Nora&Simon
Registered Users (C)
Hello everyone. Could use some advice about what to do with my husband's AP and EAD applications, which seem to have gone into a black hole over at the CSC.
Here's the background..
9/04 - Husband (fiance at the time) entered the US on a K-1
10/04 - Married and filed for AOS, mailed in I-485, I-765 and I-131
11/04 - We receive all NOA's and things look to be on track
11/04 - Husband got fingerprinted for AOS application
12/04 - Received first EAD and AP
Here's where the story takes a turn...
9/05 - We get an NOA from USCIS saying his I-485 case has been transferred to the CSC for processing (it had been pending in New York city, where we live).
10/3/05 - We e-file to renew his AP, which is about to expire - thinking we could see his family at Christmas. We get a receipt # and send the supporting documents to the CSC - where his I-485 is pending, as on the form this seemed to be the instruction on where to send it. We receive an NOA in the mail about a week later, saying the application has been received. We've received nothing again since.
11/15/05 - We e-file to renew his EAD, which is also about to expire. We again read instructions and believe we should mail the application to the CSC, where my husbands I-485 is pending. (There are some problems e-filing as the system seems to go down. Instead of an automatically generated receipt #, we are e-mailed the receipt # after a week because of server problems). We never receive an NOA in the mail. (We call to ask about this, and they assure us that the printed online case status is sufficient to get the temporary EAD after 90 days have passed since our filing. They say we don't actually need the mailed NOA). We've received no updates since.
We've called to check on the I-131 and I-765 a few times, and they say we can't do anything until the "processing dates" they publish for the CSC online indicate that the CSC is now processing applications 30 days older than ours. (Basically, when the CSC is now processing I-131 applications with a receipt notice date of November 3 - we can call to complain because our I-131 receipt notice date is October 3).
I know others in this forum who filed with the CSC at around the same time as us have received their APs and EADs, and I can't imagine the cause of the delay. I was careful to include the right supporting documents, and we haven't received a request for additional evidence.
I'm worried that a possible problem could be that I should have sent the supporting evidence to the National Benefits Center - not the CSC, but different operators on the phone have told me different things about where I should have mailed the information. The last manager I spoke with via the hotline said I mailed it to the correct place. (Another operator had once told me I didn't - but she said that the CSC would just forward the evidence to the National Benefits Center, and it should've cause much of a delay).
Is there any way I can find out what the heck is going on? Did I screw up by mailing the supporting evidence to the CSC??
Any advice is appreciated,
Nora
Here's the background..
9/04 - Husband (fiance at the time) entered the US on a K-1
10/04 - Married and filed for AOS, mailed in I-485, I-765 and I-131
11/04 - We receive all NOA's and things look to be on track
11/04 - Husband got fingerprinted for AOS application
12/04 - Received first EAD and AP
Here's where the story takes a turn...
9/05 - We get an NOA from USCIS saying his I-485 case has been transferred to the CSC for processing (it had been pending in New York city, where we live).
10/3/05 - We e-file to renew his AP, which is about to expire - thinking we could see his family at Christmas. We get a receipt # and send the supporting documents to the CSC - where his I-485 is pending, as on the form this seemed to be the instruction on where to send it. We receive an NOA in the mail about a week later, saying the application has been received. We've received nothing again since.
11/15/05 - We e-file to renew his EAD, which is also about to expire. We again read instructions and believe we should mail the application to the CSC, where my husbands I-485 is pending. (There are some problems e-filing as the system seems to go down. Instead of an automatically generated receipt #, we are e-mailed the receipt # after a week because of server problems). We never receive an NOA in the mail. (We call to ask about this, and they assure us that the printed online case status is sufficient to get the temporary EAD after 90 days have passed since our filing. They say we don't actually need the mailed NOA). We've received no updates since.
We've called to check on the I-131 and I-765 a few times, and they say we can't do anything until the "processing dates" they publish for the CSC online indicate that the CSC is now processing applications 30 days older than ours. (Basically, when the CSC is now processing I-131 applications with a receipt notice date of November 3 - we can call to complain because our I-131 receipt notice date is October 3).
I know others in this forum who filed with the CSC at around the same time as us have received their APs and EADs, and I can't imagine the cause of the delay. I was careful to include the right supporting documents, and we haven't received a request for additional evidence.
I'm worried that a possible problem could be that I should have sent the supporting evidence to the National Benefits Center - not the CSC, but different operators on the phone have told me different things about where I should have mailed the information. The last manager I spoke with via the hotline said I mailed it to the correct place. (Another operator had once told me I didn't - but she said that the CSC would just forward the evidence to the National Benefits Center, and it should've cause much of a delay).
Is there any way I can find out what the heck is going on? Did I screw up by mailing the supporting evidence to the CSC??
Any advice is appreciated,
Nora