April 2014 I-130 Filers

[tim131 14]

I recieved and email today, which is great news, we have been transferred to the California Service Center, which I believe is processing quite quickly atm for F2A applications! I checked on the case tracker and it says:

On April 15, 2014, we received this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN, and mailed you a notice describing how we will process your case.

Does this mean April 15 is our NOA1? and our priority date?

[silverjetplane 34]

I almost died when I got a case update just now! Pretty sure this doesn't mean anything at all but hey, something happened! I'll take it.

(Also, the email is two days late...)

On April 15, 2014, your Alien Registration Number was changed relating to your I130, IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. Please check our website at www.uscis.gov for further updates on your case.

I would have screamed and shouted! Thats great news - I'm hopeful that all of this means USCIS is finally getting back on track! Congratulations!

[S. & A. 159]

The NOA1 is the receipt notice (form I-797) that will be mailed to you in a few days. I didn't sign up for the email receipt notification so I don't know about that, but yes, it definitely seems like April 15 is your priority date. The NOA1 hard copy has a field that says "Priority Date: April xx, 2014" -- mine was the same as the date that first appeared in the online case tracker.

Does this mean April 15 is our NOA1? and our priority date?

Thanks! I definitely hope so!!

I would have screamed and shouted! Thats great news - I'm hopeful that all of this means USCIS is finally getting back on track! Congratulations!

[Deep35472 130]

I recieved and email today, which is great news, we have been transferred to the California Service Center, which I believe is processing quite quickly atm for F2A applications! I checked on the case tracker and it says:

On April 15, 2014, we received this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN, and mailed you a notice describing how we will process your case.

Does this mean April 15 is our NOA1? and our priority date?

Yup.. It is our pD date.

[ForeverLove4u 8]

Hello Everyone!!!! Good to meet you all. Our NOA1 Date is April 1st! So I pray we all can hang in there together through this process and have lots of celebrations! Blessings Everyone!

Sharon

[ForeverLove4u 8]

Hi there. I too am an April filer. Sent mine off last Friday the 4th. It was signed for on the 7th but have yet to receive an email . I'm sorry you forgot your pics but I can certainly understand it. The whole process is so daunting. I didn't write N/A in the extra boxes where you put other relatives you're petitioning for. All I put was my spouse in box 1 bc he's the only one I'm applying for and I've since read that I shd have put N/A In all the extra places. I'm hoping it doesn't warrant an RFE but if it does, oh well. Frustrating, yes but what can I do.

I wish us both luck. It's going to be a long and bumpy ride!

Good to be taking his bumpy ride with ya girl!!!

Blessings,

Sharon

[PlingPlong 2]

We received our NOA1 today (email) and got transferred to Nebraska.

I was hoping for California. T_T

[Abby&Mario 100]

It's a miracle!!! We've been approved. Got it really and truly confirmed talking to Tier 2 today. You can see the previous drama here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/491871-on-second-thought-uscis-does-not-know-if-they-approved-our-i-130-or-not/

I can't believe it. We filed from abroad and were sent to CSC. I have Colombian residency. We would have been able to do DCF in a few months if it existed, but it doesn't anymore. They used to process people like us very quickly but seemed to have stopped. Either they are starting up again, it's completely random or they wanted to give me a birthday present (I'll take it). Wow wow wow. Still in shock.

[Natalie and Bruce 18]

I just got the NOA1 for my stepson. Nebraska again . The NOA1 date was 04/15.

My wife is currently at the NVC. Her I-130 took 276 days, eventually transferred to Nebraska. I hope it's not another year to NOA2 for my stepson.

[silverjetplane 34]

It's a miracle!!! We've been approved. Got it really and truly confirmed talking to Tier 2 today. You can see the previous drama here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/491871-on-second-thought-uscis-does-not-know-if-they-approved-our-i-130-or-not/

I can't believe it. We filed from abroad and were sent to CSC. I have Colombian residency. We would have been able to do DCF in a few months if it existed, but it doesn't anymore. They used to process people like us very quickly but seemed to have stopped. Either they are starting up again, it's completely random or they wanted to give me a birthday present (I'll take it). Wow wow wow. Still in shock.

Congratulations! I commented in another thread to you, but I think it might be important here as well. Were you able to ask why they expedited the petition? I also filed from abroad and the petition was sent to CSC. I really hope that perhaps they are expediting petitions filed from abroad but I am definitely not counting on it.

Take care!

[PlingPlong 2]

I just got the NOA1 for my stepson. Nebraska again . The NOA1 date was 04/15.

My wife is currently at the NVC. Her I-130 took 276 days, eventually transferred to Nebraska. I hope it's not another year to NOA2 for my stepson.

Don't you think you could try to expedite it, since (assuming you are the petitioner) they are from the Ukraine?

