My question is - are there any July filers of Los Angeles who received Interview Letter in January-February-March 2008?

last ones i've seen online were received January 18, 2007 (for PD May 23-26)

anybody at all?

Feliz

I have not seen any other L.A. filers except you and me. I hope I am wrong.

Bob

yes, me neither

have you seen what is said about big natulaziation campaign in Latino media in LA prior to fee increase? http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showpo...mp;postcount=23

by no means it's their fault, my own family is half latino, but it explains why San Francisco is scheduling August filers and LA seems to be stuck at beguinning of July cases, so i am waiing for March 15th update for clarification

have you seen what is said about big natulaziation campaign in Latino media in LA prior to fee increase? http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showpo...mp;postcount=23

by no means it's their fault, my own family is half latino, but it explains why San Francisco is scheduling August filers and LA seems to be stuck at beguinning of July cases, so i am waiing for March 15th update for clarification


Thanks for the link. I was not aware of that but of course it is logical that it would happen. Can't help but wish we had been able to start the process a few months earlier.

Those DO timelines are really bogus. According to its published time line the San Jose DO is behind most of the other offices, yet I know of 5 people who are under that office and filed last autumn who have received IL for March or April. Go figure.

I'm here too :-) Just nothing to add - my biometrics are done, so, mentally I'm "forgetting" about naturalization for a few more months. Focusing on taxes right now LOL.

California Service Center, LA office
Sept 3, 2007 - Application mailed
Sept 12, 2007 - Priority Date
Nov 20, 2007 - NOA1 sent (425 days estimated processing time))
Jan 10, 2008 - Fingerprint Appointment (letter "lost" in mail)
Feb 7, 2008- fingerprints done

Hey, my wife was in the ASC at Wilshire & Figueroa on 2/7 too. Wish we had known who you were. We could have swapped CIS nightmare stories.

yes, i know they are not so reliable, but it's the one and only sort of info that USCIS officially releases (along with monthly reports), so I try to make theories and estimates, but of course it's not serious, i guess i made it just for the sake of some illusion of control over my fate and illusion clear facts.

Perfect word for us - "illusion" This whole process has been an Alice In Wonderland experience for me.

Hi Guys
On one of my wife's Thai websites is the case of someone who filed in L.A. in April 2007, had her interview in January '08 and swore the Oath on March 20. Her Oath would have been sooner but she had to leave the country for a couple of weeks after her interview. She was one of almost 6000 to take the Oath at the L.A. Convention Center. I was considering moving to a faster area but I learned from her story that once you get interviewed you have to do the Oath out of the same D.O. So I'm rethinking the move. It may be that I could get the interview faster but I don't think any place is faster than L.A. when it comes to the number of Oath ceremonies they host.

We just received our interview date today!

priority date: 07/25/07
Interview date: June 20, 2008

thank you for sharing and CONGRATS!! keep us posted! i quoted you here: http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthrea...560&page=41

what address does it give?

Thanks for sharing.

We just received our interview date today!

priority date: 07/25/07
Interview date: June 20, 2008



Good news! Congratulations. Maybe you have broken the log jam and things will start flowing in L.A.

calling all Los Angeles applicants - please post your news and timelines here!

seems like LA got the most applications out of all DOs, so the July hump will be reeeally long, right now IL (interview Letters) are sent to last week of July, hopefully July will be done by end of June 2008, after that there is a big drop of applications lower even then normal level, so probably all of August-Sep-Oct will be processed within 1 month (supposedly July or August), so people who like me filed in the end of 2007 - aim for August to receive IL, and to have oath 3-4 month later.

unless they really hire those super fast new officers, then be prepared to get ILs with short notice like in some other DOs.

Hope you are right Feliz. Those new people will have to be trained and who knows how long that will take. Maybe we will get lucky and L.A. will re-hire retirees on a temporary basis. That would really be a blessing.

