JULY 2017 FILERS

[izavox 147]

14 minutes ago, KathCali said:

Ahh I'm sorry to hear but yes fingers crossed for EAD / AP renewals. Hopefully your letter comes any day now. I am hearing of many 2018 filers getting interviews, I feel your frustration I also am curious about why SFV is so backed up when many Los Angeles (DTLA) applicants are getting interviews within a year, and according to the published data, SFV has less pending cases than LA, I think? They are outsourcing some LA interviews to San Bernardino - I really wish they'd do that for us. I am thinking of making an InfoPass to ask them why it's taking so long and to even ask about transferring to San Bernardino but I feel like I'll just get a canned answer and be told to sign up for online updates haha.

I know right?! When we found out our office was going to be SFV my husband thought it would be great since the LA one would be too busy, but at this time I think it's either too backed up or it doesnt have a lot of people working, which makes the cases go super slow. It is also fairly new, i think, compared to the others, so maybe they are still trying to figure out how to process petitions more effectively? I don't know...

 

I thought about Infopass as well, but I also heard of people saying that if you are not outside of the processing times, which for us it's like in a year or so hahaha, we would just receive the standard message, but I won't discourage trying.

 

Did you talk to Tier 2 officers when you call them? When I'm able to speak to them, I usually get the standard message that all I can do now is wait, but i've seen here people being able to get more info on their cases.

 

At this time, the good thing in all of this is that, if it takes too long, by the time we get the interview we'd already be married for 2 years so we won't have to go through this again hahaha

 

Edited August 3, 2018 by izavox

[KathCali 47]

16 minutes ago, izavox said:

I know right?! When we found out our office was going to be SFV my husband thought it would be great since the LA one would be too busy, but at this time I think it's either too backed up or it doesnt have a lot of people working, which makes the cases go super slow. It is also fairly new, i think, compared to the others, so maybe they are still trying to figure out how to process petitions more effectively? I don't know...

 

I thought about Infopass as well, but I also heard of people saying that if you are not outside of the processing times, which for us it's like in a year or so hahaha, we would just receive the standard message, but I won't discourage trying.

 

Did you talk to Tier 2 officers when you call them? When I'm able to speak to them, I usually get the standard message that all I can do now is wait, but i've seen here people being able to get more info on their cases.

 

At this time, the good thing in all of this is that, if it takes too long, by the time we get the interview we'd already be married for 2 years so we won't have to go through this again hahaha

 

I've never talked to a Tier 2 officer - when I called recently to ask why the automated phone status update couldn't tell me a status (even though online has updated - and I think it's just the system being glitchy, I was really just trying to find out any additional info on my case) the first level officer just kept excitedly repeating that I was now in line for an interview and when I said I already had an online account, he was like ok great bye and hung up haha. Oi vey. San Fernando opened in 2012 so it's newish but I definitely think six years is old enough to have processes in place. It says they had 100 staff on opening - I don't know if that's less than most offices? They may have more now but I think you're right about them not having a lot of staff. (https://patch.com/california/northridge/one-stop-immigration-center-opens-in-chatsworth)

I know a girl who's currently waited over two years for ROC at SFV and ended up having her case transferred to another state to be processed so it may be ROC and naturalization cases clogging their office - there's a LOT of immigrants in the valley so that's all I can come up with.

 

I am telling myself the same about the 10 year gc! Not much of a consolation but I guess we'd save a few hundred for all the months (years) of time we spent waiting 🤨

Anyway, crossing my fingers for you! I know you must be even more frustrated. Hoping they get things moving really soon

Edited August 3, 2018 by KathCali

[Raymond_CA 11]

On 8/3/2018 at 2:52 PM, izavox said:

I know right?! When we found out our office was going to be SFV my husband thought it would be great since the LA one would be too busy, but at this time I think it's either too backed up or it doesnt have a lot of people working, which makes the cases go super slow. It is also fairly new, i think, compared to the others, so maybe they are still trying to figure out how to process petitions more effectively? I don't know...

 

I thought about Infopass as well, but I also heard of people saying that if you are not outside of the processing times, which for us it's like in a year or so hahaha, we would just receive the standard message, but I won't discourage trying.

 

Did you talk to Tier 2 officers when you call them? When I'm able to speak to them, I usually get the standard message that all I can do now is wait, but i've seen here people being able to get more info on their cases.

