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02-14-2012, 05:18 AM
familyguy

Thanks all for wonderful wishes... special thanks to spec, veni, q, teddy, nishant, kanmani and all others who provided some excellent and valuable information through out this process... i am sure all others who are waiting will definitely get theirs soon... :)
02-14-2012, 09:38 AM
RRRRRR

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Originally Posted by familyguy

Thanks all for wonderful wishes... special thanks to spec, veni, q, teddy, nishant, kanmani and all others who provided some excellent and valuable information through out this process... i am sure all others who are waiting will definitely get theirs soon... :)

Great News...Congratulations to you and to your family.
02-14-2012, 09:38 AM
TeddyKoochu

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Originally Posted by vp5856

You and your family will be cleared in a couple of weeks as we all know.
Thanks Teddy for all your contributions and services specially to (and not only to) our Indian community.

May God bless you.

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Originally Posted by familyguy

Thanks all for wonderful wishes... special thanks to spec, veni, q, teddy, nishant, kanmani and all others who provided some excellent and valuable information through out this process... i am sure all others who are waiting will definitely get theirs soon... :)

Friends very sincerely thankful for your kind words.
02-14-2012, 10:05 AM
mysati

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Originally Posted by familyguy

Guys... Cannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn't believe.... I think i am greened... received following email and sms for self and spouse

for some of you who are interested: i am a consultant (EVC), no influenza vaccines, no flu shots, late registered birth certificates and I did NOT send any affidavits...

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Your Case Status: Card/ Document Production

On February 13, 2012, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283 .

Congrats familyguy! Enjoy the greenary!
02-14-2012, 10:32 AM
gc_usa

This is what I notice from approval trends , After generating receipt and approving EAD / AP may be by junior adjudicator case is forwarded to senior adjudicator still not to supervisor ( who can make decision on complex cases ) so senior adjudicators gets cases in RD order but background check can come in any order , as they receive clearance they approve so sometime people with slight later PD get approval faster than other people. Once they receive clearance they can't hold on approval if nothing is missing..

Just 2 cents.
02-14-2012, 10:59 AM
tackle

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Originally Posted by indiaeb2

Thanks Tackle. I assume he did not go thru attroney

He did go through an attorney. The initial receipts went to both him & the attorney. He got the EAD cards directly. And he got the RFE notice directly. I'm not sure if the lawyers got a copy of the RFE notice as well.
02-14-2012, 11:32 AM
nishant2200

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Originally Posted by gc_usa

This is what I notice from approval trends , After generating receipt and approving EAD / AP may be by junior adjudicator case is forwarded to senior adjudicator still not to supervisor ( who can make decision on complex cases ) so senior adjudicators gets cases in RD order but background check can come in any order , as they receive clearance they approve so sometime people with slight later PD get approval faster than other people. Once they receive clearance they can't hold on approval if nothing is missing..

Just 2 cents.

That is a very sound theory, makes complete sense. Many pieces of initial evidence are also common between 485 and EAD/AP, like all I797 approvals, I94, 140 approval copy, marriage certificate for spouse. Also they do initiate IBIS check within 15 days of receipting, as well as G325 name checks, and they wait for max 60 days for positive result to come back else they adjudicate EAD/AP.

I think that the biggest culprit for some has been delayed FP.

Your theory made complete sense to me.
02-14-2012, 11:33 AM
nishant2200

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Originally Posted by familyguy

Thanks all for wonderful wishes... special thanks to spec, veni, q, teddy, nishant, kanmani and all others who provided some excellent and valuable information through out this process... i am sure all others who are waiting will definitely get theirs soon... :)

Most welcome. This year has been good for u :)
02-14-2012, 12:02 PM
RMS_V13

What is IBIS Check? And what is G 325 name check?

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

That is a very sound theory, makes complete sense. Many pieces of initial evidence are also common between 485 and EAD/AP, like all I797 approvals, I94, 140 approval copy, marriage certificate for spouse. Also they do initiate IBIS check within 15 days of receipting, as well as G325 name checks, and they wait for max 60 days for positive result to come back else they adjudicate EAD/AP.

