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3 hours ago, BLC said:

Thanks so much! I hope others start following with approvals. It seems like I keep hearing of people finding this in their documents tabs on Saturdays lately. 

 

How long does it usually take to get the welcome email? I checked on NVC and the range is sort of broad. When I was looking yesterday, it said something along the lines of they are currently working on ones from June 05-23. Lol so it sounds like it could either take 2 days or 22 days. 

I got mine exactly one week after the approval showed up in documents tab. Both on Saturdays. Upon receiving the email, I was able to log into CEAC immediately and paid the fees. They are processing now and as others have suggested, we took the time to prepare documents and everything is ready to submit as soon as the fees are done processing. 

15 hours ago, rubym2020 said:

Hi all!

 I haven't  posted much here but have been lurking

I think we may have just had our I130 approved on Friday 16th!! 

 

My wife checked our account on Saturday and an approval letter was in our documents! It had only just been uploaded on the Friday 16th but we haven't yet received anything else. I put this down to the long weekend for Juneteenth, but was wondering if anyone has any experience with seeing the letter in the documents before recieving anything? 

 

Thanks!!

Congrats!! The same happened for us. No notification, just showed up one day in documents. Hoping to get an email from NVC soon and get this next part rolling. 

3 hours ago, theati said:

Congratulations! 🎉 What is your service center? 

Thank you! Our case was at Potomac (transferred from Texas). 

3 hours ago, ShazShaz said:

Congratulations! 

 

Now onto the next journey with NVC! I hope that'll be smooth too.

Thank you and same to you!

We got our I-130 approved today! Checked the documents tab and there it was. It took a little less than 11 months.  

I got the same "longer than expected" yesterday. Super frustrating. Let's all try to hang in there, our time is coming around the corner. 

On 4/14/2023 at 6:47 PM, ShazShaz said:

Hi y'all! Filed online on 13th July 2022 and got NOA1 status the next day. Since then, no more updates. 9 mths and still counting. Emma live agent said our case is at Potomac SC

We are right there with you 🙁 Filed July 24th, 2022 and no updates since except a transfer from Texas to Potomac service center. I'm wondering if any July 2022 folks filed a K3? We were advised by a lawyer not to because the time takes just as long as the I-130. Based off current processing times for the K3 and I-130, I regret not submitting it immediately after the I-130. 

On 4/12/2023 at 9:21 PM, mapi said:

What is your PD? Since you're posting in this topic I assume July. The internet is full of stories like yours and people are freaking out for nothing, since literally nothing has changed, except the displayed fake time.

 

You can ask a live agent. Please search the forum on how to do this.

Yes, July. It's valid for people to be concerned if processing time has increased. Can you elaborate on why you believe this is a "fake time"?  

Did anybody notice their processing time go up? Ours has been consistently going down every month. We were down to 4 months and I logged in expecting it to drop down to 3 (it has been doing this midway through each month) and it jumped up to 6 months. Super disappointing. 

Also does anyone know how we can confirm what service center ours is at? Our NOA1 says Texas but I am wondering if it got transferred and that's why we have additional time added on. 

Hello everyone, my wife and I filed in July and are currently waiting it out like the rest of you! Our current processing time is showing 7 months.