Hey guys/girls, I found this...little bit old but give us an idea that we won't really know when will be our turn. Just wait and be patience
What happened to USCIS 'efficiency' efforts?
News From the American Immigration Lawyers Association
In mid-January 2005, the National Benefits Center (NBC) ceased showing a processing time on its reports for I-130 petitions for alien relatives. The report for the NBC had never shown a processing time for I-485s, application for adjustment of status, other than LIFE Act filings. However, attorneys had been referencing the I-130 processing times to gauge the processing times for the accompanying I-485s. Now, no processing times are shown for either filing type.
This raised the question of how attorneys can follow the progress of concurrently filed I-130s/I-485s that are at the NBC either because they were forwarded there from the local USCIS office under the indirect filing program, were filed at the Chicago lock box under the direct filing program that was launched in December 2004, or were forwarded there from a service center.
The AILA NBC Liaison Committee has been advised that the NBC does not actually adjudicate the I-130s or I-485s, but instead only sets them up for local office processing and adjudicates the ancillary benefits (I-131s and I-765s). Therefore, the NBC does not show the processing times for the I-130 and I-485 forms. Instead, for filings under the indirect processing and direct processing programs, it holds the I-130s/I-485s until the local office advises that it is ready to adjudicate them, then forwards them to the local office.
Thus, to follow the processing times for filings under the indirect filing or direct filing programs, you need to reference the processing times for the local office where the indirect filing was initially made or the local office where the direct filing would have been made but for the direct filing program. If the filing is at the NBC, but is outside the normal processing time (i.e., was filed prior to the date noted on the local office's processing time report), an inquiry can be submitted through AILA's NBC Liaison Committee.
There also are still a few filings that were initially made at the Texas Service Center that the TSC then transferred to NBC for processing. Some of these were then further transferred to the local offices, but others may remain at the NBC. AILA's NBC Liaison Committee is looking into the status of these filings. In the meantime, if you have one of these filings, and have not been notified that that it has been transferred to the local USCIS office, you can submit a liaison inquiry to find out its status.
