I'm planning on making an InfoPass appt. for mid-March. I am not a very patient person by nature, so this wait is killing me. I'm not exactly sure what exactly is the likelyhood of receiving an IL within the next 2 months, so I'm just killing time before doing an InfoPass.
N-400 applied after July'07 and got Interview??
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I'm planning on making an InfoPass appt. for mid-March. I am not a very patient person by nature, so this wait is killing me. I'm not exactly sure what exactly is the likelyhood of receiving an IL within the next 2 months, so I'm just killing time before doing an InfoPass.
Vorpal, Did you call the FBI to check whether you FP got cleared. I have taken down the phone number of FBI from an earlier post. How many days after I have my FP done, I should call the FBI?
Oh yeah, I called them 2 days later. I've noticed that you did your prints today. Call them on Wednesday, they'll definitely be done by then. I should note that the FBI operators don't confirm whether your prints have been cleared or not, they just tell you that the prints have been processed and returned to the USCIS. If you haven't been fingerprinted for criminal purposes, it's safe to assume that your prints have been cleared.
Thank you Seattleliter, I appriciate this information.
Got IL today!
After I posted the previous message, I checked my mailbox I have got my IL (postamarked 1/10/08) for 3/4/08!
Good luck Seattleliter with your IL, hope you receive it soon...
Now my question is.. Is it OK to leave country for two weeks and come back (I am planning to go from Feb. 5 to Feb 19)?
Please anyone... any concern, suggestion.. I am being little bit paranoid!
N-400 timeline Nebraska Service Center/Chicago
Priority date - 7/24/07
Receipt Notice - 08/09/07 + 2 days
FP notice - 08/15/07 + 2 days
FP appointment- 9/11/07
Interview Letter Received - 01/14/08
Interview Date - 03/04/08
Oath Letter Received - XX/XX/XX
Oath Date - XX/XX/XX
LUD: 08/09/07
After I posted the previous message, I checked my mailbox I have got my IL (postamarked 1/10/08) for 3/4/08!
Good luck Seattleliter with your IL, hope you receive it soon...
Now my question is.. Is it OK to leave country for two weeks and come back (I am planning to go from Feb. 5 to Feb 19)?
Please anyone... any concern, suggestion.. I am being little bit paranoid!
N-400 timeline Nebraska Service Center/Chicago
Priority date - 7/24/07
Receipt Notice - 08/09/07 + 2 days
FP notice - 08/15/07 + 2 days
FP appointment- 9/11/07
Interview Letter Received - 01/14/08
Interview Date - 03/04/08
Oath Letter Received - XX/XX/XX
Oath Date - XX/XX/XX
LUD: 08/09/07
seattleliter
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After I posted the previous message, I checked my mailbox I have got my IL (postamarked 1/10/08) for 3/4/08!
Good luck Seattleliter with your IL, hope you receive it soon...
Now my question is.. Is it OK to leave country for two weeks and come back (I am planning to go from Feb. 5 to Feb 19)?
Please anyone... any concern, suggestion.. I am being little bit paranoid!
N-400 timeline Nebraska Service Center/Chicago
Priority date - 7/24/07
Receipt Notice - 08/09/07 + 2 days
FP notice - 08/15/07 + 2 days
FP appointment- 9/11/07
Interview Letter Received - 01/14/08
Interview Date - 03/04/08
Oath Letter Received - XX/XX/XX
Oath Date - XX/XX/XX
LUD: 08/09/07
Congratulations Chicago24. Good luck for the interview.
I dont think there is anything to worry about since you are going for just 2 weeks.
LegalAlien2
Registered Users (C)
count me in folks.... (see my timeline below)
Nice! Now you have two months to study
Happy for you, can I have the manual? Please?
LegalAlien2
Registered Users (C)
Nimche,
I would love people to beat me 'coz that'll mean progress on their case
How's the progress at CSC?
I still have 2 FULL MONTHS for the interview. You know what I'm finding to be useful is the Civic Test PDF which is in the Flash Card format ...it has the pictures for easy remembering.
NYC has turned into the slowest DO in the nation from being the fastest till early this year. I have not heard of any July applicant from NYC having received IL yet. I think they will strictly follow the 16-18 month timeline as mentioned in the Receipt notice (540 days)
Vorpal, I do not understand what is the difference between FP clearence and namecheck clearence. Does FBI process the both? When I got my greencard in 2003, they took my FPs. Did they do namecheck then? If I was cleared in 2003 and I have no record since than, why would I have to worry? I see a lot of folks getting stuck in namecheck process. I know that I have asked a few questions. Please answer as time permits!
Nah, we're still WAAAAAY ahead of the Washington, D.C. office. A couple of NYC users with mid- to late-June 2007 PDs have recently received ILs. Here's one of them: http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=1844592&postcount=367
Come to think of it, I haven't seen any July applicants from NYC on this forum. After June, the only PDs I've seen are from late August on.
Nimche,
I would love people to beat me 'coz that'll mean progress on their case
How's the progress at CSC?
I still have 2 FULL MONTHS for the interview. You know what I'm finding to be useful is the Civic Test PDF which is in the Flash Card format ...it has the pictures for easy remembering.
CSC?
Well they are doing fine I guess. I am the one who is scratching his head and say WOW. But its OK waiting.
Legal II, do you do visualization?
I will try the PDF files, I DL a set and printed them 2 years ago to see how do they look but I am going to read them, appreciate your suggestion.
Vorpal, where is your IL? Don't you hide it!
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My PD 7/28. A friend of mine has 7/10 and no IL. Even he has not heard anyone else in July getting IL. I don;t care what happens in Washington but the way we are going in NYC it looks like we may get beaten by Washington unless Chuck Shumer's extra 700 retired folks join back very soon.
Here's where it gets a bit complicated. Both checks (Name and FP) are performed by the FBI; however, each is handled by a different division. Since a fingerprint is a unique identifier (every human being has a unique fingerprint), it's processed digitally and immediately returned to the USCIS. As far as the name check goes, it's processed digitally as well, but certain names run into snags, which requires the need for those names to be processed manually. For example, let's say your name is John Smith. A computerized check of the main file may return "NO RESULTS", which means that you have no active investigations pending. However, a computerized check of secondary files may return a hit. A good example of a secondary file is a mention of your name in someone else's investigation. This may not even be YOUR OWN NAME, but a similar sounding/spelled name of an individual who has no relation to you whatsoever. However, the computer, being a stupid machine that it is, flags it as a hit. This requires a human technician to pull the physical files that scored a hit, and review those files to make sure that the name referenced in them is not in fact yours.
I've read in another post that there are only 30 or so technicians at the FBI whose responsibility is to perform manual checks. Imagine this: out of over 1,000,000 applicants who submitted their N-400 last year, at least a small percentage of them is bound to have common names. Suppose it's 2%. That's AT LEAST 20,000 files that have to be pulled out and examined manually. Divide that among 30 people, and you get your explanation of name check delays. Some applicants' names may score a hit in more than 1 secondary file, which causes chaos.
I am not a name check expert by any means, but this is the information that I've been able to gather from reading this forum. I hope it helps clarify the process for you.
Actually, I got my IL, but I sent it back, along with a request that I be placed in name check for the next few years, because I'm a glutton for punishment and a mental masochist!
That was a bad attempt at a joke, please don't take it seriously!
Nimche,
I would love people to beat me 'coz that'll mean progress on their case
How's the progress at CSC?
I still have 2 FULL MONTHS for the interview. You know what I'm finding to be useful is the Civic Test PDF which is in the Flash Card format ...it has the pictures for easy remembering.
From where did you get Civic test PDF in flash card format? Thank you.