Kimo & Angela

_{My suggestion to you is to look at other members (Colombia) and their timelines and gauge your process by that. My wife and I have been at this for over 1 year an we are still not finished...last step waiting for the NVC to approve all the documents. Make sure you have everything in order and recheck it twice...I missed putting literally a check mark in one box on the financial affidavit and my wife's Colombian passport only had 5 months left on it before expiration so they kept us at that stage for the 60 day period then told us in an email we needed the form checked and resubmitted and for her to get a new passport with more than 6 months left on it. We did that and resubmitted and then you will get an acknowledgement in about 2 weeks with them tacking another 60 days to the timeline. Good luck trying to call someone...I get a pre-recording that all lines are busy due to the high volume of inbound calls after repeatedly hitting autodial for over an hour straight several times during the day when I try.}

_{I am telling you this so you understand the process and how much time this takes. Every country is different on the timeline it takes and I could have avoided some of the delay by insuring all my ducks where in a row. Just thought you should know!!}

_{Good Luck!}

_Kimo

Our I-130 was approved 3 days after it was transfered from Nebraska so I believe they are expediting as mentioned.

I received a letter on 07/09/2014 from the Department of Homeland Security Lincoln NE (Form I-797C, NOTICE OF ACTION) that my I130 petition for alien relative that was receipt date of 02/28/2014 which I thought was being processed at the NEBRASK Service Center was no being transfered to the California Service Center. i called the National Customer Service Center to see why and they said that there was a backlog at the Nebraska Service Center and that my case was being tranfered to the Calfornia one to be expedited. I don't know if this is because I am a retired military veteran or is the National Customer Service Center blowing smoke about it being expedited. I called them out about the normal processing time being around 5 months and why did they wait until I was 2 weeks away from the 5 month mark to transfer my case. Anyone have similar circumstances like me?