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    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Sarge2155 said:

    Ahhh very good I see USCIS is still selectively approving without interviews. Congratulations! Beware of a scheduled interview anyway. If they do schedule you don't  just play it off. Investigate it will turn out to be an error (the scheduled interview), just don't  take it lightly.

    BTW it's not just "selectively" waiving. It is up to 20% and even 30% of EB cases in some ranges. There are forums dedicated specifically to track the waivers, people monitor thousands of cases there and post regular updates.

    Most waivers are for EB1C and EB2 NIW, some are for EB2s, EB3s and even EB1As

    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Sarge2155 said:

    Ahhh very good I see USCIS is still selectively approving without interviews. Congratulations! Beware of a scheduled interview anyway. If they do schedule you don't  just play it off. Investigate it will turn out to be an error (the scheduled interview), just don't  take it lightly.

    Thank you, I know about this possibility. I am aware of one case where it was scheduled one month after GC received, required congressman involvement to get it killed

    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by MIBogdan

    2 hours ago, crickets said:

    Hey everyone, im struggling to be optimistic. My interview was April 9th but all the offices closed the week before.. Not here to whine or complain, just curious: how are you all wethering the wait? Immigration is slow, waiting is nothing special..but it's hard not to get depressed about it sometime. Esp with little kids and not knowing.. Any Advice?

    How do I wether the wait? A couple times I was thinking of a rope and a tree (I have circumstances that make it even harder to wait)... Then someone posted a Stephen King's quote: “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

    My AOS case got approved without interview yesterday. Hope and pray, God will help you if you pray honestly

    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    27 minutes ago, Magna said:

    You don't need to feel guilty; who knows everything will be stopped mid-March and the federal agency tried not to resume their service?

    I even renewed my driver's license in late May!

    I'm sure the DOS and USCIS are the only federal department and agencies that desperately defer resuming their services.

     

    I totally understand how frustrated you two.

    But, especially for this tough time, you guys have to, and try to make you and your wife happy. (and we all understand how hard it is.)

    Everything will back to normal after the presidential election in the end; either he keeps his position or his opponent takes his position, who cares about after the elections.

     

    And, this is just my minor hope, but your wife may be able to do biometric done if she can get her biometric appointment next week. 

    For me, I got the notice one week before the scheduled date.

    what is this about?

     

    28 minutes ago, Magna said:

    You don't need to feel guilty; who knows everything will be stopped mid-March and the federal agency tried not to resume their service?

    I even renewed my driver's license in late May!

    I'm sure the DOS and USCIS are the only federal department and agencies that desperately defer resuming their services.

     

    I totally understand how frustrated you two.

    But, especially for this tough time, you guys have to, and try to make you and your wife happy. (and we all understand how hard it is.)

    Everything will back to normal after the presidential election in the end; either he keeps his position or his opponent takes his position, who cares about after the elections.

     

    And, this is just my minor hope, but your wife may be able to do biometric done if she can get her biometric appointment next week. 

    For me, I got the notice one week before the scheduled date.

    What is this about? Can you elaborate with 6 words, seriously?

    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    53 minutes ago, bodgie19 said:

    We have two envelopes coming in the mail from USCIS today, but before we get excited one for sure is the EAD/AP acceptance because part of the text is visible and thats what it says, the one on nice paper. But the second is a mystery to me. It seems like it says 1 of 1, which cant be biometrics because now they have an additional worksheet you need to fill out. So might be a bummer. I kow @TandClaudia had similar pieces in mail come in recently. Can you shed any light on what the second envelope might be. Both are dates 7/31/2020, but our approval updated online 8/3/2020.

     

    Down side is my mail doesnt come until around 4ish.

     

    Our PD: 2/21

    My EAD and AP approvals all came in separate envelopes, all fancy paper

    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Just now, Basil123 said:

    Seriously. I would love to hear their reasoning behind what the they're doing... 

     

    Also hey, you also had them put in a service request for you, right? Did you ever hear anything? I haven't heard anything yet, nor did my case status update or anything. Do you have any better news on that front?

    Those SRs are not very useful. I had my biometrics yesterday, and the SR I raised in July is still not assigned to anyone

    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, fromsweden said:

    Yeah unfortunately we haven't received any reschedule despite

    1) our priority date being 2/18

    2) our original biometrics date being 3/18 (first day of shutdown)

    3) our application being approved July 16

    4) our ASC being open and taking biometrics for applicants from April and May

     

     

    Unfortunately, it's kind of unclear if those without biometrics are truly a part of the class. All of the plantiffs involved had biometrics, just hadn't had cards printed (yet). The only kind of close thing is https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ohsd.243394/gov.uscourts.ohsd.243394.35.2.pdf which shows someone who was granted "special dispensation" to get biometrics asap. I want to know how I can get that too!

    You can try asking Greg Siskind on social media - may be he will be able to clarify. He is a very prominent immigration lawyer in US, and he was involved with this class action. BTW USCIS can appeal this on August 10 and there's a widespread expectation that they will do it on "security grounds" i.e. claiming lack of biometrics as the delay factor

    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    interesting things happening... I posted earlier today that I did biometrics in the morning for AOS+EAD, and then got "new card ordered" update for EAD within 45 minutes of biometrics completion. Then same update for my wife followed in 30 minutes.

    Then in the evening, I got massive update for all my AOS and EAD cases (myself, wife, daughter) for "fingerprints applied to your case". While this mass update was definitely automatic, potentially after FBI submitted fingerprint check reports (my friend got this update in the middle of the night EST), the earlier updates feel like they were human-initiated. To me it means that it makes sense to give them a push if you have new biometrics, previously approved EAD, and your status doesn't update from those automatic "fingerprints applied"

    February 2020 AOS Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, MIBogdan said:

    So... I have just completed my biometric appointment, and would like to share experience. EB1C case, ASC Philadelphia. PD October 2019, filed late February just before "public charge". Myself, wife and daughter.

    Within ASC, there are 20+ cubicles where they can do biometrics. Only 5 are converted to pandemic-safe operation (plexiglass barriers etc.). Out of those 5, only 3 were staffed. The whole thing takes about 10 minutes enter to exit. They did check the appointment date on the notice. There were about 8 families and individuals in there, with new people coming in as we were leaving.

    Appointment was for AOS+EAD, code 3.

    Interesting thing - my wife's EAD application status (for which I raised an SR a while ago, and it still says "no one looking at it yet") changed to "new card being produced" within 45 minutes of appointment completion. All our EADs and APs were approved in late May. 

    Just now my own EAD card status changed to "new card being produced"

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