march filers timeline for TEXAS

[tumbin 0]

Timeline for Texas service Center Only Please makeit better margin and organized please i am just a starter

user-------sent n400----recieved certified mail-----NOA1-----Bio(finger prints leter)-----Bio(done)-------Interview Letter(recived)-------interview---oath

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[Feliz 0]

why would you need a texas tmeline, if speed is determined by FBI and by Local Office?

all Texas service center will do is communicate between the two

once FBI is done it will request an interview date from Loval Office and send your case there, and then it is very individual for each Local Office

here is my advice (copied from FAQ):

FIELD OFFICES: for people waiting for Interview Letter[/b][/size][/color]

After you file N400 USCIS starts process by cashing check and initiating FBI Name check and Fingerprints, so once you got findgerprinted consider process launched. Only after FBI clears main (4) Service Center puts you in line for an Interview Date at your Field Office, once they find spot (ma take 2-3 month in busy offices, see step 3) and schedule your interview, your case is sent to Field Office and you receive your Interview Appointment Letter. After that procedues are very specific to Field Offices, some give you Oath letter right away, some send it 2 month later, so check with your Field Office's people's experiences only, don't read (or rehearse) just random or over 6 month old Interview descriptions.

1) Locate your Field Office by ZIP code here: https://egov.uscis.gov/crisgwi/go?action=of....office_type=LO

2) Find your Field Office's official processing dates (update usually on 15th of each month)

https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/jsps/ptimes.jsp

3) Find people with close to yours Priority Date (PD) from your Field Office on this forum or others, for example this one has lots of Field Office specific info:

http://boards.immigrationportal.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18

4) wait until people with PD LATER then yours start receiving Interview letters, schedule Infopass - usually 2 weeks ahead, if still not received, go to Infopass and Inquire about case status - it may be

A. stuck on "Name Check" - then you are unlucky

B. "FBI Clear all checks and it's forwarded to Field Office , expect interview letter within 60 days"

either way go home and schedule another Infopass within 2 weeks - if no letter - schedule another Infopass in 2 more weeks,

if no letter within 4-6 weeks of fact that people who filed after you got their letters from your field office, start considering filing lawsuit against USCIS about delayed Name Check and read about it. your main document could be that that NOA1 gives you X amount of days and that is passed.

5) once you receive Interview letter - make sure you prepare for Civics and prepare to give evidence and clear confident answers for any abnormal parts of your application that could make you ineligible - it means within 3 (for US citizen spouses) or 5 years such things as: a lots of traveling, separate address with US spouse, job abroad, name change, oath word change, crime and legal issues, taxes, communism, terrorism etc.

6) if you happen to confuse Officer on Interview about your unclear eligibility, they may say "Approval pending" and they "need supervisor's approval of case", which may take another 2-4 month, but in this case you have much more right to file lawsuit - as your after interview letter states amount of days to expect decision.

Good Luck to everybody!

hope it helps

here is Houston thread http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=200119

[Balad 0]

I got my notice and biometrics letter yesterday from TSC

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user-------sent n400----recieved certified mail-----NOA1-----Bio(finger prints leter)-----Bio(done)-------Interview Letter(recived)-------interview---oath

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[ChrisR 0]

Hi!

I decided to join this website today so I could post in the forums.

I am very curious about people's processing times and figured some people might be interested in mine, so here you go...

03/14/2008: Mailed N-400 to Texas Service Center

03/18/2008: Texas Service Center received my application (per the USPS return receipt)

03/18/2008: Priority Date

03/18/2008: Check Deposit Date

03/19/2008: Check Cleared by my Bank

03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - "You should expect to be notified within 210 days of this notice"

03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Biometrics Appointment scheduled

04/15/2008: Biometrics Appointment @ 0900 CST in San Antonio

XX/XX/2008: FBI sent fingerprinting results back to USCIS

XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Interview scheduled

XX/XX/2008: Interview

XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Oath Ceremony scheduled

XX/XX/2008: Oath

Hopefully I'm not being too positive putting "2008" as the year for dates not yet known...

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user-------sent n400----recieved certified mail-----NOA1-----Bio(finger prints leter)-----Bio(done)-------Interview Letter(recived)-------interview---oath

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balad-----02/28/08-----------03/03/08------------03/16/08-------03/17/08-----------------03/28/08-------- ------- ---

Chrisr----03/14/08-----------03/18/08------------03/26/08-------03/26/08-----------------04/15/08--------

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user-------sent n400----recieved certified mail-----NOA1-----Bio(finger prints leter)-----Bio(done)-------Interview Letter(recived)-------interview---oath

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balad-----02/28/08-----------03/03/08------------03/16/08-------03/17/08-----------------03/28/08-------- ------- ---

Chrisr----03/14/08-----------03/18/08------------03/26/08-------03/26/08-----------------04/15/08--------

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[ChrisR 0]

Update:

I went to have my fingerprints taken this morning in San Antonio.

My appointment was for 0900, I was out of there by 0840.

I got to the application support center at 0700 and there were already people forming a line, even though the office did not open until 0800.

Since it was a bit chilly, I stayed in my car until about 0740 and then got in line. There were about 15 people in line in front of me at that point.

Around 0745, 20 more people were lined up behind me and two support center employees came out of a side door with a cart and clipboards. They checked everyone's I-797-C letters and IDs (the green card for Naturalization applicants) and handed people clipboards with a form to fill out (just basic information about yourself).

If you applied for Naturalization, be SURE to have your green card with you. It states on the letter that you need it and they were giving one guy who didn't have his one heck of a time about it (I'm not sure if they ultimately let him in or not).

