Sibiling I-130 Approved in 3 weeks,Is this normal?

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Immigrant66

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Hello
I was wondering if any of you have had same exprience on I-130 for sibiling.
I filled 3 weeks ago, received receipt a week later and today email from USCIS that case has been approved.
I was wondring what happened to visa number? Is this means that visa number is available or just case is approved and sibiling need to wait for visa availability? I was told by expert that USCIS will approve the petition when visa number is available, but 3 weeks later approval letter is too good to be true. Anybody could explain what is going on or have had similar exprience? This is the email and I-130 was filled on Oct 13th.
Receipt Number: WAC100161xxxx
Application Type: I130 , IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN
Current Status: Approval notice sent.
On October 29, 2009, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.
 
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Immigrant66 said:
I was wondring what happened to visa number? Is this means that visa number is available or just case is approved and sibiling need to wait for visa availability?
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The latter. The alien needs to wait for a visa to become available, which will not happen until the priority date becomes current.
 
The confusing part is that NOA says USCIS will wait to process form I-130 untill closer to the time when a visa number will become available, which may be years after the petition was filed.Neverthless, USCIS processes forms I-130 in time not to delay relatives ability to take next step toward permanent residence once visa number does become available
I am really puzzeled by this and the only thing I can think of is that USCIS is speeding up approval processing and I want to know if anyone have had same exprience with I-130 in recent days.
 
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Yes .. the approval process for I130 is faster than ever... but you still have to wait for the prority day to become current and a visa number to become avilable. Check the visa bulletin for current dates..
Good Luck!
 
Faster processing is NOT good news if the alien has minor children who may age out. The I-130 wait time prior to approval is deducted from their age for CPSA purposes.
 
If I understood it right, this approval suck than any other kind of approval. My main question is that why waiting for approval and waiting for visa availability number should be diffrent as far as CPSA is consern? Why this two waiting time should consider diffrently? I am waiting for paper copy of approval and hoping that it was mistake now.
 
So basically if USCIS hold the beneficiary back, that time does not count toward aging out of children but if NVC does, it does count. This will cause problem in my case and I was not even aware of it. Thank you guys for the information and this will diffinitly change the strategy and if I knew this earlier it would save me some money and hassle of filling.
 
Let's explain it the way . My sibiling has 2 kids againg 13 and 15 right now.What will happen to them if their parents visa number become available, for the sake of argument lets say 10 years from now.l should add that they reside oversease and never have been in US.
 
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Immigrant66 said:
Let's explain it the way . My sibiling has 2 kids againg 13 and 15 right now.What will happen to them if their parents visa number become available, for the sake of argument lets say 10 years from now.l should add that they reside oversease and never have been in US.
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As far as I understand, in the situation you described, both the children will age out by the time the priority date becomes available (10 years), and their CSPA ages would be 23 years minus 3 weeks, and 25 years minus 3 weeks. So, they won't qualify for GC as derivative beneficiaries.

Instead of 3 weeks if USCIS had taken, for example, 5 years to approve the I-130, their CSPA ages when PD becomes current in 10 years would be 18 (13+10-5)and 20 (15+10-5), which would make them eligible to get GC as derivative beneficiaries.
 
VisaNutz said:
As far as I understand, in the situation you described, both the children will age out by the time the priority date becomes available (10 years), and their CSPA ages would be 23 years minus 3 weeks, and 25 years minus 3 weeks. So, they won't qualify for GC as derivative beneficiaries.

Instead of 3 weeks if USCIS had taken, for example, 5 years to approve the I-130, their CSPA ages when PD becomes current in 10 years would be 18 (13+10-5)and 20 (15+10-5), which would make them eligible to get GC as derivative beneficiaries.
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I read many immigration articles, and I realized that,there are many approval notice for sibling cases this year than before. Do you think USCIS they up to something? may be they try to reduce flow of immgration to US, by let the children to age out in order to disqualified them as derivative beneficiaries. In theory.
 
Dmom said:
They may approve I-130 based on relationship you two have. But the I-485 must be approved as well. Please note the time from the date of filing to the date they will issue a visa or GC (depending on where they are) for your brother or sister is 10 years. The I-130 has simply already been approved but the waiting starts now.

Sorry these cases are the longest:(
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What 485? Where do you see a mention of 485 in OPs case?
 
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