Fellow Canadian VJers removing Conditions..

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Thanks Kathryn! Thanks for saying that as I'm including invoices where I've paid to have work done on the house, like carpet being installed.

I'm feeling kind of okay about it. I included flight itineraries from 3 trips we took. Also, a copy of my recently deceased fathers obituary that lists my husband and I. It's obvious to me that our lives are connected. I hope they think so.

Also... Is it my imagination or is this a cake walk compared to the CR1 stuff???

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That is all good evidence, yes. I had the maintenance contract on our HVAC system, the removal of a huge dead tree at the top of a hill behind the house, the lawn maintenance contract, and repairs for a leak in the roof as part of my 'house' evidence.

I think, by the time we have reached this stage in the process we are so used to dealing with paperwork that it seems easier. The CR-1 and K-1 petitions are our first exposures to the system and it all feels so overwhelming then. The ROC is pretty straight-forward, though, and the forms are not difficult. Most of the challenge comes in gathering and copying the evidence and getting it organized enough to send off and make sense . I LOVE highlighters!, hehehe

If you think this one is easy, wait until you apply for citizenship - that is by far and away the easiest part of the whole process - and the fastest :-).

[ashenflowers 5]

Hello folks! This is also my first post here in a LONG time. I haven't been here in over a year! How bizarre. So many things to update you all about!

Anyways, I can't file for ROC until May 2012, so I've got a ways to go, but I just wanted to pop in and say hi! I'll be keeping track of this thread in the mean time. Nice to see we're heading towards the 'easy' portions of immigration!!

Best of luck to you all, and I look forward to chatting with you again!

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[Wyatt's Torch 45]

I'm glad to hear that the rest of you are so calm about it. I'm sorta freaking out! Which is odd, since I'm usually pretty even keel about this stuff.

Great comment about joint tax returns -- I hadn't thought about those. We don't have many pictures, unfortunately, though one of them clearly demonstrates that we were at the Rally to Restore Sanity last October.

Now...how many of you had your affidavits notarized? We recently moved a few hours away from where we were, but my wife's work takes her back there from time to time. We can get people who have known us to write testimonials, but has anyone had a problem with them not being notarized? That's probably my biggest worry at this point.

It's also really encouraging to hear that the citizenship process is even easier than this step. I really can't wait to become a U.S. Citizen as soon as I am able!

P.S.: Coming back to VJ feels a little like a reunion.

Edited November 21, 2011 by Wyatt's Torch

[Inky 1,110]

I'm glad to hear that the rest of you are so calm about it. I'm sorta freaking out! Which is odd, since I'm usually pretty even keel about this stuff.

Great comment about joint tax returns -- I hadn't thought about those. We don't have many pictures, unfortunately, though one of them clearly demonstrates that we were at the Rally to Restore Sanity last October.

Now...how many of you had your affidavits notarized? We recently moved a few hours away from where we were, but my wife's work takes her back there from time to time. We can get people who have known us to write testimonials, but has anyone had a problem with them not being notarized? That's probably my biggest worry at this point.

It's also really encouraging to hear that the citizenship process is even easier than this step. I really can't wait to become a U.S. Citizen as soon as I am able!

P.S.: Coming back to VJ feels a little like a reunion.

Nothing i sent was notarized. Its not required !

We had like 4 pictures in there thats all.

I' m freaking out because i have heard nothing since the biometrics letter and i'm scared of not getting an RFE or something lol Also scared im going to be one of the people not approved after 10 months and hear nothing at all and be stuck applying for citizenship in a " forced " way. Also my husband is active military and could be PCS to another country or state at any day/time so pretty much live on the edge of my seat every day waiting for this stupid approval =/

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Isn't an affidavit, by it's very nature, supposed to be notarized though?

[Inky 1,110]

Isn't an affidavit, by it's very nature, supposed to be notarized though?

Not for ROC apparently lol Iv asked before in the ROC forum and everyone says no and we haven't had an issue with it so far. Also got quite a few people saying we don't even need them unless we have no evidence to send in to prove our marriage lol we sent it anyways though.

Edited November 21, 2011 by Inky

[lgg 2]

I've read that the affidavits are lw down on the list of important things. A yeah, Wyatt, joint tax returns I think are key. It just seems so easy compared to the CR1 process. Seriously. 3 pages! A pile of photocopying but still.

Oh. And just to clarify, I CAN be an American and a Canadian citizen,right? Im sure yes but just wanted to ask.

[Inky 1,110]

I've read that the affidavits are lw down on the list of important things. A yeah, Wyatt, joint tax returns I think are key. It just seems so easy compared to the CR1 process. Seriously. 3 pages! A pile of photocopying but still.

Oh. And just to clarify, I CAN be an American and a Canadian citizen,right? Im sure yes but just wanted to ask.

Yes you can be both and have both passports!

[Sam and Ben 2]

'Tis much easier not to stress this time around, when we've actually been given time to join our lives on paper a little more than with AoS.

Hello, btw.

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Jesus. It's Sam. This really IS a reunion!

[Sam and Ben 2]

Haha. Ello Wyatt!

I saw Krikit's post about 'the way things were'. It made me sad, because we all spent soo much time on here, and I loved doing so...

And now the retail world has my soul.

Edited November 23, 2011 by Sam and Ben

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Thanks for that, Sam and Ben -- I just sought out and read that thread too!

[HeatDeath 430]

Nothing i sent was notarized. Its not required !

We had like 4 pictures in there thats all.

I' m freaking out because i have heard nothing since the biometrics letter and i'm scared of not getting an RFE or something lol Also scared im going to be one of the people not approved after 10 months and hear nothing at all and be stuck applying for citizenship in a " forced " way. Also my husband is active military and could be PCS to another country or state at any day/time so pretty much live on the edge of my seat every day waiting for this stupid approval =/

I structured the one affidavit we sent by just carefully parsing the description in the I-751 instructions. They don't mention notarization, so I didn't do that. They don't mention SSNs, so I didn't include that. I think the I-751 sample cover letter and affidavit here need to be reworked. I tried to use them as a base and found the tone and content was a very poor fit to the USCIS instructions and the sample cover letters for previous filings provided here. I ended up building mine basically from scratch, with a little bit of verbiage pulled back out of (of all things) the I-129F cover letter (which remains excellent).

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I think that, for RoC, not hearing anything for months and months once you get your bio appointment is pretty normal.

My AOS was the same way too: bio appointment, a touch a day after that, then nothing for a couple of months, then a Card Production Ordered email. I'm praying RoC is exactly the same, except I know RoC will be even longer, even at the CSC.

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

One more question about the affidavits: did you write them yourselves, or did you have the supporting people write them? I was planning on writing them myself, and just having those folks sign them...but is that suspicious at all?

[HeatDeath 430]

My mother-in-law did a first draft based on the I-751 instructions, which I tweaked to make sure it hit all the points in the USCIS instructions PDF.