February 2020 AOS Filers

[Basil123 139]

Thank all of you for your help and advice!

 

I know the odds are low, but wish me luck. I spent the last 1.5 hours putting together my package. It's about 30 pages and has 6 supporting document categories. In the cover letter I ended up appealing to almost all expedite categories: severe financial loss to a person, humanitarian reasons (expiring health insurance), and UCSIS error (you know, just this entire mess) with an emphasis on me filing well before I was about to lose my previous work authorization. 

 

Running to Office Depot now to fax it to them.

 

Also @James120383 - thanks for the advice. That's exactly what I plan on doing. And in case i get denied, I will try again as soon as I have an offer letter. 

Edited August 25, 2020 by Basil123

[amyS 52]

Hey guys, want to share a really good positive updates: I got my EAD card yesterday !! 

I did my biometric last week. And my I765 & I131 were approved in July. One interesting fact is I didn't get biometric notice for AP but the card I received is a combo card.  Hopefully this means that I don't need to go in for another biometric Good luck everyone !!

Edited August 25, 2020 by amyS

[Sandyl 128]

I just got off the phone with a Tier 2 officer. He sounded really happy, must have something to do with the cancelled furlough. They sent me my interview notice per email since USPS claimed my address was wrong and sent it back to the USCIS lol. Now I can use that letter to complete my whole package for the 17th.

[igoyougoduke 1,656]

Companies that are hiring right now. Complete list 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/heres-whos-hiring-right-now-andrew-seaman/

[Shams2322 9]

20 minutes ago, amyS said:

Hey guys, want to share a really good positive updates: I got my EAD card yesterday !! 

I did my biometric last week. And my I765 & I131 were approved in July. One interesting fact is I didn't get biometric notice for AP but the card I received is a combo card.  Hopefully this means that I don't need to go in for another biometric Good luck everyone !!

Did you received an email saying EAD/AP card was mailed?

Edited August 25, 2020 by Shams2322

[Sandyl 128]

15 minutes ago, James120383 said:

Companies that are hiring right now. Complete list 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/heres-whos-hiring-right-now-andrew-seaman/

I honestly see a lot of job openings where I live. A lot of which im interested in which is administrative things or financial positions. I also saw a lot of shops are hiring as well indeed. 

[AFCF 273]

28 minutes ago, Sandyl said:

I just got off the phone with a Tier 2 officer. He sounded really happy, must have something to do with the cancelled furlough. They sent me my interview notice per email since USPS claimed my address was wrong and sent it back to the USCIS lol. Now I can use that letter to complete my whole package for the 17th.

Yay! Finally. Congratulations and best of luck!

[amyS 52]

21 minutes ago, Shams2322 said:

Did you received an email saying EAD/AP card was mailed?

I received email updates about case status when it changes to card is mailed to me  

[AFCF 273]

2 hours ago, klgck said:

EAD updated to new card being produced!!! No movement on AP yet, though. 

Yay! Congratulations! Hopefully you'll get a combo card.

[B3M 55]

2 hours ago, klgck said:

EAD updated to new card being produced!!! No movement on AP yet, though. 

that's great news, congrats!
Could you please tell me about your timeline, like when you filed and when did you do biometrics?

 

thanks, have a great day!

[klgck 153]

14 minutes ago, chxakx said:

Yay! Congratulations! Hopefully you'll get a combo card.

Thank you! Any movement on your end yet?! 

 

7 minutes ago, B3M said:

that's great news, congrats!
Could you please tell me about your timeline, like when you filed and when did you do biometrics?

 

thanks, have a great day!

Thanks!!! So excited. 

 

For sure! Timelines are my favourite thing/the most useful thing about VJ so I try to keep a detailed description on my profile timeline (in case you wanna check that out), but I will copy and paste it here. I checked my EAD case status last night (8/24) but it hadn't changed quite yet - I noticed it changed earlier today.

 

Sent in AOS/EAD/AP package - February 21, 2020 AOS/EAD/AP NOA1 Texts - March 20, 2020 @ 12:25a AOS/EAD/AP NOA1 Mail - March 23, 2020 Received Biometrics Appointment Letter for i485 & i765 - August 3, 2020 with a date of July 28, 2020 Biometrics Appointment - August 14, 2020 AOS/EAD "Fingerprints taken" - August 14, 2020 (evening) AOS "Case is Ready For Interview" - August 18, 2020 EAD "New Card Being Produced" - August 24, 2020

[B3M 55]

30 minutes ago, klgck said:

Thank you! Any movement on your end yet?! 

 

Thanks!!! So excited. 

 

For sure! Timelines are my favourite thing/the most useful thing about VJ so I try to keep a detailed description on my profile timeline (in case you wanna check that out), but I will copy and paste it here. I checked my EAD case status last night (8/24) but it hadn't changed quite yet - I noticed it changed earlier today.

 

Sent in AOS/EAD/AP package - February 21, 2020 AOS/EAD/AP NOA1 Texts - March 20, 2020 @ 12:25a AOS/EAD/AP NOA1 Mail - March 23, 2020 Received Biometrics Appointment Letter for i485 & i765 - August 3, 2020 with a date of July 28, 2020 Biometrics Appointment - August 14, 2020 AOS/EAD "Fingerprints taken" - August 14, 2020 (evening) AOS "Case is Ready For Interview" - August 18, 2020 EAD "New Card Being Produced" - August 24, 2020

we have a pretty similar timeline, but I had an RFE in between, still waiting for EAD aproved. Thanks once again!

[B3M 55]

I just called USCIS and the person who answered me was shocked, she was a Tier 1, and when I asked her about the new processing times for i-765 (EAD),  she had no idea about this, and honestly, based on other people's testimonies, that are seeing progressions on their cases, I think we can assume this are not real time estimates, as we discussed previously.

Overall she was very positive and told me I should be almost receiving a combo card, based on what she was seeing. I do believe she didn't have access to much more information that I have through Online trackers tho.. Not sure if I should have asked for a tier 2, but I imagined it wouldn't add up much.

 

Stay strong in there

Have a great day!

[klgck 153]

13 minutes ago, B3M said:

we have a pretty similar timeline, but I had an RFE in between, still waiting for EAD aproved. Thanks once again!

No problem. Hopefully you will receive your card soon. I didn't get the "approved" update, so hopefully you just pass that and go straight to card being produced/mailed to you!

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

5 minutes ago, B3M said:

I just called USCIS and the person who answered me was shocked, she was a Tier 1, and when I asked her about the new processing times for i-765 (EAD),  she had no idea about this, and honestly, based on other people's testimonies, that are seeing progressions on their cases, I think we can assume this are not real time estimates, as we discussed previously.

Overall she was very positive and told me I should be almost receiving a combo card, based on what she was seeing. I do believe she didn't have access to much more information that I have through Online trackers tho.. Not sure if I should have asked for a tier 2, but I imagined it wouldn't add up much.

 

Stay strong in there

Have a great day!

You're right. Tier 1 can't see more than what you can see