mw2018

I filed it recently so still waiting 

Same boat same office. They refuse to act on my I-751 or N-400 nor stamp passport so I sued them. 

I Think we're about the only 2 left at this point😂 
Good luck! hope you get it soon, keep us posted! 

Hi, finally a positive update after many long months.  Just got our interview letter in the mail today, scheduled for April 23

I got mine several weeks but still no interview 

It mainly depends on the officer who reviewing your case 
the one officer is responsible for tons of cases , 

June 2021?
 
hmm we filed in March and swore in Dec (Houston) 
 
I believe you should hear something soon.  

Hello wanted to post so I can follow this thread along. Filed my N400 yesterday under the 3 year rule. I filed my i751 in Sept 2020 but have not had my interview yet which is why I just went ahead and filed N400 😊

All - Need some information - Both I & Wife completed our interview in Dallas office on Feb 12th, We are in queue for Oath, both of us did not request for name change. Any idea when will get the mail for oath?
Have some travel plans in May/June so like to plan accordingly. 

Stuff happens with USCIS, we are still waiting after 22 months and during our wait we got three separate notices mailed to us that the biometrics were being reused.  One in October, one during the winter, and one in June only the first notice was recorded on the USCIS online case tracker. USCIS case tracking has major issues, sometimes no updates at all in some cases.
 
Don't read too much into redundant USCIS actions.

I just applied and Dallas will be my local field office, which is a bit of a drive from East Texas, but oh well!

I have a similar timeline 
 
Applied: 7/30/2021
Bio: 1/7/2022
Actively reviewed: 1/7/2022

Shawntel Went expected pandemic-related delays when she applied for U.S. citizenship in May 2020. But as months slipped by and friends who had applied for their citizenship after she did were approved, she started to worry.
 
Finally, earlier this month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offered Ms. Went an explanation: The paperwork it needed to complete her application was stuck in one of several government storage facilities known as Federal Records Centers. Those centers, miles-long networks of man-made limestone caves built beneath the Kansas City metro area, were largely closed due to Covid-19 and had no immediate plans to reopen.
 
Without that paperwork, which contains Ms. Went’s complete immigration history since she moved to the U.S. from Barbados in 2011, the citizenship agency can’t approve her application.
 
The government, she said, told her there was no solution. “They don’t want to open the office to go and get it,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
 
Ms. Went isn’t the only one in bureaucratic limbo. As of this month, more than 350,000 requests for immigration histories were pending with the National Archives and Records Administration, which oversees the Federal Records Centers in Kansas City, though not all of those requests were for pending citizenship applications.
 
In a statement, USCIS acknowledged that a backlog of file requests had occurred because of operating restrictions at the records centers, and said “the agency is in constant communication with NARA to assist them in whatever way is needed, including offering USCIS staff to assist in procuring files.”
 
Read more here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-paperwork-locked-underground-thousands-of-u-s-citizenship-applicants-wait-and-wait-11643025603
 

Yeah name change always complicates life 

Shawntel Went expected pandemic-related delays when she applied for U.S. citizenship in May 2020. But as months slipped by and friends who had applied for their citizenship after she did were approved, she started to worry.
 
Finally, earlier this month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offered Ms. Went an explanation: The paperwork it needed to complete her application was stuck in one of several government storage facilities known as Federal Records Centers. Those centers, miles-long networks of man-made limestone caves built beneath the Kansas City metro area, were largely closed due to Covid-19 and had no immediate plans to reopen.
 
Without that paperwork, which contains Ms. Went’s complete immigration history since she moved to the U.S. from Barbados in 2011, the citizenship agency can’t approve her application.
 
The government, she said, told her there was no solution. “They don’t want to open the office to go and get it,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
 
Ms. Went isn’t the only one in bureaucratic limbo. As of this month, more than 350,000 requests for immigration histories were pending with the National Archives and Records Administration, which oversees the Federal Records Centers in Kansas City, though not all of those requests were for pending citizenship applications.
 
In a statement, USCIS acknowledged that a backlog of file requests had occurred because of operating restrictions at the records centers, and said “the agency is in constant communication with NARA to assist them in whatever way is needed, including offering USCIS staff to assist in procuring files.”
 
Read more here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-paperwork-locked-underground-thousands-of-u-s-citizenship-applicants-wait-and-wait-11643025603
 

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Shawntel Went expected pandemic-related delays when she applied for U.S. citizenship in May 2020. But as months slipped by and friends who had applied for their citizenship after she did were approved, she started to worry.
 
Finally, earlier this month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offered Ms. Went an explanation: The paperwork it needed to complete her application was stuck in one of several government storage facilities known as Federal Records Centers. Those centers, miles-long networks of man-made limestone caves built beneath the Kansas City metro area, were largely closed due to Covid-19 and had no immediate plans to reopen.
 
Without that paperwork, which contains Ms. Went’s complete immigration history since she moved to the U.S. from Barbados in 2011, the citizenship agency can’t approve her application.
 
The government, she said, told her there was no solution. “They don’t want to open the office to go and get it,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
 
Ms. Went isn’t the only one in bureaucratic limbo. As of this month, more than 350,000 requests for immigration histories were pending with the National Archives and Records Administration, which oversees the Federal Records Centers in Kansas City, though not all of those requests were for pending citizenship applications.
 
In a statement, USCIS acknowledged that a backlog of file requests had occurred because of operating restrictions at the records centers, and said “the agency is in constant communication with NARA to assist them in whatever way is needed, including offering USCIS staff to assist in procuring files.”
 
Read more here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-paperwork-locked-underground-thousands-of-u-s-citizenship-applicants-wait-and-wait-11643025603
 

Shawntel Went expected pandemic-related delays when she applied for U.S. citizenship in May 2020. But as months slipped by and friends who had applied for their citizenship after she did were approved, she started to worry.
 
Finally, earlier this month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offered Ms. Went an explanation: The paperwork it needed to complete her application was stuck in one of several government storage facilities known as Federal Records Centers. Those centers, miles-long networks of man-made limestone caves built beneath the Kansas City metro area, were largely closed due to Covid-19 and had no immediate plans to reopen.
 
Without that paperwork, which contains Ms. Went’s complete immigration history since she moved to the U.S. from Barbados in 2011, the citizenship agency can’t approve her application.
 
The government, she said, told her there was no solution. “They don’t want to open the office to go and get it,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
 
Ms. Went isn’t the only one in bureaucratic limbo. As of this month, more than 350,000 requests for immigration histories were pending with the National Archives and Records Administration, which oversees the Federal Records Centers in Kansas City, though not all of those requests were for pending citizenship applications.
 
In a statement, USCIS acknowledged that a backlog of file requests had occurred because of operating restrictions at the records centers, and said “the agency is in constant communication with NARA to assist them in whatever way is needed, including offering USCIS staff to assist in procuring files.”
 
Read more here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-paperwork-locked-underground-thousands-of-u-s-citizenship-applicants-wait-and-wait-11643025603
 

Thanks for this information @mw2018!!  Something, we all knew, but now is on the media, more coverage is needed.

Forget the Ombudsman. Will do nothing to help. Go to court if you want your case to move.

going based on my experience for the I-751, mainly saying hoping this part will be much quicker and not take close to 3 years lol

Try playing the lottery next 🤣

Try playing the lottery next 🤣

Hahahaha. 😂 i am usually not lucky with these things. My EAD alone took 8 months to get approved. 

CC: 06/25/2018 (Found out by calling on 06/26) 
Interview date: 08/29/2018 in Singapore (found out by calling on 06/29)