M&Y_2019

My spouse filed for a re-entry permit, and he received the text from USCIS three days ago with his receipt number starting with LIN. In all other cases we've had, the number worked on the USCIS Case Status website. This time, the site is returning "Receipt Number entered is invalid". What could be going on? I made sure we are typing the number in exactly as received.

Status changed today from fingerprints to "New Card is Being Produced" 🙂. No approval message but assume this means that will be coming as well. Receipt date is 1/10/2023 with no N400 filed, just I-751.

That’s probably it. I just checked, and the earliest date that we can submit an inquiry was pushed more than a year after the date which previously displayed.

I noticed this today. We used to be able to select our specific Service Center on the official USCIS processing page. It has now been replaced with a generic "All Service Centers" option. It's disheartening because our service center previously had a far lower processing time (according to their own data in the prior 6 months) than the overall average across all service centers. Could they be consolidating I-751s or moving them to different Service Centers? I don't see why they would remove this option.

I've been tracking the progress of ROC approvals using the data, albeit limited, we have available on VisaJourney. For example, I've filtered this page to only show the Nebraska Service Center (where our case is) and then sorted by Filed Date: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/liftlist.php?cfl=0&op1=1&op2=d&op3=&op4=1&op5=5,9,10,11,12&op6=Nebraska Service Center As of today, if you go to pages 8 and 9, you can see there is a clear cut off in which cases with with NOA dates of December 2022 and earlier (page 9) have mostly all been approved, regardless of whether N400 was submitted. Cases with NOA dates of January 2023 and later ( page 8 ) have mostly not been approved. The very few cases with an NOA date of January 2023 or later that have been approved seem to be due to an N400 filing. The approvals for cases with NOA dates up to December 2022 were being issued at a steady pace by USCIS through May 2024. At that point, this service center seems to have cut off approvals. Rather than continuing at the same pace, there have been essentially no case approvals in June or July 2024. I was expecting that ours, with an NOA month of January 2023 with no N400 planned, would likely be up next, but it seems we've gotten unlucky and USCIS has taken a pause for some unknown reason on basically all cases with NOA of January 2023. Has anyone seen something like this before? Is it a "lull" due to employee summer vacations, or could they have decided not to continue with cases with NOA of January 2023 or later for other reasons? I know we can only speculate, but that is why I made this thread :).

Yeah - the N-400 factor in possibly speeding up ROC cases does make this even harder to predict. I do want to research and understand the reasoning behind the I-751 process at some point. I'm not aware of any other countries having a "conditional" permanent residence prior to the "real" one. For example, in Japan, you apply for PR when eligible and you get it. There's no "intermediary, conditional PR". Temporary permanent residence is almost an oxymoron. It seems like the US Congress and USCIS just imposed this extra administrative burden on themselves for little reason. Unfortunately, due to Japan's rules on citizenship, my spouse would be automatically deprived of Japanese citizenship upon obtaining US citizenship, making N-400 a complete non-starter. We will just have to wait out ROC with no N-400.

We currently have pending ROC with LIN (Nebraska Service Center). The USCIS processing time for this service center shows 80% of cases approved with 18 months. This is the quickest of all service centers I checked as some are almost double that. There are also many recent data points on this site showing approvals 14-16 months post-receipt date for LIN. That said, I keep receiving emails from VisaJourney stating that our approval estimate is late February 2025, which puts us at 25 months. What is this data based on? Is it drawing on data from all service centers and thus not factoring that LIN is faster than the others? In addition, why does the https://www.visajourney.com/times/ page only show CSC and VSC for I-751, when there are many other service centers?