December filers

[boogiewoogie]

Marriage Based. I also filed for EAD/AP, but didn't hear anything back on that prior to Interview.

on what status were you here before adjusting?

[ChrisNY]

on what status were you here before adjusting?

Ah sorry, E3 Australian

[yeahbuddy]

PD: 12/18/2017
NOA1s received: 12/26/2017
Biometrics appointment: 01/25/2018

Having loads of fun trying to change my address with USCIS for the past couple of weeks. They seem to be assigning my requests to an officer every day, but not completing them. Joyous.

[ewilliams]

Having loads of fun trying to change my address with USCIS for the past couple of weeks. They seem to be assigning my requests to an officer every day, but not completing them. Joyous.

Gotta love bureaucracy
Cause changing a address is definitely rocket science lmao
Hope itll workout for ya. Is your field office gonna change because of that?

[boogiewoogie]

Friday March 23rd my 765 application changed to:
We are producing your card and will mail it to you

I did not get any emails and this only shows on https://my.uscis.gov/account/applicant
the other website is still showing my name change from back in February. (i didn't change my name but they had it wrong so it had to be corrected)

married to us citizen, home country The Netherlands (close to Norway if that matters)
currently here on L-1B visa which is valid till April 2018, adjusting status marriage based.

Timeline:
12/20/2017: filed 130/765/485/131
12/27/2017: 4 emails with cases received
01/05/2018: 4 NOA's
01/17/2018: request to expedite EAD #1 -
01/19/2018: expedite denied, have to do biometrics first
01/25/2018: biometrics done
01/25/2018: request to expedite EAD #2
01/29/2018: faxed evidence for request
01/30/2018: RFIE for 485 - needed more info about income wife plus recent tax returns (2017)
01/31/2018: mailed it all out
02/07/2018: expedite denied due to pending RFIE, they got it on 2/2 but didn't process it yet
02/12/2018: request to expedite EAD #3
02/19/2018: they wanted evidence again for this request
02/21/2018: faxed in evidence again
02/28/2018: expedite request completed, got a letter a week later saying we are currently working on your case, you should receive a decision shortly
03/07/2018: ombudsman
03/07/2018: we mailed your document about 130, still haven't received it as of 3/26
03/16/2018: ombudsman replied; USCIS recently issued a decision regarding your request. I'm still waiting on what decision this was and about what, no news from ombudsman so far
03/21/2018: SR for out of processing time, still unassigned as of 3/26
03/21/2018: reached out to congressman Don Beyer, mailed it all in
03/21/2018: reached out to Senator Tim Kaine, faxed it all in, haven't heard from him as of 3/26
03/22/2018: congressman's staffer reached out to USCIS
03/23/2018: We are producing your card and will mail it to you

I'm hopeful i will get this card before my visa expires mid April. If not i think my employer can still use e-verify to see that i have a valid work authorization as of this day but who knows..

Things I've learned:
Expedite requests are useless, I think i had valid reasons as i would lose my job and i'm the single source of income for our family. My employer also wrote a letter how they would loose business if i couldn't be working on projects with clients. I don't think any of this helped.
Any calls i made to USCIS seem useless, they are like an insurance company where the goal is to have as little claims as possible. No one could tell me anything i couldn't see from the online status tracker.
I think the congressman helped but i'm not sure. They could have just sent out a standard email like any other SR and it was just coincidence who knows?
Finally, start your application/petition as soon as you can to avoid stressful situations like this. In hindsight i should have filed much sooner after we got married. This was in May 2017. I had to save up some money for all the fees and collecting paperwork took a bit longer than expected but I should have filed this earlier.

@ewilliams, guilty as sin with all the methods to expedite..

[yeahbuddy]

Gotta love bureaucracy
Cause changing a address is definitely rocket science lmao
Hope itll workout for ya. Is your field office gonna change because of that?

Sadly not haha, still Seattle (moved to the east side) but wish I was closer to Yakima or Spokane just to benefit from their faster interview times!

Hope we both hear something about our EADs soon

[coffee023]

im filing for aos.
sent all my documents on the 30th of Nov through ups
got confirmation that my documents were received on monday 4th dec
uscis just sent 3 confirmations from by email and 3 confirmations by sms by 11:55pm monday dec 12th

Yesss! Woke up this morning to see an email from USCIS. they said a decision has been taken on my case and i should log into my account to view their decision. i just checked and it said my I-765 was approved and that my card was mailed to me on march 23rd! i got up and rushed to my mailbox and behold MY EAD!!!!!! Thank you lord! been waiting forever for this. Time to get that drivers license and get a job!

[boogiewoogie]

Yesss! Woke up this morning to see an email from USCIS. they said a decision has been taken on my case and i should log into my account to view their decision. i just checked and it said my I-765 was approved and that my card was mailed to me on march 23rd! i got up and rushed to my mailbox and behold MY EAD!!!!!! Thank you lord! been waiting forever for this. Time to get that drivers license and get a job!

Congrats! i got 2 texts this morning @530AM saying decisions were taken. Both my 765 and 131 were approved. Nothing mailed yet.

[Mellymoo]

Congrats! i got 2 texts this morning @530AM saying decisions were taken. Both my 765 and 131 were approved. Nothing mailed yet.

Congratulations. Still nothing on my end and my SR's have not been assigned. Fingers crossed!

[coffee023]

Congrats! i got 2 texts this morning @530AM saying decisions were taken. Both my 765 and 131 were approved. Nothing mailed yet.

congratulations!!! it will come just be patient

[boogiewoogie]

Congratulations. Still nothing on my end and my SR's have not been assigned. Fingers crossed!

my SR is still unassigned so that may not be deciding in this. It's a luck game if anything.

[ewilliams]

Congrats! i got 2 texts this morning @530AM saying decisions were taken. Both my 765 and 131 were approved. Nothing mailed yet.

Congrats!!
I got an email this morning, I did a SR and email said no decision has been made yet. Last time someone touched my case was Jan 16th...

[boogiewoogie]

Congrats!!
I got an email this morning, I did a SR and email said no decision has been made yet. Last time someone touched my case was Jan 16th...

You may have to bite the bullet and do your expedite/SR/Congress/Senate/Trumps twitter account method to get things going

[rjte84]

Update

Hi Guys,

Bellow my timeline:

04 Dec: Sent Package (140,485,731,765)
12 Dec: Recieved Notice
22 Dec: 140 approved (no update on the USCIS case system but got the physical notification. The system updated 2 weeks after)
28 Dec: Transfer Notice (485)
06 Jan: Bio Appointments Notice
15 Jan: Bio Done
08 March: 765-731 approved. Mailed Combo Card (EAD with I-152 parole)

Miami

Now waiting for the 485 interview. I?m super nervous of what they will ask/request.

Just a little update, I got my combo card by mail and the interview notice for 24th April!!

Let's see how it goes.

BTW, I'm doing AOS for Employment based application. Field Office: Hialeah, FL

[yeahbuddy]

Congrats!!
I got an email this morning, I did a SR and email said no decision has been made yet. Last time someone touched my case was Jan 16th...

Did they say anything about when you can next raise an SR? I haven't done one yet - on day 100 today - and am wondering whether it's worth trying now or waiting a bit longer.