New processing times - is the USCIS lying?

[firebrand 0]

OK, just got the mail, wifey's 10-year green card is in her hot little hands. I'm guessing the "approval notice" will arrive tomorrow. Sig is updated and current.

See you guys in the next forum and good luck!

[sandy2000 0]

Yay, I guess you filed at NSC and were not transferred to California center, right?

Well probably NSC started working in the I-751 now starting on the one filed on 01/07 , don't you guys think? this the third person that got their green caard from nebraska this week for NOA 01/07, Hopefully they will keep processing them!!!!!

[Peter T 0]

It seems that, finally, NSC is getting its act together and is processing I-751 again.

Info added for mew5280(CAPG), they got approved verbally at their interview, and for firebrand whose wife got approved - congratulations to both! lizmissy also added, she got approved, but her daughter not yet - Good Luck!

List of I-751 to NSC, after the last known approval in 2007 (NOA 06-Dec-06) and before the first known transfer to CSC (NOA 05-Aug-07),

ordered by date on NOA

UserName...........Date of I-751.....Date on NOA...Biometrics......Approved.....RFE, Service Request, etc.

haozi101...........11/27/06..........12/06/06......01/03/07........09/14/07.....

Bertrand...........12/19/06..........12/27/06......01/20/07........01/29/08.....N-400

sandeepb...........12/26/06..........01/04/07......02/05/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months, service request, N-400

coloradogirl.......12/27/06..........01/04/07......01/30/07........--/--/--.....

echostorm..........12/--/06..........01/05/07......02/16/07........--/--/--.....

mew5280(CAPG)......01/06/07..........01/16/07......02/15/07........03/20/08.....I-551 stamp for 6 months, interview, verbal approval

jennybirgitta......01/13/07..........01/18/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....service request, congressman, N-400

traversm...........01/14/07..........01/18/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....

MDandZJ............01/21/07..........01/25/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....

Ruari..............--/--/--..........01/25/07......02/23/07........--/--/--.....congressman

ron&nadine.........01/07/07..........01/22/07......02/27/07........--/--/--.....

firebrand..........--/--/--..........01/26/07......02/22/07........03/25/08.....N-400, GC arrived 03/27/08

colonelc22.........01/13/07..........01/27/07......03/14/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months, Service Request, congressman, N-400

dee................01/25/07..........01/29/07......02/20/07........--/--/--.....

Peter T............01/27/07..........02/01/07......03/09/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

drawbridgep........01/11/07..........02/02/07......02/15/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

danutuke...........01/29/07..........01/31/07......03/06/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 2 months, Service Request, N-400

Illinois77.........01/31/07..........02/02/07......03/02/07........--/--/--.....

chus...............01/26/07..........02/03/07......02/23/07........--/--/--.....

STBM04.............01/31/07..........02/05/07......03/02/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

ives_damian........01/31/07..........02/06/07......03/12/07........--/--/--.....

winterpassing......02/06/07..........02/12/07......03/09/07........--/--/--.....

MonicaT............02/08/07..........02/14/07......03/10/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

iansig40...........02/02/07..........02/16/07......03/23/07........03/17/08.....

grenoble38.........02/01/07..........02/20/07......03/03/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

Illinois...........02/19/07..........02/23/07......04/18/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

onur ............. 06/26/06..........03/15/07......04/13/07........--/--/--.....

Tammi..............02/23/07..........03/23/07......04/05/07........--/--/--.....

decharte...........02/28/07..........03/26/07......04/10/07........--/--/--.....

ace13..............03/22/07..........03/27/07......04/17/07........--/--/--.....

NickD..............03/27/07..........04/--/07......05/01/07........--/--/--.....congressman

Lyuba..............--/--/--..........04/17/07......05/07/07........--/--/--.....

gyuwono............04/17/07..........04/20/07......05/18/07........--/--/--.....

Kearinne...........04/09/07..........04/30/07......06/02/07........--/--/--.....

charlie & yeng.....4/27/07(resubm.)..05/01/07......06/02/07........--/--/--.....

Frances............04/02/07..........05/05/07......05/24/07........--/--/--.....

Kanadka............05/12/23..........05/23/07......06/11/07........--/--/--.....

