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Which service center adjudicates my petition?

Key answer

The filing address and the adjudicating center are different things. You mail the package to an intake address, while one of the service centers adjudicates the petition, and the applicant does not choose it. Per community experience, timelines differ noticeably between centers and shift during the year, so people rely on the official processing-times tool and re-check it before filing rather than on a figure quoted six months ago.

Community answers

The answers below are translated from the original Russian - the language of the community chats.

  • The Texas address is where you mail the forms. From there the petition goes to Vermont or California, and the former usually adjudicates noticeably faster.

  • The published times change constantly: early in the year Vermont was about a month and a half, then the figure started growing.

  • We filed because our attorney said two months on average. By then the site showed six and a half months for Vermont. Check the calculator yourself on the day you file.

  • For I-485 the timeline depends on the field office, not the service center: in the calculator you pick a field office for those categories.

The answers are anonymized community experience from the public chats, not legal advice. Officers may decide similar cases differently.

Sources

  • USCIS processing times

    The official tool: the timeline depends on the form, the category and the center or field office.

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