Case Processing
Green card processing time through an employer without national interest waiver
Hey everyone, for those of you who got a green card sponsorship through your employers, what is the typical wait time from start to finish? Is it over three years for those from countries excluding  China and India, or can it be around one year? I'm in a situation where I was finally selected for the H1B category, but I can't wait two years for a green card. I would like to know what the processing time is like so I can decide whether to commit long-term to this opportunity or leave the country. Thank you!
485 interviews
so the interview was pretty good and we did have a stokes interview, the interviewer was pretty nice too she told us about her kids and she understands that we’re nervous. so when we were through she told us that she believes we have a real marriage and she just need to clear my background check on my 485 before she can approve it but she already approved the i130#NewarkFo #NBCPROCESSING
IR-1/CR-1
U.S. citizen filing for a spouse
Total Days: 699 days
Case
2024-11-25
Today
I-485
699 Days
National Benefits Center: I-485
Finally GREENED!!! - EB3-Skilled ROW, PD December 16 2022
I cannot thanks this community enough for keeping my mental health up while impatiently waiting for my approval.
🍀🍀🍀 You guys are almost there!!! 🍀🍀🍀
Edit 1: Fingerprints were reused on April 2025, a few days right before the approval (no actual biometric appointment).
EB3-1
Professional (bachelor's degree)
Total Days: 497 days
Case
2023-12-26
2025-05-06
I-485
497 Days
Nebraska Service Center: I-485
so confused…
got approved on the spot at the interview for I-130 & I-485 now I-485 is saying “actively being reviewed” it’s been 2 weeks since the interview.. what do I do?
IR-1/CR-1
U.S. citizen filing for a spouse
Total Days: 352 days
Case
2024-08-04
2025-07-22
I-130
270 Days
I-485
306 Days
I-765
106 Days
Nebraska Service Center: I-130, I-485, I-765
UPDATE!!! Finally . someone please wake me up I must be dreaming 😱
after almost 6 years of Emotional torture , countless disappointment and numerous losses I guess this is the American Dream they have been saying. everything makes sense now !! I cried on the phone with my cousin who lives in Europe telling him the news and he said . WE DID IT BRO . the struggle paid off . I thought I was cursed but God was Working . to everyone in the struggle please keep your head up and don’t give up .. Now I wait for Card to be produced and delivered . so anxious to see my mama again . oh God she will be so happy 😂 thank you all and God bless
FINALLY MY VAWA HAS BEEN APPROVED!!! MY GOD IS TOO FAITHFUL TO FAIL🙏
Hello Everyone. My VAWA Journey has finally come to an end. All Thanks To God Almighty and this wonderful beautiful community which has become family to me. It’s a long story, but I will make it short. I discovered the lawfully app & Reddit in November last year. prior before then I never had any idea about what a Co9 & C31 is. all I did was just kept waiting and hoping that one day I will get my work authorization, unknown to me that I will have to wait for 3yrs or even more. I read all post, comments and also share in everyone’s Joy & Win’s, praying for mine to happen. This community opened my eyes to so many things, especially to those that have been waiting for over 5years. I became worried and scared. So I took up the courage to reach out to the White House, I wrote the president and copied the vice president ( President Biden & Kamala Harris), explaining my current situation. that I had no job, no means of income with my 2years old baby. that I am requesting that my case should be looked into and expited. I got a response a week after from the president, that a White House staff has been assigned to reached out to the jurisdiction in charge of my case. So in first week of January 2025, I got a mail from USCIS saying they received my request form the White House regarding my case. The following week I got a call from Washington DC (USCIS) asking me what my request was, and I responded that I needed my VAWA case to be expited because I need to work. The USCIS officer then then responded that I give them 10 working day to get back to me inrespect to my expedite request. The same week I got a notification on lawfully that my request has been denied, 3 days after I got an RFE, which I responded to in first 1st week of April. 8th of May my VAWA was approved.
My prayer for everyone here waiting, is that the God that answered my prayers will do same the same for everyone waiting SPEEDILY AMEN! for What Our God Cannot Do Does Not Exist.
VAWA
Based on a Violence Against Women Act self-petition
Total Days: 1581 days
Case
2022-06-27
Today
I-131
508 Days
I-765
1051 Days
I-360
1051 Days
I-485
1581 Days
Vermont Service Center: I-131, I-765, I-360, I-485
