Smooch-Esther

3 hours ago, Ryan H said:

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That was an error. But thanks

5 hours ago, randy32 said:

Paying the fee, restarts the one year clock. It shows that there was contact. That will buy you the time you need.

You can call NVC to confirm.

Thank you. Makes me feel better. Was really scared I have to start all over. 

5 minutes ago, seekingthetruth said:

According to what I have been told here, anytime you have activity, it extends your time window out 1 year from that point.  So in theory when you paid the fees, that would restart the clock and you have a year from then.  However, just to be safe, upload a document.  Any document.  You can delete it later if needed.

Thank you veryyy much for your reply. Now i can sleep ☺ I will upload the affidavit of support reqts though. The only pending really is the my son's passport. 

Thank you thank you.

God bless

Hello,

My spouse who is a USC petitioned my son to come here. We got the approval April 2020. I didn't really bother much on processing it yet coz plans changed due to the pandemic. It will expire next month, the 16th if I won't start processing for the immig fees. So I paid it last week. My only concern is, my son's passport is expired already. My mom back home wasn't able to renew it due to the lockdown in our city and senior citizens and kids weren't allowed to go out. They lifted it this month already so my mom was able to get an appt to passport renewal. 

My son's passport won't be release before April 16. So that means I wont be able to upload his new passport info in the CEAC portal. 

Are they gonna reject or deny the application if I won't be able to provide it by April 16 or the i-130 approval is extended since I already paid the fees. 

I'm just on a panic mode right now coz i don't want to go back to zero on processing again.

Any advice will be appreciated. 

Thanks bunch

Hello,

My spouse who is a USC petitioned my son to come here. We got the approval April 2020. I didn't really bother much on processing it yet coz plans changed due to the pandemic. It will expire next month, the 16th if I won't start processing for the immig fees. So I paid it last week. My only concern is, my son's passport is expired already. My mom back home wasn't able to renew it due to the lockdown in our city and senior citizens and kids weren't allowed to go out. They lifted it this month already so my mom was able to got an appt to passport renewal already. 

My concern is, my son's passport won't be release before April 16. So that means I wont be able to upload his new passport info in the CEAC portal. 

Are they gonna reject or deny the application if I won't be able to provide it by April 16 or the i-130 approval is extended already since I already paid the fees. 

I'm just on a panic mode right now coz i don't want to go back to zero again on processing again.

Any advice will be appreciated. 

Thanks bunch

Just an update. They finally took the money from my account. It took 6 weeks for them to do so. I'm just glad they got it. Now I can sleep. Thanks for all who responded in my query. 

God bless

13 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

priority mail has a tracking # right on your USPS receipt 

i always keep receipts till person acknowledges a package

and for immigration,  i kept all receipts till he became a Citizen

The thing is i sent it thru my work. So mailman just picked it actually. I don't know why I did that. I always go to USPS office to drop it so i get the receipt but this time i didn't.

1 hour ago, Mike E said:

Sending it without tracking complicates things. 
 

You did the right thing by using a check.  So you can follow the money.  
 

If neither the check is cashed nor NOA1 is received by February 7, then send a new I-751 with a cover letter indicating that you believe the first application was lost in the mail.  With a new check.  

Between now and February 7 do the follow to prepare:

 

* set up an account on USPS dot com and enable informed delivery, and set up the ability to ship packages with priority mail. 
 

* get priority mail flat rate boxes or envelopes from the post office that will fit your new package. 
 

* write the cover letter 

 

* get the money together for your second I-751 in case both checks are cashed.  You don’t want a bounced check to mess up your application 

 

Then on February 7, create the ship meant and drop it off

 

Track it.  

Thanks for the advice. I'll do that. 

1 hour ago, Lucky Cat said:

Your visa does not expire on Feb 21st.  Your Green Card expires.  Your status as a legal resident does not expire.  Only the evidence of your status expires....not the status, itself.

Thank you for replying and making it clear about my status too once green card expires. I was a bit worried too coz it might affect my work if my green card is expired already. But thanks for making it clear.

Hello. 

I need some advice. I sent my ROC last Nov. 30,2020 since my visa will expire on Feb 21. I mailed it thru USPS but without tracking. Its been 6 weeks now and they still didn't take from my account the check i sent. I'm worried now if they didn't receive it or just delayed. 

Should I mail a new application? 

Anyone has the same case as me please? 

