EB2-3 Predictions (Rather Calculations) 2015-2020

PD : July 2010 (EB2-I)
10/21/2020: 485 Filing date
11/18/2020: 485, 765 131 Receipt notice date
12/22/2020: Biometric notice date
01/21/2021 : Biometric appointment (Seattle ASC)
01/28/2021 : I-765 approved
02/02/2021 : received EAD/AP card in mail

Even though me and my spouse had applied together and went for biometric at the same time. Only my EAD/AP has been approved. My spouse status still shows as "Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken" since the biometric appointment. Anyone on the same boat?

Does anyone know if any of the Biden executive orders include termination of I-485 interviews ?

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Originally Posted by Mgajsk

Does anyone know if any of the Biden executive orders include termination of I-485 interviews ?

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Saw this:
https://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/...21BillText.pdf

This contains Removal of country caps and a host of other positive changes. However, its too early to say - the whole bill will be subject to a lot of scrutiny so everything could change.

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Originally Posted by rainmaker12

PD : July 2010 (EB2-I)
10/21/2020: 485 Filing date
11/18/2020: 485, 765 131 Receipt notice date
12/22/2020: Biometric notice date
01/21/2021 : Biometric appointment (Seattle ASC)
01/28/2021 : I-765 approved
02/02/2021 : received EAD/AP card in mail

Even though me and my spouse had applied together and went for biometric at the same time. Only my EAD/AP has been approved. My spouse status still shows as "Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken" since the biometric appointment. Anyone on the same boat?

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I am in the same boat. My husband and I were both fingerprinted on Jan-5. My EAD was approved on Jan-6 and received soon after. My husband's case status is stuck at "Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken." I consulted my attorney and he advised that we contact the local congressmen and after receiving a response we then file an inquiry with Ombudsman.

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Originally Posted by ivohra

I am in the same boat. My husband and I were both fingerprinted on Jan-5. My EAD was approved on Jan-6 and received soon after. My husband's case status is stuck at "Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken." I consulted my attorney and he advised that we contact the local congressmen and after receiving a response we then file an inquiry with Ombudsman.

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We are in the same situation too.
Priority date EB2 Feb 2010
Fingerprints Jan 21
Received my EAD Feb 02
My husband(primary applicant) hasn?t received EAD either. We thought it may be because he traveled out of the country after filing the applications. We were told the 131 would be rejected and he has to reapply for that.

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Originally Posted by ivohra

I am in the same boat. My husband and I were both fingerprinted on Jan-5. My EAD was approved on Jan-6 and received soon after. My husband's case status is stuck at "Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken." I consulted my attorney and he advised that we contact the local congressmen and after receiving a response we then file an inquiry with Ombudsman.

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They are probably just gonna say they are backed up, end of story. Gave my FP in the first week of Dec and still don't have any approval, so I have just given up on that since I am in the process of renewing my H1 again.

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Originally Posted by Turbulent_Dragonfly

They are probably just gonna say they are backed up, end of story. Gave my FP in the first week of Dec and still don't have any approval, so I have just given up on that since I am in the process of renewing my H1 again.

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..and my wife is still waiting for her 485 EAD renewal receipt notice which expires in April. She may have to quit her job :(

They are just backed up and the winter storm added some more to it.

Same here, FP on 12/04/2020, but not heard back anything for my spouse or myself (NBC service center).

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Originally Posted by ak7419

..and my wife is still waiting for her 485 EAD renewal receipt notice which expires in April. She may have to quit her job :(

They are just backed up and the winter storm added some more to it.

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With all the issues going on in Texas, they have more excuses now to fall back on, keep watching... There are so many avenues available to speed up processing especially collecting fingerprints/photos etc with technology, there is no will or initiative to do that. For example I can go to an authorized center in a rural location and get my TWIC credentials with which I can even fly and is basically the same process, collection of photos and fingerprints to issue a Federal ID. They could streamline a lot of these processes to speed up processing... there is just no will.

Those in Texas - I hope you guys are doing ok. Some of the stories we hear are quite sad.

We are doing ok. Water is out but got the power all these time.
Snow is melting at a rapid speed here in Austin so no worries... Hoping to melt it by tomorrow (55 F)
Some days were extremely cold man.
Managing water is tricky ......

