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Just got a notification that my card is being produced! 😃

Case # EAC19900557**
NoA 2/5/19
Biometrics done 3/14/19
Card is being produced 3/10/20
Took 399 days from NoA to card production
No RFE and no interview.
CR6; from H1B to conditional green card
 
Have not filed for n-400 yet, but will once the new card arrives.
Best of luck to anyone who is still waiting! Hopefully you will be approved very soon - 6 people were approved today in the 55527-56023 range.
     
 

Thanks! Hope yours will get approved soon. It has been a long wait for all of us.

Just got a notification that my card is being produced! 😃

Case # EAC19900557**
NoA 2/5/19
Biometrics done 3/14/19
Card is being produced 3/10/20
Took 399 days from NoA to card production
No RFE and no interview.
CR6; from H1B to conditional green card
 
Have not filed for n-400 yet, but will once the new card arrives.
Best of luck to anyone who is still waiting! Hopefully you will be approved very soon - 6 people were approved today in the 55527-56023 range.
     
 

Just got a notification that my card is being produced! 😃

Case # EAC19900557**
NoA 2/5/19
Biometrics done 3/14/19
Card is being produced 3/10/20
Took 399 days from NoA to card production
No RFE and no interview.
CR6; from H1B to conditional green card
 
Have not filed for n-400 yet, but will once the new card arrives.
Best of luck to anyone who is still waiting! Hopefully you will be approved very soon - 6 people were approved today in the 55527-56023 range.
     
 

Just got a notification that my card is being produced! 😃

Case # EAC19900557**
NoA 2/5/19
Biometrics done 3/14/19
Card is being produced 3/10/20
Took 399 days from NoA to card production
No RFE and no interview.
CR6; from H1B to conditional green card
 
Have not filed for n-400 yet, but will once the new card arrives.
Best of luck to anyone who is still waiting! Hopefully you will be approved very soon - 6 people were approved today in the 55527-56023 range.
     
 

Thanks for you insights. You are not giving me a hard time. However, respectfully I disagree with most of your statements. Without going into details, I do not think they do a fantastic jobs at all. I am glad  that someone thinks that they do a fantastic job. They have been criticized heavily by law makers, applicants, congress and house. I do not see how you can praise their inefficient work, but to each their own.
 
93% completion rate by 18.5-26 month, and likely longer in the future, is nothing to boast about. Most of those 7% cases are still stuck in fingerprints were received status and no RFE's were issued. If they need more information then they have to send and RFE and/or schedule an interview and not let the cases collect duct in some shelf for 26 months. I bet if you were in that 7% and by 26 month your case was pending and after passing your n-400 interview your local office was not able to approve your n-400, because simply the service center failed to transfer your i-751 to the local office you would have had a totally different perspective.  I hope you realize that if they post 100% completion rate, their processing time will jump from 18-26 months to years.
 
Funding... have they disclosed how they spent the additional funds they received from the increased number of applications? If no, then you and I have no idea what they have done with it. All we can tell is that they have not effectively channeled those funds for processing the cases on timely matter. If they did, there would not be huge backlogs.
 
"Sure it can be a long wait but what we all should do, prior to filing applications, we shout first do some research and see which available closer offices provide you with a shorter processing time. That is especially if the location can be quite close in some cases. I lived in NYC for many years and I know for a fact that most things in government offices can be overrun with applications especially i n the city. Its not necessarily mismanagement. Now on top of that, with 45 in office, people are keen to his protocol so many people have flooded and rushed in their applications including N400 with upcoming fee increase. It is definitely conceivable."
 
And as far as choosing a location for your application, I did not know you could do it. If you have information that it indeed is possible and you can share it with all of us that would be helpful. To my knowledge when you submit your application you have no control where it goes for most cases and for n-400 it will go to your local office. Unless you mean that we have to move to a location with shorter processing time before we submit our applications. If that is the case, then maybe a few percent of people can do it, but majority of people have their lives in certain area, they are not going to move. And honestly I do not know how you can give such an impractical advice.
 

They update their time line every few weeks or once a month. Usually they update the timeline toward the end of the month. When it is freshly updated it is accurate. By accurate I mean that by 13.5 months they have completed 50% of cases and by 18.5 they have completed 93% of the cases. They just care to meet those two deadlines and if they realize they are not meeting those deadlines they simply increase the processing time. Maybe I should quit my job and become an immigration officer- seems like they have a nice stress-free jobs with those stretchable deadlines.   

They update their time line every few weeks or once a month. Usually they update the timeline toward the end of the month. When it is freshly updated it is accurate. By accurate I mean that by 13.5 months they have completed 50% of cases and by 18.5 they have completed 93% of the cases. They just care to meet those two deadlines and if they realize they are not meeting those deadlines they simply increase the processing time. Maybe I should quit my job and become an immigration officer- seems like they have a nice stress-free jobs with those stretchable deadlines.   

