N400 Seattle (merged)

[Curve 20]

3 minutes ago, Starkilla09 said:

Fellow Seattle peeps our waiting has been an agony, however; most of us will be done early next year. Seattle seems to be trying to pick up pace as I’ve been following another site. Currently they’ve been taking 14 months for total competition on average. The latest I know of is a September 29th 2017 filer who had his interview on November 8th 2018.

 

November 2017 filers should start expecting interview notifications next month for January 2019 interview dates, and those of us December 2017 filers should expect interview notifications in January 2019 for February 2019 dates.

 

Seattle currently has about 20,000 pending N 400s among one of the highest in the nation. Houston office has the crown jewel  nationwide with 44,000 pending N 400s. They’re taking close to 24 months to sort this mess out and it just keeps piling everywhere. Dallas trails at second place with about 27,000.  Let’s support one another and don’t forget to update changes. Happy thanksgiving in advance!

Wow... well hopefully what you’re saying is right.  The uncertainty is tough, but I’ve waited longer in f2 and h1 status before. Almost at the end!

[DR_UA 26]

11 minutes ago, Starkilla09 said:

Fellow Seattle peeps our waiting has been an agony, however; most of us will be done early next year. Seattle seems to be trying to pick up pace as I’ve been following another site. Currently they’ve been taking 14 months for total competition on average. The latest I know of is a September 29th 2017 filer who had his interview on November 8th 2018.

 

November 2017 filers should start expecting interview notifications next month for January 2019 interview dates, and those of us December 2017 filers should expect interview notifications in January 2019 for February 2019 dates.

 

Seattle currently has about 20,000 pending N 400s among one of the highest in the nation. Houston office has the crown jewel  nationwide with 44,000 pending N 400s. They’re taking close to 24 months to sort this mess out and it just keeps piling everywhere. Dallas trails at second place with about 27,000.  Let’s support one another and don’t forget to update changes. Happy thanksgiving in advance!

Well, I've been monitoring all existing immigration forums. All interviews for September and one October filers I could find were scheduled at least 6 weeks ago. Nothing since then. So, even though I would love your predictions to come true,  they're definitely not 100%. Let's keep our hopes alive anyway.

 

Other offices do have bigger backlogs, but they also process more. Seattle has been processing twice fewer applications than they've been receiving for several quarters. At this pace, new applicants will have to wait for more than 2 years...

[Curve 20]

As expected my estimated wait time went from 1 day to “we are taking longer than expected to process your case.”

[Starkilla09 366]

On 11/23/2018 at 9:45 AM, Curve said:

As expected my estimated wait time went from 1 day to “we are taking longer than expected to process your case.”

I guess mine will be following suit in the next 8 days as well. Estimated wait time is supposed to be December with a completion time in January. Getting close though, my priority date is December 5th 2017. What about you?

Edited November 25, 2018 by Starkilla09

[Curve 20]

3 hours ago, Starkilla09 said:

I guess mine will be following suit in the next 8 days as well. Estimated wait time is supposed to be December with a completion time in January. Getting close though, my priority date is December 5th 2017. What about you?

My priority date is December 8th 2017, but I did a walk in for the FP 10 days earlier than the scheduled date  (not sure that makes a difference). 

My estimated wait time was December, 2017 and case completion is January 2019. 

What's crazy is that the receipt date for a case inquiry is June 2017! Hopefully it won't come to that.. lol

[panchamh 1]

I'm in the same boat. My wait time now says - its taking longer than expected. 

 

Process Completion time still says Jan 2019. 

 

Priority date - Dec 1, 2017. (I'm assuming this is the same as the Acceptance /Received Application date)

[DR_UA 26]

Any 2017 online filers here? I submitted mine online 11/30/17. Apparently it didn't shorten my waiting time at all. It's also "taking longer than expected" and January as completion time for me.

[Starkilla09 366]

12 hours ago, DR_UA said:

Any 2017 online filers here? I submitted mine online 11/30/17. Apparently it didn't shorten my waiting time at all. It's also "taking longer than expected" and January as completion time for me.

Seattle is one of those offices where online or paper filing haven’t made any difference since inception. It’s been steadily so even when online filing was still a pilot program around August 2017, and online filers in many different field offices were having lightening speed interviews compared to paper filers. It wasn’t until September 2018 when those Seattle August 2017 online and paper filers started having interviews.

[amisa 19]

This group has been awfully quiet for some time now. Has anybody heard anything about people receiving or going for interview appointments from Seattle's office?

 

My online case status is still showing 'December 2018' for completion timeline, but it's already 12/11 and I am even losing hopes for having an interview in Jan now. I tried the Messaging feature for USCIS online accounts yesterday to inquiry about my case. They replied with a canned message basically, saying I am in line for interview.

[Curve 20]

2 minutes ago, amisa said:

This group has been awfully quiet for some time now. Has anybody heard anything about people receiving or going for interview appointments from Seattle's office?

 

My online case status is still showing 'December 2018' for completion timeline, but it's already 12/11 and I am even losing hopes for having an interview in Jan now. I tried the Messaging feature for USCIS online accounts yesterday to inquiry about my case. They replied with a canned message basically, saying I am in line for interview.

I think you're right about no interviews until next year.  My priority date is 12/8/17, and I honestly do not expect my interview to be until February. Hopefully I'm wrong.

[Curve 20]

4 minutes ago, amisa said:

This group has been awfully quiet for some time now. Has anybody heard anything about people receiving or going for interview appointments from Seattle's office?

 

My online case status is still showing 'December 2018' for completion timeline, but it's already 12/11 and I am even losing hopes for having an interview in Jan now. I tried the Messaging feature for USCIS online accounts yesterday to inquiry about my case. They replied with a canned message basically, saying I am in line for interview.

Also, I'm interested to know what happens to the completion timeline when the month passes. 

[Starkilla09 366]

Seattle office has some really lazy ### sloppy immigration officers when it comes to processing. So far it appears pace hasn’t picked up steam as only a few October 2017 have had notifications.

 

You’ll think by now November 2017 filers should be getting notices considering the fact that Seattle has about 20,000 pending N 400s, while other offices like Dallas with 27,000 and Houston with 44,000 are really picking up steam. 

 

For Christ’s sake Houston office with the highest in the nation is scheduling January 2018 filers at the moment! At this pace those of us in December will probably get notifications in February if we’re lucky. Seattle office is a big mess indeed. USCIS is all about jacking up fees with the promise of faster processing and quality is still flat lined.

Edited December 11, 2018 by Starkilla09

[DR_UA 26]

Processing time for Seattle office has decreased to 15-17 months! And it happened after more than 2 months with not a single record about a scheduled interview. Mind blown.

[amisa 19]

hey guys,

 

Just wanted to share some good news with you all: a few minutes ago, I received an email and text update from USCIS stating that an interview has been scheduled for my N-400 application. The ELIS website still doesn't reflect the update, but I think that is expected. So I don't know yet about the interview date. But hopefully ELIS updates in a couple of hours.

 

Will keep you posted when I hear more. Wish you all get some updates very soon!

[Ck207 35]

2 hours ago, amisa said:

hey guys,

 

Just wanted to share some good news with you all: a few minutes ago, I received an email and text update from USCIS stating that an interview has been scheduled for my N-400 application. The ELIS website still doesn't reflect the update, but I think that is expected. So I don't know yet about the interview date. But hopefully ELIS updates in a couple of hours.

 

Will keep you posted when I hear more. Wish you all get some updates very soon!

Congrats! How long is it after your estimated day pass?