November 2017 AOS Filers

[iowagirl 7]

TIMELINE: as of FEB 24, 2018

Nov 22, 2017 - packet sent via USPS Chicago Lockbox (Concurrent Filing AOS)

Nov29 - Received via email and SMS 4 USCIS confirmation

Nov 30 - Checks cashed

Dec 4 - Received 4 x NOA1 via mail (PD Nov24) (NOA date Nov28)

Dec 9 - Received bio appt via mail

Dec 18 - Biometrics Sched/Done (IOWA USCIS)

Dec 28 - Courtesy letter received regarding i-693 (medical exam do not submit, submit on interview or as RFE)

Feb 13, 2018-  First SR made online

Feb 20 - NEW CARD BEING PRODUCED status (EAD)

Feb 22 - Travel Document APPROVED status

Feb 22 - CARD WAS MAILED TO ME status (EAD)

Feb 24 - EAD combo card received together with EAD and AP approval notices on separate envelopes

[cherryblossoms916 216]

15 minutes ago, iowagirl said:

TIMELINE: as of FEB 24, 2018

Nov 22, 2017 - packet sent via USPS Chicago Lockbox (Concurrent Filing AOS)

Nov29 - Received via email and SMS 4 USCIS confirmation

Nov 30 - Checks cashed

Dec 4 - Received 4 x NOA1 via mail (PD Nov24) (NOA date Nov28)

Dec 9 - Received bio appt via mail

Dec 18 - Biometrics Sched/Done (IOWA USCIS)

Dec 28 - Courtesy letter received regarding i-693 (medical exam do not submit, submit on interview or as RFE)

Feb 13, 2018-  First SR made online

Feb 20 - NEW CARD BEING PRODUCED status (EAD)

Feb 22 - Travel Document APPROVED status

Feb 22 - CARD WAS MAILED TO ME status (EAD)

Feb 24 - EAD combo card received together with EAD and AP approval notices on separate envelopes

Did you received your ead with ssn and card?

[iowagirl 7]

1 hour ago, cherryblossoms916 said:

Did you received your ead with ssn and card?

nope. i filed aos from b2 visa, not k-1

[Dachis 45]

1 hour ago, iowagirl said:

TIMELINE: as of FEB 24, 2018

Nov 22, 2017 - packet sent via USPS Chicago Lockbox (Concurrent Filing AOS)

Nov29 - Received via email and SMS 4 USCIS confirmation

Nov 30 - Checks cashed

Dec 4 - Received 4 x NOA1 via mail (PD Nov24) (NOA date Nov28)

Dec 9 - Received bio appt via mail

Dec 18 - Biometrics Sched/Done (IOWA USCIS)

Dec 28 - Courtesy letter received regarding i-693 (medical exam do not submit, submit on interview or as RFE)

Feb 13, 2018-  First SR made online

Feb 20 - NEW CARD BEING PRODUCED status (EAD)

Feb 22 - Travel Document APPROVED status

Feb 22 - CARD WAS MAILED TO ME status (EAD)

Feb 24 - EAD combo card received together with EAD and AP approval notices on separate envelopes

Congrats!!! Do they ship it from lee’s summit, mo?  Hope i’ll get mine on monday. 

[iowagirl 7]

15 hours ago, Dachis said:

Congrats!!! Do they ship it from lee’s summit, mo?  Hope i’ll get mine on monday. 

yes.

Lees Summit MO

[Emmz 154]

how many months will i wait for my combo card? i got rfe and submitted it within the week but until

now no updates yet

[aasupp 9]

On 2/24/2018 at 6:12 PM, iowagirl said:

nope. i filed aos from b2 visa, not k-1

I filled from b2 visa too and while filling The I-765 I made a mistake and had to re-do it again, and when I went to the USCIS form it changed, allowing you to ask for the work permit and SSN at the same time.

 

I thought I filled the wrong form or the one I filled first was expired, but they changed it and I think both forms were valid at the time, that’s why some people are waiting for the ssn and work permit at the same time. 

