Post 485-Filing

[Umesh1209]

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

Thanks a lot for your inputs.

[Kanmani]

Congratulations!
essenel. enjoy!

[tackle]

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!!

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.

[TeddyKoochu]

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!!

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.

[GCKnowHow]

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.

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.

[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.

[GCKnowHow]

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

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.

[mysati]

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!!

Congrats essenel!

[mysati]

Congrats nabrika, harsha and ram!

[makmohan]

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

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

- Makmohan

[harsha131]

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.

Congrats nabrika, harsha and ram!

[mesan123]

Congratulations 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!!

[reachme_s]

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!!

Congratulations Essenel!!

[JJGCJML]

Congrats Essenel

[ramchand]

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.

[essenel]

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

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

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

Congratulations!
essenel. enjoy!

Thanks, Kanmani! Your glittery signs are cool

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.

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

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.

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.

[essenel]

Congrats essenel!

Congratulations essenel.....

Congratulations Essenel!!

Congrats Essenel

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

[pdfeb09]

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!!

Congratulations .. Enjoy .. !!

[pdfeb09]

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.

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

[pdfeb09]

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

Congratulations ram_4001 ... enjoy !!

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.

Congratulations harsha131 .. Enjoy .. !!

[Umesh1209]

Kanmani - Did your status change in USCIS (for your receipt number)when the EAD document was approved / sent to you ?

[Kanmani]

Yes .
Mar 11th - None
Mar 12th - Card Production
Mar 13th - Post decision activity
Mar 14th - Card sent to the address in the file

Out of 6 Receipt Numbers, only two RN are working (I765 )

[godiswithus]

Folks, I've been a silent follower of this blog. I've a question, I've a 14 year old and my attorney had applied EAD/AP for him as well. But we've got our EAD/AP but my son's receipts are still not showing up online.

Just wondering, if kids get the EAD/AP or not? Anyone in this forum that has got children born in India and have got their EAD/AP, can you pls throw some insight?

Thanks in advance!

[Umesh1209]

Yes .
Mar 11th - None
Mar 12th - Card Production
Mar 13th - Post decision activity
Mar 14th - Card sent to the address in the file

Out of 6 Receipt Numbers, only two RN are working (I765 )

Thanks for the confirmation. Good to know that the updates are working for RNs that are impacted by a change

[Pdmar08]

Folks, I've been a silent follower of this blog. I've a question, I've a 14 year old and my attorney had applied EAD/AP for him as well. But we've got our EAD/AP but my son's receipts are still not showing up online.

Just wondering, if kids get the EAD/AP or not? Anyone in this forum that has got children born in India and have got their EAD/AP, can you pls throw some insight?

Thanks in advance!

I will let people respond with first hand experience but i had documented this in the faq(see first post of the thread) based on the general understanding of the group,
Can I apply for EAD for my kids?
EAD can also be applied for children regardless of age. If you aim to apply SSN for children, you should submit
EAD form for children as well. Of course, if you anticipate getting GC soon then there is no need.