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Hi Mom,
It's been a while since I've been on this forum. I was approved on August 18th and got my GC on August 25th.

However, I got an update yesterday saying that I am scheduled for an interview on 11/09/21. EMMA agent had no answer.

Not sure what is going on?
 
jasperrrr.c said:
Hi Mom,
It's been a while since I've been on this forum. I was approved on August 18th and got my GC on August 25th.

However, I got an update yesterday saying that I am scheduled for an interview on 11/09/21. EMMA agent had no answer.

Not sure what is going on?
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This happened to me - was it for your i485 or some other form?....What i did was talked to a tier2 ..they said it was sent in error and cancelled my appointment
 
Hi mom,
Regarding my attempt to get I-551 stamp to travel internationally, ….I’m curious to hear what has worked well to get an urgent request to set up an appointment for I-551 if you happen to know of any.

Situations:

I filed i-90 already last month and in the meantime, I tried to scheduled an appointment 25 days ago (my request was considered as non-urgent request even though I told them I have a flight ticket booked). After waiting for 25 days, yesterday I finally received a callback at 8am while commuting so missed it, but I did catch the second callback at 10am. However, by the time I received the call, the officer told me that appointment slots were already taken and I need to start over…(even after waiting for 25 days already. it seems that each day they have new slots available to schedule?)

Not surprisingly, when I called them today, my request is still considered as non-urgent even after waiting for 25 days. Therefore I have to wait for up to 30 days again, hoping that I can catch an early morning call and get an appointment…They only consider situations like family passing etc as urgent and the rest is non-urgent.

Luckily my family occasion (my sibling’s wedding) changed so I only need to travel at the beginning of December(flight booked). However, I might not even be able to leave by it because if I miss the next call, there is no time left for me to wait for another 30 days and leave before December lol

Im just surprised to see how hard it is just to get I-551 stamp via an appointment

What has not worked for me is
  1. Having flight tickets booked in 2 weeks.
  2. Siblings wedding ( leisure is not urgent not surprisingly)
Thank you.
 
Good evening.

i won the dv 2022 , and filling my i-485 for AOS , i'm here in states legally, under asylum pending , waiting for interview, what status should i use in the form? c8 as my EAD state?

thanks
 
Ybuster said:
Hi mom,
Regarding my attempt to get I-551 stamp to travel internationally, ….I’m curious to hear what has worked well to get an urgent request to set up an appointment for I-551 if you happen to know of any.

Situations:

I filed i-90 already last month and in the meantime, I tried to scheduled an appointment 25 days ago (my request was considered as non-urgent request even though I told them I have a flight ticket booked). After waiting for 25 days, yesterday I finally received a callback at 8am while commuting so missed it, but I did catch the second callback at 10am. However, by the time I received the call, the officer told me that appointment slots were already taken and I need to start over…(even after waiting for 25 days already. it seems that each day they have new slots available to schedule?)

Not surprisingly, when I called them today, my request is still considered as non-urgent even after waiting for 25 days. Therefore I have to wait for up to 30 days again, hoping that I can catch an early morning call and get an appointment…They only consider situations like family passing etc as urgent and the rest is non-urgent.

Luckily my family occasion (my sibling’s wedding) changed so I only need to travel at the beginning of December(flight booked). However, I might not even be able to leave by it because if I miss the next call, there is no time left for me to wait for another 30 days and leave before December lol

Im just surprised to see how hard it is just to get I-551 stamp via an appointment

What has not worked for me is
  1. Having flight tickets booked in 2 weeks.
  2. Siblings wedding ( leisure is not urgent not surprisingly)
Thank you.
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INFOPASS appointments for I-551 stamping for trips planned for 2 to 3 months in advance are hard to come by AFAIK, they are reserved for emergency purposes. So if you have confirmed travel plans scheduled for one (maybe two) weeks, you’ll be able to get an INFOPASS appointment right away, without been asked to wait for 30 days for a call-back. You’ll need to be persistent in such a situation explaining you have an urgent need to travel or some family emergency to attend to without necessarily going into details of your travel purpose with the tier 1 agent. You may need to call back to back until you get someone who is willing to listen/work with you.
 
jasperrrr.c said:
Hi Mom,
It's been a while since I've been on this forum. I was approved on August 18th and got my GC on August 25th.

However, I got an update yesterday saying that I am scheduled for an interview on 11/09/21. EMMA agent had no answer.

Not sure what is going on?
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It was sent in error, just like @dhanu159 explained about their experience - their response is spot on re what you should do.
 
