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Question:

We have filed I-130 and I-485 at the local office but it was forwarded to the National Benefits Center. National Center does now disclose the timeline for I-485 processing. I have called customer center and they told me I have to write a letter to the National Benefits center and they will disclose it.

Anyone out there, who has done it?

Answer:

Huh? There is no such center. You are confused. Do you by any chance mean the National Visa Center?

I think you are the confused one - there is a National Benefit Centre. Here's what Philadelphia say about it on the USCIS website

"For those adjustment applications filed at the local office, please note effective February 17, 2004, the Philadelphia District Office will no longer process I-130/I- 485 applications or any application submitted in conjunction with an I- 485. This includes Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, and Form I-131, Application for Travel Document. We will accept the applications by mail or in person, with fees attached and forward them daily to the National Benefit Center for processing. You will receive a filing receipt from that office within 14 days. All employment documents and travel documents will be mailed directly to you from the National Benefit Center. Adjustment of Status interviews will still be conducted locally once the case is scheduled and transferred back to Philadelphia."

Please click on this link https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/NBCprocesstimes.jsp? National Benefit Center located in Missouri.

Our receipt number starts with letters MSC. That means that it is in National Benefit Center. A lot of cases are transferred to NBC, but they do not post the information online.

National Benefits Center sounds more like a hospital name. Why USCIS choose such words

So 1. petition for parent and spouse by UC citizen family member and adjustment applications 2. any other family-based AOS application (for GC) with either EAD, and/or travel document application will be processed at NBC,

In summary, basically all family based AOS applications will be processed at NBC. After all, who (from family-based preference categories other than parents) would apply for AOS without EAD.

Sounds like int he future, people will have to mail directly to NBC.

The name NBC is not very representative of these applications.

Children, some wives, some husbands, not everyone wants to work nor does every spouse want their spouse to work, retired spouses, handicapped spouses, etc.

And National Benefits Center does not, in my opinion, sound like a hospital. It sounds like a place where people nationwide go to obtain a benefit. Residency, the right to work, the right to travel without abandonment of pending AOS are all benefits.

Yes, I am sure. I have talked to an immigration officer a few times. They told me that I-485 can be approved even if I-130 is not approved yet.

no you misunderstood i was asking benefactor if he was sure that the NBC only accepts 1-485 and 1-30 together and so the timeline for the 1-130 is also the timeline for the 1-485. I don't think it is so much as without I-130 approval. There are other type of petition such as Employment which uses I-140 form.

The paragraph " For those adjustment applications filed at the local office, please note effective February 17, 2004, the Philadelphia District Office will no longer process I-130/I-485 applications or any application submitted in conjunction with an I-485." seems to imply I-485 application in conjuntion with & EAD, I-485 application in conjuntion with Travel Document, etc.

That means , those I-485 applications based on I-130 approved or I-140 approved. The petition must already be approved except in one type of case which is where I-485 and I-130 can both be filed at the same time.

Anyone agrees with me? Or disagree?

I think NBC right now is basically stuck with a lot of cases because from what i see a lot of people are waiting for their EAD and most of them went and got their interim EAD which really sucks.

Then I guess we were lucky. My husband got his EAD exactly 90 days after we applied.