Douglas1527

We submitted an I-130 in Aug 2022 but there were errors so we cancelled and refiled in Sep 2023 (both electronically). This second one was received and marked as "Being Actively Reviewed" almost immediately. The "Estimated time until case decision" initially said 6 weeks (!). This made us very happy as we thought maybe someone was being merciful given the year we'd just lost due to the previous filing error. But that counted down and nothing happened except the status changed to "Taking longer than expected". It remained that way for a few weeks and then the Estimated Time reset to 2 months (but still Being Acively Reviewed). That counted down and (now Jan 2024) the status again changed to "Taking longer than expected." It remained that way until just last week (April 2024) and now has reset to 7 months. We are no longer so happy. Has anyone seen this sort of behavior before, know what it could mean, or if we should try to do anything about it? On the one hand, even 7 months from now is still very shy of the "15 month" general estimate for I-130's at Texas, so by that count we should not contact USCIS until well into 2025. On the other hand, it really looks like something is wrong here and we don't want to wait until mid-2025 to find out what it is. Losing that first year was quite a blow and is not an experience we want to repeat. Any advice?

A few weeks ago, I submitted a request to withdraw the previous I-130 since there wasn't a way to correct my mistakes. I received the confirmation of that today, so that attempt is dead and buried and I'll try to stop kicking myself about it. We filed (and paid for) a new I-130, electronically again, on Sept 27th and by Oct 2nd it was already marked as active, with an estimated time until decision of 6 weeks. I was hoping for something in the mail to expand on this (we received the NoA1 quickly, as normal) but nothing has arrived - though the estimated time is ticking down (to 4 weeks now). My question is what could be going on here? Normally an I-130 would sit there for a year+ before being looked at right? Is there a chance that some angel at USCIS read my letters and bumped us up since this is a "replacement" application? Or is this more likely a sign that something is wrong? I suppose, in theory, that I will find out in 4 weeks - but I thought I would ask and maybe save another month of stress. Either way, good news or bad, it would certainly be better to get it in a month rather than in a year!

I think everything is probably ok but I want to check. We filed our I-130 in Aug 2022 and just received the approval notice (which I think is also known as NoA 2, is that right?). There seems to be some contradictory information. Our Case Status Page says "nothing is outstanding at this time" and they'll let us know if they need anything. but The Approval Notice PDF doc says "submit a copy of this notice, along with a Form I-485". Do they mean that we should do that right now, or is this just sort of a heads-up as to what we'll need to do down the road (and so we should do nothing right now)? Also, the visajourney Step-by-Step guide says that the NoA would "indicate... the forwarding of your approved petition to the NVC" but I don't see where our approval notice says anything about that. It acts like the NVS has it, but doesn't say anything about it being forwarded to them - but maybe I'm just not understanding the process. Is the simple fact that we got this document the "indication" that the Guide is talking about? I've attached screenshots of the bits below. Is there something weird going on, or is this the usual procedure (and so we should just wait for further contact)? If we do just wait, is the next thing expected the "welcome letter" people mention and then the interview preparation packet with its associated To Do list? Thank you.