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FINALLY after f'in 6 mnths im APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! got da txt dis morning @ 915am saying my cases were updated n den da email saying dey sent out my approval notice n plus my I765 is in production!!!!!!!! i was crying n wat not...FINALLY GOD! FINALLY AFTER ALL MY TEARSSSSS N PAIN! GOD IS GOOD ALL DA TYME!! WHO EVER WAITING KEEP WAITING!! HE SOON WILL DELIVER FOR YOU <3 <3

App sent : sep-17 Bios: october-19 RFE: feb- 21 Approved: march- 7 Ive been waiting for over 6 months, after i received my RFE i was sad and depressed asking why me ? Ive been doing everything right. Well sometimes when things turn bad, we have to hold on tight. Sometimes we are going to struggle, but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. To all of those that are waiting, some of you might get disappointed but if we get a second chance lets make the most of it. If they knock you down, you get back up.

Thank you all, because i didnt know i just had a feeling last night and i check my case status and it says that they have approved my consideration for deffered action and the other says they ordered production of the card and allow them 30 days to be mailed.

WASHINGTON — Eight senators who have spent weeks trying to write a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration laws have privately agreed on the most contentious part of the draft — how to offer legal status to the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. According to aides familiar with the closed-door negotiations, the bill would require illegal immigrants to register with Homeland Security Department authorities, file federal income taxes for their time in America and pay a still-to-be-determined fine. They also must have a clean law enforcement record. Once granted probationary legal status, immigrants would be allowed to work but would be barred from receiving federal public benefits, including food stamps, family cash assistance, Medicaid and unemployment insurance. The group's current draft is largely in line with President Obama's call to set a pathway to earned citizenship as part of a broader immigration reform package, as well as with recent efforts by prominent Republican lawmakers to resolve an issue that hurt GOP candidates in November's election. Though the draft is a long way from becoming law, immigration advocates expressed guarded optimism about a possible breakthrough. "Nine months ago, people would have thought you were nuts to say that four Republicans and four Democrats were working on a way to legalize 11 million people," said Angela Kelley, an immigration expert at the Center for American Progress, a think tank with close ties to the White House. "It's a Rubik's Cube, but more sides are matching in color than ever before. That's significant." Still undecided is how long illegal immigrants would need to wait before they could apply for permanent resident status and eventually become citizens. The delay for a green card probably would be 10 years or longer, the aides said. Also unresolved are such politically charged topics as how many visas to issue to high-tech specialists and other guest workers; how to keep track of when visitors leave the country; and how to pay for more Border Patrol officers, fencing and other security measures in an era of shrinking budgets, the aides said. The eight senators met Tuesday and Wednesday, alternating between a private office in the Russell Senate Office Building and a marble-floored ceremonial room off the Senate chamber. The group had hoped to deliver a completed bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee for consideration before the Senate leaves for Easter recess on March 22. But aides said remaining issues required more technical advice and cost estimates that could delay delivery until early April. The group includes Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeff Flake of Arizona. The Democrats are Sens. Charles E. Schumer of New York, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado. The draft bill will be several hundred pages long when finished. For now, the unfinished pieces are peppered throughout the draft. "We're working through them. I'm not sure we'll get them all done," McCain said in an interview. "Some of these issues are very controversial." Business groups and Silicon Valley companies have pushed for more H1B visas for software engineers and other high-skilled employees, for example, while labor unions have warned that too many immigrants would undercut qualified Americans seeking high-tech jobs in a weak economy. Unless the group designs a visa program that ensures a robust labor force, Rubio told reporters, "What you're going to have is people coming into the country illegally or overstaying visas." Immigration overhaul bills floated in 2006 and 2007 were sunk by disagreements between labor and business leaders over how many workers to allow into the country. Some senators are skeptical that the current group can find a solution. "The country can absorb only so much low-skilled labor without significantly impacting the prospects of working Americans to get jobs and get higher pay," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a member of the judiciary panel who has been critical of previous efforts to expand the visa program. In an effort to resolve the issue, negotiators from the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have worked with Senate staffers to set a formula so the number of visas for both high-tech and low-skilled workers can fluctuate. They have agreed that the tally would move up or down based on job demand, unemployment rates and other data. "We're really trying to fill in the details," said Ana Avendano, an AFL-CIO negotiator. The two sides have agreed that a work visa need not be tied to a specific employer and that foreign workers would be allowed to change jobs. Unions want assurances that foreign workers have the same rights as Americans to report mistreatment to the Labor Department and to sue employers for unpaid wages. Unlike in the past, both business and organized labor want an immigration bill to pass, said Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 2 million workers. "No one wants to be responsible for deep-sixing the effort," Medina said. Negotiators also have hit a roadblock on whether the government should keep track of who is leaving the country and how to do so. Under current law, U.S. immigration authorities do not keep a record when tourists and other foreign visitors leave the country. So the government doesn't know whether they have overstayed their visas, as thousands do each year. The Senate group has tentatively agreed to create a system to check visas against an immigration database at international airports and seaports but have not determined whether it is feasible at much busier border crossings. The task is potentially huge: U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada are the most highly trafficked in the world, with 250 million crossings each year. Some lawmakers warn that checking visas as people leave the country would be expensive to implement, further clog busy border crossings and slow crucial commerce. Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Migration Policy Institute at New York University School of Law, said the real legislative battle over immigration would come after the bill was made public. "We haven't even begun to see the opposition to the bill," Chishti said. "Because there isn't meat on the bone." Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-hurdles-20130311,0,1484422,full.story

Haha No, Nebraska is the second fastest center after California. Vermont is the slowest one, extremely slow if you ask me.

