WI_CA

Hello,

I got recently naturalized and I am applying for my mom IR5.

Going through the documents I have, I realized that my mother's full name was not included on my birth certificate. They way names work in my country is that the middle name is actually the name of person's father, grandfather, greater grandfather.

So her name in her birth certificate, national ID & her passport is her first name, name of her father, grandfather, greater grandfather and finally her Family name

On my birth certificate, what is included is only her name, name of her father, grandfather.

To make things worse, I checked her marriage certificate and realized that they omitted her family name but included the rest.

We applied to correct her name on my birth certificate, but that will take some time.

My question is that can I apply for her with the birth certificate I have on hand and with her passport showing her full name and include one of the names as an alternative name used before? I can upload my new birth certificate reflecting her full name once that is produced at a later time point. Or would that get us an RFE immediately?

Appreciate any advice.

I had my oath ceremony finally scheduled for 10/15. Initially was supposed to have my oath 7/16 but was out of the country. Requested rescheduling initially with no response until today, they finally rescheduled for 10/15.

Interview date was 3/22 and was approved on the spot

On 6/9/2021 at 4:30 AM, WI_CA said:

I had my interview on 3/22/21 at the Pittsburgh, PA office and requested a name change. Still waiting for an oath ceremony appointment. Tried to contact USCIS and received an email saying that I am in-line and they got “hundreds” waiting for an appointment ahead of me!!

Finally got my oath ceremony scheduled. Will be 7/16/21.

Unfortunately, I will be out of the country. Will seek to have it rescheduled. Really unfortunate situation to have my ceremony scheduled 4 months after the interview and I can’t make it

I had my interview on 3/22/21 at the Pittsburgh, PA office and requested a name change. Still waiting for an oath ceremony appointment. Tried to contact USCIS and received an email saying that I am in-line and they got “hundreds” waiting for an appointment ahead of me!!

I received a pleasant update this morning. Interview have been scheduled for my case only 10 days after receiving bio reuse letter.

Estimated wait time became 6 months
 

Pittsburgh PA local office

3 hours ago, DreamCatcher77 said:

Spreadsheet is open for everyone to edit their own. And turns out I had a bio reuse letter dated 01/13/2020 which my husband just gave me! So we are moving right along! Whew!

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IsFBL5rIL-9JoT8BTK7wET1a6vQIDKEvDKRvVWg-29E/edit#gid=0

Still view only. I think opening it to the public wouldn’t be a bad idea

On 2/2/2021 at 2:30 PM, WI_CA said:

Biometrics reuse letter finally on 2/1.

Filed 9/5 online, Pittsburgh, PA local office

Estimated completion date for my case updated from June to February 2021!!

Biometrics reuse letter finally on 2/1.

Filed 9/5 online, Pittsburgh, PA local office

I filed 9/5 and heard nothing since then!! I called USCIS last Wednesday and requested a callback from a tier 2; today I got an email stating that my case is still pending biometrics scheduling.

2 hours ago, Julia T said:

i would say it's pretty accurate. 

i submitted my N400 at the end of June 2020, status kept showing estimated case completion December 2020 (which i was thought sounded too good to be true). end of October got my letter with interview scheduled for December 7th.  passed the interview and test, the officer told me the Oath Ceremony scheduling is a little extended now because of Covid, his guess was February-March. but at least the hard part is over and now its just a matter of waiting for the Oath Ceremony. 

Not sure if I am going to believe it is accurate at all. It have been stuck at February since end of September without any updates on my case. I called a PA senator, filed a service request over the phone and sent a message to the USCIS through my online account without luck. 
The reason I did all of that is that my local office have been scheduling interviews for others but haven’t touched my application yet!!

9 hours ago, dgallegos said:

Hello. I have a question about the status online after submitting n400. Husband’s NOA is 9/18 and the status said it was sent to National Benefit Center. Do all online apps go there first prior to field office?  My parents also recently filed their apps and it says the same thing. Our field office is Phoenix. Do they all go to NBC first?

Yes, NBC for initial processing (background/biometrics) then local USCIS office

2 hours ago, DreamCatcher77 said:

 Here is our document link for September 2020 filers:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IsFBL5rIL-9JoT8BTK7wET1a6vQIDKEvDKRvVWg-29E/edit?usp=sharing

 

At the moment it is restricted to view only and incomplete as it is late night here - I have listed everyone and will transfer all information over in the next 24 hrs. The reason it is restricted to view only because if I were to set it to "anyone on the internet with a link can edit this file" we might be in trouble ranging from "uncareful" editing, accidental removal of information, etc.... and seeing how it can be thousands of people editing from their devices that you have to trust - you and me would not be excited to get any viruses that can accidentally come from those computers when we open the file next. haha . So that's where I'm coming from on this. Let's see how this works out with me being the one doing the editing so far, however, I think this might be better that people can edit their own timeline eventually. What do you guys think? Unless there is some better safer way to do it. Posting this and going to bed for now.
 

