California Center: card **** being produced!!!!! :) :) :) :)

[mouamoua]

***Attention: long **** message below***

Hello everyone, it is finally my turn to write the relief message that we all desire. Thank you Allah!!!
After 20 long months the message I was longing for FINALLY appeared after I gave up on constantly checking my status and also this forum, because it became stressful and above all very annoying to witness the unfairness of cases wrapped in 6 months while we were waiting for almost 2 years now with 0 news since October 2020.

So I had decided to stop checking my status everyday and leave this website alone for a while, even though this website has been so helpful and gave me a sense of community through this journey so I am still very thankful for it.

This morning out of nowhere, I received a notification from Lawfully App (which I wasn't checking anymore either) and since I never got a notification from this app before, I knew it meant that a movement happened until I clicked and what a movement it was! (By the way for those having this app their predictions are total BS)

Anyways, here is my timeline:

Center: California - San Francisco

-November 2019 case received, NOA 18months extension received a week later
-July 2020 biometrics applied to my case, old biometrics used.
[October 1st 2020 applied to N400]
-2 days after applying to N400, I751 transferred to NBC.
-March 2020 info pass to get a stamp on my passport (2 months before GC expired)
-June 29th NEW CARD IS BEING PRODUCED

Total wait=19.8 months (yes I put a countdown lol)

Copies of documents provided:

-Explanation letter telling why we lived separately until Sept 2019.
-Mariage certificate
-Both ID cards (US and Foreign)
-Both passports pages
-Bank accounts of the last 5 months
-10 affidavits of support (not notorized)
-Job contracts of different states
-Job contracts of jobs in CA state
-2 years of taxe returns (both filled under "married filed separately since we were in different states)
-Plane tickets of trips between East and West Coast .
-Plane tickets of trips together
-Car insurance with both names on it
-Health insurance cards with both names on it
-Car title with both names on it
-Life Insurance with both names on it
-Credit cards with both names on it.
-Many pictures from 2008 to 2019 (we met in the US in college)

That is all I can remember, hell it was 20months ago haha...

We neatly put everything in a big binder, even did an index showing the organization of the binder with page numbers, so the agent could easily go through it...As you can see this did not help our case to be treated faster -_- ....but still.

No lawyer, no RFE, no interview and no notifications either from USCIS when status changed, even though I signed up for both email and text. As I previously mentioned I got a notification from Lawfully app first and then went on USCIS website to check and indeed the status had changed on there.

I also want to mention that my husband and I got married in 2017 and started to live together only in September 2019 as we had jobs in different states.
I have also traveled with my I751 on many occasions and even got stuck 5 months overseas after Covid hit while my case was pending.

The wait for the 10 years GC is FINALLY over.I wish best of luck to those who have been waiting forever like we did.
I know it is a stressfull and annoying wait and weight! But the only advice I can give is to just let it happen and try to stop constantly checking your status and just live your everyday life normally and try to totally forget about it. This is what I tried to do these last few months and it was less stressful to do so.

I will NOT tell you the traditional "Be patient and your turn will arrive" like I often saw on here (and I know it was meant in a good way) but patient is what you DO NOT want to be anymore after your case has been pending with no news for over a year. So again all I will say is forget about it live your life and pray to God and keep praying even after your case is settled

Onto N400 wait now...but I will do the same forget about it and act like it doesn't exist until I get a notification.


Please feel free to ask me questions if you need, as many of you answered mine on so many occasions on this great forum. It gave me information and hope so I hope I can do the same for some. Cheers y'all!

[JForbes]

Congrats! I am sorry it took so long but I am happy you finally heard back.

[mouamoua]

JForbes, thank you so much I am happy as well

[Bialatif]

Many many congratulations. I had heard California wait is long but happy for you that it finally came through.
not to be annoying to ask this question but did you not petition to have your I-751 and n400 to be adjudicated together? I saw that you said you didn’t get an interview for i751. Is that why both cases could not be looked at the same time? I only ask cause my i751 is pending and I’m about to file for n400 but the lawyer is saying there is an option to ask them to look at the cases together, not sure how correct that is.

[mouamoua]

Hello Bialatif, thank you so much.

To answer your question there might be a misunderstanding with your lawyer because such an option does not exist. You do not have the option to ask this when you file for N400.

That being said if you receive an interview date for your N400 BEFORE your I751 gets adjudicated, the day of your N400 you must tell the agent that your I751 is still pending and if he/she can conduct both interviews (I751+N400) that same day.Then it is up to the agent to accept or decline.

Back in March I called USCIS to ask about my I751 case and spoke to a tier 2 agent who told me that I would probably receive my N400 interview before my I751 and if so that the agent should conduct both interviews if the I751 case was still pending by then, but that did not happen and my I751 was approved w/o iinterview while my N400 is pending.

You are not annoying me at all by the way

[UScitizenFilingforspouse]

Many many congratulations. I had heard California wait is long but happy for you that it finally came through.
not to be annoying to ask this question but did you not petition to have your I-751 and n400 to be adjudicated together? I saw that you said you didn’t get an interview for i751. Is that why both cases could not be looked at the same time? I only ask cause my i751 is pending and I’m about to file for n400 but the lawyer is saying there is an option to ask them to look at the cases together, not sure how correct that is.

Congratulations to OP! ????

I believe the N-400 has a checkbox asking if you have a pending I-751. Not sure. Hopefully, others can confirm.
Truth is that sometimes it works out nicely and filing the N-400 prompts USCIS to adjudicate or at least, grab your I-751.
USCIS strives to process N-400 within 180 days. There is no time limit or deadline to process I-751. Thus, you could say that N-400s take priority. So in theory, filing the N-400 should help your goal.

[tauraos]

Congratulations. I am sure you must feel very relieved and happy. ???? very happy for you.
on n400 it only asks you about your eligibility. You can point out i751 in cover letter and hope they adjudicate both together in timely manner. That’s pretty much it.

[okccanary]

Congrats!!