I applied for renewal 1/13. EAD expired on 7/10 and I am currently on LOA. Stuck in the limbo of the unknown. Will I have a job if this drags out any longer!?
I had been consulting with lawyers about my options to AOS. Long story short, I requested a FOIA for myself and my mom. She is a US Citizen and the lawyer mentioned that getting her records could tell us if maybe I could adjust status through her without facing the potential of being barred.
USCIS requires that my mom give her permission for my “3rd party request.” I don’t live with my mom and my mom has zero tech skills, so I asked my sister (who does live with my mom) if she could check moms email and help her consent as I kept getting emails from USCIS that if the consent was not approved by 7/22 the request would expire. The day before yesterday my sister said she would do it. I texted her again this morning asking if she did it. No response. I get a call from my mom at 8pm tonight asking what consent was needed and that she didn’t know how to do it. She told me my sister who was out with friends had just called her and told her she needed to consent and so my mom called me because she doesn’t even know the concept of clicking on a link and following instructions. I made the drive over to my moms to consent and it was marked as complete.
I was furious because not only did my sister tell me she would do it, but when I asked her to confirm if she did I never got a response and had it not been for my mom calling me asking me how to do it the FOIA request would have been cancelled. Everyone knows my job is literally on the line. They ALL have papers and live their lives worry free. They don’t even know what a FOIA is so for all my sister knows this could have been the important item that was needed for me to keep my job but you know what? They. Don’t.Care. I am clearly an after though, but when they need to borrow money guess who the go to person is?
This delay has filled me with a resentment and rage among all kinds of other thoughts and feelings that I didn’t even know I still had!
I texted her telling her that if she wasn’t gonna effin do it she coulda at least just effin told me that and I blocked her right after hitting send.
There’s nothing worse than being so alone in all of this while everyone around you is oblivious to what were facing.
I hate this so bad.