I-751 September 2016 Filers

[Ketsuban 1,034]

1 hour ago, punter13 said:

Hello, everyone,

 

Apparently, I got the biggest shock of my life today after talking with very kind USCIS officer. Previously I mentioned that my I-751 was approved on September 22, 2017. However, I did not get any approval notice or green card till date even though the online status said it was mailed to me. So I decided to call USCIS today to get the tracking number for GC. My call was transferred from L1 to L2 officer as they have more information on their system. Officer asked for the receipt number so I gave him the one that I had from biometric letter through which we can track status because the other one is untraceable on case status website. Behold as the officer told me that my name is not matching with the receipt number and I am like it is impossible . Since there was a mismatch with the application, he asked me few more questions along with A number to verify my identity and then he put me on a brief hold to find out what is going on. After waiting for 1-2 mins, he got back to me and said I had the wrong receipt number to begin with. He told me that last three digits were switched, e.g 358 vs 538. I was tracking with 358 while the actual one was 538. So in reality my application is still pending at CSC. I really did not know what to say further so thanked him for his time and hung up.

 

So close, so far

 

If anyone can please mark my application as pending on the list? Thanks!

That is really strange. You would think these things are automatically generated, not keyed in. 

[4444510 33]

1 hour ago, punter13 said:

Hello, everyone,

 

Apparently, I got the biggest shock of my life today after talking with very kind USCIS officer. Previously I mentioned that my I-751 was approved on September 22, 2017. However, I did not get any approval notice or green card till date even though the online status said it was mailed to me. So I decided to call USCIS today to get the tracking number for GC. My call was transferred from L1 to L2 officer as they have more information on their system. Officer asked for the receipt number so I gave him the one that I had from biometric letter through which we can track status because the other one is untraceable on case status website. Behold as the officer told me that my name is not matching with the receipt number and I am like it is impossible . Since there was a mismatch with the application, he asked me few more questions along with A number to verify my identity and then he put me on a brief hold to find out what is going on. After waiting for 1-2 mins, he got back to me and said I had the wrong receipt number to begin with. He told me that last three digits were switched, e.g 358 vs 538. I was tracking with 358 while the actual one was 538. So in reality my application is still pending at CSC. I really did not know what to say further so thanked him for his time and hung up.

 

So close, so far

 

If anyone can please mark my application as pending on the list? Thanks!

Oh wooow, sorry about that. It must be the biggest frustration ever. But cheer up, you'll get it soon anyway!

[punter13 32]

40 minutes ago, Ketsuban said:

That is really strange. You would think these things are automatically generated, not keyed in. 

I feel the fault is on my side. I must have read the wrong number from my biometric letter lol. I will have to cross check again once I reach home after work

[punter13 32]

18 minutes ago, 4444510 said:

Oh wooow, sorry about that. It must be the biggest frustration ever. But cheer up, you'll get it soon anyway!

Thanks for kind words!! Well I already got I-551 stamp so no worries 

[dnp2014 44]

4 hours ago, punter13 said:

Hello, everyone,

 

Apparently, I got the biggest shock of my life today after talking with very kind USCIS officer. Previously I mentioned that my I-751 was approved on September 22, 2017. However, I did not get any approval notice or green card till date even though the online status said it was mailed to me. So I decided to call USCIS today to get the tracking number for GC. My call was transferred from L1 to L2 officer as they have more information on their system. Officer asked for the receipt number so I gave him the one that I had from biometric letter through which we can track status because the other one is untraceable on case status website. Behold as the officer told me that my name is not matching with the receipt number and I am like it is impossible . Since there was a mismatch with the application, he asked me few more questions along with A number to verify my identity and then he put me on a brief hold to find out what is going on. After waiting for 1-2 mins, he got back to me and said I had the wrong receipt number to begin with. He told me that last three digits were switched, e.g 358 vs 538. I was tracking with 358 while the actual one was 538. So in reality my application is still pending at CSC. I really did not know what to say further so thanked him for his time and hung up.

 

So close, so far

 

If anyone can please mark my application as pending on the list? Thanks!

Sorry to hear but thought about what you went through 

 

I think CSC is digging through July applications 

[A&L2017 0]

We asked our Congress Woman to open an inquiry last week on the 28th, and I had an Infopass appointment scheduled for tomorrow. Low and behold,  we received an approval letter in the mail today (decision date was 9/28/2017). We're VSC. 

 

 

[islandgirl80 28]

53 minutes ago, A&L2017 said:

We asked our Congress Woman to open an inquiry last week on the 28th, and I had an Infopass appointment scheduled for tomorrow. Low and behold,  we received an approval letter in the mail today (decision date was 9/28/2017). We're VSC. 

 

 

We have the same decision date..I got my approval letter yesterday

[afrocraft 314]

Wow. So you guys have been at this for more than a year? I just submitted my I-751 this September, and I'm just gonna hibernate for the next 12 months and carry on with life.