Keep smiling.

some people have their interviews rescheduled, cuz the DOs are used for trainging new officers, that could be a reason why there are no news from LA, but we'll see this month, usually IL's for next month are sent between 17th and 23-25th of each month, so keep your eyes on the mailbox!

if anybody from August and September PD gets IL from LA DO, could you please send me message? thanks!

My wife took a Citizenship class which ended in December 007 and she has kept in contact with some of her classmates. Two of them, along with a third member of their family received IL in March, and all had their interviews on 13 May. I am not certain when they filed but it was either Mar or Apr 007. They claim to know of someone who filed in Jan 008 and has already received an IL. It may be just rumor and/or false hope but I thought about it and decided to post it anyway. I am trying to find out more.

the reason why 08 PD are getting ILs is that USCIS is trying to cut "average processing time" by processing in wrong order (to cover up their mess)

based on some IL patterns NYC people at the other forum suggest that NYC is processing from start point Jan 08 in 2 directions - back and forward, who knows could be true for LA too, but that way me and other October-Nov PD would have gotten something, but not yet.

ok, 17th was Saturday, expect ILs in the next 2 weeks, keep an eye on mailboxes!

Dear AusCal and nscvet , could you please post your timelines to
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthrea...560&page=44

really, i did not know this. is it just a "pilot" for certain district office?

seems like nobody knows anything between FP and IL - even the IOs themselvs even at INFOPASS or escalated 800 call. all they can tell for sure - is if FP or IL was sent to you, but between - they can make up a story, but if you call or make infopass many times - you hear different story every time.

all n400 applicants have basically 2 options - simply wait for IL or file WOM. unfortunately no reliable info on what is actually going on in USCIS, what is their current speed, have the new IOs started to work or where exactly is your case - no info is available.

i think most cheap thing to do is wait till somebody with PD after you get IL from your DO, ask them to make you copy of their NOA and IL (the more cases the better) and file a WOM by yourself without lawyer.

or if you are middle age male from Iraq or have name that sounds like Al Kaeda members, it kinda makes sense to expect high possibility of being stuck in namecheck and file WOM early - based on your DOs pre backlog processing times.

another idea - is file WOM based on number of days in NOA1, but for LA it is 425... hopefully it will take less or about 365 in most cases

bump

it's last days of May ILs - keep your eyes on mailboxes!

yummyk on ImmiPortal got IL - apparently LA and Santa Ana DOs are somewhere between last week of July and Aug 21st 2007. hopefully Sep and Oct ILs are next - June 17-29!

anybody from LA??

Feliz, I'm still here -just, I have nothing to contribute. I am also in the awkward situation of expecting to go to Canada to work (for a US company) for approximately 4-5 months, leaving maybe August/September 2008. I have no idea how I am going to work this out with my N-400 application. I will be going up on a work visa organised by my company - so, leaving to come back to do my interview (if it is scheduled within the timeframe I am away) will not be possible - as, as I understand it, the visa is a single-entry only.

But, as I see it, there is nothing I can do to get any accurate info on my case status - so, I am just waiting it out. It it stressful?, yes, somewhat, but, I can't change anything, so.......... The worst case scenario I can see is that I miss my interview, am too late to re-schedule, my case gets "abandoned", and I need to reapply (and repay $675). That would be irritating & inconvenient, but do-able, and not life-threatening. LOL.

We are still here and waiting too. I met someone who has Oath Ceremony scheduled for July 11 at LACC but then found out her case was through the San Bernardino DO. There are a lot of immigrants in my area and every chance I get I ask them questions about their journey. So far I have met a family of three who had interview in LA. on May 19. They expect their OD to be in about two months. That is the only LA news I have heard or read about.

ok guys, thank you for responding!

they are finally sending ILs in June 08 to September 07 PDs for August 08 ID - AusCal be ready!

Good luck on your interview today!! I hope we hear good news from you soon!

