Still waiting for GC six months after AOS interview

[Yu1988 3]

Any advice would be appreciated greatly!

My spouse came to US with K1 Visa.

We had AOS interview at local USCIS field office February 2022 and haven’t heard anything since. The interview went OK. Other than our passports, marriage license, birth certificates, we also brought support document such as joint bank account, credit cards, utilities bills, insurance with both names on them, 401K account shows my spouse as my beneficiary, and wedding and other photos. The officer didn’t tell us the result at the end of the interview, instead he told us we would hear from them soon and gave us a letter and pointed out we should call customer service in case we didn’t hear from them in 120 days.   

We started calling customer service after 120 days and the line was very difficult to get through.  We were only able to talk to tier 1 representatives a couple times and get requested answered by a tier 1 representative. They couldn’t find out what happened and can only tell the case status they saw in the system.

It’s been six months and we are so frustrated. Has anyone had similar experience? What can we do about it?

Edited August 4, 2022 by Yu1988

[Villanelle 4,122]

Contact your congressman and have them make an inquiry.

[Rocio0010 5,579]

You can always sue them

[Bajinga 136]

I am Sorry that you are having this experience. this is unacceptable by USCIS and you have the right to be frustrated. you should contact your local congressperson and also report this to an ombudsman. in addition try to call and reach a tier 2 customer service. they are actual officers that can access you case and check on the hold up. if none of the above yield a result, you can file a WOM to force the USCIS to make a decision. in a lot of cases where the hold up is just the USCIS incompetence the result of WOM has been reported to be positive.

[Verrou 1,962]

there's couple ways :

1. ombudsman 

2. ask help from local congressperson

3. find the name of USCIS director in that local FO ( google) and u can either write letter, address to the USCIS office director and attached your receipt letter ( i-485) or if you can get info pass appointment and bring the letter on hand.

 

my friend on the same boat with you, but worst. interview in November 2018, everything went well....and dead silence. i told him to sue USCIS but he refused. he said " its ok, i will just wait, i lost hope". he refused to do anything except pay his lawyer $500 to file ombudsman. he doesnt want to do anything by himself. suddenly May 2022, he got RFE for additional evidence, because it's been almost 4 years since the interview conducted and he need to submit his new medical. he just sent it early July 2022 and no news until now. 

Edited August 4, 2022 by Misscloud

[Yu1988 3]

15 hours ago, Villanelle said:

Contact your congressman and have them make an inquiry.

Thanks! I will try it.

[Yu1988 3]

14 hours ago, Rocio0010 said:

You can always sue them

Really? I didn't know that. But how? 

 

It's been six months since the interview. However, the overall wait time has not exceeded the I-485 process time (which is about 2 years for our area), so When I contact a local lawyer last month, she told me doing nothing but wait. She even said it is not uncommon. I don't think she is very good, so I came here for help and advice. 

[Verrou 1,962]

16 minutes ago, Yu1988 said:

Really? I didn't know that. But how? 

 

It's been six months since the interview. However, the overall wait time has not exceeded the I-485 process time (which is about 2 years for our area), so When I contact a local lawyer last month, she told me doing nothing but wait. She even said it is not uncommon. I don't think she is very good, so I came here for help and advice. 

u can file for mandamus...but its expensive. u have to pay a lawyer ( extra, not included on ur package range from 3k-6k) + around $1,000 for the fee ( not lawyer fee). wouldnt recommend to sue them unless u already exhausted any other resources. and usually for mandamus seems like few lawyers told me at least wait for 2-3 years if you dont get any result. 

 

to be honest with you, many lawyer will tell u the same thing. just wait. "6 months" still consider "normal". if u go to different lawyers, they probably will just take ur money but the result will be the same ( waiting)

Edited August 4, 2022 by Misscloud

[Yu1988 3]

10 hours ago, Bajinga said:

I am Sorry that you are having this experience. this is unacceptable by USCIS and you have the right to be frustrated. you should contact your local congressperson and also report this to an ombudsman. in addition try to call and reach a tier 2 customer service. they are actual officers that can access you case and check on the hold up. if none of the above yield a result, you can file a WOM to force the USCIS to make a decision. in a lot of cases where the hold up is just the USCIS incompetence the result of WOM has been reported to be positive.

