Post 485-Filing

Thank you all for your wishes!

Hello everyone in the immigration blogosphere. I wanted to thank you for keeping me well informed and educated about this arduous painstaking process.

I just received my CPO email almost 3 (very very long) weeks after and RFE response was received for a minor Flu shot, at NSC no less.

Funny thing is I actually called this afternoon, received same recorded message saying that it was still within the 60 days etc, and 15 mins after I hung up had my CPO email.

Good luck to all of you who are still waiting

NSC- PD Aug 17 2007 - RD Nov 2 2011 - RFE Feb 19 2012 - RFE Review Feb 23 2012 - CPO March 13 2012

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Originally Posted by makmohan

FP done today. On the questionnaire to be filled at the time of FP, there was no option "black" for the color of eyes .. they put that as "brown".. lol..



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GC Journey:

PD EB2I: April-2008
Packet Sent to TSC: 1/31/2011
RD 2/1/2012 http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/member.php?1532-ram_40001
ND 2/3/2012
NRD 2/10/2012
FP Notice 2/14/2012
EAD/AP Combo Card (Primary): 3/9/2012
FP done for both: 3/13/2012
Spouse EAD/AP: ?
485 - ??

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Congratulations ram_40001!

I was wondering the same, why there wasnt any option "black" for the color of the eyes..:)

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Originally Posted by ram_40001

Hello everyone in the immigration blogosphere. I wanted to thank you for keeping me well informed and educated about this arduous painstaking process.

I just received my CPO email almost 3 (very very long) weeks after and RFE response was received for a minor Flu shot, at NSC no less.

Funny thing is I actually called this afternoon, received same recorded message saying that it was still within the 60 days etc, and 15 mins after I hung up had my CPO email.

Good luck to all of you who are still waiting

NSC- PD Aug 17 2007 - RD Nov 2 2011 - RFE Feb 19 2012 - RFE Review Feb 23 2012 - CPO March 13 2012

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awesome....now you can say ram naam satya hein to all the old documentation.... congratulations!!!!!

Congratulations.....

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Originally Posted by ram_40001

hello everyone in the immigration blogosphere. I wanted to thank you for keeping me well informed and educated about this arduous painstaking process.

I just received my cpo email almost 3 (very very long) weeks after and rfe response was received for a minor flu shot, at nsc no less.

Funny thing is i actually called this afternoon, received same recorded message saying that it was still within the 60 days etc, and 15 mins after i hung up had my cpo email.

Good luck to all of you who are still waiting

nsc- pd aug 17 2007 - rd nov 2 2011 - rfe feb 19 2012 - rfe review feb 23 2012 - cpo march 13 2012

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Book the ticket and go home as soon as you can.....no more visa tension..... have nice time with amma... :)

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Originally Posted by Kanmani

Soggadu bhai and Mesan sis, thank u very much.

Mesan, hope you will get current soon.
Hm those days are all gone, mom's cooking , escape from household work, diwali and colourful dresses. India polamnu nanaikiren.

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Friends......We are greened today :-) Got the CPO email at 11.45 PST but I was late checking it. Thanks to fellow members, one and all for all your views and jokes that kept this forum very lively. From the day of filing I don't remember a single day I missed to read the forum, good luck to every one waiting for their GC's.

I am glad I am home today and was able shout out my happiness....went to my wife's office and conveyed the message by gifting her green flowers. She just won the weight watchers in their office and my news just made her uncontrollable. Very relieved and now we can just focus on our next month trip to India after 4.5years.

Go Green everyone.

Friends, I have a quick question. My wife used to work till Oct on H1b and she took a maternity break from Oct'11 till now. She moved to H4 based on my H1 petition in Oct'11. She found a job in Jan and applied for H1B(based on her old petition). She received a RFE. RFE is to prove client relationship and a client letter would be the best option.
Her client is hesitant to give a client letter but they have a SoW. Her employer is planning to respond to RFE with the SoW. Mean while, we filed for our 485 and should received our EAD in the next few weeks hopefully.

