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I tried walk in today. Denied.

Security tries to help but supervisor did not accept. Couple of people were sitting in the office, not many. Supervisor's response made sense why they don't allow walk-in: He said they cannot do contact tracing if people try to walk in. They want to know who come that day by checking their list only. If someone gets covid so that they can call others. Anyway, at least I tried.
 
Chuchuaaa said:
Thank goodness my husband finally has his FTJ interview scheduled in mid-Aug. I will post more details on how we got here later.

Questions:
1. I will not attend his FTJ interview at our embassy with him of course. Does he need any of the originals of my documents for his FTJ interview in addition to his own civil documents? Such as my birth certificate, education qualification (i.e. diploma) and I-485 approval notice, etc.

2. I filed I-824 requesting FTJ benefit and now NBC is in possession of my immigration records (i.e. approved I-485). In other words, my FO probably does not have my files anymore and cannot forward them to the embassy as a result. How will the embassy validate my AOS status if the I-824 is not approved and files are not forwarded to them before the FTJ interview?

Thank you in advance.
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1. He shouldn’t need those.
2. Why do you think the NBC now has your AOS file and not your FO? Anyway, both the NBC and the FO are all part of USCIS. The embassy reaches out to the approving FO, the FO figures out how to get the approved AOS case file to the embassy.
 
Kong58 said:
Today, My online status is changed from "Fingerprint fee was received" to "New card is being produced". I would like to thank everyone in this forum especially Sm1smom an SusieQQQ. All of your advices and suggestions are really helpful.
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Congratulations.
 
SusieQQQ said:
Have you been following recent developments?
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I'm not downplaying COVID whatsoever. I'm just saying early in the pandemic everyone was going to a great extent to show that they are mitigating the disease. But with COVID penetrating to every small town in the country, it is hard to believe that they actually do contact tracing now.

All I'm saying is that for whatever reason, I think they just didn't want to accommodate @onero . It might be a good idea to check the neighboring ASCs as I highly doubt that any other ASC would give this response.
 
Blade_ said:
I'm not downplaying COVID whatsoever. I'm just saying early in the pandemic everyone was going to a great extent to show that they are mitigating the disease. But with COVID penetrating to every small town in the country, it is hard to believe that they actually do contact tracing now.

All I'm saying is that for whatever reason, I think they just didn't want to accommodate @onero . It might be a good idea to check the neighboring ASCs as I highly doubt that any other ASC would give this response.
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Well someone I know actually got contact traced this morning to tell her she had been exposed to Covid earlier this week, so…

PS it’s nothing to do with big towns or small towns or how far it’s ”gone” in the US. it has everything to do with getting exposed people to test and isolate so they don’t spread it further.
 
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Hello mom!
I just wanted to know if you know any person who has tried and succeeded to expedite their case.

And also, do we need to take the bio letter with us for the biometric walking?

Thankyou
 
SusieQQQ said:
Well someone I know actually got contact traced this morning to tell her she had been exposed to Covid earlier this week, so…
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Interesting. Glad some are still taking it seriously. Here people ask me why I have my mask on!

Re PS: I totally agree with you. That is the right thing to do, I just doubted they would do the right thing.
 
Love00 said:
Hello mom!
I just wanted to know if you know any person who has tried and succeeded to expedite their case.

And also, do we need to take the bio letter with us for the biometric walking?

Thankyou
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Well you can see below that there was a recent successful expedite, but that it isn’t really what a DV selectee would consider “expedited”... and yes you need the bio letter for a walk-in attempt.
HEM_NEPAL said:
Hi Mom,

I got this Email about my expedite request, I am little confused. Does this mean the request is accepted or is not accepted yet and they will inform me about the expedite request decision?

On July 7, 2021, you or your representative contacted USCIS concerning your I-485 application to notify us that you were requesting an expedited review of your case. Below is a summary of what we found and how the issue has been or may be resolved.

Your case is now under expedited review. You should receive a decision or notice of further action on your I-485 application within 45 days from the date of this letter.

We hope this information is helpful to you.
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SusieQQQ said:
Looks like they accepted the expedite - as the next communication will be about the case not about the expedite request - but as you can see from the 45 day timeline, it is “expedited” according to normal uscis procedures and not what DV applicants on this thread would consider expediting.
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Kong58 said:
Today, My online status is changed from "Fingerprint fee was received" to "New card is being produced". I would like to thank everyone in this forum especially Sm1smom an SusieQQQ. All of your advices and suggestions are really helpful.
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That's awesome. Congrats!
 
Hey all,

My AOS package was delivered to Chicago Lockbox on 06/07. I received the acceptance text on 06/29. My Bio-appointment is scheduled for the first week of August. However, I have not received an interview date yet. I am not sure, whether I should contact a Tier 02 agent at this point. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thank you
 
hima1990 said:
Hey all,

My AOS package was delivered to Chicago Lockbox on 06/07. I received the acceptance text on 06/29. My Bio-appointment is scheduled for the first week of August. However, I have not received an interview date yet. I am not sure, whether I should contact a Tier 02 agent at this point. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thank you
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Your case seems to be rolling very well. A tier 2 would probably say the same thing.

PS: My package was delivered on May 11th and have not received my bio letter yet.
 
Lucio said:
I should have mentioned it earlier, but when EMMA told me that my biometric letter was on its way I asked if the interview was scheduled too and I received something like "your interview will be scheduled once the biometric appointment will be completed". So the IL might still be on its way and just the agent is not able to access it.
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I got the same response from the live agent. The bio is scheduled and they could not see the inteview confirmed. Hopefully, I can see the IL soon...
 
Anyone here successfully did the walk-in for a bio appt in San Francisco, Bay Area? I checked the spreadsheet but people in the same area and ahead of me have not really updated the sheet yet seemingly. Am curious to hear.
Our bio is scheduled for the second week of Aug. As I read through this forum, I am going to try the very early in the morning or before they close..Will update here.
 
Ybuster said:
Anyone here successfully did the walk-in for a bio appt in San Francisco, Bay Area? I checked the spreadsheet but people in the same area and ahead of me have not really updated the sheet yet seemingly. Am curious to hear.
Our bio is scheduled for the second week of Aug. As I read through this forum, I am going to try the very early in the morning or before they close..Will update here.
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Which ASC? There are a few that service the SF FO.
The oakland one used to accept walk-ins pre Covid depending how busy they were. Not sure about the one down the road from the actual FO.
 
SusieQQQ said:
Which ASC? There are a few that service the SF FO.
The oakland one used to accept walk-ins pre Covid depending how busy they were. Not sure about the one down the road from the actual FO.
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The closest one is in SF. But we could travel to Oakland or basically anywhere within the Bay Area where a place accepts a walk-in!
 
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