January 2018 AOS Filers

[janet3 1,170]

On 9/4/2018 at 9:37 AM, peruvianflake said:

Just wanted to give this suggestion to anyone who needs it: 

When bringing your papers for the interview make sure everything is well organized. It makes it easier and shows the official that you care and are prepared. 

One of the most important papers of evidence is a bank account statement with both persons names on it. It shows that the relationship is genuine because you wouldn't really share a bank account with anyone else. Bring important documents like tax returns with both persons names on it, and life insurance. Worry less about things like gym memberships and small stuff like that as they don't find it important. 

These are just my suggestions. 

 

Good luck everyone!

What visa did you adjust from? What evidence did you submit? What was asked for during the interview? Were you interviewed together or separately? 

I am trying to prepare for our interview....

[BahamaIslander242 244]

23 hours ago, kvito28 said:

Nearly 3 weeks after my AOS interview which was verbally approved and yet there is no welcome mail, no green card and no updates on the website. Has this happened to anyone here?

That doesn’t seem like the normal trend if it went further than just a verbal. I had my interview a week after you I think and I got my card in the mail last Thursday with various “on the way” updates (production, mailing) starting a few days before that.

[GEOntificator 282]

23 minutes ago, BahamaIslander242 said:

That doesn’t seem like the normal trend if it went further than just a verbal. I had my interview a week after you I think and I got my card in the mail last Thursday with various “on the way” updates (production, mailing) starting a few days before that.

Yeah, most people get in within a week or 10 days but I think mine is stuck at supervisor approval. I called and I was told that no official decision has been made yet. Wondering what can cause that.

[peruvianflake 7]

12 hours ago, janet3 said:

What visa did you adjust from? What evidence did you submit? What was asked for during the interview? Were you interviewed together or separately? 

I am trying to prepare for our interview....

I adjusted from a F-1 student visa. I submitted joint bank statements, insurance cards (life, car, health, dental), join taxes, lease of all the places we've lived together, and pictures in a chronological order from when we met up to now. 

 

The only question my husband was asked was to say my full name. Other than that, the officer did not ask us any other questions. She just complemented our pictures and asked for evidence that I have brought. I recommend being really well organized. I had a file of original papers and a file of copies for the officer which she kept. I also had a table of contents with everything labeled which made is really easy. The officer seemed very happy that I had every little thing organized. I also put dates and places on every photo. I printed the photos out on normal A4 paper and fit about 3 photos per page. We were interviewed together. 

Good luck! 

[gtiorobertsf 72]

Have a question for people that have traveled on their AP/Work Permit card. My husband is from mexico and traditionally they use two last names.

When we applied for the Green card, Marriage certificate and Social security he only included the one which here in the us would be his fathers last name.

His Mexican passport shows both. Do you see any trouble for him when entering the country? Hes planning on traveling to mexico for a short trip.

Thanks in advance.

R

[Jjjb 13]

Does anybody knows how long does it take to get the letter in the mail after getting an rfe in the interview?

[janet3 1,170]

5 hours ago, peruvianflake said:

I adjusted from a F-1 student visa. I submitted joint bank statements, insurance cards (life, car, health, dental), join taxes, lease of all the places we've lived together, and pictures in a chronological order from when we met up to now. 

 

The only question my husband was asked was to say my full name. Other than that, the officer did not ask us any other questions. She just complemented our pictures and asked for evidence that I have brought. I recommend being really well organized. I had a file of original papers and a file of copies for the officer which she kept. I also had a table of contents with everything labeled which made is really easy. The officer seemed very happy that I had every little thing organized. I also put dates and places on every photo. I printed the photos out on normal A4 paper and fit about 3 photos per page. We were interviewed together. 

Good luck! 

Thank you for your reply.

 I received the “your interview has been scheduled” notification today.

 

[nvcp 3]

Hi,

 

Anyone from newark field office got the interview date yet ? Thanks !!

[Missabc 626]

Hey guy's, the February thread is a little quiet so I'll ask here instead. My interview is on October 10th in San Antonio. The evidence that I have for bonafide relationship is as follows. 

 

- Apartment lease in both names 2017

- Apartment lease in both names 2018

- Joint medical insurance

- 2 letters/bills from the doctors in my name as spouse with my husbands works name on it etc

- Joint bank accounts

- Receipt with my husbands name on it activating my phone contract

- Wedding pictures with family

- Pictures from this year with each other

- Congratulatory cards from our wedding

- Adoption paperwork for our puppy, solely in my name (I'm the beneficiary) but with our home address on there

- Vet receipts in my name but with our address on there 

- Paperwork in mine and my husbands name for when we put our dogs in boarding when we went on vacation

 

Is this enough? 

 

I don't drive and I'm not on any utilities. I can try to be added to one or two of our bills but it won't be a guarantee I'll get the paperwork in the mail on time. So I'm hoping what I have so far will be enough as from what I read most the time they mainly want to see the joint bank and joint health insurance. Any advise will be appreciated! 

