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And here I thought he was a special snowflake. Okay guys - thanks for the help! We shall continue the process in order. Though I will ask my friend again why she got my hopes up

EDIT: sorry it's not November (I mistook the dates). He is eligible to apply for I-751 in May (-90 days of August which is when it expires).

Sorry for the lack of timeline. Here it is below:

• Entered US July 2012
• Married July 2012
• Received Green Card August 2013 (expires August 2015 - 90 May 2015)
• 3 year marriage anniversary July 2015

A friend of mine who works in immigration alerted me to the fact that he may be eligible to apply for N-400 in 2015. So he had to have had possession of the green card for 3 years? I thought that living in the US counted toward his residence time?

My husband's two-year anniversary is coming up in November 2015. We will need to apply to remove conditions. However, he will also be eligible to apply for citizenship as of July 2015 (been in the states for 3 years, married to US citizen for 3 years). Can we bypass the removal of conditions and go straight to citizenship? Or do we apply for both (and pay two fees) at the same time?

Just 5 days shy of 11 months and we've been approved! Card was sent out August 13. Crossing my fingers that the post office will deliver it safely.

We filed September 18. No interview.

Finally! Our case has been moved to Decision. At least it is making progress! Woohoo!

You're not alone, GMa. We are at 10 months and 18 days now and still nothing. Even after a congressional inquiry. But I'm so glad others have gotten approved already!! Our time will come soon

Received a call from the office of another congressman looking into our case. She told me that with the approval of DACA in August 2012, USCIS was forced to shove all other applications aside and focus on the new DACA cases coming in. #######?! And I suppose being in Texas, our case is probably collecting dust somewhere. Though we did find out that it was transferred to our local office in early July.

The senator's office will make another inquiry on our behalf since she realized our local office (Houston) has a January 2013 processing time.

SO FRUSTRATING!

But congratulations on all new approvals! Hope we can say the same soon!!!

Received another letter from my senator saying he has inquired on our case on our behalf. Hope that does something (positive)! Will keep y'all updated.

Oh and congrats to those of you who have gotten approved! Slowly but surely we'll all get there.

Good afternoon all

Well, my positive post from about 4-5 weeks ago led to nothing. I was told that the Dallas Office was dealing with October applications (mine was September) so I would have expected a response. No response, so I called USCIS. They said I can raise a service request...i'd hear back in 15 days....you know the drill. I called on day 16 and just like others have mentioned on here, they said to allow an additional 30 days, so 45 in total for a response. *Queue angry me letting them know that their service levels suck

I was then sent a message from someone on this forum which had a response from USCIS included. They were told that their case is being actively worked and if they do not hear back within 9-12 months, to contact customer support. This is ridiculous. If a case is being 'actively' worked, do you really think it would take 9-12 months to get a response, even if they are busy. After going through the argument I'd have with USCIS in my head, if they had the nerve to send me that letter, I just accepted that this process is way too messed up to even care. I'm with my wife, we have our dog, I have a great job and if this takes 2 months or 2 years, I'm here.

I am however not looking forward to the applications we'll have to go through to get our EAD's extended. On average it takes 65 days to get that and mine took 108 days the first time. I'll be applying earlier, that's for sure.

A question for everyone. What is everyone doing about their drivers license over here? I'm on my UK one which I'm allowed to drive on for a year but that expires in September. I was hoping to get my green card and then apply for a Texas one (you need the green card to apply for the license) but it doesn't look like that is going to happen anytime soon. Has everyone else got a temporary drivers license based off their EAD? That's the route I'm going down now, which will extend my ability to drive to January (when my EAD expires). At that point though, I need to apply for a new temporary license...which takes time apparently because they have to contact USCIS to verify the EAD. Why does everything come back to that ridiculous agency?

Here's a thought, if it takes long enough to process our I-485 applications, are you aware that you can apply for citizenship 3 and a half years after 'arriving' in the country? If I get my citizenship approved before my I-485, that would just be hilarious!!

My husband got his Texas DL in March. He's been driving since then. I think he'll need to renew it in November which is when his EAD expires as well.

I got a response from my senator and representative. We need to fill out privacy authorization forms for them to proceed investigating our case. Let's see where this goes!

Weeeee!!! Congrats!!!!!

What am I missing here - who is Ombudsman?

We're a K-1 Visa case as well - been waiting for 9 months. Good luck!

Yep - we were told the same thing. Placed the service call 15 days ago and placed another yesterday. They said they couldn't do anything until after 30 days because it was at the local office. Whatever...

..... Here we go!

Ha - that phrase reminded me of Shelby Stanga on AxMen. Here we goooo!

Good luck to all - seeing as how many are getting interviews after filing only this year, you all have a good shot of being in that bunch!

I sent off letters to my congressmen. Doubt it will do anything but hey...ya never know!

Ugh - not to sound whiny or anything (or I guess it will sound that way) - but I can't believe people who filed after September (most notably 2 months ago) are already getting their interviews and GCs. What gives? That's it. I'm writing my congressmen. Probably won't do a damn thing but this is beyond ridiculous!

By the way - my husband called USCIS again since it's been 15 days (USCIS said we should hear something in 15 days after our last service call) - and they told him that we need to wait 30 days before they can inquire the local office again. But they did tell us we essentially didn't need the visa any longer since we're past that point in the process. So I think it'd be safe to make the copies and renew his passport.

Welcome to world of immigration. They are frustrating the hell out of us all. What you can do is make several copies of your husbands K1 visa and passport detail then try to renew the passport. If anything happens you'll have proof.

I'm a little leery about making copies. With our luck, the copies won't suffice if we needed the originals for whatever reason and they're stuck at the UK passport office. But we shall see. My husband is going to make another service call to see what they can do for him (ha - had to laugh as I typed that last line...).

Congrats! When did you file?

Have you gotten any response to your spouse's background check? Please share your response, because our case is pending a background check also.

No not yet. On Thursday it will be 15 days.

I haven't read agrabs story yet - I'm afraid to :s We would like to go back to England in December. My husband's passport is set to expire this month but he doesn't want to renew for fear that it will get lost as his K-1 Visa stamp is in it. So now we are forced to wait it out. Ugh - this is so frustrating!!!!

We placed our first service call today and we were told that my hubs was still in the background checking stage (uh duh...). We will get a response within 15 days. They also told us that local processing time was 4 months. Our 9 month mark will be June 19

We are still waiting as well. I saw in another thread that they have started processing October filers :\ What gives?!

Hi - new here. And so glad I came because I was getting worried about our situation. My husband is actually the one awaiting for the interview/GC. USCIS received his I-485 in September and we're still waiting. So I guess it's going to be a long wait if the June/July ones haven't even gotten theirs! Ugh...this bites.