Am I screwed?

[foobaz123]

Today is Day 155 with no movement out of CSC and nothing but excuses from anyone I call. I had hoped strongly for a March interview. I'm wondering now though whether there is any realistic chance of that at this point or not.

 

What does the hive mind think?

[Scott@Hong]

I don't think your screwed but CSC is moving very slow right now so even though difficult try to have patience. Your other option is to talk to your congressman and have them try to get a status for you, but don't hope for much from that angle.

Being a member of the 2 years to get VISA club, 155 days is still a short amount of time. Our total time was just over 800 days start to finish.

[dnoblett]

No sense of what is happening at CSC, the NOA1 --> NOA2 times are all over the place.

 

http://www.visajourn...l&dfile=No&adv=

 

According to stats Average for CSC is around 134 days, this accounts for the LONG as well as the short ones.

 

http://www.visajourn...s.php?cfl=1$cfl

 

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/images/130cschistory.gif

Edited January 4, 2012 by dnoblett (see edit history)

[A&B]

I don't think your screwed but CSC is moving very slow right now so even though difficult, try to have patience. Your other option is to talk to your congressman and have them try to get a status for you, but don't hope for much from that angle.

Being a member of the 2 years to get VISA club, 155 days is still a short amount of time. Our total time was just over 800 days start to finish.

 

+1

All of us relegated to the CSC are just treading water.....

 

 

Based upon past history, I am very leery of making travel plans dependent on the actions and time frames of the bureaucrats at Laguna Niguel.

 

YMMV,

The B of A&B

[foobaz123]

I don't think your screwed but CSC is moving very slow right now so even though difficult try to have patience. Your other option is to talk to your congressman and have them try to get a status for you, but don't hope for much from that angle.

Being a member of the 2 years to get VISA club, 155 days is still a short amount of time. Our total time was just over 800 days start to finish.

 

On day 151 I contacted my Senators (one blew me off, the other promised to look into it), my Representative (looked into it) and made an INFOPASS appointment. Most of that resulted in "You're within Normal processing times (that they get to define however they wish of course) and there is nothing to be done at the moment."

 

Of course, that is more or less what I expected. The appointment at the local USCIS office did provide some insight but nothing particularly useful. Probably the largest takeaway was that I seemed to know more about the current process than the lady I met with. She was very nice and did check several things for me. However, she was assuring me that it would probably take 'years' based on her father's experience. I didn't bat an eye and just asked her when he did his petition and whether or not he had problems at the interview. It was in 2005 and he did. Suddenly the 'years' thing was in a whole new light.

 

My Representative told me, in short, that CSC told him the same thing about normal processing and he suggested I check back with him/them in a couple of weeks. I actually thought about taking no action at all until mid-January on the grounds that it is just over five months. However, since I could see no advantage to waiting and no disadvantage to proceeding I went ahead and called everyone I could think of.

 

I'm only going to get to go to China twice this year, unless I quit my job. The first trip was already scheduled for January when I thought I had a fair chance at a March interview. Now I'm not so sure that was a good idea and that maybe I should have made it later. We'll see what the next week or so brings.

 

Thanks guys as always

[foobaz123]

No sense of what is happening at CSC, the NOA1 --> NOA2 times are all over the place.

 

http://www.visajourn...l&dfile=No&adv=

 

According to stats Average for CSC is around 134 days, this accounts for the LONG as well as the short ones.

 

http://www.visajourn...s.php?cfl=1$cfl

 

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/images/130cschistory.gif

 

 

The thing is, see this comment I posted in the another topic. It'd swear that sometime in June CSC sent 90% of their staff home and just said to hell with it all.