Hi,
This is my first post. I just received my approval notice today in the mail. It was a big surprise. The AVM did not change. My details are as follows.
PD: 12/22/99
RD: 3/28/2001
ND: 4/11/2001
FP: 2/27/2002
AD: 3/25/2002
EB-2, China.
My H-1B is still valid, didn\'t apply for AP or EAD.
There are two things that might be of interest to some people. Firstly, we never received any receipts or notices from INS after our lawyer filed our I-485s. Our lawyer received everything though. More than one month ago, we received a forwarded coutersy copy of finger print notices from our lawyer. The notice arrange us to have our finger print done on Feb.19 in Seattle, WA where our lawyer is. But we live in Louisiana and never moved. By the time we received the letter, it is already Feb. 20th. Local post office held the certified letter for about two weeks without delivery. We went to an ASC in Jackson, MS to get our finger prints done on Feb. 27th.
They only accept walk-ins on Wednesday morning. We never received the original copy of FP notice. Having realized INS might have the wrong address of ours, we sent a letter to INS to verify/correct our address. Secondly, my wife\'s case is still pending. We received a letter from INS a week ago asking her to redo her finger print because the first one was not classifiable. She has a skin condition that damaged her finger print a little bit. But the first time all her finger prints passed the machine though. I called Jaskson INS office. I was told that by law, INS is required to take the second set of finger prints if the first set is unclassifiable. If the second set is still not classifiable, TSC will transfer the file to local INS. It\'s New Orleans for us. Then the person will have an interview. During the interviw, he/she will sign an affidavit in lieu of finger prints.
This board has been very helpful. I thank everyone for their valuable information and I am really grateful for Mr. Khanna maitaining such a useful forum for us.
Good luck.
This is my first post. I just received my approval notice today in the mail. It was a big surprise. The AVM did not change. My details are as follows.
PD: 12/22/99
RD: 3/28/2001
ND: 4/11/2001
FP: 2/27/2002
AD: 3/25/2002
EB-2, China.
My H-1B is still valid, didn\'t apply for AP or EAD.
There are two things that might be of interest to some people. Firstly, we never received any receipts or notices from INS after our lawyer filed our I-485s. Our lawyer received everything though. More than one month ago, we received a forwarded coutersy copy of finger print notices from our lawyer. The notice arrange us to have our finger print done on Feb.19 in Seattle, WA where our lawyer is. But we live in Louisiana and never moved. By the time we received the letter, it is already Feb. 20th. Local post office held the certified letter for about two weeks without delivery. We went to an ASC in Jackson, MS to get our finger prints done on Feb. 27th.
They only accept walk-ins on Wednesday morning. We never received the original copy of FP notice. Having realized INS might have the wrong address of ours, we sent a letter to INS to verify/correct our address. Secondly, my wife\'s case is still pending. We received a letter from INS a week ago asking her to redo her finger print because the first one was not classifiable. She has a skin condition that damaged her finger print a little bit. But the first time all her finger prints passed the machine though. I called Jaskson INS office. I was told that by law, INS is required to take the second set of finger prints if the first set is unclassifiable. If the second set is still not classifiable, TSC will transfer the file to local INS. It\'s New Orleans for us. Then the person will have an interview. During the interviw, he/she will sign an affidavit in lieu of finger prints.
This board has been very helpful. I thank everyone for their valuable information and I am really grateful for Mr. Khanna maitaining such a useful forum for us.
Good luck.