AOS & EAD Feb. 2008 Filers

[Immigration Blues 0]

I wouldn't be too worried about the touches. I only got one during the AOS process and none during the K-1. The one for AOS was just a couple of days before the interview. Some people seem to get lots of touches and others nothing.

As far as correspondence, maybe bring copies of a few emails, but I wouldn't worry too much. We had to go to Seattle for our interview (Portland for everything else), and the IO looked quickly through things and handed it all back to us. She didn't keep anything to put in the file (and after I made all of the copies and everything!)

I think that what you already have will be plenty and congrats on the interview date!!

thank you!

[Ali e Jeff 0]

HAPPY SUNNY SATURDAY IN SEATTLE AND REGION,

I RECEIVED THE GREENCARD YESTERDAY! FINALLY NO MORE USCIS FOR 2 YEARS...

[js360 0]

finally, we received card production ordered email on friday night. yaaaay. now just the wait for the cards.

i also just checked the i485 received a touch today as well.

Edited December 8, 2008 by js360

[NeverSeen 0]

Congrats guys.

I think i'm the last one left lol. I'm now out of the processing time frame for my field office. They show March 10 but i'm from feb. I'm going to give them a call today because that's what it says to do on the processing time frame page. I know i want hear anything special, but the wife is freakin' out becuase there is a push at her work to go to only green cards or citizens and she's fearing a layoff (they have them once a month, and are moving towards military and gov contract only).

I'm guessing i'm one of those that getting the FBI look over. *sigh*

[NeverSeen 0]

So this really, really SUCKS.

I called and they said that even though I'm outside of the window for my field office (they are working on March 10) that I have to go by where it was transferred to. That's fine... The problem is that CSC shows July 06 as their current processing and that's for work based only. So now i'm effed. If they never would have transferred, i'd be done already. Stupid government strikes again.

So now not only am I outside of the 6 month + 1 month window for my last few notices, i'm also stuck in no man's land.

I'm writing a letter to my Rep and going to make an infopass.

[SpiritAlight 1]

I re-found this thread thanks to Captain Ewok's top thread lists.

Congrats to the latest green card holders.

And I hope you hear something soon NeverSeen.

[HogNKisses 0]

Hi guys,

I had an interview today. The interview went fine. The officer was nice and friendly. The interview went for about 25 minutes. At the end, she made copies of supporting documents that we brought; and said everything looks good. She didn't say whether the case is approved or not. She simply said the rest is just going through paperwork. She said they will let us know in a mail. We will get a mail if they need anything from us. She told us to expect a letter withing a few weeks.

I wonder if anyone has the same kind of experience?? I am not sure if i should still be worried since most of the couples know the result immediately at the interview..

01/2003: Came to US(F1 visa)

02/2006: Started dating with my USC husband in CA.

06/2006: He moved to IL. I was on OPT (F1 at that time)

10/2006: I relocated to IL, and moved in with my husband.

09/2007: OPT ended. I went out of the US.

10/2007: I came back to the US on H1B.

01/2008: We got married.

02/07/2008: We filed I130/I485 package to USCIS

03/07/2008: NOA for all applications

03/27/2008: Fingerprinting was done.

04/08/2008: I got AP in the mail.

04/15/2008: I got EAD in the mail.

12/11/2008: Interview

[silverfai 0]

DONE APPROVED YAY!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=166664

Thanks guys!!!

[ellla 0]

Hi guys,

I had an interview today.

I am pretty sure you are approved already, my interview was like that also and I was told that the officer will recomend approval, but somebody else approves the case, not the person that interviewed you. My online status changed 2 days after my interview and it said that they ordered production of my card on my interview day! Let us know when you get the good news!

[HogNKisses 0]

Hi guys,

I had an interview today.

I am pretty sure you are approved already, my interview was like that also and I was told that the officer will recomend approval, but somebody else approves the case, not the person that interviewed you. My online status changed 2 days after my interview and it said that they ordered production of my card on my interview day! Let us know when you get the good news!

Ella,

Thank you for all your support and kind words!!. I am crossing my fingers and hope to hear from them pretty soon!!

Witty Marmalade

[NeverSeen 0]

Congrats on the GC's! It looks like i'm not the only one still waiting out there. You guys had your I485 submitted a couple weeks before mine and are just now getting the interviews done. I hope I find something out soon.

I have my Infopass scheduled for tomorrow at 8:30am. I'll let everyone know how it goes. I've got all my docs and questions prepared already. I basically want to know why i was transferred to "speed things up" when I would have already been done, and what is happening with my case out and no mans land, and let them know if the card doesn't come soon it means my wife will lose her job and go on unemployment. Hopefully being face to face with a decent person will help and they can do something. If not, I'm off to letter writing. I have all the info for my local rep so I can email and snail mail letters. I need this to get mooooooooving.

