mrc1330

Ok, i see what you're saying.. to maybe contact them in a "wave" or a "series" so that there is always someone on USCIS's neck... I like it... i like it alot. Thats a very interesting approach.

I just feel that if u contact 3 people all at once, it will create a big mess at the cogressional inquiry department at USCIS..so u may just end up getting one answer to all three (congressperson and two senators) inquiries..on the other hand if u do it three times it may be a little different and it may show USCIS that u r not there to take their ####### and do something about it with a higher level of authority....this is just my thought...u r free to make ur own choice...but if i were u, this is what i would have done...good luck in whatever u decide..

I disagree with contacting only one at a time. I will guess that there is a 90% chance that they tell you "there is nothing we can do at this point", AFTER you've gotten your hopes up, waited for days after faxing them the evidence you probably already sent in, all so they can drop the bomb on you. So just send it to them ALL at once, DONT tell them that you have contacted another political party, and if they find out, just say "I'm sorry but i had waited for about 3-5 business days after repsonding to you and you made no effor to contact me so i contacted someone else, please forgive me for confiding in my OWN elected official to NOT let me down."

Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Sen. Bill Nelson, Sen. Mel Martinez, all political figures of FLORIDA, (mind you Florida is not a little back country hill billy state no one cares about) and they all 3 at different times responded with "there is nothing we can do at this point", "we contacted our congressional liason but she says that your case is being processed as scheduled", "the reasons you noted were not severe enough".

It's all lies... You need to be ANGELINA JOLIE to get a favor done by a political giant. Understand? You must be rich in order to have your civil right to pursuit of happiness (family reunity) respected and acknowledged.

When filling out the privacy release form, it says the following:

I hereby authorize the office of SENATOR ..... to request on my behalf, pertinent to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act of 1974, access to information concerning me in the files of the Department of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). In addition, the office of SENATOR .... is also authorized to see any materials that may be disclosed pertinent to that request.

The underlined part is blank in the form where we have to specify which department we are allowing the senator access to, Writing USCIS is OK here or should I write something else?

what do u mean by providing access?

when u ask ur congressperson/senator to get an inquiry done on ur behalf, u will have to provide them with ur information like USCIS receipt number, ur name, ur SSN and things like that to make sure they are looking at the correct file.

looks good!

Same here We are Feb filer still waiting for approval & it seems the waiting is forever, Its a torture & agonizing situation. What is this 1-129F(k-3) for that we applied? isn't it to fastrack the case, to let the spouse come to USA to reunite our husbands quicker? but it seems its useless, its of no effect at all, the waiting is tooooo long for us.

Mamalou, We have very similaar time line. I hope we get approved soon........

Noticed that the timeline on I130 actually went backwards today and time extimate went to 249 days

SAME HERE.. .WAITING for both my I130 (189 days) and K3 (140 days). My cases are consolidated (so USCIS says). And my last update on the I130 was 2/24/08. Last update on the K3 was 05/08/2008.

fill out timeline please

fill out timeline please

When my wife and daughter come to US on K3 and K4... is it possible to change our daughters last name to mine (which is the way my wife's last name will be). If so, how and where do i change it..

you are the first one in this category from VJ that got transferred. I still think it's good for all of you getting transferred to CSC. It will speed up your approval. I am wondering why VSC is bothering with these transfers since the transfer process also involves a lot of work....why not just start approving?

EXACTLY... they seem to have difficulty just updating a damn website's processing times... they should just stick to the basics since they are too stupid for anything more complicated than an abacus.

I know, it's been driving me nuts too, mostly because I have a NOA1 date of Jan 18th on my I-129F and if they would just update the friggin' processing times, I'd be outside of them! And then my lawyer/congressman/senator/USCIS will here about it. BAH.

You're already outside of them... read the word carefully: The processing times shown below are for applications that have just been completed.

Start bitching at everyone already! hah

I'm waiting for it to move up the date so I can start also

It's a completely different visa category and there for a reason. Imagine the Olympics if countries didn't have a more open policy towards it. Or the arts.

Yeah where would we be if Ozzy couldn't come over here, put on a dress, drink a bottle of whiskey and piss on the Alamo?

I dont think grandparents or ancestry has anything to do with "weighting" the citizenship.. i only brought it up because someone ELSE brought up my decent... so i merely stated my ancestry...

Who cares about the Olympics if we can't be with our families... I mean think about it, just because the Olympics come around does that mean we are allowed to drop out safety standards and guard for athletes... These taliban are trained from the day they are able to comprehend to hate the US for no valid reason... why wouldn't they teach them a little gymnastics for some crazy plot? They taught them how to fly... Does anybody still think visas for Olympics are SAFE?

