I-751 March 2020 Filers

[Clemsontigersfan 4]

Hello guys, this morning I received a notification that a new office have jurisdiction over my case. Can anyone explain this? I have a pending i751 and n400 case. Just a week ago I received a 24 months extension. Anyone else with these pending cases got the same notification?

I filed my ROC from May 2020 and N400 October 2021.

[da95826 387]

1 hour ago, Clemsontigersfan said:

Hello guys, this morning I received a notification that a new office have jurisdiction over my case. Can anyone explain this? I have a pending i751 and n400 case. Just a week ago I received a 24 months extension. Anyone else with these pending cases got the same notification?

I filed my ROC from May 2020 and N400 October 2021.

USCIS has moved your case between offices, you will get a notice explaining where and why it was moved. Most likely moving from a regional service center to the National Benefit Center in Missouri.

 

This is a common response to filing an n400 while a i751 is pending, USCIS is likely setting up for a combo interview for the i751 and n400 at the same appointment at your local USCIS field office. 

 

Sometimes USCIS will move an i751 to another USCIS office to balance workload between the service centers. Either way it means your ROC application has moved USCIS offices.

[Clemsontigersfan 4]

42 minutes ago, da95826 said:

USCIS has moved your case between offices, you will get a notice explaining where and why it was moved. Most likely moving from a regional service center to the National Benefit Center in Missouri.

 

This is a common response to filing an n400 while a i751 is pending, USCIS is likely setting up for a combo interview for the i751 and n400 at the same appointment at your local USCIS field office. 

 

Sometimes USCIS will move an i751 to another USCIS office to balance workload between the service centers. Either way it means your ROC application has moved USCIS offices.

Thank you for the response.

 

[Clemsontigersfan 4]

9 hours ago, Clemsontigersfan said:

Hello guys, this morning I received a notification that a new office have jurisdiction over my case. Can anyone explain this? I have a pending i751 and n400 case. Just a week ago I received a 24 months extension. Anyone else with these pending cases got the same notification?

I filed my ROC from May 2020 and N400 October 2021.

The mail I received today. Anyone else saw any movements lately.

[Clemsontigersfan 4]

I am finally approved after waiting for 19months.

 

[initials123 6]

Sigh.... nearly 2 years into the ROC process and a year into the N-400 process. Anyone else in this ridiculous boat?

[Guido51 9]

8 hours ago, initials123 said:

Sigh.... nearly 2 years into the ROC process and a year into the N-400 process. Anyone else in this ridiculous boat?

hi, i am in the same boat. and getting really depressed.

 

i did not see any update since biometrics. did you see any update besides biometrics?

 

[Guido51 9]

hi guys my i751 is a divorce waiver(first i751 was denied because of divorce) and it is pending.

 

is this a reason for it to take longer than usual? my evidence was very strong no question about it but do they take more time because it is a divorce waiver?

[da95826 387]

1 hour ago, Guido51 said:

is this a reason for it to take longer than usual? my evidence was very strong no question about it but do they take more time because it is a divorce waiver?

Maybe a bit slow  but you are not alone, our joint case is just two months behind yours with no complications and no interview ready to schedule yet so we are waiting for approval without an interview (K1 AOS case).

 

You don't have any info about where you are, which center is processing your case so it is hard to say if your case is running unusually slow.

 

Your case is kind of normal for someone waiting for an interview at a busy backlog local office, but given your previous denal I would think your case will take longer than normal, so three years could be possible.

[initials123 6]

16 hours ago, Guido51 said:

hi, i am in the same boat. and getting really depressed.

 

i did not see any update since biometrics. did you see any update besides biometrics?

 

Nope. Absolutely NOTHING

[Guido51 9]

3 hours ago, da95826 said:

Maybe a bit slow  but you are not alone, our joint case is just two months behind yours with no complications and no interview ready to schedule yet so we are waiting for approval without an interview (K1 AOS case).

 

You don't have any info about where you are, which center is processing your case so it is hard to say if your case is running unusually slow.

 

Your case is kind of normal for someone waiting for an interview at a busy backlog local office, but given your previous denal I would think your case will take longer than normal, so three years could be possible.

thank you for response but 3 years? :((( i would cry. 

Its been 20months and my center is potomac. I hope 3 years is not true.

 

[Guido51 9]

1 hour ago, initials123 said:

Nope. Absolutely NOTHING

our dates and service centers are same and i think we are in same boat.  

most people saw "your case has been transferred" but we didn't get so i don't. know if it is good or bad.

do you know/guess if most people like us hear something within next 2 months?

