February 2020 AOS Filers

[NKDL 150]

Aaaand just like that I was approved at the interview...such a nice lady who did it...didnt need to give any of the documents requested on the notice...all i gave her was a letter from my husbands new employer and his new Paystubs...other than that it was chit chat asking the questions we already answered on the aos form...im am soo soo happy. Best of luck to all of you. 

[probingoduke 20]

1 minute ago, NKDL said:

Aaaand just like that I was approved at the interview...such a nice lady who did it...didnt need to give any of the documents requested on the notice...all i gave her was a letter from my husbands new employer and his new Paystubs...other than that it was chit chat asking the questions we already answered on the aos form...im am soo soo happy. Best of luck to all of you. 

Congratulations! Amazing news and thanks for sharing. Happy for you and your other half.

[probingoduke 20]

Anyone has tips on how best to prove financial capability if spouse is self employed (owner of small business)? I see that folks who have had interviews generally bring pay stubs which isn't applicable to our case. What can we bring/show to prove?

[LilyKins 121]

1 hour ago, James120383 said:

have you tried  checking status over the phone ?

 

I did end up using the Emma chat to check status -- our case is ready to be scheduled for an interview

[mvasantos 67]

Anyone that had their biometrics taken but no updates? It's been a week on mine. Is that normal??

[Manuel94 72]

8 minutes ago, mvasantos said:

Anyone that had their biometrics taken but no updates? It's been a week on mine. Is that normal??

Nada for me either, had them taken one week ago as well. But I got this update about the outside of normal processing times service request.

 

“The status of this service request is:

Due to workload factors not related to your case, USCIS anticipates a delay in completing your case. USCIS is committed to adjudicating immigration benefits in the order received and in a timely and efficient manner.

Address Changes:  If you move, please provide us with an updated address. For more information about address changes, please visit our Web site at www.uscis.gov/ar-11, and click on "Change Your Address Online."

For questions about your application, you can use our many online tools (uscis.gov/tools) including our virtual assistant, Emma. If you are not able to find the information you need online, you can reach out to the USCIS Contact Center by visitinguscis.gov/contactcenter.“

 

Edited October 27, 2020 by Manuel94

[AFCF 273]

2 hours ago, NKDL said:

Aaaand just like that I was approved at the interview...such a nice lady who did it...didnt need to give any of the documents requested on the notice...all i gave her was a letter from my husbands new employer and his new Paystubs...other than that it was chit chat asking the questions we already answered on the aos form...im am soo soo happy. Best of luck to all of you. 

Congratulations! 🥳

[B3M 55]

4 hours ago, Nativequeen said:

Where are you checking your status? 

I use two things:

This one sends me alerts when something changes:

https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/

 

And this one is a mobile app, which I like a lot, actually I was able to see my tracking number here, didn't even have to call to ask for it. 

 

[NWTN 7]

2 hours ago, mvasantos said:

Anyone that had their biometrics taken but no updates? It's been a week on mine. Is that normal??

Same for me and neither of my service requests has been answered, I even submitted a secondary one through the phone. Instead I got another appointment letter for 131 biometrics for 11/09 😡...

[MelOe 187]

21 hours ago, B3M said:

I called today and first I said, "Representative".

Then I said "USCIS error".

And it connected me to a human 

Thank you for this! I tried it this morning but unfortunately it didn't work for me. Just prompts robo lady to ask where to send a form for grammatical error notification or some such nonsense. I tried USCIS error, USCIS mistake, USCIS fault, all with the same result End result is always that robo lady determines I can't be helped and hangs up on me

[B3M 55]

5 minutes ago, MelOe said:

Thank you for this! I tried it this morning but unfortunately it didn't work for me. Just prompts robo lady to ask where to send a form for grammatical error notification or some such nonsense. I tried USCIS error, USCIS mistake, USCIS fault, all with the same result End result is always that robo lady determines I can't be helped and hangs up on me

Omg this is so annoying! 

For me jt didn't work the first time as well, but give it a little more words to confuse the algorithm. 

 

I would say first "representative". 

Second " Uscis Error on my case" or "Uscis error on case urgent EAD" 

A little gibberish so it doesn't clearly understand you. 

[MelOe 187]

7 minutes ago, B3M said:

Omg this is so annoying! 

For me jt didn't work the first time as well, but give it a little more words to confuse the algorithm. 

 

I would say first "representative". 

Second " Uscis Error on my case" or "Uscis error on case urgent EAD" 

A little gibberish so it doesn't clearly understand you. 

thank you :) I will try again tomorrow and add some gibberish then

[igoyougoduke 1,676]

39 minutes ago, B3M said:

Omg this is so annoying! 

For me jt didn't work the first time as well, but give it a little more words to confuse the algorithm. 

 

I would say first "representative". 

Second " Uscis Error on my case" or "Uscis error on case urgent EAD" 

A little gibberish so it doesn't clearly understand you. 

 

 

31 minutes ago, MelOe said:

thank you I will try again tomorrow and add some gibberish then

has anyone tried speaking in foreign language to EMMA. EMMA is learning and getting smarter to not connect to humans i see 

[Nativequeen 26]

Just heard back from our Senator. Apparently my husband was approved last week for a combo card(no updates) and should be receive notices sometime soon. Btw: my husband has an biometric appt for 131 coming up🙃🙃😒

[LilyKins 121]

1 hour ago, Nativequeen said:

Just heard back from our Senator. Apparently my husband was approved last week for a combo card(no updates) and should be receive notices sometime soon. Btw: my husband has an biometric appt for 131 coming up🙃🙃😒

 

I'm just so disappointed and scared for what all of this says about USCIS and its future -- I thought it was supposed to be better after the funding came through, but apparently not. I also just received a duplicate notice for biometrics with the exact same date and time as the one I've already completed, which is stamped and signed already. It took a total of 3 online reps and a collective two hours just to change my mailing address, because their online form wouldn't work for me. On top of that all of our online statuses have just suddenly stopped updating, which (I imagine) only increases the number of calls being made to the call centres, which were already inaccessible prior to all of the changes they've made to the automated system.

 

It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.. just keeps getting worse.

 

Congratulations on the approval, @Nativequeen, forgot to mention that bit in my ranting 😅

Edited October 28, 2020 by LilyKins