Today, I attended my biometrics appointment, arriving about 10 minutes late, which thankfully didn’t pose any problem. However, the entire process ended up taking a substantial amount of time—approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, with the vast majority of that, around 2 hours and 20 minutes, spent just waiting. The application center, located in Alexandria, VA, was completely filled, indicating a high volume of appointments. Impressively, within just one hour after the appointment, my case status was updated to “Case is being actively reviewed by USCIS”.