April 2017 AOS Filers

[Apfel 46]

9 hours ago, gray_cat said:

I saw in the March thread that some late march filers already got their EADs approved. We're getting closer. 

Yup! I follow this thread because they received the response to our RFIE on April 19 and many said that "resets" the clock, but we got the EAD approval notice last week and our original priority date is March 20.

[RandB 156]

My USCIS app notified me today that my I-485 is ready for scheduling an interview! Yay! I'll be expecting another letter from USCIS in the mail soon, then.

[lovewins2016 73]

29 minutes ago, RandB said:

My USCIS app notified me today that my I-485 is ready for scheduling an interview! Yay! I'll be expecting another letter from USCIS in the mail soon, then.

Wow, that's awesome! Congratulations on your case's progress! 🙂

[strider4 43]

15 hours ago, RandB said:

My USCIS app notified me today that my I-485 is ready for scheduling an interview! Yay! I'll be expecting another letter from USCIS in the mail soon, then.

Yayyy, some more good news from April filers! Good luck   

If you don't mind me asking, what is you local office? 

Edited June 14, 2017 by strider4

[Katrin.TX 9]

I have officially expedited the EAD today. I called the service line and the lady was super friendly. She went with me through all the points necessary to expedite and told me to wait for them to request the evidence by e-mail (finally, something has reached the 21st century!)

[RandB 156]

19 hours ago, lovewins2016 said:

Wow, that's awesome! Congratulations on your case's progress! 🙂

Thank you!

 

5 hours ago, strider4 said:

Yayyy, some more good news from April filers! Good luck   

If you don't mind me asking, what is you local office? 

I think my local office is San Jose, CA. If my interview will take place at the same office where I had my biometrics appointment, then it is Salinas, CA.

[DMLA 18]

Hello Everyone!

 

Good to see that there is some progress happening four us April filers! No updates for me since my biometric appointment...patiently waiting!

 

Quick question... how do you count how many days your case has been active? Do you count from the priority date and include weekends? Just trying to get a sense of when my 75th and 90th day will be to track the progress of the ead card....

[strider4 43]

48 minutes ago, RandB said:

Thank you!

 

I think my local office is San Jose, CA. If my interview will take place at the same office where I had my biometrics appointment, then it is Salinas, CA.

Mine is either San Jose or SF. I went for biometrics at an application support center and it didn't seem like interviews are conducted there. Our lawyer had told us cases move pretty slow in our area but your status update is extremely encouraging.  

[Back2Reality 55]

5 hours ago, Katrin.TX said:

I have officially expedited the EAD today. I called the service line and the lady was super friendly. She went with me through all the points necessary to expedite and told me to wait for them to request the evidence by e-mail (finally, something has reached the 21st century!)

did you expedited it based on a job offer? I wanted to do so, but I heard they will deny it unless your case been active for 75 days.

[RandB 156]

13 hours ago, strider4 said:

Mine is either San Jose or SF. I went for biometrics at an application support center and it didn't seem like interviews are conducted there. Our lawyer had told us cases move pretty slow in our area but your status update is extremely encouraging.  

I see. Then I probably have to go to San Jose. I saw on visajourney's statistics that applicants at San Jose have to wait over 200 days on average between the biometrics appointment and their interview. Hopefully it won't take that long in our cases!

[strider4 43]

3 hours ago, RandB said:

I see. Then I probably have to go to San Jose. I saw on visajourney's statistics that applicants at San Jose have to wait over 200 days on average between the biometrics appointment and their interview. Hopefully it won't take that long in our cases!

Let's hope so!

 

Good luck to all April filers. Hang in there, we'd get through this soon!  

[Katrin.TX 9]

15 hours ago, ahas44 said:

did you expedited it based on a job offer? I wanted to do so, but I heard they will deny it unless your case been active for 75 days.

Yes, I did. I was unaware of the 75 days thing. I´m still 19 days away from that. Oh well, whatever happens happens. If not, then I´ll try it again mid-July (because we can put in another request to expedite after 30 days, I believe). However, I hope that I will have heard something by then. 

 

I will keep you posted!

[EMBELL_17 103]

1 hour ago, Katrin.TX said:

Yes, I did. I was unaware of the 75 days thing. I´m still 19 days away from that. Oh well, whatever happens happens. If not, then I´ll try it again mid-July (because we can put in another request to expedite after 30 days, I believe). However, I hope that I will have heard something by then. 

 

I will keep you posted!

You can put in for an expedite as soon as you've completed your biometrics. And i was informed I could not do an SR for expedite until 5 days after it was last touched (so I put in 4 requests within the space of 1 month). As of today, my EAD is being produced as a result of my expedite request and I mailed my packet in May 11.

[Beefheart 31]

Got an RFE for my AOS via the app this morning. Joy!

I expect it's related to the poverty guideline, as my wife's income fell $146 below it, or thereabouts. Seems harsh if that is the case, but rules are rules, I guess.

[Back2Reality 55]

8 minutes ago, Beefheart said:

Got an RFE for my AOS via the app this morning. Joy!

I expect it's related to the poverty guideline, as my wife's income fell $146 below it, or thereabouts. Seems harsh if that is the case, but rules are rules, I guess.

I am sure there is 5ish% threshold in all tax/poverty guidelines.  I doubt +/- $200 would make a difference.