MikeS

Kind folks,

When and how is it appropriate to write BCIS to get a real case status? I have a feeling our application may not have had much work done on it, though it arguably should have been complete by now.

My wife applied for naturalization via N-400 in Boston back in May. We got a biometrics appointment scheduled, but my wife had been scheduled to leave the country at the time; we wrote to request a rescheduling of the biometrics.

She wound up canceling the trip because of the prospects of a job interview for me. We went together, I got the job, and we moved to Georgia.

She called BCIS not long after we arrived, and did the over-the-phone and online change of address forms exactly as the BCIS staffer instructed.

A few months later, we find out that wasn't the complete procedure, in the sense it didn't change the address on the actual application. She did so in November, and was told she'd get confirmation of the address change within 45 days. That time is up.

All we got was a message saying they'd received the request to change the address. We have no address change confirmation. We never had anything else on rescheduling biometrics. We've had no updates, no nothing.

Based on our filing date, we would have been complete if we'd started and stayed in either Boston or Atlanta. But we're in limbo.

Is it appropriate to write a letter outlining all this, or is there some other procedure we should take? My wife is trying to find a job, and, being in a military town now, citizenship is a prerequisite for a good number of the positions out there.



Mike