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Anyone from the bay area has received interview notice lately?

Saw someone mentioned that the N400 processing seems on pause in No Cal for some reason, which somehow aligned with my feeling. I have not heard anyone from either SJ or SF getting an interview lately. Myself submitted the application last July and heard nothing back either.

Wondering if anyone has received any interview notice these days.

I am a U.S.-born citizen, and I previously filed an I-130 petition for my ex-spouse (a foreign national) several years ago. We divorced before the petition was fully processed, and I never received a final decision from USCIS I'm not sure if it was approved, denied, or if there was any finding of marriage fraud under INA 204(c). I didn't pursue it further after the divorce.
Now, I am remarried to a new spouse (also a foreign national), and I want to file a new I-130 petition for them. My question is: Does INA 204(c) or any prior marriage issue automatically prohibit me, as the U.S. citizen petitioner, from filing and getting approval for petitions for future spouses? Specifically, since I don't know the outcome of the previous petition, could there be a hidden fraud bar that affects my ability to petition now? If there was no explicit fraud finding, can I proceed normally? I am confused that the internet has mixed responses where its saying that the previous alien would be banned and not the US citizen from filing petitions.
Thank you!

Hello!

We received RFE about my birth certificate which kinda confuses me, since i added it our i-485 application.

RFE said: ''Submit an English translation with the applicant s foreign birth certificate issued by the appropriate civil authority. If the document is in a language other than English, you must submit a copy of the foreign language document and an English translation. For the foreign language document, we will only accept a long-form birth certificate which lists at least one parent''.

I checked the requirments from uscis website and i did send english version of my long form birth certficate with stamp.

So should i order my Finnish version of my birth certificate, since i didin't add that.

Could that be the reason why we got RFE?

Thank you in advance!

ps. can't update my timeline for some reason.

Pretty fast this year for Tax Year 2025 transcripts.......I plan to keep a transcript every year. For the first time in more than 10 years, I will get a refund, too......

We submitted a FOIA request to USCIS to find out whether my wife (a U.S.-born U.S. citizen) ever filed an I-130 about 10 years ago with her ex-husband. She does not remember signing anything or submitting documents, and she never received a receipt or decision notice. She only vaguely remembers a possible phone call about an interview, but we are not sure whether that was from a lawyer or USCIS.

We just received a response to the FOIA request, and USCIS closed it stating that records regarding a U.S.-born citizen are not generally under their purview and therefore not covered under FOIA. So they did not confirm whether any I-130 was ever filed.

The ex-husband is completely no contact, so we cannot verify anything through him.

Now we are preparing to file a new I-130 and I-485 for me. My STEM OPT is expiring soon, so timing is very important. The I-130 asks whether the petitioner has ever previously filed a petition for anyone.

Given that:

• We genuinely do not know if anything was ever filed,

• FOIA did not provide an answer,

• There is no receipt number or documentation,

• And there is no way to confirm with the ex,

Should we answer Yes or No to the prior filing question?

We want to be fully honest and avoid any risk of misrepresentation, but we truly do not know whether anything was ever filed.

Any guidance on the safest and most accurate way to answer would be greatly appreciated.