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Woohoo, congrats! Well that's my day done, I'll be logging in every 10 min from here on out!

My AOS fees are ready to pay now.

Try to remember, everyone still waiting from April-July is annoyed and frustrated too. And that's not an insignificant number of people. Nothing about this process is fair or logical, everyone just has to do their best to wait it out. August has been hugely lucky with most of you going to CSC... count your blessings.

National Visa Center
Attn: DR
31 Rochester Ave. Suite 100
Portsmouth, NH 03801-2914
(from http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/immigrant-process/documents/submit/how-to-submit-documents-to-the-nvc.html#GroupC)
Hehe!

National Visa Center
Attn: DR
31 Rochester Ave. Suite 100
Portsmouth, NH 03801-2914
(from http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/immigrant-process/documents/submit/how-to-submit-documents-to-the-nvc.html#GroupC)
Hehe!

Haha - this is exactly what I am doing right now when I should be working! If I knew where to send the AOS, I would have it addressed as well, but instead my envelope is sitting beside my AOS at work so that I can run to the post office if I can pay it today lol. This darn packet accompanies me everywhere!

Yep! I had the same experience as you, it wasn't available when I first checked around 8am, but appeared randomly a few hours later. So that's sorted and now I'm checking for the AOS fee compulsively. I have the AOS paperwork sitting next to me and I keep rereading it as though the numbers will have changed themselves while I'm not looking Gotta be sure...

Let's go Texas let's go *clap clap*
Congrats to the recent approvals, let's see more good news in this thread STAT!

It takes them weeks to respond to an email, better off hanging up and redialing immediately if you get a busy signal. Often that second call will get through. This is a tough time of day, though -- a lot of people are calling during their lunch break.

Let's go Texas let's go *clap clap*
Congrats to the recent approvals, let's see more good news in this thread STAT!

Has anyone else noticed when you update your timeline on here with a transfer, it doesn't show up anywhere? Does anyone know how to fix this?

I sure hope so. It would be nice for all of us left on this thread to be approved. I would love to close this thread and move to the next one !
Come on TSC... Just pick up my file and approve it today please !!

Well, this forum is for IR-1/CR-1, not for F2As or other family preference categories. These have their own forum http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/112-bringing-family-members-of-permanent-residents-to-america/
I don't think we should be adding LPRs to our spreadsheet.
Also, Nebraska processes both I-130s/F2A AND I-130s/CR1.

I'm so excited by this change in forecast -- first for NVC, second because I don't want to be buried under snow again myself! Whew, relieved!

I'm happy to announce that the weather forecasters are predicting no snow for NVC zip code.
http://www.weather.com/weather/tomorrow/Portsmouth+NH+03801:4:US
Now, crank it up NVC and let see some action tomorrow!!!

Thank you Saylin and here we go again for another month. Lets hope that this month, the North east will have better weather, no holidays, natural disasters or anything else. Come on NVC - lets see some action please!

Yes indeed! My college roommate grew up in Ansonia and stayed there all the way through finishing a master's degree, then moved up to MA for a job offer. There's definitely not much down there, although New Haven is close... whether that's good or bad varies depending on who's asked, heh!
I hope they can make some accommodations for you at interview time, stay safe and healthy

On February 28, 2014, VJ data was as follows:



In the Immigration Timelines section, it said

Petitions with NOA1 dates as follows are currently being processed:



I-130s for IR1/CR1 and K3 Visas:

CSC: August 14, 2013

VSC: June 29, 2013

TSC: June 10, 2013

NBC: June 24, 2013



This data is less helpful than it once was, since USCIS has clearly abandoned their FIFO protocol. We have noticed these numbers jumping back and forth as the service centres continue to work parallel paths, catching up on old files and also working ahead. It's just kind of luck of the draw as to when the first person to report in a given day sent in their petition.



Igor's list

Most of the recent approvals (by about an 8-1 ratio) are from August. Throughout the Igor's List reporting there is a little bit of movement from March, April, May, a couple of (presumably expedited) approvals from November and January, and none of the last 15 from any service center were from June or July.

