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I'm a YSC applicant, and I too have gotten no news since fingerprints appointment in January. My date was 9/6.

Why is there no estimate for YSC on VJ?

Filed ROC September 2019, Biometrics January 2020. Haven't heard anything since. Online status never updated after biometrics. It's still showing Case was Received. 

I'm seeing others LIN, EAC etc with aug/sep dates getting approved. Is it true that they're mostly approving without interviews now because of COVID?

Why is YSC not showing up on VJ timelines?

I was getting worried about not having received a biometrics letter yet but I see that I'm not alone. I guess the Potomac service center works a little slower. 

I sent mine in Sep 6 - it's now been 3 months and still no biometrics letter. It's weird because for AOS, I got my biometrics letter within a month of sending the package in. 🤷‍♂️

How long does it usually take to receive the biometrics appointment letter? And how many days after the letter is it usually scheduled for? I'll be out of state for work until 10/28, and I'm really hoping that they won't schedule it until I go back home but I get the feeling I might just have to fly back home for the biometrics appointment. 

Is a biometrics appointment always required as part of ROC? or is it sometimes waived like the interview?

Hi guys, 

I recently sent my ROC application in and received a NOA that serves as evidence of my resident status for 18 months. (Impressed that they issue them for 18 months now, the backlog must be insane). Do I need to update this information on the global entry website? I don't think there's a way to put a I-797 extension, so would I just change my green card expiration date to May 2021, or should I keep it as what's on the plastic card itself?

I know the GE kiosks won't recognize the I-797 and won't like my expired green card either, but can I still use that line and just talk to the CBP officer when I get to them or do I have to use the long line instead? Even with the long line, most aiports now require that you use a kiosk for the USC/LPS lines. So I'm not sure how that will work either. 

Regardless, I'm sure getting in with the extension letter won't be an issue once I make it this far. I'm more concerned about the document check before you board the aircraft, this is usually done by locals there and they might not know what the extension letter is and give me trouble thinking I'm trying to board with an expired green card. Similar thing happened last time I tried to board with my EAD/AP combo card, they didn't know what it was. The words "Valid for advance parole" isn't immediately obvious to most foreigners who are not familiar with the process. This has been a total non-issue since I got my green card, but I feel like now I'm back to questioning whether this random Belgian/French/Japanese person is going to recognize my perfectly valid, yet perhaps unusual, travel documents.

Thanks again for all the help, couldn't have made it this far without y'alls support!

Hello everyone,

My permanent resident card expires at the end of November. Hence the application window opens at the end of August. I have two main questions,

1. I'll be traveling back home to Belgium for family reasons from 8/22 to 9/3. Do you think I'll have any issues traveling with a green card that's expiring in November? Either when leaving the country, entering the country on my way back, or even when boarding the flight coming back to the US where they'll check my greencard.

(I've heard of people getting turned down at the airport when traveling with a passport that expires in the next 3 months. My passport is good until 2026, it's just my greencard that expires 11/30/2019)

2. I'll send the application packet as soon as I get back from Belgium. However, from 9/8 to 10/28 I'll be in Florida for work. I live in Virginia, so I'm wondering how that's going to work with the biometrics appointment. If I remember correctly, that usually happens about a month or so after applying. They will probably give me an appointment here in Virginia. Will I have to come back from Florida to do this, or can I go a processing center in Florida to do this? I'm not concerned about the interview etc, since that probably won't happen for another year or so haha. My husband will still be here, so receiving mail won't be an issue.

Thanks, I appreciate the help!

I know this is a stretch but, has anyone ever tried to cash a US check in Turkey? I'm trying to send some money to a friend in need. I've heard PayPal is no longer available over there, so I figured mailing a check is the next best thing. I just wasn't sure if Turkish banks would even know what this is... American banking system is decades behind and not having an IBAN code system is really frustrating. Is it possible to get a US bank account with an IBAN?

