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has your check been cashed yet?

Congrats to everyone! Received the 3 text messages 7am this morning!

has your check been cashed yet?

Finally !!!!!! I also received email and notifications yesterday @ 11:35 PM

Well, ours was delivered on the 3rd as well, looking forward to get a text today then!

Hi guys!

Same here:

I have sent the package to Chicago Illinois on 1st of October 2016 and UPS tracking show that they have signed on 3rd of October 2016.

Today is the 17th and check has not been cashed and no news yet!

Should we worry about it?

looks like it should be cashed any day, there are a few of us like you are,

You find them here:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/131-adjustment-of-status-case-filing-and-progress-reports/

Thanks!

I send my package directly to NSC not to AZ Lockbox.

Visa category: EB4,

I-485 Service center: NSC

I-485, I-765 and I-131 Filed: Oct 01 2016

I-485, I-765 and I-131 Received: Oct 03 2016

I-485, I-765 and I-131 receipt notice: WAITING

Check cashed (for I-485): WAITING

Biometric notice received:

Biometric date:

I-131 approved:

I-765 approved:

Combo card ordered:

Combo card mailed:

Biometric done:

do you have any updates? My F2A was mailed over on the 1st and delivered on the 3rd. Did you check get cashed?

We sent ours in on the 1st! USPS said it was delivered on the 3rd, but we haven't received a text back yet. Hopefully we'll hear back soon. Good luck to everyone! Looking forward to hearing all the stories and just being more relaxed in this process than our K1!

the same problem here - kind of concerned now. Did your check get cashed?

Yeah many. Follow the AOS September/October filers.

Do you have a link by any chance, please?

I've looked it up - could not find.

Thanks!

I have sent out an I-485 for my wife just recently, it was delivered on OCT 3, 2016. She's in the F2A category and happened to be current in the October VB.

I am kind of concerned that neither my check has been cashed nor receipt has been emailed/mailed/texted.

I have never seen USCIS take that long for NOA1.

Does someone have similar experience or have any advises?

Thank you!

Yep, should be accepted. CA licenses are accepted.

Just get a refugee traveling passport - that's it. For K-1 list the embassy in Italy and no nationality, that's it.

Hoping that USCIS will accept the filing dates in the October 2016 VB.

Any ideas/suggestions?

I am sure that I am not the only one who is super excited!

I think so, and I even thing that they will accept the filing dates as well.

How long until you become a U.S. citizen? Where is your wife now?

Can you imagine the stress of being out of status in the U.S.? Constantly worried if they are looking for you. Unable to work or drive? Relatively low independence? You'd want to put your wife through that?

Good luck

It could be 3-4 months only. She has been in and out a few times, her PD is OCT 13, 2015 - so hopefully USCIS will accept the dates for AOS applications in October and we can apply. She is in Russia now. 3 more years...

just wanted to give you an update on my case, it was finally re opened and then approved . I now have my Greencard! Thank you everyone who helped :-) and I wish everyone good luck and success on their applications :-)

very nice and happy for you! You still had to pay a fee to re-open the case? Was it hard? Did you have an attorney? What category of a green card they gave you?

Agree. There was a case which was denied after the interview. USCIS definitely made a mistake by scheduling an interview when the PD was not current. They should have simply kept the file on record after approval and scheduled the interview only after PD becomes current. I think the person is appealing the denial. Lets see where it goes.

well who cares when they schedule for an interview, what matters is that they approve/deny based on real facts not not make a mistake. If they want they can schedule the next day and then hold on with the case until it's current... Right?

So based on that, are we sure it's all USCIS error in these cases? Or is it possible that it was current when filed but not when it came to be adjudicated?

Although I was under the impression that USCIS would just let those applications remain pending rather than deny them...

then they should have kept those cases pending until the date is current or so. But not just deny! Agree?

This is total guesswork and I hope someone more knowledgeable will chime in to disprove this if I am wrong:

Is there a chance that the PD has to be current BOTH at the time of filing AND at the time of adjudication?

if you apply under the AOS dates, then your date has to be current under that category and also you have to be current under Filing Action Dates on the day your application gets approved. A bit convoluted but this is the way it is

Most of them applied from October to March and got denied because of the "wrong" priority date... USCIS just keeps making mistakes...?

I am a GCH, just for my spouse - OCT 13, 2015. Desperately waiting for USCIS to accept the dates in October.

Look below - I was discussing these issues:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/592590-f2a-485-aos-denied-need-help/

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/598173-f2a-with-current-pd-in-us-currently-processing-aos-ap-and-ead/

Maybe there is a definition confusion. I-485 AOS is "Adjustment of Status" or Green Card Application. It's not a Visa application to come to the United States.

I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status

Correct, I know that. Still not understanding where the visa application came from. I was talking about AOS in the original post. It's either AOS or a consular processing for an immigrant visa to come here. Anything I am missing?

Final action dates need to be used for AOS. AOS is NOT a visa application.

Excuse me? AOS application is the I-485 application.

so I have seen a number of threads where people complained that they applied with the right PD but USCIS still denied their application based on the priority date. I was wondering what the best option in this case is. Appeal it? Re-apply? Still have to pay if if one tries to appeal it!?

I have seen a number of denials by USCIS for F2A applicants based on the "wrong" priority date even though USCIS has listed the dates for Dates for Filing Visa Applications.

Is there anything we can do to prevent it or does anyone have updates regarding what was done and what the outcomes were?

Should those decisions be appealed or any other ideas?

My wife (already have approved I-130 in F2A) came in here on March 6, 2016 and will be going back on June 19, 2016. So she spent here 3.5 months, she will be in her country for 2 months and will be traveling here for another 1.5 months. Before that she has been here for 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks and this time it's 3.5 months. She does have at least $50-60 in the bank account and runs her business in Russia and can show proof of the business certificate.

Can someone please advice and/or share experiences of going through customs at JFK (we figured it's the less hassle POE)? We are doing consular processing and she has been here numerous times... Anyways, any ideas, experiences and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

PS: I know someone who travelled back home every 5.5-6 months for 2-3 weeks and had no problem at POE.

It's hard to predict their logistics for sure.

not accepted - OMG! I have a feeling that it won't be accepted until FY 17. Uuugh, what a nightmare!