TOM & LYUBA

11/10/2014 I-129F Sent to Texas Lockbox
11/13/2014 Received Text msg NOA1 SRC#
11/18/2014 NOA1 Hardcopy received
Texas limbo

Thought about calling, but dont want to be anymore diappointed than I already am with them. with that I will wait to see what happens in the next week or two, and keep praying and hoping that we all get the answers we long for.

Every day in TSC is a bad day
Except approval day. For us it was time to open the wine the day we got notification that we were out of Texas

I really hope that all the TSC people with NOA1 dates from August and September get worked and finished next week when the petition transfer boxes are cracked open! What a long wait! C'mon, USCIS! Let us all marry!

Lets US all pray for it. AND hope that they didnt screw this up

That's what I've been thinking also. Yesterday a part of me kept expecting to get a text or e-mail saying our case got transferred - one dares to dream sometimes -, but I feel like yesterday was more of an internal organization kind of day. Maybe they were setting aside the cases to be transferred and are still going to notify the filers. Maybe their policy will be just routing cases straight to California as it's been happening, but what if they're gonna do both things? Transfer old cases to deal with the backlog and re-route new ones (their standards being unknown, since it's not been happening to all recent filers) to avoid yet a bigger accumulation of work.
I don't know, I'm still hopeful and I'm probably being very naive.
Let's just be positive and wait. After all, waiting is something we're beginning to be pros in.

On the other hand, they'll obviously need time to execute a transfer.
To my mind, people getting routed to TSC from the beginning doesn't really comprise a transfer...but what do I know...
I feel really silly for already getting my hopes up yesterday - I should know better by now!

Interesting news. I just spoke with my contact in my local congressman's office. She called the TSC this morning and spoke with a supervisor to get a better idea of what is happening with these transfers. I don't have much time at the moment to write a detailed post, but here are the highlights of what she learned:
1) The TSC was most definitely slowed by DACA, of this there was no doubt
2) The TSC continues to be slowed by the employment visas, either the 2-year renewal or AOS flavor
3) The I-129F petitions that are to be transferred will go to the CSC
4) The TSC has recently hired a whole slew of new adjudicators
5) Once those adjudicators are trained, processing times are expected to decrease
Personally I think that #4 and #5 are of particular interest to more recent I-129F filers. Perhaps, and I do mean perhaps, you won't have to wait as long as we have. All of this is TBD, clearly, but hopefully it helps fill in the picture for a lot of you.
FWIW.