Just to make you feel better, or worse, I'm taking a page from the NSC Losers' list and adding Silvanski, the first known transfer from TSC to CSC. He got an RFE and was STILL approved in just a little over three months!

The USCIS case status inquiry will tell you your case's "last date updated" date (i.e., last touch).

USCIS Contradicts itself again....

I called TSC back on 11/13/07 to inquire about our case (received by USCIS 04/05/07, NOA Date of 04/20/07. The CSR agreed it was outside of their processing times and initiated a service request. I changed our address at that time, as well.

The reply from TSC stated: "The status of the service request is: Our records indicate that you filed I-751 to Remove Conditions. As of this date, your I-751 is still pending. A card will not be produced until this action is completed."

I just got another letter from TSC today. It says "Our review indicates that this case is actually within or current processing time. Your I-751 case is ready for review selection. We regret any misunderstanding. If you do not receive a decision or notice of other action within our current processing time, check our website for an update or call customer service at the number provided below."

I am also waiting for a response from our senator.

One question. On the second letter I got from USCIS they mispelled my husband's name (he is the applicant, I am the USC). But on the first letter they spelled it right. Should I worry??? At least I know they updated our address....

Guess I'M lucky that my case got transfered to CSC

Yes you are.

I just wanted to touch in with all of you in this forum.

It's January 16, and there have been NO approvals out of the Texas Service Center since December.

So, basically half the month has gone by, and none of us have been approved....

Just wanted to clarify...

I am beginning to wonder if I should go ahead and contact my senator now because maybe he can inquire abt all this waiting and how come ppl who file with TSC and get transferred to CSC in October get approved before the ones who filed in January-June at TSC. My husband and I are due to file for Naturalization in April and still no 10 yr green card to copy to include in paperwork.

By the way what if he dont get my husband's 10-yr green card by April can we file without it and what can we use in its place.

".....If at any point your case should become more than 30 days outside
our normal processing time, and you haven’t received a written
decision or update from us within the last 60 days, you can help us
by calling customer service and letting us know

But there's no doubt that even if your I-751 has not been adjudicated, you can go right ahead and apply for citizenship 90 days before your third anniversary (i.e., a year after you were allowed to petition to have the conditions removed).

I thought the 3-year mark applied to the green card, not to the wedding anniversary. For instance, we wed in December '04 and he got the green card in May '05. I thought we had to wait until Feb '08 to apply for citizenship.

Hi. I'm reading through this thread, because we are still awaiting my husband's conditions to be lifted. The NOA is sometime last February. He called for a status update as listed above, and they eventually sent a letter that basically said, "It's not completed yet." What a joke. No explanation, no apology. They didn't even look at it.

So... what happens when the 1-year extension (granted by the NOA) expires? It will soon.

Your husband needs to make an InfoPass appointment and get an I-551 stamp in his passport.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, the closest office is 5 hours away

The problem with you or I contacting a senator or doing a service inquiry is that we're still within the posted processing time, which shows that TSC is (at least as of Dec. 14) working on I-751s with an NOA1 of April 8, 2007. Therefore, the answer you're bound to get is that you are still within the processing time.

I'm assuming you filed your I-751 close to 90 days before the expiration of the conditional green card, which would mean that your NOA1 extension letter should still be good until July. If you still haven't gotten a permanent card by the end of June, your husband should make an InfoPass appointment and get an I-551 stamp in his passport.

James,

I was asking about what document can we submit in the place of a copy of the front and back of my husband's 10 yr green card for when we file for Naturalization in April. My husband's NOA doesn't expire until July 17 '08.

So is TSC still transferingto CSC?

I'm sending out my packet this week

Actually, TSC recently started transfering to VSC instead. I don't know why because VSC has been taking 6 months or so, while CSC was knocking them out in 2-3 months from NOA1.

They got too fast. I believe that the USCIS runs on the motto of the slower the better.

A senator submitted an inquiry to TSC on our behalf to find out the status of our case in early January. Couple of weeks later the response came. "We are currently processing petitions filed on 2/15/07." The funny thing is, when the same inquiry was submitted to TSC in October (three months ago), the response from TSC was "We are currently processing petitions filed on 2/23/07."

