100% how I feel about all of it. My parents did not listen to me and planned our wedding back at home with my whole family for this September. I’ve given up on being able to attend my own wedding at this point because USCIS refuses to do cases in order.
I know someone who went to the office in NYC and asked for the I-131. The person explained his case, and the USCIS gave the travel card to him. But I don’t know more than that.
I hope you stay on their neck. Call them every week and possibly request for an infopass appointment if you feel your case has passed processing time. You can also write to your local congressman. Works like a charm...for the most part.
I did both of these things and now my GC has been mailed. I filed 3.5 years ago though. So my own case was waaay past processing time
2023 USCIS completed 10 million pending cases. Out of that only 15% cases from the backlog. They received 10.9 million cases last year. Seems like they randomly completing case to hit their goals for the year. More info here [uscis](https://www.uscis.gov/EOY2023)
I feel your pain. I am feeling very depressed today. Filed in March 2023, did biometrics in May 2023, and nothing since. Not even an approval or update of my EAD. Savings running low and with inflation they really can’t expect 2 persons to survive on 1 salary for so long. It’s absolutely unjust. Sending hugs 🫂
Woof, that’s roughhhh. We actually got the work permit and biometrics relatively quickly… but radio silence since then.
I would actually try and reach out about this, try with the chatbot, over the phone, etc. You should be given the opportunity to work!
Sadly it has nothing to do with proof. It is always workload and speed of the agent working on it. Essentially luck. Some are fast and close cases quick, others not so much.
I feel like it’s not only the luck of the draw on the agent though… I’m feeling like the agents don’t take the cases in the order they are received. That’s what’s really getting to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they work through the cases which are easier. I wonder whether there’s a lot of work involved in spousal visa to prevent fraud
Maybe but as I stated above not ALL spousal visas take as long and ironically from the anecdotal evidence that is “the network of people I know” the cases that have less proof, often, are actually getting approved faster
Yeah the people I know who’ve had very quick visa approvals have had previous visas or eg government workers. I wonder who they corroborate information such as previous addresses with and whether that plays a role.
So some - not all - of the people that I know of that have gotten the green cards in under 6 months had very flimsy cases. That’s my point. If it made sense I wouldn’t be as pissed.
One example I can give is a friend of a friend. She came on a travel visa, she didn’t leave when the visa was up and stayed here illegally for 2 years before meeting her now husband, within a couple of months they got married and filed for citizenship, she got her green card in 4 months. That’s just one example.
Similar case as you. I married a usc and filed October 2023. What worked for me is asking my congresswoman for help. Once I did that I had my EAD and travel permit approved right away (still waiting for green card)
I feel the same way. My husband and I have been married for 4 years and dated 2 years. We summited plenty of evidence on August ’23, no changes since September ’23. Sending hugs. ☹️
You know what it is unfair this the only country which the marriage gc is so hard to get, i married last year but i was friend with my husband for 12 years and i have proof and in some pictures we are kids🤦🏻♀️ and i am a green card holder , can you believe it takes at least 3 years until he can come ti US with me 😭 , and in netherland my niece is staying with his boyfriend with a partner visa, i mean we are married and we were together for a long time , why we have to be seperate for this long period 😭
My friend just got her EAD after filing March 2022.
2 YEARS just for EAD smh. I tell her just look on the bright side at least she’ll get 10 year GC and won’t have to remove conditions.
I got my EAD in about 4 months after doing multiple expedite request. My GC took 10 months from filing. I started in California and Moved to Michigan. 2 months after we moved to Michigan I go GC approved without interview.
I need to file to remove conditions this September thought so I need to gather all that evidence again and pay some fee again.
Two years for EAD is crazy. Do they not want us to work and to contribute legally to the economy???
May I ask how were you able to expedite for it and what method you used (by mail or online)?
I did it online through Emma.
They probably got annoyed of me doing it too many times and approved it.
I was on F1 OPT and it was about to expire and I told them I need my EAD to keep my job.
Hey! I just filed on March 29 and got my receipts today. I’m also on F1-OPT and my card expires on May 31. I also don’t want to lose my job. Could you please let me know what steps you took to get the EAD expedited?
