October 2024 AOS filers - I-485/I-765/I-131

[hplusj 144]

I thought to check myUSCIS this morning for any updates slipped under the rug and noticed that the interview step is checked as completed.  I wonder how accurate this is, or if we have evidence here that they bypassed the in-person interview for us.

 

can anyone else confirm they have theirs checked as well, post biometrics?

 

[swissbuttercream 26]

On 12/28/2024 at 11:13 AM, Edward and Jaycel said:

 

I wouldn't show up without an appointment for that day and time - But you can re-schedule. Here's my post on how we did it. The only update is that the new appointment notice does show up in your documents tab after about a day:

In case anyone needs to do this.... Our status changed to "Biometrics Appointment Was Scheduled" on Friday. Within an hour we were able to see the appointment letter in the Documents tab online. We saw that it was scheduled for 01/07/2025. This was a problem as Jaycel doesn't have her driver license yet and I have work that day with meetings that would have been difficult to get out of. So we went to the online portal and under "My Account" there is a link for "Reschedule Biometrics Appointment". We went there and selected the reason for the reschedule request, put in the receipt #, the date of the original appointment, the service center and her DOB. It then gave various available dates to reschedule and when you select one, it gives the times available that day. We selected 12/26 and there were like 8 slots open that day. Once we submitted it, we got the email that "An Action Has Been Taken on Your Case". Our case status updated that Biometrics Appointment was scheduled on December 24. 2024 and about 15 minutes later we received another email that "An Action Has Been Taken on Your Case" and this was the completion of the reschedule and the notice was available for download. Be aware, you have to go back into the "Reschedule Biometrics Appointment" and look under "View Submitted Requests" in order to get the new notice. So far it has not shown up in the regular "Documents" tab.

 

 

Thank you so much!

the regular appointment was 4 weeks away, we were able to schedule it for tomorrow for my father.

I'm heading to a Caribbean trip next week and then go back to work, so getting this done during the slow/holiday period is great, especially since we've been waiting since October.

[Edward and Jaycel 358]

20 minutes ago, hplusj said:

I thought to check myUSCIS this morning for any updates slipped under the rug and noticed that the interview step is checked as completed.  I wonder how accurate this is, or if we have evidence here that they bypassed the in-person interview for us.

 

can anyone else confirm they have theirs checked as well, post biometrics?

 

 

Ours says the same thing since the biometrics.... It also appears to have de-coupled the I-485 from the I-765 on the website. It no longer has them grouped together and the "Concurrent Filing" tag is gone. They are now their own separate cases. This happened to another VJ user here that commented in the November AOS Filers thread. He had an I-131 filed also and it kept that and the I-765 together with the concurrent filing tag. I'm presuming that's because they will issue a combo card for those?

[hplusj 144]

2 minutes ago, Edward and Jaycel said:

Ours says the same thing since the biometrics.... It also appears to have de-coupled the I-485 from the I-765 on the website. It no longer has them grouped together and the "Concurrent Filing" tag is gone. They are now their own separate cases. This happened to another VJ user here that commented in the November AOS Filers thread. He had an I-131 filed also and it kept that and the I-765 together with the concurrent filing tag. I'm presuming that's because they will issue a combo card for those?

I can’t speak to the 131/AP but it is interesting!  I also searched my batch today to gain a better understanding of our position.  We were in the first third to move into Processing but that could be completely arbitrary and agent-dependent on when we advance.  Even still thanks for tipping me off to that site in November filers!  I’m just as obsessed with tracking trends and am curious where the tail end of 2024 cases fall in regards to wait times.  Fingers crossed for 6-8 months, that’s my completely uneducated guess 😂

[OldUser 7,145]

1 hour ago, hplusj said:

I thought to check myUSCIS this morning for any updates slipped under the rug and noticed that the interview step is checked as completed.  I wonder how accurate this is, or if we have evidence here that they bypassed the in-person interview for us.

 

 

Just like estimates, this status is highly unreliable. I'd be prepared for everything. Unless GC is being produced nobody can guarantee interview was waived.

[hplusj 144]

3 hours ago, OldUser said:

Just like estimates, this status is highly unreliable. I'd be prepared for everything. Unless GC is being produced nobody can guarantee interview was waived.

Still very much prepared, thank you for your feedback.

[swissbuttercream 26]

wanted to update on here.

I rescheduled biometrics from 1/17 to 12/31

today 1/1, I got email that case has been updated, went to check USCIS portal, and saw 765 was approved, with approval date of 1/2, but the EAD effective date of 12/31.

 

Thank you again for walking me through the steps of rescheduling biometrics and as October filers, I hope we all get EADs soon, if not already.