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🙏EB1A GC Approved 🎉🎊- Cross Chargebility Experience 🧿
✅ EB1A Self-Petition Journey — Approved After a Long Wait (Cross-Chargeability Case)
• Category: EB1A (Self-Petition, Self-Filed I-140, EAD , AP and AOS)
• Priority Date: September 2023
• Primary: India
• Spouse: Rest of World (ROW Cross-Chargeability)
Our case was transferred to the Dallas Field Office (FO) after being linked for cross-chargeability, and we attended our AOS interview in April 2024.
Timeline Highlights:
• Primary applicant’s EAD approved before interview, and AP approved after interview (corrected after a Congressman inquiry due to initial PD issue).
• Dependent’s EAD and AP approved before interview since ROW was current.
• The Dallas officer was very kind, and the interview went smoothly — no white paper issued. He mentioned it might take 3–4 months for a decision.
However, by September 2025, after interview nearly six months of waiting for decision , our status changed to “cases paused - Visa not available” for both cases due to the ROW quota being exhausted at the end of the fiscal year.
We did not raise any inquiries (Emma, SR, or Congressman) after that. But once the new quota opened in October 2025, the ROW numbers were refreshed, and our cases automatically moved forward.
On October 17, 2025, we received the long-awaited case approval notices! 🎉
This journey has taught us that patience, faith, and perseverance truly pay off. To everyone still waiting hang in there. Your day will come too. ✨
EB1-1
Extraordinary ability
Total Days: 385 days
Case
2024-09-27
2025-10-17
I-485
385 Days
National Benefits Center: I-485
Timeline Map
2024-09-27
I-485
Submission to USCIS
2024-11-25
I-485
D+59
Biometrics, i.e. fingerprint and photo
2025-03-28
I-485
D+182
Interview
2025-10-17
I-485
D+385
Decision (Approval or Denial)
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Sa Ve12h
Congratulations 🎉 May I know how did you realize your application had incorrect PD and how exactly to fix it ?
s s11h
our files got separated and my wife got AP before interview that means visa allocated not for me and it is separated and cross chargebility didn’t get applied
Sa Ve10h
thanks for your response @s s . I may need to do something similar.. how did you remedy it ? And did USCIS confirm that they had it wrong originally ?
Kevin 1239h
congratulations @s s !!!!!!
after the interview file was moved to NBC or sitting at FO
T A9h
congratulations 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉
s s9h
@Kevin 123 FO
