Libra55

yes, I applied on marriage
 
I had 6 question, 1 read, 1 write
1- what did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
2- Who is in charge of the executive branch?
3-We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
4-Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?
5- What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
6- Name of three national U.S. holidays
 
then, read 1 sentence, write 1 sentence
then, ask around 10 more questions to confirm information in N400
 
total 10 minutes, super fast. 

Congrats what they asked in the interview? Are you applying based on marriage thanks?

Meaning if there are changes happened after your interview, like if you travel international or if you get married (if you're single). You will see all of these questions once you receive your oath letter.

Yep still waiting. I have an estimated completion date of June 2019

Anyways, if your local office is Chicago, IL the average time from NOA to Interview is/was 210-220 days. So, I guess you can expect your interview to be sometime in March.
If you local filed office is Montgomery, AL the wait time is approximately 280-300 days. In this case you should expect your interview to be scheduled for May-June 2019. 
 
Hope this helps. 
And by the way, calculating your average wait time is not a rocket science. As a matter of fact, this whole section of VJ is dedicated to answer your question. All you need to do is to find 2-3 the most recent N-400 applicants from your local field office and do a simple 3rd grade math. 

My field office is in Dallas and my estimated completion time says 20 more months to go. So yes a lot of us still waiting depending on your field office.

New Card Is Being Produced
On August 31, 2018, we ordered your new card for Receipt Number EAC17235xxx, and will mail it to the address you gave us. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
 
 
Finally, I have an update. VSC, 5/22/2017. I filed N400 since last early August. 
 

New Card Is Being Produced
On August 31, 2018, we ordered your new card for Receipt Number EAC17235xxx, and will mail it to the address you gave us. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
 
 
Finally, I have an update. VSC, 5/22/2017. I filed N400 since last early August. 
 

New Card Is Being Produced
On August 31, 2018, we ordered your new card for Receipt Number EAC17235xxx, and will mail it to the address you gave us. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
 
 
Finally, I have an update. VSC, 5/22/2017. I filed N400 since last early August. 
 

New Card Is Being Produced
On August 31, 2018, we ordered your new card for Receipt Number EAC17235xxx, and will mail it to the address you gave us. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
 
 
Finally, I have an update. VSC, 5/22/2017. I filed N400 since last early August. 
 

Sigh... what's going on with DHS, it's getting more and more slowly to process the application
It's 14 months in waiting without any response from DHS since the date of biometric
(VSC, May 22, 17235xxx)

I got another update this morning from my uscis.gov online account.
 
June 13, 2018We approved your case June 13, 2018
We approved your case
Read the notice we mailed you for more information
If you do not receive your notice by July 13, 2018, send us a case inquiry and select that you did not receive your notice by mail.
If your mailing address changes, update your address with us.
  June 13, 2018We are producing your card and will mail it to you June 13, 2018
We are producing your card and will mail it to you
You do not need to do anything at this time
We will mail your Green Card, employment authorization document (EAD), or combo card (EAD and advance parole) to the address you gave us. It may take up to 120 days to deliver your new card.
If your mailing address changes, update your address with us.

im sure you’ll get it soon, just give it a couple of days 

Exactly, It's June 1st now and I"m May filer VSC and still waiting, and saw some June 2017 VSC filers got their approval already. 
This is so frustrating..........

me too, May filer, and still "April 09th received at local office"
I send an request to USIC everyday because i feel so upset in waiting too long

Your NOA is 5-22-17. I have seen a few May filers be approved roughly 375 days after their NOA so you could get an approval in the next 3 weeks,

Its EAC17236

congratulation! may i ask you a little question: what is your case tracking number? I mean 3 numbers behind EAC17xxx

Hello Everyone, I'm sharing my experience of I-751, application, RFE (Request for Evidence) and Approval.
 
Here is how I approach my case with a lot mistakes that you might will learn from.
 
1. When I sent my Package of I-751, I didn't took it too seriously and send very brief documents?
 (Make sure, send every possible documents you have, when send the I-751 Package)

here are some major most important once, there are more based on each case.
A. Open Joint Account and credit/loan together that is the major factor. (They Want to see Financial Mingling between both of you, and its one of the major thing, Send bank Statements, Do not just send bank summary, send monthly statements from start to end) (btw I sent summary, which was a mistake). 
b. Have Utility Bills Together (Power bill, phone bill etc. (I didn't knew about having utility bill together will affect much so I didn't bother to get Joint utility bills together, 
c. File Joint Tax- (Must Need to send IRS Transcript)
d. Joint Insurance- (1095-A or other proof of insurance)
e. Affidavit of Sworn from Friend, (Get it Notarized if Possible)
f. Pictures together, as much as possible on different occasions
g. House/apartment lease (This is also important because they want to see if you live together)
h. State ID/Driver Licence (to show you live together
i. W2 from you job, this one is important with IRS transcript ( I didn't sent W-2 because I though IRS transcript will be enough, but guess it's not.)
j. If you went on vacation, attached reservation/itinerary ( we had vacation together but didn't bother to attach itinerary when filed. 
and other necessary documents based on your case. 
 
After I file I-751. received a confirmation letter, also known as I-797, Notification that case is received. Afterwards, in next four months, received letter for fingerprints, got fingerprints done. After fingerprints, we received a letter of Extension, (1 year extension until case is processed). When Extension almost expired, we received the RFE (Request for Evidence). 
If you received RFE, first of all don't worry, Its normal to received RFE and almost everyone receives it, (I think until case is processed, which usually takes 2-3 years so they send RFE to get the updated documents).
 
