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Follow-up on my post from 30 November: we called USCIS and got through to a Tier 1 relatively quickly, but she said that no more calls were going through to Tier 2 officers that day. She recommended we try to call again the next morning at 8:00 AM. However, we did that in August and ended up waiting nearly 2.5 hours for a call-back. I can't go into work 2.5 hours late because I'm waiting for a call back from USCIS!!

For those of us who do call the USCIS hotline, times of day/days of the week have you found to have the best response rate?

I relayed the entire saga to the Tier 1 (mostly to vent, because she couldn't really do anything) and she said I should give our service request another two weeks before calling again (the Tier 2 officer on our call to USCIS on Nov 15 told us specifically we should hear something within two weeks and to call back if we didn't).

WHY CAN'T THEY BE CONSISTENT?!??!?!?!?!?!


  On 11/30/2016 at 11:18 PM, sparkles_ said:

We had great luck using an intern caseworker as our Rep's office to get my husband's solo i130 approved in about two weeks. I'm convinced if you have a good intern or caseworker on things, you will get answers in some form.

Don't file any other inquiries til the intern gets back to you either. I was told you can essentially only do one every 30 days, including the congressional one. That is why we have to wait a bit still.

I'm cautiously optimistic because the intern caseworker in Senator Klobuchar's with whom we spoke was way more professional than the intern in Rep Ellison's office. He gave us a detailed timeline of what would happen and when we could call back for an update.

Fingers crossed...


  On 12/2/2016 at 4:31 AM, Heather&Kevin said:

Got our Green Card interview date - 9 months from filing the 485

Here we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :idea::dancing::goofy:

Yay, you guys!! Give us some hope!!!


  On 12/3/2016 at 11:48 PM, sparkles_ said:

Got a USCIS letter today.....thought it may be the interview, got super excited. Opened it and it was just the paper response to our inquiry. I almost tore the mailbox off the wall :ranting:

I feel your pain, sparkles! When I was growing up, my mom always told me that when I feel frustrated/sad/unhappy, I should do something for others and I will feel better.

So, here I am on VJ, posting away...

Moms are usually right.


  On 12/4/2016 at 8:14 PM, fort knox said:

Today I heard from lawyer that all immigration processes are in delay because of new president and consequently new policies.

personally, I am positive and I dont think these news are reliable.

  On 12/4/2016 at 8:47 PM, sparkles_ said:

Delays or all immigration is on hold? Because it appears things are actually on hold, sadly

Do we have further information about this?

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  On 12/5/2016 at 3:45 PM, Linyahui said:

Follow-up on my post from 30 November: we called USCIS and got through to a Tier 1 relatively quickly, but she said that no more calls were going through to Tier 2 officers that day. She recommended we try to call again the next morning at 8:00 AM. However, we did that in August and ended up waiting nearly 2.5 hours for a call-back. I can't go into work 2.5 hours late because I'm waiting for a call back from USCIS!!

For those of us who do call the USCIS hotline, times of day/days of the week have you found to have the best response rate?

I relayed the entire saga to the Tier 1 (mostly to vent, because she couldn't really do anything) and she said I should give our service request another two weeks before calling again (the Tier 2 officer on our call to USCIS on Nov 15 told us specifically we should hear something within two weeks and to call back if we didn't).

WHY CAN'T THEY BE CONSISTENT?!??!?!?!?!?!

I'm cautiously optimistic because the intern caseworker in Senator Klobuchar's with whom we spoke was way more professional than the intern in Rep Ellison's office. He gave us a detailed timeline of what would happen and when we could call back for an update.

Fingers crossed...

Yay, you guys!! Give us some hope!!!

I feel your pain, sparkles! When I was growing up, my mom always told me that when I feel frustrated/sad/unhappy, I should do something for others and I will feel better.

So, here I am on VJ, posting away...

Moms are usually right.

Do we have further information about this?

I don't have any official information, but I don't think that's true. We have our interview today in New York City, so I will post an update about how it went and if I can squeeze in a question about the status of USCIS processing times, I will. Wish us luck!

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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:02 PM, palolis said:

I don't have any official information, but I don't think that's true. We have our interview today in New York City, so I will post an update about how it went and if I can squeeze in a question about the status of USCIS processing times, I will. Wish us luck!

That's very kind of you. Good luck!!

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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:02 PM, palolis said:

I don't have any official information, but I don't think that's true. We have our interview today in New York City, so I will post an update about how it went and if I can squeeze in a question about the status of USCIS processing times, I will. Wish us luck!

Good Luck for interview.

looking forward to hearing from you.

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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:02 PM, palolis said:

I don't have any official information, but I don't think that's true. We have our interview today in New York City, so I will post an update about how it went and if I can squeeze in a question about the status of USCIS processing times, I will. Wish us luck!

goodluck from someone in NYC! Edited by newyorkaos
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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:14 PM, newyorkaos said:

goodluck from someone in NYC!

