google sheet Processing Times (I-751/I-751A) for Nebraska Service Center (LIN-xxxxxxx)

[iceclub 33]

On 4/24/2019 at 3:06 PM, changbaihou said:

After 9/10/2018, USCIS changed the filing addresses, some 751 cases were directly assigned to Nebraska.

 

For those filers who filed after 9/10/2018, nobody received any update regarding to the biometrics from Nebraska. Is this correct?

Not true in my case, and I think many others who filed in  August. We also had really long wait times before we got our NOA. It was during this time that they switched the filing locations. So even though I sent mine to CSC, it was accepted at Nebraska

Edited April 26, 2019 by iceclub

[changbaihou 125]

On 4/26/2019 at 11:08 AM, iceclub said:

Not true in my case, and I think many others who filed in  August. We also had really long wait times before we got our NOA. It was during this time that they switched the filing locations. So even though I sent mine to CSC, it was accepted at Nebraska

You filed your 751 to CSC on August 2018. Most likely the CSC sent you the biometrics appt letter before they transferred your case to Nebraska.

Is that correct?

Can you also kindly add your information in the google sheet? Thanks!

Edited April 27, 2019 by changbaihou

[iceclub 33]

7 hours ago, changbaihou said:

You filed your 751 to CSC on August 2018. Most likely the CSC sent you the biometrics appt letter before they transferred your case to Nebraska.

Is that correct?

Can you also kindly add your information in the google sheet? Thanks!

My case was never registered in CSC, was sent straight from CSC to Nebraska. I still have not received a biometrics appt letter.

[changbaihou 125]

12 hours ago, iceclub said:

My case was never registered in CSC, was sent straight from CSC to Nebraska. I still have not received a biometrics appt letter.

Thanks for your clarify!

[LarryH 25]

As of writing this, I have no idea whatsoever of when, or even the whether I will be approved. I just have immense believe.

 

Most of the extra steps I took in compiling this was to the benefit of others, and hopefully this helps other people on here who need a little info on part of the process that I found out.

 

1/10/2018: Date of initial i751 filing

2/05/2019: Date at which my file was transferred from CSC to Nebraska.

2/10/2019: Received the notice of action about transfer.

2/15/2019: I decided to create USCIS online account on old and new sites.

2/27/2019: Action was taken on my case. As to what action exactly, it didn’t state. At this point I had the case tracker app and was tracking about 6 cases around mine that were submitted on my same date 1/10/2018 and also transferred to Nebraska. Some of these cases said that action taken on this date was updating fingerprint and name information.

3/06/2019: I joined VJ on this date and read some more information. Based off of what I read I decided to just file a service request about not receiving my notice of action about the transfer to try to get movement in my case

3/08/2019: I filed a SRC (service request) that I hadn’t gotten my Notice of Action of my case being transferred.

3/20/2019: I received a response saying my case was transferred to Nebraska on 2/05/2019, and they are unable to reprint another notice of action. However, I should use this response as a notification of that transfer. All transfer would be dealt within 60days if no further information is required from applicant.

In between this time all the 6 cases around mine that I was tracking on the app tracker got approved and disappeared. I was beginning to feel very down and terrified.

4/08/2019:  I decided to call USCIS# 800-375-5283 (1,1,2,2, #) to speak to customer care. Asked that I be transferred to Tier 2 officer. I said about not receiving my NOA of transfer, but received service response saying case was transferred to Nebraska and quoted the line that said, The letter said that “Transferred cases will be adjudicated within 60 days if no further information is needed”. Since this was the 61st day I was just following up. The tier 2 lady was very nice, and she opened my file, was looking through and told me that everything is okay so far and there haven’t been any issues so I’m fine. She then said they are going to next send my info off for background check. I thank her and then hang up.

4/12/2019:  I called back to Tier 2 officer again using same strategy about not receiving NOA and quoting the 60day rule in the service response. Since this was the 65^th day I was just following up. Tier 2 officer told me to hold and came back saying they moved my case into background check on 4/10/2019. I thanked him and hang up.

4/16/2019: I called back to Tier 2 officer again using same strategy about not receiving NOA and quoting the 60day rule in the service response. Tier 2 officer told me my case was pending for officer review/adjudication. And next thing might either be a transfer to local office for interview, or approval.

4/22/2019: I called back to Tier 2 officer again using same strategy. Tier 2 officer told me my case was pending for officer review/adjudication. And next thing might either be a transfer to local office for interview, or approval.

 

 

4/26/2019: I received new card is being produced notification.

