Green Card

[visaq123 2]

I have heard people are being mailed their green cards without an interview due to the backup and closure with COVID19. Does anyone know if this is true? Is it only for people who were interview ready? My husband is waiting for his  fingerprint appointment but has been fingerprinted within the past year and has fingerprints on record as this is his fourth visa and entry into the united states. thanks in advance. 

[payxibka 10,045]

11 minutes ago, visaq123 said:

I have heard people are being mailed their green cards without an interview due to the backup and closure with COVID19. Does anyone know if this is true? Is it only for people who were interview ready? My husband is waiting for his  fingerprint appointment but has been fingerprinted within the past year and has fingerprints on record as this is his fourth visa and entry into the united states. thanks in advance. 

Did the uscis capture his fingerprints?

[visaq123 2]

54 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Did the uscis capture his fingerprints?

how do i know? he has done fingerprints for each of his visas. his last time being Dec 2019 for k1 visa. I just didn’t know if he could be exempt for the appointment due to having them in the system and be granted a green card with all the closures. Is it even true this is happening ?

[payxibka 10,045]

13 minutes ago, visaq123 said:

how do i know? he has done fingerprints for each of his visas. his last time being Dec 2019 for k1 visa. I just didn’t know if he could be exempt for the appointment due to having them in the system and be granted a green card with all the closures. Is it even true this is happening ?

Visa fingerprints are done by the Department of State not the USCIS (not the same system).  

[visaq123 2]

7 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Visa fingerprints are done by the Department of State not the USCIS (not the same system).  

Okay thank you! So I most likely will be waiting for the offices to open to get his appointment and then we will get scheduled for a green card interview?

[Fe.Ta 874]

2 hours ago, payxibka said:

Did the uscis capture his fingerprints?

Question:  We had our AOS fingerprints done in October 2019.  Our case was ready to be scheduled for interview since February 2020.  Could we be one of the cases to be considered for approval without an interview?

[Sarge2155 4,590]

52 minutes ago, Fe.Ta said:

Question:  We had our AOS fingerprints done in October 2019.  Our case was ready to be scheduled for interview since February 2020.  Could we be one of the cases to be considered for approval without an interview?

It appears at least the ones that have been approved so far have already had their interviews cancelled at least once, then their status changed back to ready to schedule a interview. All the cases that have been waived including mine, interviews had been cancelled then the status returned BACK to ready to schedule an interview for the second time. At this point I don't think anyone really knows the criteria or what they are looking for in order for your case to be a candidate for a wavier. As I said the way it looks in all other cases that were approved without an interview, the interview had been cancelled at least once!

3 hours ago, visaq123 said:

I have heard people are being mailed their green cards without an interview due to the backup and closure with COVID19. Does anyone know if this is true? Is it only for people who were interview ready? My husband is waiting for his  fingerprint appointment but has been fingerprinted within the past year and has fingerprints on record as this is his fourth visa and entry into the united states. thanks in advance. 

Yes it is true several people have been approved without an interview.

[Fe.Ta 874]

4 minutes ago, Sarge2155 said:

It appears at least the ones that have been approved so far have already had their interviews cancelled at least once, then their status changed back to ready to schedule a interview. All the cases that have been waived including mine, interviews had been cancelled then the status returned BACK to ready to schedule an interview for the second time. At this point I don't think anyone really knows the criteria or what they are looking for in order for your case to be a candidate for a wavier. As I said the way it looks in all other cases that were approved without an interview, the interview had been cancelled at least once!

Yes it is true several people have been approved without an interview.

Thanks Sarge!  We know of cases that just got approved without having that status (interview scheduled and cancelled).  We know it is a long shot, but we wanted to ask in case there was more information out there.

[Sarge2155 4,590]

10 minutes ago, Fe.Ta said:

Thanks Sarge!  We know of cases that just got approved without having that status (interview scheduled and cancelled).  We know it is a long shot, but we wanted to ask in case there was more information out there.

Were these cases posted on VJ or elsewhere?

Edited April 16, 2020 by Sarge2155

[Fe.Ta 874]

3 minutes ago, Sarge2155 said:

Were these cases posted on VJ or elsewhere?

I believe there was one I saw here on VJ (can't recall or may had misread).  The others were personal interactions.

[Sarge2155 4,590]

Just now, Fe.Ta said:

I believe there was one I saw here on VJ (can't recall or may had misread).  The others were personal interactions.

Ahh I must have missed that one,  but that's  a good thing though as it opens the door to many more people.

 

[Sarge2155 4,590]

@Fe.Ta

You are a prime candidate then. The longer this closure drags on I suspect the more people will be approved without the interview. I'm  pulling for you!

[Fe.Ta 874]

10 minutes ago, Sarge2155 said:

@Fe.Ta

You are a prime candidate then. The longer this closure drags on I suspect the more people will be approved without the interview. I'm  pulling for you!

Thanks!   We will see.  As I said, it is a long shot, I am only asking to be informed, but I am not holding my breath.  Whatever happens, happens.  I just want to be able to move on with the process.

[NikLR 13,228]

1 hour ago, Fe.Ta said:

I believe there was one I saw here on VJ (can't recall or may had misread).  The others were personal interactions.

The one on VJ was a K1.  K1 traditionally used to not have interviews often because they had recently been interviewed for the K1 visa.  If your AOS is from another visa type than K1, i highly doubt there will be a waived interview. 

[Fe.Ta 874]

2 minutes ago, NikLR said:

The one on VJ was a K1.  K1 traditionally used to not have interviews often because they had recently been interviewed for the K1 visa.  If your AOS is from another visa type than K1, i highly doubt there will be a waived interview. 

Yes, we are K1.  Yes, I know before they didn't use to require interviews for all cases like they do now, so I am hopeful that they will go back to that trend (at least for K1) on some cases (and we fall in those) to speed up the backlog.  Thank you for your response.

 

Also, I am aware, even though I don't know whether true or not, that if we don't have one for AOS, then we might be required to do one for ROC (not be waived).  Either way, I am fine.  My eagerness to not have an interview now is more because of the fact that I don't want the wait to be longer because of how COVID19 affected everything.  We are good with attending interviews as needed.