Thank you

I ticked multiple trips and put in a random date for the intended travel date. I wasn't planning on going anywhere but I always like to have the option. Just in case something happens back home and I need to go for an emergency or something. It was just a little something to help me feel more at ease, as opposed to feeling like I can't leave the country until my greencard comes, especially when there's almost no way of knowing how long the AOS process is going to take.

My EAD/AP combo card was issued with the serves as advance parole statement on it, I don't think it matters very much for AOS applicants what you check on the form. That's intended more for refugee travel documents and such. So don't read too much into it. It will be fine.

good luck!

A virginia marriage certificate will always have the maiden name. When you go the DMV and social security office you bring the cert. with you and they change the name to one of the names already on the certificate if that makes sense.

As in, either the wife can take the husbands name or the husband can take the wifes name - or you can hyphenate or whatever but this is to make sure people arent making up new last names. You have to go through the court system for a brand new last name, or you can do it when you become a citizen, but not through marriage.

We live in Virginia and my US spouse changed his last name to mine, it was pretty easy. We just went to the DMV and the social security office with a certified copy of our marriage certificate and it only took half a day. It really doesn't matter, but we changed our name before sending the paperwork to USCIS. We got married 1/1 and submitted everything 1/18. If you change your name during your application, I would assume you'd just have to bring updated documents to the interview. It's like changing an address, we moved during the process and we are going to bring all our updated documents during the interview including our joint lease for the new apartment.

The only thing to worry about is getting a greencard and then changing your name and having to get another one... You might think surely a replacement card would be quicker but nothing is ever quick when it comes to USCIS.

I would assume changing your last name looks better on paper too. I guess fewer people would go as far as changing their name just to get a green card.

Wish you best of luck! Happy thanksgiving!

Hey all,

We finally received an interview date and trying to figure out what exactly we need to bring with us. So far we have,

• Joint apartment lease
• Joint bank accounts
• Auto insurance with both our names
• Auto loan with my name (the immigrant) and father-in-law (purely credit score reasons, we wanted to put me and my husband (USC) but we needed my father-in-law)
• Original passports for both of us
• Original birth certificates for both of us
• Marriage certificate

I'm not sure about what to add to this... We've known each other for almost 4 years, been married for 11 months. We are not the photo-loving type, mostly because we don't think we're very photogenic I suppose. So we almost don't have any photos together. The only ones I can submit are from my graduation party when my mom flew over here from Belgium and we have photos of me, my mom, my husband, my uncle and aunt, and my in-laws together. We had a very small court ceremony for our marriage, no witnesses, no guests, just the two of us went to the court house, got married and got brunch later with my in-laws. We always wanted something small and casual, we're not the big wedding kind of people. I'm just concerned if this is going to be an issue. We saw no point in staging a big old wedding just so we can have pictures to submit to USCIS. We did things just as we would do if I was a USC too. (Also, this being a gay marriage, inviting extended family was never an option -  that being said both of our parents are very supportive)

We also went on many trips together, mostly road trips, one of which was to Canada. We also flew once to Canada but I can't seem to find our plane tickets or hotel reservations from those trips. They were a couple years ago.

Do I need copies of the forms I've already submitted? 

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

It took 6 days for me but sometimes it can take longer, just wait a little longer. The actual mail takes a little longer to come, but the online status changes more quickly.

23 hours ago, Roel said:

the expedite will take time

lmao, got a good laugh out of that one! gotta love the system eh 

Hey guys,

Today marks day 273 since my PD. According to the new "as of august 31, 2017" data on the USCIS processing timeline data, the Washington DC office should be processing applications with a date around December 18, 2016. Which is just a couple weeks away from my January 18, 2017 date. I'm hoping to hear from them in the next 1-2 months, if my understanding of this is correct... Hopefully that address update didn't put me back down to the end of the waitlist there... 

I submitted a case inquiry on August 18th, and the status for that still reads "As of August 18, 2017, your inquiry about why your case is taking longer than our processing time, referral number SR***MSC, is currently not assigned for processing."

