All eyes on USCIS

Back to the U.S. immigration process for a moment before I close out the Canadian side (which I am oh so close to doing).

I have been monitoring the USCIS processing centers and in a helpful way, the USCIS posts, on their site, a weekly update. They list all the forms (well, most of the forms) and the date that the individual Service Centers are up to with that type. I, being hung over from frustration with CIC, started monitoring these updates shortly after I submitted the I-130 to the California Service Center in the end of October 2007. At first, I was slow on the uptake and had to determine when, exactly these updates are posted. It appears now, that USCIS is very reliably posting the updates every Friday, but it hits their site in the wee pre-dawn hours of Saturdays. With this revelation, I have decided to track these updates and do some quick math to see, what it is exactly, they are working on. It certainly isn't the I-130s, which is the form nearest and dearest to my heart.

So, in this light, my analytical self has developed a spreadsheet to track this information and calculate the change from week to week to keep an eye on the U.S. paper loving (although they are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act) government employees and make sure that they are doing something. Unfortunately, the USCIS website only has the current update and is not archiving previous updates (that I can find anyway). I did some light forum reading and found all the older processing times posted in various threads and used that information to build my spreadsheet. If anyone out there can point me to either USCIS archived Application and Receipting Updates or knows where someone else may have this information posted, please drop me a line.

So, here it is: USCIS Processing Times Spreadsheet

(I have a permanent link to this sheet in the upper right hand corner of this blog.)

Enjoy!