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Hello New Yorkers, anyone reveived the interview letter ? NOA 4th of April for me, bio done and waiting

(I checked the timeline and i see nobody from NY receiving this IL)
 
Hi,
I am waiting for my IL.
I have INFOPASS scheduled for tomorrow. Any suggestions on what questions I should/shouldn't ask.

Thanks.
 
Hi Mom,

I went for an infopass on Friday to check on the status of my interview letter and i was told my file is at the field office and sitting on the supervisor's desk for review. She further said they received my file since 4/26/2017. My questions are;

1. Is it weird that they received my file before i did my biometrics? I completed my biometrics on 5/5/2017
2. The fact that my file is with a supervisor for review, does that mean i should be receiving an interview letter soon?
 
angel_A said:
Hi Mom,

I went for an infopass on Friday to check on the status of my interview letter and i was told my file is at the field office and sitting on the supervisor's desk for review. She further said they received my file since 4/26/2017. My questions are;

1. Is it weird that they received my file before i did my biometrics? I completed my biometrics on 5/5/2017
2. The fact that my file is with a supervisor for review, does that mean i should be receiving an interview letter soon?
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1. No, nothing weird. Normal process. NBC doesn't wait for the bio result before forwarding the AOS petition to the FO.

2. Maybe, and maybe not.
 
Hello Mom,
I received Bio-metric letters Saturday, 3rd June for everyone even for my 13 years old child. It was scheduled for 13 of June but We did it as walking today morning.

thanks
 
Zadeh said:
Hello Mom,
I received Bio-metric letters Saturday, 3rd June for everyone even for my 13 years old child. It was scheduled for 13 of June but We did it as walking today morning.

thanks
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The fact that children 14 and under do not pay the bio fee doesn't mean they will not be attending the bio appointment. They are expected to attend as their thumbprints and picture needs to be captured for the GC. Their fingerprints however will not be captured and there will be no background check done on them.
 
After waiting for 63 days (after biometrics), I had an interview today at MN office. The interview went pretty smooth, basic questions from form i-485. After the completion of the interview, IO told me to wait for the decision about the case for 1 business days. However, I checked my online status which now says "new card is being produced" and this further changed to "case is approved".
I will like to thank this forum for providing information I needed throughout the process. I learned a lot about the process from this forum.
Also GOOD LUCK to all the candidates waiting for interview. Everything will be fine!!
 
Amrita Timilsina said:
After waiting for 63 days (after biometrics), I had an interview today at MN office. The interview went pretty smooth, basic questions from form i-485. After the completion of the interview, IO told me to wait for the decision about the case for 1 business days. However, I checked my online status which now says "new card is being produced" and this further changed to "case is approved".
I will like to thank this forum for providing information I needed throughout the process. I learned a lot about the process from this forum.
Also GOOD LUCK to all the candidates waiting for interview. Everything will be fine!!
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Thank you and thanks to all of those who share their interview experience with rest of us. :)
 
Hi everyone! We had our interview today at the Boston office. It was pretty fast and painless. My interview was at 10 and my husband's was at 11. We were there at 9 am, checked in and about 10 min. later officer came by and told us we could start. I thought my husband and I were going to do separate interviews but they took us both in. Went over the 485 forms in its entirety. He asked the questions simultaneously and we answered. He said everything looks good and they will approve it. We are to receive the card in the mail in 5-7 business days. They said they are going through a bunch of DV cases at the moment and hope to get them all done quickly.

Good luck to everyone! Thank you so much for all your assistance throughout.
 
I didn't want to ask over here due to previous stuff but I had no choice, today is the 211 days after the biometrics and I already lost my hopes to get cleared, even USCIS confessed that in response of a e-request that my case has been delayed. What step I can take? Still waiting? I can't see any progress in the process and I have already 3 months to go.
Should I give up on this or is there anything else I can do? I don't wanna tell myself one day you could have done something but you didn't
 
Hi,
I had an infopass appointment in Boston FO yesterday. It went very well. Officer was very friendly. First, he asked for the reason of the visit. I told that want to get an update regarding my case. He checked it and told that my case is on his supervisor's desk and it is in the right place. Then, when I started asking questions regarding background check, name check and file from KCC he joked that I know a lot :) He told he would send an email to his supervisor to inform that I came to inquire about my case and suggested to wait a few weeks. He told that my case is pretty new. I tried to explain to him that every day counts for me. He was very understanding.
In the beginning, when he was checking my case, he told that I might not need an interview, but the conversation quickly changed. Does anyone know if there is any DV case approved without an interview?

Thanks
 
Al92 said:
Hi,
I had an infopass appointment in Boston FO yesterday. It went very well. Officer was very friendly. First, he asked for the reason of the visit. I told that want to get an update regarding my case. He checked it and told that my case is on his supervisor's desk and it is in the right place. Then, when I started asking questions regarding background check, name check and file from KCC he joked that I know a lot :) He told he would send an email to his supervisor to inform that I came to inquire about my case and suggested to wait a few weeks. He told that my case is pretty new. I tried to explain to him that every day counts for me. He was very understanding.
In the beginning, when he was checking my case, he told that I might not need an interview, but the conversation quickly changed. Does anyone know if there is any DV case approved without an interview?

Thanks
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Some cases have been approved without an interview. It isn't that common.
 
Supersonic2016 said:
I didn't want to ask over here due to previous stuff but I had no choice, today is the 211 days after the biometrics and I already lost my hopes to get cleared, even USCIS confessed that in response of a e-request that my case has been delayed. What step I can take? Still waiting? I can't see any progress in the process and I have already 3 months to go.
Should I give up on this or is there anything else I can do? I don't wanna tell myself one day you could have done something but you didn't
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You'll rather give up now than wait the 3 months that's left and see what happens? When was the last time you went on an INFOPASS by the way? USCIS's confirmation of your case being delayed due to your pending background check clearance isn't a 'confession' IMHO, as there's nothing for them to confess to.
 
Al92 said:
Hi,
I had an infopass appointment in Boston FO yesterday. It went very well. Officer was very friendly. First, he asked for the reason of the visit. I told that want to get an update regarding my case. He checked it and told that my case is on his supervisor's desk and it is in the right place. Then, when I started asking questions regarding background check, name check and file from KCC he joked that I know a lot :) He told he would send an email to his supervisor to inform that I came to inquire about my case and suggested to wait a few weeks. He told that my case is pretty new. I tried to explain to him that every day counts for me. He was very understanding.
In the beginning, when he was checking my case, he told that I might not need an interview, but the conversation quickly changed. Does anyone know if there is any DV case approved without an interview?

Thanks
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Yes some FOs do approve DV based AOS petitions without interview, we have reported cases on the Timelines spreadsheets.

However, I would be pleasantly surprised if yours gets approved without an interview considering the fact that your FO has been interviewing other DV cases. The FOs that approve DV based AOS petitions do not pick and choose which ones to approve without an interview, they typically approve all such petitions unless there's a glaring situation that requires an interview.
 
What I get here is only mocking, I didn't mean by confession confess I was translating the term from Persian to English maybe the word I chose is not right in English. That was a mistake that I asked my question again here.
 
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