[da95826 387]

1 hour ago, Guido51 said:

thank you for response but 3 years? :((( i would cry. 

Its been 20months and my center is potomac. I hope 3 years is not true.

If you status has changed to ready to scheduled an interview then your case goes to the National Benefits Center, that is standard until your local office is ready to schedule an interview. At the "ready for to schedule an interview" stage the NBC holds all cases until your local field office is ready to schedule your interview.

 

Some local field offices are extremely backlogged so cases ready for interview can take a long time to get an interview scheduled.

So if you need to go to a field office like Seattle, Sacramento, New York, and many others it could take 3 years to resolve your case. Some field offices have been moving more quickly than others, LA has been moving cases quickly lately and offices in the middle of the county tend to move faster than on the east or west coasts of the USA.

Note your case will likely get extra scrently that may slow it more than average due to your previous denial.   

 

Check your local office time for i451 or n400 to see how fast they tend to work.

[Guido51 9]

45 minutes ago, da95826 said:

If you status has changed to ready to scheduled an interview then your case goes to the National Benefits Center, that is standard until your local office is ready to schedule an interview. At the "ready for to schedule an interview" stage the NBC holds all cases until your local field office is ready to schedule your interview.

 

Some local field offices are extremely backlogged so cases ready for interview can take a long time to get an interview scheduled.

So if you need to go to a field office like Seattle, Sacramento, New York, and many others it could take 3 years to resolve your case. Some field offices have been moving more quickly than others, LA has been moving cases quickly lately and offices in the middle of the county tend to move faster than on the east or west coasts of the USA.

Note your case will likely get extra scrently that may slow it more than average due to your previous denial.   

 

Check your local office time for i451 or n400 to see how fast they tend to work.

thanks again. this was helpful. just one last thing.

my local office for i751: 20-24months (i'm at 20 months) 

my local office for n400: 12-17months (i'm at 12 months)

 

my case status for both applications = fingerprints taken.

 

1 - i''m only curious if my case has to change to "we transferred your file" or "ready for interview" or something else in order to recieve interview. is it possible to go to "approved" or "interview is scheduled" from "fingerprints taken" 

 

2 - just because i'm divorce waiver, is my case really gonna take more than 24months?

 

hope i'm making sense. 

[da95826 387]

55 minutes ago, Guido51 said:

my local office for i751: 20-24months (i'm at 20 months) 

my local office for n400: 12-17months (i'm at 12 months)

USCIS does not provide processing time for i751 for individual field offices, they do provide processing times for all field offices together (as I provided) . I think you are giving me the regional service center that had your case timeline which has nothing to do with the field offices timeline.

 

55 minutes ago, Guido51 said:

1 - i''m only curious if my case has to change to "we transferred your file" or "ready for interview" or something else in order to recieve interview. is it possible to go to "approved" or "interview is scheduled" from "fingerprints taken"

The next status update USCIS will send out to you is that the interview has been scheduled for either your i751 case or your n400 case. There is a good chance you will have a combo interview where both the i751 and the n400 are adjudicated at the same time. Your i751 has to be approved before the n400 can be approved.

 

55 minutes ago, Guido51 said:

2 - just because i'm divorce waiver, is my case really gonna take more than 24months?

Not so much the divorce I see divorce waiver cases move normally here all the time frequently approved without an interview, but the previous denial could cause additional investigation of your case, a lot depends on why they denied you checking to see if you raised any red flags for non bona fide marriage making any misrepresentations about your case.

 

USCIS really scrubs an n400 applicant’s immgration history so if the petitioner has a complicated immgration history I think USCIS spends additional time investigating taking more time to process.

 

THERE IS NO WAY TO PREDICT HOW LONG USCIS WILL TAKE ON ANY ONE SPECIFIC CASE. USCIS processing time varies widely between cases with similar circumstances. 

 

Our i751 own case is taking 21 months so far MANY California Service Center  i751 cases files in the past 2 years  have been approved many in just 7 months after filing I have no idea why our case is taking so much longer then many as we when through the K1 - AOS route being interviewed already at that time and had our case the sent to the California service center and USCIS has yet to indicate our case is ready to be scheduled for an interview. Possible reasons for our delay; spouse from Iran, same sex marrage, not eough proof of a bonfied marrage, COVID…???? Who knows why, I don't.

Edited February 6, 2022 by da95826