will approve petitions while they train people.

[ACAwan 8]

My question is, after looking at Igor's list for Texas, why do they need trained when according to Igor's list there are lots of 129F's already there and have been approved???