Chelle

Good luck... We applied for my husbands on July 30th and we are still waiting. It has become a nightmare. No one at the help line or the local office can help us at all, or give us any information. Friday will be a month since we requested they expedite his application because we were outside the 90 day processing time, now we are 125 days since we filed. I hope you have better luck than us!

3) IF the person I talked to is right (so far I have talked to TWO different people and they are both telling me different things, I still don't understand why this is so!!) - then my application is obviously taking more than 90 days to process!! Is there anything else I could do to speed it up?!

I can completely relate! My husband and I filed in July. We have a receipt date of July 30th but still have not received his EAD. We started calling when we hit 90 days out, but all we got was different and confusing answers.

Calls to USCIS Help Desk yielding the following answers:

• Go into your local district office and they can issue you a temporary work permit

  >>(Atlanta) Sorry we have not done that in over a year and a half. Go home and make an infopass appointment and we will be happy to tell you the status of your case.

• Sorry we didn't know they don't do that any more, but the receipt number from your application is sufficient for your husband to go to work.

  >> Now thinking that this didn't quite sound right so my husband goes into the office for the company waiting to hire him and asks, and they tell him no that's not how it works.

• Sorry don't know where she got that information from but that's not how it works. It does look like your outside the processing time though so we will put in a request for an update for you, but it will be 45 days before we process the request.

  >>GRR

• You need to make an Infopass appointment with your district office.

  >>Well first problem with this plan is there are not appointment available at our local office if you have a work authorization over 90 days. I tried for 2 weeks to get one, and couldn't. So finally we get a letter in the mail telling us to go to the office for further processing. With that classification we finally got an appointment. We went today, and the guy says... oh yeah so your outside 90 days, let me just send them an email to tell them to send out your card. Looks like they had everything they needed after your fingerprinting... Anything else I can do for you??

Well needless to say we are still short a work permit and with no more hope of having a work permit than we had before our appointment this morning. There is an EAD time line here on Visa Journey that says in the last 3-6 months it has taken from 36-46 days to get your EAD after the biometrics. We are now at 33 days since ours, so I guess all we can really do is hope right? I mean we can't really depend on the answers that USCIS gives us, because it seems their left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Frustrated beyond belief!

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Married: May 25, 2007

Start filing process: June 10 2007

Filed : July 23, 2007

I130 Receipt Date: July 24 2007

I765 Receipt Date: July 30, 2007

I485 Receipt Date: July 30, 2007

Biometrics Appointment: October 4, 2007

(11 week processing time for I765 October 15)

Request for Status of I765 October 25

(90 day processing time for I765 October 28)

Letter to go to District Office November 1, 2007