Our I-751 sat in Nebraska in cold storage for a year before it was transferred to California and processed darn quick. Regretted having to send our N-400 back to Nebraska, California even updated our case status. But Nebraska certainly is processing our N-400 rapidly, like 92 days between received and the interview date.

Seems like California specializes in I-751's and Nebraska in N-400's.

thanks for the info - I'm not sure if it's good news to me though - looks like I'll be leaving for the job late July - aggggghhhhhh.

Is there a way out of my problem that I am not seeing - I'm open for suggestions......

Will you be working for an American company engaged in international trade? If so, then it may not count against you.

Nscvet, I work in the entertainment industry, and will be working in Canada for an American production company, & paid through a US payroll company.

My main concern, as I see it, is that I will be in Canada from late July (still an estimate at this stage) till November or so. From all predictions, my interview should be scheduled towards the beginning of the period I will be away - and I will need it to be re-scheduled, hopefully that would take a good few months.
Even if my interview is scheduled before I leave, I then get tied up with when will the oath be - then, if I squeak that in - I am in difficulties with having to apply for a passport - and then, the Canadian work visa will already have been issued with my existing "foreign" passport details.

As it stands at the moment, it's all kinda a mess. I don't know what will happen when I try to reschedule with such a lengthy delay. I know the BCIS can take many months to schedule things - I'm not sure if they will let me do it though LOL. Wha I do know is that financially I'm not turning down five months work - I'd rather have to pay the $675 again if worst comes to worst, and I need to refile.

Any suggestions or comments are welcome.

Did you get your interview appointment yet? Or are you still waiting? Can someone at home check your mail and if it does come in, to open and read it for you? I mean I know where you are coming from, had a job where when my company said to go, I had to go and didn't know whether I would be back in a day or in three months, unforeseen problems so didn't know if I would be back in a day or as long as three months. Had to stay until all the problems were resolved. So worked out a deal with my little sister to open my mail and pay my bills or I could have been evicted when I came home.

If you get that letter from your service office that schedules your interview, can write to your field office to postpone your interview, and having work so you can eat should be a good reason not to attend at their arbitrary date.

With just about anyone else, you mutually agree on an appointment day where the USCIS just says, be there at their convenience like all we have to do is to wait until they decide to call us. You have to have something worked out if you have a home, somebody has to pay those monthly bills that come in like clockwork, so somebody should be there to watch for that interview letter.

I PM'ed eternal wait couple days ago, I hope the interview went well and we hear about it soon

anybody else?

Nick,
Thankyou for your replies.
I am still waiting for my interview appointment notification - who knows when it will turn up. Regardless, I will have someone who can check my mail, when it does arrive, I will write and ask to have the appointment rescheduled for after my anticipated return (dec 08). Either this will be accepted, or my application may be denied - if so, I will just reapply when I return.

I received my interview letter a couple of weeks ago. My priority date was 08/10/07 thru CSC and Los Angeles office. Interview scheduled for 8/28/08. Hope it helps.

Great news. Any movement at LA DO is cause for celebration.

Thanks, AllenW - results from the LA office are few & far between - appreciate your post. Maybe mine will be in the mail - sometime soon@@

According to the Los Angeles Times there were so many people going to the Oath Ceremonies on July 11, that they caused a traffic tie-up. An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people. My question is, where are these people coming from? I know one person who took the Oath that day and her application was handled by the San Bernardino DO, and I think I read on one of the immigration sites about someone from Orange County taking the Oath. I wonder if there were any from LA DO. Out of 30,000 to 40,000 people I would expect at least a couple of them to be on this or other boards. Well maybe those new employees will make a difference. Some time. Some month. Some year.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lacc12-2008jul12,0,202184.story

it's THE time of a month again

I got my IL (see signature) and LA is finally sending ILs to January 2008!!! check cumulative stats for VJ and IP in IP LA thread

July stats for LA DO http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showpo...;postcount=1420