Got stamped today. My experience -- may be helpful to somebody:
Got there by 7:50 -- got a little bit off-course driving, which cost us about 15 mins. Parking is easy to find.
Some people seem to be unable to learn on other\'s mistakes. Although I read here several times that on Wednesdays you need to go to the entrance on the back of the building (that is, at the side opposite to Broad Str), it didn\'t help. So, we went to the main entrance, found a big line there. This line passed quick, we entered, were put through security, went to the room 334 (as said on approval), only to find out that we need to go out and use other entrance. Though, it seems that a lot of the people were caught by the same stupid mistake. If we had figured out that we were at the wrong line, it probably would have saved us about an hour.
Ok, at the second entrance we were lined up by officer, who checked our letters, and people with I-485 approvals were let in, others were asked to step aside (and were let in later).
We were given envelopes to put passports, photos, EADs. Then we were security-screened again, and went to the small room on the first floor where they asked us to sign some form, and took our fingerprints. All that is real quick.
After that we were given numbers and asked to go to 10th floor to room 1022. A big room, crowded by the time we got there. Three officers by the counters. Took about two hours till our number was called (it was at the end of first hundred).
BTW, they use rotating numbers -- that is 301-399, and then again 301-399 and so on. The ranges are color-marked: we there in the first 100, so our numbers were not marked, then the next 100 had their numbers marked red, and so on. That produced some confusion, obviously (people from the second hundred go to counters when only first hundred were called).
Officer took our docs (I also gave her APs -- they didn\'t ask about them on the first floor). Asked about address change, stamped, told us that it will take from 6 to 12 months to get actual cards.
That\'s about it.
Got there by 7:50 -- got a little bit off-course driving, which cost us about 15 mins. Parking is easy to find.
Some people seem to be unable to learn on other\'s mistakes. Although I read here several times that on Wednesdays you need to go to the entrance on the back of the building (that is, at the side opposite to Broad Str), it didn\'t help. So, we went to the main entrance, found a big line there. This line passed quick, we entered, were put through security, went to the room 334 (as said on approval), only to find out that we need to go out and use other entrance. Though, it seems that a lot of the people were caught by the same stupid mistake. If we had figured out that we were at the wrong line, it probably would have saved us about an hour.
Ok, at the second entrance we were lined up by officer, who checked our letters, and people with I-485 approvals were let in, others were asked to step aside (and were let in later).
We were given envelopes to put passports, photos, EADs. Then we were security-screened again, and went to the small room on the first floor where they asked us to sign some form, and took our fingerprints. All that is real quick.
After that we were given numbers and asked to go to 10th floor to room 1022. A big room, crowded by the time we got there. Three officers by the counters. Took about two hours till our number was called (it was at the end of first hundred).
BTW, they use rotating numbers -- that is 301-399, and then again 301-399 and so on. The ranges are color-marked: we there in the first 100, so our numbers were not marked, then the next 100 had their numbers marked red, and so on. That produced some confusion, obviously (people from the second hundred go to counters when only first hundred were called).
Officer took our docs (I also gave her APs -- they didn\'t ask about them on the first floor). Asked about address change, stamped, told us that it will take from 6 to 12 months to get actual cards.
That\'s about it.