Every application is different because every household is different. If there are issues with the documents you provided with your application, there will be a delay as your local office tries to contact you. We are required to:

  1. Review your application and documents within 14 days after we receive a complete application (this includes all supporting documents, so if you do not submit all your documents with your application, this 14-day clock will not start until we get everything from you.
  2. Process and finalize your application within 45 days of receiving your complete application packet.

Please understand that we will receive more applications this year than in the past, so some processing delays are expected in highly populated areas.

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