n400 taking too long at field office

[KayEss 4]

Hi I filed my wife's case in may 2022 and I recently sent an inquiry to USCIS. I was got the reply below.

 

USCIS systems indicate that your case is awaiting an interview. Your local USCIS Field Office will contact you once they are able to schedule the appointment. Should you not be contacted by your local USCIS Field Office within 90 days of this notice, please reach out to the USCIS Contact Center for additional assistance.

 

I wanted to know what can be done cause its been over a year and I am still waiting for this process to be over. What are my options here?

Edited September 15, 2023 by Mani-us

[Timona 4,207]

Wait...

 

Mine took 1.5 years...others are lucky but some of us aren't. 

[Dashinka 24,483]

Which field office?

[KayEss 4]

1 minute ago, Dashinka said:

Which field office?

Boston.

[Dashinka 24,483]

Unfortunately, you appear to be in the 20% of Boston N400 cases that take more than 9 months to process.  Personally I would wait a bit longer before thinking of taking any action such as a writ of mandamus.

 

Good Luck!

[KayEss 4]

2 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Unfortunately, you appear to be in the 20% of Boston N400 cases that take more than 9 months to process.  Personally I would wait a bit longer before thinking of taking any action such as a writ of mandamus.

 

Good Luck!

Thank you. Yes its better to wait.

[Robbernosky 15]

Exact same inquiry response here. I posted about it here: 

 

[KayEss 4]

1 hour ago, Robbernosky said:

It looks like your field office is also Boston. My wife's filing was also in may. Its strange that alot of people are waiting. when did you posted the inquiry to USCIS?

 

Exact same inquiry response here. I posted about it here: 

 

 

[MunnoTheCat 68]

43 minutes ago, Mani-us said:

 

 

Technically speaking, you don't have any options at the moment besides waiting to hear back from them. Looks like they are working on arranging an interview seat for your wife and probably backlogged with hundreds of applicants before you. The good thing is there is nothing else that's holding your application besides an Interview date, most of the people here don't hear back from USCIS for months and they have no idea what's holding their applications. Did you file under 3 year rule?

[KayEss 4]

11 hours ago, MunnoTheCat said:

 

Technically speaking, you don't have any options at the moment besides waiting to hear back from them. Looks like they are working on arranging an interview seat for your wife and probably backlogged with hundreds of applicants before you. The good thing is there is nothing else that's holding your application besides an Interview date, most of the people here don't hear back from USCIS for months and they have no idea what's holding their applications. Did you file under 3 year rule?

Makes sense. Yes we did file under 3 year rule.

[OldUser 6,616]

13 minutes ago, Mani-us said:

Makes sense. Yes we did file under 3 year rule.

This also requires IO who knows how to conduct marriage based N-400. Especially if you have pending I-751.

[KayEss 4]

1 minute ago, OldUser said:

This also requires IO who knows how to conduct marriage based N-400. Especially if you have pending I-751.

Right. Thank you for your input. Does it require me to be present there for her interview. Is it tougher/ trickier than usual n400 interview for us?

[OldUser 6,616]

1 minute ago, Mani-us said:

Right. Thank you for your input. Does it require me to be present there for her interview. Is it tougher/ trickier than usual n400 interview for us?

Yes, both LPR seeking naturalization and US citizen should attend. US citizen will likely not be allowed for N-400, but may be asked to join I-751.

 

It only gets tough or tricky if IO suspects immigration fraud or questions the marriage.

 

[MunnoTheCat 68]

8 hours ago, Mani-us said:

Makes sense. Yes we did file under 3 year rule.

Inn sha Allah you will be ok, and i pray the same for everyone else

[MunnoTheCat 68]

8 hours ago, OldUser said:

Yes, both LPR seeking naturalization and US citizen should attend. US citizen will likely not be allowed for N-400, but may be asked to join I-751.

 

It only gets tough or tricky if IO suspects immigration fraud or questions the marriage.

 

 

Let's just not create unnecessary fear which doesn't even need its implementation, where an OP just asked a simple question "why my application taking this long". First off, all IOs are trained pretty much to deal with any case type, sometime they do need a supervisor input if they find themselves stuck in deciding what to do. Marriage based, this based or that based, IOs know what they are doing and how to tackle cases with brain. Else about marriage fraud or sham marriages, application getting delayed isn't necessarily because of USCIS is considering a particular application a fraud. It could be million other reasons. People here doesn't need to be scared from the answers on the question they ask. Let's be easy in our responses.