AOS FILERS: OCTOBER 2008

[wizardfitz 13]

i know, it seems like it took forever although seeing other timelines we were lucky! thanks to you and everyone here !!!

[KIMCORENE 0]

Spreadsheet updated. Congrats, guys.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pze...X2bQoUgSQKgZsDw

Edited February 24, 2009 by KIMCORENE

[Aos80 0]

We had our interview at Oakland Office in January 15 2009 at 8:30 am

Interview took only 15 minutes.Officer didnt ask much question.Just marriage date,our 3 years old son's birthday.some questions from I-485.He had all the copies we send and he wanted to see original of documents that's all.He took I-94.We have been married for 5 years.(Couldn't apply before because I got my naturalization certificate last year in march.But applied before for I-130 in 2004 and appproved in 2007.)At the end he said everything looks good he will review the file and let us know by mail in 2 months(by the way he was a young officer).So we are still waiting...

I-485,I-765 Received Date: 07 Apr 2008

I-485,I-765 Notice Date: 11 Apr 2008

Fingerprinting Date: 07 May 2008

EAD Received: 21 Jun 2008

Interview letter received 11/20/2008 for january 15,2009

Last touch:january 6,2009

[KIMCORENE 0]

We had our interview at Oakland Office in January 15 2009 at 8:30 am

Interview took only 15 minutes.Officer didnt ask much question.Just marriage date,our 3 years old son's birthday.some questions from I-485.He had all the copies we send and he wanted to see original of documents that's all.He took I-94.We have been married for 5 years.(Couldn't apply before because I got my naturalization certificate last year in march.But applied before for I-130 in 2004 and appproved in 2007.)At the end he said everything looks good he will review the file and let us know by mail in 2 months(by the way he was a young officer).So we are still waiting...

I-485,I-765 Received Date: 07 Apr 2008

I-485,I-765 Notice Date: 11 Apr 2008

Fingerprinting Date: 07 May 2008

EAD Received: 21 Jun 2008

Interview letter received 11/20/2008 for january 15,2009

Last touch:january 6,2009

Was that Oakland, CA or Oakland , FL? You can always call and check in two weeks if you don't get anything in the mail by then.

Edited February 24, 2009 by KIMCORENE

[Aos80 0]

Oakland,Fl.Yes will do that.

[Gypsyangel 11]

Green card received in the mail today!!! Yay! I can't believe I'm done with this process for a couple of years. After obsessing about it for almost two years, I feel free to get on with my life.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their experiences and for the all the great advice. It's all so helpful and it's great to have company on the immigration emotional roller coaster.

[KIMCORENE 0]

Congrats, Gypsy!

[Nich-Nick 3,353]

i know, it seems like it took forever although seeing other timelines we were lucky! thanks to you and everyone here !!!

HEY!! You jumped out ahead of us. We applied a week earlier, so send yours back.

Just kidding. We're patient. Very happy for you. I'm still thinking an RFE will come for no I-693, but not going to do one unless they ask.

[wizardfitz 13]

thanks

you mean the vaccination supplement or the actual medical?

Edited February 24, 2009 by wizardfitz

[Canadianmade 1]

We had our interview at Oakland Office in January 15 2009 at 8:30 am

Interview took only 15 minutes.Officer didnt ask much question.Just marriage date,our 3 years old son's birthday.some questions from I-485.He had all the copies we send and he wanted to see original of documents that's all.He took I-94.We have been married for 5 years.(Couldn't apply before because I got my naturalization certificate last year in march.But applied before for I-130 in 2004 and appproved in 2007.)At the end he said everything looks good he will review the file and let us know by mail in 2 months(by the way he was a young officer).So we are still waiting...

I-485,I-765 Received Date: 07 Apr 2008

I-485,I-765 Notice Date: 11 Apr 2008

Fingerprinting Date: 07 May 2008

EAD Received: 21 Jun 2008

Interview letter received 11/20/2008 for january 15,2009

Last touch:january 6,2009

Damn Aos80 sorry that you have to wait for a final decision and I am on the same boat that you are on as well, I had my interview Feb 3 2009 at 2:00pm and I still havent heard any word about my decision, it has been 21 days to be exact, so I am waiting on a final decision. I would advice you to call to check up on things. Good luck to you.

[Canadianmade 1]

Green card received in the mail today!!! Yay! I can't believe I'm done with this process for a couple of years. After obsessing about it for almost two years, I feel free to get on with my life.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their experiences and for the all the great advice. It's all so helpful and it's great to have company on the immigration emotional roller coaster.

CONGRADS Gypsyangel on getting your green card in the mail today. . Now you will be able to go back and visit your friends and family in Canada and be stress free from USCIS for a couple of years. I am still waiting on my decison it has been 21 days and getting more and more pissed by the day lol. I havent been back to Toronto in a very long while and want to go back so badily to see friends and family. I hope it comes soon.