[marc941 137]

Just a word of warning to everyone, and to vent a little ... be really careful when considering traveling with Advance Parole.  

 

After sooooo many months apart, my husband came here in September, we were married in November, and life has been wonderful.  His EAD/AP was approved and combo card received in January.  We thought it would be really great for him to return to his home country (Dominican Republic) for a visit with family now that he could travel, and to do so before he gets a job that would interfere with potential travel.  So, we bought him a round trip ticket and off he went 2 days ago.  

 

His wallet was either lost or stolen in the airport during his arrival in Dom Rep.  He no longer has his EAD/AP combo card.  I wasn't too alarmed at first, as this kind of happens all the time and I'm sure there's a protocol for it.  However, it seems there is not.  The letter received with the combo card specifically says "if the card is lost or stolen while you are out of the country, contact the nearest embassy for a travel document".  Of course, when contacting the embassy, they say they can't help with it and to contact USCIS.  USCIS says to contact the embassy.  USCIS also advises that he can apply for a new card, complete with the typical +/- 3 month wait time and paying all the fees again, but it can only be done from within the US.  He can't get to the US without the card.

 

Of the dozens of people I've talked or emailed with at USCIS HQ, USCIS Dom Rep, State Dept, and Embassy, there's one common theme:  It's not their agency that handles it.

 

Someone online suggested something called a "boarding foil" or "travel letter" but the embassy tells me those are only for if you lose your green card, and all of the info I can find online says the same.  I read one story of someone in Rome getting it with a situation similar to ours (pending AOS w/ approved EAD/AP), but that seems to have been a fluke or a mistake on the embassy's part.

 

I just want to cry.  This was supposed to be a happy trip for him to see his family and now we don't even know how many months may go by before he can come home.

 

Luckily he has photocopies of everything with him.  After spending all day on the phone with government agencies, my only hope is that the airline will allow him to board the airplane with photocopies of the lost EAD/AP card and the approval notice, and that CBP will subsequently admit him.  It seems like a long shot, but it seems logical that these things happen and CBP should be able to look in the computer, see that he has pending AOS and approved AP, and let him in.  I imagine they'll give him a hard time, but hopefully they let him in.  If not, I don't know what to do.

 

Had I known how unreasonable the government is in such a situation, I never would've encouraged my spouse to take this trip.  I strongly encourage everyone to wait until you have LPR status before leaving the country.

 

[Dachis 45]

Finally, i received my EAD and approval letter today.

Anyone knows if i have to wait 10 days from issue date and then go to ssa to get ssn? And what should i take with me? Thanks 

[iowagirl 7]

12 hours ago, Dachis said:

Finally, i received my EAD and approval letter today.

Anyone knows if i have to wait 10 days from issue date and then go to ssa to get ssn? And what should i take with me? Thanks 

i went to SSA yesterday. They asked me if  I applied last Friday because I already have a social security number. I think DHS applied an ssn for me after approving my ead. they said its on its way. i was already mailed to me and i just have to wait for it instead. 

 

However, good thing I still dropped by SSN to update all the info under my name. You see what they have on record is just my address, name and birthday. parents name etc weren't on my file so they gladly updated it and I requested for another card mailed to me because my first two names were on a single word--instead of two words. I didnt know if that's normal but i wanted both my first names to be separated. I wrote down my social number because they cant give me a printout of that whatever paper my social is on.

Edited February 27, 2018 by iowagirl

[logisticamente 152]

20 hours ago, marc941 said:

Just a word of warning to everyone, and to vent a little ... be really careful when considering traveling with Advance Parole.  

 

After sooooo many months apart, my husband came here in September, we were married in November, and life has been wonderful.  His EAD/AP was approved and combo card received in January.  We thought it would be really great for him to return to his home country (Dominican Republic) for a visit with family now that he could travel, and to do so before he gets a job that would interfere with potential travel.  So, we bought him a round trip ticket and off he went 2 days ago.  