 

Unless they send an RFE, for which I'm gonna be mad 

[Cangreja 1]

Hello!! Finally, today we received the letter of approval from my husband. To the people who are still waiting I advise you not to guide much of the case status on the web. We've enrolled in USCIS for notifications but never received any updates, emails or text. The approval arrived today but was given since September 26th. In the web continues with "the case was received on September 22nd 2016 "and only by curiosity I called today to ask them about the case after receiving the approval and I was told that it still pending and have to call again within 30 days because they are just reviewing August cases. Here I leave the information in case someone can make me the update in the list of the forum and a lot of luck and patience for those who have not yet received, have the security that are already on the way👍🏻 

NOA  09/22/2016

Finger prints 10/18/2016

i-751 approval.  09/26/2017

Receive letter     10/03/2017

Vermont Service Center

[Cangreja 1]

On 10/2/2017 at 5:56 PM, A&K_2013 said:

Hey everyone

 

So I went today to get the stamp for my wife. I didn’t realize the one year extension is from the expiration date on the green card. I thought it was from the date on the letter which was September 16th.  So the officer didn’t give us the stamp since technically my wife’s green card is still valid until December 11th. He told me to come back when its closer to expiration and if the new green card hasn’t arrived by then. My question is how close to expiration do you have to be to get the stamp? My wife is planning to travel in mid November which her green card with letter would still be valid but she is coming back in February and at that point the green card & extension letter would not be valid.

 

Thanks for the help

I do not understand why they did not stamp your passport. the GC of my husband expired 12/2016 and the letter of extension 09/2017. We went to get the stamo the in July and it is valid for a year until July 2018. We asked the officer because why not until December as the GC and we explained us that the GC was already expired at two conditional years and the valid  date is the one that appears in the extension letter. I have a friend that went to stamp his passport 5 months before with the flight tickets because he  also has to travel for a long time and they stamped it, maybe it will help you

[Ketsuban 1,034]

1 hour ago, afrocraft said:

Wow. So you guys have been at this for more than a year? I just submitted my I-751 this September, and I'm just gonna hibernate for the next 12 months and carry on with life.

 

Unless they send an RFE, for which I'm gonna be mad 

Yeah hopefully things will pick up and you'll get approved much sooner than us! I'm sure the office workers at Uscis are looking forward to clearing the truckloads of paper out. Hopefully. 

[A&K_2013 16]

10 hours ago, Cangreja said:

I do not understand why they did not stamp your passport. the GC of my husband expired 12/2016 and the letter of extension 09/2017. We went to get the stamo the in July and it is valid for a year until July 2018. We asked the officer because why not until December as the GC and we explained us that the GC was already expired at two conditional years and the valid  date is the one that appears in the extension letter. I have a friend that went to stamp his passport 5 months before with the flight tickets because he  also has to travel for a long time and they stamped it, maybe it will help you

I explained my wife's travel situation to the officer. I told him she would be traveling in November and not coming back until February 2018, but he said that the card was still valid for 2 months technically and it was too soon to get the stamp. I plan on going back in mid November right before my wife's trip to get the stamp. By then the extension will have less than 30 days on it. 

[Ketsuban 1,034]

20 minutes ago, A&K_2013 said:

I explained my wife's travel situation to the officer. I told him she would be traveling in November and not coming back until February 2018, but he said that the card was still valid for 2 months technically and it was too soon to get the stamp. I plan on going back in mid November right before my wife's trip to get the stamp. By then the extension will have less than 30 days on it. 

Someone needs to explain to these people that aside from ink, stamps are not a limited supply to be rationed out carefully. There was no reason they could not give your wife a stamp. 

[TaniaC 8]

On 9/30/2017 at 1:35 PM, Nikkosan said:

Which App exactly is it? I have two (on iPad), but neither one offers that information. All you can do is track 500 case statuses starting from a specific one. 

 

Would you please be so kind to post a link or, if against rules, perhaps a screen shot on the app store so that I can get it? 

 

Thanks in advance!

Nikkosan,

 

Don’t know which App  4444510 meant, I have 2 on my android phone:

-          USCIS Case Status by Spinach Mobile LLC

-          USCIS Case Status by Aries Software Studio

 

The Spinach App has a daily “Real-time updates” (i.e. Notifications) which show updates on various cases. You can go to Notifications’ settings and set that it would display only updates similar to your case. You can also chose a country of citizenship for the case (“your” or “any”), and date of application (“any” or dates close to your application date). The advantage of these updates is that they show which Service Center cases are being processed. To be able to get Notifications you will need to save your case in your profile in the app.

 

The Aries App has another feature which I personally like more. It is called “Lookup case” and next to it is “My cases”. Basically you can look up for cases which number is close to yours, then choose those which are also CRI-89 (removal of GC conditions) and follow their updates (they will be saved in “My cases” menu). Unfortunately, this app does not show which Service Center is processing these cases. So, let’s say, your case number is 654, and the previous ones 653 and 650 are also CRI-89 and have the same status “Case received on September 20”, but you will never know are they of VSC or CSC. And as we know from this thread CSC is like two months behind comparing to VSC.

 

The Spinach App looks more informative, however all “recent” Vermont cases that it has shown these past days were from June and July application dates. This is strange, since according to this forum VSC is already processing September filers.

 

The Aries App in my opinion shows more reliable progress. Here is an example: my case number is 864, in lookup mode I found CRI-89 cases 857, 850, 849, 839, 837 and so on. All of them like my case had status “Case received September 20, 2016”. That was a couple days ago. Yesterday cases 857 and 839 changed to “New card is being produced”. So, it must be VSC filers, who else? Meaning my own case is not so far from the decision. At least that what I tell myself to keep up hopes.

[Nikkosan 127]

Thanks, @TaniaC for taking the time to asnwer my question! And what a detailed answer!

 

I will download both apps you recommended (I have an iPad, but on Android for my phone), and add my ROC case to it.

 

As for the limitation on which service center is processing the applications, wouldn't you just simply be able to recognize it by the 3-letter code? WAC is for CSC and EAC is for VSC.