I agree with FIFO... but if USCIS wants to make special categoeies for Olympians, and Athletes, and 5'3" Males with one finger, then why not NATURAL BORN?

As a natural born citizen of the US, I am proud to be an American. I never intended on falling in love with a foreigner and marrying him, nor did I have any clue about this entirely absurd process of being reunited with him. Would I do it over again? YOU BET!! I love my husband beyond the end of time!

What I WOULD do differently is prepare myself and educate myself about the freakish intricacies of the immigration process. This whole ordeal is so consuming that I've looked into a career in Immigration Law, no doubt something I wanna sink my teeth into and tear it apart from the inside-out! I want to someday advocate for poor suckers like myself who are caught unawares, but I am no dynamo.

And then there's all this talk about "Immigration Reform" and the hidden realities of it. Some ppl actually believe that if they just erect a fence that it fixes the issue, (maniacal laughter now). It's the INTERNAL problems that need to be fixed, such as processing times and background checks, customer service and our "right to know" what is truly happening with our particular cases, etc, without being forced into the mud and literally blinding us of the fact that THEY are systematically denying their own protocol and proceedures. There are too many agencies involved in the immigration process, too many hands stirring the pot, so to speak, and not a single one of them knows what the other is doing. Why is it any wonder that ppl enter here illegally? No one desires to put up with that kind of bureaucratic B.S., US citizen or not.

Personally, it has crossed my mind that it is unfair that those with enough cash and workforce potential are swifted through the gates, while the rest of us ache for our loved ones sometimes for years. Whatever happened to this "Family Unity Act" that was signed by Prez Clinton a few years back? In my experience, it's not been implemented one iota for me, no matter how many times I've tried to play that card with immigration. It's very exasperating, and I feel that my rights are flat-out ignored.

Preference should come in the order received. Granted, our case could be a bit more complicated than others, but its unfair to shove us to the bottom of the pile because of that. Hire more officers, for cryin-out-loud!

The stupid "fence" idea... hah ha... It's true what you say man, they talk about immigration reform as if illegal immigration is the root of "illegal immigration". The root of illegal immigration is that its near impossible to get here legally when you are an immediate relative of a US Citizen so why NOT, why NOT jump the border, why NOT come on YOLA, what's the worst that happens? They deny you on the spot.. instead of making you pay in excess of $500, waiting ofr 8-12 months for a decision, only for them to deny you at the end anyway. Same unfair result the way i see it. As far as i'm concerned... if my wife and daughter werent separated by 800 miles of water... i would've found a way for her to be here already legal or not.

Yes, exactly... Fair is processing the cases in the order they are received, no matter where you live, or what type of petition you file.

SKluvSH, "at my cost"... are you insance... At YOUR costs... thousands are waiting while an imaginary line lets some petitioners have an advantage over others just as deserving.

I will go as radical as to say that i think it's bullshit that they have singers, athletes, artists.. all these people that ARENT family come first and all have priority dates in this quarter of 2008. I think NOT 1 of those petitions should even be LOOKED at until the backlog is reduced.

I also think that NATURAL BORN citizens should fall into an entirely separate category and should be processed even faster than others.

For last 3 days of this week 0 approval from CSC and 3 approvals from VSC. This basically is interpretting that there has been a big slowdown at CSC since we were seeing approval around over 20 average per week and now its been zero for last 3 days and the weekend wont be counted as i dont think they work during those days. I hope I am not correct but they are seem to prioritizing the VSC transferred cases which in a way is unfair. I sympathize for those folks but not at my cost.

Weekly totals for the last year:

Week Of # of NOA2s from CSC # of NOA2s per day from CSC # of NOA2s from VSC # of NOA2s per day from VSC Weighted* # of NOA2s per day from CSC

1 2008-08-18 0 0.00 3 1.00 0.00

2 2008-08-11 11 1.57 18 2.57 0.91

3 2008-08-04 31 4.43 18 2.57 2.58

4 2008-07-28 14 2.00 17 2.43 1.16

5 2008-07-21 34 4.86 24 3.43 2.83

6 2008-07-14 43 6.14 18 2.57 3.57

7 2008-07-07 18 2.57 8 1.14 1.50

8 2008-06-30 20 2.86 5 0.71 1.66

9 2008-06-23 12 1.71 13 1.86 1.00

10 2008-06-16 9 1.29 8 1.14 0.75

11 2008-06-09 16 2.29 6 0.86 1.33

12 2008-06-02 21 3.00 10 1.43 1.75

13 2008-05-26 28 4.00 10 1.43 2.33

14 2008-05-19 5 0.71 7 1.00 0.41

This stat can be found at: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/igor/vjdata/default.aspx

How is that possibly unfair? Should you get your approval in a month based on where you live? I filed my I-130 in February of this year, and still have not seen my NOA2. The transferred case are people that have been waiting since the end of 2007. Personally I hope they work their cases before mine. Fair is processing the cases in the order they are received, no matter where you live, or what type of petition you file.

