Processing time for Marriage based AOS

[Eliza Smith-Sitnick]

I filed an I-130 at the same time my husband filed an I-765 and an I-485 (October 17, 2016). We got his biometrics taken on November 30, 2017. We received a Request for Initial Evidence (sent out December 16th, 2016) for our joint sponsor's proof of U.S. citizenship, even though we had already sent a photocopy of her passport with our original packet. We sent another photocopy of her passport in response to the request, and got a notification on January 6, 2017, that USCIS had received our response. I called USCIS earlier in December and they said I should call back on or after December 31st, when they would be able to give us a full report on our case because it would be past the processing time. I just called today (January 9th, 2017) and they said that the processing time for the I-485 is 10 months!! Everyone else we've talked to has told us start to finish it should be about 5 months, so I don't understand why the USCIS representative said 10 months. She also said that the processing time for the I-765 is shorter: around 75 days. She submitted a work request for us, to my understanding this is when they give us the full update that the USCIS representative I talked to in early December said we could have on December 31st. The woman I talked to today told me that I should wait 15-30 days to hear back about the work request. Why is this taking so much longer than we originally were told? And when can I expect to hear back from them?

[rayb]

Processing timeframes change routinely, and reports of others' timeframes cannot be relied upon. Also, any USCIS staff person's estimate is not something that USCIS staff can guarantee.

--Ray B

I filed an I-130 at the same time my husband filed an I-765 and an I-485 (October 17, 2016). We got his biometrics taken on November 30, 2017. We received a Request for Initial Evidence (sent out December 16th, 2016) for our joint sponsor's proof of U.S. citizenship, even though we had already sent a photocopy of her passport with our original packet. We sent another photocopy of her passport in response to the request, and got a notification on January 6, 2017, that USCIS had received our response. I called USCIS earlier in December and they said I should call back on or after December 31st, when they would be able to give us a full report on our case because it would be past the processing time. I just called today (January 9th, 2017) and they said that the processing time for the I-485 is 10 months!! Everyone else we've talked to has told us start to finish it should be about 5 months, so I don't understand why the USCIS representative said 10 months. She also said that the processing time for the I-765 is shorter: around 75 days. She submitted a work request for us, to my understanding this is when they give us the full update that the USCIS representative I talked to in early December said we could have on December 31st. The woman I talked to today told me that I should wait 15-30 days to hear back about the work request. Why is this taking so much longer than we originally were told? And when can I expect to hear back from them?