New York AOS 2018 Filers

[march16filer 153]

5 minutes ago, vaksurik said:

How can you find out which local office you'll be going through? We just moved from Manhattan to Union City, NJ...officially changed our address and got the confirmation letter. However, it said nothing about switching the local office to Newark (I'm guessing?) Technically we still live closer to the Manhattan office, so I'm not sure how that all works and would love to check somehow. Any ideas?

Not to discourage you, but, this will probably delay your case. It has to be transferred to the NJ office because you changed states. I just don't know how that is going to work. I have a painful experience with changing addresses - my lawyer passed away and had to change the address and received the confirmation letter at the new address, but when it was time to receive the green card, guess where it was sent? Yep, you got it, the lawyer's office!

 

I would just suggest you try to keep an eye out on your previous address or have someone check the mail for you. Set up the mail forwarding through USPS as well. 

Good luck!

[vaksurik 106]

6 minutes ago, march16filer said:

Not to discourage you, but, this will probably delay your case. It has to be transferred to the NJ office because you changed states. I just don't know how that is going to work. I have a painful experience with changing addresses - my lawyer passed away and had to change the address and received the confirmation letter at the new address, but when it was time to receive the green card, guess where it was sent? Yep, you got it, the lawyer's office!

 

I would just suggest you try to keep an eye out on your previous address or have someone check the mail for you. Set up the mail forwarding through USPS as well. 

Good luck!

Thanks!  We’re on top of mail at both places (I’m still on the lease in Manhattan till Sept) so hopefully we won’t miss anything. 

 

Our status changed to “Ready to be scheduled for interview” two weeks ago, and we had changed our address back in February actually, so hopefully that’s a good sign. We knew it would push us to the end, but the whole “you must change your address with USCIS within 10 days of moving” scared us a little. 

 

Right now we’re on Day 160 of waiting for the EAD/AP card, so that’s my main stressor right now! 

[march16filer 153]

1 minute ago, vaksurik said:

Thanks!  We’re on top of mail at both places (I’m still on the lease in Manhattan till Sept) so hopefully we won’t miss anything. 

 

Our status changed to “Ready to be scheduled for interview” two weeks ago, and we had changed our address back in February actually, so hopefully that’s a good sign. We knew it would push us to the end, but the whole “you must change your address with USCIS within 10 days of moving” scared us a little. 

 

Right now we’re on Day 160 of waiting for the EAD/AP card, so that’s my main stressor right now! 

I have been hearing that a bunch of people are getting their green cards before the EAD/AP - hopefully, that'll be the case for you.

[vaksurik 106]

1 minute ago, march16filer said:

I have been hearing that a bunch of people are getting their green cards before the EAD/AP - hopefully, that'll be the case for you.

Yes I’ve been seeing that a lot lately too! Fingers crossed SOMETHING happens soon! 

[Dee28 119]

6 hours ago, Jenny17655 said:

OMG I don't want to wait that long!!!!! The man wants to work yesterday lol.  We are going to go tomorrow.  We called our local SSA officee and they said they don't see anything issued for him and that we can come in with his card and passport blah blah blah

We didn’t do ours with the combo card I did it about two weeks after he was here using his passport and the stamp done when he came in

[redpartner 0]

I got "ready to be scheduled for interview" this week for employment based i485. When can I expect interview and any good resources to prepare?

 

I'm in Manhattan

Edited April 17, 2019 by redpartner

[philipk1 100]

10 hours ago, redpartner said:

I got "ready to be scheduled for interview" this week for employment based i485. When can I expect interview and any good resources to prepare?

 

I'm in Manhattan

What date is your NOA1?

 

[redpartner 0]

57 minutes ago, philipk1 said:

What date is your NOA1?

 

I don't know. I submitted the i485 last summer.

[philipk1 100]

2 hours ago, redpartner said:

I don't know. I submitted the i485 last summer.

I am from Queens and the wait was short me. 

 

However each borough's office has difference processing times, use the link below for an idea.

https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/

 

The times are not 100% accurate. I know a few people that got the interview sooner than the estimated time.

 

Good Luck

[lms 50]

My AOS case has just changed to ready for an interview! Filed late Nov 2017 - Brooklyn. 

 

[Path24 75]

Now they are processing case faster mine was 2017 case took longer it was backlogged but now they getting rid of cases faster mine took almost 1 year 7 months till I get Gc in the hands 

and I had to do medical exam again they ask for medical during the interview. So please have ur medical ready if it’s more than a year. 

[lms 50]

On 4/15/2019 at 8:19 PM, Camie said:

I feel terrible because we already got our interview date last February when our case was still in Queens but we literally just moved to Brooklyn and had to update our new address and they canceled our interview I guess because they moved my case to Brooklyn as well and now I'm back to waiting in limbo 🙃

 

Anyone else in Brooklyn still waiting?!

Uhh.  I do! My AOS PD was Nov 2017 though and my interview has just been scheduled. 

[nullaccount234 882]

Curious, for those of you who have filed for EAD/AP renewals, were you asked to do biometrics again?

[lms 50]

47 minutes ago, LizM said:

Curious, for those of you who have filed for EAD/AP renewals, were you asked to do biometrics again?

No.

[NewJourney2019 2]

Does anyone know if you can you apply for AP after EAD has already been issued? Or just wait for renewal? Do they give you a new card? We didn’t know about it before we applied for AOS