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If you submit your complaint and pay the proper filing fee in person, you will get a docket number assigned to your case immediately after you pay the fee. If you ask the Court to waive the filing fee by submitting a completed application to proceed in forma pauperis, your papers must be processed and reviewed by the Court before a docket number is assigned to your case. This may take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months, depending upon how many cases are submitted to the Court at any given time. Typically, cases are processed and reviewed in the order in which they are received by the Court.
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