I-751 January 2019 Filers

[fakeymcfakename 2]

5 minutes ago, Summer2020 said:

Hi guys

I’ve been reading alot from this forum. This is my first time posting. 
i sent my I751 to Texas office on late Dec 18 and the package was received on Jan 5, 2019. 
After a year of waiting, I decided to submit N-400 app last night.

This early morning, I got notification that my case was transfer to other office. 
I dont know which office it is. 
My husband is asking me for a divorce, I’m so tired and have no idea what he gonna do. Hopefully things work out soon. 
have a nice day everyone! 

You should speak to a lawyer. You have to be living in marital union to qualify for naturalization under the 3 year rule and I'm not sure you will be if there's a pending divorce. I think you'll also need to switch to a divorce waiver if the divorce is final before the I-751 is ruled on. But again, a lawyer will be able to give you real advice on this stuff.

[aroabi 21]

30 minutes ago, fakeymcfakename said:

To be clear, none of this is fair. When Congress created the Removal of Conditions process, it envisaged that cases would be ruled on within the 90 days before the 2nd anniversary and strictly limited the question before INS (now USCIS) to whether the marriage was in good faith. As with all immigration processes, the current administration has subverted the law by adding bureaucratic steps and demanding information that has no relevance to the issues it is supposed to rule upon - as well as demanding ever more rigid categories and paper-heavy amounts of evidence of good faith. Any delay of more than 12 months in adjudicating I-751 cases further violates Congress's intent that married couples be able to naturalize after 3 years. I strongly encourage everyone on this thread to naturalize as soon as they are eligible in order to vote and to talk to friends and family so that they consider this in exercising their vote.

 

When I talk about decent progress, what I mean is that it finally seems that some people in our cohort are getting approved. It does not mean that the absurd yearlong wait is in any way acceptable.

Makes sense.

[price411 68]

On 1/12/2020 at 2:13 PM, Saheed said:

No notification of schedule interview at all?

None at all. Went from cass received in jan 20 2019 to case approved January 6 2020.  Approval came right in time for my birthday 🎉🎉💗

[xillini 71]

3 hours ago, fakeymcfakename said:

To be clear, none of this is fair. When Congress created the Removal of Conditions process, it envisaged that cases would be ruled on within the 90 days before the 2nd anniversary and strictly limited the question before INS (now USCIS) to whether the marriage was in good faith. As with all immigration processes, the current administration has subverted the law by adding bureaucratic steps and demanding information that has no relevance to the issues it is supposed to rule upon - as well as demanding ever more rigid categories and paper-heavy amounts of evidence of good faith. Any delay of more than 12 months in adjudicating I-751 cases further violates Congress's intent that married couples be able to naturalize after 3 years. I strongly encourage everyone on this thread to naturalize as soon as they are eligible in order to vote and to talk to friends and family so that they consider this in exercising their vote.

 

When I talk about decent progress, what I mean is that it finally seems that some people in our cohort are getting approved. It does not mean that the absurd yearlong wait is in any way acceptable.

I will start it is what it is, but back in 1986 when ROC was first introduced, there was no increased amounts of immigrants and ambiguous immigrants petitions (such as DACA and TPS). If taking a look at 80s, immigrants were 600,000 per each year as opposed to 1.1 million in 2010s, where USCIS is now outnumbered by each petitions. In addition, complicated cases such as DADA and TPS are added to put more stress on already shaky processing timeline. Not to mention, USCIS takes care of OPT EAD since its introduction in 2008.

 

While it is true that # of USCIS employees also increased to do more works, life is not cut-and-dry, where the increased workload of USCIS is not the only thing to blame here, but more likely, in my opinion, US Congress's fault and ultimately its dividing opinion on immigration. Nothing really significant agenda has been accomplished in US Congress since 1986 when the world is using smartphone from 386 computers. What is interesting is many US lawmakers try to accomplish their political agenda, but none of them survived.

 

I just wanted to point out just 5 years ago when Obama was in white house, DAPA (DACA's version for USC's parents who is undocumented) was pushed through (albeit it ultimately failed) and Green Card issuance for those students who completed their graduate study in US universities. Now here we are. So who knows in 5 years ? meaning that if Trump is not to be re-elected this year, all of his (or more like Steve Miller's) hard works will be gone to history and put to Supreme Court decisions (such as DACA). 

