N-400 October 2020 Filers

[amyNJ 13]

Hello Everyone, 

 

I sent my application today and to my surprise I was charged 725 USD. 
I was expecting to be charged 1100 USD due to the rate increase so I hope that is not a problem, but it was what the system gave me.

I submitted: 

-marriage certificate

-my greencard both sides

-passport of US citizen (my husband)

-driver licenses of both of us

-cars insurance

-IRS transcripts for the last 3 years married filling jointly

-apt lease

- just a couple of bills

 

I filled using chrome and apparently didn't have any issues. I hope everything goes smoothly. My closest office is Newark, so I guess I will have the interview there, if I don't move to PA before. 

Quick question, where are you guys seeing those estimated dates for background check, biometrics and approval? 

 

Thanks, 

 

 

 

Edited October 7, 2020 by amyNJ

[pbid 9]

I'm not sure how everyone is able to submit their application. I've been trying for over 10 days on Chrome, Firefox and IE-11 but my draft is never saved with the evidence I upload.

 

I keep on seeing the error: "Encountered an unexpected error retrieving draft evidence."

 

Is there a particular time of the day everyone submits their application OR am I uploading too much evidence that the system gives up?

 

Here is what I upload:

Evidences about marriage (3 years)

• 2 Individual Checking account statements for each
• 2 Joint Credit card statements
• 2 Individual Saving accounts statements for each
• Mortgage and Lease statements
• Joint Insurance Policies - Auto/Health/Home
• Tax Transcripts
• 401k

Additional List of evidence:

• Costco membership
• Drivers License
• Joint Credit Card Scans
• Student loan and tuition payment statements
• Travel Photos

[Lavazza_K 9]

8 hours ago, pbid said:

I'm not sure how everyone is able to submit their application. I've been trying for over 10 days on Chrome, Firefox and IE-11 but my draft is never saved with the evidence I upload.

 

I keep on seeing the error: "Encountered an unexpected error retrieving draft evidence."

 

Is there a particular time of the day everyone submits their application OR am I uploading too much evidence that the system gives up?

 

Here is what I upload:

Evidences about marriage (3 years)

• 2 Individual Checking account statements for each
• 2 Joint Credit card statements
• 2 Individual Saving accounts statements for each
• Mortgage and Lease statements
• Joint Insurance Policies - Auto/Health/Home
• Tax Transcripts
• 401k

Additional List of evidence:

• Costco membership
• Drivers License
• Joint Credit Card Scans
• Student loan and tuition payment statements
• Travel Photos

I would suggest checking the size of your evidence document - i could be wrong. When I did my mom's other filing, i kept getting "unexpected error", even after it accepted my documents. The file limit on that case is 6mb, my file was 5.6mb, and for some reason it wouldn't take it. Then i reduced to 4mb and everything went through.

 

Also i called them the day i got that error. they have a technical support team, but sounds like in India. wasn't much help but you can give it a shot. 

 

Good luck!

Edited October 8, 2020 by Lavazza_K

[Lavazza_K 9]

looks like ATL is slow as usual. the processing time on my case is 11 months - showing Sep 2021. Filed 10/1 and havent updated, just showing background check.

[pbid 9]

2 hours ago, Lavazza_K said:

I would suggest checking the size of your evidence document - i could be wrong. When I did my mom's other filing, i kept getting "unexpected error", even after it accepted my documents. The file limit on that case is 6mb, my file was 5.6mb, and for some reason it wouldn't take it. Then i reduced to 4mb and everything went through.

 

Also i called them the day i got that error. they have a technical support team, but sounds like in India. wasn't much help but you can give it a shot. 

 

Good luck!

I tired uploading 1 document in each section just to get to the next page, but it still gave me the same error.
Also, Maximum size: 6MB per file as per the USCIS website

[robhat 7]

How is everyone figuring out their respective processing office (e.g. Denver, Atlanta, MSP-St.Paul)? Is it just that is where your GC application was processed? or is there a regional service map? or something else?

My receipt (only communications I have since submission) says National Benefits Center and an estimated case completion time of April 2021.

[Lavazza_K 9]

58 minutes ago, pbid said:

I tired uploading 1 document in each section just to get to the next page, but it still gave me the same error.
Also, Maximum size: 6MB per file as per the USCIS website

I see.. When did you try to do so? looking at their outage website, it seems they have a maintenance going on until tomorrow morning. though it says starting tonight..

 

https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/tools-outage

[pbid 9]

2 minutes ago, Lavazza_K said:

I see.. When did you try to do so? looking at their outage website, it seems they have a maintenance going on until tomorrow morning. though it says starting tonight..

 

https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/tools-outage

The 1 document upload I tried today and it didn't work

I was able to upload documents successfully yesterday(7th Oct) and it showed up on my Draft, but when I went to submit my application everything was lost. The draft size size was around 1 MB
 

[amyNJ 13]

25 minutes ago, robhat said:

How is everyone figuring out their respective processing office (e.g. Denver, Atlanta, MSP-St.Paul)? Is it just that is where your GC application was processed? or is there a regional service map? or something else?

My receipt (only communications I have since submission) says National Benefits Center and an estimated case completion time of April 2021.

https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-a-uscis-office/field-offices

At the end you put your zipcode and find your closest field office which are the ones were people have the interviews for several types of cases. 

 

 

3 hours ago, Lavazza_K said:

looks like ATL is slow as usual. the processing time on my case is 11 months - showing Sep 2021. Filed 10/1 and havent updated, just showing background check.

Mine is showing June 2021 (8 months) and showing that background check will take 4 days.

[Texanadian1 10]

On 10/2/2020 at 7:59 AM, robhat said:

Just checked this morning and it has an estimated case completion time of 6 months (April 2021).

 

Ugh, lucky. Mine said 13 months at the Dallas, Tx office.

[Vengatore 53]

Hello everyone.

 

My receipt notice for the fee just arrived by mail.

 

No changes on my online case status.

 

 

[pbid 9]

Finally able to submit my application after 10 days. I just deleted my draft and started with a new one 😌

[HoHkey 2]

Hi guys, I have a question regarding travels outside US when preparing N400.

Long story short, I am hitting 5 year anniversary as PR soon, starting preparing the N400, online, and after collected all my travel history in past 5 years, and realized I have 3 trips in which I went out 3 months+, with the longest about 4.5 months. Is that gonna be an issue I need to get some sort of documents to explain? If so what do I need ? Thanks   

[noini89 56]

Got my receipt in the mail today (notice of action).

[bokins 63]

Hi guys,

 

Just filled my application, hopefully for the last time! Good luck to everybody!