Question is - If my wife's H1 is denied, will it impact our 485. I dont think so, since she has a valid H4 petition she should be fine. I want to check with experts on this. Please provide your suggestions

Thanks for your help

H1 denial will not impact her 485, if she is on a valid H4.

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Originally Posted by Umesh1209

Friends, I have a quick question. My wife used to work till Oct on H1b and she took a maternity break from Oct'11 till now. She moved to H4 based on my H1 petition in Oct'11. She found a job in Jan and applied for H1B(based on her old petition). She received a RFE. RFE is to prove client relationship and a client letter would be the best option.
Her client is hesitant to give a client letter but they have a SoW. Her employer is planning to respond to RFE with the SoW. Mean while, we filed for our 485 and should received our EAD in the next few weeks hopefully.

Question is - If my wife's H1 is denied, will it impact our 485. I dont think so, since she has a valid H4 petition she should be fine. I want to check with experts on this. Please provide your suggestions

Thanks for your help

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Originally Posted by harsha131

Friends......We are greened today :-) Got the CPO email at 11.45 PST but I was late checking it. Thanks to fellow members, one and all for all your views and jokes that kept this forum very lively. From the day of filing I don't remember a single day I missed to read the forum, good luck to every one waiting for their GC's.

I am glad I am home today and was able shout out my happiness....went to my wife's office and conveyed the message by gifting her green flowers. She just won the weight watchers in their office and my news just made her uncontrollable. Very relieved and now we can just focus on our next month trip to India after 4.5years.

Go Green everyone.

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Congratulations to you and your family, enjoy green life.

I'm one of the Feb filer, received the receipt notice on Feb17,2012, but no FP yet, called up customer care, they said to call them back if you haven't received after 30 days of receiving receipt notice. Just checking is there any one having similar experience? Didn't hear about this 30days time frame after receiving the receipt notice.

yes, that's standard procedure. 30 days after receving receipt notices in hand, if you don't have FP notice, they can open an SR if you request so.

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Originally Posted by JJcalifornian

I'm Feb filer received the receipt notice on Feb17,2012, but no FP yet, called up customer care, they said to call them back if you haven't received after 30 days of receiving receipt notice. Just checking is there any one having similar experience? Didn't hear about this 30days time frame after receiving the receipt notice.

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Originally Posted by harsha131

Friends......We are greened today :-) Got the CPO email at 11.45 PST but I was late checking it. Thanks to fellow members, one and all for all your views and jokes that kept this forum very lively. From the day of filing I don't remember a single day I missed to read the forum, good luck to every one waiting for their GC's.

I am glad I am home today and was able shout out my happiness....went to my wife's office and conveyed the message by gifting her green flowers. She just won the weight watchers in their office and my news just made her uncontrollable. Very relieved and now we can just focus on our next month trip to India after 4.5years.

Go Green everyone.

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Congratulations harsha13!! :)

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Originally Posted by usernameisnotvalid

Yeah! I didn't find "Black eyes" and circled "hazel" but she changed it to "Brown" :-)

BTW, this is interesting that some of you are able to see the status of you EAD/AP the same day after FP but I am still not able to see my case status online although I completed my FP on 8th Mar.

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usernameisnotvalid - our NDs and FP dates are the same..you should be able to see the EAD/AP soon...

Congratulations Harsha...

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Originally Posted by harsha131

Friends......We are greened today :-) Got the CPO email at 11.45 PST but I was late checking it. Thanks to fellow members, one and all for all your views and jokes that kept this forum very lively. From the day of filing I don't remember a single day I missed to read the forum, good luck to every one waiting for their GC's.

I am glad I am home today and was able shout out my happiness....went to my wife's office and conveyed the message by gifting her green flowers. She just won the weight watchers in their office and my news just made her uncontrollable. Very relieved and now we can just focus on our next month trip to India after 4.5years.

Go Green everyone.

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Originally Posted by self.coach

Not entirely true, that. I called USCIS today as my case was not found on Case Status link. They too could not find, so they 'escalated' it to next level. There, they were able to find it (without asking for SRC number, just asked for first name, last name, birthdate and address, but I suspect that my SRC number was passed on when it was escalated).