Badgerbabe.........05/10/07..........05/24/07......06/11/07........--/--/--.....

debeselizz.........05/24/07..........05/31/07......06/21/07........--/--/--.....

sandy2000..........06/--/07..........06/12/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....

lizmissy...........--/--/--..........06/14/07......07/12/07........03/18/08.....interview, daughter also processed

laura19angel.......--/--/--..........06/15/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....

pkmk...............06/18/07..........07/02/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....

wifiman............06/29/07..........08/05/07......08/15/07........08/25/07.....NSC > CSC

NSC claimed accomplishments for processing I-751s:

Posting date......Processing timeframe

12/14/07..........02/09/07

01/15/08..........02/10/07

02/15/08..........07/05/06 (yes, they went backwards)

If you're not in the list but should be, please add yourself or post your data separately in the thread. If you're on the list, please check your data for correctness. Important: If you are on the list and get approved, we would like to know it - please write a posting in this thread.

[Ruairi 0]

OK, just got the mail, wifey's 10-year green card is in her hot little hands. I'm guessing the "approval notice" will arrive tomorrow. Sig is updated and current.

See you guys in the next forum and good luck!

Congrats, my NOA 1 date is a day behind yours. Heres hoping for an approval soon.

[Gulskjegg 0]

My filing date was 6 months before his, I guess I should panic.

[NickD 202]

For March 15, 2008 processing dates, Nebraska remains at that infamous July 05, 2006 I-751 date, where California jumped to September 17, 2007! Was told by Senator Feingold's office that all I-751's were shipped to California, but case status still says our application is in Nebraska. I called my senator's office yesterday, and nobody was home.

My daughter's Venezuelan passport is expired with threats to take away my wife's passport, we tried to renew our daughter's passport last year, what for, she isn't living in Venezuela, how do you answer that? Course, things can be done in Venezuela by depositing large sums of cash in a Miami bank account, they love US dollars. I did read about that I-551 stamp have to bring in a current valid foreign passport, isn't that asking a bit too much from people that have already lived here legally for four years now?

We did talk to an army recruiter, daughter can get instant USA citizen by joining plus all those college benefits and she won't be sent to Iraq, so he says, but two of her tiny little girlfriend joined last summer with the same promise and are going to Iraq. With the new increase in violence, 4,000 of our troops have been killed and 30,000 wounded, love that wounded when a troop comes back with arms, legs, or half their heads blown off. An in-law, another tiny little girl was in Colorado for flight training in the ANG, pulled out, sent to Texas for six weeks of MP training, and off to Iraq, she can't even open a jar of pickles and going to lug an M-16 around?

As a regular in the armed services, we never had much respect for the weekend warriors, they never had the extensive training we had, most were family men trying to make a couple of extra bucks, and okay for helping flood victims, call them cheap labor if you want, but sending these guys to a foreign war? Was unheard of back then, and now, little girls?

My wife and daughter feel like refugees without a country, I talked to Congressman Obey, yesterday, he has been around for awhile and he promised to see what he can do. I am getting a bit upset.

[Gulskjegg 0]

First off, I did Recruiting and Retention Command support for a few years. You would be bonkers to trust a recruiter, let alone trust one with your kids life. Also, I was one of those "weekend warriors" for 14 years and served in Iraq. I held my own and them some while assigned to the 1st Infantry Division. My battle wounds are no less then yours...if you have them.

The day you sign on the dotted line, you have effectively written a blank check to the U.S. Gov't that has a price up to and including your life. The kid that had his foot crushed in basic training is every bit the honored veteran as the grizzled 20-year-letter guy with multiple combat tours.

Anyhow, if "all Nebraska I-751's were shipped to California" what was the effective date? My wife and I have passed our 12 month mark already (March 3rd, 2007), so does that mean OUR file is now in California? And how the hell can we tell? My wifes letter of extension expires this coming May, and if we don't have a 10-year green card by then, I will appeal to my senator.

My heart goes out to you on the passport issue. Thats an angle I had never considered. Both my wife and I updated our passports soon after arriving in America, so we are set for the moment. I cant imagine what it would be like having a dependent (victim?) to have to take into account.

