I received a mailed notice today from USCIS. It simply states that the Texas Service Center has transferred our case over to the California Service Center. Verbatim:
"This is to advise you that in order to speed up processing we have transferred the above case to the following USCIS office for processing:
California Service Center, 2nd Flr, 24000 Avila Road, Laguna Niguel, CA 92607-0111
That office will notify you of the decision made on the application or petition."
Then there's some language basically saying not to bother them unless we really have to, but otherwise, that's all it says.
I'm cautious to not read too much into the "speed up processing" part -- I think they just mean that the Dallas office didn't have the time or resources to deal with our case, so they basically outsourced it to the California office.
I certainly hope our case can now be approved sooner than expected, but again, I'm not going to read too much into it. If it stays on schedule to be approved 5 months after submission, then we're aiming for an approval in October (we submitted in May). Then again, it took them 3 months just to realize they needed to send it somewhere else, so my optimism isn't all that high...
PS: The letter is dated August 8, so when people call regular USPS post "snail mail," they aren't joking. Sheesh.
