u/SpringOk7620

Hello everyone,

I would be grateful to have some insights about what should I buy. My budget is around 18/19k. My first car was a 2008 RAV4 V6. I sold that car a year ago. Now, I am interested to buy a car. I researched a bit and found some rav4 2016-2019 with in this budget. But in the same budget I also get a 2018/19 Honda CRV from Carmax. I found the interior of CRV is very comfy for the touring trim.

Do you have any advice for me? As I am a grad student I will be having this car for a long time. Are there any basic differences in reliability between rav4 and CRVs?

Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone,

I applied for the I-485 AOS last week of March. And completed my biometrics on 04/23. After the biometrics, I got as usual 2X FTA0 on i-485 and 3X on i-765. Recently I got a silent update on my I-485 on 05/05/2026. But there is not a single silent update for my I-765.

Those who have a similar timeline as me did you receive your EAD already? Or, what is the usual timeline for receiving the EAD. I am a single applicant and the case is at NBC with an interview waived as per Emma.

Thanks in advance.

I’m seeing this in my logs. My biometrics was on 23rd April.

I-485:

"updatedAtTimestamp":"2026-04-23T21:32:20.586Z"

- FTAO 1: "updatedAtTimestamp":"2026-04-23T21:32:14.720Z"

- FTAO 0: "updatedAtTimestamp":"2026-04-23T21:32:14.750Z"

GitHub case tracker says that after FTAO 1 → FTAO 2 there was a “silent update”.

What’s confusing me is that some of these differences are only milliseconds (e.g., 14.720Z → 14.750Z), while another jump goes to 20.586Z.

I-765:

Case-level update:

• "updatedAtTimestamp":"2026-04-23T21:42:57.952Z"

Around the same time, I see multiple FTA0 events:

• FTA0: "updatedAtTimestamp":"2026-04-23T21:32:13.820Z"
• FTA0: "updatedAtTimestamp":"2026-04-23T21:32:16.018Z"
• Earlier FTA0: "updatedAtTimestamp":"2026-04-23T16:38:14.057Z"

All of these tie back to essentially the same event timestamp:

• "eventTimestamp":"2026-04-23T21:32:13.330Z"

Do these tiny timestamp differences actually matter?

- Is the ms gap indicating a real second update/write?

- Is the jump to 21:32:20.586Z more meaningful?

Curious how others interpret millisecond-level changes vs real updates in practice

I realized after submission that my 5-year employment history wasn’t perfectly recorded. I had two unemployment periods, one in my home country while preparing for GRE/IELTS, and another in the U.S. after graduation. I asked my attorney to include both.

They did add the U.S. gap, but somehow missed the one from my home country (even though I shared the details clearly). Instead, they repeated my current employment again in the additional information section, which was already listed earlier.

At this point I’m just waiting to see if I get an RFE. Has anyone had a case where small omissions or timeline gaps like this were later clarified and the application was still approved?

Would really appreciate hearing your experiences. thanks in advance!