enotsola's immigration process

[arethinn]

I haven't yet received my first "Notice of Action" from USCIS, which would be a kind of "yeah, we got your application" thing (analogous to a Canadian immigration process "Acknowledgement of Receipt"), but the hopefully-knowledgeables on alt.visa.us.marriage-based tell me that for some reason the time to get that has steeply increased from ~10 days to 4-5+ weeks, so I shouldn't be too worried, and after all they cashed the check, right? (Right, on April 30th.) So be patient.

I didn't know that you could create an account on their site and add your various "cases" to it, to check their progress and get email alerts when things change, so I did my best to decipher the receipt number printed on the back of the check (all I can get from Wells Fargo is a scanned copy, which is about fax quality and therefore quite hard to read), and lo and behold, they do in fact recognize that I have an I129-F in progress. So I'm in the system, at least.

Average time to the approval of the petition to sponsor (there's more after that, don't get excited) at my service center is currently 107 days, which would be about the middle of August, but I don't know if maybe that's going up too (argh).