Permanent Resident after 23 years.... :) - Page 3

Congrats! Even tho I have a GC, I do remember THAT notification when I woke up on my phone that I was approved. I could not believe it, I thought it was a dream! Even to this day I cannot believe it since I got it in 2019. I am now waiting to apply for USC in November.

Go celebrate!

Interview waived? You are kidding me? Only in certain circumstances it is waived. Why was your not done? You did AOS through Marriage so what is this sponsor waiver about?

Most are getting waived nowadays

Nice.

My guess they realized during the pandemic that interviewing all the marriage cases is just Kabuki theater.

My interview was waived back in 2020. Initially it was scheduled for March 2020 but Covid happened and my interview was canceled. Then they sent me an RFE in July 2020, I responded by sept 2020 and I got my GC in October 2020.

Yup, there's an entire thread on Reddit where ppl were getting their green cards through marriage without interviews. Ppl who filed in '22 and '23 were also getting their gc's approved faster than those who filed in '20, '21 and earlier. A lot of expedition requests are also being granted so USCIS is definetly moving but they're giving priority to the recent filers over the older ones which makes no sense.

I listened to a video by a lawyer explaining that USCIS has changed the way they process AOS in hopes to get through applications more quickly. So there's two streams of applications now - 'old stream' and the 'new stream'. Those who applied in 2021 and 2022 started in the old stream, so USCIS is keeping them in the old process. Those who applied 2023 are in the new stream, which is why many of those in 2023 are getting approved before those in 2022. It's not fair, but at least it's an explanation.

Are N-400 interview waived too?

You have to take a civic test for these, no idea how they'd waive that one. They could do it remotely but you still have to go before a federal judge to get sworn in.