Processing clock reset by RFE?

[Rippchen 0]

Hi all,

 

My husband and I received an AOS RFI/RFE on Monday 20th February and submitted all required evidence on Friday 24th February. My husband already had his biometrics appointment on 16th February, but the RFI was dated 14th February.

 

I found this document that seems to say an RFI will reset any processing times: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/pressrelease/casemgmt.pdf

 

The document is dated from 2006 - do you know if this is still the procedure? Our original AOS was submitted 20th January, and he had his biometrics 16th February, so without any RFI his approval date would have been roughly the end of March/1st of April. Do we think that EAD processing is reset to when USCIS receives our new evidence in response to the RFI? This would mean he would have to wait another 3 months from this past Friday for his EAD and that just sounds like absolute agony.

 

Thanks for any help!

[pantonia 39]

Well that's a mystery to a lot of us. I'll tell you what I know.

• Given the wait time of my local office, I should have received my Green Card in February 2017. When I filed for AOS, I received a RFIE and if the clock HAD reset like it supposedly does, then I would have gotten my Green Card in March/April 2017. As it turns out, I received in October 2016, with no interview.
• Additionally, My EAD and AP got approved on the 87 day mark, which is cutting it close, but almost everybody on VJ that applied for them at the same time I did, seemed to get it at the last possible second or even later, so I don't think the delay was caused by the RFIE. Even if it had, it was only a delay and definitely not a clock reset.
• A lot of people on my VJ threat (those who filed for AOS on the same month I did) called USCIS and as I remember, some got told the clock does reset, some got told it doesn't. Classic USCIS. I've gotten contradicting serious information from them too on other matters, so I don't really trust much of what they say.

[LionessDeon 2,060]

Some controversy on RFE vs RFIE and restart vs reset.  You can review previous threads in the AOS forum and using the search tool.  

We got an RFIE in December. We are at day 101 and nothing so far.