No green card YET, 10 Months after filing AOS

[Sunny123 44]

We've too were transfered back on at the end of Nov of last year and filed for AOS at the end of Oct. Here we sit all most 8 months later. We have done the service request and got the same response we that you have "we are extremely busy and will get to it when resources are available". We made an infopass appointment last week went to this week. Only to be told they couldn't do much since it was not at their local office and couldn't even put in another service request since we just received a sorry A$$ response from CSC last week. I may try emailing CSC and emailing my congressman to see if there is anything they can do. Can't hurt...

[Grux 0]

Thanks you guys! We're sending the request to the congressman today! Oh my gosh! This is really crazy! I don't know what's going on.. now we may have to renew my EAD/AP since I'm working and it will expire in October...

They sent me a reply with our recent visit to the USCIS Indianapolis, and they created a service request for us... The letter from CSC said that they will act on my application in an 'expeditious fashion', but still depending on 'resource constraints'.. so they mean, when someone is available - AND I DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT WILL BE. Frankly, I'm not even sure if the letter is telling any truth in it.. but I'm hoping it is... I'm already checking the status everyday, since we received that letter, but I dno't see how they're acting in an 'expeditious fashion'. LOL

Thanks guys, keep me posted! and I will with mine!

Queenie

If your EAD and Advance Parole expires in October I'd start on that. It's free but you need to do it 90 days BEFORE the one you have expires.

[Honey&Bee 1]

Its the same form letter they've been sending to everyone who opens a service request lately. We got the same thing a few weeks ago, and still no green card. Does this look familiar? "committed to processing this workload, and will be making every effort to adjudicate your case in an expeditious fashion as soon as available under our resource constraints"

Which translates to your case should be in a box, we're not going to check though because we're busy. Leave us alone and eventually we might find your case and do it.

Yes, that does look familiar I received a letter that says exactly that!

We've opened a request from our Congressman's office here in Indiana too, and the information they got was that my case is now under an officer and that I will receive a notice within 45 days... My EAD/AP expires in October, come July, if I don't hear anything yet, then it's time to renew those...

So it looks like a lot of cases are similar to mine. What else can we do? It gets really frustrating...

[Honey&Bee 1]

MY AOS GOT APPROVED TODAY!

Much thanks to Cong Dan Burton's office!

I hope you guys get yours soon too!

[S and P 9]

MY AOS GOT APPROVED TODAY!

Much thanks to Cong Dan Burton's office!

I hope you guys get yours soon too!

Congratulations!!!!!

so glad they got things moving for you!!

[Caryh 5,206]

MY AOS GOT APPROVED TODAY!

Much thanks to Cong Dan Burton's office!

I hope you guys get yours soon too!

Congrats, you're out of the waiting game for a bit. We're still waiting on my wife's green card. Hope we get the good news like you did soon to.

[Every-Mann 1]

Hello--

I'd like to begin by saying that this entire immigration process has been ridiculously tedious, vague, and time-consuming. Our immigration lawyer had been giving us out-dated or wholly incorrect forms to bring to the embassy meetings during the K-1 application process, and we finally relieved him of his duties; I've been going it alone (or at least attempting to) since April, 2011.

My wife & I arrived in the US in late July of 2011 (I'd been living in her country with her & our infant daughter) and we married in September 2011; we promptly sent off our paperwork to the National Benefits Center in Lee's Summit, Mo. Within 2 weeks we received Biometrics notification, and and on November 22, 2011, we were notified that the case had been transferred to the California Service Center "in order to speed up processing." From what I was able to suss out on the internet, the CSC transfer usually means that they'll make a decision and forego the interview step. We left it alone, but it recently occurred to us that we're coming up on 8 months since the notice of case transfer.

My google searches for processing times led me to this site. To my surprise, I found many instances where some of you received notifications for case transfer to the CSC office many months after we got ours, yet most of those were issued green cards long ago.

I just got off the phone with the USCIS center, and I was told that the case will now be transferred to my local office; I should be hearing from them within 15 days regarding an interview. I asked what the hold-up had been and why the case is being transferred again, but the call center person stoically gave me no further information. When I finally reached a supervisor, she wasn't much more helpful. She said that they are typically making the decision within 4 months of the receipt date--which in our case was way back on September 26, 2011--but that the cases can take up to a year to process. She reiterated that we "should" be hearing from our local USCIS center within 15 days, but that we should call back if we receive nothing by September...yikes! From what I've been reading, the AOS cases get sent *to* the CSC office for processing, and I've not seen any where the CSC in turn sends them out to the local office.

Any comments/speculation/personal experience from any of you as to why this case has been seemingly dormant for 8 months and is just now being transferred from the CSC to my local office would be great.

Thanks!

[Caryh 5,206]

Hello--

I'd like to begin by saying that this entire immigration process has been ridiculously tedious, vague, and time-consuming. Our immigration lawyer had been giving us out-dated or wholly incorrect forms to bring to the embassy meetings during the K-1 application process, and we finally relieved him of his duties; I've been going it alone (or at least attempting to) since April, 2011.