Again, Igor's list (and our timelines) do not seem to be successfully tracking transfers, so almost all the data is on the NBC page of Igor's list since almost all petitions from last year were sent there first.



Transfer Spreadsheet Info





July Transfers were completed early this month, and have been seeing quick responses from CSC, reasonably quick responses from TSC (since about mid-month) and NSC has just recently started to send approvals (and RFEs)



August transfers seem to have been completed as of the beginning of this week. The majority of August transfers went to CSC, a minority went to TSC, and none seem to have gone to NSC.



September transfers began this week, too, and despite a strange jump where they transferred the first week of September and then there were a few from the 3rd week, skipping the second week, they have seen several transfer days and it looks good for them to be transferred quickly. This month some files are being transferred to NSC again, so hopefully that is a suggestion that NSC might be working through their backlog and may speed up processing.



Looking at the transfer spreadsheets (this data is even less representative, since it requires 2 levels of compliance (it doesn't automatically update based on timeline updates, and people have to sign up for it and update it themselves)



Of February's reported transfers, 80% have NOA2 - (CSC 100%, TSC 91%, NSC 76%)

Of March's reported transfers, 71% have NOA2 - (CSC 86%, TSC 46%, NSC 74%) This data is virtually unchanged from last month.

Of April's reported transfers, 86% have NOA2 - (CSC 94%, TSC 79%, NSC 89%)

Of May's reported transfers, only 56% have NOA2 - (CSC 100%, TSC 58%, NSC 60%, Not reported 27%)

Of June's reported transfers, 46% have NOA2 - (CSC 85%, TSC 64%, NSC 36%, Not reported 14%)

Incidentally, May and June sent a disproportionate number of petitions to NSC - more than half of May and slightly less than half of June transfers went there.

Of July's reported transfers, 71% have NOA2 - (CSC 79%, TSC 93%, NSC 28%)

Keep in mind that July sent the majority of petitions to CSC, so 79% is A LOT of petitions)

Of August's reported transfers, 49% have NOA2 - (CSC 66%, TSC 44%, NSC didn't get any, and there's one NBC approval of the world's slowest expedite)



So the data suggests that USCIS is continuing along their path to get the average down to 6-7 months fairly soon. We can expect to see the remainder of September transferred somewhere around the middle of March, (there's usually a slowdown right around the time when the numbers are "updated" on the USCIS website) and then probably they'll transfer the October filers who are still at NBC (about mid-October they started sending them direct to the service centers, so after that point, presumably there will be no more transfers to worry about).



And the people from March to June are still kind of lost in the ether - I could hardly believe it when I looked at the transfer data and realized that there's hardly any difference in March's numbers since last month! I mean, I hope some of that is people not updating the spreadsheet anymore, but really!



I'm interested to see what happens with the September transfers going out to TSC. We know they still have an enormous backlog, but will they start following CSC's lead and just jump ahead and process those files, or will they leave them alone until they're caught up?



Overall, if VJ's data is a representative enough sample, (and USCIS is honest) the processing date that will be posted around April 20 should be somewhere in mid - late June (although that's literally an average, since June hasn't been getting much attention at all - only the months before and after!)



Does anyone have anything else that should go in the Time Capsule?

I imagine a wall covered with all of our passport photos, and employees playing darts every morning to see whose lucky day it is!

Dec 29 transfer to NSC reporting an approval now too Progress!

Speaking with tier2 doesn't slow down anything. That is a myth. They are sitting at NBC while our applications are at either CSC TSC or NSC.

I've actually looked for job openings!!!! Infiltrate the system!

The phone agents are not the actual people approving and stamping petitions. It's just like calling customer service at amazon to find out where my order is. By calling, it does not slow down the process of my order. The customer service agent is just that. They don't stop approving all petitions because someone is on the phone.
USCIS is not a mom and pop industry, it's a big government agency.

I wish I could call NVC and tempt them into invoicing my AOS by telling them I got paid today I have money, please take it!!

I imagine a wall covered with all of our passport photos, and employees playing darts every morning to see whose lucky day it is!