The USCIS cust rep said "no one can check the status online for some reason" and then also stated that my application shows as "Pending" and I have to wait for it to take its time.

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I am also sailing the same boat , not able to see my case status online. Do you recommend calling USCIS ? Will it be L2 officer who would answer the call.

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Originally Posted by makmohan

FP done today. On the questionnaire to be filled at the time of FP, there was no option "black" for the color of eyes .. they put that as "brown".. lol..

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Originally Posted by usernameisnotvalid

Yeah! I didn't find "Black eyes" and circled "hazel" but she changed it to "Brown" :-)

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Just so you know, humans don't have black eyes. Its a very dark brown but not black.

Had the black/brown eye color experience at DMV branch. I wrote as Black and the lady there changed that to brown saying normally humans have very dark brown eyes but not actually black. So during FP I opted for Brown.

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Originally Posted by makmohan

FP done today. On the questionnaire to be filled at the time of FP, there was no option "black" for the color of eyes .. they put that as "brown".. lol..
Very professional experience though. Got there 15 mins early and got done in 45 mins (out of which total wait time at several steps was 25 mins).

Online status for spouse EAD was "Approved" and now it is changed to "CPO". But no updates on AP. Has anyone received separate cards for EAD and AP?

- Makmohan


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GC Journey:

PD EB2I: April-2008
Packet Sent to TSC: 1/31/2011
RD 2/1/2012
ND 2/3/2012
NRD 2/10/2012
FP Notice 2/14/2012
EAD/AP Combo Card (Primary): 3/9/2012
FP done for both: 3/13/2012
Spouse EAD/AP: ?
485 - ??

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Folks, I got my CPO email yesterday evening. :)

This forum has been incredibly helpful, not only in terms of learning about the process and understanding exactly what is going on thanks to top notch analysis, but has also been a place to share our experiences and go through the GC journey together (and vent when necessary (which has been often!!) )

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and answering numerous questions - Teddy, Leo, Tackle, IEB2, Nishant, Soggadu, gcseeker, and many others who post in the 485 thread and of course for your valuable analysis - Teddy, Q, Nishant, Spec, Kanmani, Veni and several others who contribute to the predictions thread.

Teddy and Tackle, waiting eagerly for your approvals!!

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Originally Posted by essenel

Folks, I got my CPO email yesterday evening. :)

This forum has been incredibly helpful, not only in terms of learning about the process and understanding exactly what is going on thanks to top notch analysis, but has also been a place to share our experiences and go through the GC journey together (and vent when necessary (which has been often!!) )

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and answering numerous questions - Teddy, Leo, Tackle, IEB2, Nishant, Soggadu, gcseeker, and many others who post in the 485 thread and of course for your valuable analysis - Teddy, Q, Nishant, Spec, Kanmani, Veni and several others who contribute to the predictions thread.

Teddy and Tackle, waiting eagerly for your approvals!!

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congratulations essenel bhai... weekend shurru ho gaya aap ka :-)

teddy, i am looking forward to hear from you around the ides of march!!!!!

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Originally Posted by nishant2200

H1 denial will not impact her 485, if she is on a valid H4.

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Thanks a lot for your inputs.

Congratulations!
essenel. enjoy!

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Originally Posted by essenel

Folks, I got my CPO email yesterday evening. :)

This forum has been incredibly helpful, not only in terms of learning about the process and understanding exactly what is going on thanks to top notch analysis, but has also been a place to share our experiences and go through the GC journey together (and vent when necessary (which has been often!!) )

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and answering numerous questions - Teddy, Leo, Tackle, IEB2, Nishant, Soggadu, gcseeker, and many others who post in the 485 thread and of course for your valuable analysis - Teddy, Q, Nishant, Spec, Kanmani, Veni and several others who contribute to the predictions thread.

Teddy and Tackle, waiting eagerly for your approvals!!

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Congratulations buddy! Happy for you :).