I think that the biggest culprit for some has been delayed FP.

Your theory made complete sense to me.
02-14-2012, 12:03 PM
RMS_V13

Does EAD/AP come via regular USPS or signed/delivey confirmation USPS?

Can my husband sign for delivery of my EAD also in case I am not at home and vice versa?

What happens if both of us are not at home at the time of delivery? Will it be sent back to USCIS or can I collect it from local post office?
02-14-2012, 12:10 PM
gc_usa

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Originally Posted by RMS_V13

Does EAD/AP come via regular USPS or signed/delivey confirmation USPS?

Can my husband sign for delivery of my EAD also in case I am not at home and vice versa?

What happens if both of us are not at home at the time of delivery? Will it be sent back to USCIS or can I collect it from local post office?

Its priority mail and no sign needed. If you see it is approved call uscis , they will give you tracking no.
02-14-2012, 12:10 PM
gc_usa

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Originally Posted by RMS_V13

What is IBIS Check? And what is G 325 name check?

IBIS is immigration record check , entry - exits etc. while G325 is back ground check for criminal records etc...
02-14-2012, 12:21 PM
soggadu

congratulations Imechanix and familyguy....
02-14-2012, 12:30 PM
nishant2200

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Originally Posted by gc_usa

IBIS is immigration record check , entry - exits etc. while G325 is back ground check for criminal records etc...

Yes. The G325 biographic information form you provide, is used to initiate background checks across agencies like FBI, CIA, overseas consulates, police departments, etc, whatever they deem necessary and applicable to your case. The biggest and most common of all this is the FBI name check. Just wish that no criminal used your name or a name similar to you :)
02-14-2012, 12:42 PM
RMS_V13

haha the only thing I know is that we do not have one. Really they ask the Indian Police for each and every case or only when a hit comes in the US agency records? I doubt that Indian police will be contacted at the rate at which they work + the fast rate of GC approvals these days?

I did have a friend whose file was pending with name check from 2004 to 2008. Ultimately he approached the senator and in 2 weeks received the GC

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

Yes. The G325 biographic information form you provide, is used to initiate background checks across agencies like FBI, CIA, overseas consulates, police departments, etc, whatever they deem necessary and applicable to your case. The biggest and most common of all this is the FBI name check. Just wish that no criminal used your name or a name similar to you :)
02-14-2012, 12:44 PM
RMS_V13

Thanks! So it is safe to assume that the EAD/AP card will be in our regular mail box even if we are not around that day.

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Originally Posted by gc_usa

Its priority mail and no sign needed. If you see it is approved call uscis , they will give you tracking no.
02-14-2012, 12:45 PM
essenel

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Originally Posted by ragx08

Been in US since 1997.... working mostly in startups doing core embedded development.... never bothered about GC - until wife was diagnosed with cancer and had to continue staying here for her treatment! (In between moved back to India and the docs (best of the breed :-) declared she was completely cured.... Came here for second opinion and they still found it in her!!!). Now she is in the hands of one of the world's best doc.

I did not expect things to move this fast... so, even if it gets delayed - no worries. In any case, I appreciate your wishes - thankyou.

ragx08, sorry to hear about this difficult situation. Best wishes for her recovery.
02-14-2012, 12:46 PM
gc0907

Yes and even the GC will come the same way. No signature required.

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Originally Posted by RMS_V13

Thanks! So it is safe to assume that the EAD/AP card will be in our regular mail box even if we are not around that day.
02-14-2012, 12:57 PM
grnwtg

My wife and me both received 765 paper approvals last night ( not sign of AP yet), I am still waiting for my physical EAD card, I will waiting for a week more as suggested by Soggadu.