 

Edited September 10, 2018 by Missabc

[janet3 1,170]

20 hours ago, Missabc said:

Hey guy's, the February thread is a little quiet so I'll ask here instead. My interview is on October 10th in San Antonio. The evidence that I have for bonafide relationship is as follows. 

 

- Apartment lease in both names 2017

- Apartment lease in both names 2018

- Joint medical insurance

- 2 letters/bills from the doctors in my name as spouse with my husbands works name on it etc

- Joint bank accounts

- Receipt with my husbands name on it activating my phone contract

- Wedding pictures with family

- Pictures from this year with each other

- Congratulatory cards from our wedding

- Adoption paperwork for our puppy, solely in my name (I'm the beneficiary) but with our home address on there

- Vet receipts in my name but with our address on there 

- Paperwork in mine and my husbands name for when we put our dogs in boarding when we went on vacation

 

Is this enough? 

 

I don't drive and I'm not on any utilities. I can try to be added to one or two of our bills but it won't be a guarantee I'll get the paperwork in the mail on time. So I'm hoping what I have so far will be enough as from what I read most the time they mainly want to see the joint bank and joint health insurance. Any advise will be appreciated! 

 

Does your husband have a 401k or similar retirement plan with you listed as the beneficiary?

I also included medical and financial powers of attorney in the evidence of a bonafide relationship.

 

Do you have a state issued ID? (My husband got one last week and I was thinking of including that too)

[Missabc 626]

8 minutes ago, janet3 said:

Does your husband have a 401k or similar retirement plan with you listed as the beneficiary?

I also included medical and financial powers of attorney in the evidence of a bonafide relationship.

 

Do you have a state issued ID? (My husband got one last week and I was thinking of including that too)

I don't believe he has a retirement plan. All he has is the health insurance through his work which has me as the beneficiary if anything was to happen to him. 

 

And I'm unfamiliar with the state issued id? I only have my SSN card. 

 

I think I'm probably over thinking this, I just need to be optimistic that its enough. I put together almost 40 pictures (most with family and friends) just to try bulk it up 

[Stt 235]

17 minutes ago, Missabc said:

I don't believe he has a retirement plan. All he has is the health insurance through his work which has me as the beneficiary if anything was to happen to him. 

 

And I'm unfamiliar with the state issued id? I only have my SSN card. 

 

I think I'm probably over thinking this, I just need to be optimistic that its enough. I put together almost 40 pictures (most with family and friends) just to try bulk it up 

You can take your documents and sd card to the dmv to get a state issued id maybe your state will accept that. I think what you have is good enough just make sure everything is well organized. When asked for joint documents, vice the most important ones first such as joint tax, joint bank, joint lease, joint insurance, (car, health, life etc), joint bills so on and so forth. Do not offer IO anything that wasnt asked for. Again to reiterate make sure you are well organized and can find your documents easily without fumbling and rummaged through papers. For every documents u plan on presenting take copies with u to give IO becuz they will keep your original if u didnt give a copy. If your pics are in an album, it's best to make footnotes of who, when and where! I arranged our album wedding pics first, pics with just the two of us,  then us with family, us with friends and I had notes so IO didn't have to ask a bunch of questions. Now Relax and good luck

Edited September 11, 2018 by Stt

[Missabc 626]

15 minutes ago, Stt said:

You can take your documents and sd card to the dmv to get a state issued id maybe your state will accept that. I think what you have is good enough just make sure everything is well organized. When asked for joint documents, vice the most important ones first such as joint tax, joint bank, joint lease, joint insurance, (car, health, life etc), joint bills so on and so forth. Do not offer IO anything that wasnt asked for. Again to reiterate make sure you are well organized and can find your documents easily without fumbling and rummaged through papers. For every documents u plan on presenting take copies with u to give IO becuz they will keep your original if u didnt give a copy. If your pics are in an album, it's best to make footnotes of who, when and where! I arranged our album wedding pics first, pics with just the two of us,  then us with family, us with friends and I had notes so IO didn't have to ask a bunch of questions. Now Relax and good luck

Thank you for responding, yep I'm a bit of an organise freak, I'll be purchasing a file this week to organise the paperwork. 

 

I'd did exactly that with the pictures last night. I've just added them all neatly to a word document and stated who is in each picture an where. 

[twoDs 590]

Just checking in since it's been a couple months. No news.

 

Currently our local office is showing only 5 interviews in the past two years, with 22 K1 I-485 NOA1s listed here on the site (so probably more like a couple hundred.)

 

Everyone with January 2017 NOA1s has had an interview, but no one with April 2017 does, and we're January 2018. Looks like a long wait ahead.

Edited September 15, 2018 by twoDs

[DanielTan 21]

Hi everyone!  

 

I have a question. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.  Has anyone used their advance parole recently? 

 

1. Did you have any issues?

2. What documents did you bring? Passport and Advance Parole or did you bring more evidence?

 

I need to go back home and I am getting a little nervous about leaving. Thanks in advance!