COVID was great for AOS people during Consular lockdown but made it worse after the Embassy started to open back up. Plus the amount people who applied after Covid was exponentially higher.

@BDV PUBLIC ENEMY #1 AOS takes all the blame

I think Imma quit the job fr. This week I got drafted and have to work over time (over 56 hours) my life is just stuck in this fking plant. Getting up, going to work. It’s just a Rat Race 🐀 that’s never going to be ended.

it is so funny that the illegal immigrants came here and get their status without paying any damn pennies is really pissed me off with Biden administration. Meanwhile we came here legally and spent tons of money for this shit to obtain the “American dream”. I think I have to sleep in order to believe it’s real. I am so fed up!!!

I can’t believe in a new fiscal year there is no movement at all. I can’t sleep at all nor can’t work.

hang in there guys. feeling the exact same thing. four years working daily almost. tiring. but we’ve done so much. let’s keep at it.

@yellow banana 🍌 and the bad news is it is likely that they just gonna approve up to May 2021 this FY, we still have to wait 2-3 FY more. This is unfair and all AOS gonna leave this shitty program to save their lives and after that live a miserable life

On the positive side, be grateful because AOS can work while waiting here in the US while consular has to wait.

I feel like this is why they started providing 5 years EAD/AP. The backlog must be huge

I 100 percent believe it’s election stunt to approve as many family based visa as possible before election. It just doesn’t make f sense how it didn’t even move three months. This is bullsh***

@J A how exactly is that a thing to be grateful?

Hello guys , don’t lose hope , my PD date was 22nd October 2020 , I had my application on pending for I-485 since September 2022 , I got approved yesterday, can’t explain my happiness in words , keep up the hopes , It will work .

@yellow banana 🍌 what plant you working on?

@J A when you think about it, it's actually us who are suffering. CP people got to file their application and go about their normal life until their time comes. They still have their life and family in their countries, they can still travel wherever they want. Whereas AOS people must spend money maintaining status until they can file I485, wait until having EAD to work on shitty paid job with tons of unpredictabilities, or if they don't wanna work yet, they need to spend more money studying and some couldn't even come back home to visit their families. Their future plans may as well be delayed, they basically stuck. I know we all try to be optimistic but everytime Visa Bulletin comes out, it's just a slap in the face.

i am on the same boat, i can feel what you feel, just wonder why we still get stuck after 2 years of backlog, i feel frustrating.

@Natasha kK congrats!

@G C agree with your analysis. 2-3 yrs for 2021 might be a bit overestimate though. perhaps for 2022 pds, it might take that long

@up down , Thank You !

@G C 40k are people who filed i140 not i485. People with PD after May 2022 were not able to i485.