My husband will be mailing his application off to Nebraska on Friday. Anyone else this week or this month?

Hi, I actually filed in November but I just wanted to tell you that my local office is Cleveland. So far so good with them. I applied on Nov 8th and my interview is tomorrow. Good luck with your application.

Thank you, that is great to hear!!! Good luck! I'd like to hear how it goes in March.

And you still never got your 10 year PR card? Do you have the stamp in your passport? My husband will need to be getting that stamp soon.

No, I never got my 10 year green card. I just came back from the Interview and everything went good. Both my husband and I had to attend because my I751 is still pending. It took a total of 20 minutes and the office said that I should get a letter in the mail in a couple of weeks and that the oath will probably be scheduled within 3 months.

Oh!!! I didn't even realize that was today!! Congrats! That's great. That's also interesting that your husband had to attend, I didn't realize that (good to know, since I doubt my husband will get his I-751 in time).

Do you remember the questions?

What are the color of the stripes in the flag
The capital of OH
When was the constitution writen
Where is the White House located
and 2 more I don't remember.

She also asked when and how we met. How was our wedding day? Was the proposal nice? What have we done since getting married.

We sent off the packet this morning to NCS, so Tom is officially on the wait list now!

bumping

Hi I just sent my wife's out on the 3rd of March to the Chicago address. It will be coming back to NY I assume.

will be sending mine tommorrow to Texas service center got my i-751 appoved got green card so lets hope how long that takes

Good luck! Keep us posted.




Good luck also!

Yay! They cashed our check yesterday.

Anyone else send it off in March yet?

Tammy,

Yes I just send mine off 30 minutes ago..

Good luck!!

Yay! Tom got his NOA1 today and also the biometrics appointment.

Hi,

My N400 received march 18th. Our timeline is very close. My check has not been cashed? Yours? Please post any news. Mine was mailed VSC.

Good luck to everyone
Waiting begin again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I already mentioned that our check was cashed. (took three days). Good luck!

my check got cashed yesterday... guess I am in line now... lol

Hopefully they move fast Tammy.... I dont want to be waiting around for 16 months...
seems like Vermont is not that bad... and hopefully Nebraska is fast too.

Guess I should start studying..

It goes by your local office though, not Nebraska or Vermont. Thank god, because Nebraska doesn't know what it's doing. I just wonder when it will actually get sent TO Cleveland. (ps. my name is Tammi - sorry, pet peeve of mine).

Good to hear that they cashed your check as well. I am thinking that they might return my package. I wrote the check payable to USCIS instead of USDHS. So, I do not know, whet is going on. Vermont received my package on 18th. Does not look good for me.
Will see.

Oh no, I'm sorry. I hope you hear something from them soon.

Well we received the package back. We knew it, since we wrote the check payable to USCIS, instead of USDHS.
There was NOA with whole package stating that if you file from overseas it's $595, from US $675, and it mentioned missing evedince.

I do not think i missed anything , just the check was written wrong.
Have anyone else received anything simillar? I wonder if it was standard NOA for wrong filled cases(because of fee, or evidence)

Thanks alot
And it took them 1 week to return it.

It was probably standard. I would recheck over your application and your documents and resend it. Post what you included on here if you want a tripple check.

Last day of March, anyone else apply? Tom has his biometrics tomorrow...

I sent in my application on March 19. Still waiting on NOA1.

Tom's biometric appointment was a breeze today, for once. We walked in the waiting room and not a SINGLE person was there. Parked car, to the building, back to parked car literally took 30 minutes. That was nice!

Luckily I went with Tom because they didn't give him the study guide booklet, and I had to remind him to ask for one.

No news on my end yet.. i did get a letter...
hopefully my biometics is in the next couple of weeks..

Printed out the flashcards and been studying them.

Thanks for all your advice Tammi..

I keep you posted

Anja

Tom needs to study!!! He hasn't in weeks, and I asked him the three branches of government yesterday, and he didn't remember (he used to know that).

Hi Tammi,
What comes after the Biometrics?...looks like you guys are alrady studying for the interview so I suppose its the interview right?....Do you happen to know the usual wait time before you get the interview after doing a biometric?...

-N-400 mailed on 3/24/08
-N-400 check cashed on 3/28/2008
-Till waiting to hear from them...
NSC/Portland,OR

Yeah, the interview is next. I don't know if there is a "usual" wait time. Each local office is different. Someone from Cleveland on here applied in Nov., and had their interview in March.

I checked my case online and its still sitting at the Vermont Service Center..
I was curious where does the letter for the Biometics come from.. the local Center ? Do they even
send letters for that appointment ?
I thought I would had that by now at least..

Anja

The NOA1 letter and the biometrics letter (yes they send a letter from that) both came from NSC for us.

The letter came today.. guess I worried to much.. Biometics is on the 15th

Hi Oasis,
Your timeline seem a little bit confusing...Did you receive your NOA1 a day after they got your application?...
Good luck with the Biometrics...
I still haven't heard anything yet..not even NOA1...Though my check was cashed 3 days after yours,and sent it to the NSC/Portland,OR DO.

Keep us updated..
Cheers

No 6 days later... Sorry if I confused you... I guess I was confused how to write the timeline.

So, you have not gotten a letter get that they received your application ? I think you should have gotten that by now ?

Hang in there, I know its nerve wracking.

Anja

Yay!

Hi just wanted to add my info on here. I am filing under military service... But it seems that its really not speeding up anything at this point.. But I guess only time will tell....

Did you guys ever go to the timelines of other people.. http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/citlis...amp;op5=5,10,11

I think you can filter it by office. It gives you a little bit of an idea how long it took other people.
What worries me is that some of the July/August people that filled have not had interviews yet..never mind their checks are cashed.. But that could be because of that big rush of applications they received.

