Filed an I-130 petition with USCIS 11 February 2023. Original estimated time for a decision was 10.5 months, Nebraska processing center. At one point our petition was advanced 2 months for a decision. Then when we were about to count down to 1 month for a decision suddenly 10 months was added and our estimated time to a decision was 11 months. That would put our case to the extreme 100% of cases being processed. We were never given an explanation for the change to our estimate. All the processing centers have now been combined and the estimated time for 80% of cases are set to 14 months. But, with the delay we were given about last September our estimate is well beyond the 14 months of normally processed cases for 80% of petitioners.
This appears very peculiar because news reports of USCIS diverting staff to process the surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border of the US appears to coincide with the delay we suddenly had added to our petition. I'm wondering if anyone else is affected in their petitions as we have been.
USCIS redirected to prioritize illegals_compressed.pdf
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Delays in USCIS processing I-130 petitions beginning mid 2023.
Filed an I-130 petition with USCIS 11 February 2023. Original estimated time for a decision was 10.5 months, Nebraska processing center. At one point our petition was advanced 2 months for a decision. Then when we were about to count down to 1 month for a decision suddenly 10 months was added and our estimated time to a decision was 11 months. That would put our case to the extreme 100% of cases being processed. We were never given an explanation for the change to our estimate. All the processing centers have now been combined and the estimated time for 80% of cases are set to 14 months. But, with the delay we were given about last September our estimate is well beyond the 14 months of normally processed cases for 80% of petitioners. This appears very peculiar because news reports of USCIS diverting staff to process the surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border of the US appears to coincide with the delay we suddenly had added to our petition. I'm wondering if anyone else is affected in their petitions as we have been. USCIS redirected to prioritize illegals_compressed.pdf