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Dare one ask what they have done now?


that baby is utterly GORGEOUS !!!!!!!!!

Aw, come on, you can vent to us. Tell us what is wrong.

Don't leave us hangin' man!!!

P.S. - Yes, that baby is gorgeous

They haven't done anything in Texas. Processing plain stopped. Always the fcuking TSC. Hence, Fcuk Texas!

That might take a while. Would you prefer alphabetically, or geographically?

Maybe it should be Fcuk USCIS instead of Texas

Wow.. Texas is having an affair

??

Maybe I'm confused. You got an NOA incredibly fast compared to most other service centers. And it has been less than two months since you applied. Sure, you can vent, but are you really getting things in perspective? Is the delay really holding your life back in any way? Or maybe I don't know the full story.

(That's probably a comment to most people who seem the think they have the right for immediate approvals, not just you by the way. I'm not really sure where everyone got it into their head that I-751s are supposed to be fast? Was I off school that day?)

I hope you get your biometrics appointment soon. Good luck.

the frustration methinks (and you can correct me on this Reinhard!) is that he might have gotten his NOA1 quickly, but all of a sudden Texas has gotten super-slow with sending the biometric appointment information. I say all of a sudden, as I applied only a month and half before he did (may) and had my biometrics completed within a month of my NOA1, he'd already been waiting a month and a half.

Exactly. I don't really care how long this crap takes as long as they get it done within a year and change so that this process won't hold up the naturalization. We just need the damn bios out of the way so Nani can make her long awaited trip back home without the hassle of having to worry about re-scheduling the damn bio appointment. Nani is looking to make an extended trip home with our daughter towards the end of the year while I will be undertaking some extensive business travelling before spending some vacation time in Ethiopia with the family.

It just gets in the way when this Service Center all of a sudden stops working while folks at other centers - most notably the CSC - get the whole friggin' process done within less time than it will take for us just to get a biometrics appointment. I'm just so friggin' tired of the USCIS and all it's bullshite!

So, yes, this delay is having quite a negative impact on our life.

OK Understood. But in all fairness, I think we have all learned that you really can't compare one service center to another. I remember way back when CSC would process K1s in a year, and VSC took 3 months. Yeah, it's all shite, but aren't we used to that now?

By the way, as far as I can tell, applying for naturalization can go ahead whether or not an I-751 has gone through so you don't need to worry about that. I'm sure someone will come along and say that's not correct.

Hope it flies through for you anyway.

i have heard you can file for naturalization if your I-751 is still pending but they will process the I-751 first before they process the naturalization.... or something like that...

I agree with you about TSC. It took a year and a half for them to process our K-1 (luckily we were transferred to CSC for our AOS) and now we have just submitted the I-751, so I feel as though we have a long old wait again.


Hope you hear from them soon.

Or you could be dealing with the Nebraska Service Center, which always sucks.

It was slow for the K-1. it is now the slowest for the I-751.

Gotta love the NSC.

I know, let double the fees, thats gotta help right?

Marilyn and Peter.

The N-400 won't be approved until the I-751 has been approved. So, a pending I-751 can very well hold up the naturalization.

Sorry, but this is incorrect.

Go to the Usenet group alt.visa.us.marriage-based (aka BritishExpats) - you should be able to confirm from there that there are dozens of cases (as well as lawyer statements) that a late I-751 will NOT slow down and N-400.

You can file N-400 the second you are eligible -- regardless of the action or not on I-751.

Edited to add link:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.visa.us...I+751+and+N+400

I have not claimed that you can't file the N-400 while the I-751 is still pending.
Has anyone gotten the N-400 approved w/o having the I-751 approved first?

No, but you DID say that the I 751 will hold up natz, which it will not. The answer to your question is in the results that were in my link. The N 400 would 'force' adjudication of the I 751. Often, they'll do them both on the same day as the
N 400 interview if need be.

I see. That's good to know.

But Texas still sucks!

Right.

I knew I had read it somewhere. Thanks for being arsed to post a link.