Hey friends, I finally have some great news for you regarding case processing times.
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Now, friends, I'm so excited to finally have something positive to share with you about
case processing times, and so here goes.
Several days ago, one of my colleagues on YouTube, he did a great video where he talked
about some things that he's been hearing in our community.
When I say community, I mean among us immigration lawyers.
He shared that some people are getting super fast approvals on certain applications, green
card interviews are being waived, and so I was really intrigued by that.
Just recently other colleagues of ours have been sharing their experiences as well.
They're saying, "Hey, we're so surprised that within a matter of days we're getting receipt
notices on our work permit application.
Then days later we're getting the approval that it came right in after we submitted our
application."
Others are like, "Me too.
Me too.
Me too."
Here's what's going on.
On March 30th the government put out a press release indicating that they're going to use
your old biometrics record, your old fingerprint record, to make a decision on your work permit
application because their application support centers are closed, right, due to coronavirus.
They're not doing any face to face interviews, or appointments, or anything like that.
They're saying if they have your data already on file, and you filed the I-765, they're
going to go ahead and process your application, and you're going to see a very, very fast
approval if your application is approved, of course.
You'll see a very fast turnaround with your application, which means you can get to work,
right, because that's what this is all about.
You can get to work.
What else does the announcement say?
It says that applicants who had an appointment scheduled at the application support center
on or after March 18th, or you had filed your I-765 extension, and the government has your
biometrics record on file, they're going to go ahead and process it.
They're not going to call you back in for more biometrics.
As you guys know, if you've applied for asylum, or adjustment of status, or if you have a
work visa of some sort, you know that the government frequently calls you back in just
to be fingerprinted.
Every time you submit that I-765 application to renew or extend your work permit, they
typically want to call you back in for another fingerprint because they want to see has anything
changed with your criminal record.
Right?
They like to have fresh data on file for people.
Now they have to operate differently and just process these applications very quickly using
the old data that they have on file.
That's good news for you because then you can get to work faster.
Yeah, that's what's going on.
Don't be surprised if you get your work permit just like that, but remember, it's only if
the government already had your biometric on file.
Friends, thanks for watching this video.
I look forward to sharing more good news with you soon.
Share this with other people, and I'll see you in the next one.
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