I-751 February 2017 Filers [merged threads]

Sungtory · March 13, 2018

17 minutes ago, jadeswanson said:

@Sungtory Create an account here. https://myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov add all of your Receipt numbers and let us know what those say. You might find something you have been looking for too! Let us know

Thanks. Also, meant to post on the Sept Filer thread...sorry for the confusion...didn't meant to discourage any of you in the Feb Filer thread

Derwood · March 13, 2018

Hi Guys,

Just a quick update on my N-400/I-751 visit to USCIS today.

I had an N-400 Biometrics appointment scheduled at noon and an I-751 Mis-Infopass scheduled at 1pm. When booking the Infopass, I thought I ought to give myself an hour just incase they were slammed.

I arrived at the Biometrics Office 11:30am and was greeted by a lovely woman. There was only one other person in the room and they had just finished their biometrics. The woman asked me to complete the standard sheet/questionnaire. I was 'Code 5' on my biometrics letter so I just had to do a photo, signature and place my four right-hand fingers on the scanning pad simultaneously and that was it! I was out of the door by 11:35am! Five minutes later my N-400 application status changed to 'My case is being actively reviewed by USCIS'. My expected completion date also jumped back from January 2019 to November 2018.

I headed up to the main USCIS office hoping they might see me regarding my outstanding I-751 early. When I got to the office it was dead, with just a few people coming and going, including bored looking members of staff. Naturally. I still had to wait until 12:50pm to be seen. I handed the woman on the desk my passport, I-751 extension letter and expired green card. About 20 minutes later, I was called in by a friendly immigration officer. He asked to take two fingerprints and another photo. He then handed me back my passport with a 12 month I-551 stamp and returned my expired green card,

I then mentioned that I'd received a case transfer notice the day before stating that my I-751 case was being transferred to the NBC. He said he couldn't see much on the computer, but said my case was probably being transferred to their office for a combo interview with my N-400. The officer said that it should be a combo interview, but sometimes they still do the I-751 & N-400 separately.

I then asked the officer if they were seeing a sudden and recent surge in I-751 cases at the office. He said no, and that they only process the few that need an interview, and that the service centers process the majority of the cases. I didn't ask him if he knew about thousands of cases being transferred to local offices, but I didn't get the impression that he did.

Anyway, back to waiting for me. I'm hoping to see a status update of 'We reviewed your biometrics' by tomorrow.

Good luck all!

Edited March 13, 2018 by Derwood

erinandahmet · March 13, 2018

32 minutes ago, jadeswanson said:

What service center did you file? if VSC... go check your mail box (possible approval or notice coming soon) .. if CSC... probably couple more weeks\months of waiting.

Sadly, we are CSC 2/6/17.

wabbajack · March 13, 2018

38 minutes ago, erinandahmet said:

So I did that, but instead of saying my case was transferred to my local office the way it does on USCIS it says it was received on those dates. This leads me towards the glitch theory. I guess i can wait another week to see if i get a real transfer letter but nothing so far.

Although....it doesn't show the March 5th update which is also on my USCIS account. Weird.

I'm seeing the same as you on the Feb 25 and Feb 26 updates.

gc@gc · March 13, 2018

21 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Hi Guys,

Just a quick update on my N-400/I-751 visit to USCIS today.

I had an N-400 Biometrics appointment scheduled at noon and an I-751 Mis-Infopass scheduled at 1pm. When booking the Infopass, I thought I ought to give myself an hour just incase they were slammed.

I arrived at the Biometrics Office 11:30am and was greeted by a lovely woman. There was only one other person in the room and they had just finished their biometrics. The woman asked me to complete the standard sheet/questionnaire. I was 'Code 5' on my biometrics letter so I just had to do a photo, signature and place my four right-hand fingers on the scanning pad simultaneously and that was it! I was out of the door by 11:35am! Five minutes later my N-400 application status changed to 'My case is being actively reviewed by USCIS'. My expected completion date also jumped back from January 2019 to November 2018.

