kimaful

Call them and do not let them boss you around, try to get the most information out of them. I'm really sorry you've been waiting this long, check some have claimed similar cases to yours and USCIS makes them pay and apply again. Hopefully that is not your case, good luck!

Look for scholarships, go around in your community and ask if they have any scholarships or if they know of anything. You can also get a job, do work-study, get a loan and work on paying it once you're done with your career, etc.

How I am thinking about this is, I am willing to wait until January to get an answer and if by then nothing happens I'll call and see what's up. At the same time, I kind of want to call and ask around now because what if I just never got notified about evidence, been approved, denied, or whatever and it just screws me over. I'm really conflicted, should I call now or wait until its been exactly 6 months and then call?

You have no clue how much I needed to read this! And to see I am not the only one with a hard-working mindset! From the first time I understood what I was and its limitations, it just pushed me down. All through high school, I would get jealous to see all my friends apply at colleges, scholarships, jobs, etc. and here I was more than capable to give it my best but without the right means to do so. No SSN to apply and do something productive, even volunteering for stuff I needed a SSN and it just felt like everything I ever dreamed of was going to stay a dream. Fortunately I found my way in college and started studying History, I want to be a teacher, half-ways through I start feeling down again. I'm thinking "whats the point? when I finish I have to take a certification test and I need to be a U.S. resident/citizen to take the test (this was a Texas school)." I just felt horrible, so much I quit school. I had lost the hopes of finishing school, my parents weren't that supportive that I would get the DACA so they did not even help me try. Luckily, I met my boyfriend and he has been very supportive we moved out here to California, he helped me gather the money and apply, I am currently waiting for an answer, looking for a under the table job, getting an AB60 DL, and trying to get back in school. However, hearing how someone like us was, and is, successful brings me a lot of joy and hope that I, too, will be somebody. Thank you so much!

I am in Fontana as well and there is a lawyer firm out on Sierra, I think, that can give you free advice in person if you present to them your case. I am currently waiting (already took biometrics) for an answer for DACA but I too was in and out of the states, me it was due to asthma/health problems, since my parents live in Mexico and they have free healthcare over there it was my best option at getting help and not dying from an asthma attack. What she said is true, as long as your exits do not exceed 90 days, the lawyer i went to said that of your leaves were more than 90 days but they were not your choice (mom or dad made you go with them to mexico) then you can argue your case and you can win and get approved.

Okay so I started my whole process in July out here in California and it seems to be going by extremely slow. I already did my biometrics in august but that is the last I've seen or heard anything from USCIS or anything. When I check online on my cases it just says my cases have been received and they are being reviewed, should I be worried that I am not getting anything? Or am I just being impatient? BTW this is my first time processing this