July 2017 AOS Fillers

[agnsd 17]

18 hours ago, little immigrant said:

We applied for my husband's renewal and we received the NOA with 180 day extension but we never got the new EAD. It just so happened that we got our interview and finally the Green Card. He continued to work with the extension letter. We decided to wait for the Green Card if he ever wanted to apply for a new job.

 

Do you already have an interview scheduled at least?

 

 

that was my plan at first to keep working the same job until we get my green card, but at my work plan they are just abusing me I prefer to leave before I go insane, specially because I have no interview scheduled I pretty much have bad luck with that process   

[agnsd 17]

17 hours ago, wildling99 said:

I haven't received my new card yet - applied for renewal in August. 

and I applied first week of July have been out of normal processing time for 10 days now, but seems like a lot of people are they told me they will recontact between 15 to 30 days.

I got my first EAD card 3 months after approval absolutely unbelievable   

[wildling99 14]

9 hours ago, agnsd said:

and I applied first week of July have been out of normal processing time for 10 days now, but seems like a lot of people are they told me they will recontact between 15 to 30 days.

I got my first EAD card 3 months after approval absolutely unbelievable   

Mine was a few days over 3 months for the first one. I'm totally floored it has taken so long. It's a bummer - missed out on a trip at the end of December and looks like I will have to cancel a trip to Canada at the end of this month too. I even included that renewal barcode from the first one that said it would help them process, but I'm not sure if that even matters at this point!

[agnsd 17]

17 hours ago, wildling99 said:

Mine was a few days over 3 months for the first one. I'm totally floored it has taken so long. It's a bummer - missed out on a trip at the end of December and looks like I will have to cancel a trip to Canada at the end of this month too. I even included that renewal barcode from the first one that said it would help them process, but I'm not sure if that even matters at this point!

ooh wow i'm sorry you had to go through all that, did they lost your card the first time? that's what happened for me. 

yea that renewal code I don't think it makes any difference but hopefully it does.

i've noticed that your local office is Buffalo, few people got their interview from there seems like you gonna be giving us the good news very soon

 

Edited January 16, 2019 by agnsd

[Ray&Ash 271]

On 1/13/2019 at 4:16 PM, agnsd said:

hey guys!

I have a question for all of those who got their work permit renewed, how long did it take you to get the new card?

its just terrible to apply for a new job with a card that mention that it expired october 2018 even tho I'm allowed to work people get scared 

For me its been 6 months and still no news!  

[Ray&Ash 271]

On 1/15/2019 at 9:01 AM, agnsd said:

and I applied first week of July have been out of normal processing time for 10 days now, but seems like a lot of people are they told me they will recontact between 15 to 30 days.

I got my first EAD card 3 months after approval absolutely unbelievable   

Exactly the same for me - first one came in 3 months, and renewal is now taking more than 6 months maybe its cos of the govt slowdown and shutdown? hope not!!

[agnsd 17]

5 hours ago, Ray&Ash said:

For me its been 6 months and still no news!  

sorry to read that  are you looking for a job as well?

[agnsd 17]

5 hours ago, Ray&Ash said:

Exactly the same for me - first one came in 3 months, and renewal is now taking more than 6 months maybe its cos of the govt slowdown and shutdown? hope not!!

I hope not, I wish I knew that bc I would have went back to Europe few month if I knew and now I'm here again stuck without been able to travel or work better job and gets very boring and hard mentally. I'm wondering why we pay so much of processing fees how come it's ok to work to pay taxes like anyone else but yet be left in the complete dark

[Kirk&Kean 9]

On 1/17/2019 at 8:53 PM, agnsd said:

I hope not, I wish I knew that bc I would have went back to Europe few month if I knew and now I'm here again stuck without been able to travel or work better job and gets very boring and hard mentally. I'm wondering why we pay so much of processing fees how come it's ok to work to pay taxes like anyone else but yet be left in the complete dark

Take some classes / art or whatever thing that may help kill some time if you cannot work. THat is what I did back in Arizona last year before I got approved for work permit (first one) which literally took 7 months ++ including pauses from RFE. Submitted my renewal and yes the NOA1 from renewal application shows that there's extension for 180 days. Just show that letter and make a copy for your HR to keep. Gov shutdown shouldn't affect them as they charge us a lot of $$ for each application. They work with applicant's fees.

