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We got ours too! Looks like it was approved on Dec 8th, but no email, so we had to login and check the documents tab. Congrats everyone!! 

We got ours too! Looks like it was approved on Dec 8th, but no email, so we had to login and check the documents tab. Congrats everyone!! 

Congratulations...

I-130 for wife and two sons approve 11 months. Jan 5 to Dec 4. 

We just got approved from January 12th!!!! No email was sent. I just logged in and checked! 

Just got our approval! Logged in, saw a new "Actively Reviewed", and the approval notice was under "Documents".
Hilariously the estimated time, which had been "taking longer than expected" since the summer, went back up to 4 months on the same day it was approved.
 
Didn't get any email about it, so definitely keep checking  

Sent 1/6/23, Approval 12/7/23. Texas service center. No K3 or expedite.

Hang on friends, the next step is within reach!
 
 
 

Yeah, same. Ours was at 7 months and dropped to 5 weeks last week, now 4 weeks.

This thread on Reddit's r/USCIS community suggests that there might be a legitimate operational change behind this, but there's no way to know for sure unless/until people actually start seeing faster-than-expected approvals.

Which is why you are best to just file a fresh i-751 as odds on you will eventually have to anyway. IF you get the error corrected you can withdraw the second filing. 
As @Family mentions above, service motions for USCIS screw ups used to be addressed in a timely manner and fee free - this is not really the case any more. You could file an I-290B which is now late, it could be rejected or it could be accepted, and then you are in the waiting game for that, with no guarantees they will view it favourably at all. Given the cost the fresh I-751 is a path of least resistance, while concurrently trying to get them to fix this issue WITHOUT paying for an I-290b.
 
 Just prepare to file a new I-751 - you are legally permitted to do so, and should someone at USCIS actually reverse this you can then withdraw it (no refund unfortunately). It is strongly in your interests for a variety of reasons that you file this sooner rather than later. 
 
 Congresspeople cannot intervene or overturn a USCIS decision.  All they do is send your request to USCIS exactly as you have written it to your congressperson, and draw their attention to it. Whether someone acts on that is no guarantees - they’ve paid not one jot of attention to my congressperson requests after waiting YEARS and drawing their attention to clear procedural and legal errors and I know they were sent to USCIS as I can see them in my A# file in my FOIA response.
 
 

Oh young grasshopper you have much to learn about USCIS and the horrible loop and phase you are about to enter following a denial. It's going to be a mess.
 

It’s definitely buried in the legalese (I have it noted down and frankly can’t be bothered to dig it out right now) that they can, legally, correct it and reopen for cause or service error, and at zero cost. 
The problem, as always, is getting someone at USCIS to do what they are supposed to do.
When you can’t even get an infopass appointment or speak to a non robot for over 30 days, what the hell chance do most people have here at getting it fixed? 
It’s a (removed) disgrace. 
 
 
[EDIT] - I decided to dig it out from my master folder: I cited this as part of my requests that were totally ignored. 
8 CFR 103.5 (a) (5)
“(5) 
Motion by Service officer
(i) Service motion with decision favorable to affected party. 
When a Service officer, on his or her own motion, reopens a Service proceeding or reconsiders a Service decision in order to make a new decision favorable to the affected party, the Service officer shall combine the motion and the favorable decision in one action.
(ii) Service motion with decision that may be unfavorable to affected party. When a Service officer, on his or her own motion, reopens a Service proceeding or reconsiders a Service decision, and the new decision may be unfavorable to the affected party, the officer shall give the affected party 30 days after service of the motion to submit a brief. The officer may extend the time period for good cause shown. If the affected party does not wish to submit a brief, the affected party may waive the 30-day period.”
 

sadly I do not, I believe these projects mostly started as the K1 was fluctuating so widely. I think spousal is still fairly predictable as long as you know service centre? I lack knowledge in this area

The US citizen can add a spouse who lives abroad to many things, such as US health insurance, approved user on a credit card, beneficiary on life insurance and retirement accounts, etc.  We also filed a US tax return, married filing jointly, with a W-7 for an ITIN, and included that.  You can also upload additional evidence like this, as well as documents showing additional time spent together (passport stamps, original boarding passes, hotel receipts), at the NVC stage after the I-130 is approved.  Good luck!

Sounds like plenty to me, but the few simple sentences about sadness etc. I would delete.  Probably won't hurt, but I would not include it.
 
Actual evidence of time spent together in person will carry the day but itself.

In addition you need
1. I-864 affidavit of support
2. Your tax transcript for the last 3 years
3.  Police Clearance Cert from Passport office (not from police station)
 

Hello everyone, congratulations to all of you for getting ILs and wishing you all the best.
I can see most of you are from India and already completed the NVC submission. 
I am the spouse of US citizen, just want to know what documents will be required on my end for NVC submission. 
1) DS260
2) Birth cert
3) Marriage Cert
4) Police  clearance cert issued by State police dept ( I am from MP so I applied to MPPolice)
5) Passport 
 
Luckily, I don’t have any prison or court records. 
Could you guys please let me know if I am missing anything? 
This would be a great help. Thank you.

My suggestion is 3 pages of photos, 9 photos per page.  Then concentrate on primary evidence of time spent together in person, like passport stamps and boarding passes.  Even photos together are secondary evidence.  The time spent together in person is the strongest evidence.  A few examples showing how and how frequently you communicate are good.  All the social media stuff is easily faked anyway.  A couple examples are fine.

If you had a ban it has expired.  Declare your overstay however immigrant visas are processed, not approved, by DOS and this will not effect you unless you have an active ban in place.  You will not even need a waiver.

A question about an overstay would be during the interview.  They may or may not notice the previous overstay based on dates in the application but any penalty period is long past.

I think that overstays for minors are forgiven. 
But even if it was not, overstays are forgiven for spouses of USC. 
Of course, if asked, disclose it

Of course you have to mention the overstay.

USCIS is not thoughtful.