I-485 touched after 3 years applying for US citizenship

[lissa04 3]

Would there be any reason why a I-485 would be touched after 3 years? I hadn't been on the USCIS website in quite a long time and I noticed that my I-485 had been touched. Has this happened to anyone else?

[antda 13]

Hi Lissa04,

In answer to your question, likewise, my I-485 was touched again after my case was approved. My case was approved in November 2006, and it was touched again on 04/28/2007, which is oddly enough, the date of our first wedding anniversary. Since then, there have been no further touches on my I-485 case. Hmmm.....

I think that the USCIS touches cases after they have been approved, so as to check up on things, and/or to update their files.

Since you applied for N-400/citizenship recently, my guess is that they touched your I-485 case recently, to make sure that you are eligible for such, and/or they want to finally update and close that former I-485 case so that they can move on to the N-400 citizenship stage of the immigration game for you. Either that, or when they were updating your N-400 file, they looked at the I-485 file instead by mistake, which triggered a touch in the system.

Regardless, a touch on a previous case is not a bad thing, especially since it has been approved already. It's more important though, to look at touches for current and pending cases, instead of previous cases. So keep updated with the N-400 touches instead. Then again...touches are kind of unrealiable anyways...As anything can trigger a touch, really (lol..spilt coffee, perhaps?)....So just wait for the updates in the mail, as that's the most reliable and up to date information that they have on your file and has what you need to respond to next.

Hope this helps. Good luck on your journey too.

Ant

Would there be any reason why a I-485 would be touched after 3 years? I hadn't been on the USCIS website in quite a long time and I noticed that my I-485 had been touched. Has this happened to anyone else?

Edited October 27, 2009 by Ant+D+A

[phillydude411 0]

That's strange, I just checked mine and it was touched almost 4 years after I was approved. Must be cleanup.

[lissa04 3]

Mine was touched on 7/19/09 so I was kind of concerned when I updated my USCIS info. I crossed back into the states after that time and had no problems. I just sent in the N-400 yesterday so they wont receive my package till tomorrow. Just a little worried.