Receipt Number

[Merlin<3Aidan 2]

Hello all. I was wondering if you could give me some insight. I have read that the receipt number for the NOA1 follow a certain format:

3 letter code of your service center

2 digit year of the application

3 digit number of the fiscal day the application was approved

5 digits starting with the number 5 and a then four other numbers related to your application

But mine doesn't follow this at all. It is EAC 11 902 1xxxx

Does anyone know what this means? Thanks for your help. I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!

[Merlin<3Aidan 2]

Hello all. I was wondering if you could give me some insight. I have read that the receipt number for the NOA1 follow a certain format:

3 letter code of your service center

2 digit year of the application

3 digit number of the fiscal day the application was approved

5 digits starting with the number 5 and a then four other numbers related to your application

But mine doesn't follow this at all. It is EAC 11 902 1xxxx

Does anyone know what this means? Thanks for your help. I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!

Oh I forgot to add, I looked at the image of my check from the bank and it does not have any corresponding numbers that would relate to either the number they gave me in the NOA1 email or the format mentioned above. Thanks again!

[miss191209 1]

i dont really know , all i know is bout the 3 first letters that it reffers to wich center u're in...mine started with WAC and it was in california, i will check about EAC

well EAC is at Vermont Service center

and i found some info about the receipt number

if for example if u have a receipt number EAC 08 015 50023

well the 08 reffers to the fiscal year in wich the case was received

015 the 15 th working day in the fiscal year

the last five digits represents the particular case number , they say the number always start with 5 ( im not sure about it )

[Merlin<3Aidan 2]

That was my understanding of what the number should be too, but can you see how my number doesn't correlate with that at all? there are not 902 days in a fiscal year, and the last five digits of my number start with the number 1. If anyone has any knowledge of what my receipt number could mean and why it is different I would really appreciate it. When I use it to look up my case on the USCIS web page, it says it isn't valid and I am a bit concerned. Thanks again to everyone.

[Merlin<3Aidan 2]

Well after some research it seems that there is a new format for the receipt number, it may very well be in combination to other formats such as the one described above. The numbers start with the 3 letter code of your service center, the 2 digit year you applied, and then 9 followed by a 7 digit serial number unique to you.

So in my instance EAC 11 9 #######

apparently it started some time early this year. I hope this helps anyone looking to validate their receipt number when they are checking their status. Thanks to everyone for their responses.

[Brusik 11]

Well after some research it seems that there is a new format for the receipt number, it may very well be in combination to other formats such as the one described above. The numbers start with the 3 letter code of your service center, the 2 digit year you applied, and then 9 followed by a 7 digit serial number unique to you.

So in my instance EAC 11 9 #######

apparently it started some time early this year. I hope this helps anyone looking to validate their receipt number when they are checking their status. Thanks to everyone for their responses.

Hmm mine was

WAC 11 9 01 I applied 11-29-10 so not sure the fiscal part is correct maybe the 11 = month

[Done--Really 331]

Fiscal 2011 for the Federal government starts October 1, so November 2010 is part of 2011 fiscal year.

[Inscase1 0]

Hello all. I was wondering if you could give me some insight. I have read that the receipt number for the NOA1 follow a certain format:

3 letter code of your service center

2 digit year of the application

3 digit number of the fiscal day the application was approved

5 digits starting with the number 5 and a then four other numbers related to your application

But mine doesn't follow this at all. It is EAC 11 902 1xxxx

Does anyone know what this means? Thanks for your help. I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!

Hello all,

I have the similar new format number for two of my cases. For one, I have a NOA1 with receipt date of 4/11/2011 number WAC119034xxxx. On the second, NOA1 receipt date is 4/25/2011 with number WAC119036xxxx. Wondering how to interprete these numbers! However, on USCIS website both are valid numbers and at "initial review" stage.

Any help in interpreting these numbers would help.

Ash

[cchhat01 14]

Yeah there is all kinds of whackiness here.

Mine is EAC119019xxxx and my NOA1 is 04-27-2011.

Checking a few values around mine I'm seeing "acceptance" and "initial review" around mine.

But... and here's the kicker...

I checked a few receipt numbers beyond mine (assume for the purpose of argument that mine ends in 4208, and I checked all the ended in 4209 all the way to 4249), some of the initial review dates seem to be "Mar 25, 2011" which bothers me...

Why? because when I submitted my packet, it was NOA1'd in 1 day because i sent expedited and it was touched a couple of days later.

I would assume that the sequence of digits after mine would have an NOA1 date sometime after mine, but they do not.

The numbering sequence is a little whacky.

Hope someone knows a little bit more

(Apologies for bringing back a thread from the dead)

Chigs

[Lovemad 7]

Thanks everyone, this discussion is very useful. My husband has just filed the I-130 and received an email from USCIS, stating that our I-797 would be on its way with the official receipt number. At least, we'll have some idea of what it means.

[cchhat01 14]

Thanks everyone, this discussion is very useful. My husband has just filed the I-130 and received an email from USCIS, stating that our I-797 would be on its way with the official receipt number. At least, we'll have some idea of what it means.

Lovemad,

Since the change in the receipt number convention, it seems we are still in the process of figuring out what the sequence really means. If your hubby said that he has received the email, then that email contains the receipt number already.

I hope someone can actually chime in about the sequence of digits and their significance because as I said, there's a lot of whackiness in the "ordering" of these numbers and their chronological history on USCIS. I should really stop querying the USCIS website.

Chigs