I am gonna out on a limb here and assume that the commentator is a natural born citizen of DR descent. However, that says very little about I am about to say, it's a privilege to be an American. however you must show your class of belonging to a 'first-world' by taking on some good manners for a change. naturalized or not, we all are in the same boat and eventually face the issues and challenges and paying very same taxes that a citizen or green card holder pays. so, please leave the nonsense out of these forums and show some class for change.

I am the commentator you're referring to.. i admit it... some of my ideas are radical... i said it before i even posted... Anyway, I am a natural born citizen and have 0% Dominican (DR ) decent...FYI. As a matter of fact my mother is also NATURAL BORN (Key West) her parents are US Citizens but naturalized after coming from Cuba in the 50's. My father came from Cuba 40 years ago at the age 4 (also naturalized), and his parents were cuban as well and they came in the late 50's also.

There is no "descent" connection between me and my wife, as a matter of fact i have no family in DR.

CMNB's comment i bet a natuarlized citizen can answer questions about american history and civics that more than half of NATURAL BORN citizens wudnt have a clue about unless they choose to GOOGLE it.. while very TRUE... i love the comment, doesnt apply to me... in fact if it was up to me... none of the ####### you have to learn should be part of citizenship anyway. Because it doesnt make anyone more qualified to vote, think, lookup to, or act American. It is simly 5th grade American History's final exam.

I consider myself very educated, i loved civics, i vote on every chance i get, i was on a debate team, and my degree that i'm still pursuing (Economist) can be said to fairly keep me up to speed on "American" things.

CMNB, i'm not LUCKY to have been born here, it was something that was planned and orchestrated and carried out by my still living grandparents decision to get the hell out of a country that wouldn't guarantee OUR 1st Amendment rights. (Castro) So there's no luck in it. My grandparents came here with nothing... their degrees were ignored or not counted, their work experience unverifiable, their English sub-par and somehow they made it possible for my parents and now their kids (ME) to live the American Dream... only there are hundreds of thousands if not millions waiting in front of me, who with combined with my mother have over 70 years of natural citizenship...

Can you sit there and tell me that someone who was naturalized 5 years ago, 10 years ago or 8 months ago deserves to go ahead of me?

Yes, exactly... Fair is processing the cases in the order they are received, no matter where you live, or what type of petition you file.

SKluvSH, "at my cost"... are you insance... At YOUR costs... thousands are waiting while an imaginary line lets some petitioners have an advantage over others just as deserving.

I will go as radical as to say that i think it's bullshit that they have singers, athletes, artists.. all these people that ARENT family come first and all have priority dates in this quarter of 2008. I think NOT 1 of those petitions should even be LOOKED at until the backlog is reduced.

I also think that NATURAL BORN citizens should fall into an entirely separate category and should be processed even faster than others.

mrc1330 - while i completly agree with all u said but i do not agree with the last sentence about NATURAL BORN citizen applications getting priority over NATURALIZED citizens. NATURALIZED citizens have the same rights and share the same responsibilities as a NATURAL BORN.

It is NOT the same... a NATURALIZED could've been naturalized 1 month, 1year or 10 years ago and they deserve the same priviledges that I who was BORN into the "club" been natural a whole 24 years, never been anything else gets treated the same? It's not true for other things in life.

For example, Naturalized's can be deported... can lose citizenship. I can't... I can be convicted of treason and i still wont lose citizenship. Only a natural born can be president, only natural born's can get a US birth certificate.

Yes, exactly... Fair is processing the cases in the order they are received, no matter where you live, or what type of petition you file.

SKluvSH, "at my cost"... are you insance... At YOUR costs... thousands are waiting while an imaginary line lets some petitioners have an advantage over others just as deserving.

I will go as radical as to say that i think it's bullshit that they have singers, athletes, artists.. all these people that ARENT family come first and all have priority dates in this quarter of 2008. I think NOT 1 of those petitions should even be LOOKED at until the backlog is reduced.

