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As of Thursday or Friday last week, upon checking my case, I received a "User Defined Error". I even contacted the support email, but they didn't reply with anything.
 
It was a big surprise to me today as I checked again, and I learned I'm finally In Line for an interview.
 
December 2016 was when I applied.
 
 

As of Thursday or Friday last week, upon checking my case, I received a "User Defined Error". I even contacted the support email, but they didn't reply with anything.
 
It was a big surprise to me today as I checked again, and I learned I'm finally In Line for an interview.
 
December 2016 was when I applied.
 
 

Thank you both for your analysis. Interesting that my numbers are doubled what yours are, especially considering you were also looking at the same month as me. I rechecked my spreadsheet, and I didn't copy any case status number to a different row of data. I rechecked the ones I did, and they're still in the "fingerprint" status. Almost all of the dates I saw were Dec 28 and Jan 3rd, and one Jan 9th. And I believe my math is right, the earliest case I have logged is something like ####900 and the last one I have is something like ####100 (following thousand).
 
Maybe they partied too much or didn't do any work during that Christmas and New Years period. Regardless, I plan on checking the spreadsheet for any movement on a semi-regular basis and provide updates. 

So, I decided to gather some metrics, using my case number as a basis. I applied in December 2016. Basically, I took my case number, went to the online tool, and changed the last digits to be before and after my case numbers until I saw different people's cases that had the same status displaying. You know it, the dreaded "fingerprint appointment was scheduled" that we've all seen for months now. If there were cases with the same status displaying, I made a note of that case number in my spreadsheet, alongside with the date displaying. 
 
I checked 182 cases, close to 80 before mine and 100 after. There were 53 cases which have the same status displaying, meaning, close to 30% of all cases I checked. 
 
What I've found from doing this is, there are quite a bit of people that this happens to, so we're not alone. That's a good thing, I guess, more than I would've guessed from the monthly threads. While I can't confirm, all of the cases before and after mine had similar N400 verbiage, so this leads me to believe USCIS assigns numbers in batches, so everything close to your number is also N400 cases. 
 
I'd be curious to see what other months are, if, someone who applied in October 2016 could do a similar analysis to see if the percentage is going down. Regardless, since now I have a control group to check back every month to see any movement.
 
This isn't scientific in any way, shape or form, though it is something I can use to track my case, because more data points are always helpful.

Thank you both for your analysis. Interesting that my numbers are doubled what yours are, especially considering you were also looking at the same month as me. I rechecked my spreadsheet, and I didn't copy any case status number to a different row of data. I rechecked the ones I did, and they're still in the "fingerprint" status. Almost all of the dates I saw were Dec 28 and Jan 3rd, and one Jan 9th. And I believe my math is right, the earliest case I have logged is something like ####900 and the last one I have is something like ####100 (following thousand).
 
Maybe they partied too much or didn't do any work during that Christmas and New Years period. Regardless, I plan on checking the spreadsheet for any movement on a semi-regular basis and provide updates. 

Thank you both for your analysis. Interesting that my numbers are doubled what yours are, especially considering you were also looking at the same month as me. I rechecked my spreadsheet, and I didn't copy any case status number to a different row of data. I rechecked the ones I did, and they're still in the "fingerprint" status. Almost all of the dates I saw were Dec 28 and Jan 3rd, and one Jan 9th. And I believe my math is right, the earliest case I have logged is something like ####900 and the last one I have is something like ####100 (following thousand).
 
Maybe they partied too much or didn't do any work during that Christmas and New Years period. Regardless, I plan on checking the spreadsheet for any movement on a semi-regular basis and provide updates. 

I was inspired by others' case data tracking ideas so I did the same for my husband's case. I tracked his case, plus the 50 before and 49 numbers after his case, so for 100 total. He applied in late December and has been in Fingerprint status since January. Here's what I found. 
 
There were 85 active cases (i.e. not an invalid case number or rejected for improper / early filing.) 
Of those cases: 
1 (1%) read Case Received, in Jan. (Poor soul!) 13 (15%) read Fingerprint Scheduled. Of these, 6 cases had FP scheduled on Jan 17 and 7 cases had FP scheduled on Jan 23.  38 (45%) read In Line for Interview. Of these, 30 cases went in-line in Feb. 1 case went in-line in March. 1 case went in-line in April. 6 cases went in-line in May.  22 (26%) read Interview Scheduled or Interview Letter Mailed.  4 (5%) read In Line for Oath 7 (8%) read Oath Letter was Mailed. I'm encouraged that after the initial February in-line burst, and a major slow-down in March and April, 6 people from this period were put in-line in May. 
Also, I checked the dates each person was put in-line. In Feb, it was all over the place, with the highest number on Feb 3. But! 
In March, the only in-line action came on March 15 (1 cases)
In April, the only in-line action came on April 14 (1 cases) 
In May, the only in-line action came on May 15 (6 cases)
 
That makes me think that they may only update the name check stragglers mid month. So maybe we can all take a few breaths and lower our expectations until the middle of June? 
 
 

So, I decided to gather some metrics, using my case number as a basis. I applied in December 2016. Basically, I took my case number, went to the online tool, and changed the last digits to be before and after my case numbers until I saw different people's cases that had the same status displaying. You know it, the dreaded "fingerprint appointment was scheduled" that we've all seen for months now. If there were cases with the same status displaying, I made a note of that case number in my spreadsheet, alongside with the date displaying. 
 
I checked 182 cases, close to 80 before mine and 100 after. There were 53 cases which have the same status displaying, meaning, close to 30% of all cases I checked. 
 
What I've found from doing this is, there are quite a bit of people that this happens to, so we're not alone. That's a good thing, I guess, more than I would've guessed from the monthly threads. While I can't confirm, all of the cases before and after mine had similar N400 verbiage, so this leads me to believe USCIS assigns numbers in batches, so everything close to your number is also N400 cases. 
 
I'd be curious to see what other months are, if, someone who applied in October 2016 could do a similar analysis to see if the percentage is going down. Regardless, since now I have a control group to check back every month to see any movement.
 
This isn't scientific in any way, shape or form, though it is something I can use to track my case, because more data points are always helpful.