Thomas W

Just checked this past Friday, and we are updated to "New Card is being Produced" as of April 5 2024. We were "Case Received" on November 12 2021, so however long that is. 2.5 years more or less. It looks like Potomac is moving quickly now. I wasn't expecting anything until August this year. Yall hang in there!

I'm still the stage "Case Was Received" as a November 2021 filer. It's extremely disappointing and we're just now approaching halfway, based on that 4-year extension letter we all should have received. Since January of this year I've been tracking 25 cases from the previous year, starting at 2190150000, which were filed in ~April 2021. There has been limited movement on the 22 cases for i-751 in that span, 8 now show approval, most recently on August 23 2023. I really wish we had a better sense of what is going on here, but clearly i-751 has been de-prioritized. I'm not sure if there's a political angle for this ("get people to pay for citizenship") or if it's to allocate workers toward other backlogs, or what. But it's really disappointing. I want this to be done so I can get it out of my mind. Carrying it too long now.

Help me get the story right... Since we filed i-751, I feel the time has telescoped from 1. with good confidence, receiving approval within 6-8 months, to: 2. needing a two year extension letter, to: 3. awaiting a 4-year extension letter. Also I just saw this. Check out some of the proposed fee increases... https://newlandchase.com/united-states-uscis-proposed-fee-increases/ the petition to remove conditions from green card status I-751 filing fee increased from $595 to $1,195, which is a 100% raise; the I-485 Adjustment of Status (green card application) filed with the I-765 Employment Authorization Document and I-131 Advance Parole (travel authorization) filing fee increasing from $1,225 to $2,820, Pay more money, for less service.

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Good point, I was wondering how those situations would present. I'm beginning to consider a letter to congressman. It's a stunning lack of any progress. Do you happen to know when was the last meaningful progress? i.e. when did it downshift?

Even cases in 120000 range don't have many obvious approvals. 120002 was just approved February 1. 110006 was approved February 3. I really wonder what is going on. It seems that there definitely has been a CONSCIOUS, INTENTIONAL depriority of these cases. With maybe one person working on i-751? I don't know why. Maybe to encourage people to go N-400? Or are workplace shortages all being reallocated to focus elsewhere? I'd say, if you want N-400, definitely go for it. edit: A reminder that I'm only following Washington DC. Other national centers may be rolling along.

We're up to February 8. I've been tracking cases at 150000 - 150025 We had approvals of YSC2190150002, 150012, 150018. This means of the 21 i-751 cases I'm tracking, only 3 got approved in that range. These cases all were submitted in early April 2021. Generally I find this disheartening, but at least there is SOME progress. Ill spot check some more in teh future: Between 150000 and 160000, I find a few approvals, maybe up to 20%, but mostly they are still waiting. Beyond 160000 I haven't seen any. I checked the very beginning of the 2022 batch Definitely nothing. So I still believe they're working in April 2021 cases. Long story short: almost no progress.

So everyone on this specific thread "November 2021 ROC Filers" who actually filed in Oct/November of '21 should start with 22. Our case number also should be relatively low. For example mine is 5xxx, which for DC is very early in the year case load. YSC atually needs 6 of the digits for all of the case load. You can check from prior year: 210000 is getting near the end of case year 21. For example ysc2190210010 is an i-751 that was received Sept 7 2021. Then ysc2290001000 is a i-751 that was received Oct 7 2021. https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/mycasestatus.do

From what I've read, it starts with the year... 22 would be 2022. Then the next three are the day in the year, so 290 would be day #290 in the yearly cycle. However, the year for USCIS runs from Oct 1 - Sept 30. So day 001 is October 1. Finally, I think some of forms don't operate on the day basis, such as i-751. I believe this has a unique prefix, 900. Then final 5 are the specific case number. e.g. 25000 So 2290000001 should have been received Oct 1 2021

YSC2190155006 was approved yesterday. This is good news. I think this is an APril or May 2021 submission. It does show they are making progress at least. Again, FY2021 has something like 215000 cases for YSC. So we got another 60000 to go, which is about 6 months worth. We're a ways away still (if you're in DC center).

Ah yes, good question! My assumption was that the risk-based approach would affect all active cases, not only those submitted after April 2022. I figured that the backlog had grown so much, they need a way to unclog the system. But perhaps you're right. Regardless, good luck on your ROC. This has actually been the most frustrating part of the journey, perhaps because the stakes seem lower yet the time keeps growing. You know, it's like being in the last leg of a marathon but then they start moving the finish line.

I'm not totally clear your question, but here goes: The speed for i-751 really depends on your service center. WAC (West coast) seems to be moving along pretty well. I haven't seen much progress at all for Washington D.C., but I haven't been carefully tracking until now. There definitely are approvals from April 2021 rolling in, but I only saw a few from May 2021 or later. To be honest, I'm worried that D.C. is completely stalled out. I'll try to keep track over the next 1-2 months to see if approvals come in for Case # 150000 and beyond. Have you ever used the Case Tracker app? I'd love to get a few more people on board to see what they find.

YSC/MSC Updates: Hi all, I've been doing some research on the Case Tracker app. For YSC21xxx, there are about 215,000 cases from that fiscal year (Oct '20 - Sept '21). As best I can tell, they are current to about YSC2190145000, which is early April '21 filers. My case is YSC2290005xxx, which is early November '21. So, they're 7 months behind us still. I'm not sure there has been any movement lately, but I wanted to leave this forum post here as a bookmark to check back in 1-2 months, to see if they have advanced at all beyond 147000. Thanks all. Hang in there.

Love that approvals are coming through for our west coast friends ^^ Anyone here with case status service center listed as YSC? (The old D.C. prefix) See you next June.

Looks like some good progress up through May filers, but then it drops off. We'll be lucky to see anything before end of year.