 

At this time, the good thing in all of this is that, if it takes too long, by the time we get the interview we'd already be married for 2 years so we won't have to go through this again hahaha

 

Hi izavox

I'm also a July AoS applicant and my status has changed to ready to be scheduled for interview since 2 months ago (my case has transferred to Los Angeles local office). No interview yet. Have you tried to contact ombudsman? Any response? ... Thanks

[izavox 147]

On 8/6/2018 at 1:28 AM, Raymond_CA said:

Hi izavox

I'm also a July AoS applicant and my status has changed to ready to be scheduled for interview since 2 months ago (my case has transferred to Los Angeles local office). No interview yet. Have you tried to contact ombudsman? Any response? ... Thanks

Hi Raymond!

 

I haven't contacted my congresswoman yet...  where was your case before?

[Raymond_CA 11]

2 minutes ago, izavox said:

Hi Raymond!

 

I haven't contacted my congresswoman yet...  where was your case before?

Happily my online case status changed 4 days ago to "we scheduled your intw". I hope you get yours soon. 

p.s. I meant transferred from NBC to Los Angeles Office 

[izavox 147]

2 minutes ago, Raymond_CA said:

Happily my online case status changed 4 days ago to "we scheduled your intw". I hope you get yours soon. 

p.s. I meant transferred from NBC to Los Angeles Office 

That is fantastic Raymond!! Hope everything goes perfect on the day for you  So exciting!

[KathCali 47]

4 minutes ago, Raymond_CA said:

Happily my online case status changed 4 days ago to "we scheduled your intw". I hope you get yours soon. 

p.s. I meant transferred from NBC to Los Angeles Office 

Congrats! Did you contact a senator or no? I couldn't figure out from your previous posts, sorry! 

[Raymond_CA 11]

2 minutes ago, KathCali said:

Congrats! Did you contact a senator or no? I couldn't figure out from your previous posts, sorry! 

Thanks! No I didn't. 

[little immigrant 801]

The processing time for my field office says 9.5-21 months. No interview in sight. 

[mr-mrs-hdc 23]

And my journey to Green Card is coming to an end. My card was ordered for production on August 13th. (My interview was july 26th). 

[izavox 147]

Got the notification today for the interview! Super happy! I don't know the date yet, it said it is coming in the mail but my take is that within 30 days, right??  

 

So excited, hopefully it will be a breeze!

 

@KathCali Did you hear anything back? I think SFV is processing around 11 months or so (that is almost exactly what it took for me, since my PD was July 11, 2017)

[KathCali 47]

19 minutes ago, izavox said:

Got the notification today for the interview! Super happy! I don't know the date yet, it said it is coming in the mail but my take is that within 30 days, right??  

 

So excited, hopefully it will be a breeze!

 

@KathCali Did you hear anything back? I think SFV is processing around 11 months or so (that is almost exactly what it took for me, since my PD was July 11, 2017)

Ahhh so excited and happy for you! Congrats!! Your notice will arrive within a week or so and your interview will be about a month after that! 🎉

 

I haven’t heard anything since “ready to schedule” on July 17, but we filed Sep 15 so you have given me hope (I was getting sooo frustrated!) I think based on yours we should get scheduled in the next couple of months then 😊

 

Woohoo!! San Fernando is moving! Keep us posted! So happy for you 😊🙏🏻

Edited August 16, 2018 by KathCali

[izavox 147]

On 8/16/2018 at 2:56 PM, KathCali said:

Ahhh so excited and happy for you! Congrats!! Your notice will arrive within a week or so and your interview will be about a month after that! 🎉

 

I haven’t heard anything since “ready to schedule” on July 17, but we filed Sep 15 so you have given me hope (I was getting sooo frustrated!) I think based on yours we should get scheduled in the next couple of months then 😊

 

Woohoo!! San Fernando is moving! Keep us posted! So happy for you 😊🙏🏻

Thank you so much Kath! So sorry I havent answered sooner... things have been crazy with work!

 

I havent received my letter yet but I'm anxiously checking my Informed Delivery everyday hahaha

 

I also think it is going to be around 13 months for us SFV. Hopefully you will get your notification soon!!

[izavox 147]

Got the letter this weekend (I was actually starting to get worried hahaha), September 25th is the day

[KathCali 47]

1 hour ago, izavox said:

Got the letter this weekend (I was actually starting to get worried hahaha), September 25th is the day

Yay! So exciting! Keep us posted on how it goes