With regards to my applications, I've given up hope that I'll see any change to their status any time soon. I feel that USCIS has some internal target to complete atleast X% of applications from every month and move on to the next month. Maybe, if & when dates retrogress, they'll go back and work on the remaining (100-X%). We'll see how it goes. Thanks for your wishes.

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Originally Posted by essenel

Folks, I got my CPO email yesterday evening. :)

This forum has been incredibly helpful, not only in terms of learning about the process and understanding exactly what is going on thanks to top notch analysis, but has also been a place to share our experiences and go through the GC journey together (and vent when necessary (which has been often!!) )

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and answering numerous questions - Teddy, Leo, Tackle, IEB2, Nishant, Soggadu, gcseeker, and many others who post in the 485 thread and of course for your valuable analysis - Teddy, Q, Nishant, Spec, Kanmani, Veni and several others who contribute to the predictions thread.

Teddy and Tackle, waiting eagerly for your approvals!!

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Many congratulations to you and your family. It was quick for you post RFE response review. Enjoy the moment. For me and Tackle it’s really our luck now, we need our officer to look at our cases more than anything.

IMHO no one know how or in what order the applications are processed. This pretty random, I guess.
It's frustrating to see the finish line and just not able to touch it.

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Originally Posted by tackle

Congratulations buddy! Happy for you :).

With regards to my applications, I've given up hope that I'll see any change to their status any time soon. I feel that USCIS has some internal target to complete atleast X% of applications from every month and move on to the next month. Maybe, if & when dates retrogress, they'll go back and work on the remaining (100-X%). We'll see how it goes. Thanks for your wishes.

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This link was posted sometime back , but I am reading it again and again for better understanding. Below given para explains why some application takes long to get approved.
from adjudicator's Q and A

There are storage shelves in each section of the building that house the boxes full of applicant's files. These shelves are continuously replenished as boxes are removed by the officers to be worked or turned in to be further processed after being approved. This resupply as it were is handled by the CIS contract employees.

So as a Adjudicator/officer I would go and get a box of case files every morning, scan/wand each file into the system under my user ID # (so people could track who had it) and then begin to adjudicate the cases. A box might hold 50 case or so

So, your number of files vary at any given time during the day. Officers who did the work form home I spoke about earlier would come in to the office maybe once or twice a week, scan in all their new files (to their ID), then scan in all the approved files they were returning back into the system (from their ID) and take the multiple boxes back home with them to work. Enough to last a few days or so.

The reason for some hanging so long could be several. One could be an RFE and while the officer is waiting for the response he is working more current dates. In other words more and more applications are getting in front of the RFE'd application. Another reason could be that the boxes that are staged on the shelves are chosen at random by the officers. For some reason a box of files might sit longer on the shelf than another. Usually not more than a day at the most though. Or the officer could be hording a box at his desk (for some strange reason) and then goes on vacation and doesn't scan them out of his name and back into (return) them to the system so they can be picked up by someone else to work. So it sits for awhile.

So weird.

At the least, RFEd applications should be given priority over untouched ones.
So it all depends on which adjudicator the file goes to. If he/she is well organized person then its all fine and quick.
Else take some files and go on vacation and no one else notices it.............. grrrrr

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Originally Posted by Kanmani

This link was posted sometime back , but I am reading it again and again for better understanding. Below given para explains why some application takes long to get approved.
from adjudicator's Q and A

There are storage shelves in each section of the building that house the boxes full of applicant's files. These shelves are continuously replenished as boxes are removed by the officers to be worked or turned in to be further processed after being approved. This resupply as it were is handled by the CIS contract employees.

So as a Adjudicator/officer I would go and get a box of case files every morning, scan/wand each file into the system under my user ID # (so people could track who had it) and then begin to adjudicate the cases. A box might hold 50 case or so

So, your number of files vary at any given time during the day. Officers who did the work form home I spoke about earlier would come in to the office maybe once or twice a week, scan in all their new files (to their ID), then scan in all the approved files they were returning back into the system (from their ID) and take the multiple boxes back home with them to work. Enough to last a few days or so.

