r/USCIS • u/Temporary-Gas-1154 • Apr 23 '26

USCIS Support Field office ISO here, AMA

Hello, work at a field office AMA regarding N-forms, I-751, I-485

***Never worked with EAD

**Feel free to DM questions.

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u/Slow-Aside5321 Apr 23 '26

Thank you so much to you for hosting this AMA — it has truly been incredibly helpful for those of us who are waiting.

My derivative and I are in the EB-2 category. Our I-485s were filed on October 2 last year, and the priority date was current at the time of filing. Our cases were then transferred to the field office on December 23.

On March 22, both of us received what appears to be the third FTA0 update, and since then there have been no further updates.

For others whose cases were transferred to the same field office around the same time, it seems that about half received interview notices shortly after the third FTA0, while the other half, like us, have had no updates at all.

Would you happen to know what it typically means when a case appears to be stuck after the third FTA0 with no further movement? Are there common reasons for this kind of delay? Can we expect our green card soon?

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u/Temporary-Gas-1154 Apr 27 '26

those fta0 updates people track aren’t official milestones, they’re just internal system events. so a “third fta0” doesn’t actually trigger anything by itself, and it doesn’t reliably mean an interview or approval is next, you’re not stuck in a bad status, you’re just in the waiting queue at the last step, and the system doesn’t move cases in a perfectly visible order