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Just got an email saying my passport was approved. How long does it usually take from approval to receiving it?

Just got an email saying my passport was approved. How long does it usually take from approval to receiving it?

I've been waiting since Oct 2017. But I'm also a combo filer with N400. Roughly 30 months so far. 

Still waiting for N400 interview rescheduling. Called USCIS# last week due to inaction while other never-been-scheduled people are getting their first interview dates (I thought USCIS was trying to reschedule the cancelled ones first?!), and I was told that the agency sent my case for another round of background checks 20 days after my original interview was cancelled. I was very irritated by that. Called USCIS today and they told me that my case is not having anything holding it back or pending background check, and shown as "eligible for interview." So I don't know why I got two different answers on my case. It's always a fun ride talking to different people on the phone. 
 
 

Canada has merit-based system. It allows both citizens AND permanent residents to sponsor parents for PR. 
 
Australia also allows parents sponsorship.
 
Going merit-based doesn't make it a necessity to end parents sponsorship. In fact, many high-skilled, filthy rich immigrants care a LOT about this. Countries with such policies continue to get those people.
 
But again, this is an EO. It's not going to be able to change the law and end categories created by law.

Canada has merit-based system. It allows both citizens AND permanent residents to sponsor parents for PR. 
 
Australia also allows parents sponsorship.
 
Going merit-based doesn't make it a necessity to end parents sponsorship. In fact, many high-skilled, filthy rich immigrants care a LOT about this. Countries with such policies continue to get those people.
 
But again, this is an EO. It's not going to be able to change the law and end categories created by law.

Canada has merit-based system. It allows both citizens AND permanent residents to sponsor parents for PR. 
 
Australia also allows parents sponsorship.
 
Going merit-based doesn't make it a necessity to end parents sponsorship. In fact, many high-skilled, filthy rich immigrants care a LOT about this. Countries with such policies continue to get those people.
 
But again, this is an EO. It's not going to be able to change the law and end categories created by law.

Canada has merit-based system. It allows both citizens AND permanent residents to sponsor parents for PR. 
 
Australia also allows parents sponsorship.
 
Going merit-based doesn't make it a necessity to end parents sponsorship. In fact, many high-skilled, filthy rich immigrants care a LOT about this. Countries with such policies continue to get those people.
 
But again, this is an EO. It's not going to be able to change the law and end categories created by law.

This only helps slow down the processing speed. 
 
 

This is a common misconception about H1B spread by anti immigrant groups. I’m surprised to find this rhetoric here in a forum that helps immigrants. There are two types of H1Bs, highly skilled with masters or PHD from an American university. Go to any top STEM school, you will find majority of students to be international. These students later convert from OPT to H1B.
 
These jobs typically require graduate level degree, which is hard to find among Americans. The other kind of H1B is from consulting companies, typically from outsourcing companies bringing their employees on board. If you abolish H1B, these jobs will simply be outsourced. Companies will loose talent on important projects. The H1B median wage is $80k. So forget taxes. Most of these jobs will be simply moved to Canada or India. The 3 million unemployed are mostly from restaurants and other low wage workers completely unrelated to H1B. All this potential EO does is to get some brownie points among his xenophobic anti immigrant base who doesn’t want high skilled brown immigrants in this country.
 
I myself have a masters degree from a top US university and working on H1B and earn a salary of $110k plus bonuses. I didn’t steal anyone’s job. In fact the very first requirement of getting a H1B is to prove to USCIS that you can’t find any American to fill the job. They have gotten pretty strict about it recently. I was hired solely because my knowledge in my field. All my friends in H1B have a similar story.

Haha Administration only cares about keeping immigrants away ( especially the nonwhite one's). They really have shown they don't care about any ones lives. Just look at the puppet show going on 

Bring you green card and the extension letter. When you come back from a foreign country, make sure you arrive EARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLY. Give yourself at least 2.5-3 hours before flight departure. Because they likely will have to call the US side to verify your green card status before checking you in. It could take up half an hour or more for them to verify.

About 1,000 Kansas City workers learn of potential layoffs ahead of holiday weekend
 
NBC is cutting 1000 workers at their office in Kansas City.
 
"After the layoffs, which would become effective May 29, 181 employees would remain at NBC offices in the Kansas City area. "
 
 
 

I think that's a great idea. Of course I would prefer to attend an actual ceremony, the experience would be so much more memorable. But we are dealing with a pandemic for the time being and we just have to adjust our expectations to this new normal in order to get things going. I think some cities in Australia has already started doing this.  

If that were to be the case, just be thankful you have the opportunity to do so. 

You can always rescind your application and reapply when the coronavirus will have been gone.

https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20200511/BILLS-116hr6800ih.pdf pages 1734-1736

Hoping this gets passed but chances are very low.

This year is especially painful for F1 students.

If they entered w/o intent to file for AOS and did not like to CBP, then it's permitted. It's a change of circumstances.
(They won't need to demonstrate their intent either...that was something determined at POE).

And that’s why it makes no sense at all. It has been presented as something that protects unemployed Americans and keeps jobs for them. I actually understand the concept. I’m fortunate that I’m still working (although I had to take a 60% pay cut to keep my job but no reduction in hours or responsibilities...) but if I had lost my job I’d be pretty annoyed to see work visas being issued to foreigners with unemployment here at its highest in a very long time. 
 
However, temporary work visas are not even affected, and neither are certain other work visa categories. Spouses of USCs are not affected (thankfully!) so it looks like the main bulk of those affected are parents and siblings of USCs,   children of USCs, and spouses and children of LPRs. 
 
One look at these forums will tell you that parents of USCs are unlikely to be coming her to take jobs from Americans. Most of them are coming here to retire and live with their family. 
 
Of the just over 1 million immigrant visas issued to family members of USCs in a year, around 500,000 go to spouses. So that leaves around 500,000 that are ineligible under this new plan. 300,000 of those are minors. So that leaves 200,000 - not all of whom are of working age as parents and minor children of siblings are included in that. Spouses of LPRs are about 100,000 a year. In all we are talking about 300,000 people at most, including children and retirement age people. And that’s supposed to help the 20 million who have recently filed for unemployment to get a job? 
 
It’s clearly been done to please those who (wrongly) think that there are “millions of people coming here every year to take our jobs”. It’s simply not true. The vast majority of immigrants are family members of people who already live here, many children and elderly included in that. If they knew the real figures they would be shocked. 

First it was April 3, then May 4, & now June 4. That’s not good news. 
 
I hope embassies oversea open before that.
 
 Most businesses are reopening. Why not these govt offices 

Do any of you have appointments for your N-400 interviews in May or in fact any other date past May 3rd?

Just want to add that even if your beneficiary's visa category is affected by this EO. Do not wait to file. File when you are ready. This EO does not prevent you from filing but from receiving green cards. Therefore it's good to get your applications in line. For parents of USCs for example, it typically takes about 1.5 years so don't wait on it. You can't predict the future but being on the reactive side for changes is a bad idea.

Just want to add that even if your beneficiary's visa category is affected by this EO. Do not wait to file. File when you are ready. This EO does not prevent you from filing but from receiving green cards. Therefore it's good to get your applications in line. For parents of USCs for example, it typically takes about 1.5 years so don't wait on it. You can't predict the future but being on the reactive side for changes is a bad idea.