I-130 Petition for spouse of US citizen

[Love1227 3]

Hello, I just filled for my spouse today and sent in my I-130 petition for spouse online and received priority date of Jan 15 2022. I wanted to know about how long average wait is it before USCIS makes a decision? has anyone recently heard anything and if so how long did It take for you? 

 

I have filled before for Finace visa k1 before It took USCIS 7 months to approve and then after our case went to Mumbai India at the interview our case was put into administrative processing. We withdrew that case since it was taking too long and we couldn't wait any longer to get married.

 

I know the process is long and different for everyone but if anyone has any insight please share 

[Boiler 45,658]

18 months or so would be a reasonable guess.

[Dil & Malar 91]

3 hours ago, Love1227 said:

Hello, I just filled for my spouse today and sent in my I-130 petition for spouse online and received priority date of Jan 15 2022. I wanted to know about how long average wait is it before USCIS makes a decision? has anyone recently heard anything and if so how long did It take for you? 

 

I have filled before for Finace visa k1 before It took USCIS 7 months to approve and then after our case went to Mumbai India at the interview our case was put into administrative processing. We withdrew that case since it was taking too long and we couldn't wait any longer to get married.

 

I know the process is long and different for everyone but if anyone has any insight please share 

I would say 6 to 12 months.  If you are really lucky you may get within 6 months.  What service center your case went to?  you can see the bottom left corner in the receipt notice.

[Love1227 3]

14 minutes ago, Dil & Malar said:

I would say 6 to 12 months.  If you are really lucky you may get within 6 months.  What service center your case went to?  you can see the bottom left corner in the receipt notice.

Texas Service Center

[Dil & Malar 91]

2 minutes ago, Love1227 said:

Texas Service Center

Not bad. 6 to 12 months will be good.. some countries get it very quickly, not sure how.  Wishing you all the best

[Love1227 3]

2 minutes ago, Dil & Malar said:

Not bad. 6 to 12 months will be good.. some countries get it very quickly, not sure how.  Wishing you all the best

Thank you, i have been reading people saying filing for K3 after i-130 petition is in play helps speed up the process, is this true ? What are you thoughts on this 

[Dil & Malar 91]

3 minutes ago, Love1227 said:

Thank you, i have been reading people saying filing for K3 after i-130 petition is in play helps speed up the process, is this true ? What are you thoughts on this 

YES, I agree.  There is a chance it will trigger to get attention on I130 quicker.  I have filed K3 after 3 weeks of I130.  In some cases what I have checked it helped to get attention to I130.  But I doubt it hurts and takes more time for USCIS.  There was quite a bit of discussion in this thread if you are interested to read.

 

 

[SalishSea 17,923]

2 hours ago, Dil & Malar said:

I would say 6 to 12 months.  If you are really lucky you may get within 6 months.  What service center your case went to?  you can see the bottom left corner in the receipt notice.

6 months to get the visa?  No.

[SalishSea 17,923]

2 hours ago, Love1227 said:

Texas Service Center

If you are a US citizen, petition processing times at TSC are currently 10.5 - 13.5 months.  The time it takes between petition approval and visa in hand can really vary.  18 mo-2 years is a reasonable expectation for the entire process.

[Cathi 5,771]

8 hours ago, Dil & Malar said:

I would say 6 to 12 months.  If you are really lucky you may get within 6 months.  What service center your case went to?  you can see the bottom left corner in the receipt notice.

Wrong. 

 

Currently it takes anywhere from 18 months-2 years.

[Dil & Malar 91]

6 hours ago, Jorgedig said:

6 months to get the visa?  No.

No.  Not to get visa.  His question was how long it takes USCIS to make decision.   

[Dil & Malar 91]

58 minutes ago, Cathi said:

Wrong. 

 

Currently it takes anywhere from 18 months-2 years.

Some how the processing center timelines are little confusing.. but approvals are coming earlier than the announced processing times.  As per my knowledge in this forum following on timelines and cases

[Love1227 3]

11 hours ago, Dil & Malar said:

YES, I agree.  There is a chance it will trigger to get attention on I130 quicker.  I have filed K3 after 3 weeks of I130.  In some cases what I have checked it helped to get attention to I130.  But I doubt it hurts and takes more time for USCIS.  There was quite a bit of discussion in this thread if you are interested to read.

 

 

Thank you for this information, Did you send in the i-129 in the mail for k3? What documents did you attach with it? Did it help your case ?

[Dil & Malar 91]

@Love1227 - I sent K3 by mail... I am expecting it to give the positive result.  See my timeline for details