N400 - No movement

Old Jan 21st 2023, 1:07 am
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Hi all,

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My N400 was mailed around 9 months ago, and thus far only had a 'we're actively working on your case' letter. Not a thing more. My local field office is small, and remote (St Thomas, VI).

I'm seeing other people on here get interview notices after three months.

Should I be calling to try and escalate? Eight or so years in to the process now, and I'm over it.
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Old Jan 21st 2023, 2:06 am
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FWIW, the CIS website shows that it takes the VI Field Office 24.5 months to complete 80% of their cases.
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Originally Posted by Notaclue1
Notaclue, but cannot access my old account for some reason!
See the forum announcement - https://britishexpats.com/forum/anno...php?f=57&a=156

Unfortunately, a lot of people have had their accounts hacked by spammers in the past couple of weeks, so Admin have had to force a password reset on some members who didn't have a secure password.

HTH.
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I’m in the same boat.

I applied March 10th and a day later I received a notification saying they’ll use my biometrics from last time etc. and then nothing since.
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Originally Posted by Notaclue1
Hi all,

Notaclue, but cannot access my old account for some reason!

My N400 was mailed around 9 months ago, and thus far only had a 'we're actively working on your case' letter. Not a thing more. My local field office is small, and remote (St Thomas, VI).

I'm seeing other people on here get interview notices after three months.

Should I be calling to try and escalate? Eight or so years in to the process now, and I'm over it.
By mailed you mean sent in paper format?, not submitted online?

Have you setup an online account? And used your receipt number to link the case / look at updates? Should have been on the receipt letter.

I just looked at mine, Biometrics letter was issued 6 days after N400 was submitted online… then 6+ months till next notice for interview. As others have noted it’s all based on local offices so some are really fast and others are really slow and many between.

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By mailed you mean sent in paper format?, not submitted online?

Have you setup an online account? And used your receipt number to link the case / look at updates? Should have been on the receipt letter.

I just looked at mine, Biometrics letter was issued 6 days after N400 was submitted online… then 6+ months till next notice for interview. As others have noted it’s all based on local offices so some are really fast and others are really slow and many between.
Yes was submitted online. We have a population of 100,000 on the islands, and our very own field office. Not sure why it should take this long just to get to interview. I did not get anything about biometrics, just 'we're working on your case'.

I did just get my removal of CR a few months prior so assume they still have recent prints.
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Yes was submitted online. We have a population of 100,000 on the islands, and our very own field office. Not sure why it should take this long just to get to interview. I did not get anything about biometrics, just 'we're working on your case'.

I did just get my removal of CR a few months prior so assume they still have recent prints.
Pure speculation on my part, but the Field Office may be too small necessitating adjudicators “riding circuit” or being “detailed” in from time to time.
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Can you translate that in to english? Didn't quite make sense
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Can you translate that in to english? Didn't quite make sense
my guess would be… your offices population is so small there are no full time officers working on these… maybe they process somewhere else… and then schedule interviews in a bunch and fly someone in… if population is only 100k how many are LPR applying to become USC, likely not many…
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We have a brand new, very large office that is staffed full time. Quite possibly it is processing applications from around the Caribbean region.
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We have a brand new, very large office that is staffed full time. Quite possibly it is processing applications from around the Caribbean region.
From my experience all that wait is just that, a wait while they likely do nothing. My guess is after biometrics they do a background check, assuming no issues not much happens until you get an interview date, maybe they review the file for missing documents. At my interview the officer was changing / adding things to my N400 before administering the english and quiz tests and complementing me on getting an CT tax refund…
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I finally got an interview date for March. Just over a year from filing.

Hopefully you’ll hear something soon.
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And just like that, interview scheduled for March 13th.

Time to study!

I’ve heard mixed stories as to being sworn in the same day. Is this true?

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And just like that, interview scheduled for March 13th.

Time to study!

I’ve heard mixed stories as to being sworn in the same day. Is this true?
Congrats. It'll depend on your local office for same day ceremonies. When I had my interview (in Philadelphia) same day was not an option and I had to go back about 6 weeks later for my ceremony.
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Congrats. It'll depend on your local office for same day ceremonies. When I had my interview (in Philadelphia) same day was not an option and I had to go back about 6 weeks later for my ceremony.
Is there typically a way of knowing if there’s a same day? I’d like a significant other to be there if it were possible.

Some of those test questions don’t look friendly!
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