Good afternoon!
My ex-husband and I filed the I-751 together in July 2023 and it's been pending ever since. Things didn't work out as our goals in life just changed too much, and we filed for divorce on good terms with no children in November 2024, which was finalized in April 2025.
The day I received the divorce degree, I immediately sent a letter with an official copy of the degree to the USCIS to notify them that I would like to change my case to a divorce waiver. I spoke to them on the phone after my USPS tracking indicated that it'd been delivered, just to make sure, and they confirmed that they received the documents.
My 5 year mark is coming up and I'll be able to apply early for N400 in July, meanwhile my I-751 is still pending and no action has been taken since receiving the original receipt + extension letter. I'm hoping for my I-751 to be pushed once I file for N400 like a lot of cases I've seen here, but my concern is that I haven't heard anything back from USCIS regarding my I-751 (no RFE either), and I don't want my I-751 to be potentially approved as a marriage-based case instead of a divorce waiver.
Should I be safe since the USCIS themselves did confirm that they received my request to change to a divorce waiver by mail and is this just something that will be brought up in the interview, or is it safer for me to wait to file N400 until after my I-751 is approved so I can be sure it was approved on basis of divorce?
I hope my question isn't too confusing!