My wife got the EAD but she never used it , is she safe with her F1 status ?
DV 2017 AOS Only
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Sm1smom
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If she never used the AOS based EAD card, her F1 status remains valid.
Hi Mom/Simon,
I went for an infopass today. All I was told is that my case was sent to a supervisor for final decision yesterday and asked me to wait for a decision on mail. My Field Office was closed for the last week due to hurricane, so they did not have any idea that the visas are exhausted. Having requesting the officer in the front-office several times, I was allowed to talk with a supervisor. To my surprise, he did not know at least what I knew. He also had the same thing to say: WAIT FOR A DECISION!. I have another infopass scheduled for Friday this week, but it won't be of any use obviously. I don't think I will get any mails from them within these two weeks.
At this point, do you think it is worthwhile to send a letter to the Field Office Director mentioning how frustrated I am and asking him to make an inquiry regarding my case? If so, how the template of the letter should be?
I went for an infopass today. All I was told is that my case was sent to a supervisor for final decision yesterday and asked me to wait for a decision on mail. My Field Office was closed for the last week due to hurricane, so they did not have any idea that the visas are exhausted. Having requesting the officer in the front-office several times, I was allowed to talk with a supervisor. To my surprise, he did not know at least what I knew. He also had the same thing to say: WAIT FOR A DECISION!. I have another infopass scheduled for Friday this week, but it won't be of any use obviously. I don't think I will get any mails from them within these two weeks.
At this point, do you think it is worthwhile to send a letter to the Field Office Director mentioning how frustrated I am and asking him to make an inquiry regarding my case? If so, how the template of the letter should be?
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
It's unfortunate no decision was made with regards to your case prior to all the FOs receiving the no more visas memo from the DOS.
Yes you may write a letter to the FO Director to express your frustration, if it makes you feel better. I don't know if it will make a difference or not, and I'm sorry I don't have any template for how the letter should be written.
Do you think there is anybody who could request for the releases of more visas other than big T? Or does the Congress person/ senator could be of any help?
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
If indeed the allocated 50,000 visas (plus the 5K set apart for NACARA) have all been used up, not even Trump can authorize the release of more visas.
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
The law - and the rules that you would have read on entering - state that the program ends either on Sept 30 or when all available visas are used up, whichever happens first. The number of visas is set by law and can't just be changed by the president or anyone else.
pilepoil99
Member
Hello everyone, we are close to the deadline now and I wish everyone will be able to get his greencard without issues. I already get mine, and we had an error in the gender, I just did the I-90 online and i don't see anywhere that i need to send the wrong card to USCIS (if you do paper filling you need to send the wrong GC with the I-90 form)
1/ Do i need at some point to send my GC to USCIS ? (I will be asked in the near future to do so ?)
2/ Do we receive any letter with an notice of action of anything showing that we are in the middle of I-90 when we do online filling ? I'm asking because the FO need a letter from uscis showing that we are in the middle of a I-90 to stamp a I-551 in the passport...
Thank you for your help, much appreciated
1/ Do i need at some point to send my GC to USCIS ? (I will be asked in the near future to do so ?)
2/ Do we receive any letter with an notice of action of anything showing that we are in the middle of I-90 when we do online filling ? I'm asking because the FO need a letter from uscis showing that we are in the middle of a I-90 to stamp a I-551 in the passport...
Thank you for your help, much appreciated
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
Did you go through the Tips for I-90 online filing before filing?
https://www.uscis.gov/file-online/tips-filing-form-i-90-online
"Respond to requests for evidence
We will notify you by text message or email if you need to respond to a request for evidence (RFE).
Log in to your USCIS online account and go to the “Home” tab to view notices and respond to the RFE."
We will notify you by text message or email if you need to respond to a request for evidence (RFE).
Log in to your USCIS online account and go to the “Home” tab to view notices and respond to the RFE."
pilepoil99
Member
I look stupid now 
haha thank u Sm1smom, well so i just need to wait until i receive the email then and look like i don't need to send the old greencard (which is perfect). Now i don't know if the gender is wrong by my fault or by uscis.... I didn't keep a copy of the I485....I think i did it correctly but we will see what USCIS will repond, hopefully i will not have to pay 550 usd again....
haha thank u Sm1smom, well so i just need to wait until i receive the email then and look like i don't need to send the old greencard (which is perfect). Now i don't know if the gender is wrong by my fault or by uscis.... I didn't keep a copy of the I485....I think i did it correctly but we will see what USCIS will repond, hopefully i will not have to pay 550 usd again....We went for our InfoPass today, to Houston FO. Everything went as expected:
- As usual, we were told that our case is being processed and we will be notified by mail very soon.
