Hi all,

I sent off my application for my work permit in december, the date of my receipt is December 29th. I still have not received the card and the website states processing dates at the NBC is now in January. Ive been to my district office at New Orleans 2 times, the first time i was told i would have it within 10 days, the second time the lady told me i should go ahead and start work and just wait for my card, until i pointed out the legality of such a proposal. Every time i call USCIS i get told 'you will just need to be patient'.

Now im running out of ideas and steam. Should i contact a lawyer ? should i drive to the NBC ? should i just keep waiting ? i have been offered a job recently and the employer is only going to keep the offer open for so long.

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Info pass and request an interim EAD, it has been more than 90 days.

Hi,

You cannot get an Interim EAD anymore, whether or not that is accross the board i dont know, but New Orleans told me they have not issued them for 6 months now.

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The local offices do not issue interim EADs BUT the local office will call NBC and tell them you've been waiting. Good luck and pls do go ASAP. Make sure you are after them...and bring in the senator if you need to. I did and that was the only way USCIS confirmed what we believed was wrong in our case.

Both times i went to new orleans, they called the NBC to ask them where my permit was, the first time as i said they told me it would be here within 10 days, the second time the NBC said 'its on the adjudicators desk and we have asked that it be placed on the top of the pile'... they told me that interim EAD's are no longer issued at all and that they did not know why it was still on the website,

it has been suggested that i should go to new orleans and request to see a supervisor, i think this would be my next step, followed by a letter to my senator,

i just have a sneaky suspicion that when i go back to new orleans the supervisor is going to tell me the same thing 'its on the supervisors desk and you should just be patient'...

Russ

I am going to advise that you go again to the infopass appt AND contact a senator. My husband and I have been waiting for over a year now for his EAD and our other petitions and we received no response whatsoever. However, the moment that Senator Webb contacted the NBC, the USCIS told us they will not do anything for us until his background check comes back. I just think that they will take things seriously once you get the senator involved. you're well over 90 day
s and have a job waiting for you--go for the senator's intervention.

more worrisome is that interim EADs are no longer issued.

Well i called a second time this afternoon, and the lady told me 'you placed a service request on your file today' to which i replied that it is the 2nd service request. She said 'ok, after the 2nd service request, 30 days, if you still havent heard anything then call us back'. My reply to this was that i wont hear anything within 30 days, so then it wil be the 3rd service request and it will continue in that manner indefinately, she then told me 'no, they hardly ever need 3 service requests'.

If this were not a matter so severe, it would be humerous

I contacted all the senators listed in louisiana, by email this afternoon, there were 5 i think ? and i had a reply from one of them so far to say thankyou for my email, which is nice knowing they aknowledge receipt of it.

Ill keep updated, should anything happen, in the meantime plan another trip to New Orleans, which will be as fruitless as the first 2

they'll respond--especially if a senator inquires about your case...that is what they did with us and we have placed lots of requests/

I emailed 2 senators, and they promptly got in touch with uscis. Uscis told both senators that i would have my case decided within 2 weeks (i havent heard that one before)...

2 weeks has passed yesterday, and still nothing, i emailed both senators back yesterday t let them know. Am i under some investigation that they just dont want to tell me about ? do they not like my name ? my background check should be over with swiftly as i have no convictions, i am not affiliated with any militant organisations.. i just dont understand why its taking over 150 days to process me, and they keep dangling this fabled '2 weeks' infront of my face

hey russell...USCIS is definitely getting some heat for their delay on the EADs. My husband and I just received our "card production ordered" email and we have been waiting since 2006!

Keep emailing and in fact, if (God forbid) this persists then you may wish to contact the CIS ombudsman so they have on record that this is a real problem for some couples who wait a long time.

I was told that YES they do sometimes delays EADs for "checks"...I told them they need to be transparent about this...

good luck..I am hopeful you'll get the card soon now that the senators are on them!

Well i emailed the 2 senators who had gotten in touch with USCIS 2 weeks ago, within 24 hours they had both emailed me back to say i had been approved and my card was in production.

Over 150 days, but its going to be here and i can start work, im so excited.

If anyone reads this and worries.. dont wait as long as i did before getting in touch with your local senator(s)

Regards

Russell

EXCELLENT___CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!

Akunin..now you're next!