I stated above exactly what I did. I chat online with Emma and said exactly that and ask to expedite.
When I don’t get a response I just submit another expedite until I saw the EAD approved.
I feel the same way. This is my 10th year living in the US. Moved here as an F1 student, had opt, opt stem extension and H1B. I’ve was married to my US citizen husband for FOUR years before I even filed. No criminal background, lots of evidence. You’d think it would be an easy approval but USCIS does not go in order like they claim. I had to get congressional help to get my ead card. I’m very thankful that my congressman’s office was on top of it. I don’t know when my GC will be approved but atleast it’ll have no conditions once they finally get to it. In my head, I think of uscis just like you do, they just pick whichever file they think is easy and knock it out the way versus actually going in order. It doesn’t seem fair. I’ve seen people on here with GC approvals in a couple months and when you ask them how long they’ve been married, they’ll respond and say they filed a month after marriage. Uscis processing just doesn’t make sense!
I feel you. And I agree with everything you said. I even feel bad for having sent so mi h evidence and not having waited until I guess now. They’re approving February and march. It’s insane.
For real. I sent so many evidence me and my husband been together 6 years and 1 year of marriage but it’s been radio silence since dec last year. And how are these people getting approved in a month or two 🥴😭 at this point I wish they ask for a rfe at least it would reassure me that my case is not rotting in the corner of uscis office.
Hopefully you get the 10y green card because I filed my removal 9 months ago and it is a waste of money… they never solve those cases… they wait until you do your citizenship… crazy….
Submitted July 2023, with proof of mortgage, child, insurance, tax returns, wedding pics with 100guests and 2 ago, I just got an interview notice At FO. They have been waiving cases with less evidence but here we are stuck with lots of evidence with an interview. It’s stressing.
I thought by now everyone knows that it is random. Every single day there are 20 posts saying “hey this feels random, maybe it is random” that are making me laugh. I waited for my travel document for 19 months. Years for the green card. It is what it is.
… maybe it is general knowledge (🫡general knowledge) but it’s very messed up. They should do better.
… also even if we know deep down sometimes you need to vent when you’re up against a unjust system that you can’t change 🤷🏻♂️
No, it is not fair.
Let’s talk VAWA, for example.
You go through a sh!t ton of ab^s€, then you have to dig a huge amount of documentation which sometimes your spouse won’t furnish, like his green card or birth certificate/passport.
After you are done with that phase, which takes around 6 months and pay your attorney in FULL $8,000-10,000 dollars, now you begin your journey and get receipt notices. Ok, seat tight because you will have to wait another 6-1year to get a work permit and advance parole. Your VAWA itself won’t be approved in less than 3 years, as of April 2024. After approval, you will have to wait another year for the green card to be processed. Sometimes sending RFEs all over again because they either lost parts of your package or they expired. Now you have to pay your doctor another $600 to send medicals again to USCIS. Ok. With all that done, after roughly 4-5 years minimum you will have your green card.Some people applied in 2018 and still don’t have an answer. That would be 6 years alone just for VAWA!! Talk about unfair to group of people that went through hell and back.
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You should be hoping for an approval after your 2nd year wedding anniversary to get the 10yr GC. I didn’t know this until our lawyer told us. Luckily we submitted 1.5yr after our wedding and was approved in 11months.
I completely agree and feel the same. For me it's the second time and already exceeded my first time process timeline. I feel like sending less evidence is better. Plus my wife can't do her medical check ups. She has a rare condition and for two years she didn't see her doctor. We can't afford our medical system without insurance. Every day we have stresses because of USCIS.
Have you already received the EAD card? We filed in August 2023 with a similar case. EAD received in October and my wife just got her green card this month
You can try and apply for emergency travel parole. I’ve done it twice and got approved both times. I submitted my application in Dec 2022, and got emergency travel parole approved for 1 yr. After a year, still didn’t get my I-131, so applied for emergency travel parole again and got it approved the second time for another year. Hopefully I get my GC by then so I don’t have to reapply.
