I-130 processing time

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uniqueengine

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Dear friends,

I am a naturalized US citizen and filed form I-130 petition for my wife (living oversea) in February 2007 this year. However, after 3 months waiting, I haven't received any respose from CIS.

Could anyone tell me how long it takes on an average to get I-130 approval in the cases similar to mine?

Thank you very much

~BL
 
Its very much dependent upon which Service Center is handling your case. If you haven't even received the initial receipt, I'd probably be starting to make inquiries about now.

As a comparison, I submitted an I-130 in late March to Vermont for one of my parents, and the petition came back approved in a little over 3 weeks. We are currently in the fee-paying/affidavit of support loop with NVC, and hope to have the whole process wrapped up over the next 6 months.
 
Hi Boatbod,

Thank you very much. Actually I also filed I-130 to Vermont service center.
As mentioned in NewlyMinted's previous post, Vermont center is currently processing applications that were submitted on March 12 2006. But, as I know, many people who apply for their parents got approval much faster than that. I just don't think that data on CIS site is very reliable


boatbod said:
Its very much dependent upon which Service Center is handling your case. If you haven't even received the initial receipt, I'd probably be starting to make inquiries about now.

As a comparison, I submitted an I-130 in late March to Vermont for one of my parents, and the petition came back approved in a little over 3 weeks. We are currently in the fee-paying/affidavit of support loop with NVC, and hope to have the whole process wrapped up over the next 6 months.
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uniqueengine said:
... But, as I know, many people who apply for their parents got approval much faster than that. I just don't think that data on CIS site is very reliable
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Two things come to mind:-
1. VSC's published dates are garbage. Quite possibly they may be processing *some* cases from March 2006, but they have been processing a lot of newer cases too. A search amongst the other posts in this forum will definitely confirm thats happening a lot.

2. There are probably different processing queues for parents vs spouses, so my experience will probably be very different from yours. Having said that, three months without even a receipt seems a bit much, so perhaps your paperwork got itself lost. Did USCIS cash your check?
 
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