Finally, lets all give the 35 odd million illegal Mexicans a hearty THANKS for jumping the fence, clogging the USCIS in their bit for "amnesty", and shoving aside us law abiding citizens/taxpayers. Don't ever change, guys!

[Peter T 0]

My daughter's Venezuelan passport is expired with threats to take away my wife's passport, we tried to renew our daughter's passport last year, what for, she isn't living in Venezuela, how do you answer that? Course, things can be done in Venezuela by depositing large sums of cash in a Miami bank account, they love US dollars. I did read about that I-551 stamp have to bring in a current valid foreign passport, isn't that asking a bit too much from people that have already lived here legally for four years now?

First, Venezuelans living abroad need the passport for travelling, e.g. to Europe - you already knew that I assume and so does the Venezuelan consulate, but they still want to be paid like their brethren in the consulate of Iran and other "liberated" nations. The memo attached to this thread (and to the fixed thread on top of the thread list) mentions a second possibility, to get the I-551 on a I-94 form, with you supplying the passport photos (two photos?). I got such a form when I got first approved for my conditional Green Card, because my passport wasn't valid much longer anymore. I used it for employment in the US and for travel to Canada.

[NickD 202]

I checked again my on daughter's passport, unfortunately she is also a victim of the I-751, it actually isn't expired, and does have a USA visa in it that is good until October 27, 2013 so perhaps that is good enough for the USCIS. The reason why it is expired, after they got here, Chavez changed the passbook cover obsoleting all previous passports, so her passport will not be good for travel. She doesn't have any plans for traveling anyway in the immediate future, and hopefully by that time, her N-400 application will be approved and she can get a USA passport.

I assume that I-94 form is at the USCIS field office and didn't know about bringing two passport photos with us, thanks for that tip, would hate to make another 400 mile one day trip.

Am accused of taking things too literally at times, I mean if you are driving and see a sign that says, stop, you stop, right? That doesn't mean to slow down to a roll, it means stop. Like the I-751, takes 90 days to process, did take that literally as well, know a lot more about the USCIS today than I did over a year ago. And don't particularly like what I am learning.

[seaflower 0]

DID ANYONE CHECK THE USCIS WEB SITE, they updated it, and NSC I - 751 is STILL JULY 5,2006. I AM ABOUT TO CRY I CAN"T BELEIVE THIS, NO they DID NOT START WORKING ON THEM AGAIN SANDYOBVIOUSLY THEY DID NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MDZJ 0]

My husband and I went to the Denver field office this morning for the InfoPass appointment. The people there were polite but offered no helpful information. The officer simply pulled my case file from the computer, told me the same ####### that they received "6 million, ah, no, 3 million, applications" after the fees jump last year. Therefore, I should just go home and wait patiently there. He gave me an stamp for a 12 month extension. My senator's office hasn't gotten back to me yet. I don't know what else I can do at this point. Congrats to all the lucky ones who got their cases approval!

I have updated my information in the table below.

List of I-751 to NSC, after the last known approval in 2007 (NOA 06-Dec-06) and before the first known transfer to CSC (NOA 05-Aug-07),

ordered by date on NOA

UserName...........Date of I-751.....Date on NOA...Biometrics......Approved.....RFE, Service Request, etc.

haozi101...........11/27/06..........12/06/06......01/03/07........09/14/07.....

Bertrand...........12/19/06..........12/27/06......01/20/07........01/29/08.....N-400

sandeepb...........12/26/06..........01/04/07......02/05/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months, service request, N-400

coloradogirl.......12/27/06..........01/04/07......01/30/07........--/--/--.....

echostorm..........12/--/06..........01/05/07......02/16/07........--/--/--.....

mew5280(CAPG)......01/06/07..........01/16/07......02/15/07........03/20/08.....I-551 stamp for 6 months, interview, verbal approval

jennybirgitta......01/13/07..........01/18/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....service request, congressman, N-400

traversm...........01/14/07..........01/18/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....

MDandZJ............01/21/07..........01/25/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....senator, I-551 stamp for 12 months

Ruari..............--/--/--..........01/25/07......02/23/07........--/--/--.....congressman

ron&nadine.........01/07/07..........01/22/07......02/27/07........--/--/--.....

firebrand..........--/--/--..........01/26/07......02/22/07........03/25/08.....N-400, GC arrived 03/27/08

colonelc22.........01/13/07..........01/27/07......03/14/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months, Service Request, congressman, N-400

dee................01/25/07..........01/29/07......02/20/07........--/--/--.....

