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Question for you. Your I751 was transferred to the National Benefits Center (NBC)? Or your local field office? We would appreciate any fresh intel as you are about a month ahead of us.

We just submitted our N400 online last night. We are anticipating our I751 will be transferred within the next couple of weeks. So, in this situation, the I751 gets transferred to the NBC and not your local field office (where I would expect any combo interview to take place)?

Thanks for the quick reply! 😊 Not sure if you picked up on it but we're highly motivated to get our I751 OUT of the hands of the Vermont Service Center. 😉 We're hoping for better turnaround from our local field office.

Joyoussinger and Vivfran. We successfully submitted my wife's N400 last night so that is now officially in the hopper. If I understand the two of you correctly, your I751 status subsequently changed to this message about the case being transferred to a new jurisdiction. And, time-wise, it took about 3 or so weeks for this to happen AFTER the submission online of your N400. Am I understanding this correctly? Can you please confirm? For our N400 submission, we did include the extension letter which shows the I751 case number. We also included a short note in pdf format indicating we have a pending I751 up at Vermont and included the case number in the note as well.

We received an update to our case already that fingerprints from our prior visit to our application support center will be reused. Saves us a trip. Did you get the same?

We officially submitted my wife's N400 tonight. Everything was successfully submitted and our payment was successfully processed as well. We are now hoping this gets things moving along.

The case status link seems to have been down since last night (at least). Like you I check our status daily. It's quite irritating indeed but I check on a lark and wasn't expecting anything new anyway.

Honestly, I think the inequity is what really irks me. Make no mistake, I love hearing when people get approved. It gives hope to people like us who are still waiting. But when you put the same amount of effort into the same package with similar circumstances and you have to wait several more months because of geography ... i.e. the slower service center... it's just not right. I forget the guy's handle but earlier this year somebody on VJ submitted a I751 and ended up in the Texas Service Center and I think it was like 3 months and he was already approved. I'd like to rub his head for a minute or two and then play the flipping lottery. I could be dead wrong but they are so slow up in Vermont I have the belief they are just sitting on I751s up there and focusing attention on other application packages hoping people submit the N400. This takes the backlog off their plate and pushes it to the field offices to adjudicate. It's just wasting people's time.

I agree with your advice for those who have an I751 at the California Service Center. There seems to be signs of life there. The only approvals for October 2021 filers that I have seen have been at that service center. We are in Vermont which, for immigration purposes, is like being in the petrified forest. Based on my wife's green card anniversary date, we can technically submit our N400 online today. However, to avoid any potential timing snafus we will wait until next Monday (October 24) and then submit the N400 online. We don't see any value in waiting until October 31. It would be my joy to take the I751 out of Vermont's hands and place it (and the N400) in the hands of the local field office in Boston. They have been reportedly turning things around in 4-6 months.

Congrats Mike. This kind of thing helps the rest of us keep the faith. We will submit my wife's N400 online a week from Monday. I expect no I751 miracle in the interim so hopeful of a combo. If the stars are aligned properly next spring sometime.

Another $85 down the drain. 😄 But I am hoping the same for us, too. It saves a trip into an application support center for what really is no good reason.

The first day we can apply online for citizenship (N400) for my wife is, according to the USCIS early filing calculator, 10/17/2022. I have read that submitting on that VERY first day is not recommended since you could risk a denial right out of the gate due to a timing snafu. For those who already filed/submitted the N400 online successfully, when would you suggest we submit my wife's N400 online? Should we wait 1 additional day? 3 additional days? A week? What is most prudent in your humble opinions? Thanks.

To be fair, the website states 80% of the cases are completed within 10.5 months at WAC. EAC should be changed from 16.5 months to NEVER.

It's gratifying to know there may be living, breathing earthlings who actually enter the building up in Vermont and perform some kind of service.

Our letter is not going to be fancy either. It starts off as trying to be informational indicating we have a pending I-751 (and the case #) with the final sentence asking what the possibility would be...? That sort of thing. Did you see my post at the top of this thread? Would you be able to weigh in? Does it seem like we have it all? Did you send in basically the same documentation? Thanks in advance for any perspective. 🙂

Thanks to you and Family for your feedback. I can always write a short letter, make it a pdf and include it in the online submission. Maybe there is an 'ancillary documents' area where I can include it just so they can't say later, '...but you didn't tell us about your pending I751!!!'. I am inclined to think Family is right that 'they know'. I hope my Irish ancestry furnishes some good luck and it will be a combo interview. 🙂

We are currently working our way through filing an N400 online for my wife. We can't submit for another couple of weeks (October 17 appears to be the very first day per the USCIS website) but we are planning in advance for the big day. We have the following already prepared for our online submission which will happen in a couple of weeks: Green Card photocopied and scanned (front in a jpg, back in a separate jpg, both sides in one pdf... we will submit all... the jpgs looks bigger and clearer) Will submit the N400 online and pay via credit card at the time of submission My birth certificate (scanned in pdf) showing I have been a U.S. citizen for forever Current marriage certificate (scanned in pdf) Divorce decrees for both me and her for our two prior marriages (scanned in pdf) IRS tax transcripts with both our names on them for 2021, 2020 and 2019 (scanned in pdf) I went through the checklist and it seems (operative word) this is all we need. Questions if you don't mind: 1) Does anyone see anything missing? Anything to add? We want to make sure we don't miss anything crucial 2) Did people also scan and submit the extension letter, too? Or just the green card (front and back)? Our I751 is currently still pending 3) I saw one item on the checklist that seems to be for people residing outside of the United States (we live in Massachusetts). They ask for two identical photos with the A number on back. So, for those of us who live stateside and are filing online, this is not necessary at the time of online submission, correct? Perhaps we will be asked to bring two identical photos (with A number on the back) when we get the eventual citizenship interview? 4) We have an I751 pending (we will have been waiting for a year later this month). It is stuck up at the Vermont Service Center. Is this a question during the online submission so they know there is an I751 pending for us? Or will they just know this? I am not sure how this would need to be communicated to the USCIS as we hope to get a combo interview at some point Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. We appreciate the support. 🙂

Yes... for California and Texas. There will be condos on Venus before the other service centers will do their job.

You gotta love the impact on case processing times since the USCIS switched to a risk-based approach last March/April. As of today's update, the EAC (Vermont) processing time has now jumped to 16.5 months (that's a >50% bump since the spring). In roughly 3 weeks we will be submitting our N400 hoping it will push things along faster.

I highly recommend you cultivate some hobbies because it's going to be a while.

Be ready in case they yank out the I751 and do a combo interview. Wouldn't be unprecedented. Both spouses should be present just in case. Happy to see N-400s moving fairly quickly.

N-662 form? I thought there was a section on the N-400 that you fill out if you want a name change.

5... flipping... thousand... dollars??? They should call it a Writ of Sodomus.

I'll believe Family over me.

I believe any name change will require a judicial oath ceremony.