What's The General Success Rate of Expedited Requests?

[CanadianTank 9]

I'm in the processing of filing an expedited request, due to financial hardship.  Part of it has to do with the current global pandemic, but me also needing to go back to my home country and needing to access some finances (which would put me in a better position).

 

I was wondering if there was a general consensus of what the success rate is for the expedited requests.  

[NancyNguyen 1,657]

Expedition for what? EAD/AP or greencard?

[CanadianTank 9]

26 minutes ago, NancyNguyen said:

Expedition for what? EAD/AP or greencard?

I'd prefer my green card (I-130/I-485) AoS, but will also happily accept a GC expedite 

[payxibka 10,047]

7 minutes ago, CanadianTank said:

I'd prefer my green card (I-130/I-485) AoS, but will also happily accept a GC expedite 

You'd prefer a green card expedite but would accept a green card expedite?

 

Have you had biometrics?

Edited July 7, 2020 by payxibka

[NancyNguyen 1,657]

5 minutes ago, CanadianTank said:

I'd prefer my green card (I-130/I-485) AoS, but will also happily accept a GC expedite 

GC is for living and working in the US. If you are looking to leave temporarily, you need AP. You can request an emergency AP but I don't think financial hardship will sustain the reason.

[CanadianTank 9]

3 minutes ago, payxibka said:

You'd prefer a green card expedite but would accept a green card expedite?

 

Have you had biometrics?

Ugh. I made a type-o and cannot edit it. 

 

I meant EAD/AP

 

3 minutes ago, NancyNguyen said:

GC is for living and working in the US. If you are looking to leave temporarily, you need AP. You can request an emergency AP but I don't think financial hardship will sustain the reason.

Correct! I made an type-o with my above post.

 

[payxibka 10,047]

1 minute ago, CanadianTank said:

Ugh. I made a type-o and cannot edit it. 

 

I meant EAD/AP

 

Correct! I made an type-o with my above post.

 

Biometrics?

[igoyougoduke 1,663]

56 minutes ago, CanadianTank said:

I'm in the processing of filing an expedited request, due to financial hardship.  Part of it has to do with the current global pandemic, but me also needing to go back to my home country and needing to access some finances (which would put me in a better position).

 

I was wondering if there was a general consensus of what the success rate is for the expedited requests.  

There is no consensus of expedited approval. Everyone's case is different and its up to you to convince the adjudicator that your case needs to be expedited.

[Lucky2Lucky 2,526]

So you are in the USA and you are trying to expedite your AP/EAD is that correct? 

I'm not sure we've seen any approvals here; have you already done biometrics? Because application support centers are currently closed (but slotted to open). Also, I can see how financial hardship may hurt you for the future since you have someone that signed a contract with the US government that they could support you; but now you are saying you are in financial hardship.

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

41 minutes ago, Luckycuds said:

So you are in the USA and you are trying to expedite your AP/EAD is that correct? 

I'm not sure we've seen any approvals here; have you already done biometrics? 

Lots of expedite approvals during the last months. There is a whole topic about it though nobody posted something lately

 

[CanadianTank 9]

2 hours ago, Luckycuds said:

So you are in the USA and you are trying to expedite your AP/EAD is that correct? 

I'm not sure we've seen any approvals here; have you already done biometrics? Because application support centers are currently closed (but slotted to open). Also, I can see how financial hardship may hurt you for the future since you have someone that signed a contract with the US government that they could support you; but now you are saying you are in financial hardship.

Correct. 

I haven't done my biometrics yet, no. I've read application support centers are generally opening between the July 13 - 27th.  

 

Yes, I can see how that can be a hindrance, but our household has a lot of income due to current pandemic, and I'm wanting to contribute 

[CanadianTank 9]

1 hour ago, Letspaintcookies said:

Lots of expedite approvals during the last months. There is a whole topic about it though nobody posted something lately

 

Thanks for the link!

[irishoxford 39]

There's no general "success rate" that faces publicly at least.  It's a crapshoot, but a crapshoot that is helped by having some strong reasoning behind your request.  The general aim is to make it clear, with evidence, that it's going to cause long-term problems that will begin fairly immediately.  I.e. that you could not withstand the multi-month wait from your date of filing.      

 

Bear in mind that even if you do get an expedite request approved and your subsequent combo card approved, without biometrics they aren't going to actually send you the card (for AOS I-485 filers).  It's more likely that they will reject your expedite request out-of-hand right now because you haven't done biometrics (that's been the general case for March-June filers so far).  You haven't made it clear if you have older biometrics at an ASC that they could use.    

How do I know this?  I had my expedite (and case) approved on June 10th.  Card was never sent into production.  It's awaiting biometrics.  It's been exceedingly rare for expedite requests to be granted since the ASCs closed; I know of only one or two more than mine.  

Although very kind of USCIS to expedite the case, I still don't have the card, and may not by the time my employment resumes (I'm a professor).  Who knows if the non-FP expedite will cause additional problems when it comes to scheduling a biometrics appointment, or confusion applying them to the case, or confusion at the card production level?  Don't know yet.  May end up backfiring.   

In short: this all depends on how much of a rush you're in.  Given that you'll be awaiting a biometrics appointment anyway, it might be best to follow one path at a time (and begin with your lawyer).  Would strongly suggest you have a supporting letter written to send in alongside your lawyer's request.  

Also bear in mind the limits for money being brought into the country, and make sure you're under it if that's what you're planning to use as the reasoning behind the AP portion of your combo card expedite request.  

Edited July 8, 2020 by irishoxford

[payxibka 10,047]

2 minutes ago, irishoxford said:

 

Also bear in mind the limits for money being brought into the country, and make sure you're under it if that's what you're planning to use as the reasoning behind the AP portion of your combo card expedite request.  

There are no limits for money brought into the country.   There is a  requirement to "declare " if you are walking in with more than $10k in cash, but no limit.

[irishoxford 39]

2 minutes ago, payxibka said:

There are no limits for money brought into the country.   There is a  requirement to "declare " if you are walking in with more than $10k in cash, but no limit.

I guess I was getting at the notion that if you're trying to expedite for financial reasons, saying you're about to bring over $10k into the country might create a dissonance.