Understanding how I130 case gets assigned to a service center.

[CHIKAROO 0]

Hello Everyone,

 

The premise of this post is just to understand the whole process of applications going to specific service centers. This is just for my knowledge. 

 

A little bit of my background.....

 

I am a Naturalized US citizen. When I applied for my GC I was living in California and subsequently moved to Texas. While living in Texas I applied for citizenship and was granted citizenship.

 

Now, I have applied the I130  for my unmarried son who is currently living in India. I did receive the I797C and I noticed a couple things....

 

The envelop says the I797C was posted to me from the USCIS MO location, but at the bottom of the letter it says California Service Center.

 

Again this is just for my knowledge....

 

Do these applications get assigned to the state in which I was living in when i got my GC or are these applications randomly assigned to the various USCIS locations ?

 

Thank you in advance.

[powerpuff 5,907]

it’s not based on where you live. USCIS has its own internal system of petition distribution to spread out the workload among the service centers and any further details are not public knowledge.