EAD "any time now"

[GCG 9]

Hey everyone, 

I'm doing AOS, married to USC, PD 08/12/22 and anxiously waiting for my EAD since I have a job offer on the table since September (healthcare worker - tried expediting but denied).

For a few days now my account says EAD "any time now"

I understand VJ predictions must be taken with an *Ocean of salt* but in your RECENT experience (family based EAD applications from early/mid 2022), have you received your card withing the predictions of VJ?

Please share if you expedited your case, cause it seems like it has been mostly expedites or "auto" approvals after bio lately! Thank you so much for your input!

[slavaskii 886]

21 hours ago, GCG said:

Hey everyone, 

I'm doing AOS, married to USC, PD 08/12/22 and anxiously waiting for my EAD since I have a job offer on the table since September (healthcare worker - tried expediting but denied).

For a few days now my account says EAD "any time now"

I understand VJ predictions must be taken with an *Ocean of salt* but in your RECENT experience (family based EAD applications from early/mid 2022), have you received your card withing the predictions of VJ?

Please share if you expedited your case, cause it seems like it has been mostly expedites or "auto" approvals after bio lately! Thank you so much for your input!

Ours recently said the same as well ("any day now"); I haven't opened the VJ prediction emails for a while because I was expecting we'd wait out the full 8.5 months as USCIS says. Has a batch of early August filers at NBC been approved recently? I also read on Reddit (so not an ocean, but a galaxy of salt) that USCIS was 'decoupling' EAD from AP cards in an effort to speed the former up - so maybe that's what we're seeing?

 

Side note: can we use CaseTracker to scan EAD approvals, or does that app lose all relevance after the I-129F approval?

Edited January 1, 2023 by slavaskii

[GCG 9]

3 hours ago, slavaskii said:

 I also read on Reddit (so not an ocean, but a galaxy of salt) that USCIS was 'decoupling' EAD from AP cards in an effort to speed the former up - so maybe that's what we're seeing?

As with everything in this mad process, it seems to be random if and when you'll receive EAD and AP but overall goal was to approve EADs faster since the job market was crazy (too many open positions, not enough applicants) while AP was placed in the back-burner. Some people have been approved for combo cards, others have not without any logic or consistency - some VJ posts suggest that if you expedite you won't get combo but a lot of expedites have been approved for combo too...

 

USCIS website says (https://www.uscis.gov/i-765)

"Alert: To improve efficiency and reduce Form I-765 processing times for Form I-485 applicants, USCIS may decouple Forms I-765 from Forms I-131 filed at the same time.

To improve efficiency and reduce Form I-765 processing times for Form I-485 applicants, USCIS may decouple Forms I-765 from Forms I-131 filed at the same time. Effective Feb. 1, 2022, when possible, we will adjudicate an applicant's Form I-765 first. If we approve it, we will issue an Employment Authorization Document without any notation about advanced parole. We will adjudicate the Form I-131 separately and if we approve it, we will issue an advance parole document."

Edited January 1, 2023 by GCG

[EatBulaga 318]

In case you are wondering, after "any time now" is "past due".

So good luck in your waiting.

[EatBulaga 318]

9 hours ago, slavaskii said:

Side note: can we use CaseTracker to scan EAD approvals, or does that app lose all relevance after the I-129F approval?

Yes, you can add your I-765, I-485 and I-131 receipt numbers to the USCIS CaseTracker app or in your myUSCIS.

You will just have extra statuses in your My Cases--another place to see "Case Is Being Actively Reviewed by USCIS" if it makes you feel better.

Edited January 2, 2023 by EatBulaga

[GCG 9]

3 hours ago, EatBulaga said:

In case you are wondering, after "any time now" is "past due".

So good luck in your waiting.

 

I'm deleting all of my email updates and never getting back into VJ 🤕

 

Jokes apart.. I'm sorry you haven't received yours yet!

[quinnscribe 121]

Mine has said past due for awhile now. Seeing other mays approved as well as many that were same-day-as-biometric approved in Aug/Sep and am feeling jealous. Hoping for action soon.

[GCG 9]

14 hours ago, quinnscribe said:

Mine has said past due for awhile now. Seeing other mays approved as well as many that were same-day-as-biometric approved in Aug/Sep and am feeling jealous. Hoping for action soon.

Sorry to hear that you've also been waiting without an approval. 

I'm honestly getting very desperate.. My job offer of my absolute *dream job* will expire on Feb 13th after months on the wait for an expedite and no moviment. 

I'm going crazy at home with just walls to look while my husband works - I've been working crazy schedules as a healthcare worker since I was on my early 20's, worked through COVID while everything closed and everybody was told to stay home... I know, I get it, people have been waiting long times for their EADs but I'm starting to worry about my overall mental state if I'm not able to work soon. 

I've started a Master's program, I volunteer the max hours I'm allowed to by the organization, I help my sister-in-law with her kids and still have too much free time at hand... nothing like being overworked for years to get you feeling like you're never productive enough...

Anyway, just a giant rant, won't solve anything!