Celebrations & Thanks

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Originally Posted by inspired_p

All applications finally showing "Approved" Status online. :)

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Welcome back to a consistent state :) Congrats

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Originally Posted by inspired_p

All applications finally showing "Approved" Status online. :)

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Woo Hoo!!!
Love to hear you get Greened fully.

I am still awaiting, lets see how it goes.
Th light at the end of the tunnel just gets brighter and brighter daily ;)

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

It's a bittersweet moment isn't it. I wish you and your family the best.

If I were you I would file children into family GC ASAP. Who knows with COVID they might be approved quickly in US itself.

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Yes! We are in the process of filing I-130 in F2B category. Thank you :)

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Originally Posted by AlmostThere

Woo Hoo!!!
Love to hear you get Greened fully.

I am still awaiting, lets see how it goes.
Th light at the end of the tunnel just gets brighter and brighter daily ;)

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OK, so today for me and wife the status got changed to "New Card Is Being Produced".
So it took roughly 7 days from RFE receipt date's status of "Correspondence was received".

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Originally Posted by ivohra

Yes! We are in the process of filing I-130 in F2B category. Thank you :)

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Great. I just checked and F2B is even ahead of your own PD and so they are already current. Should be greened approximately in a year.

So it seems - EB-IC people who are very anxious for now about their kids - even if your kids age out - at least for now they should be able to get GC literally within a year.

(Wrong and Wrong - the EB Pd does not carry over to FB.)

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

Great. I just checked and F2B is even ahead of your own PD and so they are already current. Should be greened approximately in a year.

So it seems - EB-IC people who are very anxious for now about their kids - even if your kids age out - at least for now they should be able to get GC literally within a year.

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Q,

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

An EB priority date (established due to a PERM / I-140 petition) does not carry over to FB (established under an I-130 petition).

An EB PD can be retained within EB1, EB2 and EB3 only. It cannot be retained for EB4 (based on I-360 petition) or EB5 (based on I-526 petition).

The FB2B PD will be the date the I-130 petition is received by USCIS (so it would be a 2021 Priority Date). The Cut Off Date for F2B is currently in September 2015.

If the petitioner becomes a citizen and the son/daughter is still unmarried, the petition can be converted to F1 (Cut Off Date currently December 2014). This can be opted out of if the F1 Cut Off Date is older than the F2B Cut Off Date.

If the son/daughter gets married, the petition will be converted to F3 (Cut Off Date currently November 2008).

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Originally Posted by Spectator

Q,
An EB priority date (established due to a PERM / I-140 petition) does not carry over to FB (established under an I-130 petition).

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Spec - thanks. I overlooked the PD not being carried over part. What a bummer.

On another note - in all likelyhood the aged out child will be on F1 and then H1 and marry an American spouse and things will be just fine in the long run. But the life will still be hell for a while. This is absolutely pathetic.

Congratulations everyone!!

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Originally Posted by vsivarama

You can of course submit an expedited request. But just do not stop with the reason you gave in the forum to your congressman. While I absolutely empathize with you, but the congressman and USCIS will not so much. That unfortunately is the cold hard truth. There is something that you may want to try though especially if you are still on H1. Just recently Greg Abbott the governor of Texas had asked for physicians to volunteer to treat Covid patients in Texas. You can mention to your congressman that you being on H1 is definitely impacting you from volunteering if the situation arises in any other state (because of amendments and other logistics). Hope that moves the needle for you. I do salute you for the service you are doing to the community in these trying times.

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Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Congratulations!

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Originally Posted by gten20

Congratulations!

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Thank you. Good luck to you. Hopefully, you get greened soon also.

Congrats Jonty!! Hopefully you get some downtime this upcoming long weekend to enjoy your new found freedom

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Many Congratulations.!

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Originally Posted by monsieur

Congrats Jonty!! Hopefully you get some downtime this upcoming long weekend to enjoy your new found freedom

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Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Noesis

Many Congratulations.!

