I - 751 January 2022 Filers

[Doublepike 53]

Just now, Rocio0010 said:

Yours was also really fast!!! 3 months! Am I reading your timeline correctly?

Yes, mine took 72 days I just counted. From Feb to May! 

[A110 80]

I think this is just the evidence-based approach kicking it. Now for those who have strong cases and were interviewed for their I485 Also (I think the ones who got waived for 485 are more likely to take longer) and are taking long, my hunch is that that they are starting out with an "experimental" batch and expanding the batch as weeks/months go by. I also see EAD's getting approved faster.

[Rocio0010 5,577]

16 minutes ago, Dude41 said:

an "experimental" batch

But what would the experiment be? 

 

21 minutes ago, Dude41 said:

I also see EAD's getting approved faster.

Definitely!

[Sarge2155 4,571]

52 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

Yours was also really fast!!! 3 months! Am I reading your timeline correctly?

Yes, they were one of the first ones to blaze through. I was shocked to see their approval, but this latest one electrocuted me!

 

[Rocio0010 5,577]

I wonder if we all sent an out of processing time request if it would do anything... Do it massively to get their attention?

[A110 80]

39 minutes ago, Rocio0010 said:

But what would the experiment be? 

 

 

My hunch is the risk based approach being applied to these cases (maybe there is a software and they just need training?). The whole model should not be complicated really , perhaps just training the officers in the data entry and what not. But I can be wrong

[brazilk1visa 12]

I filled Jan 1st and only got the biometrics waived recently. Soooo slow. Now 22 days is insane, I am also happy for them but are they trying to drive people that are waiting crazy? It is difficult to make sense of it. I don't think there is an experimental batch or anything like that - it is just the law of entropy at work. Go figure.

[Yannary 70]

The time processing is always crazy to me. When I applied for my citizenship in 2017 the average wait time was 12-18 months. Mine took exactly 90 days from the day I sent application to the day I did my oath. 

When I did my adjustment of status back in 2009, I got the 10 year green card in the mail 45 days after I mailed my forms in. No interview, nothing (we did have the first interview and we had a child together) 

Those were the good times. 

 

Still haven't heard anything about my husbands case other than had the fingerprints taken. I am thinking we will have to have an interview since we didn't have one together for first GC. He just had it by himself at the US embassy in London. 

 

[brazilk1visa 12]

On 9/23/2022 at 9:07 AM, Yannary said:

The time processing is always crazy to me. When I applied for my citizenship in 2017 the average wait time was 12-18 months. Mine took exactly 90 days from the day I sent application to the day I did my oath. 

When I did my adjustment of status back in 2009, I got the 10 year green card in the mail 45 days after I mailed my forms in. No interview, nothing (we did have the first interview and we had a child together) 

Those were the good times. 

 

Still haven't heard anything about my husbands case other than had the fingerprints taken. I am thinking we will have to have an interview since we didn't have one together for first GC. He just had it by himself at the US embassy in London. 

 

That is pretty fast. Were you applying from the UK in the cases you mentioned? 

Edited September 26, 2022 by brazilk1visa

[Saman1103 41]

Still no news. The wait is starting to get annoying 

[erzengel 37]

13 hours ago, Saman1103 said:

Still no news. The wait is starting to get annoying 

Same here.  IIRC, you and I received our biometrics appointments in Sacramento a week or two apart in February.  Since then, we've heard nothing.  I'm not expecting any updates until Summer 2023.

[BragdonLaw 5]

My wife and I were approved on 10.5.22 (filed on 1.16.22, bio waived), same date as our AOS interview. Oddly enough we received a letter in the mail a week after our interview (yet dated prior to interview) waiving our interview and approving us. The interviewer never mentioned to this to us and conducted the interview as originally scheduled. It was simple and straightforward, all questions only being asked of my wife (applicant) about how we met, her addresses while in country, jobs while in country, and only specific question was for her to tell the story about how/when I proposed to her. Pretty simple. Good luck to the rest of you on this thread. 

[Saman1103 41]

5 hours ago, erzengel said:

Same here.  IIRC, you and I received our biometrics appointments in Sacramento a week or two apart in February.  Since then, we've heard nothing.  I'm not expecting any updates until Summer 2023.

Correct, I'll be applying for n400 today. Hopefully that speeds things up

[Pininfarina 74]

9 minutes ago, Saman1103 said:

Correct, I'll be applying for n400 today. Hopefully that speeds things up

Same here. Sick of the wait. N400 here we go!

[Caitlin Kennedy 63]

Can I get some more clarity on the double hole punch thing? I haven't seen this anywhere. We submitted our entire AOS  packet without doing that (we put each form in a manila folder) - is it different for 751?