Biffa

4-6 months from filing date. Biometrics doesn’t change anything 

No expedite,just waited it out!.

I'm starting to see a decent amount of April filers starting to get notices that their EADs are approved without being expedited! We shouldn't be too far behind now! I'm so thankful for this part of waiting to be coming to a close!

I don't know about you, but not everyone has the financial means to be able to travel and go explore
I'd love to go and do things on my own, but my husband is our only source of income, we live in Seattle and it's very, very expensive. (We're paying 1.5k$ a month for a studio) I didn't choose to be in such an expensive area, and honestly I wanna move out to another state because this is very stressful and I can't even work yet.
 
Even though most of us do have hobbies, I think it comes down to the routine of having a job, a social life because of said job, and being out and about because you feel like you're actually doing something and contributing to society. 
 
We can only do so much volunteering, and spending time on our hobbies before it gets old real fast... Especially when you've been used to being completely independent financially for so long and have to rely solely on someone else to get by.
 
I'm not being mean by any means, but everyone experiences things differently! Everyone has their own struggles and there's more than one way to deal with it than one blanket solution

I have to say the waiting game is starting to affect me! I’ve always been very busy with work and studying and now not being able to do that, it’s really hard. While I understand that my waiting time is still very short compared to others, it really feels like the time is dragging on and for now I haven’t seen too much evidence of the shorter EAD times happening yet. I haven’t even been able to apply for an ID with my new last time, as I can’t change it with social security until I have either the EAD or GC. Sigh!  Let’s keep waiting. 
 

What’s ur local office?

You can’t expedite until you’ve done biometrics. 

Agree. I don’t how it went from guranteed 90 day window to this. It almost seems like a government ploy to get everyone to go home ha

Agree. I don’t how it went from guranteed 90 day window to this. It almost seems like a government ploy to get everyone to go home ha

Agree. I don’t how it went from guranteed 90 day window to this. It almost seems like a government ploy to get everyone to go home ha

You can’t expedite until you’ve done biometrics. 

Fill in your timeline as it helps others! 🙂

Mine was busy, in Los Angeles. The reception urged me to not wait around as they were “fully booked” for the whole day. But one hour later it had cleared out and they were forced to see me! Ha ha ha. 

Biometrics done today, patiently waited till the place cleared out so I could go early as a walk in. Let the long, long wait commence! 😒

You can’t expedite until you’ve done biometrics. 

Yup. If I could do the same for EAD I’d camp out for a few weeks 🤣

The butter beer is awesome FYI 😎

The butter beer is awesome FYI 😎

Mine was 24 hours

Hi fellow kiwi! 
In exact same situation as you. Pretty similar timeline too. 
I think hopefully things will speed up as the time goes on. I’ve noticed people getting their GC quite fast too. 
Try hang in there. 
 

Biometrics done today, patiently waited till the place cleared out so I could go early as a walk in. Let the long, long wait commence! 😒

Yup. If I could do the same for EAD I’d camp out for a few weeks 🤣

Mine was busy, in Los Angeles. The reception urged me to not wait around as they were “fully booked” for the whole day. But one hour later it had cleared out and they were forced to see me! Ha ha ha. 

Biometrics done today, patiently waited till the place cleared out so I could go early as a walk in. Let the long, long wait commence! 😒

Mine was busy, in Los Angeles. The reception urged me to not wait around as they were “fully booked” for the whole day. But one hour later it had cleared out and they were forced to see me! Ha ha ha.