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[Abeltensor 0]

My mother is an 81 year old Canadian citizen and has been a resident alien of the United States since 1984, for roughly 41 to 42 years. She applied for citizenship in July 2024, and completed the steps up to and including the interview by December 13th 2024.  Since that time we have not gotten any kind of reasonable response as to why the application is taking this long. Even with the current processing times, this application is very far outside of the average that they listed which was 180 days for the Baltimore office.

 

We've submitted a few inquiries and even asked the house representative of the district to check in on the status of the filing etc.  At this point is it worth it to get a immigration lawyer to potentially sue USCIS for them to finally make a decision?  We're kind of at the end of our rope, especially with what's going on in this country with immigration. I know of people who have gone through the process at the same office much faster, and so it's baffling to me that It is taking so long for us to get a response.

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[OldUser 10,269]

15 minutes ago, Abeltensor said:

At this point is it worth it to get a immigration lawyer to potentially sue USCIS for them to finally make a decision? 

Yes, absolutely.

 

The reason for slow down is her long history in the US. USCIS need to make sure she didn't violate laws or falsely claimed to be a US citizen.

 

Sueing will force them to make a decision.

[SalishSea 18,496]

2 hours ago, Abeltensor said:

My mother is an 81 year old Canadian citizen and has been a resident alien of the United States since 1984, for roughly 41 to 42 years. She applied for citizenship in July 2024, and completed the steps up to and including the interview by December 13th 2024.  Since that time we have not gotten any kind of reasonable response as to why the application is taking this long. Even with the current processing times, this application is very far outside of the average that they listed which was 180 days for the Baltimore office.

 

We've submitted a few inquiries and even asked the house representative of the district to check in on the status of the filing etc.  At this point is it worth it to get a immigration lawyer to potentially sue USCIS for them to finally make a decision?  We're kind of at the end of our rope, especially with what's going on in this country with immigration. I know of people who have gone through the process at the same office much faster, and so it's baffling to me that It is taking so long for us to get a response.

That is very strange.  Were there any red flags with her case?  Most N400 decisions happen at the interview.

[Boiler 47,716]

INA 236b they have 120 days

 

Cheapest to mention as they have not done their job you will naturalise by the Judge. That may get some action and avoid legal fees.

[Abeltensor 0]

1 hour ago, SalishSea said:

That is very strange.  Were there any red flags with her case?  Most N400 decisions happen at the interview.

That's what I thought too. The guy who interviewed her was actually really impressed with her, and I expected him to basically swear her in right then and there but he didn't.  I just assumed that he didn't because it was right around the time that the administration was about to change (this was in December right before Trump took office). 

 

3 hours ago, OldUser said:

Yes, absolutely.

 

The reason for slow down is her long history in the US. USCIS need to make sure she didn't violate laws or falsely claimed to be a US citizen.

 

Sueing will force them to make a decision.

No my mom has never been in legal trouble in or outside of the us.  She certainly has never claimed to be a US citizen either. I suppose I can understand if they were looking at her long history in the states, but that doesn't make much sense given that some of her friends who did get their citizenship in the same time at the same office have been in the country for about the same amount of time too. She has two sons, I'm one of them and both of us are dual citizen and her ex-husband, my father is an American.  I'm thinking about suing them, but I'm going to try and exhaust as many avenues as I can, I found some resources that told me that I haven't done that yet. 

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

INA 236b they have 120 days

 

Cheapest to mention as they have not done their job you will naturalise by the Judge. That may get some action and avoid legal fees.

I was reading the post on here about filing yourself, and I think that's what I'm going to do after I exhausted the other couple of resources.  Generally these cases don't go to court, but obviously somebody has dropped the ball here.

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