mayb

Hi Mayb, Can i ask (as i am about to do the same), how long after you sent the letter to cancel the i130 did London accept and process the i130?

Does London just need to send the letter or do they need to "see something on the system"? I was just wondering as it could take USCIS a while to cancel and for London to see it!

London advised me they would not approve our petition with them until the one in the US was cancelled but I went ahead an mailed London a copy of our notarized letter requesting to have our US petition cancelled and London approved ours a few days later! So in short I think they may tell you that they have to see it cancelled but in reality I think they are just looking for your intent to cancel it.

As far as I'm aware our petition is still live in the US despite my letter requesting it be cancelled having arrived over a month ago.

Can you also call the DOS to enquire about a case number? Most people are receiving their case number a few days to 2 weeks from their approval date in London but we have been waiting 5 weeks for our case number!

June 10th filer here. Got an email on Wednesday, December 11 saying that our I-130 petition was transferred to a local office. My husband and I both live in the UK and have decided to file DCF and we had to send in a letter requesting our current I-130 in the US be cancelled but it appears they have not processed our request yet and our I-130 in the US is still active.

Ok thank you very much!!!

So, we will leave Part 6, 13.a - 13.c as it is because those are the numbers listed on his tax transcripts but he will send us copies of the past 6 months of pay his pay stubs.

Also, I'm getting him to send us a copy of his biographic page of his passport, should this be enough to prove his citizenship?

Hello, I'm my husband and I currently live in the UK, I am the petitioner and he is the beneficiary. Our family friend is our joint sponsor since I have been living in the UK for the past 2 years.

Our sponsor is married and they have no children so his household size should be 3, correct? On Part 6. Sponsor's Income and Employment he has listed his individual, annual income as $50,000 which meets the poverty guideline requirements for a 3 person house hold size.

This means there is no need to list his wife's income, correct?

Also, on Part 6, 13.a-13.c where he needs to list his total income, it should just be what HE earned in those years and not he and his wife together?

Thanks for the help in advance!

thanks for the suggestion on sending the copy of the NOA1 sent it and a letter today, over night was £49 so we opted with the £6 option of having it arrive within 5 days.

Yes I reside in the UK and I meet the requirements for DCF through the London embassy. Everything is inline for my I-130 being approved in London except that my petition needs to be cancelled in the US. I originally filed in the US because I did not realise DCF was an option at that time.

The USCIS has many offices, so where should I send the request to withdraw my petition to?

I filed an I-130 in June and it was sent to the Overland Park Kansas office.

I decided to file another I-130 at the USCIS London Office as that process is moving much faster than the U.S. right now. Despite being advised by both offices that I didn't need to cancel my US petition I received a Notice of Additional Processing Requirements stating that in order for my London I-130 to be approved I need to cancel my U.S. I-130.

I assume I will send the request to withdraw my U.S. petition to Overland Park? Also, does it need to be notarized or just signed?

mayb

We are on the exact same timeline. SO glad I found your post. I too was wondering when we would get our NOA1. Looked in my spam folder today and there it was!

This is great!!! We will definitely have to keep track of each other's progress. I'm not gonna hold my breath but I'm really hoping to be done with the process by the end of January! From the way I see it it's taking them about 3 to approve the I-130... so mid November and then about 6 weeks to schedule an interview after the next few forms are filled out so that would put us at the end of December but that's Christmas/New Year's so hoping for an interview date by mid January/end January. I'm probably being unrealistic but a girl can hope!

and yes, POE is port of entry

thanks, look like i'll be studying your guide very closely!

I'm so happy I made this post because you gave me the genius idea to check my spam folder (duh!!!!) and it was actually filed on 24 October so yay! Fingers crossed for a quick approval!!!

thank you so much! wow, looks like you got through the process super fast! hopefully they are still going at that speed!

I'm probably just being over eager but our I-130 was delivered to the London Embassy last Wednesday, 23 October before 1 p.m. and I still have not received an NOA1 (I submitted the electronic notification form). I assume this is normal? What were other people's experiences?

Congratulations you must feel so relieved! Our I-130 only arrived at the embassy on Wednesday and it is so good to hear people's approval stories, it gives me hope!

