I-751 August Filers - Removing Conditions

[michaelwood87 7]

I see a lot of people getting their biometrics waived, is this because of the COVID backlog?

Also - for those that have, do you get the biometrics fee returned (im assuming not)?.

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On 9/26/2021 at 9:01 PM, MateR said:

For all those who filed and received the bio-metrics waived -
Was in LIN?

Did you send the money for both the application and the bio-metrics?

We sent it in well before you all and did not receive the waived status for bio-metrics. Trying to figure out why.

Yes, I believe we have to send the money for Biometrics no matter what. Not sure how they determine who is waived, and whos not waived though. 

 

13 minutes ago, michaelwood87 said:

I see a lot of people getting their biometrics waived, is this because of the COVID backlog?

Also - for those that have, do you get the biometrics fee returned (im assuming not)?.

Possibly could be why they're waiving them. Not exactly sure as to why or why not though. Also, they keep the Biometrics Fee. On the letter it states no biometric refund.

[MateR 68]

 

 

1 hour ago, WillieT1986 said:

Yes, I believe we have to send the money for Biometrics no matter what. Not sure how they determine who is waived, and whos not waived though. 

 

Possibly could be why they're waiving them. Not exactly sure as to why or why not though. Also, they keep the Biometrics Fee. On the letter it states no biometric refund.

 

1 hour ago, michaelwood87 said:

I see a lot of people getting their biometrics waived, is this because of the COVID backlog?

Also - for those that have, do you get the biometrics fee returned (im assuming not)?.

Or it could also be the individual case officer. Seems like mine went to someone on vacation or who is slow. Everyone getting waivers but us.
If the government shuts down again/furloughs - we are in for a long wait.

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[Aruk 5]

On 9/16/2021 at 11:48 AM, WillieT1986 said:

Same! 

My wife just got a letter from USCIS. Notice was on 9/9/21 and we received it today 9/16. Biometrics Waived. Also LIN.

Just got the same!  NOA letter confirmed Biometric fee will not be refunded.

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1 hour ago, MateR said:

 

 

 

Or it could also be the individual case officer. Seems like mine went to someone on vacation or who is slow. Everyone getting waivers but us.
If the government shuts down again/furloughs - we are in for a long wait.

That's weird. You're LIN and they didn't waive your Biometrics? What was your initial case file? K1? CF something? 

The only thing I can think of would be length of time compared to coming to America to filing for AOS to time it took to get the Conditional Green Card to Now. 

[AmandaandChayne 734]

On 9/26/2021 at 8:01 PM, MateR said:

For all those who filed and received the bio-metrics waived -
Was in LIN?

Did you send the money for both the application and the bio-metrics?

We sent it in well before you all and did not receive the waived status for bio-metrics. Trying to figure out why.

Nope I’m in SRC (Texas) I did send passport photos of me .

[MateR 68]

53 minutes ago, WillieT1986 said:

That's weird. You're LIN and they didn't waive your Biometrics? What was your initial case file? K1? CF something? 

The only thing I can think of would be length of time compared to coming to America to filing for AOS to time it took to get the Conditional Green Card to Now. 

Nope - My filing times are pretty tight. Check my profile out - it is all in there.

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2 hours ago, MateR said:

Nope - My filing times are pretty tight. Check my profile out - it is all in there.

Hm you're right. In fact, our timelines are damn near similar. Guess length of time doesn't account for anything then. Literally no clue then. I am clueless. Maybe we can possibly dig around and hopefully find a possible solution to it because that just seems weird that the rest of us at LIN would get waivers and they give you an appointment. I wonder if the google sheets document will show anyone else from LIN over over the last year as not being waived as well. Maybe?

[Celie 793]

On 9/27/2021 at 7:53 PM, jeffo said:

THanks for pulling me back to this site/message board DPV. hey Celie, havent seen your name in a long time

Hey Jeffo! Long time, no see. Glad to see you!

 

On 9/26/2021 at 6:07 PM, WillieT1986 said:

You know... For LIN people, I have been keeping track of the auto update emails from this site and just got this one... Will be really nice if this estimate approval is true. lol From the looks of the excel spreadsheet going around I am also tying that in with this estimation so I am not going to tell my wife but hey, may Summer 2022 I can have her be done with this stuff. lol 

I know the last few emails I got were all like eta's for 2023 sometime and I was like wow but this latest one. Hell yeah, I can stand behind this estimation. lol

I've been keeping track of ours as well (SRC), but it's estimating a 2023 timeframe and the center's processing times are 4.5-7.5 so I sincerely hope that one is right and not the VJ time frames lol

 

14 hours ago, michaelwood87 said:

I see a lot of people getting their biometrics waived, is this because of the COVID backlog?

Also - for those that have, do you get the biometrics fee returned (im assuming not)?.

I think it may have to do with more of a general backlog they've had going for years and the ones being waived I believe is those transitioning from K1 since they very recently had all this done 2 years prior.

 

On 9/26/2021 at 8:01 PM, MateR said:

For all those who filed and received the bio-metrics waived -
Was in LIN?

Did you send the money for both the application and the bio-metrics?

We sent it in well before you all and did not receive the waived status for bio-metrics. Trying to figure out why.

We had my husband's biometrics waived, but we are SRC. Are you transitioning from K1?

 

 

Update: we received our biometrics letter yesterday dated 9-22. Now, the wait really begins!

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[MateR 68]

So odd. Other people who filed after us and got LIN, already have in the mail and through electronic means a decision of whether or not their bio-metrics was waived or not and we didnt get anything. Here is to hoping they didnt lose our paper work......

[Mad Panda 25]

Anybody from CSC got their biometrics letter yet? They received our case August 2nd . . . we have the NOA1 letter but we haven't got anything else ever since. I'm worried.

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On 10/4/2021 at 8:31 PM, MateR said:

So odd. Other people who filed after us and got LIN, already have in the mail and through electronic means a decision of whether or not their bio-metrics was waived or not and we didnt get anything. Here is to hoping they didnt lose our paper work......

Any updates?

 

 

 

On 10/5/2021 at 7:07 PM, Mad Panda said:

Anybody from CSC got their biometrics letter yet? They received our case August 2nd . . . we have the NOA1 letter but we haven't got anything else ever since. I'm worried.

Have you tried comparing with the other months on the google sheets that is out there? I looked on there and the earliest month I see the CSC/WAC getting their Bio Letters is the May Filers. Seem those who filed in May who got WAC/CSC filed in May and got their Bio Letters in September. Doesn't seem like any of the June filers have updated/received theirs yet.

 

 

 

To Note:

Also, if anyone else has been keeping an eye on the Google Sheets. I noticed that a lot of our rows were missing. I thought they were deleted at first but then noticed it was whole row numbers and not just a row where it still shows the number on the side. Seems someone filtered to show CR1 only which caused all the others to *vanish* lol. 

 

Lets remember that this sheet is live and editable by all.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uJwpaHzGIuuvbVMXK5h-F8KH3hCh88kMxpxC4uOJOk8/edit?usp=sharing 

 

[MateR 68]

56 minutes ago, WillieT1986 said:

Any updates?

 

 

 

Have you tried comparing with the other months on the google sheets that is out there? I looked on there and the earliest month I see the CSC/WAC getting their Bio Letters is the May Filers. Seem those who filed in May who got WAC/CSC filed in May and got their Bio Letters in September. Doesn't seem like any of the June filers have updated/received theirs yet.

 

 

Hey WIllieT1986 - No updates at all. almost 70 days out.

[Bibire 0]

Hi , has anyone gotten a response after filing for ROC in Augusta