If you are like me, you visit the Processing dates pages for your service center often. I do it several time between the 14th and 20th of every month when the USCIS usually updates these pages. Some other times, I just check it even though I know nothing would’ve changed on it, it’s a damn addiction. One of the symptoms of chronic usciosis…

Well, if you suffer from that as well, here’s a pill available over the counter, in fact, for free, at this website called www.changedetection.com. Basically, this website will monitor any web page for you and send you an email if anything on it changes to a sizeable extent. This works well for processing dates.

Ok here goes…the exact steps…it should take less than 10 minutes..

Visit http://changedetection.com

Search for NSC, TSC or VSC whichever processing center you want to track.

 

From the search results, click on the result shown below.

Enter your email. Make sure you use a real email, you will have to activate your account from this email account later.

On the next page, enter a short name for the monitor that you can easily identify from all the other junk in your mailbox..I used NSC Case Status Change Notification. Make sure you select the “only send alert if sizeable change” checkbox or you could end up getting notified if the USCIS developer added a comma on the page.

 The final page asks you to confirm your Email. Log in to your email, click on the confirmation link and you are all set.

If you want to track more than one service center, just repeat the procedure for the next service center.

This procedure works for almost any web page and is meaningful for any static pages that rarely change but whenever they do change, you are interested in getting notifed. Ideally, USCIS should offer an RSS feed or a change notification service on these pages from their website, but I am not aware of anything like that, so this will do until then.

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