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Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers

I doubt there will be more approvals till next year after the holiday season is over. I hope there aren't any major snowstorms that will slow down VSC more next Jan & Feb.


there are 24 perfectly good business days before the new year!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-28 12:25:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers

Thank you. I'll wear my tri-focals next time. :yes:

hee hee!


did anyone see that a VJer with an april NOA1 date was approved on the 21st? think they are not on this list as their profile shows 0 posts.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-26 01:26:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
obviously, you werent lying when you said you were a lawyer!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-24 14:27:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
seems to me that the plot has officially thickened. 16.7 is an ugly looking number. will be interesting to see the december service bulletin.

wonder if they..... you know what? im not even gonna wonder. im just gonna let them do their thing. and celebrate the trickle of approvals as they drip in.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-24 00:14:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers

where on the uscis site are you seeing this national average? The processing times has gone back to 6 months for VSC.

if you log in with your receipt number and scroll down and then select i-751 and your processing center, it shows the national average as 16.7 months.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-15 23:03:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
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(april 17 seems to reflect approvals more accurately than february 24, eh?)
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-15 16:42:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
rocksy! wont be 6 months! no way.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-15 13:27:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers

ROC Approved!


may you be the start of an avalanche of approvals! sincerest congratulations!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-14 18:36:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers

They updated timeframe on the website-back to 6 months...


yaaaaaay! updated today it says. dont know what it actually means for all of us filers, but yaaaaaaaay for an update!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-14 14:41:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
hallelujah!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-12 21:50:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
:ot: snow forecast for the reviled state of vermont today.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-12 11:11:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
im not sure why you are so concerned when you are not even technically out of normal processing times (ie 6 months. or even 6.3 months)? <shrug>


i just get tired of the whinging, which, thankfully, i find the vast majority of VJers not guilty of.

as i said, the situation is what it is.

if i were as upset as you seem to be, i'd take it up with my elected officials. though you sound slightly anti-government, so that may not be appealing to you. maybe join "occupy wall street"? it would certainly occupy your time until your approval comes through!

kindly,
the mrs

[apologies to the april 2011 filers. i'll zip it now!!]
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-10 19:26:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
i guess i just believe that the USCIS is doing their best. it is an agency that tends to have to deal with fraud, so they don't just whip through the applications (of which there are hundreds of thousands). i dont hear a lot of cheering for the USCIS when they approve early. (except from yurika!)

we know that VSC handles a proportionally larger number of cases in terms of the i-751. and they handle lots of different kinds of cases. when i did my 1-129f/k-1, VSC was much faster.





the situation is what it is. fairness? there is no such thing!


im sorry if the timelines make your personal circumstances more difficult. best of luck. bet it will come through very soon!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-10 17:13:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers

an oct2011 filer, you have wait of 6ish months ahead of you.


oh, i see you are a may2011 filer. anxiousness is more understandable! sit tight! i'm sure the approvals will start flowing again!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-10 15:41:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers

VSC is in hibernate mode now :(

keep positive, BRIGHTLuck909! as an oct2011 filer, you have wait of 6ish months ahead of you. might as well pass the time thinking happy thoughts, rather than fixating on the not-so-happy.

at least we are doing the i-751, instead of, lets say, waiting in administrative processing AWAY from the person we love.

you are new to (posting on) VJ. you will find that being positive makes the wait go by much more easily. you may find that obsessively checking for updates and calculating out ROC milestones makes the wait more difficult.

[just my opinion.]
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-10 15:30:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
you're so good, y&j! great detective work!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-08 23:02:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
9% of of VSC april filers! hope it gathers momentum!

congrats to all in BOTH camps!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-10-27 22:21:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers
if you choose the VSC at the bottom of this page, it shows the processing times. these are the 'official' dates/times. the operator just reported that date to you. we on VJ know what is being processed.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-10-27 16:16:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionApril 2011 filers

My husband filed in April in Vermont Service Center, and like the rest of you, has not yet received his new green card. We are currently in the process of buying a house and we close next week. I suddenly started freaking out about this affecting our ability to close. Has anyone shown their foreign passport + expired green card + extension letter for something as big as this without a problem? Or does anyone have any experience/advice they can share? Thanks in advance.


your husband is an LPR and is in process to get his 10yr green card. his IDs are as valid as yours. i dont think you need to be freaking out, you just need to be ready to answer other people's questions (because they arent immigration-savvy like VJers are!)
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-10-21 11:52:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionUSCIS sent a reminder to file I-751
some people get them, some dont. no rhyme or reason.

file away! (within the 90 window, of course.)
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-28 17:50:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers
overkill.

edit: sorry. i was playing halo on the xbox.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-29 19:12:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers
so that looks like your NOA1 date is 22 august 2011. (you are in the right thread!)

you should DEFINITELY find the hard copy of this notice (dated as above) because that letter is what extends your legal status AFTER your green card expired (which it will have already done). this may not be too much of an issue if you do not need to leave the country, and if you do not need to present a valid green card until after you get ROC approved. (ex. renewing drivers license).

this document is very important.

you (normally) would have handed over your NOA2 when you went for biometrics, so you will not have that one. thats okay as long as you completed the biometrics.

so now, other than looking for the NOA1 somewhere in your house, you are waiting with the rest of august CSC (i assume you are CSC because your local office is PDX) filers for an approval. did you sign up on the USCIS website for email/text status updates? thats always a good idea.

about 50% of august CSCers are approved, so you are in good company, but probably dont have terribly long to wait.


hope this helps!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-28 15:00:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers

Sorry for confusing, I recheck the information again as below. thanks.

