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Immigration
Adjustment of Status - I-485
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100 days after interview
Hi Immhelpers,
As I benefit from our immhelp family, I feel obligated to share my case with you. If you are in my shoes, you may draw some experience from my case.
Our background: I married a US citizen May 2015. I have been working in the city under H1B visa.
-Location: NYC
-PD: June 2nd, 2015
-Interview date: Jan 14th, 2016
So far, our timeline looks good.
We went to Federal Plaza 1 hour earlier with formal dress. We were not called for the interview 40 minutes after our time. We went to the front desk to check it out. An officer told us to keep waiting. 30min later, we went to ask him again about our interview, he did not seem to know what’s going on with our interview. With some help of his co-worker, we were told the IO who was supposed to interview us was NOT working that day! And they said they had no idea why our case had been signed to her. They asked us to wait. About 15 minutes later, an officer approached us and asked us to go with him. We went to a small waiting room which is for naturalization interview. Finally we had the interview begun 15 minutes after we waited there.
The IO looked quite serious. I tried to make the process less tense by talking about some jokes. The interview lasted 40 minutes. During the interview, she kept looking at our file and asked lots of date questions that were quite tough. But as a whole, the interview went fairly well. To our surprise, we did not get approved on the spot and she handed us a notice paper which I noticed she printed out just before the interview began. The paper says they will give the final decision in 120days! Anyway, we take it!!! Patience is a virtue.
The story just begun.
After we got home, I took the notice out of my bag and started reading very word carefully trying to figure out what’s going on with our interview. All of sudden, I realized the name of IO on the paper is different from that of the IO who interviewed us. The hunch came to my mind that our case could be travelling on a bumpy road. But there was not more evidence. What should we do was just waiting. Patience is a virtue again!
I kept reading posts on Immhelp. I saw some people not be approved and wait like us. I also consulted an attorney about the timeline of adjudication. I decided to give them 2 months before I made an infopass. In this period, time was really going slowly!!!
-The First infopass: March 29th, 2016
Nothing came in the first 2 months after our interview. Finally I went to the Federal Plaza for the infopass on March 29th, 75 days after the interview. The ISO is a very nice guy. After I told him my concern that no one was taking care of our case, he began checking where my case was. He barely found it, making him surprised. I explained the whole story and told him the 2 interviewers’ names. According to this information, he finally found my case that was in Naturalization (N400) section on none of these 3 statuses: approval, denial and pending. Actually, case should have been transferred to I485 adjudication department after the interview. He said sorry to me and explained why this happened. Our substitute IO who is actually a naturalization officer did not get time to preview our file before the interview because she was appointed to be our interviewer like 5 minutes before. (I don’t understand why the USCIS’ management is so disappointed!!! No one there knew our IO was not working? And why not signed our case to another GC interviewer IN ADVANCE!!!) Worse still, after she interviewed us, she just threw our file nowhere.
The ISO’s sorry made me calm down. He made some calls to confirm they had got our file and would transfer it to adjudication apartment. He also told me he had made a request. At the end, he handed me a notice paper and asked me to check my case status in 2 weeks within which our case should be adjudicated. Otherwise, we were supposed to come back with this notice for further help (of course we needed to make another infopass appointment.).
There is some info from him:
1. Most cases go 3 weeks to be adjudicated after an interview;
2. Totally 17 or 18 officers have the right to adjudicate cases every day at Federal Plaza;
-The second infopass: April 13, 2016
Unfortunately we did not see any update on our case status. We went to the same ISO, which made things easier. But I had to briefly explain what happened on our case. He again said sorry to us. He began to make calls, but he told us the Naturalization supervisor, who was holding our file, did not answer. He also told us that he had made a request and wrote an email to the supervisor. I could see he really looked sorry about our case. He told us some info that our file was given to the supervisor by the IO on Feb. 11th which he did not tell last time when I was here. To make us feel better this time, he asked our phone number and said he would call us once he got the call or email back from the supervisor. Like the first time, he gave us a notice saying we should give them 1 month to deal with our case, otherwise we should come back with an infopass after May 14th. We left the Federal Plaza, because there was nothing we could do but wait.
The next morning (April 14th), the ISO called us to tell us that the supervisor spoke to him and told him he was deciding which officer would adjudicate our case. The supervisor would let him know once he would have decided. Then he would call us again.
One day later (April 15th), the ISO really called us back again and left a voice message that he had confirmed that our file had DEFINETELY been transferred to an officer who was going to adjudicate our case soon. The ISO suggested we check our case status in 2 weeks, or come back to the Federal Plaza again!
I really do not know how much we should trust them??? Why is their system so bureaucratic, inefficient and not even a bit apathetic. I have made another infopass in case we wouldn’t hear anything about our case. The result could be a second interview
- A message from USCIS: April 23rd, 2016/4/25
Expectedly, I got a sms from USCIS 12:30pm April 23rd Saturday saying “your case is now updated”. When I checked it online, the updated message showed “new card is being produced”. I knew this seemly endless waiting had been finished. It had been exact 100 days after the interview!
Waiting is nerve wrecking. However we should never let it affect our daily lives negatively. Instead, we should be happy because we have married the best person in the world.
Some advice: If your case status has not changed 3 weeks after your interview, MAKE AN INFOPASS to check out what is happening. If your case is not a pending status, I believe an ISO will help you move it onto the right track.
