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C. Githii
QueueCheck editor and researcher
C. Githii is a QueueCheck editor and researcher. Their work includes checking primary government sources, reviewing processing-time information, maintaining dated updates, and editing practical guides about government queues. QueueCheck is independent and does not provide legal advice or individual case decisions.
How this work is done
QueueCheck pages are produced collaboratively: primary-source research, verification against the official page a claim comes from, writing and editing, dated processing-time updates, and corrections. The pages listed below name C. Githii as the editor responsible for them under the site's shared standards.
Guides (26)
Written and checked under the QueueCheck editorial standards.
- Pakistani passport renewal in the UK: appointments, the online route, and what takes how long
- OCI card processing time: what happens between applying and holding the card
- Marriage green card timeline: what actually decides how fast your case moves
- UK passport approved or printed: when it actually arrives
- K-1 fiance visa timeline: every stage from petition to arrival
- Canada spousal sponsorship timeline: the 12-month standard, inland versus outland, stage by stage
- USCIS revoked my old EAD after my Green Card was approved. Should I worry?
- Family green card timeline: every stage from I-130 to approval
- A criminal charge and your green card: what USCIS does with an arrest, a pending case, or a dismissal
- N-400 travel history: which trips count, and how to rebuild years of them
- Is your US passport ready to travel? The validity rule, the new permissions, and the renewal trap
- Social Security disability timeline: the claim, the appeals, and how to be decided sooner
- JobSeeker Payment timeline: claim assessment, waiting periods, and getting paid
- CRA tax refund timeline: 2 weeks online, and what slows the rest
- H-1B status check: what to check, who can check it, and what each status means
- I-131 processing time: Advance Parole, reentry permits, and travel documents are not one queue
- Public elective surgery waits: why the median of 45 days helps almost nobody
- What happens if you leave the US after an overstay: the bar that departure itself creates
- Your CEAC status says Refused. That usually does not mean what it sounds like
- Your case status is not your file. Here is who holds the records, and how long each one takes to hand them over
- An I-130 denied because the petitioner did not meet the burden: what the decision settles, and what it leaves open
- No F-1 interview slot and your program starts soon: the options that actually exist
- How to read USCIS processing times, and why the date that lets you ask is a different number
- Australian citizenship takes two waits, and only one of them is the application
- The EU Entry/Exit System (EES)
- US visa: how long can I stay?
News records (19)
Dated records of official changes, reported and checked against the primary source.
- USCIS set a September 18 line through every pending green card decision to file
- Three Express Entry rounds in three days, and the cutoffs were 378 points apart
- IRCC is acknowledging citizenship applications from late March, which puts the wait before the wait at about five months
- Canada's citizenship certificate wait hits 25 months, and the law that caused it is eight months old
- USCIS restored the power to deny without asking first: what the August 5 policy change removes
- ETIAS drops its 2026 launch target: no start date exists again
- USCIS glitch on July 23: what the account errors do and do not mean
- Section 8 waiting list in Hialeah: the July 2026 lottery window
- Australia student visa fee rises to AUD 2,500 as WHM waits slow
- US visa appointments: why applying outside your home country can backfire
- UK immigration rule changes on 30 July and 3 August 2026: what HC 259 actually does
- US F-1 four-year limit: what international PhD students need to do
- Home Affairs reminds 820 and 309 holders: the permanent stage opens at two years
- Australia parent visa 143 queue: why 15 years is not the whole story
- Is the Green Card program suspended? What is actually paused in July 2026
- Passport Canada: 10 or 20 business days depends on how you apply
- UK standard passport timing remains listed as within 3 weeks
- IRCC explains why processing times can be longer than posted estimates
- US routine passport processing is listed at 4 to 6 weeks
Service articles (4)
Practical articles attached to tracked services.
Tracked services (21)
Service pages whose official timing this editor checks.
- US urgent passport (United States)
- Green Card renewal or replacement (I-90) (United States)
- H-1B visa lottery (United States)
- Advance Parole travel document (United States)
- TSA PreCheck (United States)
- US unemployment benefits (United States)
- UK visitor visa (United Kingdom)
- UK student visa (United Kingdom)
- DVSA practical driving test (United Kingdom)
- HMRC tax refund (United Kingdom)
- Canada study permit (Canada)
- Passport Canada (Canada)
- Canada work permit (Canada)
- Australian partner visa (Australia)
- Australian parent visa 143 (Australia)
- Australian citizenship (Australia)
- ATO tax refund (Australia)
- Public elective surgery (Australia)
- Indian passport (India)
- Aadhaar update (India)
- Pakistani passport (Pakistan)
Corrections
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