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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Tunisia
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I’m a USC filing for my spouse and here is the timeline for our I130 standalone (consular processing):

Attorney paper filed - April 17, 2023

PD and receipt notice - April 20, 2023

Case in active review - April 25, 2023

 

And no activity since then which I think is a good sign. We sent every possible bona fide evidence in hopes to avoid an RFE and so far it seems to have worked 😊

However, the “my progress” (I am aware not to trust this information) tab on USCIS website changed to “your case is taking longer than expected” on Nov 3rd, almost 4 months ago. 

We just passed 10 months since PD. I can see posts from people with a similar situation getting approved around the 11 month mark. At what point is it plausible to contact my congressman (through my attorney?) and request them to make an inquiry on my case? If my congressman was made aware of  the “my progress” tab saying that, could it be incentive for them to make inquiry without wasting anyone’s time?

What would you do?

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You said yourself Myprogress tab is not to be trusted. And it shouldn’t be, you’re still within normal processing times which is what USCIS will reply with as they will rely on the processing pages on USCIS which, if you input your info when you scroll down to “Get inquiry date”, it will tell you your case is progressing normally and not to contact them until November 2024:

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

 

 

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Do you know which service center your application is at? 
I know you have Texas Service Center on your timeline but have you double checked and asked Emma where it is? 
or is Texas Service Center on your NOA

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Tunisia
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49 minutes ago, Redro said:

Do you know which service center your application is at? 
I know you have Texas Service Center on your timeline but have you double checked and asked Emma where it is? 
or is Texas Service Center on your NOA

Good question. My original NOA said Texas but emma agent just told me Vermont. I’m not sure what that means or even why cases are transferred to other centers. 
Also, I asked the emma agent about the my progress saying “longer than expected and I was given a canned response with a link to make an inquiry. I don’t want to make an inquiry due to still being in the normal process time. So this response from the agent tells me that they don’t know what “longer than expected” means either 😂

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Tunisia
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1 hour ago, powerpuff said:

You said yourself Myprogress tab is not to be trusted. And it shouldn’t be, you’re still within normal processing times which is what USCIS will reply with as they will rely on the processing pages on USCIS which, if you input your info when you scroll down to “Get inquiry date”, it will tell you your case is progressing normally and not to contact them until November 2024:

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

Thanks for the link. I have been to the processing times information page before and never saw this. 

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13 minutes ago, MyFirefly said:

Good question. My original NOA said Texas but emma agent just told me Vermont. I’m not sure what that means or even why cases are transferred to other centers. 
Also, I asked the emma agent about the my progress saying “longer than expected and I was given a canned response with a link to make an inquiry. I don’t want to make an inquiry due to still being in the normal process time. So this response from the agent tells me that they don’t know what “longer than expected” means either 😂

We had Nebraska as our first center! I was so excited because that meant 3-6 months at USCIS… found out later we were at Vermont. Processing times at that point was 13-14 months and getting longer. 
Check out the VJ processing times 

Vermont is currently at an average of 360 days… so people “in a similar situation” are waiting about a full year…  I would expect your I130 to be approved in 12-13 months. 

 

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