INS Advises on NSC Adjudication's Priorities

March 25, 1999

Memorandum For William Yates
All NSC Employees

From: Natalie Vedder
Director, Nebraska Service Center
Lincoln, NE

Subject: Service Center Adjudication's Priorities

In an effort to achieve consistency in processing times across the Service Centers nationally on highest priority cases other than naturalization, Headquarters has published national processing times. The memo which formally establishes the processing priorities for the Service Centers demands expansion as it relates to forms processed only in one Service Center. There are, of course, several at NSC. The following list incorporates the national processing times as well as those that are NSC specific.

FORM PROCESSING TIMES

I-129							30 days

I-765 (a)(5) and (c)(8)					30 days

I-765 all others					75 days

I-130 (IR or Preference with Visa Number Available	90 days

I-131 Advanced Parole					30 days

I-131 Refugee Travel Documents				30 days

I-131 Re-Entry Permits					90 days

I-140 (Visa Number Available)				60 days

I-526							60 days

I-730							90 days

Processing time for this purpose means the time it takes from the date it is received in the NSC mail room with proper fee and signature until the notice of the first adjudicative action is taken. Therefore, an I-129 of any type, received on June 1 must have the notice of an RFE, request for investigation, approval, etc., mailed by July 1. All divisions must be cognizant of their role in realizing these processing commitments.