My wife & I arrived in the US in late July of 2011 (I'd been living in her country with her & our infant daughter) and we married in September 2011; we promptly sent off our paperwork to the National Benefits Center in Lee's Summit, Mo. Within 2 weeks we received Biometrics notification, and and on November 22, 2011, we were notified that the case had been transferred to the California Service Center "in order to speed up processing." From what I was able to suss out on the internet, the CSC transfer usually means that they'll make a decision and forego the interview step. We left it alone, but it recently occurred to us that we're coming up on 8 months since the notice of case transfer.

My google searches for processing times led me to this site. To my surprise, I found many instances where some of you received notifications for case transfer to the CSC office many months after we got ours, yet most of those were issued green cards long ago.

I just got off the phone with the USCIS center, and I was told that the case will now be transferred to my local office; I should be hearing from them within 15 days regarding an interview. I asked what the hold-up had been and why the case is being transferred again, but the call center person stoically gave me no further information. When I finally reached a supervisor, she wasn't much more helpful. She said that they are typically making the decision within 4 months of the receipt date--which in our case was way back on September 26, 2011--but that the cases can take up to a year to process. She reiterated that we "should" be hearing from our local USCIS center within 15 days, but that we should call back if we receive nothing by September...yikes! From what I've been reading, the AOS cases get sent *to* the CSC office for processing, and I've not seen any where the CSC in turn sends them out to the local office.

Any comments/speculation/personal experience from any of you as to why this case has been seemingly dormant for 8 months and is just now being transferred from the CSC to my local office would be great.

Thanks!

You are getting a lot of wrong information from the disinformation line. 180 days after transfer you should have put in a service request. When you got your standard auto ignore form letter, you should have then contacted a congressman or senator to look into things on your behalf. We've done both those steps now, and are being told our case should have a response within 45 days. As you can see from our timeline, we're very long to. We've also been given some real bad information from the customer service line. These are third party people, not USCIS, and are very poorly trained.

Some of the wrong things we were told

The local sent it to California

All AOS go to California

After California has it, the local will get it.

We will need to do biometrics again.

We will have to do an interview in California.

All AOS take at least 8 months.

Of course being here we know better on most wrong things we've been told.

As to having your petition sent back to the local, it does happen sometimes for an interview. But I would not trust what the customer service line is telling you unless you get the same answer from two different tier 2 customer service reps. Still look into contracting you congressman or senator to get more accurate information. They can get faster answers from directly inside USCIS. But you will need to sign a release form so they can contact USCIS on your behalf.

[Lainie B 465]

I agree with Caryh - while it does sometimes happen that cases are transferred from the CSC to your local office (someone here had this happen recently - I don't remember her name but her husband was from Morocco, hopefully she will reply), it is also possible that both the call center rep and the tier II officer are giving you incorrect information. I have spoken numerous times with both levels, and they always insist that family-based AOS applications all get sent to our local office for interview, when we know that most of the time CSC K-1 transfers are approved at CSC without interview. I would follow Caryh's suggestion and contact your representative as they will be able to call CSC directly and get some real answers for you. I am sorry your application is taking so long, but if it helps, you are not alone - there are many who applied in October and November still waiting (including myself), and somebody here recently got approved after waiting 10 months (they contacted their representative who pushed it along). Why this is happening nobody knows - they blame "resource limitations" which is funny considering the $1070 they charged us.

[Every-Mann 1]

Hi, and thanks for your replies. I've sent an email to my local congressman as you've suggested, though I think I'll be more amazed if I receive an actual response from the congressman than I will from the USCIS. I did get a form letter back saying "thank you for sharing your thoughts...your voice matters...please check our website for our current agenda," etc.

Caryh mentioned that the AOS always takes 8 months, though I've seen plenty of examples on this site where the green card was issued in 3-4 months. Our AOS application was filed back in September, and the USCIS guy I spoke with on the phone yesterday told me that I should be hearing from our local office within 15 days. Would we be hearing from the local office within 15 days had I not called yesterday...? The most frustrating thing about this process that we've been dealing with for 2 years now is that there are no straightforward answers to any of it--I've been gleaning information as to how to proceed from internet searches for websites like this one.

Neither my wife nor I have ever had so much as a speeding ticket in our lives, we're the same age, and we have a baby; we met while I was working & living in her country. Our lawyer said that the USCIS is convinced that most of these K-1 applications are scams, but it should be very easy to determine that ours is not. Congratulations to those who've navigated through this process & received their green cards in a timely manner, but I'd love to know why someone who filed their AOS 6 months after we did have already gotten their responses.

Best of luck to those of you who are still waiting, and I'll update any progress on our case here so that the information may help others...

[Lainie B 465]

Hi, and thanks for your replies. I've sent an email to my local congressman as you've suggested, though I think I'll be more amazed if I receive an actual response from the congressman than I will from the USCIS. I did get a form letter back saying "thank you for sharing your thoughts...your voice matters...please check our website for our current agenda," etc.

