I-693 - required to include with initial AOS application?

[F1_to_Green 5]

Hello everyone,

Still wading through my AOS application (from F1 to GC), and finding some conflicting info between official guidelines and different posts on here. I was just wondering if anyone had any personal experience...

I married a USC and am studying here in the US, and will be filing my 130, 485, 765, 131 in just a few days. It is my understanding that I can leave out the I-693 and take it along to my interview. My plan is to wait for an interview date to be sent to me, and then go immediately to get my I-693 taken care of, to have ready in time to present at my interview.

I think I can do this. But some people seem to suggest I can't. I really don't want to delay my application while I get an I-693 taken care of, I'd rather get everything else sent off and get myself into the system and get the process started. But I also want to get everything right first time!

Does anyone have any advice based on personal experience? Other thoughts and advice always welcomed too.

Thank you!

[Jo Së 200]

If you want to avoid delaying the AOS process why not include it? Per the guides on this website it is part of the I-485 package: http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide2

Edit: added link

Edited August 26, 2015 by Jose&Eli

[F1_to_Green 5]

If you want to avoid delaying the AOS process why not include it? Per the guides on this website it is part of the I-485 package: http://www.visajourney.com/content/i130guide2

Edit: added link

I take your point. I was hoping that if I can indeed submit without it, then my forms will be in the mail by this weekend. Otherwise, I'll have to wait for however many days or weeks to get an appointment and get the I-693 taken care of, and THEN send everything off.

By submitting without the I-693, I can be getting my I-693 taken care of whilst everything else is already processing, thus streamlining the process.

But if I can't get any reassuring advice that I can leave out the I-693 for now, then your suggestion is most likely the most sensible. A stitch in time saves 9, I suppose!

This is the official blurb from the USCIS website:

If you are applying for adjustment of status, you may submit Form I-693 in one of the following ways:

• Submit Form I-693 by mail, together with your Form I-485, Application to Register for Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, to the location specified for your Form I-485 (see “Direct Filing Addresses for Form I-485”).
• Submit Form I-693 by mail, after filing your Form I-485, to the location specified in your most recent communication with USCIS (for example, a Request for Evidence letter from USCIS).
• Submit Form I-693 in person, at an interview in a USCIS field office (if an interview is required).

But all the guides on here, as you rightly pointed out, say that you have to submit I-693 along with everything else. This is where my uncertainty stems from.

[TakumiKobyashi 5]

You definitely do not have to include I-693 in your initial submission… you used to have to, but due to a USCIS policy change where the I-693 results are only valid for 1 year, they now allow you to submit it later or at the interview. NOLO published a legal update for their book about this:

But there's good news. In follow-up correspondence to its initial policy announcements, USCIS stated that it would accept adjustment of status applications that do NOT contain the medical exam report yet. Applicants can choose to submit it later by mail, or bring it to their interview.

Edited August 26, 2015 by TakumiKobyashi

[F1_to_Green 5]

You definitely do not have to include I-693 in your initial submission… you used to have to, but due to a USCIS policy change where the I-693 results are only valid for 1 year, they now allow you to submit it later or at the interview. NOLO published a legal update for their book about this:

Thank you!