The reason for some hanging so long could be several. One could be an RFE and while the officer is waiting for the response he is working more current dates. In other words more and more applications are getting in front of the RFE'd application. Another reason could be that the boxes that are staged on the shelves are chosen at random by the officers. For some reason a box of files might sit longer on the shelf than another. Usually not more than a day at the most though. Or the officer could be hording a box at his desk (for some strange reason) and then goes on vacation and doesn't scan them out of his name and back into (return) them to the system so they can be picked up by someone else to work. So it sits for awhile.

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Originally Posted by essenel

Folks, I got my CPO email yesterday evening. :)

This forum has been incredibly helpful, not only in terms of learning about the process and understanding exactly what is going on thanks to top notch analysis, but has also been a place to share our experiences and go through the GC journey together (and vent when necessary (which has been often!!) )

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and answering numerous questions - Teddy, Leo, Tackle, IEB2, Nishant, Soggadu, gcseeker, and many others who post in the 485 thread and of course for your valuable analysis - Teddy, Q, Nishant, Spec, Kanmani, Veni and several others who contribute to the predictions thread.

Teddy and Tackle, waiting eagerly for your approvals!!

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Congrats essenel!

Congrats nabrika, harsha and ram!

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Originally Posted by vizcard

Just so you know, humans don't have black eyes. Its a very dark brown but not black.

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I see. Good to know this. It will be helpful while praising my wife and daughter's eyes .. lol

- Makmohan

Thank you all, later yesterday the status changed from CPO to Decision and again back to CPO few hours later. Thanks to the forum I did not panic as I read its normal and happened to many of us here.

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Originally Posted by mysati

Congrats nabrika, harsha and ram!

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Congratulations essenel.....

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Originally Posted by essenel

Folks, I got my CPO email yesterday evening. :)

This forum has been incredibly helpful, not only in terms of learning about the process and understanding exactly what is going on thanks to top notch analysis, but has also been a place to share our experiences and go through the GC journey together (and vent when necessary (which has been often!!) )

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and answering numerous questions - Teddy, Leo, Tackle, IEB2, Nishant, Soggadu, gcseeker, and many others who post in the 485 thread and of course for your valuable analysis - Teddy, Q, Nishant, Spec, Kanmani, Veni and several others who contribute to the predictions thread.

Teddy and Tackle, waiting eagerly for your approvals!!

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Originally Posted by essenel

Folks, I got my CPO email yesterday evening. :)

This forum has been incredibly helpful, not only in terms of learning about the process and understanding exactly what is going on thanks to top notch analysis, but has also been a place to share our experiences and go through the GC journey together (and vent when necessary (which has been often!!) )

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and answering numerous questions - Teddy, Leo, Tackle, IEB2, Nishant, Soggadu, gcseeker, and many others who post in the 485 thread and of course for your valuable analysis - Teddy, Q, Nishant, Spec, Kanmani, Veni and several others who contribute to the predictions thread.

Teddy and Tackle, waiting eagerly for your approvals!!

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Congratulations Essenel!!

Congrats Essenel

Just wanted to share my FP experience.

FP was scheduled today at Austin,TX ASC which is in the Lakeline mall off 183. It is part of the strip mall and is located to the left of the Bed Bath and Beond store. Appointment for me and wife(primary) was scheduled at 8AM. We had no problems taking our toddler along. the process was pretty straight forward. We had to wait about 30 minutes for our turn. Fingerprinting took 5 minutes each. There were 2 stations doing the fingerprinting. FYI, people doing the FP were contractors and had no idea if FP was tied to EAD/AP approval or not.

I was a little concerned about FP as I had incurred a nasty fingercut last friday. Thankfully, babying the wound for the last 5 days with bandaids/kailasjeevan etc helped heal it so that it was acceptable for FP.

So thats another thing checked off the list. Now waiting for the EAD/AP approval and cards. I am eagerly waiting for these goodies as I moved to H4 in Jan because of 6 year limit issues. There are some good opportunities right now which are being gated by the EAD/AP. Hoping for the best :)

Good luck to everyone.

