Fingerprint Fee Received - No NOA. Please Help!

[vdsanctis 9]

Hi everyone, 

 

Im in need of some reassurance, so my husband and I applied for I-485, I-131 and I-765 (I came in with the K1 visa, and my husband is an American citizen). The USCIS website is telling us they received "Fingerprint fee received" on the 8th of April for the AOS and for the travel and employment is just says case received on April 3rd. We are yet to received a physical NOA. 

 

I am more concerned about this because this is the second time we apply, our first application was rejected because we used an older version of the form - and Im afraid that we will get rejected again. We are already beyond the 90 days the K1 visa allows, and I just don't want to be in a dicy legal position. 

 

I guess my questions are: 

• Does the "fingerprint fee received" message in the USCIS website mean that the case was accepted? 
• Is it normal to not receive the NOA at this time (I understand that Covid is probably slowing case processing but i guess in general, have people not received them in the past and been ok?)
• And, just in case, if I do get rejected again what would be my legal status in the country? Since its outside of the 90 days of the visa, would I be illegally here? 

 

Thank you so much for your help in advance, this is truly given me several panic attacks and any information I could get from seasoned AOS applicants could help me have a better idea of whats going on. 

 

Stay safe, and thank you again. 

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

You have a case number for all 3 applications so your stuff obviously didn't got rejected 😊 congratulations and breathe. Wait 30 days from the date you got the case numbers. If you don't have the paper notices in hand by that time you can inquire online about the missing notice. 

[vdsanctis 9]

1 minute ago, Letspaintcookies said:

You have a case number for all 3 applications so your stuff obviously didn't got rejected 😊 congratulations and breathe. Wait 30 days from the date you got the case numbers. If you don't have the paper notices in hand by that time you can inquire online about the missing notice. 

Ok, I wasn't sure because when we received the rejected application it had its own receipt number. So I just assumed the receipt number is something every application got coming into their system. 

 

But it is true that we didn't received the text message from the G-1145 on the rejected application but we did on the new application- but again Ive heard that some people just don't get the E-notification at all and some do 😅

[Quarknase 1,072]

"fingerprint fee received" leads to the assumption that they cashed the application fees which means they accepted. I would anticipate slight delays with physical mail since USCIS offices are working with reduced staff as far as I know

[tengumats 1]

Have you received any other mail from the post office recently? My local post office has been backed up, only delivering mail once a week. People have been going in to pick up their mail by themselves. That could be the reason for the delay in your physical NOA.

[vdsanctis 9]

1 hour ago, tengumats said:

Have you received any other mail from the post office recently? My local post office has been backed up, only delivering mail once a week. People have been going in to pick up their mail by themselves. That could be the reason for the delay in your physical NOA.

Yeah we definitely have received other mail. 

[vdsanctis 9]

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that i received the NOA on the mail TODAY haha. and just a day after having a minifreak out and making my post in the forum 😅. welll just comes to show that all was needed was a little patience on my part. Thank you and thank you again for your responses, they made me feel much better. NOW let the wait for the biometrics letter begin!