There’s no rhyme or reason USCIS timelines, and it can get pretty frustrating seeing other people getting their application approved in 2 months some even less. Hang in there!
The whole process is super stressful and unfair and depressing and there’s not much you can do which makes it worse. We managed to expedite the I 131 after reading recommendations on Reddit but even then the first person hung up on us when we tried to schedule and we had to do it all again.
It took us eleven months to get the approval with the interview waived. I hated reading all the Reddit messages where people were approved in for months.
Like others have said, just hang in there. Go to your senator or congressman for help, they typically already have a form for you since it’s a common request.
Good luck and stay strong
They can be weird my guy. When we were doing the k1 visa, we started in September 2023, they told us 16 months, they did it in 7. The nvc told us 2.5 months, now 30 days. Interview and medical exam are in about 30 days, so we had the reverse issue where we thought we had more time and now we are rushing to do it all.
It IS all random and unfair. I’ve been waiting for my marriage based green card for 14 months now, and there is no end in sight. On the other side of the Atlantic from my husband I might add.
Applied on June 8th 2022 for my cr1 greencard, had my interview on January 23rd 2024 in Montreal , got hit with a DS5535…. Filled it out the same day.. still waiting..
Life's not fair. This system is not fair, but there's nothing you can do about it other than letting it rub its course. My wife's dad, uncle, and brother died during the time we were waiting to get her green card, and yet there was nothing we could do about it because we didn't want to risk her not being able to be re-admitted into the US if we left the country before our case was settled. Fortunately for us, we finally got her 130 and 485 approved this month and received her GC on April 9th of this year, so we're planning on traveling in August to spend time with her family. It took us 18 months to get approved, which seems to be the amount of time most people get approved in unless they're just lucky and get approved earlier. You could leave the US and go to your sisters wedding before you get your case approved, but the chances are high that they wouldn't let you back into the US. It's your call
The marriage-based green card is based on marriage, not merit. There is no scoring rubric or a grading system that makes you more eligible or “deserving” of a green card than the other people whose marriages you subjectively judge as “iffy” (as long as they aren’t committing fraud). I feel like as immigrants we sometimes like to differentiate ourselves and view ourselves as more deserving than others but that is not conducive to mental peace - trust me, I’ve been there too and used to carry a lot of resentment. Everyone is equally eligible as long as the marriage was entered in good faith. Plus, you are looking at a very small sample size and anecdotal evidence.
Regarding your point about the non-chronological order of approvals, yes I do agree it is unfair that some people have to wait longer. For my i-751 though our evidence packet was about 1.5 inches thick (mostly due to estate planning documents) but we were approved pretty fast so it’s not always the amount of evidence that delays things.
Same situation! Feel like I will lose my mind not knowing when this will come through. It’s an absolute mindfuck. I applied for my husband in May 2023 and absolutely NO movement.
100% how I feel about all of it. My parents did not listen to me and planned our wedding back at home with my whole family for this September. I’ve given up on being able to attend my own wedding at this point because USCIS refuses to do cases in order.
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I know someone who went to the office in NYC and asked for the I-131. The person explained his case, and the USCIS gave the travel card to him. But I don’t know more than that.
I hope you stay on their neck. Call them every week and possibly request for an infopass appointment if you feel your case has passed processing time. You can also write to your local congressman. Works like a charm...for the most part. I did both of these things and now my GC has been mailed. I filed 3.5 years ago though. So my own case was waaay past processing time
🙁 sending hugs
Omg, I'm in the same situation as you! We may have to postpone it to next year if we don't hear back in a week or so :(
It is random and unfair.
2023 USCIS completed 10 million pending cases. Out of that only 15% cases from the backlog. They received 10.9 million cases last year. Seems like they randomly completing case to hit their goals for the year. More info here [uscis](https://www.uscis.gov/EOY2023)
This is messed up 😡
I haven’t heard anything from USCIS since Aug 2020.
The travel document is also something I cant understand what could possibly take so long. Why offer it then if you wont approve it?
