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You are correct, the confusing nature of what's what is what. When I call USCIS Tier 1, we are constantly told our Receipt date was 3/25, the check was cashed on 3/28, the NOA is 4/3. Which which is which? I guess it depends on whose who you're talking to.

It was not until Wednesday when we finally knew our case was in the NYC office as of 2/4/15. All communication with USCIS Tier 2 before that informed us it was at NBC (to us seemingly in apparent perpetuity), even though all SR and General Inquiries had NYC as its suffix. You won't know until you ask...CALL THEM...again tell them you want to make an InfoPass appointment but you first want to know where it is to determine whether it's worth your time...That's how we finally found out on Wed. Your case may be in the Valley being processed by former "Valley Girls" or it may still be guarded by "hay seed-eatin' hicks" in cattle country. You won't know until you ask. As one of my mentors use to say (until I got sick of hearing it), "You can guess, or you can know..."

Just for thrills yesterday I looked at the first posts on this very, very, very, very ,very ........ long thread! It seems the people who first started it, received their GC on an average of 10 months, so I am sure that you guys are nearing the very end of this arduous journey. I am thinking once we hear about one approval the rest are soon to come and I can't wait to hear that news and for everyone to share as much information as possible for people like myself who still have a few months ahead of us!

Removal of Conditions..  TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK

 

Time to reset the tick tock clock again.   Roll my eyes.

 

GC  Conditional date:  05/26/2015

N400.  Application:      02/28/2018       

Biometrics:                    02/22/2018

 

Waiting............    Roll my eyes again :(

 

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That's why they don't have time to process Green Cards! They are too busy texting!

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They're likely referring to the scaremongering statement from the USCIS union last year. It simply referred to the plan to expand eligibility for interview waiver cases. I highly doubt there's any way

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Been watching this thread for many months now. This is our first forey in to the muck and mire of this topic here. We sped throught the K-1 process in 3-1/2 months. Bombed them with a ton of documenta

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Both Senator and Ombudsman contacted USCIS. I hope I will hear back from them soon.

New Journey AOS:

My fiancee came to US on the 8th of March, 2014 under K-1 visa at Newark, NJ Airport for POE.

Applied Social Security Number on the 10 of March, 2014.

Married on the 13th of March, 2014.

Sent I-485, I-765, and I-131 on the 15th of March, 2014.

Received EAD on June 7, 2014.

Received Notice of Potential Interview Waiver on July 1, 2014 date 6/27

Contacted Ombudsman on 01/12/2015.

Ombudsman contacted USCIS on 02/20/2015.

Ombudsman sent a follow up to USCIS on 03/18/2015.

I-485 approved on 03/31/2015 ( we ordered your card).

Welcome notice was mailed on 04/01/2015.

Received Welcome Notice on 04/08/2015.

Card was mailed to me/picked up by USPS on 04/08/2015.

Received GC on 4/10/2015.

Prediction 04/08/2015

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Both Senator and Ombudsman contacted USCIS. I hope I will hear back from them soon.

Wow Ombudsman that is interesting, hopefully that might open up an enquiry regarding the delays? Perhaps, maybe. I honestly don't think I have read about the Ombudsman getting involved before, so should be more than interesting. Thanks for the heads up!

Removal of Conditions..  TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK

 

Time to reset the tick tock clock again.   Roll my eyes.

 

GC  Conditional date:  05/26/2015

N400.  Application:      02/28/2018       

Biometrics:                    02/22/2018

 

Waiting............    Roll my eyes again :(

 

USA citizen as of 25th of July 2018. :)

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Wow Ombudsman that is interesting, hopefully that might open up an enquiry regarding the delays? Perhaps, maybe. I honestly don't think I have read about the Ombudsman getting involved before, so should be more than interesting. Thanks for the heads up!

Ombudsman is the last thing I can request and they told me that if they can help, then they will contact USCIS. Otherwise, they will say No.

New Journey AOS:

My fiancee came to US on the 8th of March, 2014 under K-1 visa at Newark, NJ Airport for POE.

Applied Social Security Number on the 10 of March, 2014.

Married on the 13th of March, 2014.

Sent I-485, I-765, and I-131 on the 15th of March, 2014.

Received EAD on June 7, 2014.

Received Notice of Potential Interview Waiver on July 1, 2014 date 6/27

Contacted Ombudsman on 01/12/2015.

Ombudsman contacted USCIS on 02/20/2015.

Ombudsman sent a follow up to USCIS on 03/18/2015.

I-485 approved on 03/31/2015 ( we ordered your card).

Welcome notice was mailed on 04/01/2015.

