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Here is a quick update from us.
Our AOS Interview was on Wednesday, May 19th, 2021. Today May 27th, 2021 my wifey’s 2 year green card arrived in the mail via USPS priority mail. It was sent out on Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 so it took about 8 days from approval right after interview to green card on hand. I hope the rest of you get their green cards soon as well :D
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Hi Visa journey,
We had our interview yesterday May 19th, 2021 at the San Bernardino, CA USCIS office.
The Interview was short and for the most part painless since we submitted a lot of information regarding our bona fide relationship with the original application and took much more to the interview itself. My wife did get asked about her travel history and the adjudication officer at first was telling us that she was only supposed to have used her Advance parole for an emergency only and not for leasure travel , but since I told her that the combo card was applied for to be used for multiple entries and after showing the adjudication officer a copy of the i-131 showing that we had applied for multiple entries and we did not list any emergency on the form, the officer said that we were ok. Not sure if she was testing us. The officer did not approve us on the spot but only hinted us that it was going to be approved citing that the file needed one last review before a decision could be made. Our status changed online about 4 hours hours from exiting our interview from “Interview Scheduled” to “New Card Being Produced”. Then today on 5-20-2021 it changed again to “Case Approved”. Good luck to the rest of you. We will let you know once we have her 2 year CF1 Green card on hand.
- dandeexjvy, kayden123, PatSquared and 2 others
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On 4/14/2021 at 6:56 PM, Vik&Yei said:
Hi there! The designated USCIS field office for the wifey’s AOS is in San Bernardino, CA and we received the following alert yesterday 4-13-2021 morning around 10am PST (see attached image):
We hope to receive the actual interview letter in the next few business days to find out the exact date of our interview. It looks like interviews are slowly being assigned.Good luck to all!
Here is a quick update guys: Interview date May 19, 2021 at the San Bernardino USCIS office. Just received the notice today in the snail mail.
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Hi there! The designated USCIS field office for the wifey’s AOS is in San Bernardino, CA and we received the following alert yesterday 4-13-2021 morning around 10am PST (see attached image):
We hope to receive the actual interview letter in the next few business days to find out the exact date of our interview. It looks like interviews are slowly being assigned.Good luck to all!
- PatSquared and Haydnator
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On 9/13/2020 at 3:33 PM, dandeexjvy said:
Yay! Congrats to you guys. You just gave me some well needed hope. We filed at the end of April and did biometrics Aug. 12. Praying we receive the same news very soon.
Thank you so much! I hope that you receive good news as well real soon! Take care and please stay safe and healthy out there 🙂
- Lulu123lu and dandeexjvy
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***UPDATE***
We have received my wifey’s EAD/AP COMBO Card today 09/15/2020 in the mail (via USPS Priority mail). Please note guys that my case status online stayed at “Card was mailed to me” but it never changed to “Card was picked up by US Postal Service” and thus I never had a tracking number for it. We live here in Southern California and the card was mailed out on Friday, September 11th, 2020 and got here today Tuesday, September 15th, 2020. I confirm again that this is indeed a COMBO CARD and it has a 1 year validity. Thus the card displays the following dates:
Valid from: 9/08/20 (This is the same date that the card showed online that it went into production)
Card Expires: 09/07/2021 (Let’s hope that we have her green card by then).
Good luck to all of you and we hope and pray that all of you get yours soon as well!
Ps. We had some drama with the post office people but that is a whole another story. The card showed delivered at 3:46pm Today online through the “Informed Delivery” App But when I arrived home from work at 5:05pm to check our mail the card wasn’t there. My local post office was closed but I still saw people in there so I banged on the door until finally some lady was kind enough to come out and talk to me after hours (bless her heart). So she was able to get a hold of the postal clerk delivering to our apartment complex and even though the item showed as delivered it had not been delivered yet. So she asked me to come back home and to leave our phone number. Well luckily about an hour later at 6:25pm we got a phone call from the local post office asking us to go and check our mail since he assured me that the card was indeed delivered. And yes to our relief, it waaaaas 😅. So the moral of this story is to always keep on top of the US Postal service because indeed they can also screw up BIGTIME and do not give up until you have your card on hand. Imagine going through months of a painful and lengthy process (even more so with Covid) to have USPS screw up right before the finish line. I can’t believe that they marked it as delivered even though it wasn’t. Shame on them.
