December 2019 - AOS Filers

[Alex_Cherie 12]

Hello Guys:

 

Just a quick status update.

1. We filed on December 17, 2019

2. Wife's interview was scheduled on April 2, 2020 but got cancelled due to Covid 19

3. Got a notice for an updated interview schedule on July 24, 2020

4. Interview date (today) August 26, 2020

 

Questions are, in general, fairly easy. As someone from previous thread mentioned, the officer mostly followed through our I-485 and asked us questions. No hard or very private questions at all.

We brought a lot of supporting documents (e.g., bank statements, car loan applications, health insurances, etc.). She did not even look at them during interview. Toward the end, she just asked us to give her anything we prepared to give to her (so we just gave her all the documents (copied) we prepared). On the spot, she told us she will approve the application. When we went home, we saw the status changed to "New Card is being produced". 

 

She also stated that the card production may be slow due to furlough but ask us not to worry that she will try to expedite this so that we do not have to wait for too long.

 

Best of luck to people who are still in the process.

 

[AGF 146]

2 hours ago, Alex_Cherie said:

Hello Guys:

 

Just a quick status update.

1. We filed on December 17, 2019

2. Wife's interview was scheduled on April 2, 2020 but got cancelled due to Covid 19

3. Got a notice for an updated interview schedule on July 24, 2020

4. Interview date (today) August 26, 2020

 

Questions are, in general, fairly easy. As someone from previous thread mentioned, the officer mostly followed through our I-485 and asked us questions. No hard or very private questions at all.

We brought a lot of supporting documents (e.g., bank statements, car loan applications, health insurances, etc.). She did not even look at them during interview. Toward the end, she just asked us to give her anything we prepared to give to her (so we just gave her all the documents (copied) we prepared). On the spot, she told us she will approve the application. When we went home, we saw the status changed to "New Card is being produced". 

 

She also stated that the card production may be slow due to furlough but ask us not to worry that she will try to expedite this so that we do not have to wait for too long.

 

Best of luck to people who are still in the process.

 

Congratulations!!! 

[JoeMc 153]

Yesterday our status changed to interview was scheduled. I will update our timeline when we get the letter/date of the interview.

[Ozark 56]

Congrats to everyone that is getting their interview scheduled.

 

 

Ours is still stuck in Ready to schedule for now 155 days ugh. 

[toosweetaggie 31]

3 minutes ago, Ozark said:

Congrats to everyone that is getting their interview scheduled.

 

 

Ours is still stuck in Ready to schedule for now 155 days ugh. 

That’s more progress than us. 205 days of still case update to show fingerprints were taken. 🤦🏾‍♀️

 

Congrats to the progress makers! 🎉🎊

Edited August 27, 2020 by toosweetaggie

[Sweetdreaming 397]

it does feel like theyre starting to clear the backlog though....

[JoeMc 153]

I think/guess that they might have been holding off on scheduling too many interviews because of the pending/threatened furloughs at the  end of this week. 

 

I am not surprised that they scheduled our interview soon after the furloughs were cancelled.

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

30 minutes ago, JoeMc said:

I think/guess that they might have been holding off on scheduling too many interviews because of the pending/threatened furloughs at the  end of this week. 

 

I am not surprised that they scheduled our interview soon after the furloughs were cancelled.

That might actually be a pretty good explanation. The furloughs are hanging over their heads for months now. On and off and on again. So they might have never scheduled the full capacity they would be able to do even with Covid because they always expected to not have many people working.

[JoeMc 153]

2 minutes ago, Letspaintcookies said:

That might actually be a pretty good explanation. The furloughs are hanging over their heads for months now. On and off and on again. So they might have never scheduled the full capacity they would be able to do even with Covid because they always expected to not have many people working.

 

According to a few articles I read online they were required to notify the 70% of employees that would be affected by the furlough 30 days in advance. I can only speak for myself. But, if I anticipated being furloughed in a few weeks I would probably have other things/concerns on my mind that would prevent me from operating/functioning at peak efficiency at work. 

 

Aside from possible slowdowns (not necessarily intentional...just from the situation/pressure/other) why would they schedule many interviews (especially for dates in September) not knowing if they would be there to conduct the interviews? 

 

I kind of figured that (if the threat of furloughs was removed) things would proceed rapidly once the USCIS employees had some reassurances/certainty that they would be working in September and that they would have adequate staff to conduct interviews.

 

I do expect some slowdowns, though. I read that they have instituted some severe/extreme cost cutting that negatively affected contracted workers/services. (I included a link below to one of my sources.)  That will probably cause HUGE wait times and delays if you try to call the contact center for information about your case... (And other delays based upon steps/things that utilize contracted services/workers.)

 

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/08/immigration-services-agency-cancels-furloughs-13000-employees/167963/

[JoeMc 153]

Today we received the notice for our AOS interview at Charleston, SC in the mail. It is scheduled for next Thursday (Sept 10th).

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

2 hours ago, JoeMc said:

Today we received the notice for our AOS interview at Charleston, SC in the mail. It is scheduled for next Thursday (Sept 10th).

They're pretty short notice on appointments nowadays. 

[JoeMc 153]

5 minutes ago, Letspaintcookies said:

They're pretty short notice on appointments nowadays. 

Yes, I agree. The interview is 10 days after the notice arrived in the mail.

[Meg101 316]

6 hours ago, JoeMc said:

Yes, I agree. The interview is 10 days after the notice arrived in the mail.

Thats the same date as ours. 🙂 I’ll be wishing you guys luck on that day. 😃🤞🏽

[JoeMc 153]

Date of physical/medical exam (for K-1 visa) was August 14,  2019. Date of AOS interview is now Sept 10th... Is the medical exam still valid?

Edited September 1, 2020 by JoeMc

[Sweetdreaming 397]

its valid for 2 years from the date the civil surgeon signed it

Edited September 1, 2020 by Sweetdreaming