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8 minutes ago, Marzena & Stephen said:

Hi ! You have to apply for renewal for the ead and ap immediatey. From my understanding it can take up to 6 months to renew ead right now. I would send the paperwork asap.    

Okay, thank you!!  For some reason when I was researching it sounded like you could only renew for a non-immigrant visa and I got confused. 

Does anyone know what we do if everything expires before being given an interview?  My husband's I-94, driver's license and work authorization all expire in February and it looks like processing times for our office could possibly go beyond then.

11 hours ago, twoDs said:

We're in the same boat. I posted yesterday in the January AOS filers. There's a single approval of a I-485 in our city (Phoenix) this year that happened in May, and it had a NOA about three weeks after ours.

 

It seems to be a repeat of the K1 wait all over again. We applied for the EAD/AP at the same time and got those, so at least something happened. If I look at the prior I-485 approvals in our city, it looks like the wait was 10-11 months and got progressively longer in 2017.

 

Hope both of us get some movement soon!

 

I found the DHS site (login required) has info where the old USCIS doesn't. USCIS crashes on out 485 but the DHS site lists the correct NOA dates. Both show the EAD/AP correctly.

That's a bit discouraging.  I originally had the impression we had a pretty fast office.  Sigh.  

Informed delivery is showing a letter from the Department of Homeland Security for today.  Unless we screwed up on something, should be his EAD ???

11 hours ago, gob332 said:

Still waiting for EAD/AP

Same.  Timeline says EAD could be any day but we know how that goes

58 minutes ago, Missabc said:

The new Mr & Mrs 

 

Now to begin AOS, blahhhhhhhhh.

 

 

Beautiful!  Congrats

11 hours ago, Marzena & Stephen said:

They told me whatever document you are bringing in has to have an expiry date on it (like a continuance of date) they wouldn't accept noa1 i797c for aos because it didn't have a date on it so I'm waiting on my work permit. Everywhere is different though. What state are you in?

Interesting.  We're in Arizona.  If they'll use the EAD that wouldn't too bad of a wait.  With any luck his will come next month, though we're not counting on it.  Ha!

We have the same license problem as some of you.  My husband's just expired with his visa and we're not sure if they'll except NOA1 for renewal.  Have to go in and see.  Certainly hope we don't have to wait for his green card :/

3 minutes ago, pajobra said:

WOOHOO Just got my NOA1 text and email for my AOS and EAD! I am officially stared the AOS process. WOOHOO!!!

Woot!! 

1 hour ago, Marzena & Stephen said:

im sure it will be quicker than 5 months. I thought the average was 3-4 but i could be wrong. 

I really hope so.  Fingers crossed everyone who wants it gets speedy authorization

19 hours ago, eastcoastgroove said:

Unfortunately, you do need to send 2 pics with each application.   The good news is that they seem to be going faster with the EAD approvals, so the faster you apply, the faster you will be able to work.  I just got notice I was approved for my EAD/AP on Saturday and according to VJ it was 74 days from my received date.

 

I actually thought of you today as I was browsing jobs on the city website and they were looking for a librarian. Looks like a fun job but I don't have the qualifications they are looking for.  

 

 

Ooo this is great to read, thank you.  I hope they are going faster!

On 12/8/2017 at 8:58 AM, Marzena & Stephen said:

How long is it looking ? We are applying next week. I'm picking up our marriage certificate today 🙆‍♀️

I went poking around the forum and I was seeing a lot of people still waiting for work authorization after 4-5 months.  I was under the impression they had to issue it within 90 days (unless RFE) so I was surprised to see that. :/

Chris just left for his biometrics appointment so we'll at least be one step closer in all this!

22 hours ago, gob332 said:

NOA1 for AOS, EAD and AP arrived today! Sent in November 21, NOA1 dated November 24

Woo!  My husband's is dated 11/22.  Fingers crossed EAD doesn't take as long as it's looking right now

2 hours ago, Ste&Sel said:

My, now wife has arrived safely. Wedding was 12.6.17 .....  wow what a journey we all take to get this point... just the beginning. 

 

She is so lovely!!!  Congratulations to you both.

So awesome to see all the good news in this thread, especially some looong awaited NOA2s!  I'm just (im)patiently waiting for Monday! 

7 hours ago, Estibaliz said:

Yay, congrats! 

They didn't touch my case today at all, so considering is 5:30pm here already, I'm wishing for best luck tomorrow. Good I'm not in a rush for POE

Thanks!!  Hope you see an update tomorrow

On 9/22/2017 at 4:23 PM, Estibaliz said:

Well, two weeks and a half should give you enough leeway, but fingers crossed for that

Status has already changed to "Issued" (wow) so it's looking good!

5 hours ago, Estibaliz said:

October 20th  Having a whole month after the interview gives me a lot of peace of mind on this. My fiance needed to give a month notice for vacation, so he did that as soon as we had the date for the interview. He's coming the 8th and then we'll fly home together. Everything seemed to fit perfectly, so hopefully it will work out equally perfectly.

 

Do you have a date already? Those always have the potential to make us anxious with the administrative waiting

That sounds so nice, getting to fly home together   POE for us will be October 9th.  Ticket is already purchased, so I definitely hope we don't run into any issues with their lovely "administrative processing"

39 minutes ago, twoDs said:

We scheduled the interview today! 10/25. Canada still have 10/11 and 10/18 open as well, but because we're unsure about the Irish police certificate, we scheduled later just in case.

 

We've got a new question -- fiancee had to renew her passport since it'd have expired during the process -- and she did not keep the old passport.

 

The instructions from the consulate say they want the all previous passports.

 

Anyone deal with this?

Congrats on finally getting an interview date!  Different consulate but the previous passport thing was on our instructions as well and my fiancé didn't have it.  Didn't come up at the interview.

1 minute ago, gob332 said:

Yeah it was a pain. Originally they were going to have her go back to consulate to re-scan her prints. But then they got it taken care of apparently.

 

Application Received sounds right. I thinks ours just jumped so quickly because of the aforementioned glitch and they had everything else taken care of and ready to go.

Guessing she was nowhere near local to the consulate either.  That would have been awful!

1 minute ago, Estibaliz said:

Thank you! And congrats to you two

 

My status changed to Application Received first today, and then to Administrative Processing. We'll see how things goes next week.

Good to know!  Here's hoping we don't have to wait too long for it to be issued.  Do you have a date planned for POE?

59 minutes ago, gob332 said:

No problem. Our status didn't change from "ready" until about 10 or 11 days after the visa was approved at the interview. But this was a result of a technical glitch with the fingerprinting machine at the consulate. Once that glitch was taken care of, our status changed to "administrative processing" and then the next day it changed to "issued". I would think, if it hasn't already, and barring any type of technical or administrative "glitch", yours should change from "ready" to "administrative processing: as well within a day or two.

 

***edit - within 1-2 business days

That must have been a bit worrisome! Glad it got all sorted out.  Ours currently says "Application Received", updated today, so maybe a step before they throw it in administrative processing.