What should i do when i751 takes more than 18months

[Ben & Katy 168]

On 9/20/2021 at 6:45 PM, Crazy Cat said:

Your status does not expire.....but the evidence of that status does.  If you need evidence of status as a legal resident for travel, work, etc after the extension letter expires, call USCIS and schedule an INFOPASS appointment for an ADIT stamp.  We did that a few weeks ago.  I called USCIS and scheduled an emergency appointment for the stamp since my wife needed to book a flight back to Taiwan.  USCIS gave us an appoint for the very next morning.  So, within 24 hours of calling USCIS, my wife had the stamp in her passport.  It was painless and fast.

BTW, we filed my wife's case in March 2019......we are still waiting for an interview.....good luck. 

It’s highly unacceptable what USCIS is doing to you guys.  You are almost 36 months deep since April 2019 if this were to drag out to April 2022.  If they can’t handle their own workload then maybe they should revert back to giving all spouses 10 year green cards from the start.  I know there is fraud but there is also fraud with 2 year conditional GC’s too. 

[Crazy Cat 41,183]

2 hours ago, Ben & Katy said:

It’s highly unacceptable what USCIS is doing to you guys.  You are almost 36 months deep since April 2019 if this were to drag out to April 2022.  If they can’t handle their own workload then maybe they should revert back to giving all spouses 10 year green cards from the start.  I know there is fraud but there is also fraud with 2 year conditional GC’s too. 

I honestly think the 2 year card should be eliminated.  Statistics show that less than 5% of I-751s are actually denied.  

[Ben & Katy 168]

On 9/23/2021 at 7:20 PM, Crazy Cat said:

I honestly think the 2 year card should be eliminated.  Statistics show that less than 5% of I-751s are actually denied.  

Exactly!  The 2 year conditional doesn't stop any fraud at all.  I had a lot of friends in Phoenix from Brazil, Costa Rica and Colombia when I used to live there that were here illegally for years; made friends with American citizens; the American citizen would do them a favor by marrying them just to help them out with papers and then as soon as you know it they were already removing conditions without a peep from an immigration officer suspecting fraud.   In some cases the fake marriage turned into something real after knowing each other during the fake marriage LOL. 

[aznhouston 124]

55 minutes ago, Ben & Katy said:

Exactly!  The 2 year conditional doesn't stop any fraud at all.  I had a lot of friends in Phoenix from Brazil, Costa Rica and Colombia when I used to live there that were here illegally for years; made friends with American citizens; the American citizen would do them a favor by marrying them just to help them out with papers and then as soon as you know it they were already removing conditions without a peep from an immigration officer suspecting fraud.   In some cases the fake marriage turned into something real after knowing each other during the fake marriage LOL. 

Well the immigration system of the US is a joke anyways. I have a friend who got denied j1 visa to come back to the US and he's a post doc having been doing research in chemistry for 2 years here in houston Texas. Meanwhile there are millions of illegal individuals roaming the street everyday committing crime stealing American jobs, and it's OK. 

[Ben & Katy 168]

2 minutes ago, aznhouston said:

Well the immigration system of the US is a joke anyways. I have a friend who got denied j1 visa to come back to the US and he's a post doc having been doing research in chemistry for 2 years here in houston Texas. Meanwhile there are millions of illegal individuals roaming the street everyday committing crime stealing American jobs, and it's OK. 

Exactly! They cant get out of their own way.

[Ben & Katy 168]

So for people removing conditions that had their initial CR1 interview in places like Juarez, Rio or any other country.  How long is it taking to remove conditions for CR1 embassy people?  3 years?  If so maybe they should give out 24 or 36 month extension letters to those removing conditions that did their initial interview through the embassy overseas?

[Just Paul 4,594]

13 minutes ago, Ben & Katy said:

So for people removing conditions that had their initial CR1 interview in places like Juarez, Rio or any other country.  How long is it taking to remove conditions for CR1 embassy people

Mary just finished her I-751.  Biometric letter was 1 year after filing and the interview was 14 months.  She filed her N-400 and just got the biometric letter.

Edited September 28, 2021 by Paul & Mary

[Ben & Katy 168]

1 minute ago, Paul & Mary said:

Mary just finished her I=751.  Biometric letter was 1 year after filing and the interview was 14 months.  She filed her N-400 and just got the biometric letter.

Hang on, she just got approved for her 10 year GC?  And she applied to remove conditions in July 2020?

[Just Paul 4,594]

1 minute ago, Ben & Katy said:

Hang on, she just got approved for her 10 year GC?

Yup it was in her little hand a week after the interview.

2 minutes ago, Ben & Katy said:

And she applied to remove conditions in July 2020?

Yes - (i) paper filed it about an inch thick.  Interview was pretty simple  . . . 

 

[Ben & Katy 168]

2 minutes ago, Paul & Mary said:

Yup it was in her little hand a week after the interview.

Yes - (i) paper filed it about an inch thick.  Interview was pretty simple  . . . 

 

If i am not mistaken I think we sent in our ROC packet from Tucson to Phoenix the same exact day as you guys or maybe it was July 15th, 2020.  She had her biometrics in December 2020 and since then we have not heard nothing.  I am planning on applying for the citizenship next winter when the tax money comes in if we haven't heard from USCIS by then.   I am glad you guys got this done relatively quick!!  Congrats!

[Just Paul 4,594]

1 minute ago, Ben & Katy said:

She had her biometrics in December 2020 and since then we have not heard nothing. 

At this point it is all up to the field office.  I would go ahead and apply for the citizenship.  I know a few people who have had the N-400 interview before the I-751 was approved. ( You can't be approved for citizenship without an approved ROC but things can get moved along)  Another possibility is having a combination interview.

[Ben & Katy 168]

2 minutes ago, Paul & Mary said:

At this point it is all up to the field office.  I would go ahead and apply for the citizenship.  I know a few people who have had the N-400 interview before the I-751 was approved. ( You can't be approved for citizenship without an approved ROC but things can get moved along)  Another possibility is having a combination interview.

Honestly if I had the $700 bucks in cash we would have done it back in July 2021   I figured with the fat tax refund I could use it then to pay for the US citizenship. 

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,082]

On 9/23/2021 at 7:20 PM, Crazy Cat said:

I honestly think the 2 year card should be eliminated.  Statistics show that less than 5% of I-751s are actually denied.  

If the 5% of denials were due to fraud, that's actually a pretty large number of actual people.

But I suspect most of the denials were in fact due to paperwork errors.

[melonorgard 14]

I’m not part of this group but needed to share my experience since it might being some peace to a few people!

 

i had to wait a whole year to get my interview scheduled for my I 751 (assuming because of COVID)… finally on August 5th I had my interview and I was not approved. They said they needed to check some things.

 

Today… finally after 2 months I received a notification that my card was being produced! No RFEs or second interviews! 

[mtldesai809 34]

On 9/22/2021 at 1:30 PM, Y+B said:

I think you should wait for the letter. If you don't get the letter by early next month, then I think they will take an infopass appointment.

 

I called USCIS 2 times yesterday and the first one I made an infopass appointment (and I asked about the letter but the person who I talked to said they don't have details about when the letter would be sent out), and the 2nd time I called, this time the person on the phone said the letter will be sent soon and due to that, the appointment was cancelled and he suggested me to call again if I won't get the letter by Oct. (My letter expires on Oct. 10)

did you received your 24 months extension letter?