Check Mail, Email, Text Notification or USCIS Site?

[rcjr 0]

What is the best way to keep up to date with your AOS case? I as well as everyone else want to be on top of anything related to our applications. Good luck eveyone!

[Elf 146]

That probably depends on which method fits best into your everyday routine.

For me, email was the most reliable. Texts would have been more convenient but seemed flaky: I had signed up for both email and text notifications, but I only got text notification of about 50% of my status updates, whereas I got emails for every one.

There are smartphone apps that will check your case status for you and notify you of updates, but I didn't try any of them myself so can't give any opinion on how well they work. As far as I'm aware, none of them are affiliated with USCIS in any way, they just take the receipt numbers you enter and use them to periodically query the USCIS site.

As for mail - well, personally, I didn't have the patience to wait to know about updates until the snail-mail notification arrived

[rcjr 0]

That probably depends on which method fits best into your everyday routine.

For me, email was the most reliable. Texts would have been more convenient but seemed flaky: I had signed up for both email and text notifications, but I only got text notification of about 50% of my status updates, whereas I got emails for every one.

There are smartphone apps that will check your case status for you and notify you of updates, but I didn't try any of them myself so can't give any opinion on how well they work. As far as I'm aware, none of them are affiliated with USCIS in any way, they just take the receipt numbers you enter and use them to periodically query the USCIS site.

As for mail - well, personally, I didn't have the patience to wait to know about updates until the snail-mail notification arrived

yeah thats what i figured that email was the best. thank you

[TBoneTX 46,271]

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[military-wife 9]

I use all three methods. However, during the AOS process, I never received any text or email notification on any updates. I use the app to get notifications, so I do not need to put in the case number everytime.