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19 minutes ago, eckoin said:

Congrats! Looks like your congressman's office is actually worth its salt

 

For future readers - I still do not recommend the "severe financial loss to company" route, as far more people have been rejected than approved. But in the end, whatever does the trick is what matters. Happy working OP! 

Thank you! Grateful for not gonna to lose my current job!

I waited and on Friday, the DHS site says My card is ordered even though MyUSCIS still says Fingerprint is completed. I think the congressman did the trick!

I had followed up the congressman office on Wednesday and they said that they got a response from USCIS saying that I would get a decision within one month.

On 4/4/2019 at 1:47 AM, laufine said:

Don't worry. You will be fine. If you don't get any responds in 4 weeks, call your congressman's office again.

I expedited my wife's I-765 with the help of our district congresswoman. For 2 weeks, we don't hear any feed back.

Then the congresswoman office called us that the USCIS had accepted the expedite. 2 days later, we received the txt and email from USCIS.

Thank you!!! My case got updated to Your card is ordered on Friday even though MyUSCIS did not update. I think this was successful!

10 minutes ago, eckoin said:

Well, several potential issues here. 

 

You'd have to be pretty important to the company for them to suffer financial loss by not having you around. I hope their letter clarified the severe monetary loss if you were absent. Like, if you're their top sales person and without you the millions dollars of contracts will disappear. 

 

This is why everyone here applies on the criteria of severe financial loss to person (you). You not having income is pretty serious to you, but your company will usually just replace you. 

 

Not having a cover letter is a poor choice. The paragraph you wrote was just for the congressman's office? Your reasoning is already potentially invalid, not explaining in a proper cover letter is a mistake. 

 

Do you know if your congressman submitted anything at all? Have you spoken to them? I ask because, when I expedited my EAD, I also asked my congressman at the same time to do the same. His offer sent me a letter two months after my expedite was already approved, basically asking, "what is this?"

 

If I were you, I'd tell the congressman's office to forget about it, redo the expedite, do it yourself, and then also ask them again with an updated package for good measure. But if you truly believe your company will face potential bankruptcy or otherwise "severe" financial loss, then I guess keep going with that.

Oh wow. You have a good point. I am honestly not sure if the congressman office did submit the request for me or not given that there is nothing in my case history related to expedite.

so you recommend: I call USCIS to do it myself, faxed the evidence and cover letter, AND THEN get the congressman involved?

8 hours ago, Jorgedig said:

What was your grounds for requesting an expedite?

Financial loss to company as I will lose employment in 2 months if my new EAD does not come in. 

27 minutes ago, eckoin said:

Financial loss to company? Not to you? And you're not even sure? Did you write a cover letter? 

 

And do you know that your congressman's office actually submitted the expedite, have you followed up with them? 

Financial loss to company as I will lose employment in 2 months if I don’t receive the new EAD.

I did not write any cover letter. I only wrote a paragraph explaining how it would be a financial loss to the company if I lose employment when I submit the service request to the congressman office.

Hi Everyone,

This is my timeline:

NYC

2.28.19 shipped

3.1.19 received by USCIS

3.6.19 check cashed

3.11.19 receipt received

3.14.19 biometrics letter

3.15.19 biometrics and USCIS Status: Fingerprint Complete

3.19.19 I-485 ready to be scheduled for interview

3.22.19 Congressman submitted expedite EAD Request

I never called USCIS to expedite EAD. Only told Congressman about it. Therefore, my case history only shows fingerprint review completed. There was nothing in case history showing "who got assigned to my case or I requested to expedite EAD like other people". Should I call USCIS to check? Or I should check with the congressman?

Matildawr, thank you for sharing. I am on the same boat. OPT EAD. 

I asked the congressman for help last month and she said she would submit an expedite request for me on 4/22. However, I never called USCIS to tell them that I need to expedite. So now my case history is only Fingerprint was completed.

Should I call USCIS now? I don't see anything related to expediting EAD... 

On 3/25/2019 at 7:37 PM, Matildawr said:

I placed an expedite request March 14th, by calling USCIS, on the 19th they looked at the expedite I believe because I got an email that day that the case was under review, and then completed according to my case history for my EAD. On the 23rd I got a notification that card was being produced. I never had to send in any evidence for Financial Loss to Company, which was my reason, so I'm not sure if they just didn't feel like they needed it because my case isn't that complicated (f-1, AOS via marriage, never been out of status, had EAD before) or if it ended up being normal processing for me. 

Matildawr, thank you for sharing. I am on the same boat. OPT EAD. 

I asked the congressman for help last month and she said she would submit an expedite request for me on 4/22. However, I never called USCIS to tell them that I need to expedite. So now my case history is only Fingerprint was completed.

Should I call USCIS now? I don't see anything related to expediting EAD... 

My P.D. is 3.1.19 and I completed biometrics already. I asked the Congressman office to help me submit an expedite request for EAD and AP on 3/22 with a company letter. 

I am still seeing fingerprint review was completed. Is that normal? I don't see anything about expediting in my I-765 case history either.

Basically, I have a OPT EAD which is set to expire in late June. So I will lose employment if this new EAD does not come in and the reason for expedite is financial loss to company I believe