They update their time line every few weeks or once a month. Usually they update the timeline toward the end of the month. When it is freshly updated it is accurate. By accurate I mean that by 13.5 months they have completed 50% of cases and by 18.5 they have completed 93% of the cases. They just care to meet those two deadlines and if they realize they are not meeting those deadlines they simply increase the processing time. Maybe I should quit my job and become an immigration officer- seems like they have a nice stress-free jobs with those stretchable deadlines.   

My case was not approved. The case directly after mine was approved 2 days ago not mine.

Sent it on Jan 30th 2019; NoA Date Feb 5th 2019. Biometrics done March 14th.

EAC has lots of movement based on the case tracker. They are approving the cases in random order, however. EAC is sending lots of RFEs as well. The case after mine was approved 2 days ago, but nothing for me.

Well, I am sure they/we can come up with every excuse in the book, but the fact remains that USCIS is terribly mismanaged and that is the real reason of these crises. They keep increasing the fee, which is greater than the inflation BTW, but cannot ensure proper case management. They know their workload, they know their backlog they should come up with ways of solving the problem not exacerbating it. They cannot even ensure similar processing times in different boroughs of the same city (NYC), something that should be super easy to do, let alone across the country. When you track the cases every day, you realize that they are playing lottery i.e. randomly pulling the cases across the board  and deliberately leaving the cases behind to keep their 13.5-17.5 month processing time (VSC). I was checking today and some people who filed in May/June 2018, and have long passed the normal VSC's processing time are sitting in "fingerprints were received status". Yet VSC instead of attending to those cases is approving the cases that were filed in March 2019.
 
 

Some approvals and RFEs based on the Case Tracker. I search 250 cases before and 250 after mine and it is 1-2 approvals a week. Kind of slow, and there is no clear sequence in the approvals- some cases that were filed later get approved/RFE while earlier cases are still pending. I am thinking of filing n-400 and that is the only reason I am checking to get a feel how cases around mine are moving otherwise it is a waste of time. Vermont's current processing timeline is 13-17.5 months. At 13-month they are supposed to be processing 50% of the cased and by 17.5-month 95% of the cases. 

Some approvals and RFEs based on the Case Tracker. I search 250 cases before and 250 after mine and it is 1-2 approvals a week. Kind of slow, and there is no clear sequence in the approvals- some cases that were filed later get approved/RFE while earlier cases are still pending. I am thinking of filing n-400 and that is the only reason I am checking to get a feel how cases around mine are moving otherwise it is a waste of time. Vermont's current processing timeline is 13-17.5 months. At 13-month they are supposed to be processing 50% of the cased and by 17.5-month 95% of the cases. 

I understand that cases do not always go in numerical order exactly, but they do go in numerical order in most cases and it can be seen in the case tracker. For example when comparing when cases were received with case numbers it is clear that vast majority of the cases go in sequence. Of course the cases get assigned to different officers and things can take a different turn from their on, however is USCIS's problem and not ours to ensure that the cases get processed in the order they receive them. Having a 10-month gap in their processing time clearly shows they do not process the cases in the order they receive them. USCIS can simply institute internal deadlines upon themselves to make sure that the cases get processed in the order they receive them and not randomly at the discretion of IOs. I did not mean filing a citizenship is a waste of time, I meant worrying and checking the website is a waste of time, since USCIS does not disclose how they process the cases. Lastly, some service centers such as New York is very backlogged and that is the reason why some applicants such as myself think twice before filing n-400 while their i751 is still pending.

I am a February Filer too. My case is between EAC1990055527-56026. In that batch, there were three approvals and one transfer last week. One case was approved yesterday and 44 are still pending. So the ball is slowly rolling...

I am a February Filer too. My case is between EAC1990055527-56026. In that batch, there were three approvals and one transfer last week. One case was approved yesterday and 44 are still pending. So the ball is slowly rolling...

Thanks for your post. I still have not filed the n-400. NYC is backlogged; FL offices are probably faster. I will wait a few months and if not I will probably file the n-400.

I would write a nice, but formal cover letter explaining your situation. Enclose the Tax transcripts for the last 2-3 years. If the company is willing to provide you with a letter admitting that they made a mistake and forgot to file the 2016 tax, it would help. Make sure the 2016 tax is filed and include a proof of that (you cannot e-file it, you have to mail it- include the receipt from the post office/carrier). Enclose the insurance policy, utility bills, joint credit cards, your joint car lease, your upcoming trip, old trips, pictures (include old and new pictures and make sure they are properly labeled). Anything you could think of that shows that you did things together and that your finances co-mingled.  Try to get 2-3 affidavits from people that know you as a couple well.
 
Good luck!

Yep, that seems to be the case. A few IR-1/CR-1 that filed in February 2019, and even in March, either got their interview notice or went through the interview process already. I guess CR-6 filers will have to wait longer. I am hoping that this practice will cut down the processing time for the CR-6 filers since CR-1 will mostly be adjudicated by their local USCIS officers. But the existing backlog in  the service centers probably will still cause delays for CR-6 filers...