冗長 - EB1B曆時4年半
無聊兼乏味 －
無聊1: LG和我每人做了4次fingerprint.(我的第四次不知怎麽被自動mark上了。我並沒有收到過notice。星期一還在這兒問來著。）
無聊2: 140 補充材料：employment letter. 485補充材料: birth certificate and ID card （這些早就附在早先申請材料裏的。）
Timeline -
March 2003 - LG applied I140, EB1-B, and EB2 NIW
May 2004 - I-140 (EB1-B) approved
August 2004 - Both LG and me filed I-485
July 2005 - I-140 of NIW approved. No action taken from us。
Second half of 2006, we started to contact congressman and senator to help check our case. We were told that the FBI no longer took their request, nor they could push CIS. They did find out though that our case was stuck by LG's name check. My name check was cleared immediately.
Thanks to this forum, I got the information that we could try to write to the First Lady. So we did that in February of 2007.
End of April of 2007 - received the letter from FBI, stating LG's NC completed on 04/05/07. However, this was not updated in CIS system until the end of June.
July of 2007 - asked congressman's office to push CIS.
August of 2007 - CIS finally resumed our I-485 and requested additional info from LG (birth certificate and ID card)
10/1/07 - I called local InfoPass asking about my expecting 4th fingerprint, and was told somehow that was "done" in September (without me going there.)
Later LG called InfoPass and requested to check our case again. THANKS to that local InfoPass officer, she agreed to submit a request email to Nebraska Center.
10/3/07 - received CIS email saying production of card was ordered. Experts here confirmed that's the green card approval notice.
教訓 －
１）申請沒有抓緊時間。應該至少可以提前3個月申請。
２）沒有找到好律師。如果隻能自己找律師，建議大家找LOCAL的，方便溝通。
３）沒有file 140 & 485 concurrently
４) 沒有早點上此壇收集信息。我們一開始心態挺好，不就等時間嗎？至少有兩年半沒有采取任何行動。一直到同時file的朋友去年拿到綠卡，甚至發現很多人比我們晚申請都拿到綠卡時才開始急。到此壇來一看，原來我們早屬於可以去WOM了。但看了大家討論WOM不怎麽有用了，決定試試寫信給第一夫人。慶幸這封信起作用了！
５）太相信CIS。我們每次的new request， 都老老實實地等到CIS規定時間pass. 本來這次也要等到10月底再去詢問。好在星期一問了，沒想到星期三就批了。
希望大家好運！
無聊兼乏味 －
無聊1: LG和我每人做了4次fingerprint.(我的第四次不知怎麽被自動mark上了。我並沒有收到過notice。星期一還在這兒問來著。）
無聊2: 140 補充材料：employment letter. 485補充材料: birth certificate and ID card （這些早就附在早先申請材料裏的。）
Timeline -
March 2003 - LG applied I140, EB1-B, and EB2 NIW
May 2004 - I-140 (EB1-B) approved
August 2004 - Both LG and me filed I-485
July 2005 - I-140 of NIW approved. No action taken from us。
Second half of 2006, we started to contact congressman and senator to help check our case. We were told that the FBI no longer took their request, nor they could push CIS. They did find out though that our case was stuck by LG's name check. My name check was cleared immediately.
Thanks to this forum, I got the information that we could try to write to the First Lady. So we did that in February of 2007.
End of April of 2007 - received the letter from FBI, stating LG's NC completed on 04/05/07. However, this was not updated in CIS system until the end of June.
July of 2007 - asked congressman's office to push CIS.
August of 2007 - CIS finally resumed our I-485 and requested additional info from LG (birth certificate and ID card)
10/1/07 - I called local InfoPass asking about my expecting 4th fingerprint, and was told somehow that was "done" in September (without me going there.)
Later LG called InfoPass and requested to check our case again. THANKS to that local InfoPass officer, she agreed to submit a request email to Nebraska Center.
10/3/07 - received CIS email saying production of card was ordered. Experts here confirmed that's the green card approval notice.
教訓 －
１）申請沒有抓緊時間。應該至少可以提前3個月申請。
２）沒有找到好律師。如果隻能自己找律師，建議大家找LOCAL的，方便溝通。
３）沒有file 140 & 485 concurrently
４) 沒有早點上此壇收集信息。我們一開始心態挺好，不就等時間嗎？至少有兩年半沒有采取任何行動。一直到同時file的朋友去年拿到綠卡，甚至發現很多人比我們晚申請都拿到綠卡時才開始急。到此壇來一看，原來我們早屬於可以去WOM了。但看了大家討論WOM不怎麽有用了，決定試試寫信給第一夫人。慶幸這封信起作用了！
５）太相信CIS。我們每次的new request， 都老老實實地等到CIS規定時間pass. 本來這次也要等到10月底再去詢問。好在星期一問了，沒想到星期三就批了。
希望大家好運！
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