Got an email about card ordered for 485 on 9/15.
PD July 2010 EB2
Applied in oct 2020
Biometrics in March
Received EAD in July
Medical rfe 8/20/21
Medical rfe response 9/14/21
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Got an email about card ordered for 485 on 9/15.
PD July 2010 EB2
Applied in oct 2020
Biometrics in March
Received EAD in July
Medical rfe 8/20/21
Medical rfe response 9/14/21
Thanks for sharing your info. did you file 485 application in October 2020 or before ?Quote:
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Congrats!! it has been immensely long wait for you with your PD.Quote:
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My status got updated to 'New Card Is Being Produced'. Its been a long long wait. Last few months were very trying and I was loosing patience. And now, I don't feel any sense of excitement or relief yet. I want to feel excited, but I guess I am jaded.
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Many congratulations to all. Wish you the very best in life and career.Quote:
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Gten I have seen you around for a long time now. I know sometimes things are too little too late. But I am sure there is a long road ahead and lots of new memories to make! So cheers to that!
Thanks Q. The GC journey took me 19 years. I still remember my flight to US like it was yesterday. This forum has been immensely helpful to say the least.Quote:
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Congratulations gten20! you have waited so long I guess 11+ years for this moment. now is the time to Enjoy the freedom.Quote:
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Congratulations buddy, very happy for you!Quote:
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Congratulations.Quote:
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Thanks andhraguy and aGCHopefull. Last night I had the best sleep I have had in a long time. It's slowly sinking in. Hope you get greened soon as well.
Many Congratulations gten20.! From your signature, your ead/AP never got approved and 485 got approved directly.?Quote:
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Many congratulations to @ImmigrantFinally, @cool_dude, @newsletter1978, @gten20, @bangloreboy!!!!
Yes, that is correct.Quote:
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Thank you.Quote:
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That is good to know.Quote:
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Many Congratulations again.
Thank you gten20. Congratulations to you as well.Quote:
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Hello All,
A very silent reader of the forum from long time. I heard about this forum back in 2012 from a friend and since then there was hardly a week without me opening this website. Want to thank you Q for maintaining this forum and others for your valuable information/discussions. Shared this forum with lot of friends and some are anxiously waiting to write similar first time messages (Hopefully Soon ).
Idliman - Shared your Green Card/USPS story with few friends and one of my friend response was thats his Thriller movie for that weekend ;). We are so glad that everything at the end worked out well for you, especially after waiting for years it must have been so much to go through at the end! Hope you dont mind taking your name and sharing your story.
Here is my timeline
PD - 05/02/2011
RD - 10/30/2020
ND - 01/24/2021
BM - 04/14/2021
485J - 07/08/2021
EAD - 08/10/2021
RFE Issued (FO - Kansas City) - 08/23/2021 No status update (Same day I got my medicals from Hospital, I was preparing to interfile)
Sent Medicals to Attorney - 08/24/2021 (still preparing to interfile as there was no online update)
Medical reached Attorney - 08/25/2021
RFE received - 08/27/2021 (luckily Attorney didnt ship-out medicals for interfile). I called them immediately after seeing RFE in mail so they didn't interfile and just responded to RFE
RFER - 08/31/2021
New Card Being Produced - 09/10/2021 (Primary)
Card Received - 09/16/2021
New Card Being Produced - 09/15/2021 (Derivative)
Card Received - 09/23/2021
Hope to see many more Celebration messages!
Once again thank you Q and others!
Congratulations!! Enjoy the green life.Quote:
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gc_2021 - Congratulation! great to see approval from 2011 PD. Enjoy the freedom and share your experience after green card received.
How beautiful it is that you and others register just to share the news and say thanks! I already knew that hundreds of thousands of unique visitors visit us every month. But I will be honest with you - I DID NOT IMAGINE - that there are people visiting forum for nine years straight and never registered.Quote:
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I am very happy for you and will be happy for anybody else. It is about damn time this misery ends for so many of you. I hope this newfound freedom opens up new horizons. My heartfelt wishes to you and your family.