 

My conclusions:

1.       It is easier to get tier 2 officer to give you more information than necessary if you’ve filed a service request earlier and quote something they stated in there as a reason for you following up

2.       There’s no exact order in which cases are adjudicated as we all know by now. In my own opinion:

3.       After cases are transferred, and a lower level officer quickly skims through to identify any pertinent missing documents, and then rfe’s are issued to get those out of the way.

4.       The remaining cases are then sent to be reviewed by another officer, and if there’s a tentative approval they are sent for a background check. I figured this from my first conversation with the Tier2 lady when she said everything looks okay on you file from what I’m looking up on here, so the next thing will be a background check.

5.       Once the background check comes in (usually within 4 to 5days), then a final supervisor looks over on the recommendation of approval from prior officer and then gives final approval. This also might explain why approvals come in a bunch on a day. I figured this when I called the 2^nd time to talk to Tier2 agent. He was giving me very generic answer about your file is pending for officer review and depending on what happens it might either be adjudicated or sent to local office for interview. This usually takes between 7-10 days I believe

[changbaihou 125]

9 hours ago, LarryH said:

As of writing this, I have no idea whatsoever of when, or even the whether I will be approved. I just have immense believe.

 

Most of the extra steps I took in compiling this was to the benefit of others, and hopefully this helps other people on here who need a little info on part of the process that I found out.

 

1/10/2018: Date of initial i751 filing

2/05/2019: Date at which my file was transferred from CSC to Nebraska.

2/10/2019: Received the notice of action about transfer.

2/15/2019: I decided to create USCIS online account on old and new sites.

2/27/2019: Action was taken on my case. As to what action exactly, it didn’t state. At this point I had the case tracker app and was tracking about 6 cases around mine that were submitted on my same date 1/10/2018 and also transferred to Nebraska. Some of these cases said that action taken on this date was updating fingerprint and name information.

3/06/2019: I joined VJ on this date and read some more information. Based off of what I read I decided to just file a service request about not receiving my notice of action about the transfer to try to get movement in my case

3/08/2019: I filed a SRC (service request) that I hadn’t gotten my Notice of Action of my case being transferred.

3/20/2019: I received a response saying my case was transferred to Nebraska on 2/05/2019, and they are unable to reprint another notice of action. However, I should use this response as a notification of that transfer. All transfer would be dealt within 60days if no further information is required from applicant.

In between this time all the 6 cases around mine that I was tracking on the app tracker got approved and disappeared. I was beginning to feel very down and terrified.

4/08/2019:  I decided to call USCIS# 800-375-5283 (1,1,2,2, #) to speak to customer care. Asked that I be transferred to Tier 2 officer. I said about not receiving my NOA of transfer, but received service response saying case was transferred to Nebraska and quoted the line that said, The letter said that “Transferred cases will be adjudicated within 60 days if no further information is needed”. Since this was the 61st day I was just following up. The tier 2 lady was very nice, and she opened my file, was looking through and told me that everything is okay so far and there haven’t been any issues so I’m fine. She then said they are going to next send my info off for background check. I thank her and then hang up.

4/12/2019:  I called back to Tier 2 officer again using same strategy about not receiving NOA and quoting the 60day rule in the service response. Since this was the 65^th day I was just following up. Tier 2 officer told me to hold and came back saying they moved my case into background check on 4/10/2019. I thanked him and hang up.

4/16/2019: I called back to Tier 2 officer again using same strategy about not receiving NOA and quoting the 60day rule in the service response. Tier 2 officer told me my case was pending for officer review/adjudication. And next thing might either be a transfer to local office for interview, or approval.

4/22/2019: I called back to Tier 2 officer again using same strategy. Tier 2 officer told me my case was pending for officer review/adjudication. And next thing might either be a transfer to local office for interview, or approval.

 

 

4/26/2019: I received new card is being produced notification.

 

My conclusions:

1.       It is easier to get tier 2 officer to give you more information than necessary if you’ve filed a service request earlier and quote something they stated in there as a reason for you following up

2.       There’s no exact order in which cases are adjudicated as we all know by now. In my own opinion:

3.       After cases are transferred, and a lower level officer quickly skims through to identify any pertinent missing documents, and then rfe’s are issued to get those out of the way.

4.       The remaining cases are then sent to be reviewed by another officer, and if there’s a tentative approval they are sent for a background check. I figured this from my first conversation with the Tier2 lady when she said everything looks okay on you file from what I’m looking up on here, so the next thing will be a background check.

