I-751 June 2016 Filers (Merged Threads)

[Erica & L 50]

Anyone had to do any Change of Address forms during ROC? My spouse and I will be relocating from Alabama to Anchorage, Alaska ideally around spring time of next year. Would it be better to wait for the GC approval since I sent mine out in June anyways? I'm hoping to be approved by then though... I've done a Change of Address before but within the same city where I would have been able to pick up any mail that was addressed to that address still.

[rshree 16]

If I were you, I would definitely wait for GC approval. Since we (me too, FYI) have submitted in June 2016, hope everything goes well, will be approved by/before Jan 2017. So you have time!

I have read here enough stories (nightmares) of people going thru after address change, important notifications getting missed out, USCIS online status being totally useless. Not worth it

[Erica & L 50]

If I were you, I would definitely wait for GC approval. Since we (me too, FYI) have submitted in June 2016, hope everything goes well, will be approved by/before Jan 2017. So you have time!

I have read here enough stories (nightmares) of people going thru after address change, important notifications getting missed out, USCIS online status being totally useless. Not worth it

If you're CSC, I'm VSC which is slower so I probably won't be approved that fast. I changed addresses during my AOS application, but literally a mile away from each other and my old address was my mother-in-law so she could give us any mail that came there. I changed addresses again between my GC approval and application for ROC.

I'm just anxious to get out of where we're living now. It's awful and I want to go back to school, be closer to where I'm from.

[Erica & L 50]

There's VSC filers from December 2015 that have yet to get their GC so I'm thinking if I wait around, I'm going to be here for another year and I can't deal with that. I'd rather move several months before that 1 year mark, knowing my case is probably not going to be touched for a few months anyways. Worst case scenario, my landlord would keep and mail anything to me. We don't have a set date, so I guess we'll just see how things speed up into the end of the year/beginning of next year.

Edited September 30, 2016 by Erica & Lily

[kmdr 0]

Hi everyone,

When I went to my biometrics appointment they had me fill in an information sheet (I presume to make everything run quicker). I listed the WAC number on both my initial receipt and biometrics letter. However, there was a second WAC on the biometrics letter which I didn't put down (don't even know what I was thinking, figured it would be best to go with the number that's on everything).

Now when I track on the USCIS website it says the following: On June 29, 2016, we received your Form CRI-89, Petition to Remove Conditions of Permanent Resident Status Received, Receipt Number WACxxxxxxx, and sent you the receipt notice that describes how we will process your case. Please follow the instructions in the notice. If you do not receive your receipt notice by July 29, 2016, please call Customer Service at 1-800-375-5283. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.

Is that normal given that I've completed my biometrics? Does anyone else see something similar?

Thanks guys!

[MaleAlpha 314]

Hi everyone,

When I went to my biometrics appointment they had me fill in an information sheet (I presume to make everything run quicker). I listed the WAC number on both my initial receipt and biometrics letter. However, there was a second WAC on the biometrics letter which I didn't put down (don't even know what I was thinking, figured it would be best to go with the number that's on everything).

Now when I track on the USCIS website it says the following: On June 29, 2016, we received your Form CRI-89, Petition to Remove Conditions of Permanent Resident Status Received, Receipt Number WACxxxxxxx, and sent you the receipt notice that describes how we will process your case. Please follow the instructions in the notice. If you do not receive your receipt notice by July 29, 2016, please call Customer Service at 1-800-375-5283. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.

Is that normal given that I've completed my biometrics? Does anyone else see something similar?

Thanks guys!

Yeah it's normal. Everyone's says the same.

[bkghosh 121]

Because this is government, not a private company. It's financed from public money and has a yearly budget planned ahead.

If a private company experiences increase of customers will hire more people to provide the best customer service to keep it's customers, the market is usually very competitive.

If a public office experiences backlog will not do anything: a) expenses are already planned, b) there is no competition.

Actually, it is interesting that USCIS is an "application fee based" agency. Here is an excerpt from an article from TIME few years ago:

The fee is both a practical and political issue. Practically, while many government agencies get cash through appropriations of taxpayer funds, the USCIS is primarily a “fee-based” agency. Today, a DHS official says, more than 90% of USCIS operating costs are covered by fees, so an immigrant paying the $680 can expect that moola to be spent on things like the salary of the employee adjudicating their case or the computer software that employee is using to crunch numbers. Fees like this also include a surcharge to help cover services that the USCIS provides for free, like naturalizing members of the military.

http://swampland.time.com/2013/07/09/explainer-why-it-costs-immigrants-680-to-apply-for-naturalization/

However, even though we are paying hefty fees the service we are receiving is terrible and the wait at every stage of the application is sickening. But that is what you get from a government in probably any country.

[hellostranger57 18]

USCIS processing times state that it takes 6 months for CSC i-751. Does that mean that we are halfway through the battle?

[MaleAlpha 314]

USCIS processing times state that it takes 6 months for CSC i-751. Does that mean that we are halfway through the battle?

I will say 2 months and some days before we hit the 6 month mark.

Mine hits 4 months on October 10th.

[sarah86 8]

why is vermont soooooo sloowwwwww?? we're exactly a year behind :'(

[Erica & L 50]

why is vermont soooooo sloowwwwww?? we're exactly a year behind :'(

Yeah I don't understand. Is it because more states are directed there?

[sarah86 8]

Yeah I don't understand. Is it because more states are directed there?

Perhaps, who knows... maybe they should transfer some of the files to CA to even things out

[chikita22 2]

I have a question, my husband was a juky filer, he went to his biometrics in August, and we received the extension letter, does that mean that he can go out of the country with the expired gc and letter and should not have any issues upon re-entry?????

[hellostranger57 18]

I have a question, my husband was a juky filer, he went to his biometrics in August, and we received the extension letter, does that mean that he can go out of the country with the expired gc and letter and should not have any issues upon re-entry?????

Correct

[chikita22 2]

Thank you