2017 I-485 Houston Filers

[Visitor User 253]

Anyone get an interview letter later then 4/22/17 filer?

[Joel&Julia 78]

We received an electronic notice today that USCIS has scheduled our interview and mailed the interview letter.  We waited 548 days.

 

Side note for those obsessively checking case status online: right now, the egov.uscis.gov site shows the updated status "Interview was scheduled", but the myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov site has not yet been updated. I thought the DHS site was supposed to be replacing the egov site, so I was a little surprised that the egov site was updated first.

Edited October 25, 2018 by Joel&Julia

[Visitor User 253]

4 hours ago, Joel&Julia said:

We received an electronic notice today that USCIS has scheduled our interview and mailed the interview letter.  We waited 548 days.

 

Side note for those obsessively checking case status online: right now, the egov.uscis.gov site shows the updated status "Interview was scheduled", but the myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov site has not yet been updated. I thought the DHS site was supposed to be replacing the egov site, so I was a little surprised that the egov site was updated first.

Wow. What is your RD?

 

I check both sites.

[guest 123 47]

6 hours ago, Joel&Julia said:

We received an electronic notice today that USCIS has scheduled our interview and mailed the interview letter.  We waited 548 days.

 

Side note for those obsessively checking case status online: right now, the egov.uscis.gov site shows the updated status "Interview was scheduled", but the myaccount.uscis.dhs.gov site has not yet been updated. I thought the DHS site was supposed to be replacing the egov site, so I was a little surprised that the egov site was updated first.

what is your pd?if i may ask

[Joel&Julia 78]

3 hours ago, Visitor User said:

Wow. What is your RD?

 

I check both sites.

 

1 hour ago, guest 123 said:

what is your pd?if i may ask

 

I don't know what PD and RD mean, but our filing date was April 28, 2017. All of our key dates are in the signature below.

 

[Visitor User 253]

7 hours ago, Joel&Julia said:

 

 

I don't know what PD and RD mean, but our filing date was April 28, 2017. All of our key dates are in the signature below.

 

PD = Priority Date

RD - Receipt Date

 

They are both same in many cases unless I-130 was filed first only then that would be the PD and RD would be on I-485.

 

I have not seen anyone get an interview letter pass 4/28/17 so far though.

[Joel&Julia 78]

15 hours ago, Visitor User said:

PD = Priority Date

RD - Receipt Date

 

They are both same in many cases unless I-130 was filed first only then that would be the PD and RD would be on I-485.

 

I have not seen anyone get an interview letter pass 4/28/17 so far though.

Okay, the priority date on the i-797 is blank (probably because we are doing an adjustment from I-129F, not I-130).  The received date is April 25, 2017.

 

We had another infopass appointment today, mainly to ask about the combo card renewal status. The officer said they are currently processing work and travel permit applications from April, 2018.  Since we applied in March, he agreed to send an inquiry by email and let us know later what he finds out.

 

He also mentioned that interviews are actually scheduled at NBC prior to sending the application packet to the field office. This surprised me because I assumed each office would handle their own scheduling, but he said it’s an anti-corruption measure.

[Visitor User 253]

52 minutes ago, Joel&Julia said:

Okay, the priority date on the i-797 is blank (probably because we are doing an adjustment from I-129F, not I-130).  The received date is April 25, 2017.

 

We had another infopass appointment today, mainly to ask about the combo card renewal status. The officer said they are currently processing work and travel permit applications from April, 2018.  Since we applied in March, he agreed to send an inquiry by email and let us know later what he finds out.

 

He also mentioned that interviews are actually scheduled at NBC prior to sending the application packet to the field office. This surprised me because I assumed each office would handle their own scheduling, but he said it’s an anti-corruption measure.

When the case tracker says ‘Case is ready to be scheduled for an interview’ it means the file my lawyer sent to Chicago lockbox is at the Houston FO? 

Edited October 26, 2018 by Visitor User

[Joel&Julia 78]

11 minutes ago, Visitor User said:

When the case tracker says ‘Case is ready to be scheduled for an interview’ it means the file my lawyer sent to Chicago lockbox is at the Houston FO? 

 

No, it means that the NBC has finished their pre-processing and the file is ready for the Houston office to request it to be transferred from Missouri to Houston.

[guest 123 47]

1 hour ago, Joel&Julia said:

Okay, the priority date on the i-797 is blank (probably because we are doing an adjustment from I-129F, not I-130).  The received date is April 25, 2017.

 

We had another infopass appointment today, mainly to ask about the combo card renewal status. The officer said they are currently processing work and travel permit applications from April, 2018.  Since we applied in March, he agreed to send an inquiry by email and let us know later what he finds out.

 

He also mentioned that interviews are actually scheduled at NBC prior to sending the application packet to the field office. This surprised me because I assumed each office would handle their own scheduling, but he said it’s an anti-corruption measure.

so are you still waiting for the letter for your interview ?

 

[Visitor User 253]

5 hours ago, Joel&Julia said:

 

No, it means that the NBC has finished their pre-processing and the file is ready for the Houston office to request it to be transferred from Missouri to Houston.

I did have one RFIE though in the process.

 

When does MO send the file to Houston?

[Joel&Julia 78]

4 hours ago, guest 123 said:

so are you still waiting for the letter for your interview ?

 

Yes, we have been waiting for 550 days.  We got an electronic notice this week that they scheduled the interview, but at the infopass appointment today, the officer told us that it just means that the NBC is sending the file to Houston now and nothing has actually been scheduled yet.  Hopefully they will mail the letter soon.

[Joel&Julia 78]

36 minutes ago, Visitor User said:

I did have one RFIE though in the process.

 

When does MO send the file to Houston?

According to the officer we met today, USCIS sends the file from Lee’s Summit, MO to Houston sometime (shortly?)  after they change the status to Interview Has Been Scheduled.

[Visitor User 253]

44 minutes ago, Joel&Julia said:

Yes, we have been waiting for 550 days.  We got an electronic notice this week that they scheduled the interview, but at the infopass appointment today, the officer told us that it just means that the NBC is sending the file to Houston now and nothing has actually been scheduled yet.  Hopefully they will mail the letter soon.

Scheduled interview for what date? So it means that they mailed your file to Houston? I’ve seen people who have a PD/RD for 4/28/17 getting letters. 

[Visitor User 253]

44 minutes ago, Joel&Julia said:

According to the officer we met today, USCIS sends the file from Lee’s Summit, MO to Houston sometime (shortly?)  after they change the status to Interview Has Been Scheduled.

Oh ok. That is good progress. You should be getting a letter in few days.