Congrats Family guy and ragx ( Hopefully your wife will return to 100% healthy very soon)

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Originally Posted by grnwtg

Thanks Soggadu!!!
02-14-2012, 12:58 PM
RMS_V13

All that received AP/EAD before completing FP/or get the FP Notice, what was the Case Type on the FP Notice (was it just I 485 or (I 485, I 765) and was it TSC/NSC?
02-14-2012, 01:20 PM
Kanmani

Sometime ago , I read in trackitt that someone got an RFE related to his pending civil case in Indian court ( property fight ). He was adviced to show a closure document in that matter .

I know personally that background check for employment involves checking our whereabouts in India .
02-14-2012, 01:35 PM
familyguy

Yes indeed and I hope the trend continues :)

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

Most welcome. This year has been good for u :)
02-14-2012, 02:51 PM
tackle

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Originally Posted by Kanmani

Sometime ago , I read in trackitt that someone got an RFE related to his pending civil case in Indian court ( property fight ). He was adviced to show a closure document in that matter .

I know personally that background check for employment involves checking our whereabouts in India .

That's great. Maybe I should have attached couple of Rs. 500 notes to our applications and asked USCIS to forward it to Tamil-Nadu police so that they'd do their jobs.
02-14-2012, 04:01 PM
ragx08

Quick update... got SMS msgs - EAD & AP approved!

Thankyou
02-14-2012, 04:06 PM
reachme_s

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Originally Posted by ragx08

Quick update... got SMS msgs - EAD & AP approved!

Thankyou

Congratulations ragx08!!:)
02-14-2012, 04:33 PM
la_2002_ch

Congrats ragx08..

My dates are very close to you... so hoping to get ours approved in next week or so...

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Originally Posted by ragx08

Quick update... got SMS msgs - EAD & AP approved!

Thankyou
02-14-2012, 05:43 PM
nishant2200

It's amazing that last year I was just hoping of EAD/AP, and now they feel like worthless documents, and want the real deal :D
02-14-2012, 05:53 PM
doctorp

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

It's amazing that last year I was just hoping of EAD/AP, and now they feel like worthless documents, and want the real deal :D

i agree completely, basically i want to be done with this process once and for all, no more renewing EADs every year.
BTW, while TSC being very active last few days, seems like NSC is sleeping ... Nishant, what does your Receipt number data say, have you looked into that lately? I tried doing some i kept on hitting i 90 replacement cards all the time.
Also whats funny is people who have RD earlier than me have receipt number almost 5-6 thousand behind me, may be they assign random numbers !!!
People talk about low hanging fruits, how do they know if it is a low hanging fruit, they have to look at a file, which would result in atleast a soft LUD, my case has not been touched since 12/12/2011.
Can somebody please explain... I am pulling my hair out and wearing out F5 on my key board
02-14-2012, 06:15 PM
nishant2200

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Originally Posted by doctorp

i agree completely, basically i want to be done with this process once and for all, no more renewing EADs every year.
BTW, while TSC being very active last few days, seems like NSC is sleeping ... Nishant, what does your Receipt number data say, have you looked into that lately? I tried doing some i kept on hitting i 90 replacement cards all the time.
Also whats funny is people who have RD earlier than me have receipt number almost 5-6 thousand behind me, may be they assign random numbers !!!
People talk about low hanging fruits, how do they know if it is a low hanging fruit, they have to look at a file, which would result in atleast a soft LUD, my case has not been touched since 12/12/2011.
Can somebody please explain... I am pulling my hair out and wearing out F5 on my key board

I agree on all counts. Same LUD for me. And crazy amount of I-90. seriously what's the deal with I-90s. Seems like NSC's 80% workload is I-90. Why not just getting citizenship after 5 years, instead of keep renewing your GC using I-90, no more hassle of losing GC, name changes, renewing :)

I think NSC will perk it up in the second half of month, right now I see them issuing a lot of EAD/AP.
02-14-2012, 06:26 PM
cbpds1

desire

Man's desire never ends !!