Thanks

Esther

2 hours ago, fatma-w said:

How did you know?? My status changed as "New Card Is Being Produced" yesterday around 4.00 pm  :))))))

Told you 😊 Now we just have to chill and wait for our EAD cards to arrive. Thank God. 😊

2 hours ago, kiim said:

you are worrying about that? you should be thankful that at least you are going to get work authorization, look at me I havent heard anything from 8 months

Until i get my EAD, thats the only time i'll stop worrying i guess. I dont have SSN until now too coz i applied it along with my EAD. So i hope it will come together. I just dont understand in my AP status coz it says 'Appeal is dismissed'. Might be rejected. But its okay. EAD is more important though.

7 minutes ago, kiim said:

when did you first apply?

I applied my AOS + EAD with SSN + AP November 6 last year. After my biometrics on Dec 6, i didnt hear any update from them anymore. So after 90 days around Feb, i did service request online for my EAD. After a week, i sent again another service request. Then they replied after a month and sent me a mail that my service request was processed already. Then around April they sent me an RFE. Then i replied after a week then thats it. Now my case is ready. But i'm still puzzled with my EAD status coz it says 'New card is being produced'. It didnt say approve. They will mail it to me though so i'll just wait and see then. 

1 hour ago, yuuukkki said:

Hi Smooch,

    my husband's EAD/AP status changed to approved just a few days ago. We are still waiting for it to be mailed to us but at least it is approved and moving forward. And his AOS also changed to "ready to be scheduled for interview" a few days ago.  I think USCIS are just really busy this year so everyone's case took a bit longer than usual. Hang in there! I am sure we will all get EAD/AP card soon! And then GC!

My AOS was changed last May 2 to 'Case is ready and to be scheduled for interview. Then yesterday, in my EAD, it says 'New card is being produced' and they will just mail it to me. It didnt say anything that its approved. And my AP, it says 'Appeal is dismissed'. I dont get it if my EAD is really approved. I'll just wait for the mail to come then and see. 😟

23 minutes ago, kiim said:

Hello, please help me. I applied for the EAD in october and I didnt get anything, maybe because I got a RFIE for the I-485 but even that I sent back in december. so its been like 150 days and nothing, I filled an expedite in april and still nothing, can you please tell me if there is any hope.

Nobody can really tell my dear. Its in their hands. Mine was almost 180 days before I get a positive reply from them. I got an RFE last month too and i replied to them and they received it Apr. 24 then after a week, my AOS status was changed to case is ready and for interview schedule then after a week again, my EAD status changed to 'new card is being produced and they'll just mail it. So im just waiting for it now. 

Just do service request. Thats what I did after 90 days. I did two service request. They only replied after the second one. 

2 minutes ago, Irisandjoel said:

That's great to hear, hopefully mine does too soon! Finally I have some hope, I have been so super stressed out and anxious for the past few weeks, was starting to think I was never gonna get any updates.. I just wish there were timelines for the interview scheduling to give you some kind of an idea.

We cant really tell when they will schedule us. But its kinda unfair coz the January 2018 applicants online got their GC in 3 months time or less. I dont know how they can skip the pending ones and just approve the new ones just like that. 

13 minutes ago, Irisandjoel said:

Hey, very similar situation here, RFIE in December. I just contacted my senator's office again last week and they emailed me today with USCIS's response that my I-485 is pending until my background check is done and my I-765 is assigned to an officer. I just got a text tonight that my I-484 was updated to "ready to be scheduled for interview". I'd preferred that it was the work permit being updated, but at least things are moving! Now I just hope I get my interview scheduled soon.. it may take a while.

Good to know we both just waiting for interview schedule now. 😊 but just wait for another week. They might change your EAD status to 'new card being produced'. Coz my AOS stat online was changed to 'case is ready...' on May 2 and just yesterday, my EAD stat was changed to 'new card being produced' and i just have to wait for them to mail it. I feel better that my EAD will arrive soon. At least i can work already while waiting for the interview schedule. Hope you'll get yours too. 

8 minutes ago, fatma-w said:

Everything in the book, name it... I tried it. 

4 Service request, one of them is expedite request based on a solid job offer

Congressman

Senator

Ombudsman... 

 

Nothing worked. Got no money to hire a lawyer. And I have serious doubts about mine is on the way. Infopass officer told me to wait 10 more days yesterday. 

 

That's crazy then. And even if you hire a lawyer too, i think it'll be useless still coz its in the USCIS hands. We'll just hope they do something about it soon. Even at least for the EAD only for now. Its not easy to be jobless this long. They don't want us to work illegally here, so they should approve our EAD petition in the said frame time. 

4 minutes ago, fatma-w said:

I am so glad to hear your EAD is on the way!!!