[Canadianmade 1]

Hey guys. well as you guys know, I am in limbo with USCIS and waiting on a decision from my interview on Feb 3 2009. It has been 21 days since and havent heard anything from USCIS. My wife and I contacted our congressman here in Ohio name Steven LaTourette, and sent in our request to find out information about our case. I got a letter in the mail from them, and the letter says " Thank you for contacting me about the problem you are having with USCIS. I have contacted the appropiate officals at the USCIS to express my interest on your behalf. I have been told that your application is currently pending Supervisory review and a decision should be mailed out in 30-60 days. If you haven't heard from them in 60 days, please contact us in our District Office"

I think that is the most generic letter, I have ever read in my life and that doesnt say much at all that we didnt know. I dont even know what to think of this, and if they actually did any investigating at all. What do you guys think of this?

[Beantownbabe 1]

Hey my October filers,

I just got back from my interview and we were approved. Got passport stamped! Yay!!

Here's how the experience went:

We arrived at 7:45a, had appointment at 8am. Got through security check and sat for 5mins and was called in. Here goes-

The officer, Mr Brown, instructed us to this office and told me where to sit and my husband as well. He told us to raise our hand and swear that we tell the truth and we sat down.

He started asking me for me for my passport and EAD or travel document (I didn't apply for AP), and our driver's license,he then asked me how did I enter the United States, he asked if it was 2004 (because my I-94 says that) but I told him I came on a student visa in 2001.He looked at the visa attached to my passport. He saw that my visa expired in 2005 but i didn't finish my program then, I got an extension from the Director at the college, he submitted something to extend my I-20. He then said the school cannot extend my stay, immigration does that. At this point I started getting nervous, then he asked me why I didn't return to Trinidad, man I choked, he caught me off guard, I didn't know what to say, He was like "So you just didn't feel like going back" lol! I wanted to piss my pants..lol He then proceeded to ask for any account information and anything with our names and i handed him our six months banks statement, lease and utility bills. All doing this by taking notes while flipping through pages. He asked my husband then me if we were still at the same address, our telephone numbers and social security numbers and we replied*yes*.

He began starting to ask my husband (USC), where and when we met and our relationship, when we decided to get married. Now, my husband is very intelligent, he is into politics and stuff so HE CAN TALK !! OMG!! lol. He talked about the decisions he made while he was in Atlanta and decided to move to SC and all that.

The the I.O asked me if I had any relatives in the United States, I said I have a brother, he also ask what is your brother's status? He is a permanent resident. He ask me is how he obtained his permanent residence.He was married, now he was only married for 2 and a half years. So the IO was like " So he got his residence through this marriage " Yes..Needless to say, it looked bad at that moment, it looked that my brother just got his green card by marrying his wife and then left her after" but it was just didn't work out. I was extremely nervous at this point.He didn't say but he was implying this.He proceeded to tell my husband that green card fraud is a rampant thing and they need to check up on that, they have systems set up and he can tell by the way people interact with each other such as shaking their legs, moving their hands and moving their eyes etc.. My husband reassured him that our marriage was real and they got into conversation again.

He then said that he is going to approve me today, he took out my I-94 from my passport to show that I came in the United States legally and I need to remove the conditions in 2 yrs and they do this just to check up on the marriage before approving long term permanent residence. My husband thought I did such a good job on filing that he asked him how do you apply for the these type of jobs.. (My husband is something) He actually wrote down a website and give it to me. Could you believe that? Other than that, it was a good experience, it was like a regular conversation you would have with someone you met.

I want to thank everyone for their support and help towards my journey and I will definitely stick around when its time to remove conditions and citizenship. Also experiencing everyone good news and being supportive toward them as well.

Hope all the upcoming interview go well and CanadianMade, I'm praying for you, I hope you get some news and please contact them , I believe they have 30 days to make a decision. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY EVERYONE!!

Just wanted to quickly say Good Luck today, Sweets!!! Look forward to the story!

How exciting!!! Even though you say you choked a bit, it seemed like a good interview! Congratulations, I'm very very happy for you! Thanks for all the positive energy over these past months - we've all needed and appreciated it! No get your behind back home to Trini and REALLY celebrate!!!

So I called USCIS last Friday and they said that the card production for EAD was ordered and that we should receive it within 2 weeks (praying). AND today we got the biometrics letter for the AOS (March 11th)......I am wondering why they have to do one for AOS and one for the EAD.....Why not just use one for both? Not like his finger prints would have changed since then. Anyway its a good sign anyway. Hopefully this means we are on our way to an interview date within a month or 2. *praying even more*

Sending interview vibes for you!!!

[triniredbone 0]

Thanks BeantownBabe,

Yes it cool until he asks me those two questions, I froze for second..When he asked me why I did not go back, I started stammering a bit, "I was like I..I..I don't know..lol it was kinda funny..and surprisingly he never ask me the questions off the I-485 form, not one and I went over those while we were in the car heading over there. Oh! he also ask me if I would do anything for a green card after asking why I did not go back to my country.

