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On 2/5/2021 at 1:15 AM, D and P said:
Oh my god, they made a lot of mess up! Therefore, I should go make I 693 then in case they need it and keep asking them to accurate the green card.
What happened? A new mess? Did you have the interview?
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On 1/2/2021 at 12:50 AM, americaninlove said:
FINALLY! I'm hoping you've gotten it by now? I honestly can't believe the process you've had. You are maybe the most determined person I've ever seen!
thank you. I got the greencard on 21 Dec. I arrived home for a visit in Ireland on 28th Dec!!! No covid quarantine rules stopping me. Anyhow, I got a covid "vaccination" back in November
so low risk of getting it again. Lovely to fly across the atlantic with only 40 other passengers.
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On 12/3/2020 at 5:42 AM, Bluewaters said:
Just an update "New Card Is Being Produced"
Finally going to receive my GC by next week.
I wish all those waiting the best of luck to get updates on their cases without any delays.
Congrats. have you received the card?
They got our medical data on Wed Nov 23rd and on Dec 10th it says card is being produced
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On 11/22/2020 at 4:06 AM, Bluewaters said:
So, I am gathering all the evidence I can get for my green card interview. We only have a joint account and power bill that have my name and that of my hubby's name on it. I hope with out marriage certificate and some pictures of us, we should be good.
I am a little nervous but my hubby seems not worried at all about the interview.
Your hubby is right. If the criteria was just x pieces of paper; there would be no need to meet an interviewer. What you bring Is your relationship and that is what they want to see.
When they asked who proposed I said I did, and turned to hubby and said - it was a cheap crappy ring. We hadn’t ever really talked about that before. He laughed and said he still had it. I expressed shock. That was the kind of natural conversation we might have at home. That’s all the interviwer needs.
My hubby has all the main bills in his name; so nothing joint. If they asked; that is what I would have said. And joke about him being a sugar daddy. All they want is the truth.
Bring a treat of chocolate or desert to celebrate with in the car after the interview. Focus on that while you are in there.
As they say in Ireland “you will be grand”.
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Just now, Timona said:
You should have headed there with the medicals on your interview date.
Hopefully, you furnished it already and GC comes early than expected.
No, I shouldn't. They weren't requested in advance. The medicals from my preceding visa were validly carried over to my AOS application automatically. But they lost the medicals and that was only apparent to me (and to them, presumbly) on the day of the interview.
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3 hours ago, Timona said:
In USCIS style, they introduced a last-minute roadblock on the greencard - they need a new medical for me. So it will be prob Jan before the GC arrives. i was hoping to use the AP card to travel in December. But maybe not being able to travel is a good thing.
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My AP/EAD card was delivered to the wrong address and has been returned to USCIS. I want to speak with agent to hear what is their process, and to try (again) to get them to put the new address in the system.
But their AI automated response on their phone number just says wait 30 days and submit a form. If I say "agent" it repeatedly says "let me handle it" in 4 different ways and then hangs up.
So has their inefficient customer service system gotten even MORE unhelpful - unbelievably, yes!
Anyone got any tips for getting through to an agent
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19 hours ago, Timona said:
This is why you do not move, especially when you are very close to receiving a document from USCIS.
Two things I can think of:
- You can go ASAP to your local PO distribution center and attempt to intercept. You needed to do this as of yesterday
- Wait and see if USPS will re-route to the new address, especially if you had changed address with them (USPS). They normally put a yellow sticker with rerouted mail. Did you change address with USPS?
I would attempt 1 above like ASAP. The more days that pass, you are less likely to find it still sitting at your local PO.
the EAD delivery happened on Sat and we had the actual GC interview on Tuesday, so I didn't check the myUSCIS site until Tuesday evening and then discovered the delivery notice. On Wed morning, the new occupants said had they already put everything back in the mail, but didn't specifically recall the USCIS letter. We went to USPS who said it was too early/too late to intervene in the return process.
Yes, we have USPS forwarding in place with the yellow stickers. We got another USCIS letter forwarded. But USPS doesn't forward all USCIS mail, I think its for security reasons. There is a message on some USCIS envelopes saying "do not forward", and I assume that the EAD card is one of those envelopes.
