AncaFab

Hey AncaFab, same here, 1/27 and 1/18!

Hi AncaFab,
We are in sync. Our check is finally being processed today and VSC also received ours on 1/17. Waiting for NOA now! 
It seems like VSC is moving a bit slowly though compared to CSC. 

I received the notification that card was mailed in the morning and got tracking number at night on the same day. I think sometime it might be late and somebody got tracking number on the date of delivery.
Good Luck

Im sure you will, they have a backlog from visajourney, but from what I can gather they seem to be very efficient and the USCIS have to respond within 60 days, normally a lot sooner. USCIS are going to be running around looking for files and ringing field offices to see if there has been a decision.

I was thinking about calling them and telling them about this site and how we know who and who does not get approved. See what they have to say about people getting approvals shortly of receiving the NPIW and approvals jumping all over the place.

That's why they don't have time to process Green Cards! They are too busy texting!

Mixed emotions. I am happy for the couple, they are extremely lucky, but I am literally sick to my stomach right now...

Hate to burst your bubble but isn't it closed today for Presidents Day or something? I might be wrong, but I am sure they close during public holidays!

Happy New Year! And let's hope that we get our approvals very soon...

Well guys its New Years Eve so we can only pray, and I REALLY do think that once January is here we're going to see movement, the people at USCIS will pull their ####### together.. I hope anyways

Heh I know right?
This is what upsets me the most. We paid the $330 for our K1, spent ages putting together paperwork, waited for the K1s to process, pay for the medical, pay for the visa to be issued, then pay another $1070 and this is where we all are at the moment. Stuck in limbo land.
were all here legally, and yet, the people who come here illegally or whatever just get interviews after like 2 months and get their cards, while we who did everything right seem to get punished for it. It's so upsetting!!
And the fact we have to do our medicals again, cmon for real? I bet all those people that are here illegal don't have to have one, and those people even get benefits and stuff yet if one of us fell on hard times we would get in tons of trouble for it
I get people here ask me, "oh I always thought once you got married you became a citizen automatically?"
Maybe that used to be the case, but it can't be anymore, because you get all those bloody people who come over here and trick some poor USC into marriage or they come here and as soon as they get their GC they lie and turns out they just used the USC. It's people like THAT who are the reason we all get dragged through all of this
All of us who genuinely love our partners have to wait while they sift through all the BS lies and fraud applications while we have to wait
Sorry for ranting but I just don't think it's fair that us honest and genuine people have to wait while the people who just come here for all the wrong reasons get a ticket to the front... :/

Welcome to The Slow Train To Nowhere! We're pleased to have you with us! Now find a seat and make yourself VERY comfortable. It's gonna be a long ride! :-)

Been watching this thread for many months now. This is our first forey in to the muck and mire of this topic here. We sped throught the K-1 process in 3-1/2 months. Bombed them with a ton of documentation -- big mistake...My wife arrived from Uzbekistan 0n 2/1/14. We were married on 2/12/14. We filed our AOS through our immigration attorney, who because his legal secretary was on vacation, the I-485 package was delayed untill late March. NOA 4/2/14. Like everyone else, biometric and EAD/AP without a hitch. Our Notice of Potential Waiver of Interview arrived on 6/27/14.
My wife met another woman at the Tashkent embassy while processing her K-1. This woman had a questionable relationship (knew the guy two months before petioning and her ex-husband is already in US). She arrived a week after my wife and filed her AOS a week later than ours. She was given an interview request in early June. Was interviewed in early July at the NYC Federal Building and had a green card mid month. Her file was questionable and she was culled for further review. Hence my saying it was a mistake to bomb the embassy with more information than they really need. Maybe just enough to get a K-1, but not enough to get an AOS without interview...Oh well...
Made inquiries to NBC in Sept, impatient as is everyone else. A hick-sounding, slow Midwest drawling gentleman at USCIS told us to be patient and wait. He said he wondered how the woman I just discussed got her GC so fast -- he said she was unusual and we were not...maddening...but you all know that...
My lawyer made inquiry at the same time...no response fron USCIS...
Contacted my Congresswoman as well in Sept. They got a response that a NPWI was pending from Jun 27th, so tell your constiuents to cool their jets and wait...
My Sentators office wouldn't even talk to me because we were still "in Processing Time"...
So we waited...The rollercoaster was just as bad as everyone else writing here...TIme ticked down to 12/27/14...Kept an eye on the USCIS processing time.
When the recent update to the Processing Times for I-485 for the NYC office were posted last week for 10/31/14; we now landed outside the Processing window. I was ticked. So as others here have done, I called NBC and filed a service request (12/4/14). I was assured that our file was in the NYC office (ha! I believed that like I believe in the toothfairy). So we stared waiting the requesite 15 days for a response (with a ticket # ending in NYC).
Then this weekend happened. On Sunday our modern day equivalent to Pearl Harbor occurred. At 11:10 am we got not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, we got five texts saying we had a change in status. We were first excited, but then I noticed the case identifier number was wrong; it started with EAC not MSC...and lo and behold it was an update on our long ago approved I-129F and not only that it said our file was transferred for further review from 8/13 and not approved as it was in 9/13...Needless to say I was very hot...a very cruel, sick joke
Yesterday we got 2 more early morning texts for the same file, before I could even call USCIS...this time the status site congratulated me on approval of my petition - gee thanks.
So I called USCIS and asked what the heck was going on. Was this a reponse to our service request? The flunky in Tier 1 said that it was probably due to site maintanance. I said put me through to Tier 2. When Tier 2 got back to me two hours later, the guy said it was a result of the new web page and they were re-inputing data. He admitted 7 SMS's were excessive (ya think...). While I was on the phone, I had him give me more info on our AOS. And as expected, he told me our file was NOT in the NYC office, it was still [rotting, my word] in NBC. Big surprise...He said we should be hearing on the service request this week. Gee thanks...
I called my lawyer and he had already put in a call to the NYC office and was waiting for a supervisor to call (as of today, the supervisor has not responded). He has submitted a service request as well...He told me that a service request goes directly to the processing officer who has the file, not to the Local Office if it is not there and that the NYC at the end of the service request ticket we got was only an indicator of our location and not a request directly to the NYC office...He knows better than me (I guess), that's why I hired him...
My Congresswoman's office is now filing another inquire; much good that'll do...
My useless Senator (the one that is minimally helpful - the other is a pompous good for nothing,,,but I digress) has yet to return my call...big surprise...
So like everyone else we wait...We are happy to see that late April and June 5th NPIW letter dates are now getting action and GC's; congratulations guys.
I have one thing to get off my back - this 2 tier (maybe 3 if you consider "dreamers" into the mix) system stinks. If your marriage is of questionable nature, you get an interview and a quick GC. And if you are open, honest and play by the rules you rot. Why don't they reinsert the interviewed files back with all the rest of us to process GC's? It is totally unfair. But that doesn't matter to an agency that is beholding to no one because they work for fees, not tax dollars. I spent 23 years in the USAF and this is the thanks I get...

