January 2018 AOS filers

[Cheburashka]

My interview is in a few hours... drumroll please!

[pantherwindy]

Interviews are always scheduled at least 4 weeks in advance. If you were to get your notice tomorrow, it would be for an interview on or after July 11th, 2018.

True... I normally order international airplane tickets 3 months ahead to get cheaper one. That's why I cannot order ticket now.

[kaylip]

Btw, my new EAD is NOT signed. Is this normal? My old one was.

Yes. They said the new EAD omitted signatures for security purposes. The card is electronic that's why they advise u to place it in the envelope they made specially for it, to avoid wireless activity from computers or hackers.

[BlahBlah1846]

Btw, my new EAD is NOT signed. Is this normal? My old one was.

[UScitizenFilingforspouse]

What is your field office??? We have a similar timeline...

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I just hope they didn't throw away my case lol...I cannot book airplane ticket to my home country now for Sep (maybe).
Because I don't know if I will get an interview notice this month or next month..that is the most struggle part!

Interviews are always scheduled at least 4 weeks in advance. If you were to get your notice tomorrow, it would be for an interview on or after July 11th, 2018.

[pantherwindy]

I had the worst luck with my EAD combo card delivery. USPS couldn't deliver it and marked it as incorrect/undeliverable address and were going to send it back to USCIS. I had to go to the post office about 10 times in 4 days before they were eventually able to find the package. Meanwhile, during this period, they kept delivering other packages and mails to the me at the same address and I kept taking them with me to show them how my Combo card alone triggered that error. well, got sorted and now that's fixed.

My interview has been scheduled according to the email I was sent and the update on the uscis website. Just waiting for the notice now in order to prepare for the interview and hopefully get an approval.

Advice to other applicants/petitioners. Please sign up for informed delivery and stay in touch with things. If a mail is taking too long to get to you, don't wait for it to fix itself, be proactive and make moves to fix the error. USCIS kept saying contact USPS to fix it, USPS kept saying contact USCIS to resend it to the proper address lol. Glad it was resolved.

Good luck to everyone. You can check my signature for my timeline.

What is your field office??? We have a similar timeline...

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I would not be too worried about the processing times. They're likely doing a projection to estimate how long it will all take now that they're also doing interviews for employment based AOS. It's my understanding (from posts on this site) that ISOs are keeping employment based AOS interviews brief and most of them never exceed 15 minutes.
If you look at Raleigh, NC, the blue box shows 6.5 months (50%) to 16.5 months (93%). And below these specific processing times are listed:
12 Months to 23.5 Months Employment-based adjustment applications
11.5 Months to 26 Months Family-based adjustment applications

The Raleigh office has continued processing at the same pace, as evidenced by cases on this site. 5 months +/-
Pittsburgh was also one of the fast ones. I'd just go by that.

I just hope they didn't throw away my case lol...I cannot book airplane ticket to my home country now for Sep (maybe).
Because I don't know if I will get an interview notice this month or next month..that is the most struggle part!

[dg204]

Mine is Raleigh, NC!

Oh Okay. Best of lucks to you. I live in Brooklyn, NY. Sent my package to Chicago. I think we are among the slowest field offices

[BlahBlah1846]

Good!!
What's your field office? My PD is January 31st 2018. Didn't receive no RFE or EAD. I think NBC got my case.

Mine is Raleigh, NC!

[dg204]

Got my interview notice! July 9 is the day for me!

Good!!
What's your field office? My PD is January 31st 2018. Didn't receive no RFE or EAD. I think NBC got my case.

[BlahBlah1846]

Got my interview notice! July 9 is the day for me!

[OKCfiler]

Update

I had the worst luck with my EAD combo card delivery. USPS couldn't deliver it and marked it as incorrect/undeliverable address and were going to send it back to USCIS. I had to go to the post office about 10 times in 4 days before they were eventually able to find the package. Meanwhile, during this period, they kept delivering other packages and mails to the me at the same address and I kept taking them with me to show them how my Combo card alone triggered that error. well, got sorted and now that's fixed.

My interview has been scheduled according to the email I was sent and the update on the uscis website. Just waiting for the notice now in order to prepare for the interview and hopefully get an approval.

Advice to other applicants/petitioners. Please sign up for informed delivery and stay in touch with things. If a mail is taking too long to get to you, don't wait for it to fix itself, be proactive and make moves to fix the error. USCIS kept saying contact USPS to fix it, USPS kept saying contact USCIS to resend it to the proper address lol. Glad it was resolved.

Good luck to everyone. You can check my signature for my timeline.

[UScitizenFilingforspouse]

Nope, I am still waiting for interview. According to the new timeline, I need to wait 11 months. I don't know if it's true or not

I would not be too worried about the processing times. They're likely doing a projection to estimate how long it will all take now that they're also doing interviews for employment based AOS. It's my understanding (from posts on this site) that ISOs are keeping employment based AOS interviews brief and most of them never exceed 15 minutes.
If you look at Raleigh, NC, the blue box shows 6.5 months (50%) to 16.5 months (93%). And below these specific processing times are listed:
12 Months to 23.5 Months Employment-based adjustment applications
11.5 Months to 26 Months Family-based adjustment applications

The Raleigh office has continued processing at the same pace, as evidenced by cases on this site. 5 months +/-
Pittsburgh was also one of the fast ones. I'd just go by that.

[BlahBlah1846]

Hello

I received combo card in Apr-18
Bio-metrics done Jun-01-18 and status changed to " Ready to schedule for interview"
How long it would take to schedule?
My attorney said it can be from 6-9 month.

That depends on your field office (I believe). So the NBC is now done with your i485 (it has been cleared) and your local field office is now taking it from there. I got the "ready to be scheduled for an interview" on June 1 and already got the "We scheduled your interview and will send you a notice" on June 4.

[harry1983]

Hello

I received combo card in Apr-18
Bio-metrics done Jun-01-18 and status changed to " Ready to schedule for interview"
How long it would take to schedule?
My attorney said it can be from 6-9 month.

[BlahBlah1846]

Nope, I am still waiting for interview. According to the new timeline, I need to wait 11 months. I don't know if it's true or not

Stay positive! At least you got your combo card now