[HogNKisses 0]

Hi guys,

I had an interview today.

I am pretty sure you are approved already, my interview was like that also and I was told that the officer will recomend approval, but somebody else approves the case, not the person that interviewed you. My online status changed 2 days after my interview and it said that they ordered production of my card on my interview day! Let us know when you get the good news!

I am a bit nervous.. Got 2 more touches after the interview...

01/2003: Came to US(F1 visa)

02/2006: Started dating with my USC husband in CA.

06/2006: He moved to IL. I was on OPT (F1 at that time)

10/2006: I relocated to IL, and moved in with my husband.

09/2007: OPT ended. I went out of the US.

10/2007: I came back to the US on H1B.

01/2008: We got married.

02/07/2008: We filed I130/I485 package to USCIS

03/07/2008: NOA for all applications

03/27/2008: Fingerprinting was done.

04/08/2008: I got AP in the mail.

04/15/2008: I got EAD in the mail.

12/11/2008: Interview

12/12/2008: AoS and I-130 Touched.

12/15/2008: AoS and I-130 Touched(again)

[NeverSeen 0]

Welp, I'm home already. Everything went... well. I was pretty shocked. I had stayed up all last night worrying about today's appointment and it was all for not.

Appointment 7:45 at the Tampa, FL office. The Biometrics was on one side of the city (the one furthest from me lol) and it turns out this was on the closer side. I left my house an 1:15 early because I thought I had a lot of city traveling do, but I was wrong.

7:45

The wife and I walked up to the building. One set of doors said "EXIT DO NOT ENTER" and the other said "WAIT OUTSIDE UNTIL YOU ARE CALLED TO ENTER." One by one a security gaurd was letting people in if they had a letter. They would then put their stuff on an xray belt and you would pass through one of those metal detector things where another guard would check you out.

7:47

They let us in even though my paper said the earliest they'd let us in is 15 min before the scheduled time of 8:30. We pass through security and they have us wait in line (1st peeps there) for "check in."

7:49

We get checked in which was pretty much just confirming our letter and zip code and they print a number and tell you to go down the hall and sit and wait.

7:50

We are the only ones in the room with 1 couple at the only open window.

7:52

We are called to the window. A nice gentleman in his mid 30's was there to great us. Both parties were very polite. He asked how he could help.

I presented him with my documents 1 by 1 and explained we submitted in late Feb and that their website showed March as the processing date, but that I had been transferred to the CSC and they show july 2006. He looked through everything i had, typed some stuff into the computer, scanned some docs in, and asked if we received the work card (yes). He said everything is fine, and we are under normal processing with nothing out of the ordinary going on. He said the wait time in CSC is actually about 1 year and he expects us to be processed in Feb with the normal 30-90 days of leeway. He said not to worry and that it was showing we would not need an interview (cool).

8:00

We were on the highway headed back home.

In and out in 15 minutes!! The wife and I both dressed nicely, had all of our docs ready and in order, were polite to each person we encountered and followed all directions. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood and it went well.

The wife and I both feel relieved to have some information other than "We are currently processing July 2006, call back when it is 1 month after the current date blah blah." The wife is upset though because she will probably lose her job do to no green card. Our company is switching away from commercial contracts and is going strictly government, aerospace, and military only. Because of this, they require a green card at minimum. Thankfully, my wife is an outstanding worker and I have a good amount of connections being a manager at the company. I'll be able to find her work in another division until she gets her green card at which point about 5 different managers will fight to the death to have her on their team lol.

Just because the option is there and we'd prefer her to stay employed where she is and move into the new building where she will have far more opportunity (and more $$$ at that), I will write a letter to my Rep to see if he can get it pushed through a little faster since her job is at stake. The Rep for me is pushing economy and jobs in his blog right now, so maybe he'll take heart to it. If not, its just a bunch of inconvenience for us for the next couple months until she gets her card.

We'll see...

[chris39 0]

Welp, I'm home already. Everything went... well. I was pretty shocked. I had stayed up all last night worrying about today's appointment and it was all for not.

Appointment 7:45 at the Tampa, FL office. The Biometrics was on one side of the city (the one furthest from me lol) and it turns out this was on the closer side. I left my house an 1:15 early because I thought I had a lot of city traveling do, but I was wrong.

7:45

The wife and I walked up to the building. One set of doors said "EXIT DO NOT ENTER" and the other said "WAIT OUTSIDE UNTIL YOU ARE CALLED TO ENTER." One by one a security gaurd was letting people in if they had a letter. They would then put their stuff on an xray belt and you would pass through one of those metal detector things where another guard would check you out.

7:47

They let us in even though my paper said the earliest they'd let us in is 15 min before the scheduled time of 8:30. We pass through security and they have us wait in line (1st peeps there) for "check in."