I headed up to the main USCIS office hoping they might see me regarding my outstanding I-751 early. When I got to the office it was dead, with just a few people coming and going, including bored looking members of staff. Naturally. I still had to wait until 12:50pm to be seen. I handed the woman on the desk my passport, I-751 extension letter and expired green card. About 20 minutes later, I was called in by a friendly immigration officer. He asked to take two fingerprints and another photo. He then handed me back my passport with a 12 month I-551 stamp and returned my expired green card,

I then mentioned that I'd received a case transfer notice the day before stating that my I-751 case was being transferred to the NBC. He said he couldn't see much on the computer, but said my case was probably being transferred to their office for a combo interview with my N-400. The officer said that it should be a combo interview, but sometimes they still do the I-751 & N-400 separately.

I then asked the officer if they were seeing a sudden and recent surge in I-751 cases at the office. He said no, and that they only process the few that need an interview, and that the service centers process the majority of the cases. I didn't ask him if he knew about thousands of cases being transferred to local offices, but I didn't get the impression that he did.

Anyway, back to waiting for me. I'm hoping to see a status update of 'We reviewed your biometrics' by tomorrow.

Good luck all!

nice report and thanks for sharing

Jack337 · March 13, 2018

5 hours ago, JeanneSs said:

Just saw this and I think it might help u answer questions about interview scheduling for early filers like u n I.

If this is correct, what happens to divorce waivers like me who filed over a year ago? You are obligated to file I-751 as soon as you get divorced, no choice. My GC expires in November, does that mean I wont get my interview scheduled before October? I think this is highly unlikely.

erinandahmet · March 13, 2018

17 minutes ago, Jack337 said:

If this is correct, what happens to divorce waivers like me who filed over a year ago? You are obligated to file I-751 as soon as you get divorced, no choice. My GC expires in November, does that mean I wont get my interview scheduled before October? I think this is highly unlikely.

Really? People who file a divorce waiver need to file ROC right after? Do you have appropriate links? Thanks!

(Doesn't apply to me, but I run a visa group and I know some people this might affect. I haven't heard this before.)

PalmTrees · March 13, 2018

Hi Everyone. I haven't used VisaJourney in such a long time! I started browsing again today and decided to look up my case numbers to see if there was any change. On the USCIS website where you track the case with the one-time entry box, it showed the message about being transferred to the local office on March 5th. I then registered for the other website that is linked earlier in the thread, and had the same "we received your case" message on Feb 25th and Feb 26th that a lot of people have been receiving, but no mention of the March 5th message.

At this point I'm trying not to get my hopes up that everything has been approved, but it makes for a nice change to actually have something going on with my case, even if it ends up being a glitch! I filed last Feb, got the extension stamp in the passport about 4 weeks ago and had resigned myself to waiting until around July to hear anything new based on the CSC backlog.

Will be interesting to see what develops in the next few weeks, but I hope it results in some good news for us all.

Jack337 · March 13, 2018

1 hour ago, erinandahmet said:

Really? People who file a divorce waiver need to file ROC right after? Do you have appropriate links? Thanks!

(Doesn't apply to me, but I run a visa group and I know some people this might affect. I haven't heard this before.)

What links? I am not a lawyer, saying out of personal experience, if your visa is marriage based and you get divorced you are out of status untill you file.

Scazy · March 13, 2018

Just wanted to post it here as well since we had a lot of conversations on a subject in this thread:

Guys I just got back from I info pass that I made specifically to figure out where my case at since I'm just like all of us got "case transferred to the local office" updates.

After looking at my statuses and checking in his system IO told me straight up "this update makes no sence. Must be something wrong with computer system. You case is definetely still at CSC. Don't pay attention to online updates because it's clearly wrong. The only real update you should pay attention to is going to come at the mailbox: RFE, interview or approval. Your case has been at CSC since the date you filed and it's stays there as it showing at our system."

Then I said there is thousands cases with the same exactl status and he told me well, as I said, it's something wrong with computer system. No mass transfers to local offices ever happened.

So, now I finally can sit back and relax knowing my strong guess about the glitch is confirmed and just patiently wait my turn at Cali.

Now, case that got transferred to National Benefits Center indeed have a legit updates: but even a wording on this updates is different from a local office transfer thing.

I see no surprise in it since CSC does not process n 400 and it's required in person interview regardless. So yea, these cases MUST be transferred at some point.

But whoever did not received an update ( and a mail!) about it and did not have a combo case going, that Case transfer to local office thing IS A GLITCH.

finally, sorted out.

Stay patient, stay positive, your case is just waiting your turn at Cervice center.

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