Need Some Good Advice

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On 10/22/2019 at 5:06 PM, Villanelle said:

Your situation is different from the OP. Also you are doing ROC not K1 AOS and ROC is still possible to have interview waived.  But I think it was within the last year or so they decided to interview all K1 AOS... Anyway, you got a notice that your case is going to be interviewed (unless someone at the local office decides to waive it, which can happen but is unlikely. Sometimes they do end up waiving it if they have a heavy caseload) So you need to look at your local office wait times for interviews. Unfortunately the USCIS webpage for processing times does not display est times for the 751 at local offices (it only shows the service centers times) but you can look at the 485 processing times for an idea on how long your local office takes to schedule appts. It can be up to 1.5 years wait in some parts of NYC! Your best bet would when you go to an infopass for the stamp to ask how long apx for you to be given an interview. They probably will tell you that you just have to wait for a slot to open but often after inquiring one opens up magically or Ive even heard of them on occasion being able to get you entered into a slot manually. You can also use the various tracking stuff on VJ to find people in your local office and see how long they waited for 751 interviews. 

Thank you so much for the clarification and the additional information. This is super helpful for me planning my next steps. Thank you!

[camerica 59]

On 10/21/2019 at 8:46 PM, birch2013 said:

Contact my congressman

That is what we did. And we had to call twice to the congressman for our area but finally got a reply within days from USCIS. As well, call their Washington office NOT the local office.

Edited October 27, 2019 by camerica