USCIS Aims to Decrease Processing Times for N-400 and I-485 [merged threads]

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

4 hours ago, RamonGomez said:

Rather than sending dozens or hundreds of applicants to an office 2-4 hours away, wouldn't it make sense to send a few immigration officers to a neighboring office for temporary duty? For example, send 2 Portland officers to Seattle for a week, then send 2 different officers the next week, and so on.

 

That is already standard operating procedure and has been as long as I've been on VJ.

[pearla 11]

8 hours ago, PK_ said:

The reason why Portland shows up when you search for Washington state is because the Portland field office officially serves a number of zip codes in the Washington state. 

I see I guess that explains why Oklahoma city shows up under Texas too.

 

The someone in the Seattle thread was scheduled for an interview in Portland even though they filled/live in Seattle.

 

Looks like there is a number of people in NY who've experiences similar transfers too. This all seems to have started in the last 2 months.

 

Houston's wait time is ridiculous  I would fly to wherever they want me if it means less waiting time. 

[pearla 11]

9 hours ago, Amhara said:

@pearla I don’t get the same results.  I still get the Irving office.  But looking at the case load from last quarter, I suspect that if my husband’s case were to get graced in, then it would be OKC, El Paso or Harlingen, TX.  May it happen, but who knows.  I will keep an eye to see if my local office changes.

I was just looking as the list by "State" not by "Zip Code"

I know that your local office might be "Irving" by your address Zip Code but since Oklahoma city shows up under "Texas"' maybe they'll transfer cases there?? It would be roughly a 4 hour drive for you?

This would be similar to the case that got scheduled for interview in Portland while they filled/live in Seattle (also 4 hour ish drive)

And again the cases in NY -> NJ

 

It's just wishful thinking for now. Maybe we'll see some movement in the coming month.

Looking at your timeline, I see that your case was transferred? where was it filed and where did it get transferred to?

[Amhara 460]

7 hours ago, pearla said:

I was just looking as the list by "State" not by "Zip Code"

I know that your local office might be "Irving" by your address Zip Code but since Oklahoma city shows up under "Texas"' maybe they'll transfer cases there?? It would be roughly a 4 hour drive for you?

This would be similar to the case that got scheduled for interview in Portland while they filled/live in Seattle (also 4 hour ish drive)

And again the cases in NY -> NJ

 

It's just wishful thinking for now. Maybe we'll see some movement in the coming month.

Looking at your timeline, I see that your case was transferred? where was it filed and where did it get transferred to?

It was transferred, but not in the traditional sense.  In February, my husband and I were contemplating moving to Arizona where my mother was due to my company's re-organization.  So we went ahead and changed our address to Tucson thinking we might as well get the case in line over there.  Well, as it turned out, we received an interview notice ONE WEEK LATER!!!!!  Can you imagine?  The interview was about 6 or 7 weeks from the letter.  Well, as things progressed, I ended up with a promotion, and we planned the trip to have the interview anyways.  We couldn't move forward with the USC application because we weren't in the field office's jurisdiction.  But the IO did process the pending ROC case, which was really great.  In the meantime, the USC case was transferred back to Dallas, TX.  

 

Oh, the rivalry between Dallas and Houston, huh?  Always trying to out-do each other.  The latest performance data for USC cases shows that Houston had 37,245 pending cases and Dallas had 37,160 - both offices have the highest number of pending USC cases for the entire country.  Great.

[Bluejay 9]

I just saw that if you click on the field office name, in the field office locator search (https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-uscis-office/field-offices), it tells you that they are going to be transferring cases. This may be an indication of which field offices are transferring cases. I only checked MD.  This is what appeared. 

 

Edited June 20, 2019 by Bluejay
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[Amhara 460]

I see that message for Maryland....but not for the Dallas field office!  Whaaaaaat?  I hope Texas isn't going to be left out!

[hellomona 0]

27 minutes ago, Amhara said:

I see that message for Maryland....but not for the Dallas field office!  Whaaaaaat?  I hope Texas isn't going to be left out!

Omg, not for Santa Ana CA. Arghhhhh. This is insane!

[hellomona 0]

36 minutes ago, Bluejay said:

I just saw that if you click on the field office name, in the field office locator search (https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-uscis-office/field-offices), it tells you that they are going to be transferring cases. This may be an indication of which field offices are transferring cases. I only checked MD.  This is what appeared. 

 

I see this message for a lot of East Coast states, like Maryland and NY. But not for California or Texas

[Nikki06 46]

10 minutes ago, hellomona said:

I see this message for a lot of East Coast states, like Maryland and NY. But not for California or Texas

Or Florida.

[N400NYC 380]

NYC field office:

 

 

[JohnBCol 18]

16 hours ago, Bluejay said:

I just saw that if you click on the field office name, in the field office locator search (https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-uscis-office/field-offices), it tells you that they are going to be transferring cases. This may be an indication of which field offices are transferring cases. I only checked MD.  This is what appeared. 

 

This is wonderful, I am directly helped by this.

[okland 31]

This message is not in the Phoenix Office page. However, there is a report from a user here in the forum that her interview will be in Tucson.

[N400NYC 380]

On 6/20/2019 at 6:59 PM, hellomona said:

I see this message for a lot of East Coast states, like Maryland and NY. But not for California or Texas

Yes, mostly appears to be East Coast states....

[N400NYC 380]

3 minutes ago, N400NYC said:

Yes, mostly appears to be East Coast states....

Maybe this strategy of redistributing cases is being rolled out on the East Coast first as a trial to see how things go? That's one possibility...

[N400NYC 380]

From what I see, the redistribution notice has been posted on the field office profiles for these states:

 

CT

MD

ME

NH

NJ

NY

RI

VT

 

So it seems the initial focus is the north-eastern corner....

 

And these all form part of the Northeastern Region of USCIS:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/archive/delete/domestic_map.pdf

 

Edited June 22, 2019 by N400NYC