7:49

We get checked in which was pretty much just confirming our letter and zip code and they print a number and tell you to go down the hall and sit and wait.

7:50

We are the only ones in the room with 1 couple at the only open window.

7:52

We are called to the window. A nice gentleman in his mid 30's was there to great us. Both parties were very polite. He asked how he could help.

I presented him with my documents 1 by 1 and explained we submitted in late Feb and that their website showed March as the processing date, but that I had been transferred to the CSC and they show july 2006. He looked through everything i had, typed some stuff into the computer, scanned some docs in, and asked if we received the work card (yes). He said everything is fine, and we are under normal processing with nothing out of the ordinary going on. He said the wait time in CSC is actually about 1 year and he expects us to be processed in Feb with the normal 30-90 days of leeway. He said not to worry and that it was showing we would not need an interview (cool).

8:00

We were on the highway headed back home.

In and out in 15 minutes!! The wife and I both dressed nicely, had all of our docs ready and in order, were polite to each person we encountered and followed all directions. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood and it went well.

The wife and I both feel relieved to have some information other than "We are currently processing July 2006, call back when it is 1 month after the current date blah blah." The wife is upset though because she will probably lose her job do to no green card. Our company is switching away from commercial contracts and is going strictly government, aerospace, and military only. Because of this, they require a green card at minimum. Thankfully, my wife is an outstanding worker and I have a good amount of connections being a manager at the company. I'll be able to find her work in another division until she gets her green card at which point about 5 different managers will fight to the death to have her on their team lol.

Just because the option is there and we'd prefer her to stay employed where she is and move into the new building where she will have far more opportunity (and more $$$ at that), I will write a letter to my Rep to see if he can get it pushed through a little faster since her job is at stake. The Rep for me is pushing economy and jobs in his blog right now, so maybe he'll take heart to it. If not, its just a bunch of inconvenience for us for the next couple months until she gets her card.

We'll see...

Good Luck!!! I hope it helps.

[hum tum 0]

Welp, I'm home already. Everything went... well. I was pretty shocked. I had stayed up all last night worrying about today's appointment and it was all for not.

Appointment 7:45 at the Tampa, FL office. The Biometrics was on one side of the city (the one furthest from me lol) and it turns out this was on the closer side. I left my house an 1:15 early because I thought I had a lot of city traveling do, but I was wrong.

7:45

The wife and I walked up to the building. One set of doors said "EXIT DO NOT ENTER" and the other said "WAIT OUTSIDE UNTIL YOU ARE CALLED TO ENTER." One by one a security gaurd was letting people in if they had a letter. They would then put their stuff on an xray belt and you would pass through one of those metal detector things where another guard would check you out.

7:47

They let us in even though my paper said the earliest they'd let us in is 15 min before the scheduled time of 8:30. We pass through security and they have us wait in line (1st peeps there) for "check in."

7:49

We get checked in which was pretty much just confirming our letter and zip code and they print a number and tell you to go down the hall and sit and wait.

7:50

We are the only ones in the room with 1 couple at the only open window.

7:52

We are called to the window. A nice gentleman in his mid 30's was there to great us. Both parties were very polite. He asked how he could help.

I presented him with my documents 1 by 1 and explained we submitted in late Feb and that their website showed March as the processing date, but that I had been transferred to the CSC and they show july 2006. He looked through everything i had, typed some stuff into the computer, scanned some docs in, and asked if we received the work card (yes). He said everything is fine, and we are under normal processing with nothing out of the ordinary going on. He said the wait time in CSC is actually about 1 year and he expects us to be processed in Feb with the normal 30-90 days of leeway. He said not to worry and that it was showing we would not need an interview (cool).

8:00

We were on the highway headed back home.

In and out in 15 minutes!! The wife and I both dressed nicely, had all of our docs ready and in order, were polite to each person we encountered and followed all directions. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood and it went well.

The wife and I both feel relieved to have some information other than "We are currently processing July 2006, call back when it is 1 month after the current date blah blah." The wife is upset though because she will probably lose her job do to no green card. Our company is switching away from commercial contracts and is going strictly government, aerospace, and military only. Because of this, they require a green card at minimum. Thankfully, my wife is an outstanding worker and I have a good amount of connections being a manager at the company. I'll be able to find her work in another division until she gets her green card at which point about 5 different managers will fight to the death to have her on their team lol.

Just because the option is there and we'd prefer her to stay employed where she is and move into the new building where she will have far more opportunity (and more $$$ at that), I will write a letter to my Rep to see if he can get it pushed through a little faster since her job is at stake. The Rep for me is pushing economy and jobs in his blog right now, so maybe he'll take heart to it. If not, its just a bunch of inconvenience for us for the next couple months until she gets her card.

We'll see...

i am also waiting for mine. my date is 28 feb, 2008.

Edited December 17, 2008 by hum tum