James80

Applying for a UK visa won't affect your US status - as long as you are still living in the US and have been for long enough (5 years, if divorced) you can still naturalize. Once you do that, your US citizenship is permanent whatever happens. Just beware, the UK is much quicker at processing visas - you don't want to be granted a spousal visa then have it expire before you're ready to leave the US!

I did mine online last August and got a confirmation email, everything from USCIS has been sent to the new address, including my I751 approval and my N400 interview date.

Nope. Sounds like "LBT&MDM" has an axe to grind since that's their only post here. Thanks for the link, I couldn't find that page with my first bit of Googling! Nice to know their claim is BS and nearly all applications actually succeed.

Apparently that's the K1 approval rate for Afghanistan - https://www.herocollector.com/k1-visa-approval-refusal-rates/ - though another site - https://visarefusal.com/inadmissibility/k-1-visa-refusals/ - claims "nearly 40%" are denied initially, though that isn't the final outcome.

Good luck with it! I went through the visa process with my (US) wife and we lived there for a year and a half before moving to the US - the process was much faster, almost all online, just had to mail her passport and a few supporting documents to the office in NY - six weeks later we had a visa in her passport, and a pink Biometric Residence Permit (UK version of a green card) waiting for her in the nearest main post office to our home. Nothing like the US process, for us at least: just proof of our marriage, having enough money to live on, and paying the NHS surcharge for the two years.

Update: weird, it was a biometrics appointment for two weeks from now. I wonder how they lost the previous set?

Hm. USCIS online status is now "Your case status is unavailable at this time. We are working to get you accurate information as soon as possible" and Informed Delivery says I have a letter from USCIS arriving today. Hopefully the biometric reuse notification, earlier than expected, since I've already had the I797 NOA with the 48 month extension?

It may well just contain the passport - some visas just get an annotation about "paperwork in (some USCIS system acronym)" because it's done electronically. I'd open the DHL envelope to check: there's always a slight risk of a mixup (might be the wrong passport, or whatever) - if there is an actual "do not open, hand directly to USCIS on entry", it'll be inside and clearly marked as such. Personally, I'd open the DHL envelope to check what is inside; if there is a "do not open" envelope, I'd keep that inside the DHL envelope for safety/protection until reaching the border crossing.

AGMic: "Will probably apply for N-400 March 2024 before my I-751 gets extended." May I ask why March rather than January? AIUI the window for both is normally a year apart if you qualify for the 3 year N400? (I left my I751 a bit late, but plan to file the N400 as soon as the window opens in November this year.)

Same here: received 1/20, I797 issued 1/25 and gives a 48 month extension. VJ's timeline emailed me a prediction yesterday that they'd process the I751 at the end of October 2024. Hopefully the N400 will overtake that before then!

I know you can't right now, because the I751 has to be filed at the 2 year mark and the N400 at 3 - but when the I751 (now admitted to take 3+ years) never actually gets processed before the N400 (target processing time 6 months) - my point was it's crazy having to file both with these timelines, instead of letting us skip filing the one they'll probably never process anyway.

I saw a mention somewhere that the cutoff is 1/25, so they should just have started sending out longer ones this week. Mine hasn't arrived yet but I have a feeling it'll be one of the last 36 month ones. Less than a year until N400 time for me anyway - if only they made it 3 not 2 years initially lots of us could skip the I751 entirely!

Just got the receipt email, saying I797C is on the way - receipt starts "MSC", which apparently indicates I'm being processed by the National Benefits Center ... which doesn't even have tracked processing times for I751s according to the USCIS site - looking around I heard this means it's grouped with "all field offices" timing, ie 32.5 months?! And a claim the change to 48 month extensions takes effect today ... presumably I'll see in a few days what actually arrives.

Sent 01/18 Collected from USPS (Phoenix) 01/20 Credit card charged 01/24 No SMS or email yet.

Just filed this month - package delivered to the Phoenix AZ lockbox around noon yesterday (Fri 20th), waiting to see what comes next. Presumably a few days of waiting while they scan the paper and route it to wherever it's processed, then I'll see the $680 taken and get the email+SMS confirming receipt, then a wait for the I797?