US Immigration from New Zealand

Have our interview next Thursday 24th July.

Has anyone got any advice to prepare us for it. I have all the documents as listed on the interview letter. But if anyone has sone other information they think we should take along, we'd be super appreciative.

Thanks in advance.

PS, it's my 50th birthday the day after, so I have my fingers crossed that I get an awesome present from USCIS. LoL

Mailed in I-765 - Jan 20

USCIS received - Mar 3 (I have no idea why it took so long to recieve it)

Case reviewed- Mar 25

Current status says application is under review with expected decision in 3 months.

This seems out of the ordinary with a lot of others getting there EAD within a month of mailing it in.

Is anyone else getting a similar estimate of time to get a decision.

Hi all, received an RFE regarding my i485 a little over a week ago requesting resubmission of my husbands i864.

Just to be safe his mom has offered to be a joint sponsor. We all live together however we are completely financially separate. Would she be included in the total household size?

And would it be best for her to file i864a or i864 if she is going to be my joint sponsor? Thanks so much in advance:)

Hi all!
PD is 02/14/2025 for my i485, husband is a USC. A few days ago we received an RFE for the i864, I believe this is because our lawyer did not update our household size after my baby was born when we filed initially. Our lawyer is asking $1000 to respond to the RFE which after paying $5000 for the initial filing isn't financially feasible for us.

She has strongly advised against us firing her and finishing the case out ourselves because the i864 RFE is apparently difficult?

Would ya'll agree with this? I don't want to mess anything up. Also a second question in case we do self file. We live with my MIL in her finished basement, however our finances are in no way co-mingled. Would we include her in the total household size? She is going to be a joint sponsor because my husband hasn't worked very long so I imagine USCIS would scrutinize if we left her put then they saw her address is the same. Thanks in advance

I sent my I-485 to the Chicago Lockbox mid Dec last year and my I-765 in mid Jan this year.

I recieved an I-797 for the I-485 and have been through biometrics appointment and the case is in progress. However I never recieved an I-797 for the I-765 and they have also not cashed the check for the I-765.

I sent an email query 19th Feb and got an automated response saying they would respond within 30 days but have not had a reply, still no I-797 and they still haven't cashed the check.

I rung the USCIS help number, got stuck in a loop where they need the receipt number from the I-797 and no amount of asking the AI if I can speak to a representative would put me through, it would just continue the loop or hang up on me.

I sent a follow up email on the 20th Mar, got the automated response again saying they would respond within 30 days.

So I am stuck, I cannot talk to anyone without a receipt number, but I have not been given a receipt number.

Anyone have any cool tricks up their sleeve that I could try to get this moving along?

Thanks in advance.