AOS Transferrees' Thread

[tru_loves_journey 117]

Called USCIS today on lunch AOS still pending. Waited on hold for Tier 2 and no one answered. Called back after work at 7PM EST

Card/ Document Production

On November 5, 2012, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you.

How weird is that. I also contacted my Congressman and US Senator. I will only believe it once I have the card in my hot little hands.

that will mean ROC in 1 year and 9 months. Then it starts all over again.

Congratulations!! :dance:

[Member9 3]

Called USCIS today on lunch AOS still pending. Waited on hold for Tier 2 and no one answered. Called back after work at 7PM EST

Card/ Document Production

On November 5, 2012, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you.

How weird is that. I also contacted my Congressman and US Senator. I will only believe it once I have the card in my hot little hands.

that will mean ROC in 1 year and 9 months. Then it starts all over again.

Congratulations!

I picked up the phone this morning to call the USCIS. Yet, after listening to the answering machine for a few minutes I decided to put the phone down. I did call them about 15 days ago and they told me to call back after 15 days if nothing happened. No, nothing ever happened; yet, I dreaded hearing "call back after 45 days". So I hang up.

It's really a nightmare, a real nightmare, this endless adjustment of status process.

Edited November 6, 2012 by Member9

[tempa 1]

WOHOO!

checked my text that said an update has happened. on saturday? on thanksgiving saturday???

checked online and the status says: "On November 24, 2012, we ordered production of your new card."

[cchhat01 14]

WOHOO!

checked my text that said an update has happened. on saturday? on thanksgiving saturday???

checked online and the status says: "On November 24, 2012, we ordered production of your new card."

Congrats

[tempa 1]

thank you

[Member9 3]

WOHOO!

checked my text that said an update has happened. on saturday? on thanksgiving saturday???

checked online and the status says: "On November 24, 2012, we ordered production of your new card."

Great! Congratulations!

[yonglin 1]

After reading about Ami&Chigs's success at the CSC, I decided to write to our two senators and to file a service request about a month ago. It was in fact very fortunate that I got to talk with a tier 2 person as she happened to discover that none of the address change forms I had filed about 3 months earlier had actually made it into the USCIS computer system. So I guess it was sort of good (in a way) that they never got around to process my I-485.

Anyway, earlier this week, my case was finally touched and then transferred from the CSC to the NBC. The reason? "The record indicates that office has jurisdiction over the case". I guess it makes sense in some sort of twisted USCIS logic given that's where they're supposed to process the interview-waivable I-485 after August 1. Or something.

Time to gear up for another few months months of waiting at the NBC and prepare for refiling the EAD!

(And yes, the malfunctioning of the USCIS bureaucracy leaves me speechless. And the mere thought that I'll have to deal with them on multiple occasions over the next few years makes me want to cry. Really.)

Edited December 2, 2012 by yonglin

[Member9 3]

After reading about Ami&Chigs's success at the CSC, I decided to write to our two senators and to file a service request about a month ago. It was in fact very fortunate that I got to talk with a tier 2 person as she happened to discover that none of the address change forms I had filed about 3 months earlier had actually made it into the USCIS computer system. So I guess it was sort of good (in a way) that they never got around to process my I-485.

Anyway, earlier this week, my case was finally touched and then transferred from the CSC to the NBC. The reason? "The record indicates that office has jurisdiction over the case". I guess it makes sense in some sort of twisted USCIS logic given that's where they're supposed to process the interview-waivable I-485 after August 1. Or something.

Time to gear up for another few months months of waiting at the NBC and prepare for refiling the EAD!

(And yes, the malfunctioning of the USCIS bureaucracy leaves me speechless. And the mere thought that I'll have to deal with them on multiple occasions over the next few years makes me want to cry. Really.)

Oh, that sounds horrible. So they transferred your case to CSC for nothing. And all the time it sat there was a total waste! I don't understand why things have to be so difficult.

[cchhat01 14]

After reading about Ami&Chigs's success at the CSC, I decided to write to our two senators and to file a service request about a month ago. It was in fact very fortunate that I got to talk with a tier 2 person as she happened to discover that none of the address change forms I had filed about 3 months earlier had actually made it into the USCIS computer system. So I guess it was sort of good (in a way) that they never got around to process my I-485.

Anyway, earlier this week, my case was finally touched and then transferred from the CSC to the NBC. The reason? "The record indicates that office has jurisdiction over the case". I guess it makes sense in some sort of twisted USCIS logic given that's where they're supposed to process the interview-waivable I-485 after August 1. Or something.