Now GC, next US Citizen, Governor, Senator, VP etc :)

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

It's amazing that last year I was just hoping of EAD/AP, and now they feel like worthless documents, and want the real deal :D
02-14-2012, 06:28 PM
doctorp

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

I agree on all counts. Same LUD for me. And crazy amount of I-90. seriously what's the deal with I-90s. Seems like NSC's 80% workload is I-90. Why not just getting citizenship after 5 years, instead of keep renewing your GC using I-90, no more hassle of losing GC, name changes, renewing :)

I think NSC will perk it up in the second half of month, right now I see them issuing a lot of EAD/AP.

I really hope so, I also think as mentioned somewhere earlier that i think if the FBI clearance comes through they pick up the cases, that can explain the randomness of approvals without regard to RD or PD
what say you?
02-14-2012, 06:35 PM
nishant2200

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Originally Posted by cbpds1

Man's desire never ends !!

Now GC, next US Citizen, Governor, Senator, VP etc :)

true, many years back, I didn't have a Maruti 800 and was dreaming of that :)

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Originally Posted by doctorp

I really hope so, I also think as mentioned somewhere earlier that i think if the FBI clearance comes through they pick up the cases, that can explain the randomness of approvals without regard to RD or PD
what say you?

Yeah true, the background check process can definitely screw up the FIFO processing
02-14-2012, 06:38 PM
cbpds1

Guess they use soundex function to find names that match with those of the blacklisted ppl :(

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

true, many years back, I didn't have a Maruti 800 and was dreaming of that :)

Yeah true, the background check process can definitely screw up the FIFO processing
02-14-2012, 06:59 PM
doctorp

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Originally Posted by cbpds1

Guess they use soundex function to find names that match with those of the blacklisted ppl :(

what is soundex function?
02-14-2012, 07:04 PM
cbpds1

They do not check if your name =something but sounds like below

soundex("Euler") == soundex("Ellery"); // E460
soundex("Gauss") == soundex("Ghosh"); // G200
soundex("Hilbert") == soundex("Heilbronn"); // H416
soundex("Knuth") == soundex("Kant"); // K530
soundex("Lloyd") == soundex("Ladd"); // L300
soundex("Lukasiewicz") == soundex("Lissajous"); // L222

Again this was what someone told me

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Originally Posted by doctorp

what is soundex function?
02-14-2012, 07:09 PM
nishant2200

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Originally Posted by cbpds1

They do not check if your name =something but sounds like below

soundex("Euler") == soundex("Ellery"); // E460
soundex("Gauss") == soundex("Ghosh"); // G200
soundex("Hilbert") == soundex("Heilbronn"); // H416
soundex("Knuth") == soundex("Kant"); // K530
soundex("Lloyd") == soundex("Ladd"); // L300
soundex("Lukasiewicz") == soundex("Lissajous"); // L222

Again this was what someone told me

We tried playing with soundex a long time back in our product. Basically we offer a search by feature at one place, where you could search by name, and we offered a "sounds like" facility in that, but it was only there in research and prototype kind of mode, and it never saw the day of light for actual production.
02-14-2012, 07:16 PM
cbpds1

its present in oracle, so some programmer wud have used it, it wud have saved us pain if he just used = instead :)

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

We tried playing with soundex a long time back in our product. Basically we offer a search by feature at one place, where you could search by name, and we offered a "sounds like" facility in that, but it was only there in research and prototype kind of mode, and it never saw the day of light for actual production.
02-14-2012, 07:18 PM
nishant2200

Guys, it just struck me that February is the fourth month for November filers, and NSC's processing time is 4 months. So I do feel that a big surge is forthcoming from NSC anytime now for November filers clearance.
02-14-2012, 07:18 PM
imdeng

Cogratulations. ~40 days for EAD/AP. Thats not half bad for NSC. Hopefully the dates stay put and you 2008 guys get out of the system this FY :-)

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Originally Posted by ragx08

Quick update... got SMS msgs - EAD & AP approved!

Thankyou
02-14-2012, 07:20 PM
cbpds1

we are ready to get out today :)

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Originally Posted by imdeng

Cogratulations. ~40 days for EAD/AP. Thats not half bad for NSC. Hopefully the dates stay put and you 2008 guys get out of the system this FY :-)

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