Hope I dont have to wait 365 days

A.

Hey Guys,
Just got my NOA1/NOA2 today.NOA1 says I should expect to be notified within 180 days,and NOA2 says my Biometric is 4/17/08

Looks like I am coming right behind Oasis...

Thats great... congrats.. things are moving along for you too
Now lets get busy and study for the test.. Hope we can an date for that soon too

Don't really understand why it is taking me so long to recieve my NOA. Can something be wrong?

Hi!

I decided to join this website today so I could post in the forums.

I am very curious about people's processing times and figured some people might be interested in mine, so here you go...

03/14/2008: Mailed N-400 to Texas Service Center
03/18/2008: Texas Service Center received my application (per the USPS return receipt)
03/18/2008: Priority Date
03/18/2008: Check Deposit Date
03/19/2008: Check Cleared by my Bank
03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - "You should expect to be notified within 210 days of this notice"
03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Biometrics Appointment scheduled
04/15/2008: Biometrics Appointment @ 0900 CST in San Antonio
XX/XX/2008: FBI sent fingerprinting results back to USCIS
XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Interview scheduled
XX/XX/2008: Interview
XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Oath Ceremony scheduled
XX/XX/2008: Oath

Hopefully I'm not being too positive putting "2008" as the year for dates not yet known...

Chris.. looks like we are havin Biometics on the same day.. but mine is at 3 pm

Hey Guys!
Even though my Fingerprint appt was on 4/17/08,I was still able to walk-in and do the finger print.
I think one might still be able to walk in,so long as your center is not a busy one...When I got there,those guys were not even busy..so they told me..Sure they can take my prints...I;m glad I was able to do it 5 days early.....

goodluck!

Update:

I went to have my fingerprints taken this morning in San Antonio.

My appointment was for 0900, I was out of there by 0840.

I got to the application support center at 0700 and there were already people forming a line, even though the office did not open until 0800.

Since it was a bit chilly, I stayed in my car until about 0740 and then got in line. There were about 15 people in line in front of me at that point.

Around 0745, 20 more people were lined up behind me and two support center employees came out of a side door with a cart and clipboards. They checked everyone's I-797-C letters and IDs (the green card for Naturalization applicants) and handed people clipboards with a form to fill out (just basic information about yourself).

If you applied for Naturalization, be SURE to have your green card with you. It states on the letter that you need it and they were giving one guy who didn't have his one heck of a time about it (I'm not sure if they ultimately let him in or not).

I do want to point out that they had a sign talking about the terrorism threat level being "yellow" and that because of that only people with appointments for that day were allowed in the office. I'm saying that because in some threads I have seen people talking about going to the support center a few days early and being processed, unless you live close, I wouldn't risk it.

The "yellow" threat level also meant that you could not take in any packages, briefcases, etc. on top of the usual items that you can not take in (cell phones, cameras, recording equipment, food, drinks, etc). They had no problem with me taking a book inside (I had expected a longer wait as I had there when I got my picture and prints taken in 2005 to renew my green card).

Right at 0800, they opened the front door and a supervisor told everyone that people with appointments from 0800-0900 could come in, everyone else was to step to the back of the line.

She asked everyone for their appointment time as they stepped inside the door to make sure only the 0800-0900 appointment people came in.

Inside we all stood in a line going to three employees. The guy I went to looked over my filled out form, looked at my green card, looked at my hands (I guess to check and see if they could get good prints?) and then gave me a number (12).

My number was called around 0825. The girl went over my personal information with me to make sure their system showed everything correctly. Then she sprayed water on a cloth, wet my fingers with it, dried them with another cloth (so that they were just barely damp, which is what their system apparently likes) and took my prints.

She asked me to fill out comment card.

I asked her about the free civics study guide mentioned in the I-797-C letter, she pointed to a box and asked me to grab one.

I was out of there at 0840, I could not believe it.

The study guide is basically the same questions you can find on-line on the USCIS website, along with some more explanation/information about each answer (the booklet states that they don't test on that, but I'm going to study all the info to be safe). There is also a CD in the booklet where they read the questions and answers. Probably very handy if someone has a hard time reading or pronouncing English.

I'm going to call the FBI tomorrow to make sure they got the prints and see if they might have already sent the results back to USCIS (according to other posts, most of them go back within 5 minutes of being received).


Time line:
03/14/2008: Mailed N-400 to Texas Service Center
03/18/2008: Texas Service Center received my application (per the USPS return receipt)
03/18/2008: Priority Date
03/18/2008: Check Deposit Date
03/19/2008: Check Cleared by my Bank
03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - "You should expect to be notified within 210 days of this notice"
03/26/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Fingerprinting Appointment scheduled
04/15/2008: Fingerprints taken
XX/XX/2008: FBI sent fingerprinting results back to USCIS
XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Interview scheduled
XX/XX/2008: Interview
XX/XX/2008: I-797C- Notice of Action mailed - Oath Ceremony scheduled
XX/XX/2008: Oath

Ive got my biometrics appointment tomorrow in Denver. Just wondering as you mentioned you were going to call the FBI...will they give you that info and what number do you call. I didnt know you could do that.

hi,
i also want to know more about "calling FBI", can you elaborate? thanks.

Hey Guys!.
I did my FP also(walk-in),about 9 days before the actual schedule date..Most office send the result thesame day..
Mine was sent thesame day.You can just call FBI at 304-625-5590 and they would ask for either your SSN or A#...
For mine,they told me they sent the results thesame day my FP was taken which was on 4/12...
goodluck guys!