Time to gear up for another few months months of waiting at the NBC and prepare for refiling the EAD!

(And yes, the malfunctioning of the USCIS bureaucracy leaves me speechless. And the mere thought that I'll have to deal with them on multiple occasions over the next few years makes me want to cry. Really.)

I really feel bad for the situation you are in. Ideally, they should have simply approved your petition at the CSC because it simply shouldn't take more than a day to do so, rather than have it transferred back to NVC who will put it in the queue with the rest of the pile. I really have no words to say that would comfort you and just liek you I am baffled by the lack for responsibility of the USCIS.

Hope you get your approval soon.

Chigs

[yonglin 1]

To be honest, it's not like things are that bad: I mean, I'm together with my spouse and I have my EAD.

I just think that if the resources (money, time) that has gone into transferring and shipping my file across the country twice had instead gone toward adjudicating it, they'd definitely be done by now. It also makes me wonder exactly how much lower the USCIS filing fees would be if they could just streamline the organization. For example, looking at the USCIS processing volumes, the case load had been piling up at the CSC for like a year before they decided to shift the applications to the NBC on August 1.

And to be honest, it's not like I know in which pile my case will end up at the NBC. Maybe it'll go into the urgent pile, who knows...?

Failing to process my address change paperwork, on the other hand, I find both indefensible and unprofessional (especially given how complicated and poorly laid-out the multi-step address change process is to the customer...).

[Carlos&Alyssa 4]

Can I ask a maybe naive question? I haven't been doing as much reading now that my *Husband* is here with me, so I'm not quite the expert that I seemed to become while going through the 129F process...

...Why is everyone in such a rush to get the greencard? I mean, with the EAD/AP you can work and travel...so what are you waiting for? Im looking forward to the greencard so that we can file a FAFSA and he can start taking college classes...but is there something else that Im unaware of?

My apologies if this is a total DUH moment...

[yonglin 1]

I mean, with the EAD/AP you can work and travel...so what are you waiting for?

1. Some jobs/educational programs require you to be a citizen/permanent resident

2. It's a hassle having to renew your EAD/AP (more forms!)

3. Your employer must file extra tax paperwork for resident alien employees (at least in my state). I believe this deters some companies from hiring you.

4. Travelling abroad and coming back is not hassle-free. In my experience, foreign airline staff were not very familiar with the advance parole concept and were almost not letting me back onto the plane to the US. Once back, we had to wait in secondary immigration inspection (and those people work so sloo..ooo...owly)

5. My state ID has an expiration date (in BRIGHT RED) about which I was hassled by my bank (but no one else).

6. Waiting for AOS delays other stuff, like removal of conditions/citizenship applicationS.

My file was transferred back to my local office a couple of weeks ago and I received an interview date a week from now. Probably because of my senator request. This is 11 months after filing and after having been transferred twice before. I assume that the long time means that we are now expected to provide more "evidence" to substantiate our marriage compared to those who are called in a few months after filing.

Altogether, the fact that they take so long to process these things is a lot of hassle.

[cchhat01 14]

I feel very disheartened by this entire ordeal of waiting so long and then ultimately receiving an interview rather than a GC in the mail.

However, your case is now moving which is a good sign and you can finally put this process behind you for another 1.75 years.

Best of luck with the interview process..

Chigs

[yonglin 1]

Interviewed in the NYC USCIS office this week (after 11 months, 3 transfers, service & senator requests).

The interview was very smooth -- in and out in 30 minutes (the actual interview was about 10 minutes). The questions were very standard (bordering on trivial, e.g., "What's your husband's birthday?") and the immigration officer was very courteous and professional.

The officer noted that my file was very thin and asked if I had had an embassy interview (kind of strange question, I thought, since that's a requirement for the K-1 visa). However, seeing the pile of papers in front of her, I could tell she had only the stuff I sent for AOS, and none of the K-1 stuff I submitted at the embassy (and subsequently carried with me on the plane to the US). She mumbled something about the medical, which I understood as "I hope they didn't lose your medical, or you'd have to do it again".

So, in conclusion, it remains to see whether my records can be dug up from the depths of the USCIS archives, or whether I'll have to pay for another medical! To be continued!

[yonglin 1]

For anyone who is still reading this thread, I just wanted to let you know that I received my greencard (wow, it's actually green!) last Friday, almost exactly one year after filing.