Received Welcome Notice on 04/08/2015.

Card was mailed to me/picked up by USPS on 04/08/2015.

Received GC on 4/10/2015.

Prediction 04/08/2015

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Ombudsman is the last thing I can request and they told me that if they can help, then they will contact USCIS. Otherwise, they will say No.

Have you done an info pass? Only someone did that and got their GC shortly afterwards the link is on one of today's pages for you to read.

Removal of Conditions..  TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK

 

Time to reset the tick tock clock again.   Roll my eyes.

 

GC  Conditional date:  05/26/2015

N400.  Application:      02/28/2018       

Biometrics:                    02/22/2018

 

Waiting............    Roll my eyes again :(

 

USA citizen as of 25th of July 2018. :)

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Just over 3 months after we applied for AOS we received a letter of a possible interview waiver case and delay of our case of up to 6 months. After the 6 month period had passed and we had not heard anything we contacted the USCIS CSC and they "pinged" the service center that had our case. A month passed and we still did not hear anything. We contacted the CSC again and got no useful information. We finally made an infopass appointment with our local office and they informed us that the case had been moved to an office with availability to take another look at it to verify if we needed an interview or not. Two days later after we checked the website we saw the status updated that the green card was being produced!

Removal of Conditions..  TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK

 

Time to reset the tick tock clock again.   Roll my eyes.

 

GC  Conditional date:  05/26/2015

N400.  Application:      02/28/2018       

Biometrics:                    02/22/2018

 

Waiting............    Roll my eyes again :(

 

USA citizen as of 25th of July 2018. :)

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Thanks for info Shell20. I didnt make infopass yet due to the fact that it is far from my home.

New Journey AOS:

My fiancee came to US on the 8th of March, 2014 under K-1 visa at Newark, NJ Airport for POE.

Applied Social Security Number on the 10 of March, 2014.

Married on the 13th of March, 2014.

Sent I-485, I-765, and I-131 on the 15th of March, 2014.

Received EAD on June 7, 2014.

Received Notice of Potential Interview Waiver on July 1, 2014 date 6/27

Contacted Ombudsman on 01/12/2015.

Ombudsman contacted USCIS on 02/20/2015.

Ombudsman sent a follow up to USCIS on 03/18/2015.

I-485 approved on 03/31/2015 ( we ordered your card).

Welcome notice was mailed on 04/01/2015.

Received Welcome Notice on 04/08/2015.

Card was mailed to me/picked up by USPS on 04/08/2015.

Received GC on 4/10/2015.

Prediction 04/08/2015

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Thanks for info Shell20. I didnt make infopass yet due to the fact that it is far from my home.

Yeah thats the thing, we would have to travel 2 hours to get one and my husband would have to take time off work, but if I was waiting as long as most people on this thread have and seeing what happened to the person above I would probably go for one!

Removal of Conditions..  TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK

 

Time to reset the tick tock clock again.   Roll my eyes.

 

GC  Conditional date:  05/26/2015

N400.  Application:      02/28/2018       

Biometrics:                    02/22/2018

 

Waiting............    Roll my eyes again :(

 

USA citizen as of 25th of July 2018. :)

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My husband is currently working in France for 6 months before coming back to US so all my hopes are on Senator and Ombudsman.

New Journey AOS:

My fiancee came to US on the 8th of March, 2014 under K-1 visa at Newark, NJ Airport for POE.

Applied Social Security Number on the 10 of March, 2014.

Married on the 13th of March, 2014.

Sent I-485, I-765, and I-131 on the 15th of March, 2014.

Received EAD on June 7, 2014.

Received Notice of Potential Interview Waiver on July 1, 2014 date 6/27

Contacted Ombudsman on 01/12/2015.

Ombudsman contacted USCIS on 02/20/2015.

Ombudsman sent a follow up to USCIS on 03/18/2015.

I-485 approved on 03/31/2015 ( we ordered your card).

Welcome notice was mailed on 04/01/2015.

Received Welcome Notice on 04/08/2015.

Card was mailed to me/picked up by USPS on 04/08/2015.

Received GC on 4/10/2015.

Prediction 04/08/2015

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I'm been following this thread for a while trying to see how fast other NPIW cases have been getting approved since next month it will be a year since we applied. Fortunately, I just received a text this morning, and when I checked our case status, it said "Card in Production"...super happy right now!! ...especially since we hadn't filed for renewal of hubby's EAD/AP and it expires in May, so I was stressing out about both the GC and renewal :)

We sent our papers on March 7, 2014.