Anyway, USCIS also made an error in the spelling of the first line when they were inputting the address for the so that might disrupt the forwarding process.
For the info of others, I found this 2018 USCIS press release saying that they were introducing "sign at delivery" for Greencards and for re-issued AP/EAD cards. I didnt ask the occupants of the new address if they had signed for anything, but I would hope they would have told me if they had done so.
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-to-begin-using-more-secure-mail-delivery-service
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Hi,
I can't' find a previous thread on this this.
In early July we applied for a renewal EAD/AP card as we are still waiting on AOS to be completed. We moved 2 weeks after the renewal application was made and did the online address update using form AR-11. We had an email from USCIS a few days later saying that the address change had been processed. Correspondence on the original 485 AOS application has come to the new address.
But the new AP/EAD card has been delivered to the old address. We know this from the USPS tracking number on the myUSCIS website.
So the addresses weren't updated everywhere by USCIS. Back when the address update was done, the new address NEVER appeared on the myUscis website. I called them to discuss this, and even went to a Tier 2 person. She got abrupt with me and said the new address was in the system and that is where all correspondence would go.
We had a USPS redirect in place also, but from memory of a discussion on here, I think USCIS have a "do not redirect" notice on their envelopes.
The new people in the old address weren't very helpful today, even though it was delivered only 4 days ago. They may have just put it back in the mailbox for USPS to take away. USPS say it would just go back to USCIS, they can't track the return and hold it.
In my view, this is a USCIS error, we did everything asked of us, and even attempted, numerous times, to point out their error to them. Id expect that if they took proper notes of the calls my reports should be documented in their system. I wish I'd waited until after the move to re-apply but I thought that earlier application would mean earlier processing. It didn't. Now, I won't be able to visit family at Xmas that I haven't seen since December 2019.
Has anyone had experience of this? I will call USCIS but I want to arm myself with info on their process before talking to them. In my experience, many of the call center staff don't have the knowledge themselves and just report assumptions so as to get the call concluded. I wouldn't be surprised if they have KPIs tracking call length.
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We moved in July and I submitted an AR-11 online address change form. I got an email a few days later that it was processed.
However, i believe it wasn't fully processed:
* The address for our main 485 AOS application was updated and the interview invite came to the new address.
* The address in my online USCIS account was never updated
* Most importantly, it seems like our application for the renewal of AdvanceParole and EAD card was not updated. So the card went to the old address and now its lost!!
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Its hard to answer your question because your query isn't clear. As Babu said, if you fill out your timeline, there will be more details of your case so people will know what you are asking about. Mostly every problem that happens has already happened to someone else and has been discussed on here. I've had 3 problems to date and i was able to get useful info here.
From my timeline you will see that we started with a i129 K1 fiancee visa, then marriage in the USA and then i485 AOS for green card.
Trying to guess from your notes, you were already married and filed an i130 to admit either you or your wife.. I thought people coming in via marriage were given a CR1 temporary green card. But anyhow, you are saying that you had an AOS interview last Friday and they asked your wife about the forms and costs of the i130 and i485 applications. And she didn't know, so the officer said they are going to ask you to supply the original i130 notice of approval. It does seem stringent to expect someone to remember the form codes and costs. Maybe they had some reason to doubt that she was aware of the application, I dunno.
But then you say you were supposed to include the i130 NofA with your i485 application but didnt. So perhaps that is why they are asking for it, and its got nothing to do with your wife being unable to answer the questions. They are very picky about having all the correct paperwork. But usually, they review the applications within a few months of receiving them and request any missing paperwork, doing this way before the interview is scheduled. We filed the 485 in March 2019 and in June 2019 they sent us a letter asking for a better birth cert.
At our 485 AOS interview yesterday they said they needed an updated medical for me, the alien applicant. They handed us the "Request for Evidence (RFE)" letter there and then about it. it says the case is under review and we have 87 days from the date of letter to submit the documents. Sounds like they are going to mail the RFE to you.
We will need to do the medical and mail it back to the Dallas field office where we did the interview (it says we could also upload documents online, but Im not gonna do that). The officer said the doc would be processed in 15 days of receipt and there were no other issues blocking the application, so the case would "then" be finalised. I know of someone else on here who got an RFE in late Feb, mailed back the info in March, and only got the greencard in July. But that was New York during peak covid, so maybe that caused the delays. The RFE letter also states that they might do a new interview, but in my case, that seems unlikely.