Caryh mentioned that the AOS always takes 8 months, though I've seen plenty of examples on this site where the green card was issued in 3-4 months. Our AOS application was filed back in September, and the USCIS guy I spoke with on the phone yesterday told me that I should be hearing from our local office within 15 days. Would we be hearing from the local office within 15 days had I not called yesterday...? The most frustrating thing about this process that we've been dealing with for 2 years now is that there are no straightforward answers to any of it--I've been gleaning information as to how to proceed from internet searches for websites like this one.

Neither my wife nor I have ever had so much as a speeding ticket in our lives, we're the same age, and we have a baby; we met while I was working & living in her country. Our lawyer said that the USCIS is convinced that most of these K-1 applications are scams, but it should be very easy to determine that ours is not. Congratulations to those who've navigated through this process & received their green cards in a timely manner, but I'd love to know why someone who filed their AOS 6 months after we did have already gotten their responses.

Best of luck to those of you who are still waiting, and I'll update any progress on our case here so that the information may help others...

The difference is that there are two streams of K-1 adjustment of status applicants - those whose files are sent from the National Benefits Center straight to their local office for interview, which normally takes around 3-4 months from initial application, and some whose files are sent from NBC to California Service Center. CSC has 6 months to process the file from the date it was transferred and received, NOT from when it was originally submitted. Most of the time CSC approve the green card without interview. If they determine that an interview is needed (and this is very rare), they will send it on to the local office.

The people whose green cards were approved in 3-4 months were probably those whose files were sent to their local office for interview. Those who are unlucky enough to get transferred to CSC end up waiting 7-8 months or more, depending on how fast their file was transferred to CSC.

Your representative should have a website with an online form for request of help with a federal agency (for mine it was found under "constituent services"). I had to fill in the online form, print and sign it, and then mail or fax the form. They are usually very fast in getting back to you. Mine had an immigration liaison whose job it is to deal with USCIS matters. They will contact USCIS directly and find out if your file is actually being transferred to your local office or not.

[Caryh 5,206]

Hi, and thanks for your replies. I've sent an email to my local congressman as you've suggested, though I think I'll be more amazed if I receive an actual response from the congressman than I will from the USCIS. I did get a form letter back saying "thank you for sharing your thoughts...your voice matters...please check our website for our current agenda," etc.

Caryh mentioned that the AOS always takes 8 months, though I've seen plenty of examples on this site where the green card was issued in 3-4 months. Our AOS application was filed back in September, and the USCIS guy I spoke with on the phone yesterday told me that I should be hearing from our local office within 15 days. Would we be hearing from the local office within 15 days had I not called yesterday...? The most frustrating thing about this process that we've been dealing with for 2 years now is that there are no straightforward answers to any of it--I've been gleaning information as to how to proceed from internet searches for websites like this one.

Neither my wife nor I have ever had so much as a speeding ticket in our lives, we're the same age, and we have a baby; we met while I was working & living in her country. Our lawyer said that the USCIS is convinced that most of these K-1 applications are scams, but it should be very easy to determine that ours is not. Congratulations to those who've navigated through this process & received their green cards in a timely manner, but I'd love to know why someone who filed their AOS 6 months after we did have already gotten their responses.

Best of luck to those of you who are still waiting, and I'll update any progress on our case here so that the information may help others...

Actually the 8 months thing was a straight out lie told to me by the customer service people. As you mentioned, we've seen plenty of people on here that have gotten green cards much faster.

As to emailing your congressman, you want to call them and find out who deals with USCIS when people have problems. They should have an aid that will do the leg work on contacting them. They have their own access into USCIS that we can't access. Also your congressman or senator will need a signed release form to act on your behalf with USCIS. I think your email got a thanks for your interest form letter response, this will do you no good at all. My congresswoman, and both my senators make the form available on their web sites and a section of their web sites about helping constituents with government agencies.

[Every-Mann 1]

Hi--

As an update to our pending AOS, I was pleasantly surprised to hear back from one of my congressman's aides. She forwarded her entire USCIS correspondence to us, and they're saying that we should have an answer/request for more information/interview date within 45 days; that would put it at just about a year from when we filed for the AOS. It was interesting that USCIS email reveals that the case is still at the California center, even though the person at the call center told me it is being transferred to our local office. (The call center guy also told us that we should expect an answer in 15 days.)

I hope that those of you who have also been waiting for 10 months have better luck than we do!

[Sunny123 44]

We are in the same situation a little less time out of the gate then you. We had emailed our congressman and received the same response.

[BennyJax 5]

We've been about 8 months now too and I just sent an email to my congressman to see what he can do. Will reply if I hear any good news.

Forgot to update. After I sent my letter in, got a letter back from his aide with some forms I needed to fill out and sign. Giving them permission to ask about my case. Got a letter later saying they'd let me know if they heard anything. Not too long after finally got a notification from USCIS (even though it was a RFE. Better than nothing!). Sent what they needed back and now waitiing.

So definietley email your local Congress person for help if you've been waiting a long time!