Hi, I am currently feeling very frustrated. I filed my EAD (based on C9) and my receipt date was June 22,2007.
I have already done my biometrics, but there is still no news at all on my EAD!

Can I ask:

1) When they say it takes approx 90 days- do they mean 90 business days?

2) I called USCIS today, and according to them the California service center is currently processing applications made in June, so it will take 15 business days, and then another 30 business days to process!! I know on the uscis website they say " they are working to ensure all Applications for Adjustment of Status (I-485) are receipted and any accompanying applications for employment authorization documents (EADs) are processed within 90 days. USCIS is realigning its resources to meet this deadline."

3) IF the person I talked to is right (so far I have talked to TWO different people and they are both telling me different things, I still dont understand why this is so!!) - then my application is obviously taking more than 90 days to process!! Is there anything else I could do to speed it up?!

I have been trying very hard to have lots of patience in this matter- I have been here since end of May, and I think I will go insane if they dont approve my EAD soon!! It is sooo infuriating when I cant apply for a driving license and SSN because I have to wait for my EAD to be approved!!! I have been waiting and waiting and waiting- I hate it that I dont have control over this! I want to work soon!!

Anyone with any advice on this matter? Thanks.

Hi Sorry to hear about your situation but my husband and I are preety much in the same boat. We are equally frustratred and tired of waiting. Our recieved date was June 28th, so it's been 95 days and pending at the California Service Center. We have an infopass appointment tomorrow and will hopefully get some kind of information. Also I just sent a letter to my Congresswoman requesting for them to do an inquiry too. I suggest you do the same. We're stressed, frustrated and infuriated as well. Let's just hope we can get some good news soon.

Thelma

All you can do is once the 90 days are up is make an infopass appointment and get your local office to request that the service center make a dicission on your EAD or issues you with an interim EAD....

Hope you here soon..

Kez

Ours took longer then 90 days.........we ended up getting the green card first.

Hi Sorry to hear about your situation but my husband and I are preety much in the same boat. We are equally frustratred and tired of waiting. Our recieved date was June 28th, so it's been 95 days and pending at the California Service Center. We have an infopass appointment tomorrow and will hopefully get some kind of information. Also I just sent a letter to my Congresswoman requesting for them to do an inquiry too. I suggest you do the same. We're stressed, frustrated and infuriated as well. Let's just hope we can get some good news soon.

Thelma
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Hi Thelma, what is an infopass appointment? How do I go about doing this?
So 90 days does not mean business days (mon-Fri) right?

Thanks,
Haz



Hi Kez, is there a number that I have to call to make the infopass appointment? I have not heard of this before.

Thanks
Haz

You need to go to the USCIS website and click the infopass link.... you make the appointment on-line.....

Kez

Hi! I am also experiencing the same troubles with my EAD. Today I've spoken with two people telling me two totally different things. I don't know who's more confused at this point...me or them?! Anyway, one rep also told me that they are just getting to applications filed in June. My application was filed June 17th but accdg to the rep., since mine was transferred on July 13, I would have to go with that date and not June 17th! I am trying to make an infopass on the USCIS website. If unsuccessful, I will contact our congressman as arwen4433 and others whose EADs were delayed have done. I hope our EAD woes will end very soon! I too cant wait to start working! My brain is turning into slush!

Thanks, Kez.

Hi Sahara,

Exactly! My brain is turning into slush too!! My husband has been supportive- he buys me knitting and painting sets, to keep me occupied. But it's still not the same as working - I quit the job I love back home to come over here, and it sucks that we are not allowed to work until EAD is approved!

I have tried making the appointment on infopass but it says it's not available for the office in my area. I guess I have to contact a congresswoman- any idea where I can get contact details of one in my area?

You know its funny- I specifically asked one of the reps if I go with the receipt date or the date it was transferred- she said go with receipt date!! Gee...the reps dont even know what they are talking about!!

Oh my...I am also getting the same results with the infopass. I've been trying to make an online appt. since Friday.

What I did to find out who our district representative is was to google (ex. new york 8th district+congressman). The website tells what number to call and what documents/info. need to be sent if it concerns the USCIS. I haven't done this yet but I plan to do so within the week.

It is nice to have a hobby that will keep us busy but you're right in saying that it is not the same as working.

Have you tried to call or go to the local office directly? There is an office locator on the USCIS website. Go to @Services & Benefits" and then "Field offices" on the left navigation. Maybe you can just walk in without Infopass.

Arnt

Hi Arnt,

I finally managed to make an Infopass appt...hopefully this will speed things up!!

3) IF the person I talked to is right (so far I have talked to TWO different people and they are both telling me different things, I still don't understand why this is so!!) - then my application is obviously taking more than 90 days to process!! Is there anything else I could do to speed it up?!

I can completely relate! My husband and I filed in July. We have a receipt date of July 30th but still have not received his EAD. We started calling when we hit 90 days out, but all we got was different and confusing answers.

Calls to USCIS Help Desk yielding the following answers:

• Go into your local district office and they can issue you a temporary work permit
  >>(Atlanta) Sorry we have not done that in over a year and a half. Go home and make an infopass appointment and we will be happy to tell you the status of your case.
  
• Sorry we didn't know they don't do that any more, but the receipt number from your application is sufficient for your husband to go to work.
  >> Now thinking that this didn't quite sound right so my husband goes into the office for the company waiting to hire him and asks, and they tell him no that's not how it works.
  
• Sorry don't know where she got that information from but that's not how it works. It does look like your outside the processing time though so we will put in a request for an update for you, but it will be 45 days before we process the request.
  >>GRR
• You need to make an Infopass appointment with your district office.
  >>Well first problem with this plan is there are not appointment available at our local office if you have a work authorization over 90 days. I tried for 2 weeks to get one, and couldn't. So finally we get a letter in the mail telling us to go to the office for further processing. With that classification we finally got an appointment. We went today, and the guy says... oh yeah so your outside 90 days, let me just send them an email to tell them to send out your card. Looks like they had everything they needed after your fingerprinting... Anything else I can do for you??

Well needless to say we are still short a work permit and with no more hope of having a work permit than we had before our appointment this morning. There is an EAD time line here on Visa Journey that says in the last 3-6 months it has taken from 36-46 days to get your EAD after the biometrics. We are now at 33 days since ours, so I guess all we can really do is hope right? I mean we can't really depend on the answers that USCIS gives us, because it seems their left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Frustrated beyond belief!



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Married: May 25, 2007
Start filing process: June 10 2007
Filed : July 23, 2007
I130 Receipt Date: July 24 2007
I765 Receipt Date: July 30, 2007
I485 Receipt Date: July 30, 2007
Biometrics Appointment: October 4, 2007
(11 week processing time for I765 October 15)
Request for Status of I765 October 25
(90 day processing time for I765 October 28)
Letter to go to District Office November 1, 2007

Hi Chelle,

Oh yeah we are definitely in the same shoes! They did a service request for me, and the letter came, and of course, what they say in the letter is what I already know- the application is under review and being processed!

I hope they will tell me something different when I go for my Infopass appt next week, hopefully I will receive my EAD before the end of the month.

You are right- all we can do is hope that the EAD comes soon, very soon. All this waiting is EXTREMELY frustrating. All the best of luck to you...

Haz