processing times on uscis web site
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It depends from district office to district office (not so much State to State). Then they are about two months or more old news, so things might have changed if it is a district offices which is either experiencing a speed up or slow down. Furthermore, when a district office is meeting the USCIS established target for that kind of application (which is 6 months for N-400) then they will only post this information, even if they are processing at an average of 4 or 5 months they will still post 6 months for the processing time. Bottom line, the fastest processing times you are going to see at the USCIS website are going to say 6 months. The only way of getting more clarity beyond that is by checking bulletin boards like this one.
By the way, may I ask which district office you belong to? Perhaps there is already a tracking thread for that district office. Long time back I used to collect statistics about processing times across district offices. I remember that New Orleans used to be one of the slowest, but there were about four or five big offenders. Most others were alright. San Jose was pretty slow but eventually they've got their processing times under the 6 months target.
To sum up. If your district office shows processing times of 11 months you should probably believe this number, but it is probably going to be better than that by the time you apply, as most offices are speeding up to reach the 6 months target. Furthermore, the USCIS processing times might reflect a few older cases that got stuck. In general I would say go by the experiences of people on this board as a better indication.
By the way, may I ask which district office you belong to? Perhaps there is already a tracking thread for that district office. Long time back I used to collect statistics about processing times across district offices. I remember that New Orleans used to be one of the slowest, but there were about four or five big offenders. Most others were alright. San Jose was pretty slow but eventually they've got their processing times under the 6 months target.
To sum up. If your district office shows processing times of 11 months you should probably believe this number, but it is probably going to be better than that by the time you apply, as most offices are speeding up to reach the 6 months target. Furthermore, the USCIS processing times might reflect a few older cases that got stuck. In general I would say go by the experiences of people on this board as a better indication.
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Jackolantern
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Those processing times are more like an average; they don't mean everybody is getting processed within that length of time.
This is not true in the case of the Washington DC DO, which for a very long time was indicating a waiting period based on Priority Date for the N-400, but recently has managed to clear up its huge backlog. Now the N-400 processing time for the Washington DC DO is listed at 5 months.
Our N-400 was received at VSC on 12/16/08 and we became citizens on a same-day interview and oath ceremony on 3/18/09 - which is a start-to-finish processing time of exactly 93 days. From what we can tell, this also included a transfer of our applications from VSC to the NBC.
Side note: our online case status has not changed since 12/25/08, which I personally find fascinating because the IO definitely had the actual physical copy of my A-file in front of her during the interview. Somewhere along the line, our A-files moved from the NRC (National Records Center in Missouri) to the Washington DC DO, but this was not reflected in the online case tracking system. So either the A-files stayed in the Washington DC DO since 8/13/01 when our GCs were approved, or the online case tracking system doesn't update automatically when A-files are moved.
In any case, I think cases are moving a lot faster than the published processing times for certain DOs - all you can do is check this forum for actual experiences from people being processed at your DO.
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Hi Kumar2009,
I applied at the Hartford DO as well with a PD of 2/4/2009.
See my timeline in my signature, they are moving pretty fast compared to the bs timeline on the website.
Also, i think it's newmember_12 that had the interview and oath the same day. Maybe we'll get lucky too.
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I applied at the Hartford DO as well with a PD of 2/4/2009.
See my timeline in my signature, they are moving pretty fast compared to the bs timeline on the website.
Also, i think it's newmember_12 that had the interview and oath the same day. Maybe we'll get lucky too.
./My bad, you are right, current target for N-400 is 5 months. I believe I looked at the San Jose processing time and as I was used to look at the N-600 processing times for quite a while I got N-600 and N-400 confused.