nyj215

congrats!  felt kind of nostalgic to see our July 2018 thread up top!  crazy how long you had to wait but congrats on getting it all done.

Well I guess it's official I just got the approval notice in the mail with notice date of 4/3/2020. I suspect the GC will follow in the next few days. Wow what a rush! I also suspect that other cases will follow suit!

WOW.  This is amazing!!  Congrats.

Well I was not going to post this as it could be a HUGE error, but I decided to post anyway as it serves to give other VJers information and also something to perhaps look out for if you are in the same boat as us. My AOS interview was scheduled for April 17th and due to the virus situation it was cancelled as I expected. My status changed back to case ready for interview on April 1st. Enter today April 3rd I get a text from USCIS get this..... that a new card is being produced for the I-485 form (GC)!!!!!!!!
 
No interview no advance warning no nothing. I immediately logged on to my account at USCIS and low and behold  the status is New Card Is Being Produced!!!!! Can you believe that? USCIS has been known to error before, so I really can only hold my breath until the card arrives in the mail. I'm sure this will happened to other folks here on VJ if in fact this was not an error. So we all can be on the look out for other people getting their GC without going on a interview. I know no interview was a common thing several years ago, but USCIS changed that to where everyone interviewed. The only thing I can think of other than being an error is USCIS decided that all the cancellations of interviews was going to set them way behind so they decided to clean out a few cases and approve without an interview.
 
For your information we submitted the standard AOS packet (pre February 24th). In addition to the supporting documents for the I-485, I-864, I-765 and the I-131 we did not send any other documents or evidence (besides the marriage license). I have no explanation other than what I have laid out here. I'll for sure post here once the card reaches us! What a Friday!!!!!!!!! And it's early still!!!!!

For what it's worth I got the hard copy interview notice in the mail today for a scheduled interview on 4/17/2020. I fully expect this to be cancelled at some point before the interview date. Back to the drawing board I guess!!!!

Absolutely.  I would not be surprised if a complete closure of the border is coming, with extremely limited exceptions.  The announcement is pretty clear in the messaging in my view.

Thanks for your moral support along the way - most appreciated!!

so happy for you my friend!!

I will write in more detail overt the weekend but the short story is I am now a CITIZEN of the USA.
 
OMG, it's hard to believe. I had the oath ceremony in Manhattan today (Federal Plaza) and it is such a relief to finally be finished with this process. I felt like this day was never going to arrive. 
 
I'll be sticking around this forum to provide moral support to those who are still waiting as I know how painful it is! 

Status updated to interview  was scheduled, totally did not expect  this especially for the Dallas local office. Awaiting the notice for the interview date which I suspect will be next month sometime. No word on EAD, but I'll take this LOL. 179 days as of today.

Thanks - you will have that GC in a month!  Yes, this my 4th major USCIS interaction... first my Green Card back in 2007, then the renewal, then my citizenship... and now this!  We are downtown NYC.  To be honest the EAD/AP is just about as good as the GC for us so now we finally have those approved, we can relax!

I don't know why but I still get really excited when I meet british people here. Makes me less homesick! We live in Westchester, I'm not sure where that is in relation to the City lol. Where abouts are you from in the UK. Im from Cheshire  
 
I agree, once we have the EAD/AP i'll relax a bit more too! Hope you guys get everything sorted soon too. 

Just checked my status today and finally my EAD/AP was approved after 6months. California here! ☺️

So close! I just hope they don't want anything else from us! 
 
Yes don'y worry the timelines seem daunting but actually it's not as bad as it seems. Yes other states go faster but we have a lot more immigrants here! The waiting room was so busy we waited for 2.5 hours I think it was before we went in. It's nice to see other brits here! Whereabouts are you, not full address or anything haha 

Thanks for sharing your info!  Kinda frustrating you have to wait till April but the end is close....
 
Your story does give hope that NYC is more like 12 months rather than the 20 months or so that USCIS processing times seem to indicate.  We filed for my wife in September and would be thrilled to get it done before 2021 rolls around.  Let's see!

If you signed up for informed delivery with the post office it will pop up there once they get it. 

Well, after 168 days we got the very welcome news that my wife's EAD was approved today.  We are thrilled about it.  
 
But I must say I feel badly celebrating too much on here given that people are waiting, especially @Sarge2155who has been just about the most helpful person I have ever seen to the community on this forum!  I can only hope that he and the others waiting from September are going to be approved very soon.  I am sure that will be the case.

Thank you! Hoping interview comes soon too! Cheering for all of you!

Congratulations, I'm  sure you'll put your other half to work now!!!!😀

Well, after 168 days we got the very welcome news that my wife's EAD was approved today.  We are thrilled about it.  
 
But I must say I feel badly celebrating too much on here given that people are waiting, especially @Sarge2155who has been just about the most helpful person I have ever seen to the community on this forum!  I can only hope that he and the others waiting from September are going to be approved very soon.  I am sure that will be the case.

You just  have to relax. I experienced this too. No significant movements and I'm waiting also. Please update your timeline.
 

yes - many posts about this in this thread and other filer threads here.  no one can really figure it out.  

While I agree with you, there’s a systemic issue when similar cases across the board can take drastically different time frames. If you scroll through the thread from October, you will find far more people that already have a scheduled interview than you will that don’t. 
 
it’s also naive to ignore the fact that USCIS operates as inefficiently as most other government organizations. Many times, the result of your timeline is who you get as an agent. Whether is McDonald’s, Apple, or USCIS, there are employees who dislike their job and move slower. 
 
 
Also FYI - calling is the only reason our case has moved along for almost every step. When you call, they open your case and take a look and with enough frustration they escalate the case to an agent who can actually make actions on it. 

Thank you. I saw somewhere they open at 7am (some sites say 8:30am) so I am going to risk it and get there for then I think and do what you said above. Thank you!

They definitely do open before 8am now I come to think of it, as I got there around 8am for my interview and there were already a lot of people waiting inside.
 
Good luck with everything.