AOS

[happyandgay 0]

What does AOS case being transfered to CSC mean?

Is this a good thing?

Is it really true that no interview is required?

[HeatDeath 431]

What does AOS case being transfered to CSC mean?

Is this a good thing?

Is it really true that no interview is required?

It means exactly what it says. Your file was at one USCIS service center (probably the Lee's Summit National Service Center, which is where the Chicago Lockbox Facility you mailed it to initially sends them) and has now been transferred to the California Service Center.

This is a good thing.

When the California Service Center receives an AOS case, they will try to adjudicate it without interviewing the applicant. If they cannot, and decide an interview is necessary, they will transfer it to your local USCIS field office. But the vast majority of AOS cases that get transferred to the CSC, in the collective experience of VJ, are approved with no interview.

[happyandgay 0]

Thanks! This means no interviews then for cases transferred to CSC? More often than not yes?

[HeatDeath 431]

Thanks! This means no interviews then for cases transferred to CSC? More often than not yes?

More often than not yes

[happyandgay 0]

Thanks HeatDeath! Good news for me!

[NatPatBen 3]

I kinda liked the idea of the interview (which we didn't have). Am I the only one?

[HeatDeath 431]

I kinda liked the idea of the interview (which we didn't have). Am I the only one?

Listens to the crickets...

Yeah, I think so.

Edited March 12, 2010 by HeatDeath

[happyandgay 0]

Why do cases get transferred really? Is it 100% of transfers successful? It looks like the CSC works faster now on AOS than few years back from what I gathered through this site.

[HeatDeath 431]

Why do cases get transferred really? Is it 100% of transfers successful? It looks like the CSC works faster now on AOS than few years back from what I gathered through this site.

It's a combination of the California Service Center having a much shorter queue than your local USCIS field office, and [maybe] your case file being particularly well-documented and/or having no obvious red flags in a preliminary examination.

Not all CSC transfers are "successful", depending on what you mean. A small percentage get transferred back to the local office if CSC decides an interview is needed after all. And a very very very small percentage might be lost in transit, but I've never heard of that happening.

AOS's seem to be much faster now than they were a few years ago. Significant numbers of people are seeing GCs in 2-3 months, rather than 4-6.

[piscesforever 1]

It's a combination of the California Service Center having a much shorter queue than your local USCIS field office, and [maybe] your case file being particularly well-documented and/or having no obvious red flags in a preliminary examination.

Not all CSC transfers are "successful", depending on what you mean. A small percentage get transferred back to the local office if CSC decides an interview is needed after all. And a very very very small percentage might be lost in transit, but I've never heard of that happening.

AOS's seem to be much faster now than they were a few years ago. Significant numbers of people are seeing GCs in 2-3 months, rather than 4-6.

Is location a sign of being transferred to CSC? Like, aside from no red flags can the State of the applicant be a factor as well to be transferred to CSC?

[Danu 19]

Is location a sign of being transferred to CSC? Like, aside from no red flags can the State of the applicant be a factor as well to be transferred to CSC?

As far as I can tell yes, not sure if its state or city though. When I looked up Santa Ana for example, there are no records of transfers in the AOS timeline. I've looked up other places like Omaha, which seems it had some transfers and some interviews.

[justucia 0]

I kinda liked the idea of the interview (which we didn't have). Am I the only one?

you crack me up Nat!

somehow this is not suprising that you think this-

gotta love you!

[VanessaTony 3,567]

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