I do want to point out that they had a sign talking about the terrorism threat level being "yellow" and that because of that only people with appointments for that day were allowed in the office. I'm saying that because in other threads I have seen people talking about going to the support center a few days early and being processed, unless you live close, I wouldn't risk it.

The "yellow" threat level also meant that you could not take in any packages, briefcases, etc. on top of the usual items that you can not take in (cell phones, cameras, recording equipment, food, drinks, etc). They had no problem with me taking a book inside (I had expected a longer wait as I had there when I got my picture and prints taken in 2005 to renew my green card).

Right at 0800, they opened the front door and a supervisor told everyone that people with appointments from 0800-0900 could come in, everyone else was to step to the back of the line.

She asked everyone for their appointment time as they stepped inside the door to make sure only the 0800-0900 appointment people came in.

Inside we all stood in a line going to three employees. The guy I went to looked over my filled out form, looked at my green card, looked at my hands (I guess to check and see if they could get good prints?) and then gave me a number (12).

My number was called around 0825. The girl went over my personal information with me to make sure their system showed everything correctly. Then she sprayed water on a cloth, wet my fingers with it, dried them with another cloth (so that they were just barely damp, which is what their system apparently likes) and took my prints.

She asked me to fill out comment card.

I asked her about the free civics study guide mentioned in the I-797-C letter, she pointed to a box and asked me to grab one.

I was out of there at 0840, I could not believe it.

The study guide is basically the same questions you can find on-line on the USCIS website, along with some more explanation/information about each answer (the booklet states that they don't test on that, but I'm going to study all the info to be safe). There is also a CD in the booklet where they read the questions and answers. Probably very handy if someone has a hard time reading or pronouncing English.

I'm going to call the FBI tomorrow to make sure they got the prints and see if they might have already sent the results back to USCIS (according to other posts, most of them go back within 5 minutes of being received).

Time line:

03/14/2008: Mailed N-400 to Texas Service Center

03/18/2008: Texas Service Center received my application (per the USPS return receipt)

03/18/2008: Priority Date

03/18/2008: Check Deposit Date

03/19/2008: Check Cleared by my Bank

03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - "You should expect to be notified within 210 days of this notice"

03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Biometrics Appointment scheduled

04/15/2008: Biometrics Appointment @ 0900 CST in San Antonio

XX/XX/2008: FBI sent fingerprinting results back to USCIS

XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Interview scheduled

XX/XX/2008: Interview

XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Oath Ceremony scheduled

XX/XX/2008: Oath

[Vouge 0]

I'm going to call the FBI tomorrow to make sure they got the prints and see if they might have already sent the results back to USCIS (according to other posts, most of them go back within 5 minutes of being received).

Can you please give me phone # for the FBI, I want to give them a call too And do they really can give you this kind of info?

[ChrisR 0]

Can you please give me phone # for the FBI, I want to give them a call too And do they really can give you this kind of info?

The two numbers I have are 304-625-5590 and 304-625-2406.

Just tell them you had your fingerprints taken by USCIS and want to check on the status. They ask for your alien # and will tell you whether or not USCIS sent the fingerprints to the FBI and whether or not the FBI sent the research results back to USCIS.

They will not give you any information beyond this, so by calling them you will only be able to be sure that your fingerprints didn't get lost in USCIS' system somewhere without ever making it to the FBI.

Looking at other posts, the FBI usually responds within a few minutes of getting the prints (it's all done electronically now). According to their website their "official" time frame for non-criminal requests is 24 hours.

Chris

[ChrisR 0]

Just got off the phone with the FBI (304-625-5590, then options 2, 5, 3).

Fingerprinting results were sent back to USCIS yesterday, so now I'm waiting for the interview letter...

Time line:

03/14/2008: Mailed N-400 to Texas Service Center

03/18/2008: Texas Service Center received my application (per the USPS return receipt)

03/18/2008: Priority Date

03/18/2008: Check Deposit Date

03/19/2008: Check Cleared by my Bank

03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - "You should expect to be notified within 210 days of this notice"

03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Biometrics Appointment scheduled

04/15/2008: Biometrics Appointment @ 0900 CST in San Antonio

04/15/2008: FBI sent fingerprinting results back to USCIS

XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Interview scheduled

XX/XX/2008: Interview

XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Oath Ceremony scheduled

XX/XX/2008: Oath

[kkate2000 0]

hi,

Please do not forget to report your update i am applying for my citizenship in texas service center on May 1,2008 ; 10 days from now !!!

Just got off the phone with the FBI (304-625-5590, then options 2, 5, 3).

Fingerprinting results were sent back to USCIS yesterday, so now I'm waiting for the interview letter...

Time line:

03/14/2008: Mailed N-400 to Texas Service Center

03/18/2008: Texas Service Center received my application (per the USPS return receipt)

03/18/2008: Priority Date

03/18/2008: Check Deposit Date

03/19/2008: Check Cleared by my Bank

03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - "You should expect to be notified within 210 days of this notice"

03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Biometrics Appointment scheduled

04/15/2008: Biometrics Appointment @ 0900 CST in San Antonio

04/15/2008: FBI sent fingerprinting results back to USCIS

XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Interview scheduled

XX/XX/2008: Interview

XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Oath Ceremony scheduled

XX/XX/2008: Oath

[Balad 0]

my interview is June 3rd

[ChrisR 0]

my interview is June 3rd

Whoo hoo, congratulations!

I hope the San Antonio office (my local office) and Houston (yours) have similar timelines, because if they do, I should get my letter three weeks from now (based on your timeline)...

[Balad 0]

ChrisR I wrote in my letter that I was pregnant, I will be over 38 weeks at the time of interview, I think that expedited my application I need to call them to find out if my husband can come with me as I will not be able to drive alone at that time. Edited April 21, 2008 by Balad