If your AOS is approved and the case status doesn't update online...

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I'd recommend making an INFOPASS appointment within a week from your interview/approval date if your online tracking is not correct by then.

My wife and I waited about a month and a half because they said that it takes one month or so to produce the green card. The whole time, our case status online was in "Testing and Interview" status. The common knowledge here is "meh, just wait for it, it will update some day." This is false.

What happened in our case was when we went to the INFOPASS appointment, there was a strange dance between the INFOPASS agent and the department (another office in the Federal Building we went to) that does the AOS interviews.

They approved us, but didn't update the information in the system. So we would have waited forever for something to happen and it just wouldn't have.

According to the INFOPASS agent, this is a common occurrence. I'm glad we didn't wait another month or two.

Therefore, make an INFOPASS appointment within a week if you are approved and "Testing and Interview" status hasn't been updated to an approval online. Don't call the 1-800 number, all of the people on that line are completely useless.

Edited May 22, 2014 by noncompute

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You are mistaken.

By law USCIS has 90 days to render a decision after an AoS interview, although I believe there are exceptions that allow them to exceed that. My attorney advised me before the interview that she wouldn't be able to visit there for an Infopass until 90 days had passed from the date of the interview.

As it happens, I was approved at the interview, but the formal approval didn't happen until a month later. My lawyer made an informal inquiry after two weeks when she was at the office on other business, and was told that the officer who had interviewed me was "behind on his approvals". It took another two weeks for him to formally process my approval, and the online status then changed.

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You are mistaken.

By law USCIS has 90 days to render a decision after an AoS interview, although I believe there are exceptions that allow them to exceed that. My attorney advised me before the interview that she wouldn't be able to visit there for an Infopass until 90 days had passed from the date of the interview.

As it happens, I was approved at the interview, but the formal approval didn't happen until a month later. My lawyer made an informal inquiry after two weeks when she was at the office on other business, and was told that the officer who had interviewed me was "behind on his approvals". It took another two weeks for him to formally process my approval, and the online status then changed.

Maybe your lawyer should be writing that post instead.

I'm not sure, but apparently we were able to achieve the impossible because we made an INFOPASS appointment about 45 days after the interview (w/ approval).

Does anyone have a citation to a real document that says you can't make INFOPASS appointments at any time after approval? I think you can make them at any time.

It really doesn't even matter how much time they have "by law" to "render a decision". In this case, it was a clerical error (which happens often according to the INFOPASS agent we spoke to) which needed to be corrected immediately.

Edited May 23, 2014 by noncompute