No one can represent us to talk the USCIS people about our situation? Even just to ask for what's going on with our cases and why it takes a year or more just to get our gc? Such a bunch of lazy asses there I thought this only happens in my country.

I stepped away from the forums for a while because I decided to try not to worry so much about the waiting, in a way I was kinda relieved to get the waiver letter because now I know why it's taking so long,
but at the end of the day, at least this isn't as painful as the K1 process. We get to be with our husband and wives and this whole thing goes from being a constant worry (like it is with the K1) to just a nagging feeling in the back of our minds
Though, I do feel in a way like we are all being delayed even though we did the right thing. Applied for the K1, waited patiently, came over correctly and did our AOS papers on time
Whereas you get people who come over on the VWP, and overstay on purpose to run around the K1 requirement to get married and then file AOS, and they go and get AOS approved faster than we do!! While all of us who did the K1 get this letter and have to wait an additional 6 or so months.
I'm glad we did this the right way, but I'm not gonna lie, makes me kinda mad that the people who took a "shortcut" get there first...I don't mean to offend anybody but surely I can't be alone in thinking this :S

Departments within the same agencies don't even work together in my experience!

Lol...true

Wife and I had our interview today. Simplest thing in the world. Very casual she had us both in the office the whole time. The few things she did ask were about how we met, similar to the K1 interview. She then took the copies of items we brought to show co-mingling of asserts like bank papers, house title, insurance, etc. She told us it all seems good and she just has to do a standard computer check and she'd likely have a decision by the end of today.
All told we were in and out in an hour, but the first 20-30 minutes we were waiting in the lobby. Come to find out that the officer didn't realize she had an interview scheduled today.
I did ask why the status online hasn't updated and she told us that in Alaska, because there are so many remote areas that they do all their own scheduling and they, as a local office, don't have access to the national database. She said it will update when she orders the green card.

sed on April 15th, delivered on April 18th

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Go team Romania. Lets hope everything goes as quickly and as smoothly as the K-1 went for us.

Hi my biometrics appointment was on the 7th March at Drummond Rd Philadelphia, but I went & did a walk in today instead as my wife is working on the Thursday night as she is a nurse so will be fast a sleep at my appointment time lol. I had no problems going in early they were very helpful & it was very quite there when I went.

Hello everybody!
I'm a new member here! I would like to join with you guys cuz it seems that we all applied for a green card at the same month.
My husband sent concurrent filing package on 04/08, and it was delivered on 04/10. My husband and I have been waiting for USCIS's email. We are nervous a little bit cuz We did all the forms by ourselves. Hopefully, everything is fine !
By the way, good luck to everyone!

Welcome to the new journey....Good luck to you !!

Well, my interview is tomorrow and I'm, obviously, pretty much terrified. It feels like this journey has taken forever, but if we get a yes tomorrow, then our journey has just begun :-)
I've copied my entire packet, have a co-sponsor as back-up, triple-checked that I brought my passport, birth certificate, divorce decree and police certificate. I'm as ready as I can be - one final hurdle and I can be with my soulmate.
Wish us luck folks. And congrats to everyone who has reached the end of the K-1 journey successfully.

Congratulations!

Our visa status on CEAC is now Ready! Hoping to have visa in hand within a week.