from CRIS: Notice mailed welcoming the new permanent resident

[jo&john 1]

Finally, my 9 year old daughter and I will be receiving our welcome notice in the mail and our green cards soon. We both had separate email notices from them with same content:

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Notice mailed welcoming the new permanent resident.

On January 25, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before you get your new card call customer service. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Case Status & Processing Dates.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

I am happy but sad...yes a paradox...because I don't know yet the status of my other daughter who turned 21 last January 6. She was done with the interview and biometrics before she turned 21. Our Congressman staff had been following up our case. Actually, the Lady staff made a follow-up last January 24. I emailed her again today and she emailed back that she will inquire again. She said that usually USCIS doesn't like Congressman offices to inquiry this early, but since my other daughter has already received this notice, she will go ahead and ask.

Please pray for our other daughter,

[hanster 0]

congrats,

i hope it works out for your other daughter too.

[billsgirl 0]

hi jo and john...i will be praying for ya....sure hope this works out for you 2......i am in the same position as you...we filed on jan 10th...i have a son who will turn 21 in april...so again...good luck and all the best, and please keep us posted..

[Killer_Clown_2009 0]

I'm really hoping it all works out for you.

[Girona40 0]

I am so thrilled that you, at least, have your AOS and your youngest daughter's AOS approved.

I am worried that there may be a problem with your other daughter though, seeing as they didn't send a Notice for her also.

If she turned 21 on the 6th January and they didn't get round to adjudicating her AOS until the 25th, as they did yours and your younger daughter, then (according to the rules they are applying in my son's case - which we don't agree with by the way) your eldest daughter would be considered an "age-out".

I hope and pray, for your sake, that they don't.

I just think situations like this are so sad and incredibly stressful on the parent.

God Bless and please keep us informed.

G.

Finally, my 9 year old daughter and I will be receiving our welcome notice in the mail and our green cards soon. We both had separate email notices from them with same content:

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Notice mailed welcoming the new permanent resident.

On January 25, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before you get your new card call customer service. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Case Status & Processing Dates.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

I am happy but sad...yes a paradox...because I don't know yet the status of my other daughter who turned 21 last January 6. She was done with the interview and biometrics before she turned 21. Our Congressman staff had been following up our case. Actually, the Lady staff made a follow-up last January 24. I emailed her again today and she emailed back that she will inquire again. She said that usually USCIS doesn't like Congressman offices to inquiry this early, but since my other daughter has already received this notice, she will go ahead and ask.

Please pray for our other daughter,

[Killer_Clown_2009 0]

That's just so sad. I don't know what it wrong with USCIS that they can't process those applications immediately and save heartache.

[Girona40 0]

It's a shame they can't apply the law equally, across the states, either.

I would like of offer Jo and John some hope in that we know of other cases in Texas where children over the age of 21, at the time of adjudication, was granted AOS. So, you just never know. It just depends on the adjudicator you get.

Hugs

G.

[jo&john 1]

I am so thrilled that you, at least, have your AOS and your youngest daughter's AOS approved.

I am worried that there may be a problem with your other daughter though, seeing as they didn't send a Notice for her also.

If she turned 21 on the 6th January and they didn't get round to adjudicating her AOS until the 25th, as they did yours and your younger daughter, then (according to the rules they are applying in my son's case - which we don't agree with by the way) your eldest daughter would be considered an "age-out".

I hope and pray, for your sake, that they don't.

I just think situations like this are so sad and incredibly stressful on the parent.

God Bless and please keep us informed.

G.

Finally, my 9 year old daughter and I will be receiving our welcome notice in the mail and our green cards soon. We both had separate email notices from them with same content:

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Notice mailed welcoming the new permanent resident.

On January 25, 2007, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before you get your new card call customer service. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Case Status & Processing Dates.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

I am happy but sad...yes a paradox...because I don't know yet the status of my other daughter who turned 21 last January 6. She was done with the interview and biometrics before she turned 21. Our Congressman staff had been following up our case. Actually, the Lady staff made a follow-up last January 24. I emailed her again today and she emailed back that she will inquire again. She said that usually USCIS doesn't like Congressman offices to inquiry this early, but since my other daughter has already received this notice, she will go ahead and ask.