I also think that NATURAL BORN citizens should fall into an entirely separate category and should be processed even faster than others.

For last 3 days of this week 0 approval from CSC and 3 approvals from VSC. This basically is interpretting that there has been a big slowdown at CSC since we were seeing approval around over 20 average per week and now its been zero for last 3 days and the weekend wont be counted as i dont think they work during those days. I hope I am not correct but they are seem to prioritizing the VSC transferred cases which in a way is unfair. I sympathize for those folks but not at my cost.

Weekly totals for the last year:

Week Of # of NOA2s from CSC # of NOA2s per day from CSC # of NOA2s from VSC # of NOA2s per day from VSC Weighted* # of NOA2s per day from CSC

1 2008-08-18 0 0.00 3 1.00 0.00

2 2008-08-11 11 1.57 18 2.57 0.91

3 2008-08-04 31 4.43 18 2.57 2.58

4 2008-07-28 14 2.00 17 2.43 1.16

5 2008-07-21 34 4.86 24 3.43 2.83

6 2008-07-14 43 6.14 18 2.57 3.57

7 2008-07-07 18 2.57 8 1.14 1.50

8 2008-06-30 20 2.86 5 0.71 1.66

9 2008-06-23 12 1.71 13 1.86 1.00

10 2008-06-16 9 1.29 8 1.14 0.75

11 2008-06-09 16 2.29 6 0.86 1.33

12 2008-06-02 21 3.00 10 1.43 1.75

13 2008-05-26 28 4.00 10 1.43 2.33

14 2008-05-19 5 0.71 7 1.00 0.41

This stat can be found at: http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/igor/vjdata/default.aspx

How is that possibly unfair? Should you get your approval in a month based on where you live? I filed my I-130 in February of this year, and still have not seen my NOA2. The transferred case are people that have been waiting since the end of 2007. Personally I hope they work their cases before mine. Fair is processing the cases in the order they are received, no matter where you live, or what type of petition you file.

Do you think there is a chance that we could still see approval on the K3? I130 was approved 8/11 after 58 days. It is not at NVC yet and I just wonder why the one was approved and not the other. I see many here that get both approved at the same time.

I know every case is different, I am just hoping to see K3 also in case the I130 gets slowed down at NVC.

Do K3 approvals come after sometimes?

Jackie

Consider yourself lucky... it might just be that CSC is so damn fast that they dont even get the time to pair the petitions together and thats why your petitions will get approved at different times.

mrc1330....did the I.O give you any other information about processing times, backlog, etc?

Nope... did not find out about anything... she was reluctant to tell me whether or not my file was assigned to an adjudicator also. She kept implying... it's processing...

either way, i've had only 2 officers actually check, and tell me "No, it hasnt been assigned yet" The other <20 have told me the same "i'm not allowed to provide that info", or "That information isnt available to me"

It is true that the I130 and the K3 are consolidated into one master file. I asked her. I also asked her what date does the master file take? and she told me the date of the I130.

lets hope she's telling the truth and they are not docking everyone a couple months because they sent and I129F. Lets also hope that just because the I130 timelines are behind the I129F that an officer wont hesitate to approve a master file just because he's ahead of other people without the I129F.

If other people could call and probe the same questions to confirm it'd be very helpful to us all.

Hi everyone My husband received a notice after he sent the form I-130. It doesn't say Notice of Action but this is what it says:

On July 31, 2008, we received this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN, and mailed you a notice describing how we will process your case. Please follow any instructions on this notice. We will notify you by mail when we make a decision or if we need something from you.

This is the information we saw when we checked status online through www.USCIS.gov. I want to know if this is the Notice of Action for form I-130 and that would mean that we can send in the form I-129F. I'm confused. Your help will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

It should say I797 at the top... if it says that then yes that is the NOA1 for your I-130... include a copy of that along with a copy of your payment for the I-130 inside the I129F's package and VOILA send it off.

I sent my I-129F July 22nd and havent recieved the notice receipt as well. They seem to be sending them out late. Check out this link for vsc filers http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/igor/vjdata/vsc.aspx

Most likely your NOA1 was issued already it's just that USCIS are idiots and even find difficulty in mailing a 8X11 peice of paper... Sooooo with that in mind. Call them and follow the prompts and answer yes to "if its been more than 30days and you still havent recieved your receipt notice". When you finally get a officer on the phone tell her that you sent it 5 weeks ago and havent recieved it. She will pull it up and give you the receipt number. Trust me... i did it.. .and i NEVER recieved my NOA1 for my I129F... to this day still havent recieved it.

