Waiting Game with I-129F... What next?
Hello,
My fiancee and I have recently sent our I-129 petition and the bible of information to the INS Vermont Service Center. Does anyone have an idea about turn-around times from that Center? If this application is approved what happens next? Does she (US Citizen) get something back to give to me so that I can apply for the K-1? Is it automatically sent to the US Consulate in Toronto for processing? What's the scoop? Should we be preparing other documents or getting other paperwork done in the interim? Anxiously waiting, Ian |
Re: Waiting Game with I-129F... What next?
Originally posted by eiloo: Hello, My fiancee and I have recently sent our I-129 petition and the bible of information to the INS Vermont Service Center. Does anyone have an idea about turn-around times from that Center? If this application is approved what happens next? Does she (US Citizen) get something back to give to me so that I can apply for the K-1? Is it automatically sent to the US Consulate in Toronto for processing? What's the scoop? Should we be preparing other documents or getting other paperwork done in the interim? Anxiously waiting, Ian |
Re: Waiting Game with I-129F... What next?
I can't make a quote but I think it is the next fastest under TSC, and someone from
Canada will be fast too.... You are lucky :O) ___________________________________ "eiloo" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... : : Hello, : : My fiancee and I have recently sent our I-129 petition and the bible of : information to the INS Vermont Service Center. Does anyone have an idea : about turn-around times from that Center? : : If this application is approved what happens next? Does she (US : Citizen) get something back to give to me so that I can apply for the : K-1? Is it automatically sent to the US Consulate in Toronto for : processing? What's the scoop? Should we be preparing other documents : or getting other paperwork done in the interim? : : Anxiously waiting, : : Ian : : -- : Posted via http://britishexpats.com : |
Re: Waiting Game with I-129F... What next?
I can't make a quote but I think it is the next fastest under TSC, and someone from
Canada will be fast too.... You are lucky :O) ___________________________________ "eiloo" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... : : Hello, : : My fiancee and I have recently sent our I-129 petition and the bible of : information to the INS Vermont Service Center. Does anyone have an idea : about turn-around times from that Center? : : If this application is approved what happens next? Does she (US : Citizen) get something back to give to me so that I can apply for the : K-1? Is it automatically sent to the US Consulate in Toronto for : processing? What's the scoop? Should we be preparing other documents : or getting other paperwork done in the interim? : : Anxiously waiting, : : Ian : : -- : Posted via http://britishexpats.com : |
Re: Waiting Game with I-129F... What next?
>Turn around time for the I-129F in Vermont is 14-21 days from receipt of the first
>notice of action. Just to add a little to what Rita has said, (by the way, welcome back Rita), the last few receipt notices I've received for I-129f's filed at the VSC give a projected processing time of 30 to 75 days, however the reality is that they are still pretty fast (more in the neighborhood of 21 days). I've posted this before, but I think it's worth repeating. The projected processing times printed on a receipt notice DO NOT come from the particular service center itself, and are quite often not based upon the reality of what a service center might be experiencing at that given moment in time. The projected times quoted are not promises by INS nor are those numbers binding on the INS. Things change (such as the new IBIS directive, for example) and they will take as long as they need to get the cases through regardless of an inaccurate "courtesy wild guess" printed on a receipt notice. I actually wish they would just delete this information on the notices because no matter how many times I, or other people say they are not promises or binding on the INS, it seems there are those who either don't believe this or just ignore it, and it angers people when those "non-binding courtesy wild guesses" are not met. On my last tour of the CSC, while talking to Lisa (my tour guide) and an officer in division 3 who happened to be working on an I-130, I specifically asked, "why does the I-130 receipt notices still give the huge processing time numbers when in fact, for IR I-130's the actual processing time is nowhere as long as the times listed on the notices?" Their reply, "We don't have any control whatsoever on what is printed on our notices. Congress tells us what we must print, and that's exactly what we do" I actually think they were a little off with their answer as I believe its INS HQ that tells them what to list, not Congress, but the point is that the Service Centers are told what to list regardless if that is in line with the realities of their current processing at any particular moment in time. By the way, I also mentioned to Lisa that I really wish the CSC would put together an "on-line" tour with photos of the various departments, the officers doing their work, and showing the HUGE scale of the operations they are running. I mentioned to her that before I started going to the CSC, I had a mental picture of what I thought their operation must be like (size and scope), and that I had totally underestimated the size and scope of their operation. I told her that if they were to provide such an "on-line" tour, that might be welcomed by the on-line community going through their office and give them an idea of what actually goes on, step by step with a petition and the size and scope of the operation. She said that was a terrific idea, but I'm not holding my breath. Good luck with your cases. Regards, Matthew Udall Attorney |
Re: Waiting Game with I-129F... What next?
I have an even better idea. They have on their website all the cases posted when they
come in and show exactly where they are. Forget the stupid phone system. Bush said he wants everyone to have high speed access. How about if INS supports this and hops on the cyberspace highway. Go in (to a secured server) and punch in your SSN and snap you know exactly where is it and what's happening (or NOT!) I think most consulates have websites now too. At least the US ones do, so they should do the same. But this would be waaaaaaaay to good to be true and too easy for everyone so it won't happen. |
Re: Waiting Game with I-129F... What next?
Good idea Paul (sincerely, not being sarcastic like I was in my reply to Andrew). I
have envisioned a system where every INS file has a barcode affixed to it, and each and every step of the way has a scanner that would pick up the bar code. That way, we could log on and find out if its in presorting, sorting, data entry, on the shelf in the file room, at an officer's desk, finished by the officer and given back to a contract worker to have the approval data entered at clerical, if its on its way to the NVC, when received at the NVC, when tossed into the bin at the NVC, when its received at the mailroom at the Consulate, when packet 3 was sent, and so on and so on. It's actually a great idea and it would save INS and myself a lot of time answering calls about the status of a case. It would be nice to know these things, as I could feel confident that my case has not become lost along the way, although that would do nothing to speed up the process. I would especially like such a system for tracking it from the time it leaves the Service Center until it reaches the Consulate, as that part of the cases journey is a "black hole" as far as being able to find out anything. |
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