Please pray for our other daughter,

It has already stressed me...it feels so awful to see mine approved but my other daughter does not have hers yet. My daughter is almost finished with her 4th year nursing in the Philippines. She only has a semester left but we have to leave for the U.S. before she ages out. If she stayed in the Philippines, she will graduate this March 2007 as a nurse. It is not really fair if they won't let her adjust status. We were able to do everything on time since we arrived. Why won't they give my daughter her permanent resident status (after all she has complied with the interview and the biometrics before she turned 21) but give other applicants approvals with no interviews? I was choking when i told my daughter a few minutes ago, that her sister and I will be receiving our welcome letter. I don't know if I said the right thing when I told her: "Don't worry, you will have yours." "Oh, it really pains me :crying:

[jo&john 1]

It's a shame they can't apply the law equally, across the states, either.

I would like of offer Jo and John some hope in that we know of other cases in Texas where children over the age of 21, at the time of adjudication, was granted AOS. So, you just never know. It just depends on the adjudicator you get.

Hugs

G.

Maybe i can give those cases to our Congressman's staff so she can bring them up during her inquiry. Where do I get those? You give us hope.

Big Hugs,

[Girona40 0]

Believe me, Jo, I know exactly how you feel. It isn't right that this country allows us to bring our sons and daughters into the country, then to apply rules incorrectly and tell them that they are not allowed to stay. I have been over and over this in my head for years now and still can't understand how anyone could think it was fair.

You can only think positively now, as hard as that may be. Let your daughter know that you are hopeful. Like I said, Texas is the one state where I do know there are examples of derivative beneficiaries, over the age of 21, adjusting status.

Just think positive!

God Bless.

G.

[Girona40 0]

It's a shame they can't apply the law equally, across the states, either.

I would like of offer Jo and John some hope in that we know of other cases in Texas where children over the age of 21, at the time of adjudication, was granted AOS. So, you just never know. It just depends on the adjudicator you get.

Hugs

G.

Maybe i can give those cases to our Congressman's staff so she can bring them up during her inquiry. Where do I get those? You give us hope.

Big Hugs,

I was talking to a woman from China, who lived in Houston, a couple of years ago now. She had a son who came in just a day before he turned 21. They didn't even get his application for AOS in before he turned 21 and yet they approved him. She would not give me any details on her case, for fear that it would jeopardise her son's position. I do know her name, but don't know that it will help. I would just sit tight at this time and see what they do. You may be one of the lucky ones, like her, and not have a problem. Let's hope so.

[jamie_naina 0]

Congratulations!!! That's fast....only 2 months.

And I hope things will work out for your daughter. I'll be praying for you too.

[jo&john 1]

I again sent an email to the our Congressman's Lady staff...informing her that there are K-2s over 21 years of age in Texas that were given AOS approval (Thanks for the info Girona40). In less than one hour, she sent me an email. She said that she called her USCIS contact. My daughter's file, according to her contact, is with an officer who is currently out of the office. Her contact also told her that she needs to give them 30 days to process the file. The contact said that at this time, my daughter's application has not been denied. Thank God! Anyways, the Lady Staff told me to give her a call if I have not heard from immigration in 30 days and she will see if the officer has completed his review of the file.

Well, I see light and hope ...I would like to thank everyone for your support and prayers.

Godspeed,

Edited January 26, 2007 by jo&john

[JM23 0]

Hi there Jo&John i am just replying to your post :

Here's what i think about your situation . Eventhough that your daugther turned 21 she going to get her permanent residence. Why? because is not like she is 22 remember that she has to be under 21 in order for her petition to be approved. She still falls in that under 21 age limit. Meaning her age being 21 is that limit. So she is going to be fine

>I am happy but sad...yes a paradox...because I don't know yet the status of my other daughter who turned 21 last January 6. She was done with the interview and biometrics before she turned 21. Our Congressman staff had been following up our case. Actually, the Lady staff made a follow-up last January 24. I emailed her again today and she emailed back that she will inquire again. She said that usually USCIS doesn't like Congressman offices to inquiry this early, but since my other daughter has already received this notice, she will go ahead and ask.<

[sweettweety 0]

Congatulations!!!! I do hope that our case will be the next to be approved!!!!! Im crossing my fingers & praying so hard. Its been 3 months now since we applied. Im starting to lose hope......