I was a bit surprised because he asked my husband most of the questions, he only ask me like 3 questions or so where I had to get detail about but other than that, my husband, he actually explained why I was a good fit and that our marriage was real. You know when you go to a job interview and they ask you why u are the best candidate for the job, it was kinda like that in a way.

I read somewhere that female IO are more harsh than the male IO, that they deny you for any missing or insufficient information. I immediately thought about you CanadianMade and your case where you said you had an older woman and its true, i don't know if they do it now but before Canadians didn't or don't have inspection documents. Hopefully you will hear something soon.

Congrats Gyspyangel and others for your approval and receiving your actual card.

Hey my October filers,

I just got back from my interview and we were approved. Got passport stamped! Yay!!

Here's how the experience went:

We arrived at 7:45a, had appointment at 8am. Got through security check and sat for 5mins and was called in. Here goes-

The officer, Mr Brown, instructed us to this office and told me where to sit and my husband as well. He told us to raise our hand and swear that we tell the truth and we sat down.

He started asking me for me for my passport and EAD or travel document (I didn't apply for AP), and our driver's license,he then asked me how did I enter the United States, he asked if it was 2004 (because my I-94 says that) but I told him I came on a student visa in 2001.He looked at the visa attached to my passport. He saw that my visa expired in 2005 but i didn't finish my program then, I got an extension from the Director at the college, he submitted something to extend my I-20. He then said the school cannot extend my stay, immigration does that. At this point I started getting nervous, then he asked me why I didn't return to Trinidad, man I choked, he caught me off guard, I didn't know what to say, He was like "So you just didn't feel like going back" lol! I wanted to piss my pants..lol He then proceeded to ask for any account information and anything with our names and i handed him our six months banks statement, lease and utility bills. All doing this by taking notes while flipping through pages. He asked my husband then me if we were still at the same address, our telephone numbers and social security numbers and we replied*yes*.

He began starting to ask my husband (USC), where and when we met and our relationship, when we decided to get married. Now, my husband is very intelligent, he is into politics and stuff so HE CAN TALK !! OMG!! lol. He talked about the decisions he made while he was in Atlanta and decided to move to SC and all that.

The the I.O asked me if I had any relatives in the United States, I said I have a brother, he also ask what is your brother's status? He is a permanent resident. He ask me is how he obtained his permanent residence.He was married, now he was only married for 2 and a half years. So the IO was like " So he got his residence through this marriage " Yes..Needless to say, it looked bad at that moment, it looked that my brother just got his green card by marrying his wife and then left her after" but it was just didn't work out. I was extremely nervous at this point.He didn't say but he was implying this.He proceeded to tell my husband that green card fraud is a rampant thing and they need to check up on that, they have systems set up and he can tell by the way people interact with each other such as shaking their legs, moving their hands and moving their eyes etc.. My husband reassured him that our marriage was real and they got into conversation again.

He then said that he is going to approve me today, he took out my I-94 from my passport to show that I came in the United States legally and I need to remove the conditions in 2 yrs and they do this just to check up on the marriage before approving long term permanent residence. My husband thought I did such a good job on filing that he asked him how do you apply for the these type of jobs.. (My husband is something) He actually wrote down a website and give it to me. Could you believe that? Other than that, it was a good experience, it was like a regular conversation you would have with someone you met.

I want to thank everyone for their support and help towards my journey and I will definitely stick around when its time to remove conditions and citizenship. Also experiencing everyone good news and being supportive toward them as well.

Hope all the upcoming interview go well and CanadianMade, I'm praying for you, I hope you get some news and please contact them , I believe they have 30 days to make a decision. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY EVERYONE!!

Just wanted to quickly say Good Luck today, Sweets!!! Look forward to the story!

How exciting!!! Even though you say you choked a bit, it seemed like a good interview! Congratulations, I'm very very happy for you! Thanks for all the positive energy over these past months - we've all needed and appreciated it! No get your behind back home to Trini and REALLY celebrate!!!

So I called USCIS last Friday and they said that the card production for EAD was ordered and that we should receive it within 2 weeks (praying). AND today we got the biometrics letter for the AOS (March 11th)......I am wondering why they have to do one for AOS and one for the EAD.....Why not just use one for both? Not like his finger prints would have changed since then. Anyway its a good sign anyway. Hopefully this means we are on our way to an interview date within a month or 2. *praying even more*

Sending interview vibes for you!!!

[Nich-Nick 3,353]

thanks

you mean the vaccination supplement or the actual medical?

The medical from the K1 is still valid. Immunization was completed in the UK so no more shots were needed. We didn't have them transcribed onto the I-693. (There is no longer a "supplement" I-693A for medicals done after June 1.) We just skipped the Civil Surgeon on purpose and took our chances on a RFE. Some are still being approved, so maybe we will save a few bucks and aggravation...maybe not. We don't have a compelling reason why the green card has to be approved at record speed.