Originally Posted by
stanj
Just curious, when is/was your expiration date and what part of the US are you in? I'm wondering if expiration dates or processing location have anything to do with the priority in the queue or if it really is just a random luck of the draw.
BTW, I've got you both beat by one day--June 11, 160 days. Expiration in Feb 2020. I know I have until Feb 2021, but with a couple of int'l trips coming up it would be nice to do EOA and get it over and done with, if interview is necessary.
I'm in Ohio (and my original application went from application -> conditional approval in less than 48 hours and did the entire process including interview in less than a week). I think processing location for the application is strictly random (first time around it came from Vermont, IIRC)
Expiration is May of 2020 -- renewed July 13 (thought it was June but just checked TTP and that's the date it shows) -- have wondered if the fact that I still have plenty of time before expiration contributed to the slow turnaround (e.g. giving priority to earlier expirations) but it sounds like that's not the case from this unscientific sample. Also curious what the criteria is for requiring a new interview -- guessing in my case my "exotic" travel (14 countries in the past 5 years including China and Mongolia) may have set up a flag, otherwise I have a very unique name and a clean history...