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expedite EAD as health care worker
today my 3rd expedite request denied as a health care worker I sent all the documents job letter and letter from my employer that they have shortage of nurses I feel like they are not approving expedite request anymore I saw a lot of post denied expedite request .
I asked them why does it say on USCIS website that health care worker are eligible for expedite request when u gonna deny it agent told me it’s up to officer he have the right to deny it wow
am so frustrated it’s been 9 months my EAD pending
Baltimore office, approved
Case approved after almost 6 months of RFE received, almost 1 month after I130 approved.
I did resend my medical when I got the dubious email about missing medical though I did have submitted by the time. It seems like that worked for my case as the process resumed after they got it for the second time.
Hope everyone will get the decision soon. this FO is the worst but something is worth looking out for after this painful waiting
IR-1/CR-1
U.S. citizen filing for a spouse
Total Days: 469 days
Case
2022-02-10
2023-05-25
I-130
445 Days
I-485
461 Days
Potomac Service Center: I-130
National Benefits Center: I-485
advance parole
Hi, idk how many post I did for it but i am still so hesitant to travel with Ap , can please everyone shared their experience who used AP ? does anyone know anyone who could not come back? i am working for employer, not F1 anymore . i came here with J1 originally, then changed it to F1 and then got employed based sponsorship. i was not out of status never. i asked my lawyer if Safe to travel and she said it is not recommended. my pd is October 2020 and i want to visit my country Turkey this summer. appreciate your suggestions!
Programme Biden : Comment corriger les erreurs dans votre dossier?
L’ambassade américaine en Haïti continue avec sa série question/réponse sur le programme Biden, à travers ses comptes sur les réseaux sociaux. Ce mardi 23 mai 2023, l’ambassade a répondu à la question de savoir comment corriger les informations incorrectes enregistrées par votre sponsor dans le formulaire I-134A.
Selon l’ambassade, une fois que vous aurez reçu la confirmation du formulaire I-134A par les Services Américains de la Citoyenneté et de l'Immigration (USCIS), vous aurez la possibilité d’examiner les informations enregistrées par votre sponsor, et vérifier s’il y a erreur dans votre nom, vos coordonnées et toute autre information biographique.
Ainsi, l’ambassade recommande de corriger toute erreur, si vous en avez trouvez, dans votre compte USCIS en ligne avant de commencer à soumettre vos informations sur l’application du Service des douanes et de la protection des frontières des États-Unis, appelée CBP One.
Une fois que le Service des douanes et de la protection des frontières des États-Unis (CBP) vous aura donné un avis d’autorisation de voyage, vous ne pourrez plus corriger les erreurs dans vos informations biographiques.
« Si le CBP émet un avis de voyage basé sur des informations incorrectes, vous et votre supporteur devrez recommencer le processus depuis le début en soumettant un nouveau formulaire I-134A. », met en garde l’ambassade américaine dans ses éléments de réponse.
Dans la foulée, le journal américain CBS News, informe que le gouvernement américain a supervisé plus de 580,000 dossiers en cours pour les Haïtiens, plus de 380,000 pour les Cubains, près de 120,000 pour les Vénézuéliens et plus de 20,000 pour les Nicaraguayens, jusqu’à fin avril.
Le média américain a rappelé que l’USCIS ne peut approuver plus de 30,000 bénéficiaires par mois dans le cadre du Humanitarian Parole.
We Did It! #Finallyapproved
Good morning everyone. Sharing our timeliness for those interested. This case was started with just the I-130 while my husband was in the US. The lawyer I started the process with did not inform us that we can file concurrently so we spent a year waiting. I continued the other applications on my own.
**I live in Brooklyn however, the case was handled by the NYC Field Office.
**We did not receive any communication when our case was transferred from NBC to the Field Office until we got an RFE to prove eligibility to adjust status.
