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NOA1 received. have a question

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NewKid   20

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Good day everyone. so we received our NOA1 yesterday ( april 6th) so the process is finally on the roll.

I have a few questions, mostly for curiosity's sake but also because I just want to make sure I know what is happening.

Brief background my fiancée( USC) and I submitted on the 31st of March. she lives in California, and the receipt said we are being routed to the CSC.

I just wanted to know what role the Lockbox plays, it is purely just to route the mail to the respective service centres or do they actually make sure that everything in the submission is correct? Further more, does one receive RFE's from before the NOA1 or before the NOA2 or could it happen all the way up to interview stage?

Like I said,it is purely because I am curious.

Anyway.

Hope you all had a great weekend and a good start to your week.

all the best.

kid

applied for N400 whilst I751 was pending, however I751 was approved without an interview on Jan 10th /11th

N-400 applied Online: 11/7/18

BIO for N400 : 11/30/18

EST. Case Completion: October 2019) of 7/15/19 

INTERVIEW: 10/7/2019- APPROVED

OATH DATE: 10/24/2019-  received oath letter in the mail on 10/11 

 

LOCAL OFFICE: BOSTON ( moved from California (SANTA ANA, CA) )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TBoneTX   43,058

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The lockbox is a routing stop.

When your petition is eventually evaluated, any RFE would come from the CSC.

People dread the idea of an RFE. Receiving one is a golden opportunity to satisfy the RFE and to add extra "evidence of bona fide relationship" for USCIS to pass on to the consulate. (Anyone doing this should add a cover-note to the latter material that says "Please pass to the consulate" or similar.)

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*** Thread moved from K-1 Process forum to the K-1 Case Progress subforum. ***

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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