I-485 Interview - Questions with rescheduling date

[cookiechloe 0]

Hi all, 

 

After 10 months since I mailed out my I-130 and I-485 package, I finally received the notice on my interview date. 

 

I am immensely grateful that my immigration process has progressed pretty well thus far but at this near last stage, I may have to delay my own progress by rescheduling the interview date as I have already made prior arrangements to return home in a week's time. The interview date is set in 3 week's time. I wish I can postpone my flight back as I fully understand the seriousness of the interview but I cannot delay my return home this time unfortunately. 

 

- Does anyone has any experience delaying the interview date, especially during times of Covid?

- What questions should I expect when I call to reschedule? 

- What evidence would I need to prepare to support my decision to reschedule? 

- Should the reschedule be successful, how long should I expect the rescheduled date be? (I've heard it could take 6 months)

 

 

Any advice, especially pertaining to this period of Covid helps. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

[Timona 4,207]

3 hours ago, cookiechloe said:

Hi all, 

 

After 10 months since I mailed out my I-130 and I-485 package, I finally received the notice on my interview date. 

 

I am immensely grateful that my immigration process has progressed pretty well thus far but at this near last stage, I may have to delay my own progress by rescheduling the interview date as I have already made prior arrangements to return home in a week's time. The interview date is set in 3 week's time. I wish I can postpone my flight back as I fully understand the seriousness of the interview but I cannot delay my return home this time unfortunately. Rescheduling during COVID is a hit and miss. Your letter may get there on time but rescheduling may take months. It may not get there on time and you end up receiving a letter for no show. It may get there on time but because of backlog, someone will get to it after your interview date. By that time you will have already got a no-show. Then the Tom & Jerry game with USCIS starts..you trying to prove that you were right/ appeal (which takes months to even get to be reviewed). Additionally, getting an info pass right now is like seeking a needle in a haystack.

 

- Does anyone has any experience delaying the interview date, especially during times of Covid? Yes. Rescheduling during COVID might come back to bite you, more so, if it something like an interview. Interview slots are tight right now and there are people who rescheduled, are at 5+ months and are yet to hear from USCIS.

- What questions should I expect when I call to reschedule? None

- What evidence would I need to prepare to support my decision to reschedule? None.

- Should the reschedule be successful, how long should I expect the rescheduled date be? (I've heard it could take 6 months). Yes. And that is why you need to ask yourself which is worse - 3 weeks or 6 month? Getting an interview during COVID is a blessing. I would not reschedule it. I got my N400 interview notice in the mailbox less than 6 hours before my departure. I had even checked myself on the flight the previous night. N400 used to be 4 month from filing to interview pre-COVID. It is now 1 year. The decision here was simple. I canceled that trip. My interview was last week Thursday.

 

My advise - postpone the trip. Go to interview. Fly the next day. I would dare not reschedule an interview during COVID.

 

 

Any advice, especially pertaining to this period of Covid helps. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

 

[Chancy 6,241]

*** Moved from IR1/CR1 Progress Reports to AOS Progress Reports -- OP is asking about AOS interview rescheduling ***