Be Proactive..
I still cant beleive my process is close to done. I finally have a temporary green card in hand for myself, but I cant beleive it is all over. I have been to my local office during lunch time (since it is 10 minutes walk from office) almost every 6-7 times since March 1st, when my priority date became current.
My FP had expired, so when we went for the first time on March 3rd, we were told to get re-fingerprinted. We got the our FPs done the same day, as the support center toget the FP done was close to the local INS office. Waited for couple of weeks. Since we did not receive any replies, made an appointment again and went back around March 3rd week. This time officer did not go into much details, only said, they probably have received the finderprints and the files are waiting in Adjucation officer's bucket.
Waited for another couple of weeks. No replies, no notices. I took another appointment and went back to check the status. This time I met with more senior officer, but not very helpful. I was told that your case is not current. When I mentioned my PD is NOV-2000 and it is current since last couple of months, and does she need any proof? Based on that, she mentioned that the office did not have time to look into individual cases and I will have to wait. I was told there is no process to expedite my case.
Confused on the answers given by the IIO, i took another appointment and went back in another week, this time with all the papers, visa bulletins, my LC approval notice, LC application, I140 approval notice with PD dates, local office processing dates (they were processing I485 filed in 2005, mine was
applied in aug-2003). This time I met a very helpful officer, who kept mentioning that everthing is in order and our applications are just waiting to be approved. Based on some persistence, she gave us a form to expedite our process. I provided all explaination (PD current, 485 applicaition way before of their processing date) and all relevant proof that needed, visa bulletins, etc etc .
I also asked my attorney to send a mail describing my position (PD current, 485 applicaition way before of their processing date). INS responded back to my attorney's letter on May 1st, saying that application was approved
on April 24th.
Since it had been a week and I did not receive any written approval notice, I went there to get a copy of that. I did not beleive the officer spent close to 1/2 hr searching for my file, but could not find it. The Officer came back and mentioned that the file has already gone to Nebraska for physical card processing, so she could not provide a written notice. She double checked that my case has been approved and offered to provide a temporary Green card. I went out got some passport photgraphs and got a temporary green card in hand. It looks like the I94 document, with GC stamp on top
of it. I dont know how many people here have received anything similar.
Had applied 3 EADs and 2 APs in all.
Rest in the signature..