 

I have no idea what went wrong with my case. They got my RFE at April 10 and got nothing's going on since then. I feel like expedite request won't work too. 

 

Did you call them? I think it really depends on the office. LA office is fast. Im in Baltimore and most of the last years apps got theirs recently only too. Do a service request online. That's what i did. But it will take a month before they reply still. Its crazy. But maybe yours is on the way soon too coz youve waited this long already. Best of luck.

3 hours ago, fatma-w said:

No I haven' heard anything from them yet. I got a job offer and I put a request for expedite last week. Told them it's time sensitive. But they are taking their sweet sweet time and don't rush anything. God knows I don't have an energy to deal with that anymore. It's been 220 days now.

 

What about you?

They received my RFE reply last Apr 24 and they changed my AOS status to 'Case is ready and to be scheduled for interview' last May 2. Then I checked my status again yesterday, in my EAD it says 'New card is produced' and they will just mail it to me. Then my AP it says 'Appeal is dismissed'. So i don't really know if that's the work permit already. 

Its kinda unfair for us waiting this long and the once who applied from January this year got their GC already in 3 months or less. I dont understand why USCIS do that. They should prioritize the one who waited this long already. 

On 5/4/2018 at 9:49 PM, Cultclassic92 said:

Yeah it really sucks being unemployed. I have had Biometrics 17th of last month and waiting for the EAD, it would be so much easier if both me and my spouse were working. The waiting makes me anxious as it's a lot of money doing this and just want to get it over and done with really! So many different cases have different timelines, I have been told it depends on where your local based office is and their processing times.

My EAD status was updated yesterday and it says 'New card is being produced' i dont know if that means i got my EAD already. But my AP status says 'Appeal is dismissed'. I dont get it though. On May 2, they updated my AOS for waiting to be scheduled for interview. Oh well. We'll just see then. Hope you got yours soon also. 

On 4/16/2018 at 12:09 PM, fatma-w said:

It was just the form. We got help from Block Advisors and he gave us the signed copy of 1040 Individual Income Tax Return Form for 2017. 

We sent one copy to IRS one copy to USCIS at the same time.

Hi,

How was it? Did they give your EAD/AP already after they received your RFE?

20 hours ago, vocal said:

Hi,

 

I got my EAD about 1 month after applying for AOS. So that was last year.

I would mention though that I asked for expedited processing and was approved, because I had a job offer and honestly I started working already...  I can't realistically been expected to live in San Francisco and not work, I would be homeless and my wife's salary was low.

 

In any case, EAD usually takes around 90-120 days without expedited processing.

I just checked my status online again today, in my EAD it says New card is being produced and they will mail it to me but my AP it says appeal is dismissed. I dont get it. But im just happy my EAD is coming already though. I just need a job soon. I might wait for a year or so like you before being scheduled for interview then. 

5 hours ago, Cultclassic92 said:

Part of me just wants to get it all over and done with, it's a nightmare being apart from your partner and just couldn't face it again. Matt needs to get his life insurance sorted out again, he is kinda useless at organising until I came in to his life! I am listed as a beneficiary on his tax returns this year and hoping the NOA2 isn't long so that I can get a job. 

Im on the same boat as you. But atleast you got a reply in less than 90 days. Ive waited for 180 days now for my EAD but after i sent back my RFE, they changed my status to case is ready and to be scheduled for interview this may 2 only. Now im a bit apprehensive coz ive read a lot of threads that theyve waited for a year or more to be scheduled only but atleast they got their EAD while waiting. But me? I dont have it yet. Its too much waitinf already and being unemployed. Its crazy. 

On 1/29/2018 at 10:30 AM, yuuukkki said:

Hi Everyone,

    I am an American citizen and I have filed the Adjustment of Status(AOS) application for my husband in September, 2017. We also applied for EAD/AP (work authorization/advance parole) combo card along with application. 

   It has been 130 days since our NOA1 (Sep 18th 2017) and my husband and I are starting to worry. Has anyone else taken this long for their EAD/AP?
   We have submitted a service request today (Jan 29th 2018) and I was wondering how long does it usually take to hear back from a service request? How long is the processing time now? (We are in Massachusetts). 

 

Thank You guys 

Hi, 

Did your husband get his EAD already?  Mine is almost 180 days already. I did SR after 90 days and they replied after a month then sent me an RFE and replied to it. May 2, they changed my status to case is ready and to be scheduled for interview. I was hoping they will approve my EAD coz i really need to find a job already. Now i have to wait for a schedule again.