MissSarah

I applied before I left, file was on hold until I submitted EAD and other documents. After that was sorted, I received EI.
I think there is a time limit to apply, something like within 4 weeks of loss of job, otherwise this can cause a loss of benefits.

I applied before I left, file was on hold until I submitted EAD and other documents. After that was sorted, I received EI.
I think there is a time limit to apply, something like within 4 weeks of loss of job, otherwise this can cause a loss of benefits.

You are supposed to apply within 4 weeks after ending your job. It can be denied but you can also ask for an appeal. If you claim after those 4 weeks you may lose on benefits.

Great info. Your case is proceeding well and as you expected you will not be interviewed. All good news. It again reverifies the apparent fact that they work by NOA1 and not NPIW letter date. This is why it appears that approved cases jump from one NPIW date to another and then back.
You should be hearing soon...thanks again for your efforts...

Speaking as someone who has previously worked nights I can tell you that it's a very very VERY bad idea to do anything important straight after a night shift. But you've realised that the hard way now. Working a night shift is 10 times harder than working a super busy day shift. Working nights causes chaos in the body and the brain because the human body is created to sleep when it's dark and be awake when the sun is up.
If you get a second chance, make sure your wife is off the night before or get an interview in the afternoon so she can sleep a little. If you get denied, I would appeal on the basis of your wife going straight from a night shift to the interview. There is soooooo much research on the dangers of working night shift on a regular basis. Working nights have been linked to a variety of illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and mind diseases such as Alzheimer's. Google all that research and put that as proof that your wife was basically out of her mind at the interview. There's specifically a very thorough Danish research done on this which actually prompted the Danish government to implement regulations on how long and often people are allowed to work nights. I'll see if I can find a link for it. Good luck!

I completely disagree with Vol.
Seems like you are afraid you will lose your child and a divorce may be looming.
If she leaves and gives birth in Honduras, you will have to fight in Honduras for custody. You will not win.
If she stays in the US and gives birth, she would need your cooperation to get a US passport allowing your child to leave the country. If she sneaks the child out, you can file a international parental kidnapping report which would screw her for stealing your baby. If you fight for custody in the US, you have a good chance for custody.

With Feb 18th fast approaching, remember the new and improved old saying, "...an interview in the hand is worth 2 NPIW letters in the drawer..." (anonymous, 2015)

Here is what the President's executive action will do.
Expanding the population eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to people of any current age who entered the United States before the age of 16 and lived in the United States continuously since January 1, 2010, and extending the period of DACA and work authorization from two years to three years. USCIS will begin accepting requests for expanded DACA on February 18, 2015
Allowing parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to request deferred action and employment authorization for three years, in a new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents* program, provided they have lived in the United States continuously since January 1, 2010, and pass required background checks
Expanding the use of provisional waivers of unlawful presence to include the spouses and sons and daughters of lawful permanent residents and the sons and daughters of U.S. citizens
Modernizing, improving and clarifying immigrant and nonimmigrant visa programs to grow our economy and create jobs
Promoting citizenship education and public awareness for lawful permanent residents and providing an option for naturalization applicants to use credit cards to pay the application fee
I agree with GiuseppeG, the first DACA initiative was for children that were brought here at a very young age against their will by their parents, and studied here and know no other country other than the United States. I applauded the President the day he announced it. The President's recent executive action extends far beyond DACA. Now starting Feb 18th it will shield people that came to the US willingly and illegally and their applications will cause even larger delays and will have priority over our applications sitting at the National Benefits Center gathering dust and cobwebs. Now do you think that's fair to us? I'm sorry, but I don't think that's fair. I lived in Mexico with my wife for years. I lived through all of the violence in Ciudad Juarez fearing for my life and not once did I consider having my then fiance enter illegally into the United States. Instead we waited and the day DOMA was struck down by the Supreme Court I cried tears of joy. We waited to do things right and legally, and boy was it a long wait for us. We didn't take the easy way out.

I think all the things that make our AOS case delay is not because of other immigrants. It's the duty of USCIS to be responsible for their work. I know that different kind of applicants have different wait time.
But if we focus on only K1 AOS, the standard is still not good. Lucky persons get interview and get approved much faster than interview waiver cases. There is no equality even with the same kind of application. Why? I don't know....the easy case takes more time...not make sense.
I honestly don't care about how long I have to wait, I'm fine if I have to wait 2 years but just tell me I have to wait 2 years not 6 months!
The true is USCIS is not able to make judgement on our cases within 6 month from the letter date as promised; and most of us have hard time contacting them with no answer.
Sorry that I complained a lot today...because this really affect my family life.
Good Luck to everyone

They're likely referring to the scaremongering statement from the USCIS union last year. It simply referred to the plan to expand eligibility for interview waiver cases. I highly doubt there's any way USCIS is going to reduce the processing and background checks for AOS cases.
Please don't take this as an attack on you, but more on general things I see expressed here frequently: the anti-DACA sentiment here is outstanding and misguided. DACA is for people who were brought here as children, through no fault or choice of their own. All of these people at least partially grew up in the United States, attended school here, entered the workforce and paid taxes, etc. Many won't even know of life anywhere else because they came here so young, and yet they grow up in the total nightmare scenario of having no legal status in the only place they know as home, entirely because of decisions made outside of their control. And then here you have spouses of US citizens weighing themselves up against people that actually grew up in this country yet face the threat of deportation every day. Saying that one of these groups deserves their green cards over the other is a very black and white dismissal of a scenario that is almost entirely grey area. It is so counterproductive to say that someone needs to go to the "back of the line" (in quotes because there never is a back of the line), because it's simply not a situation that the government can keep ignoring.
As for the expansion of deferred action - that hasn't even happened yet, so I find it very tough to swallow this idea that it's impacting current cases in any sort of meaningful way.
Re. USCIS adjudicators facing unnecessary paperwork - well, it's their job. They are public servants. In one breath people here are berating them for their uselessness, and in the next expressing personal concern for their workload, because it fits some united standpoint against undocumented immigrants. While I see it as completely right for them to demand budget or staffing increases to deal with an increase in workload, or to raise valid concerns about security, I don't think their politicized attempts to obstruct immigration policy hold any weight.
Ultimately, any beef with the USCIS policies, processing times or delays need to be directed at the USCIS, and not at other applicants. The demand should be for USCIS to increase their processing capacity or to work more efficiently, rather than for other cases to be deprioritized because some consider them undeserving. People really need to stop pitting themselves against others in some sort of turf war over who deserves to be here more. It's a very juvenile way of tackling a very real problem. Try and think a little selflessly when assessing the value of the lives of complete strangers. Live and let live.