Thank you so much! I called USCIS so many times and 99% time can not even reach a live representative. One tier 1 representative told me, the case status shows "eligible for interview" since April 1st. I told her that we already had interview in Feburary, why is eligible for interview again on April 1st? She said she don't know, she just a person answers phone and tell what she sees in the system. I also tried to chat with EMMA, and the representative said the case is in the local USCIS office and the director hasn't made a decision, and there is no time limit for him to make decision. They just refused to transfer to a Tier 2 representative because it is still within the I485 process time and asked me to keep waiting.

 

What is WOM? Could you give a little more detail?

[Rocio0010 5,579]

9 minutes ago, Yu1988 said:

Thank you so much! I called USCIS so many times and 99% time can not even reach a live representative. One tier 1 representative told me, the case status shows "eligible for interview" since April 1st. I told her that we already had interview in Feburary, why is eligible for interview again on April 1st? She said she don't know, she just a person answers phone and tell what she sees in the system. I also tried to chat with EMMA, and the representative said the case is in the local USCIS office and the director hasn't made a decision, and there is no time limit for him to make decision. They just refused to transfer to a Tier 2 representative because it is still within the I485 process time and asked me to keep waiting.

 

What is WOM? Could you give a little more detail?

Ask Jim Hacking in his show. He’s coming live on YouTube at 2:00 CST. He’s sued them a couple times

[Yu1988 3]

4 hours ago, Misscloud said:

there's couple ways :

1. ombudsman 

2. ask help from local congressperson

3. find the name of USCIS director in that local FO ( google) and u can either write letter, address to the USCIS office director and attached your receipt letter ( i-485) or if you can get info pass appointment and bring the letter on hand.

 

my friend on the same boat with you, but worst. interview in November 2018, everything went well....and dead silence. i told him to sue USCIS but he refused. he said " its ok, i will just wait, i lost hope". he refused to do anything except pay his lawyer $500 to file ombudsman. he doesnt want to do anything by himself. suddenly May 2022, he got RFE for additional evidence, because it's been almost 4 years since the interview conducted and he need to submit his new medical. he just sent it early July 2022 and no news until now. 

Thank you so much! Can you talk more about the ombudsman? when did your friends file ombudsman? and did it help? 

 

The Letter interview office gave the us also asked to make an InfoPass appointment if not hear from them. But due to the COVID, local office no longer have InfoPass appointment. I don't know if they will let me in without appointment.

[Verrou 1,962]

9 minutes ago, Yu1988 said:

Thank you so much! Can you talk more about the ombudsman? when did your friends file ombudsman? and did it help? 

 

The Letter interview office gave the us also asked to make an InfoPass appointment if not hear from them. But due to the COVID, local office no longer have InfoPass appointment. I don't know if they will let me in without appointment.

his lawyer filed around end of 2020. he paid $500 for the lawyer fee. my friend is not literate, so he doesnt want do it himself.

no news too after the lawyer filed it.  but ombudsman is free ( when u do it urself, super easy). ombudsman is super backlog, but again, worth to try if you do it urself, nothing to lose right?

 

are u sure that the local office not doing any infopass appointment? because i know many of people can get infopass appointment this year. now its not easy to get, they said " appointment is full"  but due to covid its not really an excuse anymore. 

 

if i were u i will try to walk in to local field office and ask nicely. they might let you in, they might not. worth to try if ur local field office its not from ur place. 

[Yu1988 3]

21 minutes ago, Misscloud said:

his lawyer filed around end of 2020. he paid $500 for the lawyer fee. my friend is not literate, so he doesnt want do it himself.

no news too after the lawyer filed it.  but ombudsman is free ( when u do it urself, super easy). ombudsman is super backlog, but again, worth to try if you do it urself, nothing to lose right?

 

are u sure that the local office not doing any infopass appointment? because i know many of people can get infopass appointment this year. now its not easy to get, they said " appointment is full"  but due to covid its not really an excuse anymore. 

 

if i were u i will try to walk in to local field office and ask nicely. they might let you in, they might not. worth to try if ur local field office its not from ur place. 

I checked USCIS website. It says "If you are inside the United States, you can no longer schedule an appointment online using InfoPass for domestic offices". The CS i chatted told me the same thing. I don't know how other people can still get infopass appointment.

[Verrou 1,962]

7 minutes ago, Yu1988 said:

I checked USCIS website. It says "If you are inside the United States, you can no longer schedule an appointment online using InfoPass for domestic offices". The CS i chatted told me the same thing. I don't know how other people can still get infopass appointment.

have you try to call them? 

[Chancy 6,241]

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