 

His wallet was either lost or stolen in the airport during his arrival in Dom Rep.  He no longer has his EAD/AP combo card.  I wasn't too alarmed at first, as this kind of happens all the time and I'm sure there's a protocol for it.  However, it seems there is not.  The letter received with the combo card specifically says "if the card is lost or stolen while you are out of the country, contact the nearest embassy for a travel document".  Of course, when contacting the embassy, they say they can't help with it and to contact USCIS.  USCIS says to contact the embassy.  USCIS also advises that he can apply for a new card, complete with the typical +/- 3 month wait time and paying all the fees again, but it can only be done from within the US.  He can't get to the US without the card.

 

Of the dozens of people I've talked or emailed with at USCIS HQ, USCIS Dom Rep, State Dept, and Embassy, there's one common theme:  It's not their agency that handles it.

 

Someone online suggested something called a "boarding foil" or "travel letter" but the embassy tells me those are only for if you lose your green card, and all of the info I can find online says the same.  I read one story of someone in Rome getting it with a situation similar to ours (pending AOS w/ approved EAD/AP), but that seems to have been a fluke or a mistake on the embassy's part.

 

I just want to cry.  This was supposed to be a happy trip for him to see his family and now we don't even know how many months may go by before he can come home.

 

Luckily he has photocopies of everything with him.  After spending all day on the phone with government agencies, my only hope is that the airline will allow him to board the airplane with photocopies of the lost EAD/AP card and the approval notice, and that CBP will subsequently admit him.  It seems like a long shot, but it seems logical that these things happen and CBP should be able to look in the computer, see that he has pending AOS and approved AP, and let him in.  I imagine they'll give him a hard time, but hopefully they let him in.  If not, I don't know what to do.

 

Had I known how unreasonable the government is in such a situation, I never would've encouraged my spouse to take this trip.  I strongly encourage everyone to wait until you have LPR status before leaving the country.

 

SH*T that is rough!!

Good Luck with your plan!! let us know how it goes

Maybe also have him bring a letter from the police (or the embassy??) stating that he reported his wallet with EAD/AP card inside stolen and of course translate it to english

[Smooch-Esther 8]

On 11/9/2017 at 1:07 PM, SkruDe said:

I'm a November AOS filer.

 

Filed:  11/06/17 via overnight.  USCIS received 11/07/17

 

Still waiting on the confirmation text/email.  As well as waiting for the check being withdrawn from my account.

Hi. 

I also filed Nov. 6 last year. I want to ask if you got your EAD already? I'm still waitimg for mine until now. I already requested a service inquiry twice online and called, still nothing.

 

Thanks

[SkruDe 311]

4 hours ago, Smooch-Esther said:

Hi. 

I also filed Nov. 6 last year. I want to ask if you got your EAD already? I'm still waitimg for mine until now. I already requested a service inquiry twice online and called, still nothing.

 

Thanks

Hello.  My wife has already received her Green Card.  The AOS process timeline is highly dependant on local office.  Our city, Cleveland, has a very fast Green Card turn-a-round rate.  Your office in Baltimore though, unfortunately is much slower.  You can check out this link for approximate times per office:  http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/aosstats.php

 

 

[Dachis 45]

I just left SSA, they told me with new system for EAD, once it got approved USCIS automatically applied for SSN and i should get it in 2 weeks top. Anyone experienced this?

[SkruDe 311]

6 minutes ago, Dachis said:

I just left SSA, they told me with new system for EAD, once it got approved USCIS automatically applied for SSN and i should get it in 2 weeks top. Anyone experienced this?

Depends which version of the EAD form you filed.  The new version has a SS number request built into it, the older one doesn't.  They recently switched to the new one.  So if you filed the old form and didn't request a SSN, then you'll need to do it through the SS Office.  Look at your records and look at which version you filed.  You will know, it specifically asks if you would like a SSN generated with your application.  Your application may still be under the old system if this is all confusing you.