Notice from USCIS indicating 6-month delay due to workloads

[MyJourney1 15]

Hello Y'all,

My husband received a letter yesterday from USCIS indicating there are delays that can go long as 6 months due to workloads but that it's "not" related to any issues involving our case personally. The notice also stated he may receive an Interview Waiver. Did any of you ever receive such a notice while awaing your decision for Adjustment of Status? And is this normal? Thanks.

Edited August 6, 2013 by MyJourney1

[Pitaya 2,576]

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(organizer hat off)

Likely due to the continuing deluge of DACA applications.

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/All%20Form%20Types/DACA/DACA-13-6.pdf

[TigerFlower 61]

Wow...

[ChuckM 8]

My wife received the same notice this morning. We applied at the end of April and had biometrics on May 30. When I check the case on line through www.uscis.com, the case is still at the Acceptance level and says that it is being handled by the National Benefits Center.

How can they make this decision if it has not at least gone through the Intial Review? I also thought that AOS cases were handled by the local offices and not the NBC.

It is a little fustrating, at least we have the EAD and Advance Parole, but it would be nice to have this next step taken care of in the long journey.

[MyJourney1 15]

Thank you Chuck M. I feel a little better knowing it's not just us. It's good you already have your EAD card for the meantime.

[miner89r 0]

My wife and I got the same letter yesterday. We sent the AOS package in December and did biometrics in January. I wondered if we recieved this because I called to check on the status of our case a few days earlier.

[syntaxkid 0]

We got one today too, AOS submitted at the end of February

[aamirpearl 47]

same here, we got ours today, i bet they got tire of letting people know about there status so they decided to send a letter to calm us down and so we wont bother them for 6 month or soo..

[DCLaoGong 0]

Wow, that is pretty frustrating - I did not get that letter! I requested a service request on 7/22/13 due to our case being outside normal processing times and received the response on 8/5/2013 "The Baltimore District Office is not currently in possession of your file. Your case is in transit to the Baltimore District Office at this time. You will receive a response from this office when the case has been received." They never said when the case was sent and so we're worried they lost the case files! Anyone else experiencing extremely long AOS times from Baltimore?