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Originally Posted by Mgajsk

Does anyone know if any of the Biden executive orders include termination of I-485 interviews ?

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There is nothing in the EOs to help legal immigrants get GCs faster this year. May be USCIS will do away with interviews , of late many ROW EB2s are being issued GCs and are not being asked to appear for interviews .

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Originally Posted by reys03

Same here, FP on 12/04/2020, but not heard back anything for my spouse or myself (NBC service center).

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Same with me as well. NBC service center. Gave the finger print on December 2nd and nothing after that.

We had to start the H1B renewal process because our current H1Bs are valid only till April, 2021!!

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

Those in Texas - I hope you guys are doing ok. Some of the stories we hear are quite sad.

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We managed without power and water (water pipes were frozen) for three days since Monday, specifically without heater was challenging midst of a record low temperatures, ice and snow. Now we have a moderate weather outside and the power is restored, it may take another few days for the snow to melt down.

it was a kind of east-cost winter experience for people living in Texas.

I would say it was way worse than the East coast or midwest. I have lived in Parsippany, the Boston area, and Chicago suburbs. No matter how worse the snowstorm was we never lost power and the roads were mostly clean.

tbh, I consider my family and me very lucky as we only had rolling power blackouts and pipes never froze. but a lot of people had extended blackouts, pipes frozen and even houses flooded. They were really affected.

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Originally Posted by texas_

We are doing ok. Water is out but got the power all these time.
Snow is melting at a rapid speed here in Austin so no worries... Hoping to melt it by tomorrow (55 F)
Some days were extremely cold man.
Managing water is tricky ......

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That's good to know. The problem with water I hear is that there is risk of contamination and so they may have purposefully blocked it to avoid lawsuits. But once the temperaturs are in 50s or 60s life will be much bearable.

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Originally Posted by RVSree

We managed without power and water (water pipes were frozen) for three days since Monday, specifically without heater was challenging midst of a record low temperatures, ice and snow. Now we have a moderate weather outside and the power is restored, it may take another few days for the snow to melt down.

it was a kind of east-cost winter experience for people living in Texas.

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I don't know if you have young children but those with small chindren, it must be harrowing. I have heard this first time in my 21 years in US now that Texas had snow. May be they do but I never heard it.

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Originally Posted by mcmilers

I would say it was way worse than the East coast or midwest. I have lived in Parsippany, the Boston area, and Chicago suburbs. No matter how worse the snowstorm was we never lost power and the roads were mostly clean.

tbh, I consider my family and me very lucky as we only had rolling power blackouts and pipes never froze. but a lot of people had extended blackouts, pipes frozen and even houses flooded. They were really affected.

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My experience is that states that don't get snow are not at all prepared. They get overwhelmed when it snows. Once I drove from michigan to wisconsin in snow storm. My wife was pregnant and just the two of us in car and we drove in a huge storm all the way. But those states are so well equipped to all kinds of emergencies that we reached wisconsin just fine. Texas is not ready and should not be ready for snow. But I guess global warming is indeed changing the normal.

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

My experience is that states that don't get snow are not at all prepared. They get overwhelmed when it snows. Once I drove from michigan to wisconsin in snow storm. My wife was pregnant and just the two of us in car and we drove in a huge storm all the way. But those states are so well equipped to all kinds of emergencies that we reached wisconsin just fine. Texas is not ready and should not be ready for snow. But I guess global warming is indeed changing the normal.

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Mostly because it does not make any fiscal sense for them to stock or have retainer contracts for salt, trucks, crews etc., if it snows a couple of days or a week in one year. Now if this keeps happening, everyone will be forced to adjust.

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Originally Posted by Turbulent_Dragonfly

Mostly because it does not make any fiscal sense for them to stock or have retainer contracts for salt, trucks, crews etc., if it snows a couple of days or a week in one year. Now if this keeps happening, everyone will be forced to adjust.

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Yes indeed. As I said --- "texas shouldn't be ready" but if this becomes a pattern then we will have to adjust.

Folks,

Sorry to hijack the thread with a side question. Q can move it to an appropriate thread if needs be.

