USCIS now reports certain processing times under "SCOPS" instead of named service centers
On the public processing-times page, USCIS has begun listing certain form types under "Service Center Operations (SCOPS)" rather than naming specific service centers (e.g., Vermont, Nebraska). Filers should treat the SCOPS line as the national reporting bucket for those forms.
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USCIS's public processing-times tool now groups certain form types under "Service Center Operations (SCOPS)" rather than the specific service-center name (Vermont, Nebraska, Texas, California, Potomac) that filers were used to seeing.
The change reflects how USCIS internally reroutes paper and electronic filings across its service-center network. For affected forms, the SCOPS line is now the canonical processing-time figure to compare against; the per-center medians are no longer published for those form types.
This does not change how you file or where your physical paperwork goes — the receipt-notice and case-status workflows are unchanged.
Why it matters here
CasePredictor's processing-times dataset already aggregates to the national level for predictions, so the SCOPS change does not affect the p50/p93 numbers our calculator uses. We've also documented this on the Methodology page so users aren't surprised when their receipt notice shows a service-center code that doesn't appear in the public processing-times tool.
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