One more victory for WOM (AOS)
Dear all,
I am a new face here but I am already one of the beneficiaries of this forum. Both I and my spouse got the GC ordered email on 09/26, got the approval notice mailed email on 09/27 and received the approved notice on 09/30. We filed WOM together on 08/29.
First of all I would thank
this wonderful forum and
all the friends around here for sharing the courage, the lawsuit knowledge and the experience. Special thanks to the big heroes in this forum,
Publicus, Rahul, Suzy, Mohamedmohamed et al, start and provide the great idea here including the details of each steps to make the happiness for themselves and in the mean time to pass the happiness to more and more peoples and families. Also many thanks to
Haddy, Mr. LA, Buggin… for contributing and sharing more information and experience in this forum. Haddy and Mr. LA are probably still on the fighting road, I wish you two all the best to hear your victory news very soon. I pay my highest respect to all of your spirit fighting for your rights! Without all of these, I with my spouse would be still in the indefinitely waiting.
I would like to share my experience here, just want to give some feelings and signals to anyone who is thinking or preparing lawsuit recently. Here is my timeline and maybe some people are interested in it:
03/04: I-140 filed at USCIS CSC based on Eb1, GC application journey start
12/04: I-140 approved
01/05: I-485 filed at USCIS CSC together with my spouse
03/05: Code 3 FP taken at local USCIS ASC (both I and my spouse)
04/05: USCIS received FP results, I-485 cases online information LUD change (both I and my spouse)
05/06: PD became to the current
08/28/06: Infopass at DO before lawsuit, no any new information as usual. But got confirmed my and my spouse’s name checks are still pending and both cases are still in CSC.
On the same day went to the Court show the prefilled documents to the clerk to get the right format and also ask some questions about the process.
08/29/06: Joint WOM filed in USDC Centr. Distr. of CA together with spouse. After about 20 mins waiting, clerk gave us the stamped summons and complaints.
09/05/06: Compliant & Summons mailed to 5 defendants and DA by priority, certified mail with return receipt.
Here is the detail
Person served----C & S Mailed----C & S Delivered----Return receipt received
US Attorney General----09/05/06----09/10/06----09/15/06
Secretary of the DHS----09/05/06----09/11/06----09/28/06
Director of USCIS, DHS----09/05/06----09/11/06----09/16/06
Director of FBI----09/05/06----09/11/06----not yet
Acting Director of USCIS CSC----09/05/06----
09/06/06----09/08/06
DA----09/05/06----09/06/06----09/08/06 (not properly served)
----09/15/06----
09/18/06----09/21/06
09/06/06: Got standing order and self-representation order from Judge by email and several days later receive the same thing by mail.
09/14/06: Got a mail from a AUSA in DA office and was informed I have not properly effected service. Here I made the
first mistake because I didn’t realize it must name to “Civil Process Clerk” even the address is exactly the same. Notice: the same mistake happened by several persons in this forum ( Page84: Final; Page234: Omda) at USDC Centr. Distr. Of CA . If I read this forum more careful or read more, I won’t make the same mistake. By F.R.C.P. 4(I)(1)(A), the AUSA is right. Maybe she/he was trying to buy some more time to get my matter resolved (waste 10 days), but I would think it in a good way that she try to help solve the case: notice me at the earliest time, told me what is the right name and address, suggest me also send a copy to US attorney general and mailed this by certified with return receipt. Interesting!
09/15/06: Re-mail a copy of the Complaint & the Summons to DA. And send a status inquiry email to
CSC-XII.485@dhs.gov
09/18/06: Distr. US Attorney served, clock start click.
09/21/06: A response from
CSC-XII.485@dhs.gov: “CSC does not accept inquiries from the general public via email”.
09/22/06: Second FP notice received and ND is 09/13/06 (both I & my spouse).
09/23/06: Proofs of service filed to the court by certified mail.
09/26/06: 8:50am Finish Code 1 FP taken at local ASC (both I & my spouse).
09/26/06: 3:45pm Got 5 emails from USCIS-SSSO and CRIS: “On September 26, 2006, after approving your application, we ordered you a new card. Your card will be mailed to you as soon as it is ready”. (both I & my spouse)
Here I am so surprise. As I know the FP will go to FBI and then back to USCIS. They can finish it with 6 hours. Impress!
09/27/06: Got 5 emails from USCIS-SSSO and CRIS: “This case has been approved. On September 26, 2006, an approval notice was mailed. If 30 days have passed and you have not received this notice, you may wish to verify or update your address. To update your address, please speak to an Immigration Information Officer during business hours”. (both I & my spouse)
09/29/06: Approval notice (I-797) received in mail (both I & my spouse)
After your I-485 approval, your may require to provide your biometric FP (photo/FP/signature for your GC if you didn’t do either code 2 or 3 FP before.
Got a mail from the Court: my proofs of service, which I filed to the Court, returned back to me and stamped “Received but Not filed”. Here I made the
second mistake due to forget put extra one copy for Judge. Notice: when you file any documents to the Court, file Original plus a Copy to the Court (depends on your local rule), send a copy to DA and make another copy for yourself.
10/01/06: Got 5 emails from USCIS-SSSO and CRIS: “On October 1, 2006, the card order was completed and we mailed the applicant's new card directly to him or her. If 30 days have passed and you have not received this card, you may wish to verify or update your address. To update your address, please call the National Customer Service Center at (800) 375-5283”. (both I & my spouse)
10/02/06: GC ( I-551) received in mail. (both I & my spouse)
Till now I have not contact DA yet and also have not hear anything from him/her yet. There are two points I would like to mention here for my case: I feel (1) file the joint WOM help my spouse's name check clearance and got approval at the same time with me; (2) at least there is one complaint I served works, i.e. the one I served to the acting director of USCIS CSC.
Now I have only one thing left, i.e. to dismiss my case.
Maybe there is a little luck in our case and probably our name check almost near to the final stage when i filed WOS. But you still can see from my timeline how fast the USCIS can work with if they have to. Thanks again for all of you who post the introductions, questions, discussions and answering in this forum. I do learn a lot from all the great posts from you guys.
Good Luck to all the friends! You will be the next! 
