N400 Seattle (merged)

[Felicie 14]

1 hour ago, py6 said:

Damn. Sorry to hear that. What are they gonna do now if they cancelled your N400 and aren't willing to schedule you for I-751. Honestly did this whole BS just start? I mean isn't the whole purpose of them holding our I-751s to combine them together for the interview? This is is not working. They need to figure it out. If they can't do combo, they need to do your i-751 like NOW. 

It all started in 2016. After the election people started applying for N-400 and so all uscis offices are all backlogged and Seattle is one of the worst offices in the nation. Then they implemented new policies to make the wait go from months to years. Recently they are proposing a new law to increase the fee to file N-400 from $685 to roughly $1200, and so people are applying like crazy too for fear the fee would increase even more. USCIS can’t handle all the cases, they f Up because of this reason. So things will always be worse from now on, not better. I know a few combo filers who waited way longer that I do. I suggest those people to talk to their lawyers and make actions to push the Seattle office to change, because this is not acceptable. They lied to me before too, they said it was ok to apply with a pending i-751 because with the wait time in seattle my i-751 will be approved before N-400, way before that. Then they said, oh sorry, we are going to combine the two cases now (to save time and money). But we paid $680 for the I-751, and $720 for the N-400! We paid for it, and it wasn’t processed. Now they are telling me we are not doing combo interview any more, N-400 can’t be processed with I-751 pending, but we don’t know if we could schedule your i-751 interview. #######? I’m so pissed and so stressed. I swear if I had the power to go back in time, I would never never ever listen to USCIS officers and would have waited to get my I-751 processed first. Now I am in a limbo with no way of knowing what’s next for my fate here in this country. This is just sad. I did not do anything wrong here. 

[JFH 12,189]

7 hours ago, Felicie said:

I guess I have learned it the hard way but to all Seattle filers out there, please do not file N400 with a pending i751. Do not do that. It would drain your soul and your energy. Seattle office is the slowest one in the nation and they could f us over and over. 

So glad I didn’t have to do I-751. It’s a disgrace what they are doing with you.

[py6 43]

53 minutes ago, Felicie said:

It all started in 2016. After the election people started applying for N-400 and so all uscis offices are all backlogged and Seattle is one of the worst offices in the nation. Then they implemented new policies to make the wait go from months to years. Recently they are proposing a new law to increase the fee to file N-400 from $685 to roughly $1200, and so people are applying like crazy too for fear the fee would increase even more. USCIS can’t handle all the cases, they f Up because of this reason. So things will always be worse from now on, not better. I know a few combo filers who waited way longer that I do. I suggest those people to talk to their lawyers and make actions to push the Seattle office to change, because this is not acceptable. They lied to me before too, they said it was ok to apply with a pending i-751 because with the wait time in seattle my i-751 will be approved before N-400, way before that. Then they said, oh sorry, we are going to combine the two cases now (to save time and money). But we paid $680 for the I-751, and $720 for the N-400! We paid for it, and it wasn’t processed. Now they are telling me we are not doing combo interview any more, N-400 can’t be processed with I-751 pending, but we don’t know if we could schedule your i-751 interview. #######? I’m so pissed and so stressed. I swear if I had the power to go back in time, I would never never ever listen to USCIS officers and would have waited to get my I-751 processed first. Now I am in a limbo with no way of knowing what’s next for my fate here in this country. This is just sad. I did not do anything wrong here. 

Did all the combo filers get separated interviews? What is causing Seattle office to change their policy if they had been doing it for so long without a problem? I mean hearing this is absurd because all other offices do combo interviews. What Seattle office is doing is unacceptable. Not only that it's not processing cases in time, it's also deliberately delaying combo filers.

Worst case you can consider using legal help.

[Seattle_ite 4]

1 hour ago, Felicie said:

It all started in 2016. After the election people started applying for N-400 and so all uscis offices are all backlogged and Seattle is one of the worst offices in the nation. Then they implemented new policies to make the wait go from months to years. Recently they are proposing a new law to increase the fee to file N-400 from $685 to roughly $1200, and so people are applying like crazy too for fear the fee would increase even more. USCIS can’t handle all the cases, they f Up because of this reason. So things will always be worse from now on, not better. I know a few combo filers who waited way longer that I do. I suggest those people to talk to their lawyers and make actions to push the Seattle office to change, because this is not acceptable. They lied to me before too, they said it was ok to apply with a pending i-751 because with the wait time in seattle my i-751 will be approved before N-400, way before that. Then they said, oh sorry, we are going to combine the two cases now (to save time and money). But we paid $680 for the I-751, and $720 for the N-400! We paid for it, and it wasn’t processed. Now they are telling me we are not doing combo interview any more, N-400 can’t be processed with I-751 pending, but we don’t know if we could schedule your i-751 interview. #######? I’m so pissed and so stressed. I swear if I had the power to go back in time, I would never never ever listen to USCIS officers and would have waited to get my I-751 processed first. Now I am in a limbo with no way of knowing what’s next for my fate here in this country. This is just sad. I did not do anything wrong here. 

