USCIS or United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is the department that mostly handles and prosecutes the applications for various types of visa and related services. To help the applicants, the US department provides facility to check the status or proceedings of the particular application which is also known as case through online sources. In this facility an applicant can check and regularly follow the current position of the case and could also determine whether he is needed to submit some external documents to let the process get going.

This facility is not available for the passport applicants but only for visa and related case applicants. The USCIS check status procedure is quite uncomplicated and could be carried out at various online destinations. Once you apply to the USCIS department they begin the procedure on first come first serve basis to keep the whole procedure unbiased. Process related to application begins according to your application number and as soon as it does the department sends you a mail containing A-Z information regarding your case application. The actual time that is required to get through your application entirely depends on the kind of application posted by you. In order to check status of your case you need to rely on the information provided by the department through email.

In order to perform USCIS check status procedure you need to make use of the immigration case receipt number which is provided in the mail sent through the department. This is a thirteen digit number which is located over the receipt from immigration service department. In order to locate this number you need to look at the top portion of the receipt and there you will find it easily. Another identification of case receipt number is the fact that every number actually begins with three valid letters from the alphabets. You can find a set of three letters that would look like this EAC, WAC and so on. In a condition where your receipt does not contain the number then you need to make contact with the department either personally or through their customer care telephone number. Once you get the number search online for websites that provide the USCIS check status facility and there you just need to enter the number in order to get the result. The same procedure could be followed through visiting the official website of USCIS department. The case status that appears on the result page is regularly updated and is up to the mark. Keep checking the status with regular intervals as it helps to take necessary actions on time if any.