TheBlueGod
Registered Users (C)
Hi everyone,
Wishing you all a happy 2008 with a quick interview letter and oath date!
Based on earlier discussions (with Vorpal, Nimche, Bobsymthe, ..and others) about why people are not finding the immitraker table (http://www.immihelp.com/tracker/citizenship-tracker.do) very useful and how to improve it. I sent the following email to the immitracker folks - they responded promptly and are now following the traffic on this forum - they have promised to make improvements to the table.
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I joined this forum about 7 months ago and have learned a lot about what the most important information is that everyone is looking for
The key milestones in the citizenship process as you know are
1. Getting the NOA (Notice of Acceptance) of receipt of your N400 application with the priority date
2. The notice for fingerprinting with the date for FP
3. Then a long wait, then Interview Letter with the date of the interview
4. Sometimes a follow-up letter with a decision (if the decision was not made at the time of the interview)
5. Finally, if you passed the interview an oath letter with the date of the date of the oath ceremony.
The biggest uncertainty in the entire process is step 3 - where for months and sometimes years people wait while FBI does a namecheck - the worst part is not knowing what's going on because USCIS just tells you to keep waiting, and FBI will not tell you anything about the status of your namecheck.
The point I was making in my earlier email is that if immitracker just added the District Office as one of the fields then people would actually be able to tell if they were stuck in namecheck or not (by seeing if people with a priority date after them from the same D.O were getting their interview letters) - this would be enormously useful. Also we don't really need to see columns for country of citizenship, source of GreenCard, Receipt numbers like ESCxxxx, etc.. all this is extraneous info that we really dont care about. The most important fields we care about are
1. Priority Date on the NOA
2. Service Center
3. and District Office closest to you
4. FingerPrint date
5. Interview Letter received or not - date it was received and date of interview
6. Decision + Oath Date
That's it! - that's the minimum info you must have in the immitracker table for it to be useful - anything more is optional. Anything less and people won't use it.
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Let me know if I left anything out
Cheers,
S.
Wishing you all a happy 2008 with a quick interview letter and oath date!
Based on earlier discussions (with Vorpal, Nimche, Bobsymthe, ..and others) about why people are not finding the immitraker table (http://www.immihelp.com/tracker/citizenship-tracker.do) very useful and how to improve it. I sent the following email to the immitracker folks - they responded promptly and are now following the traffic on this forum - they have promised to make improvements to the table.
*------start of my email to immitracker maintainers-------*
I joined this forum about 7 months ago and have learned a lot about what the most important information is that everyone is looking for
The key milestones in the citizenship process as you know are
1. Getting the NOA (Notice of Acceptance) of receipt of your N400 application with the priority date
2. The notice for fingerprinting with the date for FP
3. Then a long wait, then Interview Letter with the date of the interview
4. Sometimes a follow-up letter with a decision (if the decision was not made at the time of the interview)
5. Finally, if you passed the interview an oath letter with the date of the date of the oath ceremony.
The biggest uncertainty in the entire process is step 3 - where for months and sometimes years people wait while FBI does a namecheck - the worst part is not knowing what's going on because USCIS just tells you to keep waiting, and FBI will not tell you anything about the status of your namecheck.
The point I was making in my earlier email is that if immitracker just added the District Office as one of the fields then people would actually be able to tell if they were stuck in namecheck or not (by seeing if people with a priority date after them from the same D.O were getting their interview letters) - this would be enormously useful. Also we don't really need to see columns for country of citizenship, source of GreenCard, Receipt numbers like ESCxxxx, etc.. all this is extraneous info that we really dont care about. The most important fields we care about are
1. Priority Date on the NOA
2. Service Center
3. and District Office closest to you
4. FingerPrint date
5. Interview Letter received or not - date it was received and date of interview
6. Decision + Oath Date
That's it! - that's the minimum info you must have in the immitracker table for it to be useful - anything more is optional. Anything less and people won't use it.
*------end of my email------*
Let me know if I left anything out
Cheers,
S.