MoKhaleel

Hello, my i-130 case was transferred to the US embassy in Baghdad approximately 65 day ago for interview to be scheduled  after it was "Documentarly qualified" with all docs submitted to the portal. Any one can help with what is the time frame until they will call my family for interview ? Thanks    

Hello, great community, 

So, I got the approval for my mother I-130 case on May 24th. The things I will need help for and ask about are the following:

1 - What are forms I need to submit to the national visa center (NVC) to complete the process?

2 - What are the forms required to submit ASO packet for my mother's green card application while she is waiting on her visa to be processed?

3 - Approximately, what is the waiting time until my mother will get her visa to the Embassy? 

Thank you all for your help and support. 

3 minutes ago, Junior11 said:

Unfortunately our case took longer to be approved than average. So don’t take it as a reference. And you also have an expedited case so hopefully your case will move faster:

  

PD: March 28, 2018

 RFE: beginning of December, 2018

Approval date: ?

Sent to NVC: January 14th, 2019

 

We got RFE because in my country, birth certificate is not a hardcopy certificate. You go to Civil Records Office and submit a request for a print of your civil records (birth, marriage, divorce..etc) with the reason you need it. My mom wrote “to be submitted to American authorities for immigration” so they’ve printed the English version of it for her and stamped / signed it. 

 She got an RFE for not sending the original but only the translation! 

 So in December, my mom wrote the reason “personal use” and got a copy in her country’s language, then paid a translation office (to English again.) Then it got approved by USCIS. Crazy but true, what a comedy!

Great information, really appreciate the help and support. Thank you so much. 

5 minutes ago, Junior11 said:

Mokhaleel, that June 4th case they put up there is the “newest dated” case they’re processing, among thousands of cases. It doesn’t mean the “oldest” case in process.

  

Theorically, the best place to check your status is https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do but unfortunately statuses aren’t updated real time. Many people got approval (or rfe) letters in the mail whilst their status still reading “we have received your case”.

 

Only time I’ve seen a different status there for my mom was “we have sent your case to the department of state” which meant they approved the I-130 and sent it to National Visa Center. 

  

I’m attaching a screen shot of what that (approval status) looked like:

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Thanks a lot Junior, yep, my mom's case is still processing. May i ask how long it took the status in your mom case to change from reviewing to move to the department of state, just to have an estimation of the processing time, i know it different from case to case though. Thank you again 

Thank you, below the break down of the process 

1 - Case was received by USCIS on June 4th, 2018

2 - We submitted an expedite request on Dec, 2018

3 - According to the USCIS website as im typing this comment they are processing cases from June 5th, 2018

This means that they should be done with cases from June 4th, 2018. My question is, are we suppose to hear soon for case update? as the processing time showing 7.5 to 10 months for similar cases. Thank you 

42 minutes ago, Junior11 said:

Thank you for spotting such a tiny typo. How is your reply helping Mokhaleel? We are all here to ask for help and/or give help. His question is very clear.

Thank you so much

1 hour ago, databit said:

Today is not 2018!

Thanks for spotting the typo, although you didnt answer my question. Thank you 

Hello everyone

The topic/question today is related to bringing a parent of a US citizen from Iraq under I-130. Our case was received to the US for processing on June 4th, 2018, and the processing time as of today (March, 18th,2018) on the USCIS official website is showing that the cases in process are the cases received on (June 5th, 2018) which means they are done/finished processing the cases received on June 4th, 2018.  Can anyone help if you know if this means my case is already processed, or should we receive anything soon? Really appreciate all the support and help. Thank you so much

2 minutes ago, Khallaf said:

you should be able to go in and track the outcome with the TS number like you would your LIN number

that s actually a gd thing, i thought the referral # is given just to have it and check with the phone through USCIS, thx a lot for the information Kahllaf, really appreciate the help 

1 minute ago, Khallaf said:

when I filed my expedite they gave me a case # to reference it to it started with WAC

1 minute ago, Khallaf said:

when I filed my expedite they gave me a case # to reference it to it started with WAC

yep i remember they gave an expedite referral #, mine started with TS or something like that. 

9 minutes ago, Khallaf said:

when you submitted the request did they give you a WAC case number to track?

if you mean the initial case number, yes we have one. but i dont know what WAC means? out case started with LIN if that what you mean. Thx 

2 minutes ago, Khallaf said:

I tried to expedite my husbands case way back when for the same humanitarian reason and I was informed it was denied so I just assume they information everyone when they get denied or approved.

Im sorry to hear that your expedite was denied, i thought i was supposed to receive an answer within 5 days to 2 weeks max, that was Dec2018. still didnt' hear anything, and everytime we call, we get the same answer 

"Still showing nothing from the review of the expedite request". 

Thank you 

37 minutes ago, Boiler said:

If you see action then you know your case has been expedited, usually you aren't told it has not.

I hope that's what happened, thx a lot for your comment 

1 hour ago, Khallaf said:

no sorry, it just means they took for example a box home that has many different petition but if they took it home there is a good chance they are now working on it, however can't say if it will be completed sooner.

 

for example if in that box they take home the officer sends out a RFE, everything can potentially be put on hold until the RFE gets returned on that case.

 

I am surprised you didn't hear back about the expedite in November, normally they answer expedites within 7 days.

i know, same here, last time i called was Dec2018 n still didnt hear anything, hopefully, we hear some gd news soon. thx 

5 minutes ago, Khallaf said:

did you file AOS as if she was here in USA? or is she in Iraq, if you expedited June 2018 you would have heard something back then.

 

I assume you were a USC back when you first filed

 

Telework is what many do when adjudicating files they take a stack home to work on, they have so many days in the office and so many days out of the office and work from home.

Thank you so much for your reply, she s still in Iraq yes when we filed for her, 

We expedited her case around Nov 2018

Yes, i filed when i got my citizenship

so taking the case home doesnt mean that they will work on it "faster" ? 

Thanks again. 

2 minutes ago, missileman said:

Then you are still within normal processing time?

that should be a gd news i hope. thx for your comment. 

Morning all 

im a US citizen and trying to bring my mother from Iraq, we filed the I-130 for her on June 2018, also we submitted an expedite request for her case due to humanitarian reasons, and her case is in Nebraska service center. Last time we visited the Houston visa service center on February 2019, we were informed by a USCIS officer that the case was taken home by an officer/case supervisor 48 hours ago for telework?. My question is, can anyone help on this issue, did anyone hear about this "telework" thingy before? according to the processing times, such cases are supposed to take 7-10 months, and we still didn't hear anything about my mother's case. Thank you all for the help. 

Hello everyone, I'm a US citizen and my wife is a Canadian citizen, we filed the I-130 package for her including I-130, I-131, I-765, I-485, I-864. We are waiting now for her travel document. My question is, as a Canadian citizen, can she travel to Canada and come back to the US even without her travel document? Thank you