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PD April 4th, transferred to NSC November 15th.
Approved today. I feel relieved but I do not feel overjoyed. This should have happened at least 2 months ago. I feel guilty because there are still Febs and Marchs waiting.

PD April 4th, transferred to NSC November 15th.
Approved today. I feel relieved but I do not feel overjoyed. This should have happened at least 2 months ago. I feel guilty because there are still Febs and Marchs waiting.

For the life of me, I cannot imagine why the New York Times decides to praise Alejandro Mayorkas. They have no clue how incompetent this man is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/opinion/homeland-securitys-new-chief.html?hp&rref=opinion

For the life of me, I cannot imagine why the New York Times decides to praise Alejandro Mayorkas. They have no clue how incompetent this man is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/opinion/homeland-securitys-new-chief.html?hp&rref=opinion

I actually thought that a lawsuit was not a bad idea. Not because we would win. As many of you pointed out, we will probably lose. But, to me, it is the message and publicity that matter. I think that our pressure so far has helped. A little more pressure from a different angle will help even more.
(We only now need to find a lawyer who will do it for free for ..... or who thinks that putting "sued the American government to protect the rights of citizens" on his/her resume will help with future business).

who is in way over his head.
Sorry -- I just need to get that off my chest. The moderators could remove it if they want.

I agree. NSC and TSC are hardly making an effort. I won't say that they are grabbing randomly, but they are not grabbing enough cases. It seems that even National is now working faster than NSC and TSC. I was transferred to NSC and now I am beginning to fear the worst.
I am not a swearer, but I really wonder if these f##**ing people at USCIS have any idea about what it is like to be without a spouse. They seem not to realize all the financial and family implications. Why the f??K would they send our applications off to NSC and TSC for them to just sit there?

Last week we had 41 approvals. Quite an improvement. (But that does not mean I am happy; USCIS should not have put us in this position in the first place).
Anyway, if they contine at this rate they should finish all the February and March filers in at most 4 weeks (assuming that we are a representative sample and all that). With the holidays, I will say that they will finish Feb and March files by the end of December. Looks like us April filers can begin expecting approvals in early January and those of us that were transferred to California may even see approvals in late December. The problem is ---and there always seems to be one with USCIS -- that Nebraska is firing only intermittantly and Texas seems to be totally asleep. For those of us that these service centers, we may well have to wait until the middle to late January. That includes me -- I was transferred to Nebraska.
On another note, a big thanks to all those who pushed this issue over and over again, with your letters, etc. I think you made an enormous difference. Please do not slow down now -- keep the pressure up, including on NVC.

Ah well, then I give up!! I wish the USCIS has the guts to fire someone over this mess.

During the week. November 12th to 15th (the week had 4 working days), there were 16 approvals of which 2 seemed to be expedites. During the previous week (a full 5 days), they did 15, also with some expedites. They have definetly speeded up and I think we can expect at least 15 approvals a week from now. But with the backlog and the holidays it will still be a long wait for us April filers. I sill think we are looking at February before April filers start hearing consistently from USCIS.
Someone still needs to be held responsible for this mess.