TSA Alien Student Pilot Clearance AOS

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I'm not hoping for much since aviation seems to be of interest to a small number of people but maybe there's someone out there who can help me.

 

After graduating from college with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, I've decided not to pursue this. Instead I've decided to make my life-long dream of becoming a pilot come true.

Since the 9/11 attacks were by international students who got flight training in the US, it is understanable that they want to make sure this doesn't happen again. As a result, all non-US citizens enrolling in a flight school must go through a TSA clearance process. This is submitted online at www.flightschoolcandidates.gov and the whole process is usually very simple. If you have a clear status, that is.

 

My issue is that I am no longer an F-1 student and I've applied for Adjustment of Status back in January, and I'm still waiting for the interview. I have no idea when the interview is going to be, and no idea what kind of timeline to expect. As of April, I have an EAD/AP combo card and that's the only thing I can show that I have legal status here. The problem is that I'm not sure how to put this in the system. I can't put it in there as a visa, since I'm not on a visa and there's no visa class for AOS. And I don't yet have a permanent resident card that I can put on there either....

 

However, when you go into the "Lawful Permanent Resident Card" there's an option to put it on there as "Pending" but I still have to put issue and expiration dates... I could also upload a scanned image of my EAD/AP on there, or the NOA for my form I-485.

 

Any suggestions?