Who's still waiting for approval pending CIA check since interview on or before 4/14
Today is 10/23/03. We had I-485 interview on 4/14/03 after our cases had been transferred to Newark, NJ local CIS (legency INS) office. The officer told us that he would send us approval notice to our home once he got CIA check results delivered to his system. But we are still waiting for the notice after 6 months and 10 days.
Who else are in the same situation? Please post your information so we can keep track of how long the CIA checks take.
I know for sure that everybody applying for Green Card is subject to CIA and FBI checks under immigration law ( Regardless their cases are finally completed at Service Centers or Local district offices for transferred cases). But I have no idea of when the CIA check is initiated during the processing.
Please shed your lights if you have some info on that.
The fact I know is that INS used to using "No news is good news" policy to pre-approve I-485 cases if CIA could not get its check work done within 60 days to ease the significant backlogs then. CIA only fed back to INS for those cases with background problems. Then INS excercised its discretion to revoke some pre-approved cases. However, at a certain point after 9/11/01, this policy was changed back to its prototype, which is that the INS cannot approve any I-485 cases until it has received CIA check results. Who cares how long you get to wait? Preventing terrorists' attacks is what the DHS (CIS's new parent) is about.
I-485 processing time took 6 months to 12 months around 1997, 12 months to 16 months before 9/11 tragedy, and now between 18 and 24 months.
Today is 10/23/03. We had I-485 interview on 4/14/03 after our cases had been transferred to Newark, NJ local CIS (legency INS) office. The officer told us that he would send us approval notice to our home once he got CIA check results delivered to his system. But we are still waiting for the notice after 6 months and 10 days.
Who else are in the same situation? Please post your information so we can keep track of how long the CIA checks take.
I know for sure that everybody applying for Green Card is subject to CIA and FBI checks under immigration law ( Regardless their cases are finally completed at Service Centers or Local district offices for transferred cases). But I have no idea of when the CIA check is initiated during the processing.
Please shed your lights if you have some info on that.
The fact I know is that INS used to using "No news is good news" policy to pre-approve I-485 cases if CIA could not get its check work done within 60 days to ease the significant backlogs then. CIA only fed back to INS for those cases with background problems. Then INS excercised its discretion to revoke some pre-approved cases. However, at a certain point after 9/11/01, this policy was changed back to its prototype, which is that the INS cannot approve any I-485 cases until it has received CIA check results. Who cares how long you get to wait? Preventing terrorists' attacks is what the DHS (CIS's new parent) is about.
I-485 processing time took 6 months to 12 months around 1997, 12 months to 16 months before 9/11 tragedy, and now between 18 and 24 months.
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