Everyone please follow the link below and abridge the situation to the whitehouse. This might be a great way to get somewhere with this whole turmoil. More emails, the better. If each user can email once a day and storm their inbox, this might be the deal breaker here.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call

AILA Quicktake #193: MAVNI Program

@Sujit Not at all Sujit. Do the necessary paperwork and submit it to the your local USCIS office. First step will be fingerprint and then comes the personal interview. Do keep in mind that each process has its own time frame. Once the personal interview is over, then the officer will remind you that a decision on deferred action will be mailed out to you within ninety days from initial day of application. Please feel free to contact the USCIS if you have not received about a decision on the deferred action. The reason why approval process takes so long is because the application is revised and passed through different levels of USCIS processing to make a decision case by case. In our case, deferred action is pretty much guaranteed thanks to MAVNI. Good luck Sujit, I hope it all goes pretty smooth for you.

@68-Wiskey Please feel free to contact the senator. I had already been in touch with my senator months ago and the information I am giving you here is merely a copy of it. The truth is the army needs recruits like us, but it is also the truth that there are certain agendas. If things cut too close with bare minimum results, the army will do everything to protect each and every one of us and to push us through to BCT at that point.

@qazwsx My investigation was closed in August just like you. Have you noticed that the information disposed at the Virtual USAREC townhall meeting is not immediately applied on the same day, but only gets official once it is paperbacked to all recruiters? Same thing here. Just because you cleared on August of 2016 and the notice came out in September of 2016 doesn't mean that you were right on time to leave. The OPM issue has been a problem since January of 2016. Please try to read into the whole turmoil at OPM and now the reclassification of material. If you follow closely, I am sure you will find the answers. I know this is hard to conceive but please be objective and not subjective.

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@68-Wiskey Listen up bro, I am future soldier myself. The delay right now has nothing to do with the DoD. In fact, it is the Office of Personal Management who screwed up. They were given the job to carry out investigations on the MAVNI future soldiers and they screwed up because they contracted to 14 other agencies because OPM had a shortage of workers. This obviously create a huge mess because different agencies performed at different paces. Now the National Bureau of Investigations started changing the system back in September. Now that bureau has implemented a system to finish the investigations, and the resolution is now being encrypted in IT systems, by May at the earliest everything will be figured out. The more entities you try to get involved in this turmoil, the more time it will take to finish the whole process because they will ask for answers and more time will be taken to answer. Resiliency is very important at this time and that's what it is all about in the US Army. So please the best thing you can really do is wait, and trust me it is the only thing we can do right now.

@qazwsx 10 days after biometrics.

@qazwsx work authorization will have to be applied for separately after DA approval. And yes, I believe they do process work authorizations at local USCIS offices.

@bale All MAVNIs in DEP who have fallen out of status after singing initial contract at MEPS and applied for deferred action will definitely get called in for an interview after biometrics by the USCIS. The interview will only last about half an hour. This process is to terminate all fraudulence.