- Eg8835, dandeexjvy, Sandyl and 2 others
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On 9/8/2020 at 5:25 PM, Vik&Yei said:
Ok guys....here it some great news for all April 2020 AOS Filers:
My wifey’s card status changed today to “New Card Being Produced”. It changed just moments ago (at about 5pm PST). Status went from “Case was updated to show Fingerprints were taken and applied to case” to “New Card Being Produced”. The advance parole application still says “Case was updated to show Fingerprints were taken”. We will wait to see if it comes as a Combo Card but I am fairly confident that it will 😄. I filed on March 28th, 2020 and USCIS Received our case (NOA date of) April 1st, 2020. Thus it looks like we are the 1st April 2020 filers to get approved without any expedite request.
I will keep you all posted to confirm that it is indeed a combo card once we receive it. Good luck and I hope that this paves the way for April EAD/AP approvals!!
Hi everyone,So here is another update for you guys. Today around 2:30pm PST the case Status‘ on both the EAD as well as on the AP went to “Case has been Approved” and a letter will be mailed out to you. Then again today at 5pm PST the status on the EAD changed again to “Card was mailed to me”.
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8 hours ago, nachoschindler said:
That's great news!
My priority date is April 3rd and I haven't even recieved the Biometrics appointment yet
I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope that you get your biometrics appointment soon. Have you tried calling? If not, call and ask to be transferred to a tier 2 agent. I’ve heard that NYC is a little back up in scheduling biometric appointments. Good luck and please let us know what happens with your case.
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Ok guys....here it some great news for all April 2020 AOS Filers:
My wifey’s card status changed today to “New Card Being Produced”. It changed just moments ago (at about 5pm PST). Status went from “Case was updated to show Fingerprints were taken and applied to case” to “New Card Being Produced”. The advance parole application still says “Case was updated to show Fingerprints were taken”. We will wait to see if it comes as a Combo Card but I am fairly confident that it will 😄. I filed on March 28th, 2020 and USCIS Received our case (NOA date of) April 1st, 2020. Thus it looks like we are the 1st April 2020 filers to get approved without any expedite request.
I will keep you all posted to confirm that it is indeed a combo card once we receive it. Good luck and I hope that this paves the way for April EAD/AP approvals!! -
2 hours ago, mayreturntocanada said:
PD April 10th, did biometric for i 765 and i 485 on August 12 (Code 3), then I 131 on August 26 (Code 2). Both I765 and I 131 have updated to say fingerprints have been applied. I 485 is now "ready to schedule interview".
Waiting patiently for AP so I can return to Canada to settle some affairs. This is very stressful. I hope it's worth it for each of you. Not being able to use your passport for several months and having it be at the mercy of a company with little transparency is infinitely frustrating.
Anyone with similar timeline getting their card? In California, filed with NBC.
Hi there,
Please feel free to monitor our timeline as it is about 10 days later before yours PD April 1st, 2020 and we are still waiting on the Combo card. Good luck and I hope that you receive your combo card soon.