5.       Once the background check comes in (usually within 4 to 5days), then a final supervisor looks over on the recommendation of approval from prior officer and then gives final approval. This also might explain why approvals come in a bunch on a day. I figured this when I called the 2^nd time to talk to Tier2 agent. He was giving me very generic answer about your file is pending for officer review and depending on what happens it might either be adjudicated or sent to local office for interview. This usually takes between 7-10 days I believe

Thanks alot for your post. You must be very good at communication as well as analysis so that you figured out the whole processing procedure!

[LarryH 25]

13 hours ago, changbaihou said:

Thanks alot for your post. You must be very good at communication as well as analysis so that you figured out the whole processing procedure!

Haha thank you, I tried. I just had so many questions about the steps I couldn’t find online so I figured I’ll document as much as I could.

[changbaihou 125]

2 hours ago, LarryH said:

Haha thank you, I tried. I just had so many questions about the steps I couldn’t find online so I figured I’ll document as much as I could.

Wish you receive the physical green card as soon as possible!

[Carlos12345 9]

Based on the Excel Sheet it appears that only 2 or 3 people received their biometrics, is that right? It's been close to 2 months and i still did not get my bio appointment....  

[changbaihou 125]

16 hours ago, Carlos12345 said:

Based on the Excel Sheet it appears that only 2 or 3 people received their biometrics, is that right? It's been close to 2 months and i still did not get my bio appointment....  

Their biometrics letter were from CSC, not Nebraska, because they originally filed to California. Nebraska center never sent biometrics letter to anybody.

[UsGer 16]

I also posted this in the April filers but I thought maybe somebody knows more here. 

 

I’m a little bit at a loss at the moment and the waiting is slowly but steadily starting to get to me.  

 

I filled my Case to CSC in April. Checking my Case Status it said it received it on 4/11/2018. 

I first got the 12 month extension letter, followed by the 18 month one shortly after. 

I also got my Biometrics Waver in May 2018. It doesn’t show that at all on any of the Case Status online. But I did get it in the mail. 

 

On 3/4/2019 my case got transferred to Nebraska. Nothing changed since then at all. 

 

Do I have to expect to now get a Biometrics appointment as well since they transferred it? Or can they just use the waver from CSC? 

Getting very impatient here 😢

[changbaihou 125]

On 5/2/2019 at 12:46 PM, UsGer said:

I also posted this in the April filers but I thought maybe somebody knows more here. 

 

I’m a little bit at a loss at the moment and the waiting is slowly but steadily starting to get to me.  

 

I filled my Case to CSC in April. Checking my Case Status it said it received it on 4/11/2018. 

I first got the 12 month extension letter, followed by the 18 month one shortly after. 

I also got my Biometrics Waver in May 2018. It doesn’t show that at all on any of the Case Status online. But I did get it in the mail. 

 

On 3/4/2019 my case got transferred to Nebraska. Nothing changed since then at all. 

 

Do I have to expect to now get a Biometrics appointment as well since they transferred it? Or can they just use the waver from CSC? 

Getting very impatient here 😢

To the best of my knowledge, Nebraska doesn't sent any biometrics letter at all.

 

Officers may be working on your case. You are supposed to get approval or REF in near future.

[bigjailerman 318]

We have been waiting for an extension letter for our 14 yo dependent i751A following receiving my wife's extension for her i751 and it never arrived. We did call and get a number for  request, an officer was assigned but it never happened. Yesterday we called again to follow up and it was suggested to file an InfoPass to go to Philadelphia local office to get his passport stamped to remedy this situation without much wait as his green card expires on May 7. We have an appointment for Monday morning. We will followup here after the visit.

Edited May 3, 2019 by bigjailerman

[xillini 71]

So I did some google search and find this item here from 2017 (relatively new) that shows how many staffs in each service center is. 

 

According to this report to Congress, 

 

 

 

and 

 

According to what forms each service center is responsible to process in USCIS website

I 751 filers to Nebraska is unfair in a way that

Nebraska Service Center deals more forms to process with fewer staffs. 

 

I am not sure if filing to Nebraska does anything good although every other center has its own issue in general. 

 

Lastly I am trying to find information of how many IOs are assigned to I 751 section or department per each service center so that it can be tracked down how many I 751 are approved, which arguably is not easy to find, but if anyone can tip me, it would be great. 

[changbaihou 125]

2 hours ago, xillini said:

So I did some google search and find this item here from 2017 (relatively new) that shows how many staffs in each service center is. 

Lastly I am trying to find information of how many IOs are assigned to I 751 section or department per each service center so that it can be tracked down how many I 751 are approved, which arguably is not easy to find, but if anyone can tip me, it would be great. 

I agree with you that the key point is how many staff was assigned to the I-751 processing in each service center, which is difficult to be figured out.