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Originally Posted by soggadu

congratulations essenel bhai... weekend shurru ho gaya aap ka :-)

teddy, i am looking forward to hear from you around the ides of march!!!!!

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Thanks, Soggadu!! Since I am going to be sticking around for a while, perhaps now is a good time to point out that I am a behen not a bhai. Lol :)

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Originally Posted by Kanmani

Congratulations!
essenel. enjoy!

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Thanks, Kanmani! Your glittery signs are cool :cool:

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Originally Posted by tackle

Congratulations buddy! Happy for you :).

With regards to my applications, I've given up hope that I'll see any change to their status any time soon. I feel that USCIS has some internal target to complete atleast X% of applications from every month and move on to the next month. Maybe, if & when dates retrogress, they'll go back and work on the remaining (100-X%). We'll see how it goes. Thanks for your wishes.

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Tackle, I sincerely hope that is not the case, but how they are processing the cases is certainly bewildering. :confused:

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Originally Posted by TeddyKoochu

Many congratulations to you and your family. It was quick for you post RFE response review. Enjoy the moment. For me and Tackle it’s really our luck now, we need our officer to look at our cases more than anything.

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Thank you, Teddy! Even though my status changed on Mar 7, docs were received on March 5, so it's actually over a week. Even then, I was quite surprised at the quick turn around.

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Originally Posted by mysati

Congrats essenel!

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Originally Posted by mesan123

Congratulations essenel.....

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Congratulations Essenel!!

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Congrats Essenel

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Thank you, mysati, mesan, reachme_s and JJGCJML!!

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Originally Posted by essenel

Folks, I got my CPO email yesterday evening. :)

This forum has been incredibly helpful, not only in terms of learning about the process and understanding exactly what is going on thanks to top notch analysis, but has also been a place to share our experiences and go through the GC journey together (and vent when necessary (which has been often!!) )

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and answering numerous questions - Teddy, Leo, Tackle, IEB2, Nishant, Soggadu, gcseeker, and many others who post in the 485 thread and of course for your valuable analysis - Teddy, Q, Nishant, Spec, Kanmani, Veni and several others who contribute to the predictions thread.

Teddy and Tackle, waiting eagerly for your approvals!!

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Congratulations .. Enjoy .. !!

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Originally Posted by ramchand

Now waiting for the EAD/AP approval and cards. I am eagerly waiting for these goodies as I moved to H4 in Jan because of 6 year limit issues. There are some good opportunities right now which are being gated by the EAD/AP. Hoping for the best :)

Good luck to everyone.

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Hope you see your EAD soon.. if the past is anything to go by, you should see the EAD approval within a few days.

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Originally Posted by ram_40001

Hello everyone in the immigration blogosphere. I wanted to thank you for keeping me well informed and educated about this arduous painstaking process.

I just received my CPO email almost 3 (very very long) weeks after and RFE response was received for a minor Flu shot, at NSC no less.

Funny thing is I actually called this afternoon, received same recorded message saying that it was still within the 60 days etc, and 15 mins after I hung up had my CPO email.

Good luck to all of you who are still waiting

NSC- PD Aug 17 2007 - RD Nov 2 2011 - RFE Feb 19 2012 - RFE Review Feb 23 2012 - CPO March 13 2012

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Congratulations ram_4001 ... enjoy !!

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Originally Posted by harsha131

Friends......We are greened today :-) Got the CPO email at 11.45 PST but I was late checking it. Thanks to fellow members, one and all for all your views and jokes that kept this forum very lively. From the day of filing I don't remember a single day I missed to read the forum, good luck to every one waiting for their GC's.

I am glad I am home today and was able shout out my happiness....went to my wife's office and conveyed the message by gifting her green flowers. She just won the weight watchers in their office and my news just made her uncontrollable. Very relieved and now we can just focus on our next month trip to India after 4.5years.

Go Green everyone.

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Congratulations harsha131 .. Enjoy .. !!