Potomac Center I-130 Filers 2019

[IsItLekker 183]

On 2/5/2020 at 7:35 PM, Chimney said:

Hi all. Our case was transferred to PSC from CSC in December.

 

PSC 35-46 months for permanent residents seems very scary... But California had it faster. What times should I trust?

 

thank you 

Well it looks like you got your answer today! Haha. Congratulations you guys! 

[Chimney 3]

41 minutes ago, IsItLekker said:

Well it looks like you got your answer today! Haha. Congratulations you guys! 

Haha, I know right! Was so worried. Exactly year ago I’ve filed everything.

 

Thank you!

[IsItLekker 183]

So... per the usual... Potomac seems to have ceased approving again... heaven only knows why as I haven't heard of anyone being transferred since December/January. But, they ARE approving people who applied for expedite or filed I-129f.

Our own most recent version of this was a couple with a PD of July 25th and an NOA1 of August 2 who filed their I-129f in October 2019. Today, I saw on FB another couple with a PD of August 19 was approved and they also filed for a K3.  

 

 

[corntop 129]

Yeah it's certainly weird, and increasingly frustrating. They seem to have completely changed their way of working over the last couple of months. If they just went full steam ahead with I-130s, they'd have cleared July and August by now

Edited February 21, 2020 by corntop

[Jerod 0]

Its probably because of all the transferred cases from the slower centers. They're probably working on those cases first since they've been waiting a long time.

[corntop 129]

Yeah that's true, seems a lot has been re-distributed recently. Just got to keep positive and patient 🤞

[Chikae 0]

Can someone help me here please good people....

Uscis has sent our case to nvc twice and this is the 2nd time it's being returned to uscis office and this was the email thst was sent to my husband 

 

Application Type: I130, PETITION FOR ALIEN RELATIVE 

Your Case Status: Post Decision Activity 

On February 21, 2020, the Department of State sent us your case, Receipt Number ×××××××× for review. We are reviewing it, and will notify you by mail when we are done. Please follow any instructions in the notice. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address. 

For approved applications/petitions, post-decision activity may include USCIS sending notification of the approved application/petition to the National Visa Center or the Department of State. For denied applications/petitions, post-decision activity may include the processing of an appeal and/or motions to reopen or reconsider and revocations. 
 

• Log-in to your myUSCIS account to view your case history and understand what you can expect to happen next on your case.
• Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at under Check Processing Times

[ThePeripatetic 4]

20 hours ago, IsItLekker said:

So... per the usual... Potomac seems to have ceased approving again... heaven only knows why as I haven't heard of anyone being transferred since December/January. But, they ARE approving people who applied for expedite or filed I-129f.

Our own most recent version of this was a couple with a PD of July 25th and an NOA1 of August 2 who filed their I-129f in October 2019. Today, I saw on FB another couple with a PD of August 19 was approved and they also filed for a K3.  

 

 

Have people in this forum typically filed for I129fs subsequent to filing their I130? Is there definitive proof that this actually speeds up the I130 approval?

 

We spoke to our lawyer recently about this and  he told us that there is no proof whatsoever that this speeds things up and could actually slow down the process. Apparently there is a possibility that the I129 gets sent to a processing Centre like Nebraska for example, after which our I130 file also gets sent to Nebraska where the two are assessed in tandem. He advised that this simply would not make sense since we got Potomac (one of the fastest centers) as our processing centre but may make sense for people who got Nebraska or California.

 

Does anyone have any experience with this? Still on the fence about filing a I129f since Potomac seems to be moving at a glacial pace these days 🙄

[IsItLekker 183]

16 hours ago, ThePeripatetic said:

Have people in this forum typically filed for I129fs subsequent to filing their I130? Is there definitive proof that this actually speeds up the I130 approval?

 

We spoke to our lawyer recently about this and  he told us that there is no proof whatsoever that this speeds things up and could actually slow down the process. Apparently there is a possibility that the I129 gets sent to a processing Centre like Nebraska for example, after which our I130 file also gets sent to Nebraska where the two are assessed in tandem. He advised that this simply would not make sense since we got Potomac (one of the fastest centers) as our processing centre but may make sense for people who got Nebraska or California.

 

Does anyone have any experience with this? Still on the fence about filing a I129f since Potomac seems to be moving at a glacial pace these days 🙄

Well, it could have been beneficial if you had filed it right away. But since we are already on July I-130 filers and they just approved the I130s of I-129f October filers, I don't really see it helping you out now. Your I-130 approval would come up long before the I-129f shows up on their radar. 

[Jerod 0]

Potomac processing time is now 8.5 to 11 months 😔

[GC4all 2]

So is the USCIS speeding up other centers at the expense of Potomac service center ?

 

Are there July filers at Potomac getting approvals ? 

 

My PD is August 27 I really hope it's happening soon

[corntop 129]

I'm beginning to wonder if they are trying to level out / catch up all the service centres since they shifted all that work around so that they start working on IOE receipts from the same time period, especially since everything has transitioned online too. Potomac crawling through July, Texas still working on July (though they've had some August approvals) and now Nebraska has amazingly had some approvals from July too. 

[IsItLekker 183]

Well, here is the update for February 2020!

For the entirety of this month, 83 VJ member petitions have been approved by the USCIS across all the centers (by timeline).

Approximately 4 cases a day by the organization as a whole.

Of those 83 petitions approved, only six of them were at Potomac - roughly one petition for every three or four days.

The first petition of the month was approved on the 4th of February.

The latest NOA1 approved this month was August 2nd (due to filing of the I-129f). The latest NOA1 approved without expedite of I-129f was July 15th. 

 

The current estimated range for application completion on the USCIS website is between 8.5 - 11 months from your PD. If you filed before April 16th, and you still have not received any notifications about your case, you should call USCIS and find out what is going on.

 

We are a small center (only 1,771 petitions recorded) and while the daily rate of approvals does leave something to be desired, we are moving forward, be it ever so slowly. Also, keep in mind, some filers do not have their timelines set up and so their data is not contributed to the pool. Please encourage any and all Potomac filers in the forums to go ahead and set them up so we can start to get more accurate readings on our timelines. That said, we are now tied with California Center for I-130 approvals, but we are still ahead of Nebraska (for now). We're getting there!

 

 

[Vijay90 0]

Hi. Joining the thread.

PD: Nov 22, 2019

NOA1: Nov 25, 2019

Last Status update: Jan 2020

 

Nothing since!!

[Mimi@25 9]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to Potomac trend. Reading through and seeing some August filers approval gives me joy. I am one of the August filers too with a Potomac center, still waiting for my approval too it's been 201 days already from my PD which is August 12th 2019. I am super excited in my spirit that I will be approve this month faithly.

 

who has the most recently approved case from Potomac who file in August?