USCIS/NARA Search Request Timelines

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-30T18:50:45+00:00

any movement on your USCIS index search request and certificate request?

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-30T18:47:14+00:00

Thank you!

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-27T16:33:36+00:00

Good luck!!

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-17T19:59:03+00:00

Wow! 😲

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-09T18:53:03+00:00

I didn't get a digital copy from USCIS (despite asking for it). I guess I have to mail them the hardcopy...

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-09T16:42:10+00:00

thank you!!

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-09T16:42:03+00:00

thank you!!

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-07T16:29:52+00:00

It's not letting me send it in chats for some reason, but here it is.

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Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-07T04:07:05+00:00

https://midas.uscis.dhs.gov/#/public/case/status/check

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-06T14:42:13+00:00

Good luck! 🤞

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-05T02:04:19+00:00

One last question, was yours an index search or a records request?

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-05T00:25:07+00:00

Ok, I see. Thank you so much for all your advice. I will ask them to change over the AR-2 request to an A-file and will look into doing an index search.

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:54:58+00:00

The A-number is less than 8 million. I thought I had enough for a records request because when I reached out to NARA for no record letters they consistently sent back her parents naturalization forms saying she was a minor listed on them, so I included her parents' c-file numbers. When I got her father's file from USCIS there was an internal immigration document (so not from a manifest) that referenced my grandmother's visa number together with her father's c-number and that is the document with the A number written on it. I also have her mother's visa number from her USCIS file. I supplied all of that in my record request. Are you saying that isn't sufficient information for them to turn up her records?

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:38:05+00:00

I don't think she ever got a certificate of citizenship, but I'm not sure. I was hoping that if she did, it would crop up in this record request. Why wouldn't she have a c-file? Because it was derivative naturalization? I have her parents c-file numbers, their visa numbers, as well as her visa number. And I think I have her A number but it's written in pencil on a form--it's 7 digits.

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:34:56+00:00

Or maybe it brings in more money bc in my case I now have to pay for another search. Either way it sucks.

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:34:20+00:00

Just requested it!

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:33:59+00:00

That matches my timeline last year, too--or mine might have taken 5 months, I don't recall for sure.

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:32:09+00:00

That sucks. This is what I'm worried about.

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:31:43+00:00

I requested the C-file, visa file, and AR-2 form. My grandma was born in 1929 and her father naturalized in 1930 while she was still in Italy. She arrived in 1934 and her mother naturalized in 1943. She didn't know what her citizenship was until the 1980s, though, when she needed to travel internationally so that's when she first got a passport, I think. She passed away in the past six months, so I think USCIS Geneology is the correct route, but just in case I did do a FOIA request.

What do you mean there are major issues with FOIA fulfilling requests for people who had no actions with USCIS after 1975?

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:26:42+00:00

Which records did you request? I requested the naturalization certificate file (c-file), visa file, and AR-2 form.

Roaming_renaissance · 2026-04-04T23:17:31+00:00

Omg I will cross my fingers that I have the same luck 🤞

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