A dear relative's daughter has an admit from a good school in the US for her Masters. The situation is: their whole family was supposed to visit the US last year and they all applied for B1/B2 in April 2020. But then COVID19 happened, and the applications remain "pending" to this day.

The question is - when she does receive her I20 and goes to get her F1 stamped, what happens to this pending application? Does she have to revoke it or can she apply for another nonimmigrant visa while her first application is in limbo? Anyone knows?

A secondary question: We were hoping she would stay with us for the whole summer, but she thinks she might not be able to travel prior to one month of her program start date. (Getting visa appointment may be another hurdle, but for simplicity, I am not factoring in that issue yet). Anyone knows what the new F1 regulations are?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by sportsfan33

Folks,

Sorry to hijack the thread with a side question. Q can move it to an appropriate thread if needs be.

A dear relative's daughter has an admit from a good school in the US for her Masters. The situation is: their whole family was supposed to visit the US last year and they all applied for B1/B2 in April 2020. But then COVID19 happened, and the applications remain "pending" to this day.

The question is - when she does receive her I20 and goes to get her F1 stamped, what happens to this pending application? Does she have to revoke it or can she apply for another nonimmigrant visa while her first application is in limbo? Anyone knows?

A secondary question: We were hoping she would stay with us for the whole summer, but she thinks she might not be able to travel prior to one month of her program start date. (Getting visa appointment may be another hurdle, but for simplicity, I am not factoring in that issue yet). Anyone knows what the new F1 regulations are?

Thanks

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We are in exact same situation. My understanding is that everything is visa dependent. And currently visas are not being issued. So the student in our case is waiting for consulate to open in Mumbai. That is a bigger problem than duplicate applications. I imagine the consulates can easily see all prior applications when you make yet another visa application. Applications pending due to COVID delays should have no negative impact.

Looks like now we have moved to the end of the month for the visa bulletin.

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Originally Posted by srimurthy

Looks like now we have moved to the end of the month for the visa bulletin.

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Yeah, and honestly it doesn't make much difference now, with 90-95% of the people filing AOS in Oct, Nov and Dec using the filing dates. The major function a bulletin now serves at this point is to find out who is current rather than to find out who is eligible to file for AOS.

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Originally Posted by vsivarama

Yeah, and honestly it doesn't make much difference now, with 90-95% of the people filing AOS in Oct, Nov and Dec using the filing dates. The major function a bulletin now serves at this point is to find out who is current rather than to find out who is eligible to file for AOS.

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The performance seems to be just hitting the benchmarks for worst, as its now months for receiving receipt numbers, months for receiving bio-metrics letters or appointments or anything. When it is very well known that India and China are backlogged for so many years and every year there are thousands of applications waiting for dates, its just crazy that the dates are moved for file for years without even realizing what is the organizations working capacity.

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Originally Posted by srimurthy

Looks like now we have moved to the end of the month for the visa bulletin.

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They are releasing it a month apart, just that the release date has shifted. You can argue that it's only three weeks since the last one got released. Of course if someone is in a pinch to gather documentation, the extra couple of weeks available before the end of the next month following the bulletin could be huge. Unfortunately I don't think there is anything in law which states the visa bulletin is to be released by certain timelines.

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Originally Posted by Turbulent_Dragonfly

They are releasing it a month apart, just that the release date has shifted. You can argue that it's only three weeks since the last one got released. Of course if someone is in a pinch to gather documentation, the extra couple of weeks available before the end of the next month following the bulletin could be huge. Unfortunately I don't think there is anything in law which states the visa bulletin is to be released by certain timelines.

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When the Visa bulletin was released for Oct 2020, the Filing Dates were set to MAY-15-2011 for EB2I and JAN-1-2015. Assumption is based on the spillover, there are 261,500 visas to give in the new financial year and these dates represent where things would potentially look like a year from the date. Would it be the case that given the loads USCIS is seeing and the applications it has received, the next Visa bulletin change the Filing date to say May 2010 for EB2 and EB3 because of lack of processing capacity ? Or do we expect this Filing Date be the date of MAY-15-2011 and JAN-1-2014 that will be hit by Oct 2021?