NOA1 - March 13

NPIW dated June 27

Good luck to everyone still waiting! :)

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Just over 3 months after we applied for AOS we received a letter of a possible interview waiver case and delay of our case of up to 6 months. After the 6 month period had passed and we had not heard anything we contacted the USCIS CSC and they "pinged" the service center that had our case. A month passed and we still did not hear anything. We contacted the CSC again and got no useful information. We finally made an infopass appointment with our local office and they informed us that the case had been moved to an office with availability to take another look at it to verify if we needed an interview or not. Two days later after we checked the website we saw the status updated that the green card was being produced!

It is my understanding that once a case reaches a local field office, it is touched by a real human being (though after this period of inhumanity, I'm not so sure that is true). It is one step closer to approval. We have been led to believe by one posters conversation with Tier 2, adjudication really means adjudication, i.e., that a judge must sign off on all cases, much like a judge must sign off on all Social Security Disability decisions. Those judges work on limiited schedules. So just because you're one step closer to someone pushing the Welcome to America button, doesn't mean that will be tomorrow. Welcome to another pile...look back at the field office statistics (because when you case gets there they then apply), they are busy and flooded...

AOS

3/20/14 Sent by lashed

3/25/14 NBC acknowledges recept (date always quoted by Tier 1)

4/3/14 NOA1 Recipt

6/9/14 NOA EAD approved

6/27/14 NPIW letter dated same

12/5/14 First service request (Notice did not receive)

12/9/14 Response says the wait can be as long as 9 - 12 months from date of receipt

1/8/15 Second service request on line (out of processing date) - immediate listed unassigned

1/20/15 Talked with Tier 2 - he files General Inquiry to have NYC field offlce request file

1/23/15 My Case states SR from 1/9/15 is complete, response mailed

1/28/15 Written response from NYC office states case "...remains under active examination..."

1/29/15 Written response from NBC from 1/8/15 SR states "...USCIS anticipates a delay in completing your case..."

2/4/15 Case arrives at the NYC field office

2/24/15 Third service request on line (out of processing date)

3/5/15 Written response from Imperial, CA states " ...we are not able to give you a timeframe..." for approval

3/27/15 Call from IO in Imperial CA FSO, required marriage certificate, FAX it immediately

3/27/15 GC approved!! One day before predicted date...

4/2/15 Welcome to America arrives

4/18/15 Green Card in hand - AOS journey is complete

ROC

12/28/15 I-751 submitted by lawyer

1/12/16 NOA - receipt of application

1/12/17 Submitted Service Request for out of processing time

1/26/17 Response to Service Request - processing hold awaiting security checks

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I'm been following this thread for a while trying to see how fast other NPIW cases have been getting approved since next month it will be a year since we applied. Fortunately, I just received a text this morning, and when I checked our case status, it said "Card in Production"...super happy right now!! ...especially since we hadn't filed for renewal of hubby's EAD/AP and it expires in May, so I was stressing out about both the GC and renewal :)

We sent our papers on March 7, 2014.

NOA1 - March 13

NPIW dated June 27

Good luck to everyone still waiting! :)

CONGRATULATIONS...Great news, 11 + months...Please tell us, was it worth the wait (we're beginning to wonder)?

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AOS

3/20/14 Sent by lashed

3/25/14 NBC acknowledges recept (date always quoted by Tier 1)

4/3/14 NOA1 Recipt

6/9/14 NOA EAD approved

6/27/14 NPIW letter dated same

12/5/14 First service request (Notice did not receive)

12/9/14 Response says the wait can be as long as 9 - 12 months from date of receipt

1/8/15 Second service request on line (out of processing date) - immediate listed unassigned

1/20/15 Talked with Tier 2 - he files General Inquiry to have NYC field offlce request file

1/23/15 My Case states SR from 1/9/15 is complete, response mailed

1/28/15 Written response from NYC office states case "...remains under active examination..."

1/29/15 Written response from NBC from 1/8/15 SR states "...USCIS anticipates a delay in completing your case..."

2/4/15 Case arrives at the NYC field office

2/24/15 Third service request on line (out of processing date)

3/5/15 Written response from Imperial, CA states " ...we are not able to give you a timeframe..." for approval

3/27/15 Call from IO in Imperial CA FSO, required marriage certificate, FAX it immediately

3/27/15 GC approved!! One day before predicted date...

4/2/15 Welcome to America arrives

4/18/15 Green Card in hand - AOS journey is complete

ROC

12/28/15 I-751 submitted by lawyer

1/12/16 NOA - receipt of application

1/12/17 Submitted Service Request for out of processing time

1/26/17 Response to Service Request - processing hold awaiting security checks

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I'm been following this thread for a while trying to see how fast other NPIW cases have been getting approved since next month it will be a year since we applied. Fortunately, I just received a text this morning, and when I checked our case status, it said "Card in Production"...super happy right now!! ...especially since we hadn't filed for renewal of hubby's EAD/AP and it expires in May, so I was stressing out about both the GC and renewal :)

We sent our papers on March 7, 2014.

