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Have been a lurker on this forum for a while but just registered today. I'm a Scot (Scottish person) living and working in Chicago, Illinois. I moved to the US on an L-1A visa as an international employee transfer from my company in the UK in 2018. Have been going through the Green Card process. Has been a bit of a roller coaster week with the Trump tweet and continuing COVID situation.
Our cases (me and family, who are on L-2s) has been at the NBC since we filed in January. We got our I-485 (filed on 20th Jan 2020) biometrics appointment for mid-March, but with the COVID situation worsening I was fortunate to do a walk-in 2 weeks early in February, and managed to get them done and logged 2 days before all the offices closed down. I was expecting a long wait for our interview, because of the COVID shutdown, however we unexpectedly got a Request for Initial Evidence through (yellow letter if that matters) from NBC in Lee's Summit, MO, saying that our I-693 medicals were missing from the I-485 filing and that we must submit them within 74 days.
Our attorney advised that this unusual as the I-693 is not considered initial evidence and that we'd usually bring that to our interview. Having looked into it some more, and read on this forum - the fact that our case is still at NBC and not at a local field office, and the fact that they've asked for our medicals now suggests that they may have waived the interview and are going straight for the medicals. As I am already in the role that my I-765 certified me for, and am not moving employer, role or location - they think it may have been waived. We did our medicals last week and then sent them over to USCIS. They arrived via FedEx at the NBC today.
Based on the above - can anyone comment on the assumption around our interviews being waived? We never received any appointments or cancellations - we've gone straight from submitting biometrics to getting the RFE. Also, if we have been waived - any guesses on how long it might take NBC to issue our Green Cards, assuming it's all good?
With the general reduction in cases at present and the office closures, I'm hoping it might happen quite quickly. There is nothing else outstanding, assuming the interview is waived.
Have been a lurker on this forum for a while but just registered today. I'm a Scot (Scottish person) living and working in Chicago, Illinois. I moved to the US on an L-1A visa as an international employee transfer from my company in the UK in 2018. Have been going through the Green Card process. Has been a bit of a roller coaster week with the Trump tweet and continuing COVID situation.
Our cases (me and family, who are on L-2s) has been at the NBC since we filed in January. We got our I-485 (filed on 20th Jan 2020) biometrics appointment for mid-March, but with the COVID situation worsening I was fortunate to do a walk-in 2 weeks early in February, and managed to get them done and logged 2 days before all the offices closed down. I was expecting a long wait for our interview, because of the COVID shutdown, however we unexpectedly got a Request for Initial Evidence through (yellow letter if that matters) from NBC in Lee's Summit, MO, saying that our I-693 medicals were missing from the I-485 filing and that we must submit them within 74 days.
Our attorney advised that this unusual as the I-693 is not considered initial evidence and that we'd usually bring that to our interview. Having looked into it some more, and read on this forum - the fact that our case is still at NBC and not at a local field office, and the fact that they've asked for our medicals now suggests that they may have waived the interview and are going straight for the medicals. As I am already in the role that my I-765 certified me for, and am not moving employer, role or location - they think it may have been waived. We did our medicals last week and then sent them over to USCIS. They arrived via FedEx at the NBC today.
Based on the above - can anyone comment on the assumption around our interviews being waived? We never received any appointments or cancellations - we've gone straight from submitting biometrics to getting the RFE. Also, if we have been waived - any guesses on how long it might take NBC to issue our Green Cards, assuming it's all good?
With the general reduction in cases at present and the office closures, I'm hoping it might happen quite quickly. There is nothing else outstanding, assuming the interview is waived.
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