Missouri is super slow?

[nane1104 146]

If you filed April 11th, it's just passed the 90 days, I really don't know what you are complaining about. Where did I miss a guarantee from USCIS about processing cases in an x-amount of days??

[cellarlily 0]

We submitted ours on March 14th. It's been 57 days since my husband's EAD was approved and we still haven't received it. Granted it was due to f***ups in their system where they got our address completely wrong, was sent back to them, we corrected our address and it sat on someone's desk for weeks afterwards until we finally got an Infopass immigration officer to contact them and get it resent (Tuesday, same day as yours).

Based on everyone else's timelines that I've seen in their signatures, it takes 3-10 days to be received, which is exactly what the USPS says on their website for first class mail....3-10 days. It's a frustrating wait, but I'll bet you anything that yours will be in your mailbox in the next couple days.

It is interesting to know that they are sent from a private contractor. That makes more sense now...we called the hotline so many times trying to figure out when it might have been sent and were confused that they couldn't tell us if it had. I guess if it was in a totally different state being sent by a different office, it would make sense that they couldn't really track that.

Edited July 27, 2007 by cellarlily

[Nicodemus 0]

I hope it turns out ok. How did you finally find out that it was the wrong address? I never received any of the "card approved" letters, only saw updates online. I just want to be sure I don't fall into your same situation where the mailing address is wrong. This happening with the K-1 visa and we lost months there...

We submitted ours on March 14th. It's been 57 days since my husband's EAD was approved and we still haven't received it. Granted it was due to f***ups in their system where they got our address completely wrong, was sent back to them, we corrected our address and it sat on someone's desk for weeks afterwards until we finally got an Infopass immigration officer to contact them and get it resent (Tuesday, same day as yours).

Based on everyone else's timelines that I've seen in their signatures, it takes 3-10 days to be received, which is exactly what the USPS says on their website for first class mail....3-10 days. It's a frustrating wait, but I'll bet you anything that yours will be in your mailbox in the next couple days.

It is interesting to know that they are sent from a private contractor. That makes more sense now...we called the hotline so many times trying to figure out when it might have been sent and were confused that they couldn't tell us if it had. I guess if it was in a totally different state being sent by a different office, it would make sense that they couldn't really track that.

[cellarlily 0]

We didn't realize that it could have been sent to an incorrect address until we noticed that it was nearly a month after approval and we still didn't receive it. Then on June 29th they sent us an e-mail notification that it had ben returned to them as undeliverable and to call them to confirm our address. My husband did it right away (within an hour of receiving this e-mail) and they supposedly changed it and said it would be resent to us. Flash forward nearly a month later and we still don't have it. No amount of questioning the information line people gave us a clear answer as to whether it was sent or not. We finally got very fed up and made an Infopass appointment and explained our situation to the officer. Within a minute she was able to tell us that, in fact, it had not been resent but she would request that it be sent right away. We also made sure she confirmed our address on both the EAD and AOS.

We were skeptical, but later that day we got an e-mail from CRIS (the online e-mail notification system they have) that it was resent to us that day directly to the address they have on file.

Long story short, if you have received the "Approval Notice Sent" e-mail, you should get yours soon. If not this week, then most likely the beginning of next week based on what others have experienced. I wouldn't worry about your address being wrong...our incorrect address story is very long and complicated and I don't suspect you'll have the same trouble.

[bora bora 1]

Why does USCIS have so many problems?

My hubby's EAD was approved 4 days ago and our case is still not updated online (we didn't get an email) or on the phone when you call the automated service.

We just found out today at an infopass appointment.

I guess we'll be lucky if by the time we come back from vacation (in 2 weeks) that the EAD card is here.