[Ray&Ash 271]

On 1/17/2019 at 7:53 PM, agnsd said:

I hope not, I wish I knew that bc I would have went back to Europe few month if I knew and now I'm here again stuck without been able to travel or work better job and gets very boring and hard mentally. I'm wondering why we pay so much of processing fees how come it's ok to work to pay taxes like anyone else but yet be left in the complete dark

Absolutely! 

I am not looking for work - im currently employed...but without a valid EAD I have nothing parallel to the visa so basically no ID as of now  I did not make license as it wouldve expired with EAD itself. 

[agnsd 17]

On 1/19/2019 at 8:39 AM, Kirk&Kean said:

Take some classes / art or whatever thing that may help kill some time if you cannot work. THat is what I did back in Arizona last year before I got approved for work permit (first one) which literally took 7 months ++ including pauses from RFE. Submitted my renewal and yes the NOA1 from renewal application shows that there's extension for 180 days. Just show that letter and make a copy for your HR to keep. Gov shutdown shouldn't affect them as they charge us a lot of $$ for each application. They work with applicant's fees.

That’s a great advice as I will not make any change by going crazy over the situation.

 

to be honest I don’t know if it’s a nyc thing but HR don’t bother with people like us they just move on to the next I experienced discrimination for not been at least a green card holder many times

[agnsd 17]

29 minutes ago, Ray&Ash said:

Absolutely! 

I am not looking for work - im currently employed...but without a valid EAD I have nothing parallel to the visa so basically no ID as of now  I did not make license as it wouldve expired with EAD itself. 

U were right about ur licence, I made a driver license and until I get a new card to change it it’s useless. It states exp oct18

[hwk 11]

We finished our interview! 

 

we got there 10 minutes before the interview time due to a heavy traffic towards San Francisco but it was ok as we were called about 40 minutes after our appointment time. 

Interview was very fast about 15 minutes. Some of the questions were:  When where and how did you meet?  Are we going to have kids? my name and parents names. and if my parents met my husband and lastly the have you ever done questions.  The agent asked if we have our 2017 tax returns and we provided it as well as the 2018 w-2 and 1099s.   That was it!  before leaving he told us that we should be getting the green card in 30 days but realistically in about 2 weeks, but could not tell us that we were approved or not.  

 

 

[Ray&Ash 271]

On 1/22/2019 at 1:28 PM, agnsd said:

U were right about ur licence, I made a driver license and until I get a new card to change it it’s useless. It states exp oct18

Yeah the lady at the DMV told me this so I chose not to  

Any news yet on EAD? been 6.5 months now  

[M&JB 80]

On 1/22/2019 at 1:59 PM, hwk said:

We finished our interview! 

 

we got there 10 minutes before the interview time due to a heavy traffic towards San Francisco but it was ok as we were called about 40 minutes after our appointment time. 

Interview was very fast about 15 minutes. Some of the questions were:  When where and how did you meet?  Are we going to have kids? my name and parents names. and if my parents met my husband and lastly the have you ever done questions.  The agent asked if we have our 2017 tax returns and we provided it as well as the 2018 w-2 and 1099s.   That was it!  before leaving he told us that we should be getting the green card in 30 days but realistically in about 2 weeks, but could not tell us that we were approved or not.  

 

 

Did the officer ask you for any specific proofs for your marriage? Did you bring a lot?

 

If he told you you should be receiving your green card, I think it would mean you were approved.

Edited January 23, 2019 by M&JB