#92 Who_Loves_BCIS: April 2002 case approved and some tips for panic guys
Both of my wife and my cases have been approved today (verified from phone and web site, also got Email notice), here are details:
EB2
ND: Mid April 2002 (wac02-160-xxxxx)
1FP: June 2002
3 EADS, 3 APs
2FP: Jan. 2004
NO RFE ( but my original file documents included 3 years W-2s and tax reports, and 3 month pay stubs).
Case updated on May 2004 (I guess it was due to cases that have been assigned to an officer)
Approved: July 14th, 2004
Last updated: July 15th, 2004
Just on this Monday, I called my lawyer to ask her if we need to send inquiry or ask Senate to check our case status since it was 2 months behind JIT. She said it was useless and just prepare to wait for 4 to 6 months because if your case was unlucky to be assigned to a lazy officer, it would take longer time. Therefore, I did not do anything. Apparently, my officer is not that lazy...
During this over 2 years waiting period, I worried about it a lot since my case is not that perfect: a very small employer, changed job twice before applying for Green Card, one H-1B with wrong name spelled, and some other "defects". It proves all these worries were useless. Especially on May when my friend's case was approved although his case was filed one week later than mine, I got so panic: checking my case status all the day, coming here to watch new approvals many times per day, and got even more panic because I saw so many later cases were approved. After one week, I stop doing this because I didn't want to be mad. Here some tips for keeping calm down:
1. If your case is behind JIT, just prepare to wait for another 4 to 6 months, so if it is approved less than that long, it is still a surprise;
2. Don't come here too often because other person's approval may drive you mad (once a week is enough);
3. Don't check your case's status on your working computer, otherwise, you will keep checking all the day and get panic;
4. It looks like BCIS appproves cases in a looser standard because we say very few cases are got RFE (although I already pushed my boss to prepare documents for it, no use this time, ha ha) on these days, so even if you don't have a job now or going to lose a job, it will be still got approved.
Waiting for approval notices, I wish all you guys have good luck.
Don't have to be panic, my friends! (donated $50 for this site, maybe this works)
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WAC-02-160
http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=134671