New York AOS filers 2016

[newyorkaos 15]

I am trying to be very hopeful and optimistic. Thanks

[Paulinadeb88 29]

Hello Everyone, I'm from Brooklyn and thought I'd join the NYC thread. It seems as if NYC processing times are taking much longer than other field offices... I cannot wait for my case to get to the next level. The latest on mine is my husband received his EAD on Christmas Eve (yay) however it had an error in his last name. Opened a SR and was told to wait for a letter. Went with my husband to the SS office in the meantime to try and get a social under the correct last name however we were advised that they can only provide the ss# based off the EAD card which had the spelling, which they did. We were told to come back to correct it once we receive the corrected EAD card. The typo is so annoying, it wasn't our fault I triple checked the forms I sent and all of them were correct which means that this was USCIS's error. Fine. I just sent back the EAD with additional info that they required and we're now awaiting an answer. We're going to go to the DMV tomorrow and get my husband his first US license ever after being in this country to 10 years. Hopefully they'll just look at the spelling on his passport instead of his SS card, I would hate to go back twice!

[Imani 105]

On 1/10/2017 at 2:38 PM, Je l'aime said:

Hello Everyone, I'm from Brooklyn and thought I'd join the NYC thread. It seems as if NYC processing times are taking much longer than other field offices... I cannot wait for my case to get to the next level. The latest on mine is my husband received his EAD on Christmas Eve (yay) however it had an error in his last name. Opened a SR and was told to wait for a letter. Went with my husband to the SS office in the meantime to try and get a social under the correct last name however we were advised that they can only provide the ss# based off the EAD card which had the spelling, which they did. We were told to come back to correct it once we receive the corrected EAD card. The typo is so annoying, it wasn't our fault I triple checked the forms I sent and all of them were correct which means that this was USCIS's error. Fine. I just sent back the EAD with additional info that they required and we're now awaiting an answer. We're going to go to the DMV tomorrow and get my husband his first US license ever after being in this country to 10 years. Hopefully they'll just look at the spelling on his passport instead of his SS card, I would hate to go back twice!

 

Well congrats on getting that part over with... sorry to hear of the incorrect spelling... we are in for a very long wait

 

I sent my package off in July... You can see my timeline there.... Getting a job is such a tedious task... Next week is my road test.... (takes 2 months to get a road test in ny)

 

Uscis is currently working on Feb 8th... so we have a long way to go ..

[newyorkaos 15]

Surprising they released the update on processing times early! They usually release it on the 15th! Im keeping my faith that there is some sort of system somehow.

Edited January 11, 2017 by newyorkaos

[newyorkaos 15]

Any updates from this thread? Gosh I cant believe that we are actually preparing our EAD Renewal, didnt imagine that it would be long and frustrating.:( 10 months and 8 days since filing.

[price411 68]

218 days .....

[EandM 20]

Thought I would join this thread. We applied February 2016 and still waiting. In fact, I sent out my EAD renewal package last week  what a pain... We had an interview scheduled at one point but it got cancelled a week later. Hang in there New York filers!!!

[NYC waiting game 32]

285 days and yet to hear anything. I'm going in tmr for info pass. 

Don't expect to hear anything but I thought worth a try. 

[NYC waiting game 32]

How does it get cancelled?  Do they cancel interview without a reason?   

 

17 minutes ago, EandM said:

Thought I would join this thread. We applied February 2016 and still waiting. In fact, I sent out my EAD renewal package last week  what a pain... We had an interview scheduled at one point but it got cancelled a week later. Hang in there New York filers!!!

 

[EandM 20]

8 minutes ago, NYC waiting game said:

How does it get cancelled?  Do they cancel interview without a reason?   

 

 

Literally a week after we received the interview notice we received a letter in the mail saying that our interview was cancelled due to "unforeseen circumstances". We showed up at the interview anyhow because we didn't want to take any risks and they just told us that they couldn't see us and we had to wait until we received a new interview date. So beyond frustrating. Good luck with your infopass appointment!

[NYC waiting game 32]

That's unreasonable! Did you send in a service request or anything to check what's going on? How is the congressman helping goes?

 

Yea, I will try to request to see the IO, but not sure if they will allow me to. Keep you guys posted tmr. 

 

11 minutes ago, EandM said:

Literally a week after we received the interview notice we received a letter in the mail saying that our interview was cancelled due to "unforeseen circumstances". We showed up at the interview anyhow because we didn't want to take any risks and they just told us that they couldn't see us and we had to wait until we received a new interview date. So beyond frustrating. Good luck with your infopass appointment!

 

[EandM 20]

1 minute ago, NYC waiting game said:

That's unreasonable! Did you send in a service request or anything to check what's going on? How is the congressman helping goes?

 

Yea, I will try to request to see the IO, but not sure if they will allow me to. Keep you guys posted tmr. 

 

 

Yeah, I made an info pass appointment a week later. The guy that helped me said that they're pretty swamped and all I could do was wait it out. The congressman's office said pretty much the same thing and that they couldn't really do much because we were still within normal processing times. He had already put a info request with the USCIS previously for our case and I suspect that's what prompted the interview notice in the first place, but yeah... At this point they said all we could do is wait. According to their website they're looking at cases from February 8, 2016. We're February 25, 2016, so here's hoping we here something soon. That feeling of having to renew your EAD card man, it's not a good one. Hopefully the info pass can be more helpful to you than it was to me

[newyorkaos 15]

NYC Waiting game- how was your infopass? I went on January 5 in Manhattan, totally useless. I don't even remember her saying anything at all-

[NYC waiting game 32]

I am going in tmr. I dont really expect to hear anything useful from them, but worth a try. 

 

19 minutes ago, newyorkaos said:

NYC Waiting game- how was your infopass? I went on January 5 in Manhattan, totally useless. I don't even remember her saying anything at all-

 

[newyorkaos 15]

Okay keep us posted! Good luck.