Juan Bravo

Congrats to you!! Come over to the May 2014 NVC forum!

We'd be more than glad to JeffInMx!!!

YAYYY!! Congrats you guys!

Thank you so much!!!

I cannot tell you both how happy I am to finally see you both through!!! See you in the NVC thread! CONGRATS!!!!

Bdrew we were approved today!!!! :joy: May 12th

I hope it's an approval, it sounds like you have all your bases covered! It's ridiculous they send a letter with your transfer notice that it should be adjudicated within 60 days and when that lapses you get another notice (after pestering them) to give it another 30. I call BS to the 100th degree!

I agree for sure! but its the government and they can do what they want. Officially on their customer service center info they say you have to wait not 60 days but 180 days before even being able to file a service request!! Ridiculous!

I think chrissyb got the exact same response (she received an RFE a couple days later). I hope this isn't the case for you. Is there anything you can think of that may need an RFE? :/

We used a lawyer to prepare everything (which doesn't guarantee anything I know) but we had everything asked for. The only thing I can think of is that we married 4 months after we met and we eloped so no one was at our wedding (we are still planning our "real" wedding with family). Also.... Ben came to stay with me in USA on visa waiver for a while never overstaying his 90 day visa. At the time the federal gov. did not recognize our marriage so we knew there was no chance for him to remain in the USA. On his last entry into the USA they told him he was spending too much time in the USA and couldn't come back unless he got another type of visa. He was allowed into the USA however and stayed less than 90 days before he went back to Sydney. That was last March. The lawyer said that this spending too much time in a one year time frame may be looked into but not affect us too much since he never overstayed an entry...and at the time Ben and I knew that he couldn't live here anyway. Well later last year the defense of marriage act was overturned and we were allowed to file. This is the only thing I can think of that they may be looking into.

Hi folks... for some reason my ears were ringing.. saw an update e-mail from the forum and saw our name being mentioned. I called USCIS today and made a service request to expedite as the nice spanish speaking woman told me. So I have to laugh because she said I should hear something in 5 days. But if I don't hear anything don't call back she says. Just wait... wait wait wait.... sigh...

Hi Joe and Vlad. This is the response I got from my expedite request from USCIS.

"The expediting of a case allows it to be sent quickly to an officer for adjudication. However, your case is currently under review by an officer. Most applicants receive a decision or correspondence within 30 days. A timely decision requires all pertinent information being present when received by the adjudicating officer and the complexities of the case. Please contact us again if you do not receive the document or other correspondence within the 30 day time frame.

We hope this information is helpful to you."

I hope it's an approval!!!!

I sure hope so!!

http://www.uscis.gov/about-us/contact-us/national-customer-service-center

Call the number don't press any buttons. Lady will finally come on in Spanish. Act shocked say sorry I need English. :-) tell them you are past 60 days since transfer. You are worried that its taking so long. They will offer the expidited process. Have your info ready cause they need it.

http://www.uscis.gov/about-us/contact-us/national-customer-service-center

Call the number don't press any buttons. Lady will finally come on in Spanish. Act shocked say sorry I need English. :-) tell them you are past 60 days since transfer. You are worried that its taking so long. They will offer the expidited process. Have your info ready cause they need it.

Hi Joe and Vlad,

I called and got the Spanish speaking lady. I speak Spanish so I just stuck with her. She filled a service request to expedite and said we would get a reply from NSC within 5 days. Fingers crossed!!!

Thanks for you help!

http://www.uscis.gov/about-us/contact-us/national-customer-service-center

Call the number don't press any buttons. Lady will finally come on in Spanish. Act shocked say sorry I need English. :-) tell them you are past 60 days since transfer. You are worried that its taking so long. They will offer the expidited process. Have your info ready cause they need it.

http://www.uscis.gov/about-us/contact-us/national-customer-service-center

Call the number don't press any buttons. Lady will finally come on in Spanish. Act shocked say sorry I need English. :-) tell them you are past 60 days since transfer. You are worried that its taking so long. They will offer the expidited process. Have your info ready cause they need it.

Thanks Joe and Vlad! I'll try it!

Hi folks... for some reason my ears were ringing.. saw an update e-mail from the forum and saw our name being mentioned. I called USCIS today and made a service request to expedite as the nice spanish speaking woman told me. So I have to laugh because she said I should hear something in 5 days. But if I don't hear anything don't call back she says. Just wait... wait wait wait.... sigh...

