Hello!!!

I've applied for my AOS and I'm still at the beginning, just had my biometrics done last week. Is any "alien" from the Cleveland area here? It would be fun to communicate on this thread and exchange experiences, great hang-out places etc etc.

Hope to hear from you!

Hi! I'm not really in Cleveland, but my appointments are (of course) there, since I'm in Kent, Ohio. We're about.. 40 minutes' drive away. Are you in Cleveland itself?

Helloooooo Iya!

I'm around 8 mins away from downtown Cleveland but I live in a suburb called Lakewood, which is in the East. I'm familiar with Kent but I've never been there! I see you sent your package one week before me, I just got my NOA yesterday actually. Is it your first time in the States?

We're to the south Yes, it's my first time here. Took a lot of adjusting, as I lived with a lot of people back in the Philippines (our families living with and near each other) while here, there's just my husband and I, and his parents and brother. What about you? First time here as well?

You just got your NOA? I hope you've gotten your Biometrics done, though.. I hear some people get their bios done before getting their NOAs.

Hiya ... I just moved to Cleveland with my son at the end of July. Sent my AOS package to Chicago on the 28th of July (day after we were married). I lived in Canada only a 4 1/2 hour drive from here and my son and I have been adjusting well .. I can't imagine what it must be like coming from much further away

Hi there! So how are you liking Cleveland? Kent is a smallish college town, so I'm doing some major adjusting (as I used to live dab-smack in the middle of the Metro). No more daily mall trips, no more late nights out.. But I find the peace quite relaxing - I now have more time to paint and work on my arts and hobbies. I think I've gotten quite accustomed to it, that when we went to Cleveland, I went into city-shock. We were planning on checking the area out while we were there for the Biometrics, but changed our minds and just went home immediately afterwards Maybe after the interview, we'll have more guts to wander and "get lost".

I love Cleveland, even though it's nothing like the big cities. I won't be working for a few months now (because I'm still waiting for my EAD) so I'm spending a lot of time doing things I enjoy: cooking, reading, internet, movies, shows. I'm even learning how to bake! When I first got here I was complaining that I won't be working for months and will be bored and won't have any income, now I just hope that I won't get used to staying home and enjoying my free time!:)

I see your interview is in a month! Best of luck to you!!!:)



To lynamon: It didn't take a lot for me to adjust because I was working here for 18months before I went back to my country for a year, then coming back here again:).

Haha, we here think of Cleveland as a big city. Hubby is kind of dreading the interview trip next month, but hopefully traffic won't be so bad. I'm eagerly awaiting that EAD myself, but in the meantime, I'm driving myself nuts with trying to find things that "fulfill" me. I cook, read, and do all that too, but.. I guess I'm not used to it anymore. What I do now is hit CVS and Target and try to make the best deals I can (and by that, I mean get stuff and pay hardly anything by using coupons ). It has become my semi-daily challenge. Hopefully, I don't get too used to this so that when I finally get a job, I don't suffer from withdrawal.

Hope you get your interview lined up soon. Or better yet, maybe you'll get your GC without an interview!