JoeMc

We got the 'New Card is Being Produced' update.

On 7/6/2024 at 4:28 PM, Klugscheißer said:

 

Congratulations!!! 🥳

 

Just makes me wonder, what's wrong with my application that they haven't approved it yet 😥

Hang in there! We are still waiting, too. Maybe they are saving the best for last??? 🤣

24 minutes ago, Fe.Ta said:

We got approved!  No interview and no RFE.  Received notification "New card is being produced" via the USCIS tracker this morning.  We did not do N400.

Congratulations!!!!!

Still waiting here.

Yesterday (6/20/24) our case status changed to "Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken"

I hope we sent enough evidence in the initial submission to have the interview waived and avoid an RFE. Fingers crossed...

I-751

2022-08-11     Case Was Received
2024-06-20    Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken

On 6/13/2024 at 10:51 PM, TDB said:

Nice surprise this week - got approved! Been sitting on "case received" since Aug 2022 and has now moved to "case was approved". Fingerprints must have been reused and the interview waived. I haven't applied for N400 yet.

Congratulations!!! I am hoping that we get some good news soon. (Also hoping to avoid an RFE, that they reuse the biometrics, and that they waive the interview...)

Wow, it has been quiet in here for a while. Still waiting for any movement here... How is everyone else doing?  

In 2018 I used PassportVisasExpress

I remember it being kind of expensive. But, they sent a courier to the embassy to drop off the information and then to pick up the Passport/visa, then sent the Passport (with visa) back to me via overnight Fedex.

I was satisfied with their service (there were no unexpected surprises and they sent me back a 10 year multi-entry visa).

Not planning to apply for N400. Her English is not good. Also, China does not allow dual citizenship and we have reasons for keeping her Chinese citizenship.

Greetings!!!

I just saw this forum...

My wife's ROC... I-751 sent end of July 2022

NOA dated August 11, 2022

YSC service center

We have received both extension letters.

Is being sent to YSC a good thing or a bad thing?

1 hour ago, rubyplus said:

Finally got my interview date for Nov 12th! Hopefully everyone gets theirs soon 🤞

For K1 filers, are you guys getting another medical physical here? I'm checking online resources there's mixed advice. Some say it's better to be safe and get another one just in case.

Our interview was September 10th in Charleston. We did not get another physical done (her physical in China was from August 2019).  It never came up during the interview. (I guess the physical she took before her K-1 interview was OK/acceptable because the officer never mentioned the physical and we received her green card).

3 hours ago, Ozark said:

We did the Medical exam last week. So now just waiting for our interview in two weeks. Eek, I really hope it isn’t a virtual interview and we can actually sit in front of the officer.  Has anyone had an in person interview recently? The IPad video thing just sounds impersonal.   

Our interview was in Charleston, SC on September 10th. It was in person with the officer.

25 minutes ago, Ozark said:

So from the time the status changes I see that it took some only two weeks for the actual interview? Is it really that fast? I need to call tomorrow to make an appointment for the medical exam. 

It was that fast for us. 

Did they send a letter telling you to update the medical? How old is it?

5 minutes ago, NJShoreMom said:

yikes that is wonderful and yet scary all at once.   

Yes. I was kind of expecting a month or so to prepare. Instead I got 10 days.

2 minutes ago, NJShoreMom said:

our status changed to interview was schduled on august 30, how long does it take to get the letter?

Our status changed on Thursday, August 27th.

The letter arrived on Monday, August 31st.

Our interview is on Thursday, September 10th.

I hope that helps.

I guess that they are trying to limit the number of people attending the interview. The appointment letter said that if you needed an interpreter to have them available by phone. My wife has a friend that is now a US Citizen that is able to do this. Do you think this will work? (Or do you think they would not allow a friend/acquaintance to be the interpreter.)

Date of physical/medical exam (for K-1 visa) was August 14,  2019. Date of AOS interview is now Sept 10th... Is the medical exam still valid?

5 minutes ago, Letspaintcookies said:

They're pretty short notice on appointments nowadays. 

Yes, I agree. The interview is 10 days after the notice arrived in the mail.

2 minutes ago, Letspaintcookies said:

That might actually be a pretty good explanation. The furloughs are hanging over their heads for months now. On and off and on again. So they might have never scheduled the full capacity they would be able to do even with Covid because they always expected to not have many people working.

According to a few articles I read online they were required to notify the 70% of employees that would be affected by the furlough 30 days in advance. I can only speak for myself. But, if I anticipated being furloughed in a few weeks I would probably have other things/concerns on my mind that would prevent me from operating/functioning at peak efficiency at work. 

Aside from possible slowdowns (not necessarily intentional...just from the situation/pressure/other) why would they schedule many interviews (especially for dates in September) not knowing if they would be there to conduct the interviews? 

I kind of figured that (if the threat of furloughs was removed) things would proceed rapidly once the USCIS employees had some reassurances/certainty that they would be working in September and that they would have adequate staff to conduct interviews.

I do expect some slowdowns, though. I read that they have instituted some severe/extreme cost cutting that negatively affected contracted workers/services. (I included a link below to one of my sources.)  That will probably cause HUGE wait times and delays if you try to call the contact center for information about your case... (And other delays based upon steps/things that utilize contracted services/workers.)

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/08/immigration-services-agency-cancels-furloughs-13000-employees/167963/

I think/guess that they might have been holding off on scheduling too many interviews because of the pending/threatened furloughs at the  end of this week. 

I am not surprised that they scheduled our interview soon after the furloughs were cancelled.

Yesterday our status changed to interview was scheduled. I will update our timeline when we get the letter/date of the interview.

Combo card was just delivered by USPS.