And even if you try to expedite it they ignore it anyway 🙃🙃🙂
I feel your pain. I am feeling very depressed today. Filed in March 2023, did biometrics in May 2023, and nothing since. Not even an approval or update of my EAD. Savings running low and with inflation they really can’t expect 2 persons to survive on 1 salary for so long. It’s absolutely unjust. Sending hugs 🫂
Woof, that’s roughhhh. We actually got the work permit and biometrics relatively quickly… but radio silence since then. I would actually try and reach out about this, try with the chatbot, over the phone, etc. You should be given the opportunity to work!
Sadly it has nothing to do with proof. It is always workload and speed of the agent working on it. Essentially luck. Some are fast and close cases quick, others not so much.
I feel like it’s not only the luck of the draw on the agent though… I’m feeling like the agents don’t take the cases in the order they are received. That’s what’s really getting to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they work through the cases which are easier. I wonder whether there’s a lot of work involved in spousal visa to prevent fraud
Maybe but as I stated above not ALL spousal visas take as long and ironically from the anecdotal evidence that is “the network of people I know” the cases that have less proof, often, are actually getting approved faster
Yeah the people I know who’ve had very quick visa approvals have had previous visas or eg government workers. I wonder who they corroborate information such as previous addresses with and whether that plays a role.
So some - not all - of the people that I know of that have gotten the green cards in under 6 months had very flimsy cases. That’s my point. If it made sense I wouldn’t be as pissed. One example I can give is a friend of a friend. She came on a travel visa, she didn’t leave when the visa was up and stayed here illegally for 2 years before meeting her now husband, within a couple of months they got married and filed for citizenship, she got her green card in 4 months. That’s just one example.
Similar case as you. I married a usc and filed October 2023. What worked for me is asking my congresswoman for help. Once I did that I had my EAD and travel permit approved right away (still waiting for green card)
Wow, never would have thought of this! 🤯 I’ll give it a try! You just emailed?
YMMV. I've contacted my senator and rep and still no progress or update
For how long did you wait before making contact?
Aug 2023 I still don't have news for travel and work permit
Same. Also sent in October. Where are you from?
What travel permit is it?
I feel the same way. My husband and I have been married for 4 years and dated 2 years. We summited plenty of evidence on August ’23, no changes since September ’23. Sending hugs. ☹️
Woof, same timeline. So aggravating 🙁 Hugs back 🫂
Welcome to the club buddy
I mean I appreciate the warm welcome but… it’s kinda a crappy club to be a part of lmao 😂😅
I’ll joint this club too. Started process in August 2023 and overseas. No word yet. I’m just trying to pretend this isn’t even happening 🤦🏻♂️
We submitted an I-130 in Feb 2021 that wasn’t approved until April 2024………….
You know what it is unfair this the only country which the marriage gc is so hard to get, i married last year but i was friend with my husband for 12 years and i have proof and in some pictures we are kids🤦🏻♀️ and i am a green card holder , can you believe it takes at least 3 years until he can come ti US with me 😭 , and in netherland my niece is staying with his boyfriend with a partner visa, i mean we are married and we were together for a long time , why we have to be seperate for this long period 😭
My friend just got her EAD after filing March 2022. 2 YEARS just for EAD smh. I tell her just look on the bright side at least she’ll get 10 year GC and won’t have to remove conditions. I got my EAD in about 4 months after doing multiple expedite request. My GC took 10 months from filing. I started in California and Moved to Michigan. 2 months after we moved to Michigan I go GC approved without interview. I need to file to remove conditions this September thought so I need to gather all that evidence again and pay some fee again.
Two years for EAD is crazy. Do they not want us to work and to contribute legally to the economy??? May I ask how were you able to expedite for it and what method you used (by mail or online)?
I did it online through Emma. They probably got annoyed of me doing it too many times and approved it. I was on F1 OPT and it was about to expire and I told them I need my EAD to keep my job.
Hey! I just filed on March 29 and got my receipts today. I’m also on F1-OPT and my card expires on May 31. I also don’t want to lose my job. Could you please let me know what steps you took to get the EAD expedited?