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12 hours ago, Bluewaters said:
This new medicals worries me. I had my medicals done in 2018 and it has been 2 years now. I am now going in for my interview. I hope they don't ask me for a new medicals
As i said in my feedback, the medical report issue is specific to my case. In general, there is no need to do a new medical, this has been re-affirmed in the comment by knowegable user HRQX above. There is a Jan 2020 filer, user Meg101 who recently had a similar problem as mine. In both of those cases it looks like USCIS just lost the medical report. So, don't worry. Even if they are sometimes incompetent, they don't lose the majority of the documents.
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33 minutes ago, HRQX said:
It also happened to a January 2020 AOS from K-1 filer:
thank you so much that is very helpful.
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yes it does help indeed.
We had the same situation at AOS interview today. Officer asked if I had the medical. I said, no, that was provided when I filed the 485 AOS in March 2019. He said that the medical I did then was for Dept Of State and he needed one on USCIS paper, so I would have to redo it as a 693. I didn't want to argue about not being required to submit it when the application was made. But I did ask if it was just expired becuase of the 19 months between filing and interview. He said no. He didn't say it was "lost" but that is what I concluded based on the way he spoke. Thats been re-affirmed by this thread.
Our March 2019 AOS application was in their possession for an unusually long 19 months because there was an issue in Dec 2019 which caused the files to be shipped away from our Dallas field office to another office, and then back again. I expect that the medical was just lost by them at some stage.
So its $375 plus vaccinations here in Dallas. He didn't give me the option of finding and re-submitting the original medical report. I do have my copy of the DS 3025 vaccinations from K1 2018 and will see if the civil surgeon will accept that instead of dosing me up AGAIN with the vaccines. But at least I didn't have to wait like you while they "searched" for the missing docs.
He told me the submitted medical would be processed within 15 days of being submitted. Other than that the application was fine, so the greencard could then be issued. But I've had so much experience of wrong information over the past year particularly that I don't trust their dates. Another March 2019 filter was given an RFE for a court doc a few weeks after the Feb 27th interview, and only received the greencard in July. But that was peak covid.
Keep me posted.
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Thank you for asking about return on the AP card from UK/Ireland. Answers here say its possible. That aligns with the actual presidential proclamation
section 2, (a) (ii) says an alien spouse of a lawful permanent resident is not covered by the suspension.
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On 7/7/2020 at 5:01 PM, Nicola and Jordan said:
Guys!!!!! So I did a wish at 11:11am to ask for my case to be approved. Just checked and I got this!! I am so happy!!!!!!!
So we did the interview today, and got an RFE for a new medical. Based on your case Feb 27 to July 7th, we could be waiting some time for the greencard.
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And then to p**s on us just one more time, the renewal AP/EAD card WAS delivered last week, but to the OLD address. We moved in July, AFTER i'd applied for renewal. So I submitted AR11 on 26th July to have them update the address. I got an email on 3rd Aug to say it was updated. But during August the call center had the old address, and the my USCIS account has NEVER been updated. When i pressed a tier 2 call center person about this in late August, she got very snippy with me and told me that all correspondence would come to the new address. The interview invite did come to the new one.
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On 11/16/2020 at 9:42 PM, Bluewaters said:
Just received my interview date and I'm scheduled on December 1,2020 after waiting since December 31, 2018.
Wish me luck.
Well great news, good luck.
We had the interview this morning. Mostly fine expect that USCIS launched yet one more hurdle for us before approval.
After security clearance, the initial desk fingerprinted us and then we went with, say 40 others to a holding area. It was the initial morning group and lots of people were called in to the interview rooms at the same time. The guy initially asked if we had brought anything for him to see, so i provided joint data on car insurance, car loans, gym membership, costco, a joint bank account. He took each one and annotated them and added them to the file. The only one he commented on was the bank account info. I had printed off the intro page only, and didn't have transactions. He said he would consider at the end if he would need to get a page with transactions, but he never mentioned it again. He had other fish to fry. We also gave an envelope of newer photos and some shared facebook posts which he glanced at and filed. The original application was in March 2019 so had 2018 petitioner tax returns. We gave him the petitioner 2019 tax returns. He did query why it wasn't a joint return and we explained that i had no income and that we hadn't told the accountant for my patern. He was satisfied with that.