Sm1smom said:
INFOPASS appointments for I-551 stamping for trips planned for 2 to 3 months in advance are hard to come by AFAIK, they are reserved for emergency purposes. So if you have confirmed travel plans scheduled for one (maybe two) weeks, you’ll be able to get an INFOPASS appointment right away, without been asked to wait for 30 days for a call-back. You’ll need to be persistent in such a situation explaining you have an urgent need to travel or some family emergency to attend to without necessarily going into details of your travel purpose with the tier 1 agent. You may need to call back to back until you get someone who is willing to listen/work with you.
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Thank you lol! Will follow this!
 
I am updating my timeline in the spreadsheet so I wanted to make a quick note here to link it there, about my situation, in case someone might need it in the future (although hopefully not).
I am was on an F1 but I previously had a J1 (from 2016 to 2018) and a K1 (in 2019). I used them both and since I did not get married, I left the country before the 90 days were up on the K1. On my next trip to the US under an ESTA they stopped me to ask me about the K1, so I was certain it was going to come up again (who doesn't have an ex that haunts them even from the great beyond of dramatic breakups? lol)
Anyways, my interview was scheduled for August 30th in New Orleans but because of the hurricane Ida, it got cancelled. The FO must has sustained pretty bad damages because it remained closed until September 27th, although they did not announced the reopening until the Friday before. So for weeks we were in the dark and worried that we were going to run out of time.
After contacting multiple tier 2 officers, putting in an expedited request, having the T2 officers escalate my issues to the FO itself, congressmen, senators, ombudsman and having my grandma lighting candles in church every day (she is not even religious), and right when I thought Mom and Susie were going to kick me out of the forum, a miracle happened and I got a call from the field office in Alabama.
I did not expect it, I had pretty much given up. As far as I knew, my case was PHYSICALLY stuck in the New Orleans FO so for any other FO to take over the case, the New Orleans office had to approve it. In fact, they even had denied all my other requests.

Hopefully no one needs to worry about a failed K1 or, let alone, a natural disaster closing their FO for 28 days out of the 30 left in the FY, but if anyone needs this information, this was my very very interesting month of September.
 
My friend is about to come to US after getting approved for DV. Does she have to go to where her sponsor is or can she go anywhere?
 
Hi, Mom! I hope you are doing well. Today I got a mail which says that I haven’t given my documents to prove age and identity. But I sent them original documents: passport and GC by September 9. Till this time I was calling them regularly asking if everything is fine. When I today called them they are like you gotta send them again, we don’t know reasons you have been denied. It’s allowed for DV Green Card holders to get SSN (dv 6 and dv categories), isn’t it? What do you recommend to do so? It’s is SSA Office in Chicago.
 
Also, I said that I have a flight soon into my homeland, so I can’t send originals again. And she is if you are leaving you have to give GC back into immigration service. I said it’s short trip and I’m just visiting for my own wedding purposes. Does SSA officer have responsibilities to aggressively talk like that? Our DV based GC gives chance to travel no more than 6 months per year, doesn’t it? I’m really confused.
 
sultiik said:
Also, I said that I have a flight soon into my homeland, so I can’t send originals again. And she is if you are leaving you have to give GC back into immigration service. I said it’s short trip and I’m just visiting for my own wedding purposes. Does SSA officer have responsibilities to aggressively talk like that? Our DV based GC gives chance to travel no more than 6 months per year, doesn’t it? I’m really confused.
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Sounds like either she doesn’t know what she’s talking about or she misunderstood what you meant.

Can you not make an appointment to take the documents in person at your SSA office and get it sorted out that way? Are there other offices nearby you can try? (I know there are a bunch of SSA offices within an easy drive from me so maybe Chicago metropolitan area is similar to that?)
 
sultiik said:
Hi, Mom! I hope you are doing well. Today I got a mail which says that I haven’t given my documents to prove age and identity. But I sent them original documents: passport and GC by September 9. Till this time I was calling them regularly asking if everything is fine. When I today called them they are like you gotta send them again, we don’t know reasons you have been denied. It’s allowed for DV Green Card holders to get SSN (dv 6 and dv categories), isn’t it? What do you recommend to do so? It’s is SSA Office in Chicago.
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couldn't you book an appointment and go to their office in person? even though I haven't got my card yet since they couldn't check my status with DHS but they checked my docs and took a copy and returned the originals to me on spot
 
SusieQQQ said:
Sounds like either she doesn’t know what she’s talking about or she misunderstood what you meant.

Can you not make an appointment to take the documents in person at your SSA office and get it sorted out that way? Are there other offices nearby you can try? (I know there are a bunch of SSA offices within an easy drive from me so maybe Chicago metropolitan area is similar to that?)
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they can serve only by ZIP code. And asking to mail originals. Service only by phone.
 
Shilaesf said:
couldn't you book an appointment and go to their office in person? even though I haven't got my card yet since they couldn't check my status with DHS but they checked my docs and took a copy and returned the originals to me on spot
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There is service only by phone. So they will issue SSN for you or not, since they can’t check your status ?
 
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