You're five hours from J-ville? Gotta be in Pensacola or thereabouts. (I'm getting deja vu -- didn't we have this conversation before?)

We got an RFE dated January 23, 2008

Please update our information. And it's a major RFE. I will post another thread.

Thanks

I called the customer service centre, since my NOA was on March 3rd, 2007 and their processing dates are at April 19th. My online status hadn't been updated since April 11th (the day after I got my biometrics done).

The nice lady on the other end of the phone told me that I'd been approved and that my green card should be on its way to me!

I can't tell you how pleased I am, especially considering how turbulent the past few months have been with my marriage collapsing around my ears. Looks like I'll be here for a while yet!

We got an RFE dated January 23, 2008

Please update our information. And it's a major RFE. I will post another thread.

Thanks

I called the customer service centre, since my NOA was on March 3rd, 2007 and their processing dates are at April 19th. My online status hadn't been updated since April 11th (the day after I got my biometrics done).

The nice lady on the other end of the phone told me that I'd been approved and that my green card should be on its way to me!

I can't tell you how pleased I am, especially considering how turbulent the past few months have been with my marriage collapsing around my ears. Looks like I'll be here for a while yet!

Congratulations to all those receiving their 10-year green cards!

I have decided to post after viewing the postings and being utterly frustrated...

I am a US citizen, my wife is a "conditonal" green card holder...from Canada...you think we would go easy on our friendly northern neighbor, a chief supplier of electricity...

First of all here is a timeline (Please add us to the timeline)

Filed Application with TSC (Texas Service Center) on 03/14/07.
03/23/07 - First NOA date
04/20/07 - Biometrics
01/18/08 - Enquired via the Helpline about application through a live operator (a live person is hard to find)
request placed, no word yet.

Checking the website about our specific case, it still shows March 23, 2007 (the first NOA date)

The timeline for the TSC shows that they are now processing applications as of April 19, 2008. This memo states Jan. 15, 2008, but it was really posted on Jan. 26, 2008. Trust me, I check the website everyday.... The previous one posted in mid-December 2007 states that they were processing application as of April 8, 2007. You mean to say, that in 30 days, they only went through 10 days worth of applications? Okay, I'll excuse my fellow Americans at the TSC for taking the "holidays" off....

What baffles me is that how can the TSC simply forward applications to the CSC and VSC ahead of those already in line?
For example, those that aplied in July via the TSC had their approved in October via the CSC.

It simply is not fair.

I'm gald that someone who applied in early March 2007has been approved, but there are others in January 2007 that are still waiting.

Which Texas Senator do you write to? (We live in Texas)
Maybe I'll vote in the Republican Texas primray so that the Senator's office knows I'm a registered Republican so that they will handle my enquiry quickly. I daresay voting Democrat in a Texas primray will get you anywhere.. Texas is a Republican state....

Did the nice lady tell you the date you were approved? I'll put yesterday down in the list to be on the safe side.

Nah, I was too jazzed to even ask. She just said she would put in a manual request for them to send me my approval notification and 10 year green card. I'll post an update when I receive actual evidence I can brandish as proof that I don't have to worry about being deported.

Hello James

The website where you punch the 13-digit code gives the March 23, 2007 as the last status update. It reads something like,
"On March 23, we received this CRI89...etc"

That date is before my wife went for her biometrics.

In other words, they did not update the website with any status after her biometric date.

Should we be worried? Or is it just that they got so far behind, they stopped updating the webiste and only put critical pieces of info like "Approved" etc.

Thanks for the Senator Update. I'll draft a letter and fire it off if I don't hear anything in 4 weeks. Cornyn is not up for reelction, so at least he won't be distracted campaigning...

I'll keep checking this website. Hopefully the Jan/Feb/March 2007 filings will start getting approved.

I am still fuming at how the TSC just forwarded applications filed much later than us to the CSC and those have long been processed/approved.

new touch date 1/22/08...please can you update me
thanks.