Says Texas right under her photo. Lol. Like Jose said, you are still under the allowed time but since Karry was able to make a service request, you might as well do it IF only IF you feel like doing so. Just remember that your case is still under the allowed processing time. I don't think they will be transferring your case to another center since Vermont is sending cases to Nebraska. You are in the hands of the best center of all (at least I think so).

Omg we have the same timeline except that I had my bios dec 3 but I did a walkin nov 26 and I still haven't heard anything I made a service request I'm suppose to be getting the letter in the mail today you should do one too btw where are you from?

Hi there. Welcome to the forums. About your pending application, it is still under normal processing time. There are quite a few people still left who applied in September and even some who applied in August who are waiting for a Decision. There's nothing to worry about. They will get to your case eventually.

thnk u all!!! i appreciate it lotss!!!!!! n my bby n i are gnna b alryte 2getha! i hope its ah girl n yes i hope every1 else strt getting approved. we all deserve it!!

What was your RFE? And congratulations! !!

Congratulations!...bear hug. One question though, you were approved on Thursday, why are you 5 days late to tell us!

I know, I didn't even think about that. And if they sent the cases to Nebraska, you know that they didn't even open the damn file, except to take the money out. An this whole "UNDER REVIEW" thing on out statuses is probably bullshit, because it probably takes about 3-4 days to do a brackground check, and they just leave it like that for us to think they are actually doing something, when in reality, the file is just sitting there and no one will touch it until, maybe someone with good sense walks by and sees that the 6 months are almost up, or when we call to know about it. And of, course, that is when they don't know what to say because to acutally get up from their desk and go look for our cases is way too much work, and beyond their pay grade.

The funny thing is my case was also rerouted but it doesn't show up when I check my case status. Just got a letter in the mail. If Vermont knew they had such a huge work load or small staff, they should have rerouted a long time ago. I just hope our cases are not lined up behind other Nebraska cases. It wouldn't be fair to wait another 2-3 months.

I wonder why VT even is the busiest center because the western part of the country has had the majority of applicants, and that means applicantions went to Texas, Nevada and Cali. The VT are probably a smaller staff, that has got to be it. No way they have received such a huge amount like the other centers. Applications were apparently divided by region and matched up to a center closer to where the application came from. I just don't understand this lack of attention they have with all paperwork. Not processing it by date and not knowing what info to give applicants when they call this far into the process, it has been over 7 months, they should know what to tell people when they call, and this incessant request for RFE, people end up sending the exact same paperwork they sent to begin with, and then, like magic, things turn "okay", what the hell kind of service is that? I guess it is just not okay to say they "misplaced" your original documentation, it sounds "unprofessional". Well, just hope for the best I guess, I hope we are all not waiting much longer.

Congrats!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats. I hope everyone else gets approved soon!

Congratulations! Best of luck to you and your baby in the future

you can list your current job as a reference when you apply for a new job. not having matching SSNs wont matter because when a new or prospective employer calls a reference, they usually ask how long as the person worked there, what kind of employee they are, etc. nothing gets asked about SSNs. if you work for a company that has an HR department, then ask the HR department what needs to be done in order for you to change your SSN. this comes with some risk as well. if you lied about being able to legally work in the US and used a false SSN, then the company does have the right to terminate you due to the fact that you lied on your application. i'm not saying this to scare you but just to prepare you for what could happen. it's always good to have a plan B in case this happens. if your CNA license is through the state, like it is here in CA, i would call the state department that handles CNA licenses and ask how you go about changing your SSN on your license. they may ask why you need to do so and if you applied with a false SSN, then that could present a problem.

wow! Congrats! You deserve it

Congratulations.

Wow, I wonder if they play stupid on purpose or they have to go through training for that haha. That is ridiculous, why shoud you have to transfer your case yourself? They are almost over the 6 month period for waiting, they should do it themselves and speed it up, I mean, isn't that their job? You paid your fee for it to be processed. This is just absolutely insane, telling people to wait 6 months and leaving cases untouched on a desk. As much as I am happy for people that get approved quickly, I can't help but full on rage when I see that someone sent their case in 30 days ago, and got approved in 15 days. Of course, I am not mad at the applicant, but mad at the people at the facilities who are not smart enough to sort out applications by date. How hard is that? Seriously, I hate to say this, but sometimes I think people working for the government are morons on purpose because they need to be ignorant about what goes on in those places in order for the government to keep milking money, patience and time off people.