- I did not buy that and insisted on getting more information stating that the deadline of Sep 30 is right in front of us, next week. Then the front desk officer disappeared for ~20 minutes and came with the another officer (probably the one processing our case). They both told us that the decision on our case is ready to be made but they cannot do so, because DOS ordered no more visas to be issued.
- Nothing of what I out-poured verbally at that time made any difference at all. They could not explain why our case was not looked at for over 5 months since our response to RFE. So we left frustrated and hopeless.
It was quite an effort on our side, we are 5 people in our family which means all in all we had a considerable amount of expenses incurred for fees, medicals, and attorney fees for our RFE response package. All for nothing due to slow processing by USCIS.
- As usual, we were told that our case is being processed and we will be notified by mail very soon.
- I did not buy that and insisted on getting more information stating that the deadline of Sep 30 is right in front of us, next week. Then the front desk officer disappeared for ~20 minutes and came with the another officer (probably the one processing our case). They both told us that the decision on our case is ready to be made but they cannot do so, because DOS ordered no more visas to be issued.
- Nothing of what I out-poured verbally at that time made any difference at all. They could not explain why our case was not looked at for over 5 months since our response to RFE. So we left frustrated and hopeless.
It was quite an effort on our side, we are 5 people in our family which means all in all we had a considerable amount of expenses incurred for fees, medicals, and attorney fees for our RFE response package. All for nothing due to slow processing by USCIS.
Britsimon
Super Moderator
Awful.
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
Do you mind sharing more about your RFE? What was it for? Was it handed to you at the end of your interview or did you receive it by mail?
I was wondering, is anybody aware of someone transferring his lottery-based AOS application to another category? I just read this USCIS page https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume7-PartA-Chapter7.html, and was wondering if that is possible at all. For instance, my plan-B at the moment is to start the AOS process again by pursuing the National Interest Waiver (NIW) path (i.e., Employments Based category, EB2 in my case). Could that be somehow done without throwing away the entire AOS application and repaying all the fees, i.e. by transferring it from DV to EB2?
I know there's very little time left right now, so that might not be an option at this stage, but I would like to hear your thoughts about that. If I understand it correctly, I will have to submit additional documents to satisfy the requirements of the EB2 path, hear from them that it was approved, and then apply for the AOS transfer, all of that by the end of this month. Is that right?
I know there's very little time left right now, so that might not be an option at this stage, but I would like to hear your thoughts about that. If I understand it correctly, I will have to submit additional documents to satisfy the requirements of the EB2 path, hear from them that it was approved, and then apply for the AOS transfer, all of that by the end of this month. Is that right?
I have been following this thread and it is awful to hear the news for DV 2017 AOSers. Hopefully something magically turned around for them. Unfortunately my personal opinion is USCIS FOs will not learn anything from this. They will continue to have govt bureaucracy and will not act on these cases. But now DV AOSers can always refer to DV 2017 when inquiring about future cases (I.e DV 2018 etc).
I m familiar with NIW process as that was my fall back plan. Infact I was in process when I found out I was selected for DV lottery (wasted close to $6000 in attorney fees for a process which I didn't even use). Process is quite lengthy as it involves getting recommendation letters, preparing a petition, writing a research summary. Then you have to apply for I140 to get the exception followed by I485. If you are lucky you will get u r I140 approved with in 3 months if not it will take around a year. Alternatively you can concurrently file i140 and i485 which might be a route you should prefer if this is possible. What I can do is if you are in my field of study I can give you a recommendation letter (independent one) why don't you PM me regarding u r field.
Sm1smom
Super Moderator
Speak with a knowledgeable immigration attorney. This forum deals with Diversity Visa lottery only.
Thanks for understanding what we are going through right now, but I am 1000% sure that nothing magical nor miracles can happen at this point for us
And you are correct. FOs will not learn anything from this. After all they did not lose anything and they will never understand that feeling. They just don't care. During my infopass appointment today, the supervisor was like our duty is to schedule and adjudicate the cases and if there was any delay that's the fault of DOS. Seriously? When I asked whether there are more available visas, he said well you can check it on the website. Am I supposed to log into the ASMWEB??? ha ha..I do not have words to express how ignorant and careless they are in this process. At the end, we are paying for their faults. Who hears our voice? During inforpass they just want to tell us something and send us. All I was told each time "You will be getting a decision on mail". Today I was like yeah after the end of the Fiscal Year may be.