[ddhuab]

You may want to start a new thread called something like
USCIS Atlanta Timeframes?

Obviously, you wouldn't use Atlanta, haha. The offices do vary a lot in their processing times.

Our Atlanta office is fairly fast, or at least, they were the times I had to deal with them. We ended up having to refile on the same adoption because our process took so long (and because I did I-600 first thing).

Anyway, I can tell you our time frame... things seemed to take forever because in our State (alabama), the approved homestudy has to come from the state dhr (or whatever they call it). This took FOREVER our first go-round (made more complicated because my fingerprints going through the state for background check were never clear enough to go through). BUT, once the USCIS office received the homestudy, it took about 10 calendar days for us to get our approval in the mailbox.

The second time, it took about 7 days to get the form back in the mail, from the time the office received our approved new homestudy AND we were denied an appointment because the Embassy did not have a copy of the updated cable... DO NOT LET YOUR USCIS APPROVAL EXPIRE).

Also, our Atlanta office has a GREAT information email that they send regarding all sorts of situations (it is a long document), so I would suggest trying to see if your office has something similar. It is an autogenerated email, so if you can find your their address by going through the uscis website, that might be helpful.

Good luck,
D.