Time for Writ of Mandamus. 

[Felicie 14]

3 hours ago, Seattle_ite said:

Time for Writ of Mandamus. 

What is it and how do you do it? 

[Felicie 14]

4 hours ago, py6 said:

Did all the combo filers get separated interviews? What is causing Seattle office to change their policy if they had been doing it for so long without a problem? I mean hearing this is absurd because all other offices do combo interviews. What Seattle office is doing is unacceptable. Not only that it's not processing cases in time, it's also deliberately delaying combo filers.

Worst case you can consider using legal help.

I guess it is the only thing combo filers could do at this point. I don't know why Seattle office is this bad. Seattle is a good city and welcoming to immigrants. I don't know why .

[GermanG 31]

14 hours ago, Felicie said:

It all started in 2016. After the election people started applying for N-400 and so all uscis offices are all backlogged and Seattle is one of the worst offices in the nation. Then they implemented new policies to make the wait go from months to years. Recently they are proposing a new law to increase the fee to file N-400 from $685 to roughly $1200, and so people are applying like crazy too for fear the fee would increase even more. USCIS can’t handle all the cases, they f Up because of this reason. So things will always be worse from now on, not better. I know a few combo filers who waited way longer that I do. I suggest those people to talk to their lawyers and make actions to push the Seattle office to change, because this is not acceptable. They lied to me before too, they said it was ok to apply with a pending i-751 because with the wait time in seattle my i-751 will be approved before N-400, way before that. Then they said, oh sorry, we are going to combine the two cases now (to save time and money). But we paid $680 for the I-751, and $720 for the N-400! We paid for it, and it wasn’t processed. Now they are telling me we are not doing combo interview any more, N-400 can’t be processed with I-751 pending, but we don’t know if we could schedule your i-751 interview. #######? I’m so pissed and so stressed. I swear if I had the power to go back in time, I would never never ever listen to USCIS officers and would have waited to get my I-751 processed first. Now I am in a limbo with no way of knowing what’s next for my fate here in this country. This is just sad. I did not do anything wrong here. 

Have they cancelled your Dec interview? 

[Seattle_ite 4]

13 hours ago, Felicie said:

What is it and how do you do it? 

https://www.bretzlaw.com/2019/02/13/writ-of-mandamus/

[Dani N 3]

On 11/13/2019 at 4:50 PM, Kylekyle said:

That’s what they do at Seattle office for the combo filer. Based on my time frame, i filed my I-751 in December 2016, I got the interview for I-751 at Seattle office in late September 2019. 

Knowing this makes me feel so hopeless. I filed I 751 in June 2017 and transferred my case from MN to here so I assume it will even take longer. And holiday season is coming up.. 

I thought MN office was the worst in the country because they have to process cases in MN, ND, part of SD and WI. They also take in a huge number of refugees in the last couple of years.. what is Seattle office's excuse? 

[Kylekyle 1]

2 hours ago, Dani N said:

Knowing this makes me feel so hopeless. I filed I 751 in June 2017 and transferred my case from MN to here so I assume it will even take longer. And holiday season is coming up.. 

I thought MN office was the worst in the country because they have to process cases in MN, ND, part of SD and WI. They also take in a huge number of refugees in the last couple of years.. what is Seattle office's excuse? 

They said they don’t have the officer who can do the combo interview 

[py6 43]

On 11/14/2019 at 8:47 PM, Dani N said:

Knowing this makes me feel so hopeless. I filed I 751 in June 2017 and transferred my case from MN to here so I assume it will even take longer. And holiday season is coming up.. 

I thought MN office was the worst in the country because they have to process cases in MN, ND, part of SD and WI. They also take in a huge number of refugees in the last couple of years.. what is Seattle office's excuse? 

No excuse. They are one of the worst in the nation. If they don't have enough officers, they can hire more. USCIS is self-funded. 

[RKX1101 17]

Hey guys I got my I751 approved while N400 pending.

[GermanG 31]

44 minutes ago, RKX1101 said:

Hey guys I got my I751 approved while N400 pending.

Excellent! When did you file both? And did you do anything special like contacting Congressmen?

[GermanG 31]

My estimated wait time for the N-400 went down from 2 months to 30 days (this morning).

The estimated completion date still is stuck in February 2020.

I filed N-400 on October 24, 2018 (my I-751 still is pending from Nov 04, 2017).

[RKX1101 17]

1 hour ago, GermanG said:

Excellent! When did you file both? And did you do anything special like contacting Congressmen?

I filed I751 Sept 2018 and N400 just recently in October so I didn't contact anyone cuz I'm still within the timeline. I guess I just got lucky and they transferred my case to Potomac instead of the local office.