TogoAfrica

Hello, looking for some help on what is going on with our case. My husband applied for his I-751 back in April 2021 and he applied for his citizenship back In April 2022. November 15 2022 he received a letter asking him to come for his interview for citizenship. (This was the only thing written on the invitation and no word about the I-751. We just assumed it was both) We arrived but sadly they were having computer problems that day and after waiting sometime and then trying to get it to start working they finally had to cancel and told us to go home and wait for a new invite. We waited and waited and finally on January 5 on the USCIS page we saw a status change for his I-400 saying a new interview was scheduled and wait for the invite in the mail. Today we received the letter and with excitement once again we opened it and to our suppose it’s an invite for the I-751 interview but no words about the citizenship. Now we are confused!! Is this for citizenship and I-751? It doesn’t say that, but online at the uscis page it says a letter was sent for I-400 interview, but what has arrived is not I-400 but I-751. What is interesting is the invite that came last November was only citizenship and did not tell me to come. This one is I-751 and says for us both to come but no words about the citizenship. Arrrrr what’s happening? Is this for both? What happened to the citizenship interview? Why does online say citizenship (I-400) invite but what came is I-751? Really confused!! Help!!??!! Thanks!!

THANSK! Nothing indicated it was a combo the first time we had the interview and we have not had the reschedule yet. Sigh….still waiting it’s only been a month waiting for the reschedule so maybe will hear soon. Who knows, it’s ok they’re time line. but all the things you mentioned to bring for the combo we sent in when applying for citizenship and also for i751. We do have copies of the i751 paperwork but the i400 was done on the computer so I don’t have those. Wonder if there is a way to print that paperwork we did on the computer. Will need to look into it. I was also not asked to come on the first invite letter, but I did anyways. I’m not missing the opportunity for my husband to become a U.S. citizens. But maybe when the reschedule I will be asked since our i751 is past due. Hmmmmm….we will see

Wow!! Thank you so much for sharing your story!!! Even though we realize it is what it is, it’s nice to hear what others have gone through/going through. We realize we are not alone, and ….well it is what it is. But also kind of nice to see and maybe compare what you may be currently going through. I was thinking a month at most for rescheduling, but arrrrr….guess it’s good to know how long others have had to wait. Thanks again!!

Definitely frustrating, but what is not frustrating in immigration 🤣!! so here’s our current frustration/story 4/7/2021 we applied for lifting conditions on my husbands green card. 4/7/2022 we applied for Citizenship. 10/11/2022 we received a letter for my husband to come in for his citizenship interview. Seemed they would just do the interview for citizenship and that would trump the long wait for lifting conditions on the green card. But sadly November 15, 2022 we showed up for the interview for citizenship in Portland Maine and waited to be called in. Sadly after some time someone came out and told us they are having computer problems and can’t do the interview yet but asked my husband to wait some more. We did, but then again they came out with the horrible news that they would need to reschedule the appointment for citizenship because they just can’t get the computers to work to open his file. Sigh 😔!! So instead of giving us a new day to come back they just said we will try to get you in as soon as we can and to go home and we will send you another letter in the mail with the new date. Sooooo here it is December 11, 2022 and no news. I’m so impatient for the mail to come with the new interview date!! I feel like it’s the same as someone holding a piece of cake under your nose and saying do you smell this, you can even take a small taste. It’s good, right? Nope you can’t have it! Then it’s snatched away. Arrrrr 😡😡😡 New tasted almost being done with this immigration journey and then it was snatched away!! I know it’s not yet a month more of waiting but I’m so impatient and had the false hope they would send out the letter fast. Nope! We were trying to plan a trip to my husbands country to see his family (health has not been the greatest and we have not seen them in 2 years) but now looks like that idea on hold again because who knows when they will ask us to come back for citizenship interview???? And….as far as I-751 Lifting conditions on green card….have not heard anything about that since 9/20/22 when it was moved to the National Benefits Center in MO. anyone else ever have this happen? I know there is nothing we can do but wait?!?!?!? But would love to just hear what others have to say. Thanks!!

I hope it’s soon!!

Hi 👋🏼 So I just got home from work to the BEST news ever was in the mailbox!!! We have a date for the interview for the citizenship!! i was kind of hoping that when our papers moved that this was an indication something was happening and looks like it was!! how about you? Anything? Maybe you won’t wait as long as we feared like us and maybe the move was a good thing?!?!?!!????!

Then our 18 months is nothing 😭😭

Keep us posted…we are sure close

My husband is from Togo Africa

We can always hope our field processing time is wrong….but also I had read once that when our green cards would be processed that could hurry the citizenship up and both be done at same time….or vice versa if the field office was moving faster then the green card it would just do a combo. I’m trying to sort through the April filers for 2021 and find the ones who did not have their n400 in to see if any are being processed. Then I can see if possibly our was up next but because we have n400 in that’s why it was transferred and hopefully that will also shortly trigger the citizenship to bounce up to being processed. Sigh…wishful thinking

Mine is maine and says 15.5 months waiting, we turned ours in April 8, 2022 so that puts us at around June 2023. That’s only 6 months less then I-751 all service center processing time of 32 months, for us that would be in November 2023 since we turned in our I751 April 7, 2021.

I also found out that you have to select All field office, this will give you the overall number for all processing centers. So if your field office in your state takes longer then this, then NBC will process our I751. And when your field office is ready it will process your N400. let’s hope our field office are faster!! Now our waiting is mostly on them. Sigh…always waiting.

Hey so from what I’m finding out is this: “MSC is also NBC National Benefit Center. this service center process those cases until local offices are ready to receive them. The long wait or short wait is because of the queues at local offices. Some local offices have less traffic than others and are able to process cases faster.” So I guess all it means is you and I are waiting for our local office of our state to be ready to process our N-400 and most likely they will be combo because they were transferred to MSC/NBC.

Yea…figured 🤣 was hoping it was good news or someone would write and say it means our files have been touched and will be reviewed soon. Oh well….wait….we know how to do that well

We received a letter today in the mail from department of homeland security, was so excited thinking we finally got some good info regarding either the I-751 (filed 4/7/2021 at Potomac) or the N400 (filed 4/8/2022 at Maine)….but instead it just said out I-751 was transferred from Potomac to National Benefits Center. Like you…we are wondering is this good news or just more waiting. We couldn’t find anything on processing times for them, what led me to this topic. So curious for any info anyone has