Jasskatten
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My received date at Potomac was February 23:rd 2021, and today my status changed to New card is being produced. 😅 Now I'm just crossing my fingers they'll send the card to the right address (I've moved twice since i applied) 🤞 Been checking the progress at Potomac by using the case track app, and they seem to be processing applications from second half of February 2021 at the moment. Good luck everyone!
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CR-1 Removal of conditions question ( SPLIT)
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It is very rare to have any kinds of problems with I-751. In my opinion, if moving six months earlier is worth the filing fees and extra administrative work on your part to file I-751 for you, I would do so. Most people go to these forums after they run in to problems, so by browsing internet forums, you would probably get a skewed picture of how common it is to run in to problems with Removal of conditions.
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How are some cases approved so much faster than others?
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How are some cases approved so much faster than others?
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How are some cases approved so much faster than others?
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Haha, no, I'm just Swedish. And as a Swede, I'm prone to assume the best in people, instead of looking for nefarious motives.
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Not AS easily as new cases though. Most likely they have set up a system where new cases are digitalized as they arrive. Old cases on the other hand would have to be transported from wherever they are stored (some might be in long-term storage offsite, some on short-term storage onsite, some in officers offices waiting to be processed), input in to the system, then transported back. It is a question of fairness vs effectiveness. Unfortunately USCIS is not required to be fair, since permanent residents asking for their conditions to be removed are not us citizens, and are asking for a immigration benefit. They have no obligation to be fair whatsoever.It sucks, but that is the way USCIS sees us, in my opinion. On the bright side, at least USCIS is finally joining the 20:th century with their administrative system. It'd be nice if they joined the 21:st century, but that is too much to hope for, I guess.
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I don't think they were scanned before they started doing IOE numbers though. They used to send the actual stack of papers around, and if an officer wanted to work on a case, they needed that case to be physically sent to them.
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I do not disagree with anything of this. 👍
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This post talks about the new system.
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New cases are assigned IOE numbers, and are getting notifications through their online account. Don't know much about it, but something has changed about how i-751s are processed.
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Another reason they might let all IOE numbers jump the queue is they might want to evaluate whether the new system actually is more efficient. With the wait times being so ridiculously long, it would take 2 years otherwise to get data to see if it is worth it to transfer other applications to the same system.
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As an example (exaggerated to make it clearer). Say a center has two cases to process. The first cases to arrive would take 6 weeks to process. The second to arrive case would take 2 weeks to process. First scenario, process them in the order they arrive. First case is processed in 6 weeks, second case in 8 weeks. Average wait time is 7 weeks, half the backlog gone in 6 weeks. Second scenario, process the easy case first. First case is processed in 2 weeks, second in 8 weeks. Average wait time is 5 weeks, half the backlog is gone in 2 weeks.
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My bad, i assumed that since new filers got IOE numbers, they were e-filing. Still, my guess is the same, applications with IOE numbers are faster to process, so they are focusing on them to get rid of the backlog.
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My understanding is that all the cases approved in 3 months are submitted electronically? If USCIS found that the electronically submitted applications can be approved faster (as in they can approve more applications per day) than applications submitted by mail, it would make sense for them to focus on the ones submitted electronically is all they care about is removing the back log and doesn't care about fairness.
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Sorry, I assumed that the thread MikeE referenced was the same case you mentioned, I should not have done that. The relevance is that by entering as a tourist and then marrying and doing AOS from a tourist visa, the person in MikeE's thread has most likely already misrepresented himself once. Add to that that he gave different years for when he entered the country (2000 vs 2010), it is not surprising that guy seems high risk for fraud. I agree with you that lawyer can only give opinion, if OP applies for N400 it depends on the decision of the IO, whose weighing of the evidence is subjective (even if they do their best to be objective).
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I agree, it is not very clear, but it seems to me it is relevant that nowhere do they say you are required/must inform USCIS of divorce proceedings, but they do explicitly point that out for other information. They also say they will ask for a waiver request in the RFE, so they seem you assume that you did not request a waiver, for whatever that is worth. Since it is not clear, in my opinion it is good to check with a lawyer. And if not sure, get a second opinion from a second lawyer... (Sorry for repeating myself, but that is a very important point in my opinion.) Regarding the case that boiler and MikeE reference, that case seems to have more going on than just a divorce. Didn't read the whole thread, it was looong, but he did adjust from a tourist visa (so basically proof of misrepresentation already), and his info in N-400 and i-751 did not match. Red flags all over the place for that guy.
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Thanks for the info! Could you tell exactly what happened, did they just ask about it, or was the N400 denied/Green card revoked? In my (possibly naive) scenario they would ask about it, OP would explain that since he was not divorced yet, he did not think he needed to inform USCIS, and that would be it. Awkward, but not the end of the world.
