BarbaraLamb
Registered Users (C)
Hi everyone,
although my process isn't over yet until I receive my GC and my husband too, I am celebrating since after months of agony today my online status changed to:
Application Type: I485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status
Current Status:
On August 25, 2006, a welcome notice was mailed for this case. If 30 days have passed and you have not received this notice. Please call the National Customer Service Center at (800) 375-5283 during business hours.
As you can see from my timeline below I was interviewed with my husband on 25 April. They didn't adjudicate us first because they had misplaced my husband's file, and secondly 'cause his security check was, and still is, pending. Somehow they'd decided that I should wait too! So in mid-July I started asking for a separate adjudication, this way at least one of us would get the Card. Since May we had communications with the local Senator's and Congresswoman's office (trying to resolve the security check issue), plus we visited our local CIS office far too many times. And I wrote tons of letters. Mid-August we learnt that our files were flagged due to the DV deadline (at last some attention), and that they'd requested from the FBI an expedite on the security check (finally!!). Last week we went on an Infopass and it was hard work to get them to understand I'd been waiting for an adjudication for no reason. Feeling frustrated we returned home. The next day they issued the Welcome notice online and wrote my husband a letter promising to speed up his check.
I'll write of my full experience in a few days.
Thanks to all the help received on this forum and from the much missed Eskimo board too (I'm sure some of you are around).
It's not over yet but I'm almost there!
Barbara
although my process isn't over yet until I receive my GC and my husband too, I am celebrating since after months of agony today my online status changed to:
Application Type: I485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status
Current Status:
On August 25, 2006, a welcome notice was mailed for this case. If 30 days have passed and you have not received this notice. Please call the National Customer Service Center at (800) 375-5283 during business hours.
As you can see from my timeline below I was interviewed with my husband on 25 April. They didn't adjudicate us first because they had misplaced my husband's file, and secondly 'cause his security check was, and still is, pending. Somehow they'd decided that I should wait too! So in mid-July I started asking for a separate adjudication, this way at least one of us would get the Card. Since May we had communications with the local Senator's and Congresswoman's office (trying to resolve the security check issue), plus we visited our local CIS office far too many times. And I wrote tons of letters. Mid-August we learnt that our files were flagged due to the DV deadline (at last some attention), and that they'd requested from the FBI an expedite on the security check (finally!!). Last week we went on an Infopass and it was hard work to get them to understand I'd been waiting for an adjudication for no reason. Feeling frustrated we returned home. The next day they issued the Welcome notice online and wrote my husband a letter promising to speed up his check.
I'll write of my full experience in a few days.
Thanks to all the help received on this forum and from the much missed Eskimo board too (I'm sure some of you are around).
It's not over yet but I'm almost there!
Barbara