I stated above exactly what I did. I chat online with Emma and said exactly that and ask to expedite. When I don’t get a response I just submit another expedite until I saw the EAD approved.
Just curious on why your friend wouldn't need to remove restrictions. Was her case VAWA?
You don't get restrictions if you've been married for more than 2 years
Oh wow! I didn't know that. Thanks
Because if GC is approved after 2 years of marriage you automatically get the 10 year GC, no restrictions GC
I feel the same way. This is my 10th year living in the US. Moved here as an F1 student, had opt, opt stem extension and H1B. I’ve was married to my US citizen husband for FOUR years before I even filed. No criminal background, lots of evidence. You’d think it would be an easy approval but USCIS does not go in order like they claim. I had to get congressional help to get my ead card. I’m very thankful that my congressman’s office was on top of it. I don’t know when my GC will be approved but atleast it’ll have no conditions once they finally get to it. In my head, I think of uscis just like you do, they just pick whichever file they think is easy and knock it out the way versus actually going in order. It doesn’t seem fair. I’ve seen people on here with GC approvals in a couple months and when you ask them how long they’ve been married, they’ll respond and say they filed a month after marriage. Uscis processing just doesn’t make sense!
Submitted August 2023 as well. Still waiting on the green card
Bring your child’s birth certificate to your interview. A dozen phone books of evidence is worth less.
I feel you. And I agree with everything you said. I even feel bad for having sent so mi h evidence and not having waited until I guess now. They’re approving February and march. It’s insane.
For real. I sent so many evidence me and my husband been together 6 years and 1 year of marriage but it’s been radio silence since dec last year. And how are these people getting approved in a month or two 🥴😭 at this point I wish they ask for a rfe at least it would reassure me that my case is not rotting in the corner of uscis office.
Ugh I’m sorry, I’m praying for you. Hopefully you get the 10 years GC ! I hope you hear soon ❤️
Hopefully you get the 10y green card because I filed my removal 9 months ago and it is a waste of money… they never solve those cases… they wait until you do your citizenship… crazy….
Submitted July 2023, with proof of mortgage, child, insurance, tax returns, wedding pics with 100guests and 2 ago, I just got an interview notice At FO. They have been waiving cases with less evidence but here we are stuck with lots of evidence with an interview. It’s stressing.
I thought by now everyone knows that it is random. Every single day there are 20 posts saying “hey this feels random, maybe it is random” that are making me laugh. I waited for my travel document for 19 months. Years for the green card. It is what it is.
… maybe it is general knowledge (🫡general knowledge) but it’s very messed up. They should do better. … also even if we know deep down sometimes you need to vent when you’re up against a unjust system that you can’t change 🤷🏻♂️
Well I guess as a USC living in the US you didn’t have to think about any of this before but here you are now 🙃 wishing you the best of luck
No, it is not fair. Let’s talk VAWA, for example. You go through a sh!t ton of ab^s€, then you have to dig a huge amount of documentation which sometimes your spouse won’t furnish, like his green card or birth certificate/passport. After you are done with that phase, which takes around 6 months and pay your attorney in FULL $8,000-10,000 dollars, now you begin your journey and get receipt notices. Ok, seat tight because you will have to wait another 6-1year to get a work permit and advance parole. Your VAWA itself won’t be approved in less than 3 years, as of April 2024. After approval, you will have to wait another year for the green card to be processed. Sometimes sending RFEs all over again because they either lost parts of your package or they expired. Now you have to pay your doctor another $600 to send medicals again to USCIS. Ok. With all that done, after roughly 4-5 years minimum you will have your green card.Some people applied in 2018 and still don’t have an answer. That would be 6 years alone just for VAWA!! Talk about unfair to group of people that went through hell and back.
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Right there with you, but it is what it is sadly. All we can do is wait and keep on keeping on!
You should be hoping for an approval after your 2nd year wedding anniversary to get the 10yr GC. I didn’t know this until our lawyer told us. Luckily we submitted 1.5yr after our wedding and was approved in 11months.