He asked to confirm some basic details from the application, and the only thing he asked me about the petitioner was if I knew the date of birth. He then asked me reams of yes/no questions from the application about various criminal, gun, drugs questions etc. Only one I had to give details was on my previous visa rejections.
At the end he asked us where we met, and who proposed. He wrote the anwers in one of his sheets with a red pen, and it seemed to me that if we said we met on the moon he would just have written it down.
Then to THE ISSUE. He asked me if I had my medical records. I said no becuase when we submitted the 485 applic in March 2019, it was clear that the medical records I had submitted in the prior K1 application would apply and did not need to be renewed. That fact has been discussed on this forum many times, is mentioned in some USCIS faq page and was agreed by our lawyer. But he said no, I would need a new medical because those original medicals were on a State Dept form and he needed ones on a USCIS form. I asked if it was the case that the originals had just expired and he said no. I didn't want to argue so gave up. I didn't ask if he HAD the originals in the file, But on reflection, I don't think he did. I think they were lost during the various issues with my casefile (documented in older posts). So, Ive made an appointment for tomorrow, $375 and vaccinations AGAIN. He said they would be processed within 15 days when received and then the greencard would be issued. But based on my experience of USCIS and my issues over the past 2 years, I don't believe any of their time commitments.
If the medicals REALLY had been required to be renewed as part of the March 2019 application, how come it wasn't done when the application was originally reviewed in June 2019 and they issued an RFE for the correct-form birth cert. Or when I was intially called for interview in Nov 2019. Instead of leaving it until everything else was done and THEN asking for them. It makes little sense, but then its USCIS we are talking about here, not everything has to make sense. I dont know of anyone else on here who was asked for those at interview.
Anyhow, any reader of this shouldn't draw any conclusions from my case, or get worried. Stick to your own information.
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Wow, thats yet another "glitch" that i hadn't heard of before. And makes no sense - if they had given the first card, why not renew it. But your informed legal response had the desired effect, and quickly.
A number of people have reported faster processing this year, perhaps a reduction in new applications due to covid itself and due to the various restrictions in applications enacted by the White House in response to covid?
Anyhow, glad it got resolved.
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22 hours ago, Bluewaters said:
Thank you @Gigi2017
Yes i submitted my package December 31,2018. They have now scheduled me for an interview.
I honestly gave up, because every time we send in an inquiry, they say backlog.
But lucky for me on November 2,2020 my case change to ready to be scheduled for an interview.
Then on November 9 it changed to interview has been scheduled.
Our interview is on Nov 17. I will let you know what they asked us.
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and, of course, just one week before the interview, their other office issued the renewal AP/EAD temp card, that we applied for on 2nd July.
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On 10/16/2020 at 4:42 PM, D and P said:
Waiting for the interviewing is kind of a long journey forever for me....I dont know when is my turn...
That seems very long. Seems like you got your original AP/EAD card before me, but then nothing on the interview. In the Dallas field office, our original interview request was for December 2019, 2 months after the first AP card.
I don't have any suggestions - as nothing worked for me - seems like they did it at their own pace as they felt like. I suppose Covid did delay their staff. At least if it goes to 2 years after your marriage then you will hopefully get the 10 year green card, not the 2-year card.
March 2019 AOS Filers -- Part 2
in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports
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We were at the interview because we submitted a i-485 Green-card application due to marriage. I don't know anything about the i-864.
They had our files at the interview so they already had copies of our entire application history and all documents previously submitted. We did bring a copy, but it was not required.
The purpose of the interview was to confirm that the marriage and relationship that we reported was valid and continued since we had made the application. So the kind of document that they were interested in were new photographs, shared bills - who pays what, joint bank account (they said the coverpage was not enough, the wanted to see transactions) The also asked us questions like who proposed etc. We joked about what happened that day, so that was real to the interviewer. Then they had a whole bunch of formal questinos for me - not a terrorist etc. It was all very relaxed and short.