Good souls I really need help,
My employment based I485 was filed in Dec 2001, yes eight years ago. In 2006 we learned that my case was "administratively closed" through USCIS ombudsman office. At that time, I went to the Baltimore office who had the case, they said don;t worry we are still "actively pursuing" the case. I continued to get approvals on advanced parole and EAD cards for myself and my wife (derivative case) until this week. We and our congressional reps made several inquiries over the past couple of years on our case status. We got letters from Baltimore office stating that they are actively processing our case. It is stuck in security check. I even travelled twice on AP over the past 3 years and re-entered without any problems. The case status on the web still states that both of our cases are in process.
Yesterday, I again visited the Baltimore field office and was told that your case is closed. First the lady could not even look it up. Later she found it and said that it is in "storage". Further, she said that since my case is not in the pending state, they are not waiting anything, they can't even access it., the file is not here. They were unable to see the reason for closure. Apparently, there is none. In other words, security check this is no reason for delay.
I contaced the Senator's office immediately and they confirmed that my case is closed and is now moved to "USCIS headquarters in Washington DC".
What does this mean?
My current EAD will expire in mid Apr. I don't have money to get a lawyer to file for mandamus case.
Please advise. What can I do? The case is neither approved nor rejected. The irony is the web site still states that it is pending; not to mention continued approvals of my several EADs and APs in the past 3 years.
Please help!!!!
Thanks in advance...
My employment based I485 was filed in Dec 2001, yes eight years ago. In 2006 we learned that my case was "administratively closed" through USCIS ombudsman office. At that time, I went to the Baltimore office who had the case, they said don;t worry we are still "actively pursuing" the case. I continued to get approvals on advanced parole and EAD cards for myself and my wife (derivative case) until this week. We and our congressional reps made several inquiries over the past couple of years on our case status. We got letters from Baltimore office stating that they are actively processing our case. It is stuck in security check. I even travelled twice on AP over the past 3 years and re-entered without any problems. The case status on the web still states that both of our cases are in process.
Yesterday, I again visited the Baltimore field office and was told that your case is closed. First the lady could not even look it up. Later she found it and said that it is in "storage". Further, she said that since my case is not in the pending state, they are not waiting anything, they can't even access it., the file is not here. They were unable to see the reason for closure. Apparently, there is none. In other words, security check this is no reason for delay.
I contaced the Senator's office immediately and they confirmed that my case is closed and is now moved to "USCIS headquarters in Washington DC".
What does this mean?
My current EAD will expire in mid Apr. I don't have money to get a lawyer to file for mandamus case.
Please advise. What can I do? The case is neither approved nor rejected. The irony is the web site still states that it is pending; not to mention continued approvals of my several EADs and APs in the past 3 years.
Please help!!!!
Thanks in advance...