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Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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congrats Jonty!!! Enjoy your freedom.

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Congratulations!

Congratulations Jonty

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Hearty Congratulations Jonty. Waiting to see your signature updated with Green Card in Hands with a Date :).
I am happy for you.

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Congratulations!!! Really happy for you!

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Congratulations Jonty!!!

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Originally Posted by vsivarama

congrats Jonty!!! Enjoy your freedom.

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Thank you.

Thank you so much for your wishes Zenzone, KingofJoy, tatikonda, aGCHopefull, GCGCGCGC

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Congratulations Jonty.. and others who got greened recently. Good to see some old timers get greened!

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Originally Posted by skpanda

Congratulations Jonty.. and others who got greened recently. Good to see some old timers get greened!

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Thank you so much.

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you for your kind words. It has been an awful year and a half and I just hope that these tough times get over soon for everyone.

I was going to contact Senator tomorrow but finally, my and my spouse's statuses got updated this afternoon to "New Card being produced" and I have a sense of relief now.

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Hi Jonty,

Many Congratulations!!.

You took a right decision to downgrade to EB3 and then upgrading it to premium and got lucky to get the approval in less than 11 months.
Otherwise you would have got filing your 485 today. You avoided almost a year of nightmare. Enjoy rest of the life. Happy for you.

All
Finally got my freedom :)

Category - EB2 Straight
PD - 12th May 2011
485 RD - 07 Oct 2020
485 ND - 23rd Oct 2020
485J ND - 29th Oct 2020
BM - 30th Nov 2020
EAD/AP approved - 10th December 2020
EAD/AP Card mailed - 16th December 2020
EAD/AP received - 18th December 2020
Medical interfiled - 2nd August 2021
Medicals received by NBC - 3rd August 2021
485J Approved - 5th August 2021
RFE for Medical - 6th August 2021
FO - Indianapolis
RFE responded - 18th August 2021
RFER received - 20th August 2021
New Card ordered - 26th August 2021
Case approved - 27th August 2021
Card mailed - 31st August 2021
Card received - 5th September 2021

My wife has her own 140 but filed as Dependent with me (her date is 2012). Contacted USCIS multiple times but no one is giving information if medicals are interfiled or not. Applied for change of address for her and that request went to Indianapolis FO and got address change confirmation as well

Q, Spec, Idliman and others - Thank you for giving the strength when I needed most throughout this journey

Congrats Tom. You are a real old timer. You have only made 42 posts but somehow I have remembered you all these days. I wish you very very happy days ahead. Good luck!

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Originally Posted by tomhagen

All
Finally got my freedom :)

Category - EB2 Straight
PD - 12th May 2011
485 RD - 07 Oct 2020
485 ND - 23rd Oct 2020
485J ND - 29th Oct 2020
BM - 30th Nov 2020
EAD/AP approved - 10th December 2020
EAD/AP Card mailed - 16th December 2020
EAD/AP received - 18th December 2020
Medical interfiled - 2nd August 2021
Medicals received by NBC - 3rd August 2021
485J Approved - 5th August 2021
RFE for Medical - 6th August 2021
FO - Indianapolis
RFE responded - 18th August 2021
RFER received - 20th August 2021
New Card ordered - 26th August 2021
Case approved - 27th August 2021
Card mailed - 31st August 2021
Card received - 5th September 2021

My wife has her own 140 but filed as Dependent with me (her date is 2012). Contacted USCIS multiple times but no one is giving information if medicals are interfiled or not. Applied for change of address for her and that request went to Indianapolis FO and got address change confirmation as well

Q, Spec, Idliman and others - Thank you for giving the strength when I needed most throughout this journey

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Originally Posted by tomhagen

All
Finally got my freedom :)

