Processing Times

I was excited to open the mail today and see a letter from USCIS. I thought it would be our fingerprinting appointment. NO, it was the receipt for our application filed on January 16. It took them over a month to acknowledge that we sent in the I-600a form. Great. I guess it will be another month before they acknowledge receipt of our homestudy and give us a fingerprinting appointment. They state on the letter it is 10 weeks to process the I-600a. That's 10 weeks after they get around to looking at your documentation that has been in their office for a month.