Peter T............01/27/07..........02/01/07......03/09/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

drawbridgep........01/11/07..........02/02/07......02/15/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

danutuke...........01/29/07..........01/31/07......03/06/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 2 months, Service Request, N-400

Illinois77.........01/31/07..........02/02/07......03/02/07........--/--/--.....

chus...............01/26/07..........02/03/07......02/23/07........--/--/--.....

STBM04.............01/31/07..........02/05/07......03/02/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

ives_damian........01/31/07..........02/06/07......03/12/07........--/--/--.....

winterpassing......02/06/07..........02/12/07......03/09/07........--/--/--.....

MonicaT............02/08/07..........02/14/07......03/10/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

iansig40...........02/02/07..........02/16/07......03/23/07........03/17/08.....

grenoble38.........02/01/07..........02/20/07......03/03/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

Illinois...........02/19/07..........02/23/07......04/18/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months

onur ............. 06/26/06..........03/15/07......04/13/07........--/--/--.....

Tammi..............02/23/07..........03/23/07......04/05/07........--/--/--.....

decharte...........02/28/07..........03/26/07......04/10/07........--/--/--.....

ace13..............03/22/07..........03/27/07......04/17/07........--/--/--.....

NickD..............03/27/07..........04/--/07......05/01/07........--/--/--.....congressman

Lyuba..............--/--/--..........04/17/07......05/07/07........--/--/--.....

gyuwono............04/17/07..........04/20/07......05/18/07........--/--/--.....

Kearinne...........04/09/07..........04/30/07......06/02/07........--/--/--.....

charlie & yeng.....4/27/07(resubm.)..05/01/07......06/02/07........--/--/--.....

Frances............04/02/07..........05/05/07......05/24/07........--/--/--.....

Kanadka............05/12/23..........05/23/07......06/11/07........--/--/--.....

Badgerbabe.........05/10/07..........05/24/07......06/11/07........--/--/--.....

debeselizz.........05/24/07..........05/31/07......06/21/07........--/--/--.....

sandy2000..........06/--/07..........06/12/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....

lizmissy...........--/--/--..........06/14/07......07/12/07........03/18/08.....interview, daughter also processed

laura19angel.......--/--/--..........06/15/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....

pkmk...............06/18/07..........07/02/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....

wifiman............06/29/07..........08/05/07......08/15/07........08/25/07.....NSC > CSC

NSC claimed accomplishments for processing I-751s:

Posting date......Processing timeframe

12/14/07..........02/09/07

01/15/08..........02/10/07

02/15/08..........07/05/06 (yes, they went backwards)

If you're not in the list but should be, please add yourself or post your data separately in the thread. If you're on the list, please check your data for correctness. Important: If you are on the list and get approved, we would like to know it - please write a posting in this thread.

[iansig40 1]

DID ANYONE CHECK THE USCIS WEB SITE, they updated it, and NSC I - 751 is STILL JULY 5,2006. I AM ABOUT TO CRY I CAN"T BELEIVE THIS, NO they DID NOT START WORKING ON THEM AGAIN SANDYOBVIOUSLY THEY DID NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes ,I checked the USCIS website also and I could not believe it ...still the same date July 5,2006. This is just plain ridiculous but let me say this ...these processing dates are not accurate at all .

If you've been waiting more then a year ...then you should call them daily and ask for a Service Request

[seaflower 0]

I have been waiting for 11 mts, howerever I have an attorney that filed my I-751 for me, Should I contact him and ask him to do a service request????

[seaflower 0]

Well I don't think that senators will do anything neither, according to these threads 2 senators said NSC don't process I-751 anyomre and they were all shipped to CALIFORNIA service center, but when you check online it is still NSC , I don't beleive that something is wrong if they did send them to CAL we should receive an email about it right??

[Ruairi 0]

I called the 800 375-5283 number and was told they are still working on July 06, still located at Nebraska but she pushed a service request through for me, got a confirmation number and a date when I should hear something.

Edited March 28, 2008 by Ruairi