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USCIS will also mail you a receipt notice (I-797C), which you will receive within 10 days after your application has been accepted; use this notice as proof of your pending application or petition.
If you do not know your receipt number, contact the USCIS Contact Center for help. You can continue to use Informed Delivery to track and manage the delivery of your package.
You must return the USCIS-issued document with the incorrect information. Generally, you also need to submit either a statement explaining the error or supporting documentation to show what the correct information should be, or both.
Total I-130 Processing Time After filing Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, the approval process can take anywhere from 10 to 13 months for immediate relatives and could take several years for family preference categories. This is an approximation. It may be shorter for some and longer for others.
How Many I-130s Are Approved Every Year? Many visa categories, including family preference, have numerical limits on the number of approvals available each year. In recent years, the approval rate for Form I-130 petitions has been as high as 99%.