Immigration Timelines, an Overview

[Bruce]

Username33, you have been given excellent advice and information by the posters above.  For all it is worth, my wife was issued her K-1 visa after a bit more than 5 months through the Vermont service center.  We flew to the USA together actually on September 11, 2004.  We will very soon be married for two years, with one child and we have not heard one word about her adjustment of status application other than that her packet was transferred to the California service center August 2005 and we will receive word on it soon.  In general, it seems that those that live in States with large populations of immigrants, whether legal or illegal like Texas, Florida, California and New York are processed much slower.  If you happen to live within a big city in those States you usually are processed that much slower.  However, there is no hard and fast rule when it comes to immigration applications.  Sometimes a guy can be exactly in our shoes and be processed much faster.  Listen to JB, Jet etc., they know what they are talking about.

[jb]

I just saw this...........
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/17brides.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

[username33]

Username33,

Based on another thread;
http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?topic=2372.0
I get the feeling you are jerking us around a bit.  According to the other thread you are already married to a RW, according to this thread you are writing a book about the subject.

Which is it?

Both.

[groovlstk]

Regarding the AOS, as noted by Jet, much of that depends a persons location within the US.  Traditionally the fastest Service Center was always Vermont, so folks in the Northeast sailed through much faster than other areas.

I can attest that this is still the case. I filed my I-129F on August 24, and my fiancee's interview at the US Embassy in Moscow is scheduled for December 12. FWIW, it took 110 days from the day I filed to her interview date.

[dwfunk]

One of the slowest has always been the Texas Service Center with California running a close second.  Probably attributable to the large hispanic immigrant numbers in these areas whose applications bog down the flow of paperwork.

Very interesting.

Although the USCIS timelines aren't exactly accurate, you can get a sense of the workload they have by looking at what they are processing and what the backlog is for those categories.  It's not real clear why the K-1's are being forwarded from Texas to California for processing.  Both service centers process large numbers of hispanic applications.  My personal opinion is that these large numbers of hispanic related applications are what's clogging the system and making it difficult for USC's and European's to get through the system in a timely manner.  Keep in mind that none of the current work load has anything to do with the existing status of the illegal immigration problems.  These are all legal applications, there is just an enormous number of them.


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