I think there is a big chance USCIS grants it, considering the political situation in there.

[Abby&Mario 100]

Congratulations! I commented in another thread to you, but I think it might be important here as well. Were you able to ask why they expedited the petition? I also filed from abroad and the petition was sent to CSC. I really hope that perhaps they are expediting petitions filed from abroad but I am definitely not counting on it.

Take care!

Here is my response from the other thread. I'll put it here too:

Thanks, yeah, it was a total shock! I didn't ask why--I thought about it, but I didn't want to push it. Tier 2 reps are not the most cheerful people on the planet and it took me telling the guy today that someone else had told me the approval e-mail might be a "glitch in the system" to finally get verbal confirmation that we were approved. The most I got from one the other day was "quick approvals have been known to happen" when I was still trying to figure out what my real case status was. Just getting the damn case status was enough work that once I got that, I was out of there.

If you've never come across this thread, you might want to take a look: http://www.visajourn...-living-abroad/

Basically, for a while there after DCF was taken away from most of the world, many couples filing from abroad were "auto-expedited." It's a pretty interesting (but LONG) thread, although that trend seemed to die pretty quickly. I added my case there because it may be happening again. That's honestly the only explanation I can think of.

I was extremely meticulous in putting our I-130 packet together and we both looked over it many times before sending it off, but there are plenty of people who put perfect petitions together with oodles of relationship evidence who then have their file sit on a shelf for months. We'll probably never know for sure why it happened to us.

I tried to make this related thread happen but it got pushed down really quickly: http://www.visajourn...-go-to-csc-now/ Would be interesting to see if we start seeing more quick approvals out of CSC.

[silverjetplane 34]

Here is my response from the other thread. I'll put it here too:

Thanks, yeah, it was a total shock! I didn't ask why--I thought about it, but I didn't want to push it. Tier 2 reps are not the most cheerful people on the planet and it took me telling the guy today that someone else had told me the approval e-mail might be a "glitch in the system" to finally get verbal confirmation that we were approved. The most I got from one the other day was "quick approvals have been known to happen" when I was still trying to figure out what my real case status was. Just getting the damn case status was enough work that once I got that, I was out of there.

If you've never come across this thread, you might want to take a look: http://www.visajourn...-living-abroad/

Basically, for a while there after DCF was taken away from most of the world, many couples filing from abroad were "auto-expedited." It's a pretty interesting (but LONG) thread, although that trend seemed to die pretty quickly. I added my case there because it may be happening again. That's honestly the only explanation I can think of.

I was extremely meticulous in putting our I-130 packet together and we both looked over it many times before sending it off, but there are plenty of people who put perfect petitions together with oodles of relationship evidence who then have their file sit on a shelf for months. We'll probably never know for sure why it happened to us.

I tried to make this related thread happen but it got pushed down really quickly: http://www.visajourn...-go-to-csc-now/ Would be interesting to see if we start seeing more quick approvals out of CSC.

Thanks for the response. I imagine you are feeling great! I read the thread you mentioned before and even tried to beg the embassy here in Chile to let me do DCF (haha). I didn't request to expedite the petition at all, but I did file abroad to Chicago and onto California like you.

I was also incredibly meticulous with the I-130 packet so maybe the Latin gods are looking down on both of us! Like you mentioned, having a perfectly put together file doesn't mean it will magically go faster.

In any case, I read this thread today: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/492167-whats-after-noa2/ and the petitioner also filed from abroad, also went through California, and also got his NOA2 in 15 days! Here's hoping you've started a trend for us all!

[Abby&Mario 100]

Thanks for the response. I imagine you are feeling great! I read the thread you mentioned before and even tried to beg the embassy here in Chile to let me do DCF (haha). I didn't request to expedite the petition at all, but I did file abroad to Chicago and onto California like you.

I was also incredibly meticulous with the I-130 packet so maybe the Latin gods are looking down on both of us! Like you mentioned, having a perfectly put together file doesn't mean it will magically go faster.

In any case, I read this thread today: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/492167-whats-after-noa2/ and the petitioner also filed from abroad, also went through California, and also got his NOA2 in 15 days! Here's hoping you've started a trend for us all!

I'm feeling great, but I'll feel better once the NOA2 gets to my parents' house and I can see it with my own eyes!

Hey wow, I didn't know it happened to another person! That's awesome! I'm sending good vibes to everyone.

[elvenshadow 19]

Hi everyone. We sent our I-130 packet via express mail from Japan to the Chicago Lockbox on April 18^th. Hoping that we can get approved ASAP since we had plans to move back to Chicago sometime this year in the late summer or early fall. Still haven’t gotten any confirmation that they received it but I know it can take up to a week for that so I’m not too worried yet.

Anyway, good luck to all of the rest of you as well.