I-130 filing in the US vs externally - what I was told at the US embassy

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elvisburp

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Hi,

I am a USC living outside the US.

I recently attended an event at our local US embassy, and one of the persons in charge of the visa section was talking to a group of USCs about filing for your alien relative.

She said that if you are a USC and you file an I-130 and subsequent forms from outside of the US the queue that it goes into is much shorter than if you file the same petition in the US.

Maybe this is common knowledge, but thought I'd share since it came from the horse's mouth so to speak.
 
elvisburp said:
She said that if you are a USC and you file an I-130 and subsequent forms from outside of the US the queue that it goes into is much shorter than if you file the same petition in the US.
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Not true, and since she doesn't work for the agency that processes these petitions it's not surprising she doesn't know what she's talking about.

Now years ago Consular Processing was faster than the I-485, but that hasn't been true for a while.
 
TheRealCanadian said:
Not true, and since she doesn't work for the agency that processes these petitions it's not surprising she doesn't know what she's talking about.

Now years ago Consular Processing was faster than the I-485, but that hasn't been true for a while.
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very interesting and thanks for the clarification - i am surprised since this was stated in the presence of the ambassador as well as all of the visa section staff just a month ago - are they really that disconnected?
 
TheRealCanadian said:
Not true, and since she doesn't work for the agency that processes these petitions it's not surprising she doesn't know what she's talking about.
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Maybe her particular consulate is very fast.

But she is also biased because she and her colleagues want people file for CP instead of entering the US as a tourist to file for AOS.
 
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