Hello, guys! I posted our approvals in the April thread yesterday, but edited down only to details.
However, I still wanted to keep this larger message on a separate thread to thank everybody on this forum, especially to those who worked hard to make immigration backlogs a problem visible by the general public and therefore have things moving.
I didn't want to check my case yesterday, but after reading the thread yesterday I said "what the hack." I checked the primary's wac nr. eight times and I still thought I was dreaming!
It's been a long road, but now it doesn't look that bad anymore. We were really lucky and thank God for that. Last year was terrible becaue primary's company didn't do well at all and we had almost made peace with going back home. Since we started the GC process company was bought out three times.
Once again I am greateful to the people on this forum who helped us with information. You are doing a tremendous job with the campaigns. I am convinced our approvals today are a large percent due to your work. I am positive the public exposure the immigration problem got with the LA Times article and others triggered more attention from the USCIS.
I hope all of you will have the same surprise one of these days, because I remember how I felt when people would post their approvals here.
Good Luck to everybody!
Bic
P.S. hopefully the online message is accurate. What's next? Approval letter, stamp in passport and then??? How long it takes until we can go out of the country? Can we leave once we have the passport stamp or we have to wait for the actual cards? When will we get the actual cards???
Thx.
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wac03-086-5XXX - primary and wac03-097-5XXXX - dependent. Both our cases were approved on April 23rd.
Primary's story:
LC EB2 - 05/16/2001. Approved sometime in 11/2002
Concurrent I-140/I-485: RD - 01/21/2003
ND - 01/ 22/2003
RFE for I-140 - 03/2003, replied 06/09/2003. Company taxes. Company hadn't filed them by that time but submitted drafts.
EAD - 07/2/ 2003
AP - the same. - lost by company
2nd AP - don't remember when it was filed, somewhere in Dec.-Jan. 2003 - Approved 02/03/2004
FP - 05/22/2003
I485 - AP - 04/23/2004, per online. (I hope they are not wrong.)
No RFE for 485.
Dependent's story:
Concurrent I-140/I-485 - RD 02/05/2003; ND - 04/03/2003
iEAD from San Jose - 06/26/2003
EAD approved - 12/08/2003
AP approved - 10/20/2003
FP - 05/23/2003
However, I still wanted to keep this larger message on a separate thread to thank everybody on this forum, especially to those who worked hard to make immigration backlogs a problem visible by the general public and therefore have things moving.
I didn't want to check my case yesterday, but after reading the thread yesterday I said "what the hack." I checked the primary's wac nr. eight times and I still thought I was dreaming!
It's been a long road, but now it doesn't look that bad anymore. We were really lucky and thank God for that. Last year was terrible becaue primary's company didn't do well at all and we had almost made peace with going back home. Since we started the GC process company was bought out three times.
Once again I am greateful to the people on this forum who helped us with information. You are doing a tremendous job with the campaigns. I am convinced our approvals today are a large percent due to your work. I am positive the public exposure the immigration problem got with the LA Times article and others triggered more attention from the USCIS.
I hope all of you will have the same surprise one of these days, because I remember how I felt when people would post their approvals here.
Good Luck to everybody!
Bic
P.S. hopefully the online message is accurate. What's next? Approval letter, stamp in passport and then??? How long it takes until we can go out of the country? Can we leave once we have the passport stamp or we have to wait for the actual cards? When will we get the actual cards???
Thx.
________________________________________
wac03-086-5XXX - primary and wac03-097-5XXXX - dependent. Both our cases were approved on April 23rd.
Primary's story:
LC EB2 - 05/16/2001. Approved sometime in 11/2002
Concurrent I-140/I-485: RD - 01/21/2003
ND - 01/ 22/2003
RFE for I-140 - 03/2003, replied 06/09/2003. Company taxes. Company hadn't filed them by that time but submitted drafts.
EAD - 07/2/ 2003
AP - the same. - lost by company
2nd AP - don't remember when it was filed, somewhere in Dec.-Jan. 2003 - Approved 02/03/2004
FP - 05/22/2003
I485 - AP - 04/23/2004, per online. (I hope they are not wrong.)
No RFE for 485.
Dependent's story:
Concurrent I-140/I-485 - RD 02/05/2003; ND - 04/03/2003
iEAD from San Jose - 06/26/2003
EAD approved - 12/08/2003
AP approved - 10/20/2003
FP - 05/23/2003
