Sheilauk

We filed on Jan 10th 2013 and have had an acknowledgement. On their website it said that they were processing applications for Jan 10th on January 24th and updated again on January 30th for January 10th. They are now processing application from Feb 1st. So what is happening to our application because if you take this literally it means that those on Jan 10th have been processed. What does this all mean and is it likely to take another 6 weeks? Thank you

Noorah101

I take it you filed the I-130 directly to London?

The posted processing dates are just estimates. Yours may or may not fall into the posted processing times.

Rene

jeffreyhy

Filed to where? Point of clarification - I-130 is not an application. Regards, JEff

Sheilauk

Yes we filed directly to the US Embassy London

jeffreyhy

No, you filed to the USCIS field office in London. USCIS is not a part of the DOS and the USCIS field office is not a part of the embassy even though the office is located within the embassy compound.

Regards, JEff

Sheilauk

Whatever jeffreyhy. Don't be so pedantic May I suggest if you cant think of anything helpful to say you just 'shut up'. Thank you

jeffreyhy

It's often important to understand what it is you're doing, so that you don't make mistakes or lead other people to make mistakes. It might not have been helpful to you, but for many other people ignorance is not bliss and it can be important to understand what government agencies do what tasks, that USCIS is neither the embassy nor the consular section of an embassy.

You're welcome.
Regards, JEff

Ray

Not so fast .. with US immigration you will learn to be very pedantic
or get blown out of the water

civilservant

What he said was very helpful. May I suggest that insulting people you are asking for advise from is not a perticularly prudent course of action and that in turn you should 'shut up'?

Anyway to get back to the question, she applications take longer. Perhaps the background checks flagged something that needed a second look, or perhaps a check got lost in the paper shuffle that needs to be done again. I wouldn't worry for another couple of weeks. If you want to, you could always call the mis-information line and ask them, they might be able to help (!)

lansbury

It means your I-130 is in the pile being processed. Will it take 6 weeks depends how big the pile is, but it doesn't usually seem to take that long once the file date is passed.

If it were me and they are processing Feb 1st, I'd send an email to check your result isn't missing in the post. This is where jeffreyhy answer was helpful because you need to send the email to the USCIS office and not the Embassy.

lansbury

That number only deals with visa applications not 1-130 processing. Two separate entities.

Ray

Visa Status Check


https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx

Sheilauk

Thanks for your help. I have sent an email as we haven't been given a number yet to check progress.

Sheilauk

I got a reply back very quickly! and we were approved on Feb 4th. Its a bit strange as I cant for the life of me think where the documents have gone. Oh well hopefully the next one will arrive! Thanks for your help especially with telling me that I can email them.