AOS FILERS: DECEMBER 2008

[M.O 6]

My I-485 was touched today... There are 2 months since the last touch...This means they work on our case ..thats good.. and since we were transferred..hoping for good news...

Hope all of you that are waiting to have good news...

Olesea

[mimimimimi 0]

Hi all, I posted this in the main GC section... Let me know what you think. Do I have enough documents?

I am mainly worried about the financial co-mingling. We just joined bank accounts this week only. Man, can they expect much more than that of a 3-month marriage?

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Guys, I am gathering documents to show bonafide relationship for our AOS interview next week.

My main question is: we have hundreds of emails and also online chats from when we were dating. I don't want to print it all ($$$)... HOW MANY emails should I print? A few samples for different time periods? HOW MANY? 10? 50? 100?

I also don't really want to print online chats... should I?

Documents I am taking:

- Joint 2008 tax return

- Joint health insurance (from my hubby's work)

- I just added him to my bank account so we won't have statements together, only a letter from the bank saying we have a joint account together. Is that too bad?

- Pictures of our one year relationship (including a few with him meeting my parents and sibling who visited here, and only 2 of me with his parents, and also civil wedding pictures with one friend only)

- Joint utility bills: electric, gas and cable bills for 1 or 2 months (got married about 3 months ago)

- No joint lease (he moved in to my apartment)

- No joint cellphone

- I have a train ticket from when I visited him one weekend while he was in college...

Do you guys think this is enough evidence? Interview came too fast, we thought we would have more time to gather things.

[PatNa 0]

I just got home from work and checked the mail. Hubby has received his EAD. He is going to be dancing around the house like this little dude when he gets home later. Today is a sweet day!!

[blarf 0]

Hi all, I posted this in the main GC section... Let me know what you think. Do I have enough documents?

I am mainly worried about the financial co-mingling. We just joined bank accounts this week only. Man, can they expect much more than that of a 3-month marriage?

--

Guys, I am gathering documents to show bonafide relationship for our AOS interview next week.

My main question is: we have hundreds of emails and also online chats from when we were dating. I don't want to print it all ($$$)... HOW MANY emails should I print? A few samples for different time periods? HOW MANY? 10? 50? 100?

I also don't really want to print online chats... should I?

Documents I am taking:

- Joint 2008 tax return

- Joint health insurance (from my hubby's work)

- I just added him to my bank account so we won't have statements together, only a letter from the bank saying we have a joint account together. Is that too bad?

- Pictures of our one year relationship (including a few with him meeting my parents and sibling who visited here, and only 2 of me with his parents, and also civil wedding pictures with one friend only)

- Joint utility bills: electric, gas and cable bills for 1 or 2 months (got married about 3 months ago)

- No joint lease (he moved in to my apartment)

- No joint cellphone

- I have a train ticket from when I visited him one weekend while he was in college...

Do you guys think this is enough evidence? Interview came too fast, we thought we would have more time to gather things.

i think you got more than enough. we gonna show up next week for our interview with way less than you:

- pictures

- joint bank account

- joint lease

and that's it for us. no joint cellphones (was cheaper to keep our individuals), no joint bills (they are all on my name), no joint insurance (once again, cheaper to keep our own individuals)

oh and as far as your email, just get some from different months/years and you should be alright (i assume)

Edited March 5, 2009 by blarf

[SMOKE 1,426]

this is weird. i've been checking the USCIS case status constantly, until about a week ago. i got tired of no touches.

sat. 2-28 recieved AP in the mail, dated 2/19

today 3-4 recieved EAD/Green card in hand. card dated 2/19, date on notice 2/24

we never recieved any emails & the USCIS case status doesn't show any touches since the AOS/EAD transfer 1/19.

can someone update us on the speadsheet?

[TBoneTX 43,435]

sat. 2-28 recieved AP in the mail, dated 2/19

today 3-4 recieved EAD/Green card in hand. card dated 2/19, date on notice 2/24

Si, man!

We received the AP today (March 4), dated Feb. 24. Can someone update us on the spreadsheet, too, si man?

[AOSfiler13 0]

Hey all... I was right to expect my EAD and AP this week, because they both arrived yesterday!!! So the daily trips to the mail box are over! For now... And we had some crazy snow days here, kids are out of school for 3 days in a row (those that live in the South will understand, those up North won't... ), but the mail still works! What's their motto? "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night..." It's true!

Still waiting on the interview date, but at least I can start working now...

Thanks everyone for your updates, they really help when you're the one anxiously waiting. And for those that still are, your day is coming, soon...

