S Folinsky

The most frequent topic of discussion in this forum are "timelines."

Well, on March 9, 2018, the Office of Inspector General of DHS issued the following report:

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...8-58-Mar18.pdf


In other words, you are not alone.

hmvsdog

An interesting read. Although, I don't specifically take issue with the length of time my application is taking, after all it'll take as long as it takes. It's more the reference that the "USCIS generally processes the forms in the order they are received", which I have found not really to be true. I filed in late May, yet I know of applications far subsequent to mine that have already been approved, and I'm talking as late as November 2017.

Either consistency, or removal of that specific phrase, in my humble opinion, would be appropriate.

Jack8602

+1

Same as you, i filed AOS end of May last year. I only found out by signing up to the new service that has more detailed info that i've been on 'Scheduling you for an interview' status since August last year.

Also seen many others filing after me and getting decisions before

hmvsdog

My 485 is still at received biometrics fee and reviewing case. But that’s only because my 140 is still pending. But I know my 140 was in way before others for the same visa class, and they have decisions.

I don’t want this to sound like I’m jealous (ok maybe a bit) or negative. As I said, it’ll take as long as it takes. I’d really just like to know how much longer to expect to wait, based off of other people’s filing times. But I can’t do that as it seems pretty random!

BenK91

Guess I'll put my comment here instead:

Interesting read!

I took away from it that they aren’t necessarily doing anything to speed the process up? Obviously it’s fantastic if they can set a realistic expectation and provide clearer data to applicants but I feel like people want their applications done faster (obviously), so it’ll be interesting to see if they can address that in anyway.

My I-485 application was filed January 2017 and I had my Green Card in hand March 2018. It was obviously frustrating but as others have said, it takes as long as it takes but I certainly knew of people getting approved that had filed up to 6 months later than me. That was very demoralizing.

Jack8602

Have you looked at this other case check service? https://myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov/ somebody posted it yesterday. Sign up another account as it's seperate to the mycase one.

I was skeptical about it being any different but it actually contains more info on my cases on this site than the other usual case checker.

hmvsdog

Yeah. "We've received your case"