I think what i wrote earlier was misunderstood. Being a US Citizen has nothing to do with whether or not they grant an expedite request. It DOES however pretty much guarantee that you won't be part of some government "quota" like LPR's. With that being said it makes sense that a adjudication officer will wonder "why would a LPR want an expedite request if there is no visa available to him right now anyway"... Do you understand?

Could somebody if the expedite request apply to both USC and LPR or just USC. I appreciate your help

expediting of the adjudication of the I-130 petition does not necessarily mean that an expedite of an available visa number will occur

assume I am LPR, can I ask for expedite at VSC/CSC and if granted then expedite at NVC as well.

I suppose one can always ask.... I imagine it would have to be a compelling case to get to the front of the line... some people have been waiting a very long time and might be upset.

I will give it a try and see how it goes. It may take months beofre I receive yes/no.

Could somebody if the expedite request apply to both USC and LPR or just USC. I appreciate your help

expediting of the adjudication of the I-130 petition does not necessarily mean that an expedite of an available visa number will occur

If you are a US Citizen, yes it does... There is no visa limit to US Citizens for immediate relatives.

Pattu, have you contacted your congressman? IMO, you have a chance of being moved to California because your case was received before the January 17, 2008 date that California claims to be up to in processing. And VSC promised to use our received date, not our NOA date to determine processing. (Per what was said on the Ombudman's page.) So I'd request that your congressman get involved and ask that your petition be moved to California as well. It is worth a shot.

i am also still in the black hole date... my I-130 was touched last on 2/24... but my NOA is 2/19/2008.

I also have NO touches on my I-129F which was touched on 5/08/08.. a whole month after the NOA1

Hi Birch-Beer,

My Petitions were received at NVC on the 8-13-08, so if

you would not mind please enter the NVC IN date......

Tom and Ling

you can update mine - no changes, no touches. still waiting.

mrc1330 Wendy & Chris

Yesterday i got an email that my i-130 petition was approved on 11th thank god so what is the next step please anyone there tell me what else to do...

This is why people have no idea when their petition will be approved.

UPDATE YOUR TIMELINE!

Hi, does anyone here on IR1 has their case completed July 2008 from the NVC? Mine was complete last July 3, 2008...please patch up so we can share & compare our dates....Tanx!

you'd probably get more responses by posting here

NVC Forum

I've read many scattered thoughts that once the I129F (k3) petition is recieved

referencing the I-130... that they are "paired". if so, in what way, is it paired

"virtually" in their systems/database and they notice once they process. Or is it

physically paired. If it's physically paired, which NOA1 date do they use to process

the K3... if they use the K3 noa1 date then they are breaking the law and setting your

I-130 back however long it took you to send the K3. If vice versa then they are scooting

your K3 up to the "front of the line" of other I130's to be processed.

From the recent approvals, it looks like the K3 is processed with the I130's NOA1 date.

Can anyone confirm or explain exactly what happens.

I would just like to say...

For a K3.. NO VACCINATIONS ARE REQUIRED....

Just a medical, xray and blood tests... no matter what country... unless that country has some sort of "pre-existing" condition where a temporary amendment to the INA allow a requisite for vaccines.

As a matter of fact, contrary to what the consulates tell you about "its better to be done in native country" If your US spouse or fiancee has employer covered insurance and family is eligible, once your loved ones come to the US, it will qualify under most companies "Qualifying Event" to add someone to the plan, and then your vaccines are whatever your co-payment is. Besides the Dept of Health office in most states will do most or all vaccines for free if you really do qualify under the income level, and even if you dont, they provide the vaccines at VEEEERRRRY affordable costs... We're talking all under $100.

Hi. I posted a topic in this forum a while back about having your vaccinations beforehand and I would like to rectify my mistake. I apologize to those who have been inconvenienced.

The $213 SLEC medical fee includes the cost of the vaccinations. Don't make the same mistake i did. I had my vaccinations beforehand and basically threw away almost P9,000 (for the MMR and HPV). DON'T TELL your doctor that you're married to an American and immigrating to the U.S. You will possibly be overcharged (like I was). Not only that, my doctor told me that I should have my HPV vaccine EVeRY MONTH with her (which will amount to P21,000 - heard it's cheaper to have it done in the US, if you convert that to dollars) so that I can finish the series before I leave. Turns out, it's dangerous to do so as the interval is supposed to be 0-2-6.

You can have you first vaccine at St. Luke's and finish the series in the U.S.