OMG! Can you ask them after your interview what's going on and why so many from March are getting by passed by people who have applied after us and ask if you could pass on a word to fellow NY-ers suffering from their lies?

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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:33 PM, daveyjoe! said:

OMG! Can you ask them after your interview what's going on and why so many from March are getting by passed by people who have applied after us and ask if you could pass on a word to fellow NY-ers suffering from their lies?

If he ask this question to officer, he doing a favor to us.

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  On 12/4/2016 at 8:14 PM, fort knox said:

Today I heard from lawyer that all immigration processes are in delay because of new president and consequently new policies.

personally, I am positive and I dont think these news are reliable.

I honestly don't think this is true. Trump wont be in office until january so the president didnt change yet. And even once he takes office policies and laws etc etc wont change the same night, those things take time, it can take years.

So it would be really weird if theres a hold for this reason. They might "just" be delayed because of workload etc

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(Day 055) 05/08/16 - NOA2 EAD & AP in the mail and online changed to approved

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(Day 088) 06/10/16 - GC Mailed to me

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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:43 PM, SanneW said:

I honestly don't think this is true. Trump wont be in office until january so the president didnt change yet. And even once he takes office policies and laws etc etc wont change the same night, those things take time, it can take years.

So it would be really weird if theres a hold for this reason. They might "just" be delayed because of workload etc

I agree, that thought is reassuring. Thanks,

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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:14 PM, newyorkaos said:

goodluck from someone in NYC!

Thank you! It's at 3:30pm, so I will update this evening.

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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:33 PM, daveyjoe! said:

OMG! Can you ask them after your interview what's going on and why so many from March are getting by passed by people who have applied after us and ask if you could pass on a word to fellow NY-ers suffering from their lies?

I totally think that they don't process it according to the order of the date the cases were received. Meanwhile, I have been scouring in different forums, there are a couple of late March filers who don't have their interviews yet. I don't know if this will bring us NYC filers some glimmer of hope and a little more of patience, but some January 2016 filers that I saw, the interview date came at 9-10 mos and actual interview date at 10-11 mos. I am drafting letter to congressman now. Im going cray with this wait.

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  On 12/5/2016 at 4:38 PM, fort knox said:

If he ask this question to officer, he doing a favor to us.

I will try to ask after the interview is done. I hope the officer is kind and open.

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Day 000 - 03/30/2016 Filing Chicago Lockbox

Day 003 - 04/02/2016 File Received

Day 006 - 04/05/2016 Checks Cashed

Day 011 - 04/10/2016 NOAs I-485, I-130, I-131, I-765

Day 037 - 05/06/2016 Biometrics Notification

Day 042 - 05/13/2016 Biometrics Appointment

Day 052 - 05/23/2016 I-485 "Ready for Interview"

Day 083 - 06/23/2016 I-765 EAD "Card is Being Produced"

Day 083 - 06/23/2016 I-131 AP Case Was Approved

Day 087 - 06/27/2016 NOA Advanced Parole Approval

Day 084 - 06/28/2016 Combo card (EAD/AP) was mailed to me

Day 095 - 07/05/2016 EAD/AP Card Received 

Day 210 - 10/28/2016 Interview Scheduled 

Day 248 - 12/05/2016 Interview - Approved on the spot!! - "New Card is Being Produced" ❤

Day 251 - 12/08/2016 Green Card was mailed to me

Day 255 - 12/12/2016 Green Card Received! More than two years married, no conditions = 10 years!

 

NATURALIZATION N-400

 

Day 000 - 04/15/2020 Filing Online

Day 006 - 04/21/2020 NOA N-400

Day 190 - 10/21/2020 Biometrics Scheduled for 11/12/2020

Day 199 - 10/30/2020 NOA N-400 Biometrics Appointment

Day 212 - 11/12/2020 Biometrics Appointment at Denver ASC

Day 223 - 11/23/2020 Interview Scheduled for 12/28/2020

Day 233 - 12/03/2020 NOA N-400 Interview

Day 258 - 12/28/2020 Naturalization interview (approved on the spot and Oath of Allegiance taken the same day). I'm a US Citizen! 🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇲

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We had our interview on the 23rd of November and were approved on the spot. The status of the case online changed to 'Card sent for production'.

On 11/30 the online status changed to 'Card is being mailed' an we received the card on Friday 12/02.

We filed beginning of March and got the interview only 9 months later.. Seemed to take forever!

Good luck everyone.

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03/01/2016: Package received by USCIS

03/05/2016: NOA received

03/14/2016: Checks went through

04/11/2016: Biometrics done in California

04/20/2016: Online status for i485 changed to 'Ready to schedule interview'

04/28/2016: Called USCIS to change the EAD Eligibility to c09 (made a mistake in my application)

05/02/2016: Received EAD/AP confirmation letter with c09 Eligibility :D

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06/08/2016: Online status for I-765 updated to 'Card was mailed' :dance:

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