Good luck with the move and settling into your new life in the US!

mayb - will they let me know if we need a sponsor because I have been living outside the US for ten years?

You will need a sponsor as you have no earned any income in the US in the past few years. A sponsor basically ensures the following, "This form is required for most family-based immigrants and some employment-based immigrants to show that they have adequate means of financial support and are not likely to rely on the U.S. government for financial support" See this link http://www.uscis.gov/i-864 for the full information.

The sponsor will basically agree to pay back any money your partner gets from going on welfare for 10 years. They have to make a certain percentage above the poverty line, like for Texas I think it's over $18,000 or somewhere around there. My best friend's husband is sponsoring my husband. He will have to provide us with a tax transcript from the IRS for the past 3 years, a letter from his employer stating the type of employment, his wage, start date, etc.

Even though you don't meet the criteria for sponsoring your husband (unless you have a certain amount of assets, you would have to do more research on that) you will still have to fill out an I-864 and provide your tax transcripts for the past 3 years.

That's roughly the idea I'm not an expert though just feeling through this thing as I go! haha I will definitely be following your time line!

Thanks BP for the links. I wonder why it is quicker? (I'm not complaining of course!) Do you know of anyone on the forum here in the UK that has recently done the I 130 paperwork to move to the USA ? I am curious as to see how long it took them. I will check out the links and see what I can find. ...

I just filed an I-130 at the London Embassy, it arrived yesterday now just waiting on my NOA1. From seeing other people's experiences, especially on the Britishexpats.com forum (http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=35) it appears people are getting through the entire process from 3 to 4 monhts.

While you're waiting for your NOA2 your partner can obtain their criminal background check at http://www.acro.police.uk/ for the UK and you will also need one from any other country your spouse lived in for more than 12 months I believe.

You should also start preparing your I-864 (http://london.usembassy.gov/i864.html) you will probably need someone in the US to sponsor your spouse because you've been in the UK so long. However, you will also need to fill out an I-864 so make sure that you're up to date with your US tax returns even if you haven't earned any income there in a few years.

Hopefully I've explained this correctly but definitely check out British Expats forum or the DCF board on here.

this is someone who submitted their I-130 to the embassy at the end of August: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=807681

thanks for the tips UKHusband. I agree none of this could be done without this place!

I've already learned a lesson in patience, stupidly didn't realise we qualified for DCF so initally applied to the Chicago Lockbox facility and we are on month 4 of waiting for our NOA2 hence why we have just said forget it and have paid another $420 to try and go the DCF way!

From following your journey DCF does seem realtively painless as long as we are up to date with all of our paper work so my fingers are crossed for a semi-seamless journey as you have had!

good luck to you in starting a life in the states, I really hope you enjoy it!

Lovely, thanks for that! I will have him take that information to his GP and see if we can't get that taken care of!

I don't know if this is helpful but this is new information:

The document form checklist DS-2001 is no longer in use.

http://london.usembassy.gov/ds2001.html

Use online the Notification of Readiness form (this is based on the website via the link below at the bottom of the webpage)

http://london.usembassy.gov/iv/notif...ness_form.html

I submitted my I-130 yesterday so I would be happy to keep you updated on the steps I will have to go through in order for the DCF London instructions to be accuarte!

Just finished reading through this entire post which was incredibly helpful.

Congrats on the visa and good luck in the states!

this is an absolute disgrace. Why are they JUST NOW transferring these petitions? I'm so angry there's no chance of me being optimistic at this point and I'm just a June filer, I have no idea how people who filed at the beginning of the year are coping. What's even worse is there's no one to really direct your anger towards it's like you pay them $420 and they get to do whatever they want!

Hello,

I am planning to pay my I-130 fee using the credit card payment form. I have 2 questions, 1. does it have to be a credit card from the US? 2. Does it have to be in one of our names?

thanks!

I'm a USC living in the UK with a NOA1 date of 10 June. I am phoning the USCIS to see about cancelling my application and reapplying through DCF as I just realised I'm eligible for this and it seems to be a much quicker process. I'm ready to get on with our lives in the US.

there's a June filer who's NOA1 had overland park, kansas as the address on it and he was approved just the other day. See the June 2013 filers post.