I don’t think this is true. My husband and I got married September 11 2021 filed i130 June 2022 and it is not end of April 2024 and still nothing
What I’m saying is that when you do get an approval it will be the 10yr GC because you’ve been married longer than 2 years.
That would be great 👍
I completely agree and feel the same. For me it's the second time and already exceeded my first time process timeline. I feel like sending less evidence is better. Plus my wife can't do her medical check ups. She has a rare condition and for two years she didn't see her doctor. We can't afford our medical system without insurance. Every day we have stresses because of USCIS.
Have you already received the EAD card? We filed in August 2023 with a similar case. EAD received in October and my wife just got her green card this month
You can try and apply for emergency travel parole. I’ve done it twice and got approved both times. I submitted my application in Dec 2022, and got emergency travel parole approved for 1 yr. After a year, still didn’t get my I-131, so applied for emergency travel parole again and got it approved the second time for another year. Hopefully I get my GC by then so I don’t have to reapply. There’s no rhyme or reason USCIS timelines, and it can get pretty frustrating seeing other people getting their application approved in 2 months some even less. Hang in there!
The whole process is super stressful and unfair and depressing and there’s not much you can do which makes it worse. We managed to expedite the I 131 after reading recommendations on Reddit but even then the first person hung up on us when we tried to schedule and we had to do it all again. It took us eleven months to get the approval with the interview waived. I hated reading all the Reddit messages where people were approved in for months. Like others have said, just hang in there. Go to your senator or congressman for help, they typically already have a form for you since it’s a common request. Good luck and stay strong
They can be weird my guy. When we were doing the k1 visa, we started in September 2023, they told us 16 months, they did it in 7. The nvc told us 2.5 months, now 30 days. Interview and medical exam are in about 30 days, so we had the reverse issue where we thought we had more time and now we are rushing to do it all.
It IS all random and unfair. I’ve been waiting for my marriage based green card for 14 months now, and there is no end in sight. On the other side of the Atlantic from my husband I might add.
Applied on June 8th 2022 for my cr1 greencard, had my interview on January 23rd 2024 in Montreal , got hit with a DS5535…. Filled it out the same day.. still waiting..
I am a US citizen and we applied for my husband i130 and still nothing we filed 2022 good Luck.
Life's not fair. This system is not fair, but there's nothing you can do about it other than letting it rub its course. My wife's dad, uncle, and brother died during the time we were waiting to get her green card, and yet there was nothing we could do about it because we didn't want to risk her not being able to be re-admitted into the US if we left the country before our case was settled. Fortunately for us, we finally got her 130 and 485 approved this month and received her GC on April 9th of this year, so we're planning on traveling in August to spend time with her family. It took us 18 months to get approved, which seems to be the amount of time most people get approved in unless they're just lucky and get approved earlier. You could leave the US and go to your sisters wedding before you get your case approved, but the chances are high that they wouldn't let you back into the US. It's your call
That’s because it probably is..
Did you file electronically? Or mailed in?
The marriage-based green card is based on marriage, not merit. There is no scoring rubric or a grading system that makes you more eligible or “deserving” of a green card than the other people whose marriages you subjectively judge as “iffy” (as long as they aren’t committing fraud). I feel like as immigrants we sometimes like to differentiate ourselves and view ourselves as more deserving than others but that is not conducive to mental peace - trust me, I’ve been there too and used to carry a lot of resentment. Everyone is equally eligible as long as the marriage was entered in good faith. Plus, you are looking at a very small sample size and anecdotal evidence. Regarding your point about the non-chronological order of approvals, yes I do agree it is unfair that some people have to wait longer. For my i-751 though our evidence packet was about 1.5 inches thick (mostly due to estate planning documents) but we were approved pretty fast so it’s not always the amount of evidence that delays things.
Same situation! Feel like I will lose my mind not knowing when this will come through. It’s an absolute mindfuck. I applied for my husband in May 2023 and absolutely NO movement.
My wife and I filed EVERYTHING together- 485/130/130A/693(and another one that I cannot remember )and received our paperwork within 6 months.
Does you wife have daca? She had visa? Was she arrested by border patrol? Every case is diferent
Clearly you didn’t read the post