Biometrics appt

[Dusy 0]

Hi all,

Well, I just called VCS because I still haven't received a biometrics appointment letter after 7 months (almost 8) of waiting. I received my NOA at the beginning of August 08. I finally got through to them and the girl transfered me to a higher up person. After all that, I was told that my case had just been transferred to the California Service Center. Why?? I don't get it. I am just hoping the transfer is a good thing. She also told me that it could take 12 months to be approved. Is that an additional 12 months?? Like the first 12 months isn't long enough. So what now? I guess I just wait, right??

[Otto 83]

Hi all,

Well, I just called VCS because I still haven't received a biometrics appointment letter after 7 months (almost 8) of waiting. I received my NOA at the beginning of August 08. I finally got through to them and the girl transfered me to a higher up person. After all that, I was told that my case had just been transferred to the California Service Center. Why?? I don't get it. I am just hoping the transfer is a good thing. It usually is a good thing. She also told me that it could take 12 months to be approved. Is that an additional 12 months?? Like the first 12 months isn't long enough. So what now? I guess I just wait, right??

VSC has an average approval time of about 320 days (almost a year) - CSC currently is averaging around 134. Am surprised you didn't get a NOA for being transferred - unless it just recently happened. Are you tracking your case on the USCIS site?

[Dusy 0]

Hi all,

Well, I just called VCS because I still haven't received a biometrics appointment letter after 7 months (almost 8) of waiting. I received my NOA at the beginning of August 08. I finally got through to them and the girl transfered me to a higher up person. After all that, I was told that my case had just been transferred to the California Service Center. Why?? I don't get it. I am just hoping the transfer is a good thing. It usually is a good thing. She also told me that it could take 12 months to be approved. Is that an additional 12 months?? Like the first 12 months isn't long enough. So what now? I guess I just wait, right??

VSC has an average approval time of about 320 days (almost a year) - CSC currently is averaging around 134. Am surprised you didn't get a NOA for being transferred - unless it just recently happened. Are you tracking your case on the USCIS site?

I can't track it. It's not even in the USCIS system. Even when I called, it wasn't there. I had to talk with a rep so I had to use the #3 option which is "if you have lost your receipt number", just so I could talk with someone. The higher up did say it was just transferred, but why after almost 8 months, you know?? I will just have to wait.

[Craig2006 0]

To track your case online you need to get the number from the biometrics appointment not from the NOA.

Our case was also transferred to CSC but it took 3 weeks from us to get a letter from VSC (which was just a standard letter). There were a lot of cases transferred to CSC because VSC was so much slower than CSC.

I would try finding out what you need to do to get your biometrics completed but I'm not sure how to do that.