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[Bando613 1]

Hello all,

NOA1 date Jan 5, 2024, Texas service centre, Canadian beneficiary.
myProgress tab was estimating 3 weeks, until yesterday, when US spouse received an email notification. We checked today and the myProgress got pushed to 9 months. Is this normal? We've read that it takes a while for the update to reflect on USCIS. 

[Deagle 511]

Give it couple of days. You might receive another update. Could be anything, including RFE. Good luck.

[Bando613 1]

Update: The action they have taken: case transferred to California SC. Weird they’d do it this late in the process.

[S2N 104]

28 minutes ago, Bando613 said:

Update: The action they have taken: case transferred to California SC. Weird they’d do it this late in the process.

California likely has capacity and requested additional cases. Your PD tracks with what’s currently being processed. You’ll likely have a decision soon.

[frange24 3]

1 hour ago, Bando613 said:

Update: The action they have taken: case transferred to California SC. Weird they’d do it this late in the process.

You'll have good news soon.

Did you file for  K-3 visa?

 

Thank you,

[Reynal2m 14]

I would also like to know.

[Bando613 1]

5 hours ago, frange24 said:

You'll have good news soon.

Did you file for  K-3 visa?

 

Thank you,

K-3 is no longer available for Canadian citizens.

[frange24 3]

11 hours ago, Bando613 said:

K-3 is no longer available for Canadian citizens.

I don't see anywhere it states that K-3 is no longer available for Canadians specifically?

Is there any reference?

Thank you,

[pushbrk 13,381]

11 hours ago, frange24 said:

I don't see anywhere it states that K-3 is no longer available for Canadians specifically?

Is there any reference?

Thank you,

There is no such reference, because the assertion is false.  The K3 and K4 visas have been virtually unavailable to anybody since February 1, 2010, more than 15 years.  People still file the I-129f for spouse in the  hopes their I-130 will be pulled out of line when the I-129F is administratively closed. It happens sometimes.  Totally unpredictable.  My only explanation for the handful of K3 visas issued each year, is that some politician intervened.

 

Read last sentence of first paragraph here.  They used to be more specific indicating they close the I-129F in favor of the I-130, which is actually what they do.

 

https://www.uscis.gov/family/family-of-us-citizens/k-3k-4-nonimmigrant-visas

 

A portion of my own explanation follows.

 

On December 21, 2000 the Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act (LIFE Act) was signed into law. One of the provisions this legislation is the creation of K-3 and K-4 non-immigrant visas for spouses of US Citizens who are outside the US, and the children of those foreign spouses. These visas were created to allow reunification of families of US Citizens, by allowing the spouse and children to enter the United States as non-immigrants, and filing for Adjustment of Status inside the United States, rather than waiting for Consular immigrant visa processing. Provisions for processing for the K-3/K-4 became effective on August 14, 2001 after coordination required between USCIS ( then the “INS”) and the State Department.

 

Until November 2006, USCIS adjudicated petitions for CR1-2 and IR1-2 visas separately from the K-3 petition and at different service centers. In November 2006, USCIS changed its policy and began adjudicating the petitions together and with rare exceptions, completed adjudication or approved both petitions the same day. Effectively, this did away with the previous far shorter timelines for the K-3 and K-4 processes. The February 1, 2010 changes in National Visa Center procedures (Administratively closing the K3 spousal visa case when both approved cases arrive together as the virtually always have since early 2007), make these visas virtually obsolete.

 

Note, sometime a few years later, USCIS got the message that NVC wasn't continuing the I-129f petition for spouse processing, they simply stopped approving and forwarding them to NVC.

 

Edited April 10 by pushbrk

[Deagle 511]

On 4/8/2025 at 2:05 PM, Bando613 said:

Update: The action they have taken: case transferred to California SC. Weird they’d do it this late in the process.

Happened with me few years ago. My case was approved shortly after the transfer. 

[Theersink 29]

They are currently finishing up Dec 2023 and starting on Jan 2024 backlog according to the casestatusext site I monitor so I would imagine you should see a decision shortly. We are Mar 2024 so still a couple months away for us.

[S2N 104]

19 minutes ago, Theersink said:

They are currently finishing up Dec 2023 and starting on Jan 2024 backlog according to the casestatusext site I monitor so I would imagine you should see a decision shortly. We are Mar 2024 so still a couple months away for us.

This Reddit post is the best reference point.

 

Someone who claims to be an IO that works on consular I-130s updates it showing the PDs of his casework. As of yesterday he was processing 1/17/24

Edited April 11 by S2N