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You can't track your case with the receipt number from the NOA1.
When you get your biometrics appointment letter there will be another receipt number on it which you can use with case tracking. 

They're likely referring to the scaremongering statement from the USCIS union last year. It simply referred to the plan to expand eligibility for interview waiver cases. I highly doubt there's any way USCIS is going to reduce the processing and background checks for AOS cases.
Please don't take this as an attack on you, but more on general things I see expressed here frequently: the anti-DACA sentiment here is outstanding and misguided. DACA is for people who were brought here as children, through no fault or choice of their own. All of these people at least partially grew up in the United States, attended school here, entered the workforce and paid taxes, etc. Many won't even know of life anywhere else because they came here so young, and yet they grow up in the total nightmare scenario of having no legal status in the only place they know as home, entirely because of decisions made outside of their control. And then here you have spouses of US citizens weighing themselves up against people that actually grew up in this country yet face the threat of deportation every day. Saying that one of these groups deserves their green cards over the other is a very black and white dismissal of a scenario that is almost entirely grey area. It is so counterproductive to say that someone needs to go to the "back of the line" (in quotes because there never is a back of the line), because it's simply not a situation that the government can keep ignoring.
As for the expansion of deferred action - that hasn't even happened yet, so I find it very tough to swallow this idea that it's impacting current cases in any sort of meaningful way.
Re. USCIS adjudicators facing unnecessary paperwork - well, it's their job. They are public servants. In one breath people here are berating them for their uselessness, and in the next expressing personal concern for their workload, because it fits some united standpoint against undocumented immigrants. While I see it as completely right for them to demand budget or staffing increases to deal with an increase in workload, or to raise valid concerns about security, I don't think their politicized attempts to obstruct immigration policy hold any weight.
Ultimately, any beef with the USCIS policies, processing times or delays need to be directed at the USCIS, and not at other applicants. The demand should be for USCIS to increase their processing capacity or to work more efficiently, rather than for other cases to be deprioritized because some consider them undeserving. People really need to stop pitting themselves against others in some sort of turf war over who deserves to be here more. It's a very juvenile way of tackling a very real problem. Try and think a little selflessly when assessing the value of the lives of complete strangers. Live and let live.

While I agree that patience is a virtue and it's often not worth getting too deep in frustration over individual cases, I think the more people that push back against USCIS and escalate their issues, the better. Their processing goal for I-485s is 4 months, and this is nowhere near being met in many cases. USCIS has a commitment to process cases in a timely fashion and, again, this is something that is just not happening for large numbers of people.
Along with a lack of capacity, the arbitrary manner in which cases are adjudicated results in vastly different service levels for different filers, all of whom have invested a lot of money and energy. Through no fault of my own, other people who filed on the same date as me, and paid the exact same sum of money as me, may be granted permanent residence months or even a year or more ahead of me. That's not an isolated incident, it's routine, and the implications are very real. These people can apply for citizenship much earlier, access federal student aid, hold federal government jobs, buy property with much fewer restrictions, the list goes on. No matter how much you can do without a green card, not having one is a hindrance.
There's always going to be cases that require extra processing or that get held up at certain points, and that's fine. But instead, what we have now is wide-ranging delays across the board, without any guidance on realistic processing times, without any ability to access accurate information and without any promise that the situation will be resolved.
I personally am not all that fussed about a longer wait, but I absolutely understand anyone that is and I applaud them for their efforts in trying to get answers or resolutions that could benefit all of us.

That sounds like it could be a fun thread - "Things that are 'processed' faster than our waiver cases"

GREAT NEWS!!!! Found a Civil Surgeon who has been doing this for over 25 years. I asked if they deal with K Visa Immigrants and they said "you mean the transferring of the vaccinations to the I-693. There was no bulls**t or anything. She said it coast $50 dollars for the transcribing, very nice woman. Great to find a civil surgeon not looking to rip me off. Just in case there are any other Connecticut filers, the address of this doctor is:
Dr. Henry Jacobs
65 Memorial Road, Suite 550
West Hartford, CT 06107
Phone # 860-233-8589