National Visa Center Offers Insight Into Recent Delays in Case Processing

[Ladyj 13]

National Visa Center Offers Insight Into Recent Delays in Case Processing

The National Visa Center (NVC) has offered some insight into the reasons for the recent delays we have seen in the time it takes to process an immigrant visa case through the NVC.

• Over the past year, the NVC was inundated with immigrant visa cases from USCIS, as USCIS shifted its workload to focus on the backlog of stand-alone I-130 cases.
• The NVC used to receive approximately 8,000 cases per week. As USCIS continued to dig out of its backlog, the NVC began receiving around 25,000 cases per week.
• The NVC is now receiving a large increase in non-current cases as well.
• Over the past several months, much of the backlog was at the front end of the process – case creation. The case creation process was at 45 days over the summer. It is now at 12 days.
• At present, delays continue at the document review stage (55 days, down from 60 days). Staff are cross-trained and resources have been reallocated to document review to bring the backlog down.
• The NVC is hiring additional staff and looking at its internal processes and will continue to work on improvements.

Without a doubt, we could add to this list the fact that the monumental forward movement of the EB-3 category for the Philippines has significantly increased the number of cases the NVC is receiving.

Hopefully the efforts the NVC has made toward reducing the delays will allow us to get back to the reasonable processing times we have seen in the past.

[tomatoboy 33]

Just out of curiosity, so I can share it "direct from the horse's mouth," is there a source/link for this information?

Edited November 4, 2016 by tomatoboy

[Ladyj 13]

http://hammondlawgroup.com/healthcareblog/2014/11/14/national-visa-center-offers-insight-recent-delays-case-processing/

Just out of curiosity, so I can share it "direct from the horse's mouth," is there a source/link for this information?

[hollycenations 11]

That article was posted in November 2014, so unfortunately, it's way out of date.

[Ladyj 13]

That article was posted in November 2014, so unfortunately, it's way out of date.

Still seems to be the case though because of the extensive delays.

[Jojo92122 1,924]

Still seems to be the case though because of the extensive delays.

Information from 2 years ago may not apply today. Your headline is completely misleading.

[tomatoboy 33]

http://hammondlawgroup.com/healthcareblog/2014/11/14/national-visa-center-offers-insight-recent-delays-case-processing/

As noted above, that information is from 2014. Processing workloads change dramatically at federal agencies. While it certainly does appear that USCIS is moving cases faster, and that could be causing the backlog folks seem to be experiencing at NVC, it is also possible staffing issues or any number of other problems could be the cause. But more importantly, the statistical information is absolutely useless in understanding how long things will take to move out of the NVC, since it is two years old and pertains to an entirely different timeframe. I'd caution anyone from drawing any conclusions from that two year old blog post.

It would be nice if NVC would issue better statistical data regarding their processing, like USCIS does, so we could keep better track of how things were moving. Without that, we really can't draw any conclusions about why they have a backlog (if they even do, since obviously looking at timelines, some cases ARE moving within their stated timeframes WITHOUT supervisor review).

You should really edit the headline to make it clear this information is from 2014.

[Thegirl 224]

Yeah if that was two years ago then it's not really relevant. NVC just recently started to have these delays and by recently I mean since July because when my case was at NVC almost everyone was getting their cases complete in exactly 30 days. Things started to change in August, September.

[NikLR 13,220]

~~moved to NVC discussion from IR1/CR1 process and procedures. NVC processes more than IR1/CR1 visas~~

[Jash n Ginger 1]

Well how about this for a reason: it is presidential election and everything stalls during this time....

[Ladyj 13]

Well how about this for a reason: it is presidential election and everything stalls during this time....

I would only hope not. Everyone is getting impatient and anxious to be with their loved ones.

[Jash n Ginger 1]

Yes indeed I know I am we just made our 5th anniversary as a couple and it is becoming very stressful. Especially now that we are ready to take the final step of marriage. I was just making light of the NVC stall and the election