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E3-D EAD Timeline (Australian L1 Equivalent) VSC
Hi guys,
This forum has been super helpful to me as I endured the long wait for my EAD. Therefore I thought I'd add my timeline on in case it helps reassure anyone. We were told initially it would take 3 months. Lawyer then revised this up to 5-6 months in Dec. Total time from filing to receiving the card in the mail - 4.5 months.
Service Centre - Vermont (Filed from NYC)
Category - E3-D Visa, I-765
My timeline:
October 6th 2017 - Receipt Notice
Jan 3rd - Response to SR 1 - "Currently in line for processing"
Jan 8th - Response to SR 2 - "Expedite request denied"
Jan 30th - Contacted Ombudsman
Jan 30th - Contacted Vermont Service Centre directly via email
Jan 31st - Response to SR 3 - "Case has been assigned to an Officer and is currently being processed"
Feb 6th - Response to Vermont Centre email: Request to expedite denied
Feb 7th - Online status updated to: "Card being produced"
Feb 12th - EAD card received in mail
Total: 129 days
A few thoughts from me:
- It's important to always ask to speak to an Level 2 officer as they will have more information and suggestions than the L1 officers when you call. No-one ever refused to transfer me.
- The L2 officer can give you the direct email address for your service centre which is helpful, although whether it sped up my application I'm uncertain, given their response was 'expedition request denied'
- The ombudsman did get back to me within a good time frame however I received my card before they contacted USCIS so in my case they didn't help.
- Make sure you start chasing from 75 days as in my case I didn't realise I could until 90 days.
- Overall I think mine was just processed as per their queue. As frustrating it all is, I don't think it's easy at all to speed things up and we are at the mercy of the processing centre.
- Expedite requests have strict criteria which can be found here. Job offer is not one of them: https://www.uscis.gov/forms/expedite-criteria
- This website shows processing times. Ignore the date listed at the top, speaking to an officer it shows the dates per the time it was last updated, which is listed at the bottom of the page: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processTimesDisplayInit.do
Hope that helps reassure someone. It's a horrible process but rest assured it will work out eventually!
This forum has been super helpful to me as I endured the long wait for my EAD. Therefore I thought I'd add my timeline on in case it helps reassure anyone. We were told initially it would take 3 months. Lawyer then revised this up to 5-6 months in Dec. Total time from filing to receiving the card in the mail - 4.5 months.
Service Centre - Vermont (Filed from NYC)
Category - E3-D Visa, I-765
My timeline:
October 6th 2017 - Receipt Notice
Jan 3rd - Response to SR 1 - "Currently in line for processing"
Jan 8th - Response to SR 2 - "Expedite request denied"
Jan 30th - Contacted Ombudsman
Jan 30th - Contacted Vermont Service Centre directly via email
Jan 31st - Response to SR 3 - "Case has been assigned to an Officer and is currently being processed"
Feb 6th - Response to Vermont Centre email: Request to expedite denied
Feb 7th - Online status updated to: "Card being produced"
Feb 12th - EAD card received in mail
Total: 129 days
A few thoughts from me:
- It's important to always ask to speak to an Level 2 officer as they will have more information and suggestions than the L1 officers when you call. No-one ever refused to transfer me.
- The L2 officer can give you the direct email address for your service centre which is helpful, although whether it sped up my application I'm uncertain, given their response was 'expedition request denied'
- The ombudsman did get back to me within a good time frame however I received my card before they contacted USCIS so in my case they didn't help.
- Make sure you start chasing from 75 days as in my case I didn't realise I could until 90 days.
- Overall I think mine was just processed as per their queue. As frustrating it all is, I don't think it's easy at all to speed things up and we are at the mercy of the processing centre.
- Expedite requests have strict criteria which can be found here. Job offer is not one of them: https://www.uscis.gov/forms/expedite-criteria
- This website shows processing times. Ignore the date listed at the top, speaking to an officer it shows the dates per the time it was last updated, which is listed at the bottom of the page: https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processTimesDisplayInit.do
Hope that helps reassure someone. It's a horrible process but rest assured it will work out eventually!
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