callan83

Hi All - a few questions

I forgot to send one of my supporting documents to the NVC center (stupid I know). When I called, they said it could take up to 6 weeks to review the one additional document.

In peoples experience, does it not normally take the full 6 weeks to review missing documents?

Also, what is the normal wait time to get an appointment at the UK Embassy once approved from the NVC?

Thank you,

David

Perfect....thank you

My wife is a US citizen and applying for a green card on my behalf.

She is a humanitarian worker and often has to travel and live outside of the US for extended periods of time (6 months - 1 year).

Does it matter if she does not live with me in the US on a permanent basis once the green card has been approved?

Here is an updated list of the ones I am tracking.

Green Card Infro.doc

Congratulations!! No expedite or anything? Just processed because they got to yours in the pile? This is indeed exciting stuff! I hope the same USCIS rep has mine in their pile haha

No, nothing special about my application. Very exciting indeed!!

Oh my! My PD is 3 days behind yours!

Did you request an expedite or is your spouse in the military?

I'm shocked - in a nice way - and hoping it's good news for me soon too!

No, nothing special about my application at all. I was as shocked as you are.

Hope good news comes soon for everyone else.

My case was just approved at Nebraska - PD 8th Feb!!!!!

My case was just approved at Nebraska - PD 8th Feb!!!!!

Hey Callan, that was before I biled in November 30th, my case is in Nebraska:

LIN1690225616

Looks like they have received your request to expedite. As was said earlier, you should call and ask for a tier 2 supervisor....seems like your best shot.

I have already called twice, requested to be expedited, and nothing, they give me no news at all... Just say that we have to keep on waiting... Where did you finf that manual? Do you mind sending me the link?

In the website they´re not saying January, they´re saying November 3rd, am I looking at the wrong processing timeframe maybe?

Thanks

Your timeline says Texas Service Centre - was it transferred to Nebraska?

What is your case number?

I would love to know what are the USCIS procedures for the cases, I filed my I130 in November 30th 2015, it´s at the Nebraska Service Center, where they´re saying it´s taking up to 5 months for processing, and so far no news ANyone in the same page?

You should be able to call them now as it has gone over 5 months.

From our tracking on here, Nebraska is processing applications from mid-January 2016.

Hi callan83

I am following the cases you shared and all the cases with NOA1 on January 12th have been approved or asked for more info.

Yup, updated file is attached

Green Card Infro.doc

Here are the cases I am tracking (attached)....will try and keep you updated.

Green Card Infro.doc

I have started to track a handful of cases through January to see the Nebraska progress.

The table below shows the cases and their respective timelines, I will try paste it every day to show the progress.

Cheers

Case number Form NOA1 NOA2 RFE LIN1690348030 I-130 12-Jan-16 06-May-16 LIN1690348027 I-130 12-Jan-16 03-May-16 LIN1690348025 I-130 12-Jan-16 05-May-16 LIN1690348018 I-130 12-Jan-16 LIN1690348017 I-130 12-Jan-16 09-May-16 LIN1690383011 I-130 25-Jan-16 LIN1690383010 I-130 25-Jan-16 LIN1690383009 I-130 25-Jan-16 LIN1690383008 I-130 25-Jan-16 LIN1690383007 I-130 25-Jan-16 LIN1690383005 I-130 25-Jan-16 LIN1690383002 I-130 27-Jan-16 LIN1690383001 I-130 27-Jan-16 LIN1690383000 I-130 25-Jan-16 LIN1690370282 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370281 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370280 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370279 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370278 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370277 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370274 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370271 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370270 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370269 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370268 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370267 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690370266 I-130 20-Jan-16 LIN1690365618 I-130 19-Jan-16 11-May-16 LIN1690365617 I-130 19-Jan-16 LIN1690365200 I-130 19-Jan-16 11-May-16 LIN1690375100 I-130 22-Jan-16 LIN1690386094 I-130 26-Jan-16 LIN1690386091 I-130 26-Jan-16 LIN1690386090 I-130 26-Jan-16 LIN1690397003 I-130 29-Jan-16 LIN1690397002 I-130 29-Jan-16 LIN1690397001 I-130 29-Jan-16 LIN1690397000 I-130 29-Jan-16 LIN1690418090 I-130 08-Feb-16 LIN1690408016 I-130 25-Jan-16 LIN1690348016 I-130 12-Jan-16 11-May-16 LIN1690359357 I-130 19-Jan-16 LIN1690419964 I-130 08-Feb-16 LIN1690419961 I-130 08-Feb-16

Hello. Try and fill your timeline so we can know where you are in your visa journey. Thanks and good luck in your journey.

It already is. I am at the NOA1 stage.

Hi

During my regular Nebraska stalking on the app. Lol!

What was the case number?

that is not bad at all, I am very happy with that!! probably by the end of the week they will jump to January...

They are already in January.....

Nebraska just approved a December 30 file. I was hoping to see more January filers being approved this week.

The week is young....hopefully more will come towards the end of the week.

I have a theory that I am just spent an hour or so testing out...

It looks like the auto-expedite for Filipino beneficiaries is coming or has come to an end. I think this is the reason for the speeding up of the general workload in Nebraska. Whilst I have sympathy for people affected by severe weather and natural disasters (I'm no stranger to it myself having lived in China with earthquakes - I was personally affected by the Sichuan earthquake in 2008) it was of course frustrating knowing that for every case that was expedited mine was pushed back a little.

Looking at recent NOA1s, so far only one March filer has reported an NOA2 and that was an African beneficiary where an expedite was requested for individual reasons. Not even the Philippines filers from March at Nebraska have NOA2 yet. No one from April has one. Previously it was not uncommon to see NOA2s for the Philippines coming in after a month. So one would have expected to see March ones by now, possibly April.

Furthermore, I have been looking at Potomac. Now we know they are much faster than Nebraska at the moment. But the time between NOA1 and NOA2 seems to be standard across all countries there. Two of the most recent NOA2s there were filed on the same day - one from Germany and one from the Philippines. The German one received NOA2 the day before the Filipino case did. And there are many other similar examples.

I'm pretty sure the policy of expediting certain petitions based on geography added about three weeks to a month to everyone else, especially as the Philippines sees huge numbers of applications - not just for spouses but for parents once the spouses have naturalised. That's about how much Nebraska appear to have sped up. If it had been a much smaller group that were fast-tracked, say Mongolia or Barbados, it wouldn't have made much difference. But we're talking thousands of petitions here.

I'm going to test my theory further by looking at IR-5 cases through Nebraska. Parents from the Philippines were getting NOA2 in a month. I stopped looking because that made me so annoyed when I'm waiting months and months to be with my husband. But I'm going to start studying those timelines again.

Looks like there were quite a few approvals yesterday (just looking at VJ.com), and it seems Nebraska are operating around mid-Jan.

Is that consistent with what your iPhone stalking shows?

Rise and shine, Nebraska. It is time to get processing!!

About a week from submission.

Perfect - thank you for the quick reply

How long does it normally take to get a police certificate in the UK?

Hi everybody Im new here

My I130 has been approved today!

NOA 1: Jan 20

NOA 2: May 6

Nebraska service center

So, what's next? I'm confused :/

Thanks for your support

Nice work, a lot of people will be happy to see a Jan 20th approved at Nebraska

Here are the next steps (posted earlier today on this chat group)

Nebraska will send your application to the NVC (normally takes 3-4 weeks)

Receive mail from NVC

Pay fees

Fill out ds-260

Send documents

Get vaccines if you need any

Medical

Interview

Someone on the facebook group said an application from the 20th Jan in Nebraska was just approved