How long to show on PACER?

[trouble1]

I am filing this week. I am curious to know how long after the paperwork is turned in to the courts that it will show on PACER when I search by my name and SSN?

[justbroke]

A case number should be issued instantaneously and searchable. That's if the paperwork (the petition) is hand delivered and a receipt is given, or an attorney does it electronically using CM/ECF (PACER).

[momofthree]

Mine took 2 days to show up.

[justbroke]

Mine took 2 days to show up.

Yuck. Did you hand deliver? If you attorney did it in CM/ECF it should be instant. But, I still don't put it past it just being different District's systems are on different versions of CM/ECF (PACER).

[momofthree]

Yuck. Did you hand deliver? If you attorney did it in CM/ECF it should be instant. But, I still don't put it past it just being different District's systems are on different versions of CM/ECF (PACER).

Nope, attny filed electronically. I guess maybe it's my district. I checked obsessively from several days before filing (only had a window of when he was going to file it) up until 2 days after filing, and sure enough, it took 2 days to show. But when it did, it had the correct filing date, just took some time to show up for some reason (although it was filed on a Sunday AND the last day of the month, so don't know if that delays it?). Then again, our 341 info took a couple days to show up as well. But our confirmation posted the day after the hearing. Dunno why there's a discrepancy???

[justbroke]

Then again, our 341 info took a couple days to show up as well. But our confirmation posted the day after the hearing. Dunno why there's a discrepancy???

I don't know. I get stuff instantly in PACER. I hand the intake clerk a document, and before I log into my computer, it's in PACER... filed and entered (docketed). The different District do things differently. There are processes where they can actually enter a document/paper and it goes through a workflow to the case manager first before it's released. Don't know if that's the difference or not.

[itsdavetime]

I filed pro se, and everything showed up in Pacer right away, as the clerk scans everything in right then and there.

[HHM]

Nope, attny filed electronically. I guess maybe it's my district. I checked obsessively from several days before filing (only had a window of when he was going to file it) up until 2 days after filing, and sure enough, it took 2 days to show. But when it did, it had the correct filing date, just took some time to show up for some reason (although it was filed on a Sunday AND the last day of the month, so don't know if that delays it?). Then again, our 341 info took a couple days to show up as well. But our confirmation posted the day after the hearing. Dunno why there's a discrepancy???

Periodically, district do maintenance on PACER, maybe your attorney filed it, then the district did some maintenance, but who knows.

In general, as soon as an attorney files it electronically, a case number is assigned, a judge is assigned, and the 341 meeting is scheduled and your attorney gets a receipt. I suppose their can be some delay in the case actually be searchable on the database, but it is odd.