2 yrs, 4 mo waiting for I-130 and no progress

[emstat653 0]

I’m a US citizen who submitted an I-130 in October of 2023 online to request my Canadian husband’s green card.  It was received and still says “case is still being processed by USCIS”.  It appears no progress has been made in almost 2.5 years.  Every similar timeline was processed long ago.  It’s as if our paperwork has been completely forgotten and will never be done. Our lawyer has submitted 2 delay requests and called multiple time with no results.  They just say there are delays (even though everyone else gets theirs back in a year.  Has anyone else had this and what should we do?

[TBoneTX 49,253]

Fire the lawyer.  Call your U.S. Congressman's D.C. office and speak with the Immigration Liaison.  That office will have you fill out a brief authorization form to enable their staff to intervene with USCIS on your behalf.

 

Let us know how it goes.

[Edward and Jaycel 2,492]

7 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Fire the lawyer.  Call your U.S. Congressman's D.C. office and speak with the Immigration Liaison.  That office will have you fill out a brief authorization form to enable their staff to intervene with USCIS on your behalf.

 

Let us know how it goes.

I second this and if you don't like calling, most representatives have a help form with the authorization available online where you can submit your request. On their website it will usually say something like "Help with a US Government Agency" or something similar. You can find out here at this link and then that will give you a link to their official website:

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Edited 5 hours ago by Edward and Jaycel

[Boiler 48,703]

File a Writ of Mandamus.

[appleblossom 5,817]

11 hours ago, emstat653 said:

I’m a US citizen who submitted an I-130 in October of 2023 online to request my Canadian husband’s green card.  It was received and still says “case is still being processed by USCIS”.  It appears no progress has been made in almost 2.5 years.  Every similar timeline was processed long ago.  It’s as if our paperwork has been completely forgotten and will never be done. Our lawyer has submitted 2 delay requests and called multiple time with no results.  They just say there are delays (even though everyone else gets theirs back in a year.  Has anyone else had this and what should we do?

That’s really odd. Were you a USC when you petitioned him? Does he have any citizenship other than Canadian? Any criminal record? 

 

When you say the lawyer has ‘submitted 2 delay requests’ what do you mean? Did he just enquire, or submit a form for the case being outside normal processing times? 
 

I agree with the above. Time to contact your congressman and/or file a WoM. And fire your lawyer, because he should have suggested doing both of those a long time ago. 
 

Just FYI, you haven’t applied for your husbands green card. The I-130 is only the first step in a 2 part process, once that’s approved he’ll then apply for his immigrant visa (and get a GC when he enters the US on that). 

Best of luck to you.