Hi All,
Finally my 485 approved on 19th April 2005. It was really a tough roller coaster ride as rs_ind mentioned earlier. I thank you for all for their valuable inputs in this forum and to Mr. Rajiv Khanna for his efforts to provide all necessary information through this forum. I found this forum truely an encyclopedia of immigration matters and found answers for almost all my doubts...
Since I was a silent observer of this forum, let me give a brief info of my case to all of you. My 485 & 140 was filed concurrently at VCS in September 2003 and Spouse and Son's case filed after one month. Since some of my colleagues cases filed along with me were approved within a month of finger printing and the VCS processing time is well ahead of mine, i called VCS on 4/12/05 to check my status, the lady picked up the phone was not much helpful and said she will put my query on record and not gave me much info about my status. To my surprise CIS sent me a letter on 4/26/04 stating that my case was pending due to the fact that visa is not aavailable... where as my case was filed under EB2 category and the I-140 approved in August 2004. My employer send a reply to this letter and at the same time I called the VCS on May 11, 2005 and one nice Lady representative picked up the call helped me to resolve this issue. She said my case was wrongly put in EB3 category and she will do the necessary thing to pick up my case within two weeks time. She also told me our name check also done. Again to my surprise on May 20th we received a email notification stating my Son's case approved. There is no mail or status change on mine and spouse's case. I again called VCS on 5/23/05 and learnt from the representative that mine and spouse case were also approved on May 19th and notice already sent.
Even today there is no status change on our case except my son's, which still states that on Feb. 9th the result of your finger print received.....
PD 05/03 EB2
I-485 Self RD 9/03 VSC Concurrent filing
I-140 RD 9/03 Approved 8/04
I 485 Son RD 10/03
I-485 Spouse RD 10/03
FP 2/05 LUD 2/10 after finger printing, after that no LUD even after I-485 approval !
No RFE on any case.
Finally my 485 approved on 19th April 2005. It was really a tough roller coaster ride as rs_ind mentioned earlier. I thank you for all for their valuable inputs in this forum and to Mr. Rajiv Khanna for his efforts to provide all necessary information through this forum. I found this forum truely an encyclopedia of immigration matters and found answers for almost all my doubts...
Since I was a silent observer of this forum, let me give a brief info of my case to all of you. My 485 & 140 was filed concurrently at VCS in September 2003 and Spouse and Son's case filed after one month. Since some of my colleagues cases filed along with me were approved within a month of finger printing and the VCS processing time is well ahead of mine, i called VCS on 4/12/05 to check my status, the lady picked up the phone was not much helpful and said she will put my query on record and not gave me much info about my status. To my surprise CIS sent me a letter on 4/26/04 stating that my case was pending due to the fact that visa is not aavailable... where as my case was filed under EB2 category and the I-140 approved in August 2004. My employer send a reply to this letter and at the same time I called the VCS on May 11, 2005 and one nice Lady representative picked up the call helped me to resolve this issue. She said my case was wrongly put in EB3 category and she will do the necessary thing to pick up my case within two weeks time. She also told me our name check also done. Again to my surprise on May 20th we received a email notification stating my Son's case approved. There is no mail or status change on mine and spouse's case. I again called VCS on 5/23/05 and learnt from the representative that mine and spouse case were also approved on May 19th and notice already sent.
Even today there is no status change on our case except my son's, which still states that on Feb. 9th the result of your finger print received.....
PD 05/03 EB2
I-485 Self RD 9/03 VSC Concurrent filing
I-140 RD 9/03 Approved 8/04
I 485 Son RD 10/03
I-485 Spouse RD 10/03
FP 2/05 LUD 2/10 after finger printing, after that no LUD even after I-485 approval !
No RFE on any case.