Here why I received RFE, I sent 1 month summary for 1 year, I know its stupid, didn't had any utility bills together, and didn't had loan together. But Here's how I approached RFE and sent all possible documents. 
 
a. First of all read RFE properly and understand what they want and why?  
b. Evaluate what you have and what you don't.
c. Gather what you have, Make sure every possible document.
d. If you don't have any documents, make sure to provide an explanation letter (I wasn't sure about letter, I worked with an attorney on this)

I have Attached the cover letter I sent , and how you should write the explanation letter and of course affidavit of sworn. 
(ALL 3 DOCUMENTS ARE UNDER ONE WORD DOCUMENT)
 
One more suggestion will be to create case yourself, if you want a review, you can hire an attorney, which I usually I get from Fiverr app, its cheap and work out great for me. I paid $115 bucks for review of my case before submission and got good feedback from an attorney.
 
GOOD LUCK and feel free to drop a question and I will try to answer, also check attached document. 
 
(Sorry for grammar/spelling mistakes)
 
 
Cover_Letter_for_I751 - sample.doc

I think most people here are trying to tell you that you are wasting your time. 
 
How do you figure?  It took me less than a couple of days to assemble the evidence and then the nominal expense of postage.
 
From a Cost/Benefit standpoint, it's nothing.
 
Very little is is needed to approve a waiver and they don’t care what your side is.
 
Respectfully, I've heard differently.
 
Try googling I-751 denied or similar terminology.
 
Maybe the cases that you will read about are rare, but it seems that USCIS does look for evidence of a genuine marriage.  I get that impression every time somebody posts on this board about an I-751 denial in a state of panic.  There are some clerical issues that can be easily resolved with the help of a lawyer, but there are also some cases where they didn't submit enough evidence.  My ex would be in the latter position most likely.
 
Lastly, I wonder if there's bias in this.
 
Consider that a citizen gets scammed and comes to a board like this asking for advice.  Everybody tells him to move on with his life and leave the petitioner alone.
 
You think that might impact results?  That I-751's get rubber-stamped because nobody bothers to challenge anything?  Because the victim is already told to not try?
 
 
 
 

Has nothing to do with Trump.  We went 3 years ago when my wife was denied and detained.  Stop throwing blame when you have no proof or factual information.  First of all it's the Mexican gov. that is requiring those document, NOT the U.S. and Pres. Trump. They want their citizens to flow freely to the U.S. but if you dare cross their border illegally and get caught you'll wish you hadn't for a very long time.
You are here because obviously you are trying to obtain a Visa or status LEGALLY.   This process and everybody on here wouldn't have to wait years if our borders were secure and there weren't so many ILLEGALS flooding the U.S. systems and slowing them down.
 

No need if you dont have plans to travel. But people usually get i-551 stamp on their passport as proof of status.

I am only posting this here because I believe this is the only packet large enough to warrant using a flat rate box instead of envelopes.  It is quite a money saver, but there are a few catches.
 
If you happen to live somewhat close to your Service Center it is worth looking into the USPS Regional Rate Boxes.  They are new-ish, but much, much less expensive for Priority Mail which is not going too far.
 
You MUST order the boxes online, but they are free.  You can get them from the USPS store or from 3rd party sites like Stamps.com.  You also MUST schedule a pickup from your home or business with your normal mail delivery or else there is an extra fee.  
 
We subscribed to the "everything but the kitchen sink" philosophy so we would have had to use a Large Priority Mail Flat Rate Box, which costs $18.85.  Instead we used a Regional Flat Rate Box B and only paid $7.17 for the same 3 Day Priority Mail with tracking.
 
There are two shapes of Box A, which is smaller (about the size, or a bit larger, than the Flat Rate M boxes), and two shapes of Box B (larger than the Flat Rate L boxes). 
 
This also came in handy for the holiday season...  USPS doesn't advertise that they have these options, and they are online only.  I spoke with a Post Office employee recently and it is also worth noting that the weight cutoff for First Class mail in store is 10oz, while online it is 13oz.  So you can get much better rates if you print your postage at home and have it picked up by your normal mail carrier.
 
You have to use the USPS Calculate A Price function or really look through their long PDFs of rates, so I am including links to the Stamps.com rate table and the USPS Zone Calculator, which is easier and more straight forward.
 
It takes 5-10 days for your Regional Rate Boxes to arrive, so plan on this and order early.  This is the one you will most likely need for your packet: 
https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/priority-mail-regional-rate-box---b1-P_RRB_B1
 
Hope this helps and good luck to all!
 
https://www.stamps.com/usps/priority-mail-regional-rate-box/
https://postcalc.usps.com/DomesticZoneChart

Here is a link to the different choices of boxes, just because:
https://store.usps.com/store/results?_dyncharset=UTF-8&Dy=1&Nty=1&siteScope=ok&_D%3AsiteScope=+&Ntt=regional&search=&_D%3Asearch=+&_DARGS=%2Fstore%2Fcartridges%2FSearchBox%2FSearchBox.jsp

Immigration is a complex topic, from all sides, as is DACA.  The problem is not necessarily with the DACA kids at all...but there are issues with blank citizenship for these kids.  Firstly, as they are undocumented (by nature of their entry) it is difficult to prove that they truly qualify as DACA.  Secondly, children continue to be in the same situation as DACA kids because parents will continue to bring over young children illegally hoping that the US will not send them back if/when they are discovered.  Where does it stop? What makes children arriving in 2007 or later, less deserving?  It is the peripheral issues that will always bog down the processes.
 
In any case, I do not begrudge those going through DACA currently, the process they have now been given, any more than any other applicant.   There are plenty of other "legal" applicants trying to scam the system (paying for green card marriages, etc.) that bog down the process for everyone.   Our opinions are our own, and part of the beauty of this country is our right to express them.  That does not excuse name-calling and bullying of those that don't agree with them.  A little kindness goes a long way.