N-400 April 2020 Filers

[QueenofSwords 29]

Hi all, I've finally heard from USCIS. they told me they entered my info in to the local ASC for biometric scheduling and I will get a notice with the date once a slot becomes available. 

Not sure when this would be. Anyone who has experience with this?

[OSAC 8]

44 minutes ago, QueenofSwords said:

Hi all, I've finally heard from USCIS. they told me they entered my info in to the local ASC for biometric scheduling and I will get a notice with the date once a slot becomes available. 

Not sure when this would be. Anyone who has experience with this?

Hi @QueenofSwords. Good to hear that there is some movement on your case. The last time I talked to an agent he said that ASCs are supposed to respond to biometrics scheduling requests by USCIS within a month but usually it takes 2 weeks. 
 

Can you share how you contacted them?

[Dmitry07 52]

Following up - Interview scheduled on Nov 23rd!

[QueenofSwords 29]

4 minutes ago, OSAC said:

Hi @QueenofSwords. Good to hear that there is some movement on your case. The last time I talked to an agent he said that ASCs are supposed to respond to biometrics scheduling requests by USCIS within a month but usually it takes 2 weeks. 
 

Can you share how you contacted them?

I emailed them from my online account. i also called them this past Friday but the agent wasn't able to tell me anything more than that I should give them a call after Oct 27th if I don't hear from them by then due to the within 90 day rule. 

I had already emailed them by this point and today I got a response to this email with this update that USCIS has requested the ASC for a slot. 

[kmg617 26]

I’ve seen a lot of posts here lately that people are getting their interviews scheduled and their cases have been transferred to local offices. I’m so confused. They sent us a letter a few weeks ago (posted here) that they will be reusing his biometrics. However there is no field office. The letter came from the National Benefits Center and his case completion date is expected July 2021 😩. Why is our case completion date is so far away? Why hasn’t our case gone to a field office if they will reuse our biometrics? We have a super easy case to process. We’ve been happily married for almost 8 years and “have all our ducks in a row.” I don’t get why this would take as long as it’s expected to. 

[millefleur 5,043]

11 minutes ago, kmg617 said:

I’ve seen a lot of posts here lately that people are getting their interviews scheduled and their cases have been transferred to local offices. I’m so confused. They sent us a letter a few weeks ago (posted here) that they will be reusing his biometrics. However there is no field office. The letter came from the National Benefits Center and his case completion date is expected July 2021 😩. Why is our case completion date is so far away? Why hasn’t our case gone to a field office if they will reuse our biometrics? We have a super easy case to process. We’ve been happily married for almost 8 years and “have all our ducks in a row.” I don’t get why this would take as long as it’s expected to. 

Your local field office would in theory be the one closest to where you live. That's probably where that July 2021 estimate times are coming from. Check the case processing times site:

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

[kmg617 26]

That makes sense. Thanks. My field office would be Atlanta and it’s between 9 to 26.5 months for processing ugh. But wouldn’t they include the field office on the letter to my husband?

[alexLS 3]

1 hour ago, QueenofSwords said:

Hi all, I've finally heard from USCIS. they told me they entered my info in to the local ASC for biometric scheduling and I will get a notice with the date once a slot becomes available. 

Not sure when this would be. Anyone who has experience with this?

They told me exactly the same thing. Delegated to the local ASC. But what that really means is something noone knows. 

[Dmitry07 52]

54 minutes ago, kmg617 said:

That makes sense. Thanks. My field office would be Atlanta and it’s between 9 to 26.5 months for processing ugh. But wouldn’t they include the field office on the letter to my husband?

We didn't have a local office on the biometrics reuse letter

[roddie2k 68]

2 hours ago, QueenofSwords said:

I emailed them from my online account. i also called them this past Friday but the agent wasn't able to tell me anything more than that I should give them a call after Oct 27th if I don't hear from them by then due to the within 90 day rule. 

I had already emailed them by this point and today I got a response to this email with this update that USCIS has requested the ASC for a slot. 

@QueenofSwords , @millefleur I spoke with a customer rep today who said that the latest update they had was USCIS is trying to get all the bio appts setup/ sent out  by Oct 27th ..and that we should have some information post that date..I feel this is a moving target because it's been 90 days today since my ASC reopened and I was hoping to raise a service ticket for this and it doesn't appear that they are entertaining these requests unless it's to reschedule an appointment.

[kranthi143 34]

1 minute ago, roddie2k said:

@QueenofSwords , @millefleur I spoke with a customer rep today who said that the latest update they had was USCIS is trying to get all the bio appts setup/ sent out  by Oct 27th ..and that we should have some information post that date..I feel this is a moving target because it's been 90 days today since my ASC reopened and I was hoping to raise a service ticket for this and it doesn't appear that they are entertaining these requests unless it's to reschedule an appointment.

27th October  is hardly 12-13 days more , so hopefully I would be happy atleast if the get something up by 27th OCT. 

[palolis 43]

32 minutes ago, kranthi143 said:

27th October  is hardly 12-13 days more , so hopefully I would be happy atleast if the get something up by 27th OCT. 

I agree. After months without any changes, it would be great to at least have a next step scheduled. I don't know if it will be biometrics or an interview, but whatever it is, I would be happy to know. 

[millefleur 5,043]

1 hour ago, roddie2k said:

@QueenofSwords , @millefleur I spoke with a customer rep today who said that the latest update they had was USCIS is trying to get all the bio appts setup/ sent out  by Oct 27th ..and that we should have some information post that date..I feel this is a moving target because it's been 90 days today since my ASC reopened and I was hoping to raise a service ticket for this and it doesn't appear that they are entertaining these requests unless it's to reschedule an appointment.

Thanks for the update! I'm not holding my breath by that, but I do have that as an estimate right now on the myuscis site, so let's see if it happens.

[QueenofSwords 29]

Thank you all. I knew back on March 18th that this was going to cost us all a solid year  and it looks like it. I knew it wasn't going to be just two weeks.

Hopefully we'll all get bio done before the end of this year. 

[MJS2020 17]

14 hours ago, kmg617 said:

That makes sense. Thanks. My field office would be Atlanta and it’s between 9 to 26.5 months for processing ugh. But wouldn’t they include the field office on the letter to my husband?

I’m in exactly same situation. Got a reuse letter a month and a half ago from a National center and nothing since. It looks like Atlanta is very slow and it will drag well into the next year.