Legal Question in Immigration Law in New York

It's not unusual for USCIS to send a case to another service center. Generally it's because they are sharing the workload with that other center.

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They didn't do anything illegal.

In addition, in this visa category (sister of a US citizen born in Mexico), wait time for your sister would be 14 years. It means that it doesn't matter when the petition is approved: next year or in 10 years. Because she will have to wait until her priority date is current (2006). At this time, they issue visas to people whose petitions were filed in 1995.

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