When an application stalls with no RFE and no interview, the quiet culprit is often a name-check or fingerprint result nobody will discuss. You can request your own FBI identity history — and settle what's actually in it.
An unreasonable-delay complaint that can plead “plaintiff's FBI identity history is clean and attached” removes the government's favorite implication without a word spoken. Conversely, discovering a real record item early lets counsel handle it on your schedule instead of the agency's.
The identity-history request is a routine fingerprint submission used for jobs and licenses worldwide; it neither creates records nor flags cases.
Open dispositions read badly to adjudicators — getting court records and correcting the entry is exactly the cleanup worth doing before the government asks.
No — screening databases live behind law-enforcement exemptions. What the request settles is the rap-sheet layer, which drives most benefit delays.