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1 hour ago, SJ2020 said:
Hi, I had my biometrics appointment this morning at 8:00am at ASC Tustin, CA, so wanted to share my experience . I went 20minutes early and waited for them to open and there were 2 other people waiting outside behind me. They started letting us in about 7:55 and everything was so quick I was out by 8:01! It was so quick that when I went back into the car my husband thought they returned me for missing documents or something 😂 I’m hoping my status will change to card produced/mailed this week 🤞🏼
Awesome! We hope that you have your card created this week and that you receive your card soon! 🙂
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3 hours ago, PupperPup said:
Yay a little update on our case:
Did bio august 6th
Case updated to show fingerprints aug 7th
Ready to be scheduled for an interview Aug 10th
I wonder how long it'll actually take. Checked our office's processing times and it says about 9-35 months
but oh well at least there's some progress
After playing around with the processing times for each local USCIS field office for the i-485 form I noticed that just about all of them across the board have the exact same date range of 9-36 months and that this happened right after the furloughs were announced. As such, these don’t seem to be accurate processing times and thus USCIS probably just changed them throughout the system just to play it safe. Our particular field office before this change had practically only a 4-5 month wait. -
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Woooooooah...things are moving along fairly quickly right after the biometrics appointment yesterday 😱😄. We got another update today again just moments ago. Check it out guys!
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Here is a quick update on our case. We went to my wife’s Biometrics appointment in Pomona, CA yesterday morning and it was quick and painless. No other filers in the office but her. She got there about 20 minutes before her appointment and by 9am she was done.
Well yesterday evening her i-765 EAD changed status to fingerprints have been taken and applied to your case. This morning the same thing happened with her i-485 AOS to reflect the same exact change. Her i-131 AP remains the same with no status change and that makes sense since the biometrics letter did only specify the receipts numbers for i-485 & i-765 and not the i-131. However, we were told that both the EAD & AP apps will be processed together since they keep them together when turned in simultaneously with the AOS packet. Since these forms did generate separate fees, USCIS is aware that they all came in together.
Anyhow, looks like things are moving along pretty well and that the fingerprints are being processed and cleared in record time right after the visit to the ASC as long as the criminal record is clean. I hope that this holds true for everyone else patiently awaiting their turn. Good luck and waiting to hear back on updates from your cases as well.
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Hi there,
There is also another point that I would like to bring up regarding going the K-1 Visa route versus the IR1/CR1 choice. I’m not sure how this holds true nowadays but before and based on experience from many previous filers, there was somewhat less scrutiny from both the US Department of State as well as from USCIS in regards to proving a bona fide marriage when doing the K-1 Visa and then after filing for the AOS as opposed to filing the I-130 and then applying for the IR1/CR1. I guess the logic behind this was that there weren’t any more roadblocks once the IR1/CR1 was approved thus providing a straight road towards permanent residency with no more detours after going through that last hurdle. This is why the adjudicators at the US Embassies tend to be more strict with that process vs the K-1. With the fiancé/fiancée Visa the US Embassy personnel might not become as strict since they figure that USCIS will be the ones to perform the more extensive investigation once you file for AOS.
I hope that this is helpful and provides you with another insight towards making the choice that works best for your particular scenario/journey.
Good luck and stay safe and healthy out there 😊
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Hello everybody! We are new to Visa Journey and we wanted to share our timeline and information with all of you so that we can contribute to the noble cause which is “People helping people” 😊. We have just received my wife’s biometric appointment letter and she is scheduled for August 4th at the ASC in Pomona, CA. This office will be opening in a couple of days (on Monday, July 27th, 2020). We filed originally on March 27th but the received date on the NOA is April 1st thus, that’s why I’m posting here with our fellow April 2020 filers. My wife is currently in AOS from her K-1 Visa (Feel free to check out our timeline). No word on our EAD and AP so far. Good luck to us all and lets keep each other informed. Have a great evening everyone!
- AlanaM, kayden123, brainless69 and 3 others
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I-751 February 2023 Filers
in Removing Conditions on Residency General Discussion
Posted · Edited by Vik&Yei
Hello guys! We mailed out our i-751 form on 02/18/2023 to the USCIS Lockbox in Phoenix. We received NOA 1 (48 months extension letter) in the mail today 02/27/2023 dated 02/22/2023 and our case will be handled by the California Service Center. Good luck to us all.