Category - EB2 Straight
PD - 12th May 2011
485 RD - 07 Oct 2020
485 ND - 23rd Oct 2020
485J ND - 29th Oct 2020
BM - 30th Nov 2020
EAD/AP approved - 10th December 2020
EAD/AP Card mailed - 16th December 2020
EAD/AP received - 18th December 2020
Medical interfiled - 2nd August 2021
Medicals received by NBC - 3rd August 2021
485J Approved - 5th August 2021
RFE for Medical - 6th August 2021
FO - Indianapolis
RFE responded - 18th August 2021
RFER received - 20th August 2021
New Card ordered - 26th August 2021
Case approved - 27th August 2021
Card mailed - 31st August 2021
Card received - 5th September 2021

My wife has her own 140 but filed as Dependent with me (her date is 2012). Contacted USCIS multiple times but no one is giving information if medicals are interfiled or not. Applied for change of address for her and that request went to Indianapolis FO and got address change confirmation as well

Q, Spec, Idliman and others - Thank you for giving the strength when I needed most throughout this journey

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Congratulations!

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Originally Posted by qesehmk

Congrats Tom. You are a real old timer. You have only made 42 posts but somehow I have remembered you all these days. I wish you very very happy days ahead. Good luck!

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Q : Thank you very much. Yes I was not responding actively but always watch this blog because this is the only decent place over there :). I will continue to watch and try to help the people where ever I can, now that burden is off of my shoulders

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Originally Posted by tomhagen

All
Finally got my freedom :)

Category - EB2 Straight
PD - 12th May 2011
485 RD - 07 Oct 2020
485 ND - 23rd Oct 2020
485J ND - 29th Oct 2020
BM - 30th Nov 2020
EAD/AP approved - 10th December 2020
EAD/AP Card mailed - 16th December 2020
EAD/AP received - 18th December 2020
Medical interfiled - 2nd August 2021
Medicals received by NBC - 3rd August 2021
485J Approved - 5th August 2021
RFE for Medical - 6th August 2021
FO - Indianapolis
RFE responded - 18th August 2021
RFER received - 20th August 2021
New Card ordered - 26th August 2021
Case approved - 27th August 2021
Card mailed - 31st August 2021
Card received - 5th September 2021

My wife has her own 140 but filed as Dependent with me (her date is 2012). Contacted USCIS multiple times but no one is giving information if medicals are interfiled or not. Applied for change of address for her and that request went to Indianapolis FO and got address change confirmation as well

Q, Spec, Idliman and others - Thank you for giving the strength when I needed most throughout this journey

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Many Congratulations.!

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Originally Posted by Jonty Rhodes

Thank you so much.

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Congrats Jonty, please let me know when you get your GC what is the status code under which you got greened. Is it E2 or E3.

My coworker who had Eb3 2010 priority date had upgraded to Eb2 in 2016 and when he got the card issued the category was E3 in his actual green card.

Since you downgraded, I want to confirm if you got green classified in 2 or 3.

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Originally Posted by tomhagen

Finally got my freedom :)

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Congratulations!

Hello Everyone,

I am one of those not-so-vocal visitor who regularly visit this page to keep our sanity in check and get the updates in this long journey which tested our patience to the tee. Today after 11 long years I received my Green Card.

I sincerely want to express my gratitude to Q for running this classy forum, which is very informative to the backlogged community, really hoping everybody who are waiting in this forum would get their GCs soon. Below is my timeline in case it help to gauge processing time.


Category: EB3 India (straight)
EB3 Priority Date: 04/2010
Processing Center: National Benefits Center
Receipt Series:MSC21905*****
Receipt Date : 10/29/2020 (Submitted EAD/AP/Medicals applications along with 485 application)
Receipt Notice: 12/16/2020
Biometrics: 04/12/2021
EAD/AP Approval: 7/28/2021
485 J Receipt Notice : 7/28/2021
Case Transferred to Field office : 8/24/2021
New card being produced: 9/2/2021
485 Approval Date : 9/3/2021
485 J Approval : 9/3/2021
Card Mailed date : 9/8/2021
Card Received Date : 9/9/2021

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Originally Posted by BigAnt

Hello Everyone,

I am one of those not-so-vocal visitor who regularly visit this page to keep our sanity in check and get the updates in this long journey which tested our patience to the tee. Today after 11 longs years I received my Green Card.