**We received the EAD in the mail before we even received approval notice.
**Applied for SSN on our own after 2 weeks. A call to the our local SSA office confirmed that no application was transferred from USCIS for the case.
Keep holding faith and keep your minds occupied in the waiting period 🙏🏽.
Good luck and blessings! 💖💖 #brooklynfiler #nycfieldoffice #Feb2022 #🇹🇹🇹🇹 #I-485 #familybased #GC #10yearGC #approved
IR-1/CR-1
U.S. citizen filing for a spouse
Total Days: 884 days
Case
2021-01-12
2023-06-15
I-130
325 Days
I-765
238 Days
I-485
469 Days
I-131
483 Days
null: I-130
National Benefits Center: I-765, I-485, I-131
An ongoing story of patience
I always thought of the possibility of immigrating to the USA, but I never seriously considered it with intent until 2019, when a company from my country offered me an L1 visa to move to the US branch, given my ability to handle the clients they had in that market.
I accepted the offer with excitement, and then... the pandemic struck, before the company lawyers even had a chance to complete the case. On the bright side, now they had a lot of time to make the case as high quality as they wanted, given the presidential proclamation stopped them from filing anyway.
When USCIS resumed case processing, the lawyers filed and the case was a success, but... something else was a-brewing... while the petition was approved and I was preparing for the consular interview in late 2021, the company got acquired by a bigger corporation. I was concerned, because I had assumed some financial commitments myself based on the plan the company had (for example, flights, hotels, and other obligations), so I asked my senior directors if this changed anything but they said it didn't, and to move on with the relocation.
So we did, and I first landed in the USA on may 2022... at that time, the acquisition was completed and the company was now a subsidiary merged with the parent corporation. At the beginning things were ok, but, as the months went by, the new corporation displayed a significant unwillingness to having people working in the USA due to the cost of life. They stopped paying me the bonuses I had in my original contract, and did everything they could to pay only the very minimum required by law for this visa type. As months went by, things started getting really harder and harder.
The first company lured me in to move to the USA and now I had a life here and financial commitments to meet, but the second company was hostile to the idea of having me here, treating me in a sub-par fashion. I started talking to an immigration attorney, and he suggested to try and go for an EB-1 given my profile, since L1 was dual intent anyway, and I could change employer to a company that was willing to pay what was right for the role.
So I did. I started working with them in my EB-1 case, and right when we were about to file with premium processing, my lawyer called me and he said "wait... we are seeing an unusual trend in premium processing". They wanted to file with traditional processing. This meant having to wait about 20 months instead of 15 days. But I wouldn't risk it. I decided to do the long wait if it meant a bigger chance of success.
Given my incredibly low salary, this meant I had to find a solution financially to resist until the immigration process was complete. I decided to go back to my country to wait and do it through consular processing, because the numbers simply didn't work to stay to wait in the US, especially given my null credit history in the country.
As you can imagine, I lost a lot of money in the process and I am in debt with family and the bank. I do realize this was not my fault and I was incredibly unlucky with the company acquisition, which changed everything.
But now, this will be my last 2 months in the US under the L visa, and I will soon resign and go back to Argentina, the 4th country with the highest inflation rate in the whole world (and climbing). It's not ideal, but it's the only realistic plan I have.
I just hope this nightmare will be over soon and that there is light at the end of the tunnel for me as well as other people who are extremely passionate about what they do and just want to help grow the economies that do want our help.
I will never stop pursuing happiness and I am more ready than ever to make America, and the world, a better place.
L
Intracompany transfers
Total Days: 1334 days
Case
2021-12-03
2025-07-29
I-129
49 Days
I-140
294 Days
I-824
494 Days
Texas Service Center: I-129, I-140, I-824
Photos with I-485
hi, if we are submitting I-485 with K1 fiancé visa as basis, do we need to submit photos of a wedding celebration with our application or is marriage certificate enough? I thought we could present photos at interview but I’m hearing mixed things that we have to submit initially with our application.
