POLL! How often do you check your CIS online status?

[James 2]

Polls sink like a lead balloon in this forum. Results at 11!

[Babsi 0]

i used to check daily...

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I'm still waiting for a trackable number so I can check on line. I suspect I will be checking daily.

[mawilson 2,133]

Every now and then.

Once a week, once a month, whenever I think of immigration while online.

[iansig40 1]

Enough to make me sick having to deal with an institution like USCIS

[Cassie 8]

couple of times a week, more when our Losers list reports an increase of activity

[guy_from_russia 0]

you can activate notifications over the email. then, if your case is approved the system will notify you automatically. this way you can just have it forwarded to your cell phone and always know if you were approved or not. also, i think there is no sense checking between friday night and monday morning. they are closed then and nothing happens, right?

[Niels Bohr 72]

I check it daily. Try not to waste too much time on it since I have no control on what's being done.

[CarolineM 0]

We have updates sent to our e-mail - although there won't be any updates for a long while!

[James 2]

We have updates sent to our e-mail - although there won't be any updates for a long while!

You don't get email when you are simply "touched" -- only for major updates (approved, RFE, or transferred, etc.)

[Illinois77 0]

How do you know that your case has been "touched"?

I check about once a week. Have for a year and nothing - so I should probably switch to checking once per annum...

By the way, I requested a case status update via phone on 1/10/2008 and was told it would take 45 days for me to receive an answer via email - I have not received anything as of today.

[James 2]

How do you know that your case has been "touched"?

I check about once a week. Have for a year and nothing - so I should probably switch to checking once per annum...

By the way, I requested a case status update via phone on 1/10/2008 and was told it would take 45 days for me to receive an answer via email - I have not received anything as of today.

Heh, until they transferred us to VSC, my last updated date had been the touch after the biometrics and stayed the same for eight months.

[Illinois77 0]

Heh, until they transferred us to VSC, my last updated date had been the touch after the biometrics and stayed the same for eight months.

Ok that makes sense, thanks. the date I see when I log on to my case is 3/9/07, a few days after my biometrics - so that's probably when they received and added that to my case? And nothing since.

[jamieswith 0]

How do you know that your case has been "touched"?

I check about once a week. Have for a year and nothing - so I should probably switch to checking once per annum...

By the way, I requested a case status update via phone on 1/10/2008 and was told it would take 45 days for me to receive an answer via email - I have not received anything as of today.

Heh, until they transferred us to VSC, my last updated date had been the touch after the biometrics and stayed the same for eight months.

Sounds kindof perverted that we're all sat around in front of our computers hoping to be 'touched' by the USCIS lol

We really have to come up with some better terminology here lol

[Sister Fracas 5]

When I was waiting for I-130 approval, I checked daily.

For the I-751, I have it set up to email me when approval happens, not that I trust them to send the email when it does, but I'd say in the past over eleven months of waiting, I've checked 3 times in total. I don't look for "touches".

I use to have the LIN number memorized when it was the I-130, but not now. I don't know if I can properly answer your poll but I'm closest to the last answer, without the Penthouse, etc...lol

Edited March 13, 2008 by Sister Fracas