EAD (WorkPermit)

Hi everybody. Today my online status shows my card is being produced. But it says it may take up to 120 days. Any experience about how many days it will take?

Thank you

PD: 03/16/2018
C9 - Married to USC - Concurrently filed
Houston

Hey friend, any one from new york get their work permit,,who appled in Feb end or March, without taking help of congressman n sr,, in short by normal process

pd 1 march 2018!! as of today my card being produced!! 160days. good luck guyz.married to gc holder. pd for i 130 march 2017.

do I of to fill out form I-864 affidavit of support when am filing for my husband

Priority date dec1,2017 raise several SR same response assign to an officer, we send a response and completed. I called uscis and talk to an officer yesterday as I am on H1B which expires sept12 which is next month so she raise an expedite request as I explain her that I am working for that company for 3 years & I will loose my job if I don’t get my work permit and as of today it says On August 9, 2018, your request to have your case expedited, referral number WKD————-MSC, we send a response, assigned to an officer & was completed.
Any experience or suggestions please

So today my case was updated after 150 days new card is being produced I’m so happy
Pd match 12 2028

About me:
Entered US as a student and had been on F-1 Visa for 4.5 years
Got OPT: 2.5 months after graduating in December
Got married to USC in October 2017
OPT expired in February 2018
March - July: no job
---All in while I am moving from New Mexico to Washington DC, then moving DC to NM again after a year---

About my case:
Filed I-485, I-130, I-756, I-130
Receipt Number: MSC189034 ****

Here is my timeline:
11/04/2017 - Cases received
11/13/2017 - Cases rejected due to wrong fee filed ($85 short for biometrics)
11/20/2017 - Emailed through Lockbox asking why my case was rejected (I had no clue about biometrics fee!)
12/06/2017 - Case received by National Benefit Center
12/11/2017 - Notification was sent
12/06/2017 - Change of Address filed
12/17/2017 - Email received says: “Your case has been accepted and routed to the USCIS National Benefits Center for processing. Within 7-10 days by standard mail you will receive your official Receipt Notice (Form I-797) with your Receipt Number” for all 4 cases.
12/26/2017 - Lockbox email replied: “Good afternoon, If you refile the same forms, or include any of the supporting forms required or optional with an adjustment of status filing, the payment required with your filing is $1,760, as detailed below:
 
                  $535 – I-130 (form fee only)
               $1,225 – I-485 ($1,140 form fee + $85 biometric fee)
                      $0 – I-864 (no fee)
                      $0 – I-765 (no fee when filed with an I-485)
                      $0 – I-131 (no fee when filed with an I-485)
               $1,760 – total payment required
 
USCIS reminds applicants and petitioners to pay the $85 biometric services fee (already included in $1,760) at the time of filing for benefit requests that require biometrics, or we will reject the request.”
12/30/2017 - Biometrics scheduled for 01/05/2018 but could not make it because it put me for Montana address due to complication of myself moving around I put my husband’s father’s address - BIG MISTAKE -
01/08/2018 - Change of Address was assigned to an officer and completed
01/??/2018 - Called Customer Service asking about biometrics and when it get scheduled after I change address, was told to send a letter to the Montana office to transfer the case to DC office
01/??/2018 - Letter about Change of Address sent to Montana office
01/24/2018 - InfoPass Appointment at Washington Field Office asking about biometrics appointment
02/??/2018 - My husband’s dad sent me very important document very late
02/??/2018 - [I sent a letter to Service Office in VA asking to RE-schedule a biometrics appointment due to circumstances with the original copy of the Biometrics appointment paperwork]
02/12/2018 - [Biometrics completed in Service Center in Alexandria, VA]
03/17/2018 - First Service Request raised
04/30/2018 - Reply: The status of this service request is: “Our review indicates that this case is within our current processing time. To check our current case processing times, please visit our website at https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times. If you do not receive a decision or notice of other action within our current processing time, please check our online services or call the USCIS Contact Center at the number provided below. “
05/07/2018 - Second SR raised by USCIS Support Rep
05/16/2018 - Third (second to 05/07 SR) SR raised by USCIS Rep since I did not get any email notification and such
(160 days been passed) 05/16/2018 - After 2 hours, it was assigned to an officer and an email was sent to me: “The status of this service request is: Your case is currently under review. You should receive a decision or notice of other action shortly. “
06/01/2018 - Address changed
06/07/2018 - Request for Initial Evidence was sent to us
07/07/2018 - REF was sent back to USCIS
07/23/2018 - Interview Scheduled for September
07/30/2018 - EAD card and Travel card been approved (letter I-797)
08/02/2018 - Tracking # for EAD card was issued through USCIS notification
08/3/2018 - EAD card delivered in mail

---I did everything all by myself ---
It was really stressful ride as y’all have expressed and/or have been experiencing.

Helpful
- Calling Support Center and talking to rep
- Spending some time to do some research
- Being on this forum when you are about to go crazy but you see all the others who also went through what you are going through
- Ask Emma so many questions in different ways and you actually get real person in a chat so your questions get answered for real
- Don’t even bother to check the new USCIS account (https://my.uscis.gov/account/applicant). They never update anything. Rather, check the old website (https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do).

Not Helpful
- filing your case all by yourself (cannot be confident/constantly fearing you are going to fail etc)
- USCIS Websites and Portals: they are in transition of the portals but old portal has more info and new one has nothing. (ex. SR referral # did not get updated in new portal) checking these both portals made me crazy
- USCIS forms and instructions: information is everywhere. Old and new.
- Emma in USCIS website is not exactly helpful until you get real person in a chat.
- Contacting through email (Lockbox) Response was too late that was not useful for me with such a delay.

To-do
- DYR (Do Your Research) - I blindly believed in what is being written in USCIS website and I regret doing so. For awhile, it said it will take 90 days for EAD to be issued, but they changed that timeline in the end of March 2018 from 90 days to 2.5 months to 5 months, later 4-6months. But obviously, if I were to be in this forum or utilized any resource, I would have known better that it would take much longer than it says.
- Call rep at the Service Center when you have questions. Their customer service really varies. Some ladies are having a bad day, some others are happy to help you. I want to be as polite as possible to them, but they could be very hard to be heard, so politely ask could you repeat that one more time? Etc

Not to-do
Be always skeptical of what is being said on USCIS website. It could be old information or what you are looking at is just wrong. So double check with other resources available.
Putting mailing address as physical address in I-485. - I put my husband’s father’s address on I-485 because we were not sure of if we are moving out of the house or not (leasing was up in a few months then).

Personal notes:
I had a hell of months for being unemployed, but I have been lucky that I was able to stay positive doing some studies for my freelancing, and I actually earned some money being a freelancer (I do website for artists). You cannot be employed but you can be self-employed when you are waiting for the card.

Hope this is somewhat helpful to someone out there. :)

I contacted my congressman to try and get my ead expedite and they reply that I have to fill out a Privacy Act of 1974 form is this normal? And do I just fax it to them or mail it it ?

It's been 9 months since I applied to renew my EAD. This experience is nerve wrecking. Does anyone have any suggestions? My automatic extension expires August 26, 2018

EAD expires 12/10/2018, how soon can we renew it?

TIA