I think that makes sense, but also depends on how much time you have in hand!!

My i751 have been approved. Nothing on n400 as of yet, field office is Pittsburgh for me and I am under 3 year rule. 

45 minutes ago, Davegie said:

I check my status online but says "Case Status Delay"

 

We are currently experiencing technical delays with the online case status system. Your case status may be unavailable at this time and you may receive a message that your case receipt number is not recognized. We are working to correct this situation and expect a resolution in the coming days. Once updates are again available, we will notify you when your case status changes. You can change your notification preferences under settings.

 

Does anyone experience the same?

I am getting the same message

On 9/16/2020 at 8:09 AM, WI_CA said:

I actually got an update just now that new card is being produced🥳

 

I think that was an erroneous entry on the system for “case approved”

 

Finally done with ROC and now waiting on citizenship progress

Finally received hard copy of the card today

USPS failed to deliver it two days in a row

6 hours ago, ParanoidAndroid said:

Hey there!

Where can we see this tab?

Thank you!
 

If you applied online, go under documents tab; there is a USCIS notices section - see below

1 hour ago, fruitcake said:

To answer your first question, the NOA will be mailed. I received mine 9 days after filing online.

It also gets uploaded into the documents tab

2 hours ago, ZKT said:

 

You can request to expedite any uscis case usually on financial harship or humanitarian reasons. There are a couple of other reasons that i forgot but those are the 2 common ones that a lot of people apply on the basis of. 

 

But for me specifically i'm doing it for financial and military reasons. I'm a civilian but my husband is in the navy and i will be pcsing/moving to japan this dec and we'll be there for 3 years. We have a complicated military schedule and logistics from state to state and if ever i don't finish the whole process before we leave our current duty station by the end of october.. it will be difficult. i can easily go out of japan to do an interview and oath taking here in the us like what is required under ina 319b. but i most likely will not be able to come back into japan with travel restrictions and military travel restrictions due to the pandemic.

 

I also filled my n400 under ina 319b so in a way its also expedited cause i skipped roc and went straight from my aos to n400. 

 

But yeah normally when you're spouse is in the military or you are in the military and you're pcsing abroad for more than 1 year they usually grant expedite requests for n400 cases. And expedited processes for other types of applications like k1 or cr1 or even i-130's. 

 

But with that said, i also had to do my due dilligence and actually submit a lot more additional n400 evidences in my packet (which is why i had to mail in my packet and not do it online) that a normal n400 case would not normally even have to submit at all.

 

Hope that answers your question. I learned all about that from lurking and reading a lot here on visa journey and some fb groups about those topics. 

Got it. I now remember reading your thread about the 319b, which was mind blowing and completely new. 
 

Best of luck with your request

24 minutes ago, ZKT said:

Hi guys! Just updating you.. i got my receipt number for my case last friday night. So this monday morning I called in to expedite it. It will take them 7 days to review my case and file and then they will let me know if they will grant it or not. 

Didn’t know that you can do that!! On what basis?

11 hours ago, narakthisud said:

Happened to be logged on to the USCIS web site to check on the pending N-400, so I checked on our pending I-751. Lo and behold, it was approved just today! 

 

Congrats

I am also a LIN filer close to your case (filed after yours) and got approved this week. I am seeing a lot of movement from the Nebraska center. Now patiently waiting for the card and my citizenship application 

6 hours ago, oloyede777 said:

I think you need to call them.

I actually got an update just now that new card is being produced🥳

I think that was an erroneous entry on the system for “case approved”

Finally done with ROC and now waiting on citizenship progress

I got a text message from USCIS that there is an update on my account.

I thought my application was approved but it turned out to be a “name update”!!

Any idea what that means? I didn’t request a name change/update

5 hours ago, LinJoe said:

Which location? My husband filed (we live in Dallas) and it says it was sent to the National Benefits Center and estimated completion date shows December 21, 2021 (15 months). He filed under the 3 year (married to US Citizen criteria). he was eligible since last year but we took a break from the whole immigration thing....but with the price for citizenship application going up next month, we decided to finally apply.

Pittsburgh, PA

I am under the 3-year rule as well and my i751 is still pending (for a year now)

My account is showing estimated case completion date of January 2021 (4 months).

How accurate is that?