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Congratulations!Quote:
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Many Congratulations.!Quote:
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So happy to see a lot of old timers getting GC. This forum is one and by far the best immigration forum there is. This keeps all of us sane in difficult times. Thanks Q, Spec, Kanmani, Idliman and so many others.
It?s finally my turn. Got our GCs card yesterday. After many twist and turn, finally light at the end of tunnel. I had received an RFIE even after submitting all docs and being DQ?ed. Talking to L2 agent did not resolve as he could not see the content of RFIE. Waited for 15 days to open an SR for RFIE not received. The very next day the status changed to card being produced. After three day it changed to case approved.
Thanks to Q, spec, Kanmani, idliman, turbulent dragonfly and various others who have kept this online community going.
For folks who are still waiting, please hang in there. Your tun will come. Please feel free to ask any question . Happy to assist.
Thank you Andhraguy, Was very excited when I saw the status changed to New Card Being Produced. Was jumping in happiness and refreshed the status like 5 to 10 times to make sure. Shared the news with family back in India and couple of close friends. When I received the card - I was monitoring USPS status and when the truck came over I ran to the mail box before mail woman put the mail in the box. I saw she taking/putting a bright red/white envelop and had a big smile on face as soon as I saw it. Opened the envelop and I held the card like 5 min and was going through so many thoughts/memories and emotions! By evening was sharing with everybody and was a long evening/night talking to lot of friends and all!Quote:
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Many congratulations MeraNumber. Sorry for the delayed response. I am sure you had a great weekend!Quote:
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Thank you Q,Quote:
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Guess the reason not registering sooner is may be I did not have anything important to share or contribute. In 2012, my employer convinced me (not intentional) that my PD 2011 would be current any time soon. As I saw dates are moved to around mid 2010 I believed him & stayed with them in the hope of getting GC soon. Almost 1 to 1 and half year passed just in waiting. Was still under impression it could be next bulletin or next quarter etc., There was a fulltime opportunity at that time that I declined for the same reason (how naive was I). When I was explaining to a friend why I didnot take that fulltime opportunity, he told me dates going be retrogressed for a while and explained country caps/backlogs and all, that was the first time I ever heard of those things. Thats when he told me to follow this blog and explained me this forum discusses USCIS/DOS available data and do some kind of valid number crunching etc., I started following the forum and was at least getting some realistic guestimates about dates movement. Fortunately same full time opportunity came in 2017 and I took the opportunity without any doubt/hesitation. Not sure now but if I had not seen/followed discussions here I might have declined it second time too :(
I chose the time to post my first post when I got the GC. However, the intention is to thank you and others for you valuable contribution of the forum. Especially from last year around this time, this forum has been great help to follow how things are going with USCIS and how things work with them.
Once again, thank you for taking time to keep this forum moving.
Again - happy for you my friend. I do it at least partly because I can't stand injustice. I am sure there are many people here like me who contribute because they too can't stand injustice. Besides if we share what we know and it helps somebody it is a joyful thing to do. So thanks for sharing your news and GC experience is greatly appreciated!Quote:
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Many Congratulations.!Quote:
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Many Congratulations.!Quote:
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Congratulations! I had the same... no excitement or joy!
But it is sinking in now and i feel normal about living in USA not have to worry about the H1B/EAD/GreenCard.
Congratulations! Njoy being greened!Quote:
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Congratulations! Its your number!! Njoy!Quote:
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Congratulations!!Quote:
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Hello All,
We finally received our green cards!
It truly feels like a weight has been lifted.
The day my status got updated, it took me by surprise, which is strange since I had been waiting 11 years for it! Possibly because we didn't receive RFEs nor interviews. My wife's GC got approved before she could get her EAD.
I had landed in the US as a student in Jan 2003, without making proper accommodation or pickup arrangements. That was quite stupid, a sentiment that I attribute to my GC journey too.
