IOE case number format

marmont

I noticed that IOE receipt numbers don’t follow the same format as to the SC receipt numbers with the year, workday… can someone explain the IOE receipt number format? Thank you in advance.

marmont

No one on this Community? 🥹

GCDev87

I have the same question! Thanks for posting this OP

Sam

I am also trying to find out the same answer

marmont

Looks like this community is unattended. I will try to ask at https://hilites.today/ and if I get any info I will share with the one’s interested to get an answer. Best of luck to all.

jennnpy

Hi, I've been trying to figure this out too - scrolled through many pages on Google, and even tried my own calculation with the USCIS fiscal year (Oct 1 - Sept 30), but no luck. Are you trying to see what "received dates" are for other receive blocks? You can actually click on other cases in your receive block to see their case timeline. I just don't know how USCIS processes them, many cases in my i-765 receive block were processed within 1 month but I've been waiting for 5 months now.

AjithV

I think all categories of I-130 filed under IOE, are being distributed among all processing centers, at present. The key for any assumption is, that USCIS is still new to the IOE filing system and is still in the integrating process with LB filing system. The beneficiaries under I-130 process fall under two categories. There are 6 levels of priorities. Therefore, if USCIS had followed the block numbering based on priority dates still there is no guarantee that cases of the same block numbers will be processed together. Different cases with different priorities will be considered in different time frames. I too am an applicant. Waiting eagerly. We do not know the processing time of IOE numbers follow the timings of centers that they are allocated or a common time frame for all I-130 IOE cases as they are all electronically in the system.

Kevin

I also am curious about this. My receipt number is IOE9802769***.
It seems this website is not setup to give status of i-130 that start with IOE9 as opposed to IOE09 (which is supported).
Generally just confused about this numbering system. I applied in December btw and just switched to being processed a month ago.

name

Looks like the numbers are assigned randomly, see this discussion thread here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/yn60ig/decoding_ioe_case_numbers/. The creator of hilites Jin himself was in this thread, and he added a page on hilites for IOE I-140 cases, but it basically is a huge histogram with each bin height = 1... there is no way to analyze or visualize them, not like the way the SRC/LIN 140s are done.

It was not a priority to track these IOE 140s before because they were only a small fraction of all the 140s. But I think it'll become more and more important in the future for all the tracking websites, because more and more 140s will be assigned IOE receipt numbers. The majority of EB cases filed to SRC_SC are already assigned IOE receipt numbers in the past month (April 2023), you can see from the huge drop in the number of receipts of SRC_SC I-140s compared to before. Usually each month SRC_SC receives thousands (2000 - 4000) I-140 cases, but now it's around 750 in April 2023, so if we assume 3000 cases on average for SRC_SC, then (3000-750)/3000 = 75%, so probably 75% of SRC SC cases in April now have IOE receipt numbers and are not tracked.

This is most likely due to USCIS's effort of converting from paper-based EB processing to electronic-based. SRC_SC cases are at least 25% of all 140s, if all of them become IOE receipts, then you'll lose track of 25% of the I-140 statistics. If USCIS does the same for the other 3 centers, it'll be important to sift through all IOEs to single out I-140s in order to analyze them.