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Theory on Name Check delay
- Thread starter billlonestar
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I think it is completely true based on my personal experience. Most people say only men get into Namecheck mess and not women. The people who were saying this are men who were primary and they got into name check issues and their wife's never got name check issues because they came as dependent recently and have less history.
In my case I am the primary living in US for 7 years before applying for I485 and my spouse lived in US for only 2 years when he applied for I485. I got name check and my husband did not. So, it totally makes sense to me that, the longer you live in US and change addresses the bigger window of getting stuck in name check. And for that matter my name is not common at all in India and not popular too, for sure no one with my name is a terrorist.
In my case I am the primary living in US for 7 years before applying for I485 and my spouse lived in US for only 2 years when he applied for I485. I got name check and my husband did not. So, it totally makes sense to me that, the longer you live in US and change addresses the bigger window of getting stuck in name check. And for that matter my name is not common at all in India and not popular too, for sure no one with my name is a terrorist.
There may be some truth to it. A person gets stuck in NC when his/her NC search generates a hit in reference files. Reference files do not necesserely list bad people, but contain all records relevant to FBI activies. E.g. if you were a witness of crime, or was a crime victim yourself, then your name may end up in FBI reference files. So the longer you stay in the US, the more likely a possibility of your name making its way to FBI ref. files for some innocent reasons. Then, once your NC gets a hit, it's put aside for a manual retrival of a relevant reference file, and this is when NC black hole hell starts: too few unmotivated clerks are manually processing too many NC hits.
There is also another component to the NC backlog, and this is USCIS itself. Once FBI retrives a refence file with a hit, it sends results to USCIS (to fraud detection unit in DC), it's done with your namecheck as far as they are concerned, and now it's up to USCIS to decide what to do with the information they got from the FBI. So that's why you see people reporting their NC cleared by the FBI, but USICS still tells them that background checks are pending.
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I kinda agree with that based on the facts from trackitt.com that the people in EB1C category are getting approvals so fast. Hardly anyone is stuck in namecheck. I think, the reason is these people are on L visas and recently transferred from outside US in a manegerial positions. They apply within 2-3 yrs and don't get stuck due to short history here.
Whereas there are a lot of EB1a and EB1b cases stuck in namecheck for quite a long time although the category is current almost for 1.5 yrs for india and china. These people are generally in the US for long time (7-10 yrs or more) doing PhD, postdoc and jobs.
Whereas there are a lot of EB1a and EB1b cases stuck in namecheck for quite a long time although the category is current almost for 1.5 yrs for india and china. These people are generally in the US for long time (7-10 yrs or more) doing PhD, postdoc and jobs.
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