I sincerely want to express my gratitude to Q for running this classy forum, which is very informative to the backlogged community, really hoping everybody who is waiting in this forum would get their GCs soon. Below is my timeline in case it helps to gauge processing time.


Category: EB3 India (straight)
EB3 Priority Date: 04/2010
Processing Center: National Benefits Center
Receipt Series:MSC21905*****
Receipt Date : 10/29/2020 (Submitted EAD/AP/Medicals applications along with 485 application)
Receipt Notice: 12/16/2020
Biometrics: 04/12/2021
EAD/AP Approval: 7/28/2021
485 J Receipt Notice : 7/28/2021
Case Transferred to Field office : 8/24/2021
New card being produced: 9/2/2021
485 Approval Date : 9/3/2021
485 J Approval : 9/3/2021
Card Mail date : 9/8/2021
Card Received Date : 9/9/2021

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Congratulations!!

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Originally Posted by BigAnt

Hello Everyone,

I am one of those not-so-vocal visitor who regularly visit this page to keep our sanity in check and get the updates in this long journey which tested our patience to the tee. Today after 11 long years I received my Green Card.

I sincerely want to express my gratitude to Q for running this classy forum, which is very informative to the backlogged community, really hoping everybody who are waiting in this forum would get their GCs soon. Below is my timeline in case it help to gauge processing time.


Category: EB3 India (straight)
EB3 Priority Date: 04/2010
Processing Center: National Benefits Center
Receipt Series:MSC21905*****
Receipt Date : 10/29/2020 (Submitted EAD/AP/Medicals applications along with 485 application)
Receipt Notice: 12/16/2020
Biometrics: 04/12/2021
EAD/AP Approval: 7/28/2021
485 J Receipt Notice : 7/28/2021
Case Transferred to Field office : 8/24/2021
New card being produced: 9/2/2021
485 Approval Date : 9/3/2021
485 J Approval : 9/3/2021
Card Mailed date : 9/8/2021
Card Received Date : 9/9/2021

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Congratulations! BigAnt and others who recently got their Green Card. Enjoy the Freedom.

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Originally Posted by BigAnt

Hello Everyone,

I am one of those not-so-vocal visitor who regularly visit this page to keep our sanity in check and get the updates in this long journey which tested our patience to the tee. Today after 11 long years I received my Green Card.

I sincerely want to express my gratitude to Q for running this classy forum, which is very informative to the backlogged community

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Many congratulations Big Ant. I wish you health happiness and fulfillment in your life and career ahead.

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Originally Posted by AceMan

Congrats Jonty, please let me know when you get your GC what is the status code under which you got greened. Is it E2 or E3.

My coworker who had Eb3 2010 priority date had upgraded to Eb2 in 2016 and when he got the card issued the category was E3 in his actual green card.

Since you downgraded, I want to confirm if you got green classified in 2 or 3.

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Just curious ; do the categories matter ?

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Originally Posted by inspired_p

Just curious ; do the categories matter ?

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At this point, it is just a matter of statistical interest for me. The immigration year book uses this to indicate the count of applicants greened in EB category.

https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-stat...ok/2019/table7

I had seen my former colleague's GC. He had a priority date couple of months earlier than mine, he had upgraded to Eb2 from EB3 in 2014 and he filed 485 only in October 20. However his GC says E37, and spouses E39.

It can also imply the statistical numbers and real time application has some serious disconnect or not really important for USCIS.

Congratulations bigant, tomhagen, Jonty, skpanda and everyone else who got greened recently! Its wonderful to see both old timers and very old timers getting approved!