Scheduling the AOS?

[dean1492 1]

My wife is waiting for her AOS interview. It says on the Case Status
"As of June 26, 2019, we are ready to schedule your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, Receipt Number xxxx for an interview. We will schedule your interview and send you a notice. Please follow any instructions in the notice."

How long is the normal wait time for the interview? Shall I call today get the general answers?
TIA Richard

[barashka 97]

9 minutes ago, dean1492 said:

My wife is waiting for her AOS interview. It says on the Case Status
"As of June 26, 2019, we are ready to schedule your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, Receipt Number xxxx for an interview. We will schedule your interview and send you a notice. Please follow any instructions in the notice."

How long is the normal wait time for the interview? Shall I call today get the general answers?
TIA Richard

It all depends, there is no real answer for how long the wait time will be. Some people wait weeks, some wait months and some even years. In my wife's case, it took about 3 months after it said "ready to schedule interview" for her to get adjustment of status interview date.

Edited July 30, 2019 by barashka

[K1visaHopeful 2,814]

That will depend entirely on the processing times of your local field office.

What's your local field office?

Input your zip code here and tell us:

 

https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-uscis-office/field-offices

[Pitaya 2,577]

5 minutes ago, dean1492 said:

 

How long is the normal wait time for the interview? Shall I call today get the general answers?
TIA Richard

Depends on the local USCIS office and their workload. You can call them and likely get the same information. There is no normal wait time, take a look at some other similarly-themed postings in the AOS forums; the prolonged processing times and glut of applications have resulted in the wait time being the wait time..... 

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

5 minutes ago, K1visaHopeful said:

That will depend entirely on the processing times of your local field office.

What's your local field office?

Input your zip code here and tell us:

 

https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/find-uscis-office/field-offices

... though if the OP's profile is correct, it's probably Santa Ana, CA. Which has an official processing time range for family-based AOS of 13 to 24.5 months. AOS from K1 often takes less than the minimum "official" processing time, but not by a lot.

[dean1492 1]

Do you think that they will give her the EAD before she gets the I 485 interview?

[Pitaya 2,577]

4 minutes ago, dean1492 said:

Do you think that they will give her the EAD before she gets the I 485 interview?

They could, nobody really knows for sure. USCIS is so inundated with work, I don't think that they know whether they are coming or going. If I knew that answer for you, the next thing I would be doing is to pick the next set of winning lottery numbers.  Thanks for completing your timeline.  It looks like you applied for EAD/AP at the beginning of Jan 2019, I would hope that you would have heard something by now. Yet, earlier this month, USCIS extended the processing time of recently submitted EAD/AP applications to between 6-10 months. So, who knows..?  

 

The point may become moot if the AOS interview goes well and the GC is approved. Then there would be no need for a EAD/AP combo card. The key maybe in finding out the processing workload and associated appointment schedule at your local USCIS field office.

 

Good luck on your immigration journey.

[K1visaHopeful 2,814]

57 minutes ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

... though if the OP's profile is correct, it's probably Santa Ana, CA. Which has an official processing time range for family-based AOS of 13 to 24.5 months. AOS from K1 often takes less than the minimum "official" processing time, but not by a lot.

I don't go by profiles anymore for local field offices as most will put their city of residence not realizing it goes by zip.

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

Just now, K1visaHopeful said:

I don't go by profiles anymore for local field offices as most will put their city of residence not realizing it goes by zip.

Usually I wouldn't either, but Garden Grove doesn't have a lot of zip codes, and is way closer to Santa Ana than to the LA offices (let alone San Diego, San Fernando Valley, or San Bernardino).