[we met in japan 0]

Hi all!

I have noticed that alot of people getting EAD and AP approval recently have said that there have been no "touches" on their cases online, but the cards just show up one day......I am hoping this is the case for me.....but am a little worried, as we sent further evidence (from RFE) back to MSC over a month ago, and have had no notice that its has even been received! my mind is working over time, and telling me that our package got lost somewhere along the way, and we wont know till its too late.......(hubby was tired and accidentally sent it 3 day mail USPS, so no tracking number)

hoping lady luck is gonna throw some luck my way soon......its depressing being at the mercy of the gov.......

hope any other dec filers who are still waiting get lucky this month too!!!

[itty_bitty 0]

I received my Employment Authorization card today! Wohooo! let's partayyyy I wish I checked the mail earlier today so I could have gone to the SSA office to apply for SSN. It was past 5pm when I found out that the card was waiting for me in the mail. Hubby works again tomorrow so I'll wait until Tuesday before I can go there. Now, the pressure to find a job starts, haha.

[ajay416 0]

Just got my EAD today. The letter was dated 02/26/09.. No updates on the UCIS site about it at all, so I'm going to have to agree with a lot of people that it doesn't work well

Congrats to all that got their interview already, hopefully we get a letter about that soon.

[Mint518 0]

Congrats all who received AP and/or EP. I received my EAD today, too. Same with other people, no recent updates on the USCIS site, and last touch was the one right after the biometric appointment.

[itzy 0]

Congratulations to all the ones receiving their approvals! That was fast after your biometrics Itty Bitty! I hope that happens to me too.

I wanted to let you know I had my biometrics appointment today!

Please help me to update my information on the spreadsheet

Here Are the Days

Notice of action of biometrics was 02/23/2009

Biometrics appointment was 03/06/2009

Authorization of Parole was issued on 2/9/2009

Thank you

Itzy

[Forever Young 1]

Good Morning Everyone,

My hubby received his EAD yesterday ! I tried to update the spreedsheet but it wouldn't save the EAD date! It took the AP, but the EAD is still blank! Does anyone know if it's a new directive that all AOS app's must get interviewed also? It seems that more & more people are getting interview dates for their I-485. What used to be a rare select few is now becoming the norm! Other VJ Yardies friends that filed 2007-early 2008 year seemed to have recvd their GC in 5-6 months...I honestly, I'd feel fortunate if we recvd ours by November at this point! I have friends that filed in JULY 2008 that still haven't recvd their GC!!

But hey one step and one application at a time...2 outta 3 ain't bad!

Take care & have a blessed day!

Gill

P.S.- we recvd no prior email notification either!

Edited March 6, 2009 by Forever Young

[Thee_Rak 0]

Hi Everybody...

Why does USCIS even have a web-site? Okay here's our latest status (I'll update the sheet right after I post this)...

No Touch on the USCIS site since Dec 19th when they received our AOS/AP/EAD package and logged us into the system.

Received Biometrics letter around x-mass and had appointment on 1/13 NO TOUCH

Received Interview Appointment letter Feb 12 (appointment is April 22). NO TOUCH

Received APPROVED AP Feb 27 NO TOUCH

Okay now the questions for the group...

1) Why are there 2 copies of the AP? I assume that it get surrendered if you use it so they give you 2 to cover 2 trips.

2) Is there supposed to be a stamp in the National Benefits Center Parole Stamp box at the bottom next to picture?

Boy I sure hope that the EAD comes SOON because I need it to get her name changed on her Social Security Card and also to get her a State ID and to get her name on our bank accounts. After that I can get her name on the utility bill, cable bill etc to show we live together.

The one thing I'm the most concerned about though is that I'm now UNEMPLOYED!!!! I have been working for Ford Motor Co for the past 9 years and have been making over $90K but now the employment market SUCKS. I'm not going to through away my unemployment benefits by taking a job "just for the appearence" of having a job. Hell, she'll likely have a job at the local Thai restaurant b/4 the interview and b/4 I do!!!

The interviewer simply HAS TO UNDERSTAND how bad the employment market is now and that I might even relocate us away from Detorit (worst unemployment rate in the county) or change careers. It's not like I was a bagger at Walmart or something... You don't find a new $100K/year job overnight.

Hey maybe I should apply to the USCIS... looks like they need a web-master!!!!

[JillA 2]

I was also wondering how many times you can use the AP.... I put on the application twice I think that I plan on visiting home, but if I don't get my GC for quite some time, can I go back to Canada more than 2 times over the course of say 8 months if it takes that long to get my GC?