EAD (WorkPermit)

After 263 days I have card in my hands. Thank you all for support!
Wish you all the best!
I will visit this site for few more times if anyone has any questions!
Good luck!

You’d think with the inconvenience caused by this pandemic , USCIS would process EAD cards for those who’ve had interviews cancelled and those who have been waiting for so long . I called them this morning, and the tier 2 officer was not helpful at all, I’ve been waiting for 248 days for my work permit, I submitted 2 inquiries, one done by my congressman’s office and one on my own; that have been ignored twice, did an expedite and it was denied. Now my interview is cancelled and they just expect me to wait when I’m suppose to start work on the 31st? Honestly how is this fair? I reached out to my congressman for the second time today and they said they would do another inquiry but I doubt that will help at all. When they had my file ready to schedule for interview, they should have processed my EAD as well, now I’m over here stuck in limbo again, lord knows when they will schedule my interview. I’m just so upset!! USCIS get it together

Configure informed delivery on USPS website. Once your EAD is approved, raise the request on your USPS post office to hold the mail. Pick up the card from the post office and don't give them the chance to deliver. I had rough time with USPS delivery. Finally I got the card luckily after struggling for 10 days since they lost the card.

Hey everyone please stay safe. Am new here I read alot of comments and it nice to know what to look forward for even tho everyone experience is different.. I just want to know how long after biometric you receive your EAD card. Thanks and again stay safe

AOS delivered Chicago IL 09/18/2019 at 1pm
Fees showed up in my credit card 09/24/2019
Notice of rejection 09/26/2019 fees incorrect/in mail on 10/02/19 😐

Resubmitted 10/02/2019
Arrived 10/05/2019 (Saturday)

Priority date: Oct.7

10/17/19 checks cashed (1140+85+535)
Text message 10/18/19 case received
10/24/19 received letters in mail
11/02/19 received biometrics in mail
11/04/19 biometrics done
12/03/2019 RFE over some documents already sent with the package 😟
12/07/19 RFE in the mail
12/31/19 sent a response
01/06/2020 USCIS recieved response for RFE
03/5/2020 updated finger prints for I-131
03/9/2020 received the update letter for the I-131
03/10/2020 contacted Ombudsman office & my congresswoman reached out to them on my behalf the same day
03/10/2020 Ready to schedule interview (Day 156)
03/13/2020 Ombudsman got back to me: “While we understand your concerns, our review indicates that your case is within normal processing times.  Also, your case is pre-processing at the National Benefits Center (NBC).  Because your case is currently within normal processing times, our office will be closing this matter.”
03/16/2020 new card is being produced (day 161)

Here are some points that I am sharing here hoping they’d be helpful for others, please note these are my observations of my own process as well as others in this forum, and thus are subjective and also subject to change in future as the immigration process and regulations are changing.

1) Do not contact the ombudsman office unless your case/s are really outside normal processing, if you do, they’d send you a generic email/mail that they cannot help you yet.

2) Do reach to your representative if you think they will follow up on your behalf, there MAY be positive results, but do not expect too much and too fast. It is free of charge and may work, so why not? In my case, I cannot tell if it helped or not, I think more so it was a coincidence that USCIS got back to me a day after my congressional inquiry had been submitted.

3) Please be aware if you decide to expedite your I-765 and or I-131, if approved, it will take at least a month before USCIS issues/produces the benefit. Please do not jeopardize your I-485 by showing that you are too poor or too sick, both, under some circumstances, can disqualify you from immigration benefits.

4) It seems USCIS is committed to get back to applicants within 60 days after the receipt of RFEs and in my case it did get back to me after 65 days. That being said, I have observed over this period of time, that people with RFEs on I-130, usually bona fide relationships, had gone through a more fastidious reviewing process in which cases are assigned to supervisors, which in turn slows down the process considerably.

5) Nowadays, there are many applicants who receive their interim benefits (AP+EAD) shortly before their green card or green card interview. It is because the agency does not afford to review cases fast enough to produce both results in a timely manner. Why? I do not know! Maybe being understaffed, having too many cases, or simply policy matters, or combination of all, it is NOT clear to me.

6) it seems that USCIS clears up USC cases faster than those of LPRs, and I think the agency divides cases and reviews them based on category (October 2019 immediate relative of USC or LPR), in this way depending on how they divided and sorted out cases, sometimes they get back to people in Nov or Dec earlier than the ones in August of the same year, for instance. Also, not all cases require the same amount of reviewing, some for whatever reasons (security related like background checks especially in case of men with prior military training, or immigration violations like working without authorization or overstaying nonimmigrant visas, and so on and so forth) call for extra attention and thus may take longer to be adjudicated at pre-processing centers like NBC. At any rate, this difference in timing is too petty to be regarded as unfair, unjust or anything of that matter, at least in the eyes of the agency!

7) Cases stay at main centers like NBC until they are scheduled for interview so if your case says it is ready to be scheduled for interview, it means your case is still at the hand of NBC or other centers and currently awaiting for your field office’s availability. Also ready to be scheduled is the final ruling that centers like NBC can make. The rest of the process is adjudicated by USCIS field offices.

8) For the sake of skewing the average of processing time, USCIS MAY get back to some applicants way early like within 2 to 3 months, I think the agency MAY do this to decrease the end average result! And some applicants are just lucky to be handpicked! This may be just my imagination, I have no evidence to back this claim up!

9) At the end, please be patient and keep your sanity! Immigration is a timely manner. Try not to get drown in the waiting process, for the most part the agency gets back to you within the normal processing time. USCIS is a professional experienced apparatus which strives to deliver benefits to qualified applicants while protecting the rights and safety of the Americans. In retrospect, several months sooner or later does not make much difference any way.

Thank you all for being a wonderful & instructive group. Once again except my timelines that are facts, the rest is my deliberations and therefore not immune to bias.

Good luck everyone!

Hi all, I notice people usually get case approved update next day after "card being produced". I am wondering if anyone knows how long it normally takes from "a card being produced" to the next step...
Thanks ahead.

My interview that was set for tomorrow just got cancelled due to the corona virus, on top of that USCIS still hasn’t processed my EAD and it’s out of processing time. I am at a loss for words. I am suppose to be starting work on the 31st, and then this happens. Anybody else going through this, honestly I can’t just help but cry. I was so close to the end only to have this snatched away from me

Hello Everyone,

Can you please update if any other cases are pending with RD in August at texas service center?

TIA.

Hi everybody,

Does anybody know what the office status is of the uscis? Are they opened? I cannot find any public statement from them on this? I am wondering whether they are still working on our EAD or that extra delay should be incurred?

Hi All

Finally my wait is over.All this while these forums really helped me a lot.
L2 EAD 2nd renewal at vermont.
RD:NOV 25 2019.
Today my status changed as per below

New Card Is Being Produced
On March 16, 2020, we ordered your new card for Receipt Number EAC2090022*, and will mail it to the address you gave us. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.