Saturnalia

Hi all!
I just received my informed delivery from USPS with a picture of my re-mailed NOA. Yay! So I wanted to give everyone my timeline too, just in case it helps.
 
April 30th - Case was received by USCIS
May 5th - Received text with receipt number
May 30th - No NOA received
June 2nd - Called USCIS, received a number to give to an officer who would be calling me back within a day or two, along with the number they would be calling from. I never received that call. Was also transferred to another officer who gave me the lockbox email address. Emailed that, and also put in a non-delivery of receipt notice on the website. Received email confirmation  from both the lockbox and from the non-delivery service request.
June 3rd - Received email from the service request that the NOA will be resent
June 9th - USPS Informed Delivery shows NOA

Got my approval today as well!!
 
I-765 notice date: 09/18
Approval date: 12/11
 
Thank you to Andreita.. as soon as I got the approval, I called USCIS and asked to speak to a tier 2 officer and got my tracking number! It says it’s pre-shipment and on its way to a USPS facility. So hopefully next week!
 
I requested to expedite with a job offer both through a congressional inquiry and directly through USCIS, although I’m pretty sure none of it mattered... my congressman’s caseworker told me it usually two weeks for her to hear a reply from USCIS, which is today; I suspect if she heard something before the 11th, she would’ve let me know. I thanked her anyway. I also mailed my job offer last Monday, so that might’ve been it. No idea!
 

Got my approval today as well!!
 
I-765 notice date: 09/18
Approval date: 12/11
 
Thank you to Andreita.. as soon as I got the approval, I called USCIS and asked to speak to a tier 2 officer and got my tracking number! It says it’s pre-shipment and on its way to a USPS facility. So hopefully next week!
 
I requested to expedite with a job offer both through a congressional inquiry and directly through USCIS, although I’m pretty sure none of it mattered... my congressman’s caseworker told me it usually two weeks for her to hear a reply from USCIS, which is today; I suspect if she heard something before the 11th, she would’ve let me know. I thanked her anyway. I also mailed my job offer last Monday, so that might’ve been it. No idea!
 

Got my approval today as well!!
 
I-765 notice date: 09/18
Approval date: 12/11
 
Thank you to Andreita.. as soon as I got the approval, I called USCIS and asked to speak to a tier 2 officer and got my tracking number! It says it’s pre-shipment and on its way to a USPS facility. So hopefully next week!
 
I requested to expedite with a job offer both through a congressional inquiry and directly through USCIS, although I’m pretty sure none of it mattered... my congressman’s caseworker told me it usually two weeks for her to hear a reply from USCIS, which is today; I suspect if she heard something before the 11th, she would’ve let me know. I thanked her anyway. I also mailed my job offer last Monday, so that might’ve been it. No idea!
 

Got my approval today as well!!
 
I-765 notice date: 09/18
Approval date: 12/11
 
Thank you to Andreita.. as soon as I got the approval, I called USCIS and asked to speak to a tier 2 officer and got my tracking number! It says it’s pre-shipment and on its way to a USPS facility. So hopefully next week!
 
I requested to expedite with a job offer both through a congressional inquiry and directly through USCIS, although I’m pretty sure none of it mattered... my congressman’s caseworker told me it usually two weeks for her to hear a reply from USCIS, which is today; I suspect if she heard something before the 11th, she would’ve let me know. I thanked her anyway. I also mailed my job offer last Monday, so that might’ve been it. No idea!
 

Got my approval today as well!!
 
I-765 notice date: 09/18
Approval date: 12/11
 
Thank you to Andreita.. as soon as I got the approval, I called USCIS and asked to speak to a tier 2 officer and got my tracking number! It says it’s pre-shipment and on its way to a USPS facility. So hopefully next week!
 
I requested to expedite with a job offer both through a congressional inquiry and directly through USCIS, although I’m pretty sure none of it mattered... my congressman’s caseworker told me it usually two weeks for her to hear a reply from USCIS, which is today; I suspect if she heard something before the 11th, she would’ve let me know. I thanked her anyway. I also mailed my job offer last Monday, so that might’ve been it. No idea!
 

Which address did you send it to, and who did you put it to the attention to? The division/team of the officer they give you? I’m about to mail out my job offer but I’m not sure how to get it into the right hands...

I just called and asked to speak to a tier 2 officer. He said that basically if the USCIS office sent me an RFE to expedite and I didn’t answer it, then the case goes back to being processed normally since the officer assigned to my case can’t continue with it. But after seeing what you just posted, I’m not entirely sure if I believe he knows what he’s talking about... I asked if I could just cancel the request and he said there is no way to cancel it once I’ve requested it. I think I may call back and try to talk to another person for a second opinion. Even with customer service reps at USCIS, I always get a different answer depending on who I’m talking to. 

Thank you! I talked to another tier 2 officer, explained the situation again as well as what the policy manual says, and she said “those are two different RFEs”. So my case is still being processed as normal. I asked both officers whether it’s worthwhile for me to send in the job offer once I get it tomorrow since they’re processing as of the 15th and I’m the 18th (the first officer confirmed they go by received date as filing date, yay), and they both told me “that’s your decision”... I don’t want to add on another week just for them to process the expedite evidence so I think I’ll wait. Thanks for posting the manual, though, Gemma!

I just called and asked to speak to a tier 2 officer. He said that basically if the USCIS office sent me an RFE to expedite and I didn’t answer it, then the case goes back to being processed normally since the officer assigned to my case can’t continue with it. But after seeing what you just posted, I’m not entirely sure if I believe he knows what he’s talking about... I asked if I could just cancel the request and he said there is no way to cancel it once I’ve requested it. I think I may call back and try to talk to another person for a second opinion. Even with customer service reps at USCIS, I always get a different answer depending on who I’m talking to. 

I’m not sure if I should bother either expediting or sending in my service request. 
 
I sent in my AOS (but not my I-765) in July and did my biometrics in the middle of August. In the middle of September, I realized I hadn’t filed for my EAD and sent in the I-765 on September 18th. They sent the NOA for that on Sept. 20th, then sent an NOA on Sept. 22nd stating that they could reuse my biometrics from my AOS. 
In October, my husband petitioned our congressman to try to expedite it based on the fact that my biometrics has been done for months and that we would not be able to pay all our bills if we had to wait until December for my EAD. We gave them our bank statements and all of our bills and told the caseworker that Geico wanted to hire me but couldn’t give me a written offer without authorization. The caseworker pretty much tried to talk us out of expediting even though it was our only hope, but my husband told her to do it. She came back a few days later saying that basically USCIS thought we had “more money than most people” and that they would usually only expedite if we were about to get foreclosed on or something to that degree - so we’d have to wait until December when we were about to lose everything, then wait for them to give me my authorization, then find a job... sure. She told us to call back if I get a job offer. 
 
We didn’t really feel positive that she did all that she could on her end, so I filed to expedite the case with USCIS directly in the beginning of November. They assigned me a case officer and sent me an RFE for it, but I didn’t really feel like it would do anything so I never faxed anything. Will this affect my timeline at all?
 
Now, I’m about to get a written job offer tomorrow that will have January 3rd as my start date. I’m just unsure if I should even bother trying to expedite it, as USCIS’ website says they’re processing cases as of Sept. 15th - I’m not even sure what date my case is of (first NOA dated Sept 20th but case received on 18th, biometrics NOA dated Sept 22nd, expedite RFE dated Nov 1st but I never sent anything). I don’t want to prolong the process by expediting it or sending in a SR, but I’m also not sure if my unanswered RFE is going to cause any problems. Anyone have any advice for me?