USAjune2016

This is called mutuality , I support you when you need help and you support me when I do. That’s how Humanity survived and  also animals or birds. 
How do you think insurance companies pay their claims and still make money. Mutuality!  If a US citizen need to sponsor a loved one they should be able to do so. I have no doubt if you calculate how much money legal immigrants generate to the system minus how much they take public means the result is definitely positive. 
 

Legally you’re right but morally you’re not. Let’s say I’m a US citizen and a Tax payer as well. So around 30% of my income is gone and part of it goes to support other US citizen in need ( knowing that a lot of US citizens are rigging the system). Let’s say I sponsor a family member that means the world for me and while they’re here they really needed some sort of help now I can’t help them because my money is gone to help others that means nothing to me. So I have to sit and watch my loved one suffering?  If only the wealthy and healthy will be able to come here, what’s the American dream is for then? The public system truly suffering but this isn’t because of the legal immigrants or their few loved ones that most of them are not actually seeking public means but instead paying taxes and contributing to the system But the real problem is the corruption, the citizens that are rigging the system and maybe illegal immigration but definitely not the legal immigration.
Yourself might be fortunate enough to support your loved ones but walk yourself in other people shoes If you can and wouldn’t you want them to get help? 
I personally don’t have parents that want to come here but I think about my fellow immigrant and it hurts.
 
 

Save America from poor and middle class immigrants. Millionaires are welcome. 

If I’m a US citizen taxpayer why would my tax money go to help you( example) and won’t go to help a loved one I’m sponsoring?  I know which mentality your opinion and others is coming from( I’m a legal immigrant and I respect the laws) I do have this mentality as well but let me tell you something this law has not being enforced for decades by both parties for a reason. It simply unenforceable! The same will happen now. What you’re calling for is brutal for other immigrants that want to be with their family not because they want public means but they’re making it impossible to petition anyone. That’s not happening, wait and see

This is not relevant because If you’re petitioning someone it’s required that you sponsor them or their application will be denied. If you like it or not you’d have to sign it I don’t know what you find wrong in this. 

People don’t sign an I-864 because they want to but because it’s required, Again I’m talking about moralitIes here and not legalities. I’m not a lawyer and I’m not on this forum to talk to lawyers either. Again I call you to rethink your opinions not because I want to win the conversation but Because we need to do the right thing.

This is called mutuality , I support you when you need help and you support me when I do. That’s how Humanity survived and  also animals or birds. 
How do you think insurance companies pay their claims and still make money. Mutuality!  If a US citizen need to sponsor a loved one they should be able to do so. I have no doubt if you calculate how much money legal immigrants generate to the system minus how much they take public means the result is definitely positive. 
 

Legally you’re right but morally you’re not. Let’s say I’m a US citizen and a Tax payer as well. So around 30% of my income is gone and part of it goes to support other US citizen in need ( knowing that a lot of US citizens are rigging the system). Let’s say I sponsor a family member that means the world for me and while they’re here they really needed some sort of help now I can’t help them because my money is gone to help others that means nothing to me. So I have to sit and watch my loved one suffering?  If only the wealthy and healthy will be able to come here, what’s the American dream is for then? The public system truly suffering but this isn’t because of the legal immigrants or their few loved ones that most of them are not actually seeking public means but instead paying taxes and contributing to the system But the real problem is the corruption, the citizens that are rigging the system and maybe illegal immigration but definitely not the legal immigration.
Yourself might be fortunate enough to support your loved ones but walk yourself in other people shoes If you can and wouldn’t you want them to get help? 
I personally don’t have parents that want to come here but I think about my fellow immigrant and it hurts.
 
 

No wonder 
Just a thought about they would go in full force after shoeless immigrants rather than big tech company likes Amazon which has a record of paying zero tax to the federal makes me sick.

Don't immigrants that move here and start working pay taxes for the programs that they are not allowed to us? 
If they are tax payers then why are they not allowed to use a program they are paying into?
 
 Seems like a bad system that allows one tax payer to receive a benefit another tax payer legally can't use.