NOA1 - March 13

NPIW dated June 27

Good luck to everyone still waiting! :)

Whoop, whoop, whoop! Congrats!! I notice you live in Texas. Hope for you Natonstan. Certainly seems they are going through the March filers, but the whole year is up. Fantastic news!!

It is my understanding that once a case reaches a local field office, it is touched by a real human being (though after this period of inhumanity, I'm not so sure that is true). It is one step closer to approval. We have been led to believe by one posters conversation with Tier 2, adjudication really means adjudication, i.e., that a judge must sign off on all cases, much like a judge must sign off on all Social Security Disability decisions. Those judges work on limiited schedules. So just because you're one step closer to someone pushing the Welcome to America button, doesn't mean that will be tomorrow. Welcome to another pile...look back at the field office statistics (because when you case gets there they then apply), they are busy and flooded...

I reckon you're going to hear within the next week! Your's is now at the office and from the statistics for that office you should hear today or next week. I am really, really hopeful for you now! And yes will it be an anti climax, I often wonder that?

Removal of Conditions..  TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK

 

Time to reset the tick tock clock again.   Roll my eyes.

 

GC  Conditional date:  05/26/2015

N400.  Application:      02/28/2018       

Biometrics:                    02/22/2018

 

Waiting............    Roll my eyes again :(

 

USA citizen as of 25th of July 2018. :)

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Whoop, whoop, whoop! Congrats!! I notice you live in Texas. Hope for you Natonstan. Certainly seems they are going through the March filers, but the whole year is up. Fantastic news!!

I reckon you're going to hear within the next week! Your's is now at the office and from the statistics for that office you should hear today or next week. I am really, really hopeful for you now! And yes will it be an anti climax, I often wonder that?

Yes that's GREAT news, I figure March-April will be when most of us get our cards now, I'll still be sending off my EAD renewal at the start of march as a 'safety net'

-K-1 Timeline-                                                                                         -ROC Timeline-
Visited girlfriend first time - 07/20/13                                                    Sent - 12/16/16
I-129f Filed - 08/04/13                                                                              NOA 1 - 12/19/16
NOA1 - 08/20/13                                                                                       Biometrics - 01/27/17
Visited girlfriend second time - 09/10/13 - 09/30/13                       Card Production - 6/14/18
RFE - 08/28/13 (parental consent from courthouse)                        Card in hand - 6/21/18
NOA2 - 11/05/13
Visited girlfriend third time - 11/14/13                                           -Citizenship filed Dec 13th 2018-
Case Shipped to NVC - 12/16/13                                                       Biometrics - Jan 3rd, 2018
NVC Case number - 12/26/13                                                            Interview - September 27th 2019 (Approved!)
Sent to London Embassy - 12/27/13                                                Oath - October 31st 2019 (Journey finally OVER!!)
DS - 160 Sent - 05/01/14
Readiness Form Sent - 06/01/14
Medical - 01/09/14
DS Forms & Medical Received By Embassy - 01/14/14
Interview - 02/13/14 APPROVED!!
CEAC Issued - 02/19/14
Visa in hand - 02/24/14
POE: Newark - 02/25/14
Married - 03/22-14

-AOS Timeline-
Filed - 04/16/14
NOA1 Email - 04/24/14

NOA1 Letters - 04/28/14

Biometrics Appointment - 05/19/14

RFE - 04/16/14

EAD Card Production - 07/03/14

EAD In Hand - 07/11/14

Potential Interview Waiver Letter - 07/29/14

Approved! - 03/16/15 (Took Almost 11 months total)

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I'm been following this thread for a while trying to see how fast other NPIW cases have been getting approved since next month it will be a year since we applied. Fortunately, I just received a text this morning, and when I checked our case status, it said "Card in Production"...super happy right now!! ...especially since we hadn't filed for renewal of hubby's EAD/AP and it expires in May, so I was stressing out about both the GC and renewal :)

We sent our papers on March 7, 2014.

NOA1 - March 13

NPIW dated June 27

Good luck to everyone still waiting! :)

Congratulation! Another filer in March. It's not far for us!

I just curious. Last two weeks approvers are almost filer on 3/31/2014. These two weeks approvers are almost filer 3/15/2014 or before. I want to get a clue how USCIS process our cases. It depends on filer's field office or what?

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