As I benefit from our immhelp family, I feel obligated to share my case with you. If you are in my shoes, you may draw some experience from my case.
Our background: I married a US citizen May 2015. I have been working in the city under H1B visa.
-Location: NYC
-PD: June 2nd, 2015
-Interview date: Jan 14th, 2016
So far, our timeline looks good.
We went to Federal Plaza 1 hour earlier with formal dress. We were not called for the interview 40 minutes after our time. We went to the front desk to check it out. An officer told us to keep waiting. 30min later, we went to ask him again about our interview, he did not seem to know what’s going on with our interview. With some help of his co-worker, we were told the IO who was supposed to interview us was NOT working that day! And they said they had no idea why our case had been signed to her. They asked us to wait. About 15 minutes later, an officer approached us and asked us to go with him. We went to a small waiting room which is for naturalization interview. Finally we had the interview begun 15 minutes after we waited there.
The IO looked quite serious. I tried to make the process less tense by talking about some jokes. The interview lasted 40 minutes. During the interview, she kept looking at our file and asked lots of date questions that were quite tough. But as a whole, the interview went fairly well. To our surprise, we did not get approved on the spot and she handed us a notice paper which I noticed she printed out just before the interview began. The paper says they will give the final decision in 120days! Anyway, we take it!!! Patience is a virtue.
The story just begun.
After we got home, I took the notice out of my bag and started reading very word carefully trying to figure out what’s going on with our interview. All of sudden, I realized the name of IO on the paper is different from that of the IO who interviewed us. The hunch came to my mind that our case could be travelling on a bumpy road. But there was not more evidence. What should we do was just waiting. Patience is a virtue again!
I kept reading posts on Immhelp. I saw some people not be approved and wait like us. I also consulted an attorney about the timeline of adjudication. I decided to give them 2 months before I made an infopass. In this period, time was really going slowly!!!
-The First infopass: March 29th, 2016
Nothing came in the first 2 months after our interview. Finally I went to the Federal Plaza for the infopass on March 29th, 75 days after the interview. The ISO is a very nice guy. After I told him my concern that no one was taking care of our case, he began checking where my case was. He barely found it, making him surprised. I explained the whole story and told him the 2 interviewers’ names. According to this information, he finally found my case that was in Naturalization (N400) section on none of these 3 statuses: approval, denial and pending. Actually, case should have been transferred to I485 adjudication department after the interview. He said sorry to me and explained why this happened. Our substitute IO who is actually a naturalization officer did not get time to preview our file before the interview because she was appointed to be our interviewer like 5 minutes before. (I don’t understand why the USCIS’ management is so disappointed!!! No one there knew our IO was not working? And why not signed our case to another GC interviewer IN ADVANCE!!!) Worse still, after she interviewed us, she just threw our file nowhere.
The ISO’s sorry made me calm down. He made some calls to confirm they had got our file and would transfer it to adjudication apartment. He also told me he had made a request. At the end, he handed me a notice paper and asked me to check my case status in 2 weeks within which our case should be adjudicated. Otherwise, we were supposed to come back with this notice for further help (of course we needed to make another infopass appointment.).
There is some info from him:
1. Most cases go 3 weeks to be adjudicated after an interview;
2. Totally 17 or 18 officers have the right to adjudicate cases every day at Federal Plaza;
-The second infopass: April 13, 2016
Unfortunately we did not see any update on our case status. We went to the same ISO, which made things easier. But I had to briefly explain what happened on our case. He again said sorry to us. He began to make calls, but he told us the Naturalization supervisor, who was holding our file, did not answer. He also told us that he had made a request and wrote an email to the supervisor. I could see he really looked sorry about our case. He told us some info that our file was given to the supervisor by the IO on Feb. 11th which he did not tell last time when I was here. To make us feel better this time, he asked our phone number and said he would call us once he got the call or email back from the supervisor. Like the first time, he gave us a notice saying we should give them 1 month to deal with our case, otherwise we should come back with an infopass after May 14th. We left the Federal Plaza, because there was nothing we could do but wait.
The next morning (April 14th), the ISO called us to tell us that the supervisor spoke to him and told him he was deciding which officer would adjudicate our case. The supervisor would let him know once he would have decided. Then he would call us again.
One day later (April 15th), the ISO really called us back again and left a voice message that he had confirmed that our file had DEFINETELY been transferred to an officer who was going to adjudicate our case soon. The ISO suggested we check our case status in 2 weeks, or come back to the Federal Plaza again!
I really do not know how much we should trust them??? Why is their system so bureaucratic, inefficient and not even a bit apathetic. I have made another infopass in case we wouldn’t hear anything about our case. The result could be a second interview
- A message from USCIS: April 23rd, 2016/4/25
Expectedly, I got a sms from USCIS 12:30pm April 23rd Saturday saying “your case is now updated”. When I checked it online, the updated message showed “new card is being produced”. I knew this seemly endless waiting had been finished. It had been exact 100 days after the interview!
Waiting is nerve wrecking. However we should never let it affect our daily lives negatively. Instead, we should be happy because we have married the best person in the world.
Some advice: If your case status has not changed 3 weeks after your interview, MAKE AN INFOPASS to check out what is happening. If your case is not a pending status, I believe an ISO will help you move it onto the right track.
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