I-751 Application - Need Help

[Maymay717 0]

Our I-751 application journey has been really stressful and need any advise who had been in the same situation. Details and timeline below:

 

- Oct 7th - USCIS received our application

- Nov 12th - application rejected due to early filing received the returned packet

- Nov 14th - resubmitted via Fedex

- Nov 16th - received by USCIS 

- Dec 3 - called USCIS to follow up asked to call on Dec 17th as they can't request for a service ticket if application is 30days or less 

- Dec 18th - called USCIS, my resubmitted packet is still not in system, cashier's check not cashed yet, spoke to tier 2 officer and said that if check is still not cashed, cancel check and refile. So devastated by this and so we refiled

- Dec 22nd - 3rd filing received by USCIS 

 

We haven't cancelled our 1st check yet just in case its just a long delay. Its been 42 days now since our 2nd filing. 
 

Any help or advise is appreciated. 
 

[Locito 85]

Something seems to have happened with the I-751 processing times after October. In the November 2020 filers thread there’s many of us who haven’t received the receipt number/extension letter yet. By the dates reported it looks like the last day of packages were processed were those that arrived November 12. After that they didn’t process any before Christmas. Our package was delivered to the lockbox on November 13 by UPS and still nothing. I contacted USCIS via the chat function on the website (there’s a thread about that), but only thing I gained from that was not having to listen to waiting music for an hour and an e-mail address to the lockbox.

 

Someone with more experience may want to comment what happens if the same package is sent to USCIS multiple times.

[rao19 42]

I was advised by the representative on the phone not to refile as it might lead to duplicates and additional delays down the road. 

My package was also received 11/16. 

Best wishes!

[Sarah_k92 112]

Sounds like a repeat of April/May filers. I applied 04/17. This was in the midsts of Covid outbreak so everything came to halt. It took 62 days for me to receive my extension letter. There was lots of calling with tier 2 officers plus online queries, Ombudsman queries and finally got my congressman involved. USCIS claimed they sent it- but never did. USCIS also kept telling us to contact lockbox- nothing ever came of that. I did manage to get through to one person at lockbox via email which she told me nothing was ever sent and they do not reprint extensions. SO when USCIS state this- fight it! Because it’s not true. My actual print came from the service center on request by Congress. Completely sucks that this happening again. Don’t give up! You aren’t alone and I hope things get moving again after the holidays!! Its so strange with how screwed up it is to get it registered into systems. But there has been a few approvals recently with no interviews on theApril thread! 
 

Good luck! 

[Ed&Midori1031 330]

Don't give up,  and always think positive!

[psgma 94]

6 hours ago, Maymay717 said:

Our I-751 application journey has been really stressful and need any advise who had been in the same situation. Details and timeline below:

 

- Oct 7th - USCIS received our application

- Nov 12th - application rejected due to early filing received the returned packet

- Nov 14th - resubmitted via Fedex

- Nov 16th - received by USCIS 

- Dec 3 - called USCIS to follow up asked to call on Dec 17th as they can't request for a service ticket if application is 30days or less 

- Dec 18th - called USCIS, my resubmitted packet is still not in system, cashier's check not cashed yet, spoke to tier 2 officer and said that if check is still not cashed, cancel check and refile. So devastated by this and so we refiled

- Dec 22nd - 3rd filing received by USCIS 

 

We haven't cancelled our 1st check yet just in case its just a long delay. Its been 42 days now since our 2nd filing. 
 

Any help or advise is appreciated. 
 

You didn’t need to resubmit a third package. Mine was received on Nov 16th too, so did many other VJers. We are hoping to hear back from USCIS next week since they last worked on the Nov 11th files before the Christmas break. Check the November google sheet for the November filers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b8qNTxz14bzeqOY0Pzk-F0NAWwB42Mr9ypfpwwgm1VU/htmlview#gid=0.  As you can see, we are all in the same boat. No need to panic. 

[mindthegap 2,590]

5 hours ago, Locito said:

Someone with more experience may want to comment what happens if the same package is sent to USCIS multiple times.

You end up with multiple, separate, concurrent filed I-751s....which all have to be adjudicated individually, or perhaps the additional ones can be withdrawn - but good luck getting someone to withdraw the correct one(s) while also realising you have others correctly filed you wish to leave.

Also no refunds.

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2020 by mindthegap

[igoyougoduke 1,656]

16 hours ago, Locito said:

Something seems to have happened with the I-751 processing times after October. In the November 2020 filers thread there’s many of us who haven’t received the receipt number/extension letter yet. By the dates reported it looks like the last day of packages were processed were those that arrived November 12. After that they didn’t process any before Christmas. Our package was delivered to the lockbox on November 13 by UPS and still nothing. I contacted USCIS via the chat function on the website (there’s a thread about that), but only thing I gained from that was not having to listen to waiting music for an hour and an e-mail address to the lockbox.

 

Someone with more experience may want to comment what happens if the same package is sent to USCIS multiple times.

Seems like USCIS laid off a lot of people ( especially contractors)  working at Lockbox  in November  while applications as usually rolled in Truck load.  almost everyone who applied in November is having a significant delay in receipts 

[Socalked 3]

On 12/27/2020 at 7:07 PM, igoyougoduke said:

Seems like USCIS laid off a lot of people ( especially contractors)  working at Lockbox  in November  while applications as usually rolled in Truck load.  almost everyone who applied in November is having a significant delay in receipts 

Probably helped out with the elections!!! (Eye roll)!!