USCIS Agent advised my waiting time is now 2 years

[ClickityClackity 134]

3 hours ago, FamousJerry said:

We just had our AOS interview last Thursday (Nov 12) it took us about 13 month from filing to interview. We are married more than 2 years by the time we got the interview and my wife was approved for green card and she is being sent a 10 year card. We first filed AOS Sept  2019 , in our interview i asked him if they were closed due to covid. He said they were closed for over 4  months and applications and forms kept coming in and sat idle for that long. He also said there is a long long long back log of cases. And we were lucky to already be in the waiting for interview section. He said others would have extremely long waits for any progress on the cases. We were waiting for an interview from our action notice of April of this year. He also said because of how much things are backed up and what a mess it is there is not real order of things till they get caught up and they cant hire any more people because of a government freeze in the USCIS.

 

I know none of this is very helpful in getting your case moving but hope I was able to share what i was told in our interview and what to maybe expect. And as i have said through this whole process we feel extremely lucky they way our case from K1 - AOS has gone. We know we are the rare case and not the norm.

It at least sheds some light on an otherwise very opaque process.

Thank you so much for sharing!

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

5 hours ago, ThomasNC1988 said:

Back in the good old days, before COVID, adjustments from K-1 were usually at the low end if not quicker than the estimated time from USCIS. I think I have heard it explained that those times are basically the time it takes for 10 percent of cases to be processed and 90 percent. So 10 percent of cases would be processed quicker and 10 would be processed slower. K1 AOS was often in the first 10 percent in the before times. I can't even venture a guess to how things are now though.

Yeah; pre-covid a good estimate for processing time for AOS from a K-1 was to take the lower end of the 'family-based I-485' number for your field office and knock off a month or so; certainly Anastasia's was like that.

[ClickityClackity 134]

I talked to a tier 2 agent today and he informed me that the San Fernando Valley office is processing family based cases filed in November 2017.

 

It doesn’t make any sense to me. I’ve seen timelines of users who filed a month or two before me (I filed December 27th 2019) and their interviews happened after they reopened.

So what is it? I just don’t get it.

[Micoinsg 1]

hey my field office is also San Fernando Valley office.

 

I filed in Nov 2019 and got an interview date on Apr 2020 (ready to be scheduled on late Jan and scheduled on early March), however have been cancelled on late March due to COVID, from 31 Mar till yesterday my case status is just showing “interview cancelled and notice ordered”

called USCIS also and they mentioned my case is in the queue for interview and it is still within normal processing time  

Anyway my case status updated to “case is ready to be scheduled for an interview” again yesterday, hopefully can have an interview soon.

 

 

 

[Hemutian 68]

Same boat as you.

San Francisco office. 14 months in and I'd be shocked if we get the interview before 2 years is up.

At this point, it seems like it's actually in our best interests for the interview to be delayed until after 2 years, because then my wife should automatically get a 10 year GC rather than just a 2 year GC.

Good luck!