At the airport was Mark, an American who had been helping pickup students out of sheer kindness.
He had invited me for dinner and had introduced me to other American families, who had welcomed me into their homes with open hands.
I have also been subjected to racism, when an American said 'why don't YOU guys go back to where you came from?' at a gas station. And some stares at Walmart could only be called racist.
I have lived on both sides of the coast and places in between. In general, this country has been very kind to me, and the people kinder.
As I mentioned earlier, my GC journey could have been a smarter one.
It was ignorance that prevented me from initiating labor certification when my employer was eager to do it. That was 2008. This is a familiar story like many of us on the forum; those colleagues who went ahead in 2008 got their GCs by or before 2013, while some of us who applied in 2010 and later are still waiting or finally getting approved.
H1 renewal period is when nervousness and anxiety automatically set in. There was a particular period when we had planned to pack up too, if things went south.
Even a dull megabus ride near Rochester NY was interjected by ICE looking for H1 documentation. Luckily I was able to convince them by showing a scanned copy of H1 approval notice.
The wait got so frustrating that my wife, who is a research scientist with a masters degree, decided to pursue EB1 qualification on her own. She had several papers with 1st and last authorship already, and had racked up 100+ citations. Now she had to build her case further. Life had gotten very exasperating. That's when it got worse. My wife who had complained ear and balance problems, decided to change her ENT specialist. He didn't prescribe steroid injections like the previous one but suggested she get an MRI. That day my wife drove to the MRI center while I fed our 6 month old. A call came that I would need to pick up my wife because she wouldn't be allowed to drive. It was brain tumor and really big one pressing the stem. We were shaken to the core wondering what had hit us. My wife went through hell, and the situation was made worse by covid. Though her 14 hr surgery was successful, she still has tinnitus, neck and head aches almost everyday.
To add to all the madness was yet another H1 renewal. 3 of the 6 colleagues who had applied with me had gotten rejections. The adjudicator must have somehow had an inkling about our personal life plight and renewal came through. And when we finally got a chance to file 485 last year, my wife's file was rejected for a trivial checkbox issue that the new administration thankfully fixed. I had tried to shield her from her application upheaval but when she looked up the status herself, it stressed her out like never before.
So when we finally saw GCs in our hand, it was true relief and exaltation.
I also went back to my 15+ year checklist in gmail and was very pleased to finally mark GC as done.
My biggest regret out of this is that I could have sponsored my parents by now if I had acted sooner.
Q blog is a portal I visit just as frequently as news/sports/stocks portals. Its right up there in my favorites.
For me, this forum is a place where I found meaningful information and a sense of commonality. When a lot of my colleagues got irrationally exuberant in the past, I would be more circumspect; spec's somber analysis always sounded right.
A lot of the members here can put some immigration attorneys in the shade. And that's without a law background.
Hats off to you Q for starting this forum which I am not sure you expected it to turn into this.
Thanks to all the topnotch contributors like Spec, Kanmani, Idli, Ace, YT and others I missed who have been the pillars of this forum.
Wish everyone who is waiting a speedy approval.
Now its time to take our 2 year old to the beach and celebrate before it starts getting colder!
What a story. So many of us can identify with it. When I arrived in 2000, I had no clue who would pick me up or where I would stay or anything really! I stayed at a kind soul's place for a few days and then crashed at one of my batchmate's place until I was able to secure an apartment myself. Delays in GC filing. Kindness of Americans ... a bit of racism. Wife's health. Kids growing up. Fellow H1Bs and all the trips we made. H1 / EAD struggles. USCIS checking our status along border. Driver's license struggles ...Quote:
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Can go on an on. Thank you for writing an interesting tale. Very happy for you again. I hope your wife becomes 100% fit. Health is more precious than anything else. I wish you great life and career.
What a Journey.! Many Congratulations on finally getting over the finished line. Best wishes to your wife on getting back to 100% fit.Quote:
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Congrats and best wishes once again buddy.Quote:
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Thanks Q, Noesis, Ace!Quote:
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