Joe and Vlad,

How did you file the request by phone... I cant seem to get to the right place.

Hi folks... for some reason my ears were ringing.. saw an update e-mail from the forum and saw our name being mentioned. I called USCIS today and made a service request to expedite as the nice spanish speaking woman told me. So I have to laugh because she said I should hear something in 5 days. But if I don't hear anything don't call back she says. Just wait... wait wait wait.... sigh...

Hi Joe and Vlad... do you have to wait until the exact 60 days since transfer? Ben and I are still waiting as well and I filed a request online at USCIS but that was a week ago and still nothing. Our 60 days will be tomorrow.

We haven't forgotten about you, we're looking forward to you joining us in the NVC thread!

"If you don't hear from us don't call back?" Pfffttttt! I hope you hear something and by something I mean approval!

Yes bdrew don't forget about us either!!

I am right there with you too. I got an RFE that I sent back to them on 04/22/2013. Its at the post office and supposed to have been delivered by 12:00 noon. I am watching usps.com like a hawk.

Hi chrissyb... I wish I had an RFE in way coz I would at least know they touched my case!

Yours is coming any day now! I can feel it. Sending positive vibes to you and everyone else that is still waiting!

Thanks JeffinMX!! I hope they get there

I'm hoping you get it soon!! Refresh my memory, have you filed a service request yet? I really think you should, you're beyond processing times!

Hi bdrew,

I filled out the request online.. the one that says its out of processing time... that's it right? I didn't even get an email confirmation after I sent it.

_{Still waiting for NOA2 :(}

Nothing yet for me... what is going on?

Yea us too... tomorrow will be 30 days since our transfer to NSC

• I called the USCIS because mine said the same thing... but the immigration officer looked in the system and said I was actually transferred to the Nebraska service center NSC.... She said it was an error how the notifications have gone out.

I hav a doubt⁉️⁉️ like uscis says "ur application has been transferred to your local office for further processing...." Does it mean that they r transferring to the uscis office/center from where the applicant belongs!!! Or is it just transferred randomly!!

It's transferred randomly otherwise I would have gotten Vermont...but I got Nebraska instead. It appears to be somewhat based on the day that batch of applications was transferred.

Just got transferred!!!!

PD Sep 12

Just called USCIS... got transferred to NSC.... I can only hope for the best... at least it's gone somewhere

I had a greencard for most of my life... and the one thing I couldn't do was move out of the country.... otherwise you will lose your legal permanent residence (LPR). You can travel and such and in my case even attend college outside the USA but I could not spend more than 6 months out of the year outside the USA or risk losing my legal permanent residency.... I don't know if things have changed now but I would definitely check. I finally became a citizen in 2011... now I can live wherever I want. Can someone else offer some advice?

Just got transferred!!!!

PD Sep 12

well hopefully it'll happen soon for you both. The waiting can be unbearable, particularly as each stage comes to a conclusion

Yea really!! My husband in Sydney doesn't look at this site at all...so I give him all the updates... when I told him we still haven't been transferred and that the wait may easily still be 5 months or more for the rest of the process he about had a breakdown! he thought I was kidding... Not a good day for us

Well that sucks big time

What exactly is a T2? just someone with slightly more authority?

Hi AJMUK,

Yes a Tier 1 officer can only see the record information you can see when you log on to the USCIS website... and answer general questions. They cannot see the specifics of your actual file status.... so they transfer you to a Tier 2 officer and they can look at your complete file. They guy I talked to assured me nothing had changed yet on my file or status.

Not a transfer - probably just a computer glitch, but sometimes it does mean someone "touched" your file, so something (transfer, approval, whatever) happens shortly after one of these random messages. It could be that someone entered your address in the system. From "no address in the computer" to "address in the computer" could be construed as a "change of address".

There's no understanding what these messages mean. "Your Alien Registration number has been changed..." is another one that people sometimes get.

Congratulations to all tonight's transfers! It does seem like they're really ripping through September! (which is great for me because I'm waiting for them to get to October!)

I called today... the T2 officer said there was no change to my address and that sometimes they have computer "glitches" that generate these false notices of address change... He said I could be assured nothing had changed on my I-130 file or status.... So I did not get transferred yet...

Hi bdrew612

Actually I am working through an attorney but I'm also signed up for email notices which is how I got the email above. I've changed my password a couple of times and got notices for those as well.

I am the petitioner. I'll call tomorrow. Thanks.

No it did not at all.