No decision or update 10 months post AOS interview

[daboy 26]

Hey guys,

 

I'll try and keep this short as I can 😅:

I'm finding myself at an infuriating crossroad in my AOS application and would greatly appreciate any help/suggestions.

 

Myself and my wife have been together for almost 6 years now and we finally tied the knot last year in March in the US on a K1 visa.  We applied for AOS on March 11 2018, went through biometrics and had our interview scheduled in Baltimore on November the 9th.  We had an abundance of evidence with a strong timeline of our relationship in our packet.

 

To be blunt, the young interviewer seemed rather unprofessional from the get go.  Upon starting the interview, the officer stated that he hadn't had time to look over our case as he had just come off his lunch break....?  So we explained our journey to him with him asking the odd question.  He asked a few more basic questions such as my wife's birthday, vise versa (which we were expecting) and then began looking at the photos we submitted.  At one point he literally said that it was okay that my wife had daddy issues because her father wasn't present at our wedding...?  How do you even respond to that lol.

But anyway at the end of the interview he noted that a decision couldn't be made without speaking to his supervisor and that we should hear something back within 120 days... that was 10 months ago with absolutely no further correspondence at all.

I am unable to attain the financial license I require without a green card, so I'm working a completely irrelevant sales job as I was anticipating this to be a rather quick journey (Foolishly).  So this is pretty frustrating.

I have a strong feeling that after the interview this officer has just placed the paperwork in a completely unorganized cabinet never to see light again and went straight back to watching Dragon BallZ on his computer.

 

 

As of yet I've tried everything that I can think of:

I've tried multiple times to make an info pass appointment but everybody I speak to, including the higher level officers tell me that InfoPass appointments are solely for emergencies now.

I've made multiple service requests that keep coming back with the case is within processing times (Which is 31 months!)

I've contacted the Obundsman and have had the exact same response as the service requests

I'm also in the process of trying to get congressional help, but they seem as inefficient as USCIS unfortunately.

 

 

Has anybody had a similar experience to this?/If so how did you overcome it?

 

Many thanks guys!!

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

The last measure would be getting a lawyer to file a writ of mandamus, which would compel them into taking a decision.

Unfortunately, that poses the risk of being denied if at the time, they consider there is more evidence required or the review was not completed.