In trackitt I see people with PD of Aug 2010 EB2 and May 2011 EB2, who filed in October getting medical RFE. This is a positive indication but we can’t tell for sure unless more people get the RFE.

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Originally Posted by Transformer

In trackitt I see people with PD of Aug 2010 EB2 and May 2011 EB2, who filed in October getting medical RFE. This is a positive indication but we can’t tell for sure unless more people get the RFE.

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May2011 getting RFEs? That's too good to be true.Lets wait and see

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Originally Posted by may2011

May2011 getting RFEs? That's too good to be true.Lets wait and see

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Could be something, could be nothing...

https://twitter.com/gsiskind/status/1364040361954275329

Greg Siskind
@gsiskind
Once again, the Visa Bulletin is very late. I have heard from someone in a position to know that there is something major coming in the bulletin, but I don't know what exactly. Only that it would be very good. So stay tuned. If I'm wrong, we'll know soon.

Indeed great new. Eb2 moved to 15 Jan 2010.

Mar 2021 VB out
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...arch-2021.html

EB2I FA date 15JAN10
EB3I FA Date 01JUL10

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Originally Posted by bangaloreboy

Mar 2021 VB out
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...arch-2021.html

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This is by far a very good visa bulletin for FAD after October, 2020. Hoping that they started to use the spill over. This also explains a lot of RFE's of late.

This is good news indeed. Funny that in the last bulletin they had predicted only 2 weeks of movement till May.

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Originally Posted by bangaloreboy

Mar 2021 VB out
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...arch-2021.html

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Finally moved Eb3 got to move past May 2010 after Eb2 reaching there more than 9 years back.

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Originally Posted by mitul75

This is good news indeed. Funny that in the last bulletin they had predicted only 2 weeks of movement till May.

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That comment probably was from the last administration. New administration's first real visa bulletin definitely looks much better

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Originally Posted by bangaloreboy

EB2I FA date 15JAN10
EB3I FA Date 01JUL10

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That's great and first positive movement since October...congrats to all who got current...

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Originally Posted by bangaloreboy

EB2I FA date 15JAN10
EB3I FA Date 01JUL10

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Mine is March 30, 2010....so hopefully I can get greened by end of year (fingers crossed)

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Originally Posted by incredible

That comment probably was from the last administration. New administration's first real visa bulletin definitely looks much better

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Splendid news! The new administration has delivered in its very first bulletin helping legal immigrants. I suppose a lot us mailing our members of congress to move dates did bear fruit . Thanks everyone who mailed your members , keep the pressure by thanking them for their help and requesting that they make sure the USCIS issues every single green card for the deserving legal immigrants who contribute so much for the US economy . Best of luck , Lets hope the FA dates moves to 2011 by the last quarter and interviews are exempt . We have been here for well over 10 years , they have enough history about us .

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Originally Posted by Moveon

Splendid news! The new administration has delivered in its very first bulletin helping legal immigrants. I suppose a lot us mailing our members of congress to move dates did bear fruit . Thanks everyone who mailed your members , keep the pressure by thanking them for their help and requesting that they make sure the USCIS issues every single green card for the deserving legal immigrants who contribute so much for the US economy . Best of luck , Lets hope the FA dates moves to 2011 by the last quarter and interviews are exempt . We have been here for well over 10 years , they have enough history about us .

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Agree. They know everything about us already. My PD is 02/01 and have to respond to medical RFE. I will be sending the packet next week. Hopefully the date becomes current in the next month or two and not delay thereafter with RFE already responded. Keeping fingers crossed !!!

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Originally Posted by Moveon

Splendid news! The new administration has delivered in its very first bulletin helping legal immigrants. I suppose a lot us mailing our members of congress to move dates did bear fruit . Thanks everyone who mailed your members , keep the pressure by thanking them for their help and requesting that they make sure the USCIS issues every single green card for the deserving legal immigrants who contribute so much for the US economy . Best of luck , Lets hope the FA dates moves to 2011 by the last quarter and interviews are exempt . We have been here for well over 10 years , they have enough history about us .

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That's great news indeed. I hope they waive interviews more as a norm than exception and get the line moving and keep overall wastage to an acceptable minimum by the end of this fiscal!