 

We shall see. 

[Ree85 6]

2 hours ago, price411 said:

None at all. Went from cass received in jan 20 2019 to case approved January 6 2020.  Approval came right in time for my birthday 🎉🎉💗

Well, then happy Birthday Week! 🙂Looks like our cases are very similar in that we both filed ROC in January 2019 and got approved in January 2020 ( just in time for our birthdays). 

My approval letter arrived today. The cards should be there in a day or two, I think. 

Edited January 14, 2020 by Ree85
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[price411 68]

32 minutes ago, Ree85 said:

Well, then happy Birthday Week! 🙂Looks like our cases are very similar in that we both filed ROC in January 2019 and got approved in January 2020 ( just in time for our birthdays). 

My approval letter arrived today. The cards should be there in a day or two, I think. 

Niceeeee !! Happy birthday in advance! Could this be an "approval " factor ?

[Ree85 6]

12 minutes ago, price411 said:

Niceeeee !! Happy birthday in advance! Could this be an "approval " factor ?

Who knows.... 

[Ninahi 53]

My case number doesn't even exist according to Case Tracker (or whatever it was called in the Google Play store). Haha. Somehow I'm not even surprised anymore. But looks like WACs are absolutely not moving right now. 

 

I have to travel near the expiration of the extension letter and I can feel my hair turning grey already. I moved here in 2015 and I'm still in this sordid immigration mess. 🙄

[Manani 2]

Hi,

Is there anyone from Missouri service center (MSC) jan 2019 filer, got interview schedule or case approved? 

[YESWECANDOIT 40]

 

[Eddiem2044 5]

On 1/11/2020 at 5:01 PM, TheKingmaker said:

So when is your interview? 

No, I do not have interview date yet... my case changed to CASE IS READY TO BE SCHEDULED AN INTERVIEW... but next day changed again to CASE HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO NBC, MO. AND THEY HAVE JURISDICTION 

[Crazy Cat 41,985]

3 minutes ago, poh said:

Some times I wonder why we need to go through so much trouble to do this for I-751 when we will end up filing for N-400 anyways...

I also wonder why the ROC process even exists...... My rationale for eliminating the I-751 interview comes from the fact that in the 1st quarter of FY 2019, a total of 43, 588 I-751s were adjudicated.  Of those only 1287 were denied......that's less than 3%.......if 75% of the denials were ultimately appealed & approved, that pushes the denial rate for I-751s during that quarter to less than 1 %.....

[xillini 71]

6 hours ago, missileman said:

I also wonder why the ROC process even exists...... My rationale for eliminating the I-751 interview comes from the fact that in the 1st quarter of FY 2019, a total of 43, 588 I-751s were adjudicated.  Of those only 1287 were denied......that's less than 3%.......if 75% of the denials were ultimately appealed & approved, that pushes the denial rate for I-751s during that quarter to less than 1 %.....

I agree.

 

I call it American puritanism, where everyone should be (or must be) innocent, which is why Congress made something called ROC. 

If there are 100K I 751 applications, there could be 1 fradualent case, but this just can not be tolerated. I mean, not every one is ethical as not everyone makes reasonable choices, and this is only matter of statistics, where there can be fradualent cases. Also, realistically, even when RoC is present, there can be fradualent cases as well. 

 

Overall, we live in a world where "It is better to be safe than sorry." (and how often do we hear or use this phrase?). 

[Eric The Wait 40]

Our case is EAC between 46700 and 46800.

I got an app which showed many of these cases have been adjusdicated or scheduled for interview. Most at least say they got the fingerprints.

Our case on the App says it is not at USCIS. Yikes.

Filed ROC in January, 2019.

Did fingerprints in Feb 2019.

Case status online says: "We received your case. We'll tell you if we need anything."

Odd that it doesn't say fingerprints updated and App can't find it at USCIS.

I looked into scheduling an info-pass appointment because my wife's extension letter will expire this summer. 

No info-pass appointments can be scheduled in my area. So, I think that means impossible to get 551 stamp. So, in a few months my wife's letter expires and she has no proof of right to be here. Kind of unsettling.

Suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks.

Eric

[Crazy Cat 41,985]

2 minutes ago, Eric The Wait said:

Suggestions would be welcome.

You can call USCIS and ask for an appointment.....