The processing times fear mongering

[Seven 24]

To all my I-90 renewal of green card filers (10 yr renewal). If you are doubting for any reason between N-400 or GC and see the greencard wait time is bigger than the N-400, don’t let yourself be fooled by those estimated times. At this moment, I just felt like I wanted to do things simple and renew my GC so I filed March 20. March 22 I got a notification saying it has been approved and card has been sent. Today (March 26), I received my new greencard in the mail. Total time from filing to receiving the card 6 days. The USCiS website says 20 months. Just your reminder that each case is different so if you have nothing outstanding, 20 months won’t necessarily be your wait time. 

Edited March 26, 2023 by Seven

[Crazy Cat 39,262]

I saw another similar case a couple weeks ago.  This would be great if USCIS makes this their standard.  Thanks for sharing this good experience.

[Lemonslice 4,555]

3 hours ago, Seven said:

To all my I-90 renewal of green card filers (10 yr renewal). If you are doubting for any reason between N-400 or GC and see the greencard wait time is bigger than the N-400, don’t let yourself be fooled by those estimated times. At this moment, I just felt like I wanted to do things simple and renew my GC so I filed March 20. March 22 I got a notification saying it has been approved and card has been sent. Today (March 26), I received my new greencard in the mail. Total time from filing to receiving the card 6 days. The USCiS website says 20 months. Just your reminder that each case is different so if you have nothing outstanding, 20 months won’t necessarily be your wait time. 

My timeline was very similar to yours. 

Fast and smooth experience.

 

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/790597-10-year-card-renewal-surprisingly-smooth-experience/

[Seven 24]

6 hours ago, Lemonslice said:

My timeline was very similar to yours. 

Fast and smooth experience.

 

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/790597-10-year-card-renewal-surprisingly-smooth-experience/

Yay! think it there are many out there and it is great! I just thought to share because usually what’s heard the most are the bad experiences and for someone just wanting to find info and guidance it can all be very demotivating 

[Allaboutwaiting 2,500]

1 minute ago, Seven said:

Yay! think it there are many out there and it is great! I just thought to share because usually what’s heard the most are the bad experiences and for someone just wanting to find info and guidance it can all be very demotivating 

I don't think it is about fear mongering but lowering people's expectations - and stopping them from pestering for at least 20 months 😜 -.

[OldUser 4,815]

7 minutes ago, Allaboutwaiting said:

I don't think it is about fear mongering but lowering people's expectations - and stopping them from pestering for at least 20 months 😜 -.

Agreed, the majority of cases are not blazing fast unfortunately.

[Seven 24]

51 minutes ago, Allaboutwaiting said:

I don't think it is about fear mongering but lowering people's expectations - and stopping them from pestering for at least 20 months 😜 -.

I am talking about what people say, stories they tell that make it look all cases are a nightmare. I am also talking about news to where it was said that it is crazy what immigration is doing to LPRs making them wait forever just to print a green card. I am also talking about the false advertisement and push that in these times it is better (if we only factor processing time) to do the N-400 than renewing a green card. That is all I am talking about. I understand that USCIS puts all cases from all people of all walks in life to do an estimate. It can be people who committed a crime or other irregularities that make their case longer and skew the estimation numbers. All I wanted is to share my experience to show not all cases are a nightmare. I have not won a Nobel prize, I am not in the military, I have done nothing special to get my case expedited. It just happened that way. I filed online, Potomac. No issues, it can happen.

[OldUser 4,815]

1 hour ago, Seven said:

I am talking about what people say, stories they tell that make it look all cases are a nightmare. I am also talking about news to where it was said that it is crazy what immigration is doing to LPRs making them wait forever just to print a green card. 

Look no further, recent post suggests it took 18 months to renew GC. This is a reality for most I-90 cases.

It's amazing that your case took few days to get approved. And thank you for sharing the experience. I would want to see more cases like yours to be saying "I-90 is a piece of cake, only takes few weeks to renew". Hopefully, USCIS is doing something to improve processing times, I hope this becomes the norm.

[TBoneTX 43,059]

The next step should be that USCIS mails out green cards with delivery-tracking, and perhaps delivery signatures required.  There are too many stories here of "Informed Delivery showed that my GC was delivered, but it wasn't" and "My name is on the mailbox, but when I researched, I learned that the GC had been sent back."  Inexcusable for something so crucial in people's lives.

[Seven 24]

36 minutes ago, OldUser said:

Look no further, recent post suggests it took 18 months to renew GC. This is a reality for most I-90 cases.

It's amazing that your case took few days to get approved. And thank you for sharing the experience. I would want to see more cases like yours to be saying "I-90 is a piece of cake, only takes few weeks to renew". Hopefully, USCIS is doing something to improve processing times, I hope this becomes the norm.

I am not saying those do not exist. However, not everyone who files posts in this forum. 

[Seven 24]

31 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

The next step should be that USCIS mails out green cards with delivery-tracking, and perhaps delivery signatures required.  There are too many stories here of "Informed Delivery showed that my GC was delivered, but it wasn't" and "My name is on the mailbox, but when I researched, I learned that the GC had been sent back."  Inexcusable for something so crucial in people's lives.

Next (big) step would be that immigration processes were free. Yay! 

[TBoneTX 43,059]

51 minutes ago, Seven said:

Next (big) step would be that immigration processes were free. Yay! 

In one sense, yes; however, processing times would balloon to half a lifetime.

[Cathi 5,610]

It's not fear mongering when it's the truth. Your case is not the norm by any stretch of the imagination.

[Seven 24]

2 hours ago, Cathi said:

It's not fear mongering when it's the truth. Your case is not the norm by any stretch of the imagination.

Do you process all the cases? I am trying to share my experience but let’s continue focusing on the negative. Again, I am not special. The norm? Maybe not. Maybe average wait a year, I don’t know, there are many variables. I don’t dare to say that everyone will have my experience but that they CAN. Obviously, not impossible.

[xzsca10 33]

this is interesting.. Although anyone waiting 20 months is for reasons like administrative mistakes (getting a CR-1 accidentally when you should have gotten an IR-1). 

 

From my understanding, renewals tend to be fast. It's when Uncle sam makes a mistake that it takes a looong time.