November 2018 AOS Filers

[Akk1989 19]

Just now, rrobin0609 said:

I really doubt all petitions before October 21 have been dealt with. Thats probably just their internal "out of processing" date. Give the public a week of wiggle room though.

Yes, you’re right. I was being way too optimistic 🤦🏼‍♀️ 

[Ash&Jaye 159]

1 hour ago, rrobin0609 said:

Matt finally got through to USCIS today asking them about our idiotic RFIE.

 

Apparently the tier 2 person he talked to thought the request was "a little ridiculous and amusing". Good thing I was not on the phone because I would have ripped them a new one for thinking it was amusing. But Matt also knows how to stay calm because he was able to get more information in doing so where as I would have been kicked off the line. Anywho... according to her they are processing EAD/AP for October 21st which is a week ahead of what their website says. She thinks we should have it by the end of the month. Granted, a month and a half ago when complaining about previously mentioned many-times-over-RFIE to the LFO via an info pass, they had predicted a green card interview by mid-May, which is clearly not happening. She also said that based on what Matt told her about his parents health conditions, he should be able to get one-time emergency AP. Not ideal, but definitely a last minute option (although I think it still costs an extra $350).

 

Forever feeling like 🤷‍♀️

Ugh! Fingers crossed for you guys! And yup, this is the best emoji for USCIS 🤷‍♀️ hahaha!

[vaksurik 106]

Just saw that 3 cases closely ahead of ours were approved and new card is being produced as of TODAY!! Wooo! It’s day 184 for us and we are READY!!!! 

[Katelyngene 95]

13 minutes ago, vaksurik said:

Just saw that 3 cases closely ahead of ours were approved and new card is being produced as of TODAY!! Wooo! It’s day 184 for us and we are READY!!!! 

Woo!! We’re at 181 days. Fingers crossed for approvals 🤞🏻 We have a few cases behind and in front of that we’re approved in recent weeks. 

[tombs07 78]

3 hours ago, Katelyngene said:

Woo!! We’re at 181 days. Fingers crossed for approvals 🤞🏻 We have a few cases behind and in front of that we’re approved in recent weeks. 

How do you view cases guys? Please help! Thanks 😊

[kanderson101 131]

1 minute ago, tombs07 said:

How do you view cases guys? Please help! Thanks 😊

Use the casetracker app - there's a search tool that allows you to scan up to 500 cases around a case number you can specify! 

[lms 50]

On 5/7/2019 at 12:47 PM, Bluewaters said:

 

 

Wishing you guys best of luck to hear some good news. This is so frustrating. 

161 here for my EAD/AP renewal. But I have my interview scheduled in about two weeks (thank god). 

Fingers crossed you all get it asap1

Edited May 8, 2019 by lms

[Katelyngene 95]

11 minutes ago, kanderson101 said:

Use the casetracker app - there's a search tool that allows you to scan up to 500 cases around a case number you can specify! 

There were a few posts from people saying that the USCIS case tracker app is no longer available for iPhones (if you already haven’t downloaded it) but supposedly it’s still available for Android. If I’m not mistaken, another VJ member said they asked USCIS about it and they're working with apple on getting it back for iPhones.

[kanderson101 131]

Just now, Katelyngene said:

There were a few posts from people saying that the USCIS case tracker app is no longer available for iPhones (if you already haven’t downloaded it) but supposedly it’s still available for Android. If I’m not mistaken, another VJ member said they asked USCIS about it and they're working with apple on getting it back for iPhones.

Ah yes, that's true. Hopefully they'll have it back soon, that's pretty annoying. 

[Bluewaters 288]

1 hour ago, lms said:

161 here for my EAD/AP renewal. But I have my interview scheduled in about two weeks (thank god). 

Fingers crossed you all get it asap1

Well that is great. So I guess you are not worried about ead. 

Good luck to you in the gc interview. 

[TogoAfrica 161]

4 hours ago, Katelyngene said:

There were a few posts from people saying that the USCIS case tracker app is no longer available for iPhones (if you already haven’t downloaded it) but supposedly it’s still available for Android. If I’m not mistaken, another VJ member said they asked USCIS about it and they're working with apple on getting it back for iPhones.

I contacted them and they said apple removes their app, but you can still use it with android. They are working with apple to get the app back on the market but at this moment if you have the app with apple it’s working fine. Just can’t download it if you want it on your apple product 

[TogoAfrica 161]

8 hours ago, Katelyngene said:

Woo!! We’re at 181 days. Fingers crossed for approvals 🤞🏻 We have a few cases behind and in front of that we’re approved in recent weeks. 

 

8 hours ago, vaksurik said:

Just saw that 3 cases closely ahead of ours were approved and new card is being produced as of TODAY!! Wooo! It’s day 184 for us and we are READY!!!! 

Wonderful news!!! Hope you do get it!! We are 164 days...ugh does this mean we need to 20 more days so we can be up in the 180’s?!?! 😫. Yea my prediction that we wouldn’t be seeing it until end of May beginning of June is looking accurate. 6 months waiting 😒😞😢 just crazy 

Edited May 9, 2019 by TogoAfrica

[lms 50]

3 hours ago, Bluewaters said:

Well that is great. So I guess you are not worried about ead. 

Good luck to you in the gc interview. 

No, not EAD thanks to extension letter - but AD. I lost a pretty big job assignment due to not being able to leave the country this week. That did hurt. 

Excited for the interview though. I hope ya'll get your EAD's this week!!! I can feel it

[Penny&Lee 338]

Day 184 for us. We’re sending the response off today from our RFIE which we received 23 days ago. I wonder how long from here it’ll take for them to take some sort of action on our case. Still pretty dumbfounded and annoyed. I feel like EAD/AP will no doubt surpass our k1 approval days waiting (210) 😂

[Shaman 320]

Good morning, guys! 👋 

 

We had our AOS interview in Baltimore field office this Monday - May 6.

All of us felt great relief that it’s done now and we are one step closer to the green cards. But our case is reviewed still and we know they have 120 days to make their decision.

 

To begin with we got up at 5am to be there at 7am for our appointment but the interview started around 8.20. When the officer finally invited us it appeared that the officer that was supposed to interview us wasn’t at the office and that caused the delay. We went through all the questions on the application form - he questioned me, my husband and my 16 year old daughter, looked through the photos, asked my 5 year old to say who was on them. The atmosphere was pretty friendly, there were a lot of jokes and the officer looked like he enjoyed the interview. He actually was a very nice guy. We asked him about our EAD and AP and SSN and he said they even might arrive after the green cards as they are parallel to AOS, he looked online and said they were not touched 🤯(and it was 185 days from date received). We had to explain to him that we had no joint bank account as my husband’s bank required SSN. They guy was also surprised to hear I couldn’t get a driver’s license and said MVA should have a solution for those who entered the US lawfully. And then he explained the further procedure - 2 weeks for his supervised to go through the case and 120 days altogether to make a decision. For 2 of our 3 cases the status changed to “Interview was completed and case must be reviewed” same day. 

 

Well, now we have 120 days to count - and the process doesn’t seem endless 😃