The Texas and Nebraska Service Centers will be forwarding many new I-130 petitions to the California Service Center for processing, and these cases will receive CSC receipts.  Applicants should monitor the processing time reports for California, rather than for the service center that transferred the cases.  However, filings should continue to be made at the service center having regular jurisdiction, and that center will forward the cases to CSC.

Additionally, TSC will be transferring pending immediate relative I-130s and family-based I-130s with current priority dates to California.  CSC will not be issuing receipts on these, but applicants should receive a transfer notice indicating that the case has been shipped if it is transferred.  Once the case is transferred, processing times for CSC, not TSC will apply.

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The New Delhi Department of Homeland Security suboffice has tightened its rules for US citizens seeking to direct file I-130s there.  From now on, the United States Consulate will be required to show 60 days presence in India prior to filing for immediate relatives.  The 60 days starts upon arrival into India, and must be immediately preceding the filing of the petition, with no departures from the country within that 60-day period.  It is not necessary for the petitioner to remain in India subsequent to the filing of the I-130 at this office, but filing at this office must be done in person, by both spouses.