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Congrats!!!

And I am stuck here from July at VSC with no end in sight. I should have submitted my papers a month late and would have been approved by now.

I have a ? my i30 for my wife had gotten approved today threw vermont and know they said it goes to the national visa center.How long do you think we have to wait till we go to the interview and is it possible my wife will be her for the hollidays.Thank you

Congrats!!

Are you currently residing with your wife? Based on your timeline, you got approved quick.

HELLO GUYS!

finally we have just received a text message informing us of the update of our case !

after 203 days from the NOA1 ! what a relieeef! thanks god!

i wish a goood luck for all of you!

Congratulations!!!

Please update your timeline as well.

thanks for the answer. i am american born, but am of sikh descent

The marriage registrar may say that you have to register under the "Special Marriage Act" as you are a foreign citizen. That means you need to stay in India for at least 30 days to get the marriage registered.

You should check this with the marriage registrar before you plan your trip.

I was thinking that if we collectively sent a petition to request that applications be distributed so that they have a fair shot at being processed in a reasonable time frame (i.e. less than 5 months) that might be more effective then sending individual letters to congressmen/women.

I do realize that VJ is non affiliated but with public information, we can easily tell there is a delay going on. Obviously USCIS is under no obligation to do anything, sometimes making a little noise gets somebody higher up putting pressure on the right person. My experience with gov't organizations is that they don't have financial reasons to work efficiently, but it only takes a little incentive from the right entity to get things moving.

The squeaky wheel gets the oil, but no employee at the VSC is going to squeak for us.

I made this on signon.org. I tried to be considerate of others who are waiting.

http://signon.org/sign/help-keep-legal-immigrants?source=c.url&r_by=5349797

Just signed up. Need more awareness of this petition. Hopefully it helps.

USCIS Publishes Forms for Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals‏

WASHINGTON— Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) submitted a Federal Register notice announcing new forms and instructions to allow individuals to request consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals from USCIS. USCIS will begin accepting completed forms tomorrow , August 15, 2012. On June 15, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that certain people who came to the United States as children and meet other key guidelines may request, on a case-by-case basis, consideration of deferred action.

For the complete News Release, please visit USCIS Publishes Forms for Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the www.uscis.gov website.

Will these applications go into the back of line or will they get to bypass all the other applications? This new action is beyond ridiculous and is a slap on the face of all who filed legally.

None of these are going to give you accurate stats unless you are really pulling out statistics data from USCIS website doing status check on all VSC case numbers and mapped them into each month. Yes, we had a VJ member who was doing this back in early this year during his spare time and it was fairly accurate.

yeah, it was just to give a general idea. it's dependent upon lots of assumptions and I only wish we could get accurate data from USCIS. anyways, I am hoping VSC speeds up and provides approval for people before me who have been waiting for a long time.

Statistics, Number crunching works in Finance and Accounting Not with USCIS. But good work on collecting and mining that information.

Anyway you seem to have applied in August, when are u expecting your approval? I applied in April, still waiting.

I was hoping by early December to have NOA2. CSC seems to be flying compare to VSC. I understand this "study" won't be accurate. Just something to give me hope, I guess.

Lot more timelines were created by VJ members from January till April this year compared to months after that. Now only USCIS knows whether that trend reflects the actual applications received by them or not.

So while waiting for my NOA2 from VSC and trying to keep myself busy, I took data from Igor's list and came up with the approval rate on I-130 for VSC. Now keep in mind, that this data is only based on user input on this website but it should give us a general rate. The approval rate for earlier month is low as the data I used only showed applications started since August 2011. VSC probably approved lot of applications in early months that would have been started before August 2011.

Currently we are looking at 45-50 approvals a month on Igor's list. Which means we should be looking at closing around 40-50 applications/month from Igor's list.

Currently, Igor's list show around 156 unapproved timelines since Sept. 2011. Some of the timelines haven't been updated so essentially, there are fewer people with unapproved timelines than 156. But even with 156, if the current rate is kept up, we should see the July fillers to be approved by late October (I hope!!!) or early November.

Take these numbers as you may (as this is not a scientific study). They gave me a little faith and hope. Hopefully it helps you as well in order to cope with this difficult journey.

Month - Approvals

Jan - 1

Feb - 3

Mar - 10

Apr - 8

May - 11

Jun - 50

Jul - 46

Aug - 10

I would appreciate any thoughts or criticisms.

Can the birth certificate be rejected by the NVC if it doesn't have the beneficiary's name on it?

If it can be denied for that reason, what are the other options? Affidavit from parents?

I never heard of "schedule-d" sent by USCIS immediately after filing a petition. I am interested to know more on this.....

Have you already received NOA1 letter from USCIS? What does so called "schedule-d" says in it?

Sorry I wasn't clear in original post. I had received "Schedule-D" from the marriage registrar in India (not USCIS). They told me it was marriage certificate but it doesn't say the words "marriage certificate" on it. I got the marriage registered in Amritsar. Although it has information of both the bride and groom on it (residence, place and date of marriage, etc) and has marriage registrar's stamp and signature.

I received the NOA1 text message and email on the 27th and it looks like the payment went through today.

hi,

Got married in India and recieved a form called "schedule-d". Is that the same as marriage certificate? I had sent that with my I-130 application to USCIS and am wondering whether they need something else.

Thanks.

Hi,

Could you advise which I-130 form edition you used? Currently USCIS website mentions they continue to accept the 01/08/12 edition. I am just wondering if you used the same one.