----Califonia----
Date of I-751 = 8/12/11
NOA Date = 9/22/11
Biometrics = 10/21/11
Approved = waiting


hmmm. thats MORE confusing!

more than a month for NOA1 is strange indeed. as the all-knowing yurika said, if your NOA1 date is in september, you would be a september filer, instead of an august one.

are you positive about the dates?

is your 'date of i751' the day it was mailed? the mailing date is the one we are looking for.

have you confused NOA1 and NOA2? NOA1 is the acknowledgement of USCIS receipt of your ROC pack. this NOA also serves to extend the validity of your green card by one year. NOA2 is the biometrics appointment letter.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-27 22:41:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers

I think this has to do more about luck than anything else- to be honest.


not luck. attention to details of the instructions and strong evidence. a random selection for an interview, maybe thats luck. or more likely statistical odds. (per USCIS standards, about 10% of applications are selected for a random ROC interview.)
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-20 16:32:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers
level one are essentially just answer the phone. they can see roughly the same this we see on the cases status page on the USCIS page.
level two (from what i understand) are actually employees of USCIS. ie immigration officials. they can see much more information.


the reality is that VSC is taking 8-10 months for approvals. im going to sit tight til the 7.5 month mark. ill see what the others in my filing month are saying and then get in touch.
CSC also seems to have had a massive slow down since the summer. in my july filers thread, i think CSC has 52% approvals, but the bulk of those were in october!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-18 13:02:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers

Pardon my whining, but I just cannot BELIEVE how long this takes.


volume.
fraud.
understaffing.

you are not yet out of processing times, though that info is rather dated (last update 14 nov). if you call, they will tell you they are working on april/may. once you are beyond official processing times, call and speak to a level 2 operator. level 1 people are just not that helpful.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-18 10:30:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers

USCIS in California couldn't be any slower!!


yes. it could be. VSC is about 3-4 months behind CSC. comments like yours are tough for those of us who filed months earlier and have months more ahead of us.

edit: double posted.

Edited by mr and mrs, 04 January 2012 - 06:55 PM.

mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-04 18:53:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers
seems its the only way to get on top these days!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-02 22:34:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers

Is anyone updating this list regularly?


uh, yes. the last update was 15 december. it is updated as people post their progress.

I don't know the date of my stepson's NOA, but he had his ROC Biometrics done on September 1, 2011. However, it seems that USCIS took a long vacation and will not issue any more 10 year GCs until some time next year. What do you think? By the by, my wife went through her ROC process and 3 months after her ROC Biometrics, she was issued her 10 year GC.


the date of the NOA is important. and also it depends on which local office you have. some are faster than others. you need to be patient.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-12-21 20:30:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers

I just don't understand how some September filers got their gc before us, I thought they are doing our case by the date??


there are various factors that influence when a case is adjudicated. one of the most obvious ones is which service center you submitted your application to, CSC or VSC. others could be what your local USCIS office is, how strong your evidence is, how fast the person working on your case is, etc.

here on VJ, we keep track of submissions by their NOA1 date. this is not a reflection of the order in which the cases are expected to be approved. it's just how we keep things orderly.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-12-15 16:51:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 August 2011 Filers

Weather is heating up in NC today....looks like its hot hot hot in here too.... :-) ..and here i was thinking the April Filers thread was spicy. Lol


april never even made it to the ethnic slurs!

maybe there should be an 'inflammatory comments' thread. we could corral ourselves in there when we were feelin' sassy.

hope the 'one big happy immigrant family' vibe will return when the approvals start rolling again.

CSC: 5 november approvals (jul/aug filers plus one march filer)
VSC: 3 november approvals (mar/apr filers i think) plus this one, which i dont get.

note: these reflects current timeline stats on vj.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2011-11-14 11:19:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers
...

for the juners waiting WITH PATIENCE, i foresee pleasantly suprising approvals in your future.

...
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-02-14 20:59:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers
what excellent news!!

dont feel guilty that you were first. we all know there is no real order within the month for approvals. plus, think of all the CSCers that got approved before you despite much later submissions.

thanks for the SUPER update!



chirp, chirp!!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-26 13:15:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers
june VSC will break soon. its time. may VSC is at 32% reported approvals. who will the lucky early bird be?
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-25 15:21:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers

I just received the Email of Green Card Production goodness. :D
1/19/2012


told ya! easy peasy! many congratulations. glad your suffering is over!!
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-20 01:04:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers

The only letter I have received from USCIS is the I-797C NOA, I assumed because it extends the green card for a year that that is how long ROC could take...


im going to add my response to the other thread you started about this topic.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-16 16:41:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers

can you please post exactly what the letter you got (about thing taking a year) says?


what does the most recent correspondence from USCIS say? could be important.
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-16 16:14:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers
the number you need to check your status is derived from the biometrics letter. it is different from the number on your extension letter. since you dont have a biometrics letter, you cant check the status. its likely that the tier 1 operator you will get tomorrow will also be stumped. ask to speak to a tier 2 person (a supervisor and immigration officer). they will have broader access to the systems and may be able to help.

edit: blah.

Edited by mr and mrs, 16 January 2012 - 04:12 PM.

mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-16 16:10:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers
try the customer service #. they will probably put in a service request to address the issue.

can you please post exactly what the letter you got (about thing taking a year) says?
mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-16 15:53:00
Removing Conditions on Residency General DiscussionI-751 June 2011 Filers

I filed in June and I still have not received my biometrics request from them. I just got the 'this may take a year' letter. What do you think I should do?


you really might want want to call the customer service line and ask to speak to a tier 2 representative. its not terribly common to wait 6 months for a biometrics appointment. they cant move forward with your case processing without it.

what is your local service center?

edit: i see that its tucson. is it a traditionally busy place?

Edited by mr and mrs, 16 January 2012 - 02:53 PM.

mr and mrsFemaleUnited Kingdom2012-01-16 14:50:00