Wedding for Jim and Ann

Our Visa application has been approved!!! This means USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has passed off the processing and logistics to the U.S. Department of State CEAC (Consular Electronic Application Center). Here, I will pay the Immigrant Visa Application Processing Fee and Affidavit of Support Fee.

If you are interested in knowing more about the process of USCIS adjuticating, specifically, an I-129F, in a nutshell is this. There are 5 processing centers across the U.S. that files these. Once they receive the paperwork and items they need to begin the process, depending on which processing center receives it, will take between 6 months to 16.5 months to complete it, depending on the processing center to which it went. Ours arrived in California (you can tell by the 3 letters preceding your case #. As of this writing, it has been 200 days now since they received it, almost 6.5 months. If that is the case, and they are accurate, then they *should* have it complete by July 2024, but am praying fervently that it will go more quickly.

***Note, before COVID, and the influx of illegal aliens over our borders, it only took approximately 6 months to adjuticate a complete case, at any processing center.

While we know where we are with USCIS, to let everyone know exactly where we are, USCIS filed our paperwork on I-129F on March 31, 2023, so we are 192 days since they have received it.

Thank you SO much for your support!!!