October 2013 I-130 Filers

[Melissa Cruz 3]

I have a feeling my case will be RFE too. I get extra checks with mine due to my husband living in El Salvador to study medicine for 12 years. Oh. And he is divorced from a salvadorean. So. Even though CSC is supposed to be fast I think my case will be SLOW.

[Bulwara Road 5]

I don't know what the point was to transfer to TSC if it takes same time as NBC....now TSC and NBC are about the same....6.5 months waiting period to get it approved.... other service centers are faster.... I'm just sitting here at work in front of computer checking website 24/7...lol... when did yours get transferred? mine was 3/10 or 3/12...cause they sent me 3 notifications which were about the same...

We got transferred on the 7th

[Jay&shan 0]

Took me exactly 11days to be approved after E-notification of i130

[Sunnymia 0]

Please let us know where u got transfered to when u come to know about it. Best of luck for the next stage

Now i know, i was tranfers to Vermont!

[Sulaimon & Brandy 20]

Im wondering what will happen to those who were already sent to the service centers before transfers? Will we all be still waiting hummmm. Or should it go in order im a bit confused.

[Cjax 6]

Im wondering what will happen to those who were already sent to the service centers before transfers? Will we all be still waiting hummmm. Or should it go in order im a bit confused.

I have been wondering the same - whether us lot will be included in the randomness of current approvals among the transferees or if they will finish all transfers before looking at the cases directly sent to the service centres.

[Maw 1]

CONGRATULATIONS to those who already got an approval!

I hope to get the approval soon. I wonder if the case status is updated. It didn't show any notification that the petition was transferred but I remember few weeks after my husband sent the I-130 we got notification that it was transferred to TSC.

Should I ask my husband to call them? Do you have any no. we can call?

[nirshd47 10]

Hi. We got an RFE on March 29th .Our case is at TSC. Hope the rest gets approved.Waiting desperately for the mail now.

[usc85 6]

Another TSC update to report: Got an email saying my address was changed March 29th.

I'll try and take a look through the threads to see what I can find, but for those who have been paying attention, am I right that approvals can sometimes come in short time after such an email? I just don't remember TSC doing it that way, but I could be remembering incorrect. Please let me know if you know of other TSC cases that had this type of email, and what they seem to indicate. I'll also post back if I find anything. Thanks!

[nightingalejules 678]

Crazy... just got back from out of town, gone since Tuesday am, still haven't received notice of where I was transferred to! So I was transferred on the 12th, approved on the 24th, and still haven't received hardcopy of any of it. Stupid postal service!!!!

I know, I know, there are lots of people who haven't been approved yet and this is totally "first world problems." But seriously, how long does it take to send a letter from the US to Canada?

I want to put new sheets into my pretty "immigration journey" binder!

[Ketsuban 1,034]

Crazy... just got back from out of town, gone since Tuesday am, still haven't received notice of where I was transferred to! So I was transferred on the 12th, approved on the 24th, and still haven't received hardcopy of any of it. Stupid postal service!!!!

I know, I know, there are lots of people who haven't been approved yet and this is totally "first world problems." But seriously, how long does it take to send a letter from the US to Canada?

I want to put new sheets into my pretty "immigration journey" binder!

That is odd. Usually standard mail takes a week to go from the UK to the US and vice versa. Surely Canada shouldn't take longer than that?

[nightingalejules 678]

That is odd. Usually standard mail takes a week to go from the UK to the US and vice versa. Surely Canada shouldn't take longer than that?

It's ridiculous. But sometimes standard mail just takes a couple days and sometimes it takes weeks. Really unpredictable. When we were sending out our wedding invites, hubby's grandmother thought we'd forgotten her because all the other invites that went to California (right down the coast from us in BC) arrived within 4 days and hers took 2 1/2 weeks. I think it's mostly on Canada Post's end, frankly. They have no idea how to run their business and are currently planning to stop home delivery in favour of big "super mail boxes" at the same time they're raising the postal rates by 100%. And they wonder why people are choosing couriers!

I wish there was an added fee we could pay to have everything shipped by fedex or dhl or somebody - I would definitely have paid it.

At least we should be able to do completely Electronic Processing at NVC stage.

[AustinCanada 681]

I think it's mostly on Canada Post's end, frankly. They have no idea how to run their business and are currently planning to stop home delivery in favour of big "super mail boxes" at the same time they're raising the postal rates by 100%. And they wonder why people are choosing couriers!

I wish there was an added fee we could pay to have everything shipped by fedex or dhl or somebody - I would definitely have paid it.

At least we should be able to do completely Electronic Processing at NVC stage.

I attended a Canada Post focus group last week. They're desperately trying to improve their services by listening to their customers now (Finally! Ha!). It may be too little, too late though.

I wish USCIS offered an expedited processing service. I'd pay for it as long as it was less than $1,000.

As far as I know, the Montreal Consulate (for Canadians) offers electronic processing at NVC so I'm so happy about it.

[dee&vee 79]

I attended a Canada Post focus group last week. They're desperately trying to improve their services by listening to their customers now (Finally! Ha!). It may be too little, too late though.

I wish USCIS offered an expedited processing service. I'd pay for it as long as it was less than $1,000.

As far as I know, the Montreal Consulate (for Canadians) offers electronic processing at NVC so I'm so happy about it.

I would also pay more for processing fees if it went towards hiring new employees to process more cases/day and provide better service. I don't think anybody would care about increase in processing fees if it would decrease processing times.

[nightingalejules 678]

I would also pay more for processing fees if it went towards hiring new employees to process more cases/day and provide better service. I don't think anybody would care about increase in processing fees if it would decrease processing times.

No kidding! I think there'd be a lot of takers on an option to pay for faster/better service. New employees or a new computer system. I'm still completely dumbfounded that obviously they're still actually processing the paper files. EP at NVC is a great improvement, but wouldn't it be amazing if there were an EP option for USCIS (or even that we still send in paper, but then that paper is immediately all scanned in and doesn't need to be moved around in paper form. The existing staff would be able to be much more efficient if they could just hit "enter" after processing one file and the next one would just pop up on their screen. It would also presumably get them a lot closer to actually processing in order (FIFO) (... of course right now, that would mean that none of us October filers would have been approved yet.

If you can't move into the 21st century, USCIS, at least maybe move into the '90s?