nycguy78

got my US passport and naturalization certificate back in the mail... Adieus dear friends..wish you all good luck in your journey..this concludes my us immigration journey...

Friscoclip, I do not think there is anything to worry, take ur spouse with u and it will be fine, all the best to you

Once you apply for removal of conditions , you will receive a letter from uscis that your GC has been extended for a year.. you can travel with this letter

anyone applied for their passports in NYC yet ?

Congratulations ! You are the first of NYC of September filers.

I just received the interview letter, my interview will be held on the February 14th, unfortunately at Holtsville. Far away from my place in Queens.

congrats !! All the best Abdul !!

Hi

Anyone here who applied for US passport recently ?

Guys I took the oath today , I am done, good luck to all, it has been a tremendous journey since 2004

Ready to put all this behind forever thanks for all the encouragement, advice and tips

Thanks and God Bless...

Just an update from me .. I passed my citizenship test and my Oath is on 13th January 2012

Good luck to all

guys what is IRS form 1722 , how do I order it ?

Congrats, hope everything goes well. I am just wondering if you could tell us what borough of NYC you live at? and where is your interview scheduled?. It would help us august new york filers to estimate how much longer we have to wait for our interview letters.

thanks

Hi

I received an email "Testing and Interview

Your N400, APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION is now scheduled for interview. You will receive a written notice with a time and place for your interview. You should receive this notice within 14 days. If you do not receive this notice within 14 days from December 7, 2011, please call customer service at 1-800-375-5283 for further assistance. If you move, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address."

Can anyone please let me know as to how many days it took them to receive the actual notice of the interview after this email was received ?

one quick question.......... Interview letter come from local DO or from NBC

Thanks

will come from NBC

Finally, I received a notification from USCIS on 10/22 and my biometrics is scheduled on 11/14. Please update my timeline. Thanks in advance! I'll try the walk-in this week. Wish me luck! I hope they will let me in!

Good Luck !!

Just received an update from USCIS:

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: XXXXXXXXXXXX

Application Type: N400 , APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION

Your Case Status: Testing and Interview

Your N400, APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION is now scheduled for interview. You will receive a written notice with a time and place for your interview. You should receive this notice within 14 days. If you do not receive this notice within 14 days from October 24, 2011, please call customer service at 1-800-375-5283 for further assistance. If you move, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address.

If your case status indicates that you are currently in this step, you have either been scheduled for an interview or are in line to be scheduled for an interview. The amount of time your application will remain in this step will vary by office and is largely determined by the number of cases ahead of yours. The interview notice will have specifics about time, location and anything you will need to bring to your interview. If your application remains pending beyond our normal processing times (as shown below) please contact our national customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.

I'm confused, is this status same as, in line for interview or the interview is already scheduled........ Any thoughts, I did my Bio Oct 20th

I received an update from uscis too

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: NBC*########################

Application Type: N400 , APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION

Your Case Status: Testing and Interview

On October 24, 2011, your N400, APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION was placed in line for interview scheduling. When scheduling is complete, you will receive a written notice with a time and place for your interview. Please check the website for further updates on your case. If you move, please use our Change of Address online tool to update your case with your new address.

If your case status indicates that you are currently in this step, you have either been scheduled for an interview or are in line to be scheduled for an interview. The amount of time your application will remain in this step will vary by office and is largely determined by the number of cases ahead of yours. The interview notice will have specifics about time, location and anything you will need to bring to your interview. If your application remains pending beyond our normal processing times (as shown below) please contact our national customer service center at 1-800-375-5283.

Please note that not every application/applicant will require an interview. In some instances, an interview is required by regulation and others an interview is requested because USCIS has determined that this is the most efficient means to determine eligibility. For a naturalization application the interview will include your taking the required English and/or Civics tests (unless exempt or waived).

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results

listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current

processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Check Processing Times.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Whats going on with us in the northeast!!!??? Seems like we have fallen into the USCIS slowest and laziest hands. I guess there will be plenty of service requests placed pretty soon. Its really frustrating, and with the holidays coming up next month and in december, i predict most of us will be done by late january if not february.

they have hibernated , winter is round the corner

Called uscis spoke to tier too he said that i am in line for interview, i mentioned that case status does not say that he goes like oh dont worry about it ...####### ..he says the case status willl get updated once the file reaches the do, do notknow what to believe and what not to

I'm waiting, no news for me.

No FP letter.

call them and speak to level 2

still no word from uscis about interview scheduling , dont know what the heck is going on

I got my fingerprint appointment date on the 20th October. But I am planning to make an early trip to the Support Center.

good idea abdul

I got my fingerprint appointment date on the 20th October. But I am planning to make an early trip to the Support Center.

good idea abdul

I agree with you...I'm not in a big hurry to have my interview until after my 3yr green card date. I'd much rather have interview and oath the same day, than to have to wait. That's why I didn't try for early finger prints...doesn't seem to make any sense to rush the whole thing when citizenship can't happen any earlier than that 3 year date.

I am just tired and want to get over with this immigration thing and move on.. I am just fed up and tired...

I know kiddy but i am not 100 percent sure if that number really gives the true case status unless someone else confirms that the status with both nos match up example if someone has been scheduled for fp does he or she get the same status info by using the different numbers

Thank you for that info. That was very enlighting. I guessed right we are of the same line of work. For a little while there when I was reading your last 2 sentences explaining how those 2 numbers tie up - I thought I was reading the way I would explain how some parts of the system works to somebody.

Anyway, what I learned from that link is that... (at the bottom part) mentions that we can only use the APP ID when querying the status in the automated system. But when we are using the phone to query the status, we can also use the NBC$ apart from the NBC*.

I am just trying to be optimistic,i can be wrong , i read on several forums that the $ to * replacement works..you may be right , it can be just another receipt number.. at this point i am just fed up with the immigration process...

I am an IT guy too and information about this is available on various immigration forums

http://www.***removed***/immigration/decipher-uscis-case-receipt-number.html

or you can just google and type " how to decipher uscis receipt numbers "

The NBC* number that I am using coincided with the NBC* number that is in the Application Number of the very first letter and fingerprinting letter we got from USCIS. They are showing us the correct status all the time when we use those NBC* number to check our status. We do have the NBC$ at the bottom but I don't think that has any importance. When we did our fingerprinting, I specifically took note of the NBC* to make sure the person who was doing our fingerprinting did not make any mistake. The person told me the system automatically puts our NBC* as our reference number so there would be no manual input therefore will always be correct.

NBC$ does have a significance , it is actually the Unique pay id which is tied to the application num , the unique pay id tracks the fee paid for the case.. uscis uses claims 4 mainframe system for n400 applications which uses these two numbers to track cases

Hi,

Yes, it's works.

I check my status at this website https://egov.uscis.gov

Which website did you use ?

I used the same website

but what was astonishing was that I got completely different results using the numbers

when I used the application number starting with NBC* i get " finger print notice sent "

when I used the NBC$ number at the bottom of the receipt and replaced the $ with a * , i get "placed in line for interview "

Yes, is correct. Good luck.