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Hey all!
 
Does anyone have experience withdrawing their application/sending a letter to USCIS to explain your situation changed? We applied in October 2018, and only now in August 2020 did I get a temporary working permit. I haven't been allowed to leave the USA in over a year, and family members passed, and the pandemic & cuts to immigration here just make it feel hopeless. Obviously, my spouse is American (I am Canadian), and we have lots of family & friends on both sides of the border, so I am terrified of being banned from re entry, but also just can't wait around forever and not say goodbyes to loved ones at home.
 
It's been a really difficult year, I don't know what to do. Sorry if I am posting in the wrong section, I don't know who to talk to, my husband's family is very insensitive to the stress we've been under.
 
Thanks

Apparently the administration is starting to just deny AP at large and is also not letting people who have travelled out of the country on AP to come back in. 
 
 

Hi again! Maybe I didnt make it clear enough - I have an EAD that expressly says on it AP DENIED - NOT VALID FOR RE ENTRY INTO THE US.

Apparently the administration is starting to just deny AP at large and is also not letting people who have travelled out of the country on AP to come back in. 
 
 

Apparently the administration is starting to just deny AP at large and is also not letting people who have travelled out of the country on AP to come back in. 
 
 

Hey all!
 
Does anyone have experience withdrawing their application/sending a letter to USCIS to explain your situation changed? We applied in October 2018, and only now in August 2020 did I get a temporary working permit. I haven't been allowed to leave the USA in over a year, and family members passed, and the pandemic & cuts to immigration here just make it feel hopeless. Obviously, my spouse is American (I am Canadian), and we have lots of family & friends on both sides of the border, so I am terrified of being banned from re entry, but also just can't wait around forever and not say goodbyes to loved ones at home.
 
It's been a really difficult year, I don't know what to do. Sorry if I am posting in the wrong section, I don't know who to talk to, my husband's family is very insensitive to the stress we've been under.
 
Thanks

I have also mentionned that I was not able to modify my timeline accordingly to the actual steps we have taken. I am not able to do it, it keeps erasing everything so I just gave up and left it as is, but I have only had a biometrics appointment back in march, and my case, as of august, as I have mentionned before, is “ready to be schedule for an interview”.

Hi again! Maybe I didnt make it clear enough - I have an EAD that expressly says on it AP DENIED - NOT VALID FOR RE ENTRY INTO THE US.

Lmao seriously who knows at this point. I am both exasperated and amused - I mean, we have to pay 485$ to have USCIS send our petition to NVC when they do it for free all day every day ? Intreresting. Also, that other form takes 3-6 months to process. L O L !
 
We filed with Schumer's office and our representative for Putnam County, so far, nothing, we're writing an email to them today to essentially ask them if they can tell USCIS to forward our petition to NVC for us.
 
There is also a townhall today in NY about the new immigration rules and how it affects working class green card applicants, so we're going to that. The more information the better ! We do wonder if our paperwork is locked down because of it.

Oh yes, wow, that makes a lot of sense!
 
We called USCIS today and they said our petition was finally sent over to NVC  - do you happen to know if you can still file for I-485 even though the petition is already headed for consular processing? Does it make no difference?

haha, I mean you. Sorry, i finally realized you are the beneficiary. lol this is some mind bending bad trip, makes you lose few IQ points along the way. 

no worries

Oh yes, I would NEVER work under the counter. I am way too anxious, I actually argued with my husband because I didn't want to bring a meat sandwich across the border and I threw it out instead, haha! I was a flight attendant for 6 years, I don't play with borders.
 
I'll type the body of the letter here :
 
"The status of this service request is :
 
At the time of the approval of the i-130 petition for alien relative, using prima facie evidence provided on the petition, we make an eligibility determination, which determines where to send the petition ; the USCIS Nation Records Center (NRC) or National Visa Center (NVC). This is USCIS policy, and is not an adjudicative decision for future adjustment of status. This policy ensures that the applicant will avoid future expenses, required to have the petition sent to the NVC, if needed.
 
We hope this information is helpful to you."

HAH, classic. Well, we really weren't considering filing it anyways, and we are planning to keep calling to ask questions because everytime we call we get a different answer (first time was "it's on its way wait" then "we lost it" then "we never sent it we will forward it shortly" then "actually no decision was made")
 
So who knows. A friend told us to look into I-485. It's pricey, but if we qualify for it, it might be a good way to just let happen the bureaucracy as it may.
 
 

Lmao seriously who knows at this point. I am both exasperated and amused - I mean, we have to pay 485$ to have USCIS send our petition to NVC when they do it for free all day every day ? Intreresting. Also, that other form takes 3-6 months to process. L O L !
 
We filed with Schumer's office and our representative for Putnam County, so far, nothing, we're writing an email to them today to essentially ask them if they can tell USCIS to forward our petition to NVC for us.
 
There is also a townhall today in NY about the new immigration rules and how it affects working class green card applicants, so we're going to that. The more information the better ! We do wonder if our paperwork is locked down because of it.

Oh yeah, and I keep bringing up the fact that our online account shows nothing and the reps on the phone keep telling me the online status of the case is of no importance and that it updates randomely and that it doesn't matter that it is blank.
 
...Then they sign off the phone call with their spiel about using online service before calling. Lol, I feel like we're experience a Kafka novel in real time.

So in case anyone is in a similar situation : we finally heard back  from NVC saying they never received our petition and that they were gonna work with uscis to locate our petition.
 
They said to be patient and that no action was required on our part. However we're a bit stubborn now, so we kept calling and were told the USCIS actually forwards a case within 90 days, not 30 anymore?
 
They say we're at day 86 so there's nothing they can do before monday.
 
Seething.

called NVC on monday, they made us read out loud the email they sent us that said "no further action is required from you at this time" and that it will "take the time it's gonna take", that it could be weeks/months.

Hmm, maybe I'm just not savvy, but I do have an account that I sign into to go to USCIS website, it takes me to a page that says "Your Cases" and I click my receipt number, it unrolls, and the only thing showed is that it was received October 18th 2018

I have a question - do the submitted documents in the I-130 expire after a year since submission or a year after approval?

called NVC on monday, they made us read out loud the email they sent us that said "no further action is required from you at this time" and that it will "take the time it's gonna take", that it could be weeks/months.

So in case anyone is in a similar situation : we finally heard back  from NVC saying they never received our petition and that they were gonna work with uscis to locate our petition.
 
They said to be patient and that no action was required on our part. However we're a bit stubborn now, so we kept calling and were told the USCIS actually forwards a case within 90 days, not 30 anymore?
 
They say we're at day 86 so there's nothing they can do before monday.
 
Seething.

So in case anyone is in a similar situation : we finally heard back  from NVC saying they never received our petition and that they were gonna work with uscis to locate our petition.
 
They said to be patient and that no action was required on our part. However we're a bit stubborn now, so we kept calling and were told the USCIS actually forwards a case within 90 days, not 30 anymore?
 
They say we're at day 86 so there's nothing they can do before monday.
 
Seething.

Hello! 
 
October 10th filer here, we got our NOA2 in the mail friday, kept checking online and nothing and then bam, my husband got the letter. 
 
 
 

Hello! 
 
October 10th filer here, we got our NOA2 in the mail friday, kept checking online and nothing and then bam, my husband got the letter.