Family First Preference visa (F1) - what's wrong with the backlog

[nikeboy]

Hi there, for the past months I've been observing a following anomaly in Visa Bulletin, as of February 2015 the cut-off date for F1 Preference (Unmarried Sons and Daughters of U.S. Citizens) is 22JUL07. In the same Bulletin the cut-off date for F2B Preference (Unmarried Sons and Daughters of Permanent Residents) is 22MAY08. It's a 10 month difference in favor of Permanent Residents petitions and it becomes larger with each month. I find it a bit shocking that resident's children are processed much faster than citizen's children. I would expect both to be processed at the same time but the way it is right now looks really unfair. Does anyone know what's the reason behind it?

[MaryH]

For a few years, citizen's children were ahead of president's children. I couldn't say why this has happened; maybe the cases retrogressed; where cases fall/go back months or years. That's the only explanation I can think of. I wad watching the trend for a friend who had no access to computers. I don't any more. Since that person had gotten thorough. It's just the system, I don't think u can do anything about it.

[Zain.aziz]

For a few years, citizen's children were ahead of president's children. I couldn't say why this has happened; maybe the cases retrogressed; where cases fall/go back months or years. That's the only explanation I can think of. I wad watching the trend for a friend who had no access to computers. I don't any more. Since that person had gotten thorough. It's just the system, I don't think u can do anything about it.

Hi once again MaryH, I wanted to ask if you can help..
How to read visa bulletin? I fall in category F2, where my wife has applied I-130 for me in first week of Nov 2014.

Zain

[rayb]

Reading the Visa Bulletin shouldn't be that difficult ( http://travel.state.gov/contenthttps...uary-2015.html ).
Your F2 category entails a wait of about 18 months for an available visa slot because of "oversubscription" of this visa category in all countries.

If you acquire U.S. citizenship, you can cut this in half soon as you submit your Naturalization Certificate to USCIS or the NVC to change your petiton status.

--Ray B

Hi once again MaryH, I wanted to ask if you can help..
How to read visa bulletin? I fall in category F2, where my wife has applied I-130 for me in first week of Nov 2014.

Zain

[Zain.aziz]

Reading the Visa Bulletin shouldn't be that difficult ( http://travel.state.gov/contenthttps...uary-2015.html ).
Your F2 category entails a wait of about 18 months for an available visa slot because of "oversubscription" of this visa category in all countries.

If you acquire U.S. citizenship, you can cut this in half soon as you submit your Naturalization Certificate to USCIS or the NVC to change your petiton status.

--Ray B

Dear Ray B,

My wife is a US citizen so still our process will take about 18 months?
Sorry I did not understand regarding submission of Naturalization certificate to USCIS or NVC. I will appreciate if you can explain for understanding. By the way my wife submitted the case in first week of Nov 2014 so now almost 3 months has been completed. According to our calculation everything will be completed by May - June 2015.

Zain