FTA1 on Your USCIS Case: What It Means
The meaning is not confirmed. Community reports disagree between supervisory review and follow-up database checks.
Sources for this meaningMeaning not confirmed: Reports disagree or are too few. Treat the meaning as a guess and rely on your notices.
What it means
FTA1 is absent from the linked NIEM list. CaseStatusAPI labels it as supervisory review, but that is a tracker interpretation, not a published NIEM definition. Do not infer approval or a problem from this code alone.
What usually comes next
Check your USCIS account and notices for any instructions or further updates.
Which forms it appears on
There is no confirmed form list for this code in the NIEM reference. Any forms listed below come from community reports and are not exhaustive.
A public source we cite shows FTA1 on Form I-485 and Form I-130 cases.
Questions about FTA1
Does FTA1 mean supervisory review?
Some trackers say so; others read it as follow-up database checks. The meaning is not confirmed, so treat any label as a guess and rely on your notices and your USCIS account.
Sources
- NIEM 5.0: USCIS benefit document status definitions
- CaseStatusAPI: FTA1 interpretation and reported forms
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