iEAD in NY

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Hi,
I'm planning to go the 26 Fed. plaza this week for iEAD . Appreciate anyone who's been there recently and can provide replies to the foll. questions:
1.What is a good time to reach there ? I've seen '9pm the night before' in some other threads..is that really necessary ?
2.How many people do they allow in per day ?
3.I understand the queue is outside the building...any tips reg spending the night out ,ie what to get and what not...anything else which would be useful ( what abt coffee , ppee )


From just another legal immigrant out in the cold :mad:
Thanks !
 
I just got my iEAD in NY on 1/6/2004. Here is my experience:

- I went to 26 Fed Plaza at 5:30am. There were about 80 people in the queue already. Another 30 people joined the queue before 6am.

- At around 6:30am, the guards let people in the main queue to wait right in front of the building entrance. There were two queues at this point, one for EAD (the guards called it "work permit"), and the other for everything else (change of address, inquries, green card stamp, ..., etc).

- At around 7am, the guards let people to go into the building, one queue at a time. People in the EAD queue were sent to room 102 on the ground floor to get an referral paper in yellow and then told to go to the EAD processing office on the 9th floor. People in the general queue were sent to the third floor.

- At around 7:30am, the officer in the EAD office starts to collect papers from the applicants. For iEAD, he basically needs 4 documents: (1) I764 recepit; (2) I485/I130 receipt, or the receipt of the petition that entitles you to apply for EAD; (3) the yellow referral paper with your info (Name, A#, Date of Birth, Country of Birth) filled-in; (4) a filled-in I764 form, which you can get from the security guard at the front desk. I gave the officer the original I765 receipt and a copy of the I485 receipt and I didn't get either of them back. So remember to make copies before you go in. And it doesn't hard to take everything. I heard he asked for passport from some applicants also.


- Nothing happened between 7:30am-1:30am.

- At around 1:30pm, when the office processed the first 30 cases of the day, they started to distribute iEAD. I was called to the counter to surrender my previous EAD and to give my fingerprint. Then in about 15 minutes I was photographed and was issued an iEAD valid for 8 months.

- While waiting to be photographed, I learnt that one of the applicant who got her iEAD in the same batch as mine (i.e. got iEAD at 1:30pm) came to join the main queue at 8am. It took her 40 minutes to get into the building.

Hope this help!
 
Originally posted by charcoal
I just got my iEAD in NY on 1/6/2004. Here is my experience:

- I went to 26 Fed Plaza at 5:30am. There were about 80 people in the queue already. Another 30 people joined the queue before 6am.

- At around 6:30am, the guards let people in the main queue to wait right in front of the building entrance. There were two queues at this point, one for EAD (the guards called it "work permit"), and the other for everything else (change of address, inquries, green card stamp, ..., etc).

- At around 7am, the guards let people to go into the building, one queue at a time. People in the EAD queue were sent to room 102 on the ground floor to get an referral paper in yellow and then told to go to the EAD processing office on the 9th floor. People in the general queue were sent to the third floor.

- At around 7:30am, the officer in the EAD office starts to collect papers from the applicants. For iEAD, he basically needs 4 documents: (1) I764 recepit; (2) I485/I130 receipt, or the receipt of the petition that entitles you to apply for EAD; (3) the yellow referral paper with your info (Name, A#, Date of Birth, Country of Birth) filled-in; (4) a filled-in I764 form, which you can get from the security guard at the front desk. I gave the officer the original I765 receipt and a copy of the I485 receipt and I didn't get either of them back. So remember to make copies before you go in. And it doesn't hard to take everything. I heard he asked for passport from some applicants also.


- Nothing happened between 7:30am-1:30am.

- At around 1:30pm, when the office processed the first 30 cases of the day, they started to distribute iEAD. I was called to the counter to surrender my previous EAD and to give my fingerprint. Then in about 15 minutes I was photographed and was issued an iEAD valid for 8 months.

- While waiting to be photographed, I learnt that one of the applicant who got her iEAD in the same batch as mine (i.e. got iEAD at 1:30pm) came to join the main queue at 8am. It took her 40 minutes to get into the building.

Hope this help!
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Charoal:

Thanks for sharing your experience! Do you have to be a NY resident? In another word, if I live in New Jersey, can I go to the NYC office?

Thanks
 
Sorry to scare everyone, I was there a couple of times in summer. Maybe it's ease off a little now. :D
 
>>if I live in New Jersey, can I go to the NYC office?

I don't know the answer for sure. But from what I read in this forum, it seems that you have to go the INS office local to your residence.
 
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