What have your experiences been with these case inquiries? I feel like I'll get an appointment before they respond to the inquiry... (Also thinking about potentially having to renew EAD/AP if this delay lasts well after thanksgiving. Is the EAD/AP renewal also free with an AOS or do I have to pay?)

Thanks a lot you guys! Forums like these save thousands of people thousands of dollars in unnecessary lawyer fees for simple and straightforward cases like mine. (Disclaimer: if your case is complicated, seek legal advice)

It really depends on your univeristy and the exact type of internship/volunteer work. My university required us to talk to the international advisors before we accepted to do any kind of work, they are there to help you and they can tell you if an OPT will be necessary.

I did an unpaid internship during my F-1 but it was very unofficial, I wasn't considered an employee, I was merely shadowing people around to learn about what they were doing. There is no paper trail that indicates I was there at all. I also volunteered for marathons and some events, but I never went through any HR process for any of this.

If you get an internship in a large company, they process you like an employee and then you'd need an EAD regardless of pay.

14 hours ago, DECKKAM said:

PLS CAN I ADD PHOTOCOPIES OF MY KIDS BIRTH CERT IN DOCUMENTS(AOS) TO BE SENT USCIS 

You can add whatever you want... Pretty sure that's a required document anyway if you're applying for them also. 

But, I don't know why you're posting under my thread... This is completely unrelated.

8 minutes ago, Boiler said:

That would depend on the basis you were admitted, my answer is based on someone having entered as a tourist.

so you're saying someone on a B1/B2 visa or a visa waiver is not allowed to respond to work emails or send back reports etc to their boss while in the US? Think about it....

10 hours ago, az2014 said:

This is 100% wrong.

 

If you have no idea about a subject it is best not to give advice.

y'all have no idea what you're talking about and giving this person false advice. point me to the law that says you are not allowed to work remotely from the United States.

Just now, Boiler said:

Untrue

How is that untrue? Care to explain?

On 9/2/2017 at 2:03 PM, pulp said:

Hi guys, new to this forum but similar type question. And F for frustrating is again the word! So here's my story. I entered on a VISA Waiver from the UK and married a US spouse. I applied for change of status and my I-765 (EAD). I have been waiting 165 days and counting for this EAD. Then I found it had been tracked and delivered but I did not receive it. This means I have to reapply and wait at least another 90 days for my EAD. Which means being unemployed for almost 9 months.

 

I have a wife and 3 year old child and I can not afford to not work for another 3 months. My question is two-fold.

 

- Is there a way I could get USCIS to give me a letter or something that says I am authorised for employment, and my card is being reissued? So that I can work here.

 

- And if I can't do that. Can I work remotely for a UK company? As I said before, I am a UK citizen and was considering setting up my own company (becoming self-employed) so that I could do some freelance.

 

Would this be legal? Would you advise it? Or do you advise something else?

 

It can not be right that through no fault of my own I am not able to work here for 9 months, surely?

 

Thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it!

 

 

Working remotely for a UK company and getting paid in the UK with your pay being deposited into your UK bank account is absolutely legal. You're allowed to do this on an ESTA as well. Otherwise, you wouldn't even be allowed to respond to work emails from home while visiting the US, that'd be ridiculous now wouldn't it?

So, yes you can. Working remotely means you're working in the UK. Where you are physically has nothing to do with it. You're just not allowed to be employed in the United States and being paid here. 

As for the EAD, sorry to hear that... Did you try calling USCIS or maybe scheduling an InfoPass session? Perhaps you can expedite it since it's just a replacement card and not an initial application. I don't want to give you false hopes, I honestly don't know if that's possible but it might be worth looking into!

Cheers

Hey guys,

I have posted here before about moving and the ready for interview status date changing from "as of march 2" to "as of august 4" and possibly having fallen to the bottom of the waitlist for the interview all over again but I haven't been able to get an answer...

This time I just wanted to ask, what have you guys' experience been with service requests and the timeline for that?