So.. i emailed an inquiry again 9/8 and luckily enough it was forwarded to the ASC office. I just got an email notice today that my biometrics has been rescheduled. I'm just waiting for the actual notice to show up on my documents tab for the actual date and time! Thank you!!!!
@-Shana- @USAjune2016

I understand your frustrations. I also filed late January and got my biometrics done in February before the lockdown. August was my estimated wait time (to get the appointment) but then when the countdown got to "0" it changed to "we are taking longer...". Interestingly though, my Estimated completion date is still September.
Anyway, from what I heard/read the cases automatically go to an officer from far ahead in the process. This would mean that for example if there are 20 new cases for example and two officers on a day, 10 cases go to one and the other 10 go to the other within the same office. If so, that could explain why within the same office people who filed on the same day may not get results on or around the same date. One officer may be slower, may miss a day or two at work... I read that somewhere but can't find it again. That would explain the discrepancy within the same offices. It would mean each officer's next case is the next in the pile he received and not the actual next applicant within the whole office. Plus on top of that I am sure the same officers who review cases before interviews are also sometimes/all the time actually conduct those interviews, so two cases may go to two seperate officers at the exact same time, but one interview may take 10 or 15 minutes longer, or may have issues. That puts that officer 10 minutes behind his colleague in terms of volume of cases. Doesn't seem like much, but imagine 2 or 3 longer cases a day for just one week and that causes a delay on everything else of a week or more from one officer to the other.
 

Atlanta filer here. I’m still waiting for a interview. I applied last year....

I heard some of the delays could be due to how long it took for your background checks to be completed so filers in the same USCIS office could still have different interview times.
Overall, it seems the west coast is quite slow. As slow as Portland, OR is, it seems California and the Seattle USCIS offices are even worse.

We filed in 2019. Just got notice of interview on Monday. So yes things are starting to move again.

I haven't heard a peep from USCIS since I did my biometrics in January this year (applied in Dec 2019). I am wondering if the San Francisco office is just more overloaded than other places. Although I'm happy to hear others are getting their interviews it's frankly disheartening to hear people who applied in May are already getting their interview in other parts of the country. Feels like being stuck in a dead end.

Great news,  Good luck!! 

I received my interview scheduled notification yesterday. I think they are running slow but they are definitely working.

Thanks. I will keep on checking then just in case.
 
Good day.

They do send an email stating that an action was taken on your case. I’ve asked many people recently and they all got an email but in some instances people received a letter by mail without even anything changing online(rarely but it happens) I’d recommend checking the online website every few day only and most important the mail.
Btw same here my estimate time was July then August then it disappeared so nothing to worry about. Good Luck

Wow you’re probably one of the first N400 applicants to get a biometric appointment since the pandemic. @rva080813 check this

Got an email this morning saying that my biometrics appointment has been scheduled, but the document hasn't appeared in my tab yet so not sure what date I have to go in. Glad to see some activity but given the pandemic it'd be nice if they could reuse my old one! 

I applied in early January but was unable to attend the first biometric appointment they offered me so that added a month of delay. I'm sorry I don't have the detail of the other dates to hand.
 
While I'm here though, just yesterday I got notice that my passport is on its way. I applied immediately after getting the citizenship so that makes it something like 6 weeks, which is much faster than I was expecting.

Went for my interview today. Arrived 20 minutes early and they let me in. I was called to the window about 5 minutes before my appointment time, and I was done in 30 minutes. There are 5 windows and there were 5 people including myself. While we were doing our interviews the next batch of 5 trickled in to wait.
 
After the interview was done I waited for 20 minutes or so and was led to another room to perform the oath ceremony. Again there were 5 people so I think I only waited for our batch to proceed together. Handed a form to fill to say none of my status had changed since the interview 20 minutes beforehand, given an envelope with a letter from the president, another envelope with passport application and some other stuff, the naturalization certificate and a little US flag. I was walking back to my car at around 1h20 after my appointment time.
 
I was not expecting to become a citizen today! Now I need to go register to vote, as they couldn't do that part.

Hi, I live in Massachusetts and filed my naturalization application online on 03/07/2020 (I believe my field office is Lawrence, MA, based on the zip code). My biometrics was scheduled on 03/28/2020 in Hartford and got cancelled due to COVID. On 08/07/2020, they have updated my status online, saying they could reuse my biometrics and don't need to go to the ASC office for biometrics. I am waiting for the citizenship interview notification and it may happen in a couple of months and I will update the status. Thanks.