qoqisha

ROC approved on 8/7/14, card received 8/14/14

Thank you so much VJ members!

Filing the N400 application forced them to approve your pending ROC! Wait for that letter/ notice in the mail! A celebration won't hurt! It's still good news! Good luck with the N400

Qoqisha's approval updated!

Thanks Kash2011,

Let's hope we didn't jump the gun on the approval

So, tomorrow would mark the 6th week of receipt of my RFE response by CSC. I had given up on waiting for an answer on my ROC and sent my application for Naturalization, which was received yesterday. So when I received text messages this morning, I simply ignored them because I assumed they were just messages letting me know my N-400 had been received. Finally logged onto USCIS and checked my ROC case and I see "On August 7, 2014, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you."

I am partly excited because this is the answer we'd been waiting for for almost a year now, but also concerned about the timing of the message (same day as my N-400 was received) and part of me suspects that they sent the wrong update from the wrong case #

Will wait till we get the letter in the mail and update you folks. Don't know if we should celebrate yet or not

Thank you for the reply Dave. Wouldn't the 'inconsistency' in listing past 5 years of residence and employment history but limiting physical presence history to 3 years create problems?

Hey folks,

I am working on filling out the naturalization form, eligible via the 3 year rule, and had a couple of questions.

Basic background: came to the US on an F-1 in 2002, H-1B status from 2008 through 2011, married to USC in 2010, AoS in 2011, LPR as of September 2011.

1) 3 year vs 5 year: On sections that relate to residence history, employment history, trips outside the US; should I try and cover 5 years or the 3 years since I became a LPR?

I know this question has been asked multiple times and I have read a lot of posts on this issue, but it seems like the questions were being asked by people who came to the US within the last 3 years prior to filing the N-400 and are wondering if they should also include information covering periods prior to their arrival to the US. I could not find a case where a poster was initially located in the US prior to becoming an LPR in regards to this issue and my apologies for asking a question that has been asked multiple times, just wanted to get your input as it relates to my situation.

I am inclined towards answering these questions based on a 3 year calculation and crossing out the 5/five and writing 3/three...or should I just go ahead and do it based on the last 5 years, even though I have not been a LPR 2 of those 5?

2) Evidence to include with application: I applied for ROC in July 2013 to VSC, case got transferred to CSC and I did not hear anything about my case for the next 8 months, then received one of those generic RFEs. I responded to the RFE and have not heard anything back since (almost a month now). I have read about other people's experiences who have successfully gone through the naturalization process while their I-751 was still pending and have decided to go ahead and file for naturalization since it has now been a full year of ROC process. I have posted in the July 2013 ROC filers thread regarding my initial evidence and RFE response.

My response to the RFE included several hundred pages of bank statement copies spanning the years. Should the evidence I send with the N-400 be limited or should I send everything in again?

Sorry for the long-winded post, I do appreciate all your suggestions

Just wanted to update fellow VJers that I had sent a response, on 6/26 to the generic RFE I'd received. My packet was about 250 pages (mostly double-sided) and mainly included:

<<Financial>>

- Bank statements: 4 from 2011, January 2012-present >> This was the bulk of the packet

- IRS tax return transcripts with corresponding W2s: 2010 through 2013

- Copies of credit cards (wife authorized user) along with statements: 3 from 2012, 3 from 2013, YTD 2014

- Joint car insurance

- Joint car title

- Letter from Employer affirming wife is beneficiary on life insurance and retirement, along with printouts from the respective providers showing this

<<Communal Residence>>

- Current residence documents - deed, mortgage, insurance >> all these are in Wife's name. We were initially misled that my having an expired GC, even with an extension letter would flag me as a 'high risk' for potential lenders

- Drivers licenses for both of us showing current address

- Latest electricity bill, along with a history of account (electric company could not print me monthly statements) showing both names on the account for current address

- Copies of gas bill, both names on account: Nov 2013 - present

- Copy of lease agreement for the first apartment we lived at right after getting married: Apr 2010-March 2011, along with util account history

- Copies of the 2 lease agreements for our next apartment: March 2011 - Nov 2013, along with electricity bill Jan 2013-Nov 2013

- Copies of drivers license for both of us showing previous address

Random stuff like Costco memberships, paystubs for both of us throughout the years showing the different addresses, random mail sent to either me or my wife at our current address

Hoping to hear a response to this RFE in the next couple of weeks, if not I plan on sending my N-400 by the end of this month.

What a stressful and seemingly endless journey!!

Congrats Lidia & JB!! I am gathering my RFE response and hope to send it in by the end of this month. This is encouraging news.

Requested 3 years of tax transcripts from the IRS online about a month ago and still nothing in the mail. Am guessing the IRS is particularly busy this time of year

I have been following the July filers thread for quite some time to get ideas on timelines and am finally joining since there hasn't been much activity on this thread for some time

We had filed my I-751 to VSC on July 19, 2013 , the case got transferred to CSC on Sept 17, 2013, and had not heard anything from USCIS since. So I filed an eRequest on March 25, 2014 and got an email saying they would respond by April 9th. I received an RFE yesterday from CSC dated April 10th

I am assuming whoever had my case was just sitting on it without even looking at it for the 7 months since my transfer. Since I had filed the eRequest and their deadline to respond was April 9, the IO simply rifled through my file and generated an RFE just to respond to the eRequest....but that is just my assumption, I will look towards other seasoned VJ members for more experience based speculation

In responding to the RFE, along with everything I had already sent, I am planning on sending them an IRS transcript for our last 3 years of tax returns, 3 years of bank statements, car insurance docs, utility bills (is it okay if they are in either one of our names but not both?).

How uncommon is it to not have heard anything for 8 months and then get slapped with an RFE, what can I do if I really don't have much more documentation that what I had already sent in ?

VJName............Date of I-751....NOA1 Date.....Biometrics......Approved...
QOQISHA...........07/19/13........07/23/13.......08/22/13.......(RFE received 04/10/14)(Trans from VSC 09/17/13)