deepdawg

I found these two links which talk about EP:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_4409.html

http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_4411.html

They say that its only available for Guangzhou, China and Montreal, Canada.

I guess the rest of us have to go the old fashioned way

Thx Zenaxe!

BTW, EP (=Electronic Processing) is available only for some countries like canada, china correct?

Just got the text... APPROOOOVED!!!! That too on my nephew's 5th b'day!!!

BUT I'M NOT ready for NVC at all!!! I hope I don't waste too much time gathering info.

GOOD Luck to all yet waiting! I will try to keep gathering stats...

Thanks deepdawg.

correct me if I am wrong.

If around 12000 cases (according to your statistics) are in initial review and about 2400 in that are transferred (still the status as 'initial review') then the actual pending cases in 'initial review' would be around 9600. So

2400 is about nearly 20% of the total cases in 'initial review' which will not be processed by CSC.

Thanks

sim

Oops! yes you're correct... horrible, horrible math on my part

Deepdawg,

So if that is the case, I was wondering if the initial review (over 75% or around 12000 cases) in your statistics does contain some percentage of these kind of cases.

My understanding is that , the initial review cases for Jan to be handled by CSC (ignoring the 'transferred cases') would be less than 75% say may be around 60% assuming about 15% is for cases which are 'transferred to local office'.

Thanks

sim

Yes, I just checked the stats... of the 75% of cases in Initial Review, 2401 cases have been transferred to local offices (presumably the cases that you've mentioned). But that's just little over 2%.

Anyways, do not look at my stats too closely... Some cases' status is over a week old.

deepdawg,

Question :

I heard from one of the people I know is that his I130 petition was transferred a local USCIS office and is pending an interview (his is a AOS case). The online status for him is showing that the case is transferred but the stage is "initial review". So is it possible that some of the initial review cases (which are transferred to a local office) are no longer processed by CSC [but still show up] ?

Thanks

sim

Yes that would certainly be the case.

Stats for I-130 @ CSC with NOA1 in Jan 2010 (collected b/w March 15-23)

Over 75% of the cases are in Initial Review.

Acceptance: 624

Initial Review: 11306

RFE: 442

Testing: 147

Decision: 38 (denials)

Post-Decision: 2223

Document prod: 181

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Grand Total: 14961

These are not all the cases... only the ones I could collect so far.

According to the USCIS stats, 18,169 cases were accepted in Jan.

Cool! never knew about this! Thanks Davis!

Here's the link I found to search for your local office:

http://www.irs.gov/app/officeLocator/index.jsp

Deepdawg, where are you getting this information??

Thnx

Like I had mentioned before, I'm collecting it on my own by querying the USCIS site... It's been taking too long though, so I might abandon my attempts.

So I found these two threads, but neither of them were applicable to my situation...

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/243938-visiting-while-i-130-in-process/page__view__findpost__p__3745070

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/244101-visiting-us-while-cr-1-pending/page__view__findpost__p__3748579

In one case the non-USC spouse already hada 10yr visitor visa.

The other case the non-USC spouse was across the border in Canada.

My wife does not have a visitor visa yet and she's in India.

My wife's (Indian citizen) brother is graduating in May from college in the US. She wanted to visit his graduation if possible along with her parents.

Has anyone gone thru trying to obtain a visitor visa while the I-130 application is being processed? Is there any possibility for her to get a visa?

Any help would be appreciated immensely by me and my wife for sure!

Stats for I-130 @ CSC with NOA1 in Jan 2010 (collected on March 15)

Acceptance: 301 (incorrect filings)

Initial Review: 5319

RFE: 242

Testing: 70

Decision: 22 (denials)

Post-Decision: 1176

Document prod: 96

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Grand Total: 7226

These are not all the cases... only the ones I could collect so far.

CAN2US, some assumptions are made on my part:

The case# is of form WAC-xx-yyy-zzzzz

xx = year = 10

yyy = working day from oct 1st 2009 = 113

zzzzz = case# starting from 10000

Then I've written some PERL scripts to grab each case info from USCIS site and parse the info.

Stats for I-130 @ CSC with NOA1 of Jan 25, 2010 (collected on March 10)

Acceptance: 61 (incorrect filings)

Initial Review: 1578

RFE: 19

Testing: 2

Decision: 4 (denials)

Post-Decision: 59

Document prod: 46

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Grand Total: 1769

I will try to refine my collection methods to gather for all Jan dates. Also need to figure out formatting this stuff better

Yeah, I'm looking and wondering where this phantom list is as well....thanks.

Here's the direct link:

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/monthl...=2&sortby=2

As a reminder to all, please update your VJ timelines!

I've been enjoying VJ for the past two months... Thought I'd chime in with a suggestion or two...

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam starring the lovely Aishwarya Rai.

Check was cashed yesterday! There's a WAC reciept# on the back of the check. When I try to look up the case status using that it says case not found. Should I be worried?

Got my NOA1 in the mail today... It turns out that the actual receipt# is the one stamped on the back of the check plus 1.

Anyone else notice that? Has every1 had the same situation? or different? Just curious

Check was cashed yesterday! There's a WAC reciept# on the back of the check. When I try to look up the case status using that it says case not found. Should I be worried?

I filed my i130 today. let's see how it goes...