I submitted a service request on August 18, saying in the notes that I have moved less than a mile from my old address and asking if it really means I've fallen to the bottom of the waitlist. However, it still says "service request currently not assigned to anyone for processing". I was just wondering when I should expect a response for that.

Thanks!

(Today marks Day 231 since I submitted the forms)

I'm not hoping for much since aviation seems to be of interest to a small number of people but maybe there's someone out there who can help me.

After graduating from college with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, I've decided not to pursue this. Instead I've decided to make my life-long dream of becoming a pilot come true.

Since the 9/11 attacks were by international students who got flight training in the US, it is understanable that they want to make sure this doesn't happen again. As a result, all non-US citizens enrolling in a flight school must go through a TSA clearance process. This is submitted online at www.flightschoolcandidates.gov and the whole process is usually very simple. If you have a clear status, that is.

My issue is that I am no longer an F-1 student and I've applied for Adjustment of Status back in January, and I'm still waiting for the interview. I have no idea when the interview is going to be, and no idea what kind of timeline to expect. As of April, I have an EAD/AP combo card and that's the only thing I can show that I have legal status here. The problem is that I'm not sure how to put this in the system. I can't put it in there as a visa, since I'm not on a visa and there's no visa class for AOS. And I don't yet have a permanent resident card that I can put on there either....

However, when you go into the "Lawful Permanent Resident Card" there's an option to put it on there as "Pending" but I still have to put issue and expiration dates... I could also upload a scanned image of my EAD/AP on there, or the NOA for my form I-485.

Any suggestions?

Hey y'all,

The most recent update on my case was 3/2/17 and it said "As of March 2, 2017 your case is ready to be scheduled for interview" and I hadn't heard anything else since that. I recently have moved to a new apartment in the same city and submitted an AR-11 change of address form online. It was confirmed and accepted as of 7/27 and on 8/4 my status changed to "As of August 4, 2017 your case is ready to be scheduled for interview"

I've been in line for an interview since March 2nd -- and now it says as of August 4th... Does this mean I'm back at the bottom of the waitlist? My local office is Washington DC, I moved to an apartment less than 2 miles away from my previous apartment... I was hoping to get an interview maybe in september... (also the status update from march seems to have vanished...)

(I do have an EAD/AP so there really is no rush for the greencard, I just wanted to get it over with and be able to travel without having to worry about advance parole)

Thanks for all your help!

I've had issues trying to leave Turkey before and had to carry proof of postponement before. Because I left Turkey during high school, so my status was "lise terk" for a long time, until I went to the embassy and registered with them. I just now graduated from college and I have until 2019 to do my military service. My passport is valid until 2026, but I don't know what's going to happen to it after 2019... I know that if I enter Turkey after 2019, I can't leave. But I don't know if I could use it to travel between Belgium and the US without any issues after 2019.

You said you're Turkish, how did you deal with this? I heard Turkish citizens living and working abroad can pospone it until 30-something? How exactly do you do that? Do I just go to the embassy and show them proof of employment and my permanent resident card? Also... I know the conditions for "pembe tezkere" are super harsh and it's just a really difficult and humiliating process to go through, but maybe I could show them my marriage certificate showing that I'm married to a man? 

1 minute ago, Coco8 said:

Why can't you get a Belgium passport? 

 

I've never heard of a "passport like document". Embassies usually give out travel documents for people that have lost their passport and they can only get the passport in their home country. But you would not be able to get one from Turkey. I've never heard of the US giving out something like that for LPR. 

Thanks to my parents' negligence unfortunately I'm not a Belgian citizen, and to take Belgian citizenship I'd have to move there, which I can't do. I have too many responsibilities here, I can't just leave.

This is the document I'm referring to. Is there a document that the US could issue to an LPR who is unable to get a passport from their country of citizenship?? I know that you don't need a passport for re-entry into the US and your green card is enough, but... I don't  know, I guess I was just hoping that there would be some sort of a document I could get to replace my Turkish passport... 

I might just have to wait until I get US citizenship...