"Card in production" message this AM after "Approval Notice" on 2/2 (Welcome letter mailed on 01/30 and yet to be received).
Again, February filer, and 06/05 NPIW recipient here.

Do not make any fixed plans for your wedding until you have the visa in hands. You never know how long it might take.

ZERO CHANCE.

Your sister-in-law and her son are both very, very likely to get into a lot of trouble over this sooner or later. Big mistake. She probably needs a lawyer.

If you enter on VWP with the intent to marry and stay it is fraud. If you enter on VWP with the intent to be a visitor and return home it is not fraud. If during your visit you decide to marry, it is also not fraud. It all comes down to intent.

Stop paying the lawyer. Seriously, it may be more problems than what it's worth, especially if your lawyer is "moving everything" around and condoning visa fraud.
If your fiancé submits the I-129F petition now, you may likely have your visa interview this summer. You may not be waiting as long as you think. Your fiancé is from Iowa same as me, which means his petition will likely go to California, which is usually very fast on approving I-129F petitions. You just need to make sure that you have a good petition and all your required documents are there. Your fiancé will need from you (meaning you need to mail to him):
a letter of intent to marry, signed and dated a Form G-325A, signed and dated one passport photo (2in x 2in size, or 51mm by 51mm) Read the guides at the top for the K-1 visa: http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide
Also look at some example forms: http://www.visajourney.com/content/examples
If you need help with any part of the process, feel free to ask as I've been there and I am fairly knowledgeable of the process.

With the interminable wait times and their continued hurry up and wait letters, your interview is a gift...You say, WHAT?!?!! Yes it took them 7 months from the letter to get around to scheduling an interview. Yeah they should have done it earlier and if they had you would have received your GC in July or August...But you don't know how long it will take to process all the 6/27 letter holders. You now have a date for action. It is rare to not get their GC soon thereafter. You know that your file is being touched by a real person...I would bet that you will get your GC before us...our case is old and moldy in the sub-sub-basement of the NBC, not soon to be found...
I would be jumping up and down right now if we got an interview request...

She more than likely they will be interviewed. I described here a similar story with minimal documents and questionable circumstances who got one of those "miracle" interviews and GC 6 months ago. She submitted 2 weeks after us. We rue the day that we flooded the embassy with tons of evidence...we now pay the price for our attempts to play by the rules...And so are all the rest of us on this thread...

Hi Eric,
I suggest you take a look at the K1 Visa Guide. http://www.visajourney.com/content/k1guide

No....you NEED divorce decrees from ALL previous marriages.....don't file the petition until these are in hand.

Start the process of obtaining certified copies of the divorce certificate. It is going to be needed. Might as well get several copies. They will be needed in the future.

This is visa fraud and therefore terrible advice.

hmm...we borrowed a key from the nearby church and asked the bishop to marry us in the back garden of the church. We ordered about 30 sandwiches from Beach Deli for the 25-30 people, bought about 5 boxes of raspberry (my favorite) and put like 5-6 piece into small SOLO cups. Then bought paper plates, napkin. The whole thing probably cost about $250 or $300 the most. And does my husband regret it wasn't a bigger one? No. Do I regret that we didn't have a bigger one? No. It was the best day of our lives, and we often look at the pictures our relatives took (no official photographer or anything) and smile how great day that was.

I'm assuming 9-12 months starting today...
Well this is what USA is all about... I guess illegal immigrants can't blame me if I am against on the Executive Action because of what I've been through. I went thru legal way and I have to endure all of this mess.

While I agree that patience is a virtue and it's often not worth getting too deep in frustration over individual cases, I think the more people that push back against USCIS and escalate their issues, the better. Their processing goal for I-485s is 4 months, and this is nowhere near being met in many cases. USCIS has a commitment to process cases in a timely fashion and, again, this is something that is just not happening for large numbers of people.
Along with a lack of capacity, the arbitrary manner in which cases are adjudicated results in vastly different service levels for different filers, all of whom have invested a lot of money and energy. Through no fault of my own, other people who filed on the same date as me, and paid the exact same sum of money as me, may be granted permanent residence months or even a year or more ahead of me. That's not an isolated incident, it's routine, and the implications are very real. These people can apply for citizenship much earlier, access federal student aid, hold federal government jobs, buy property with much fewer restrictions, the list goes on. No matter how much you can do without a green card, not having one is a hindrance.
There's always going to be cases that require extra processing or that get held up at certain points, and that's fine. But instead, what we have now is wide-ranging delays across the board, without any guidance on realistic processing times, without any ability to access accurate information and without any promise that the situation will be resolved.
I personally am not all that fussed about a longer wait, but I absolutely understand anyone that is and I applaud them for their efforts in trying to get answers or resolutions that could benefit all of us.