Norfolk Local Office AOS Filers

[Itssimons 122]

Hey fellas, I’m starting a thread for the USCIS Norfolk Local Office AOS filers awaiting interviews or who have had their interviews already. Feel free to tell your stories guys.

[Itssimons 122]

Just now, Itssimons said:

Hey fellas, I’m starting a thread for the USCIS Norfolk Local Office AOS filers awaiting interviews or who have had their interviews already. Feel free to tell your stories guys.

@TearsOfBabylon here’s a thread for our local office 

[debbiedoo 2,339]

we're still waiting for our NOA2 but Norfolk will be our field office for AOS

[kquyen 48]

Joining this thread as I'm a local AOS filers, still waiting for our interview and EAD/AP card. Status on egov is still "Fingerprint was received" for I-485 and "Case was received" for EAD/AP 😵

[Itssimons 122]

23 minutes ago, kquyen said:

Joining this thread as I'm a local AOS filers, still waiting for our interview and EAD/AP card. Status on egov is still "Fingerprint was received" for I-485 and "Case was received" for EAD/AP 😵

Welcome fella! I’ve been waiting for 180 days now and counting...😰

[kquyen 48]

1 minute ago, Itssimons said:

Welcome fella! I’ve been waiting for 180 days now and counting...😰

Thanks for creating the thread! I applied about 1 month after you did..congrats for having received the EAD/AP card  May I ask whether you egov status is up to date? Mine is just not being updated at all...

[Itssimons 122]

2 hours ago, kquyen said:

Thanks for creating the thread! I applied about 1 month after you did..congrats for having received the EAD/AP card  May I ask whether you egov status is up to date? Mine is just not being updated at all...

Thanks! I haven’t been able to track my Form I-485 application to adjust status since March 28th 2018. It went from the notorious “user-defined error” glitch to “my case status doesn’t recognize the case number “ now and this’s how it’s been since April 7th. Despite all the numerous calls I’ce made, USCIS hasn’t been able to fix this and each time I speak with them they just reply me with the “nothing’s wrong with your case” response, it’s still pending, within normal processing time and I just have to keep on waiting 

[kquyen 48]

On 8/1/2018 at 12:51 PM, Itssimons said:

Thanks! I haven’t been able to track my Form I-485 application to adjust status since March 28th 2018. It went from the notorious “user-defined error” glitch to “my case status doesn’t recognize the case number “ now and this’s how it’s been since April 7th. Despite all the numerous calls I’ce made, USCIS hasn’t been able to fix this and each time I speak with them they just reply me with the “nothing’s wrong with your case” response, it’s still pending, within normal processing time and I just have to keep on waiting 

Aw I hope you'll hear from them soon! 

[MrsChettouh 29]

On 7/15/2018 at 4:33 PM, Itssimons said:

Hey fellas, I’m starting a thread for the USCIS Norfolk Local Office AOS filers awaiting interviews or who have had their interviews already. Feel free to tell your stories guys.

Hellooo glad to see a local thread but it seems so far no one has had their interview ours is scheduled for August 23 so I will definitely let everyone know how it goes...

[Itssimons 122]

1 hour ago, MrsChettouh said:

Hellooo glad to see a local thread but it seems so far no one has had their interview ours is scheduled for August 23 so I will definitely let everyone know how it goes...

Great! Good luck!

[kquyen 48]

On 8/2/2018 at 7:00 PM, MrsChettouh said:

Hellooo glad to see a local thread but it seems so far no one has had their interview ours is scheduled for August 23 so I will definitely let everyone know how it goes...

congrats and all the best for your interview! I just checked your timeline, hopefully we will receive the notice for ours soon too!  Please share with us how it goes.

[Rmsean 74]

hello everyone. i filed in december. have my work permit. 

waiting on the interview.

[doggieandsam 765]

processing time for Norfolk is roughly the same as DC ~9.5 months at the minimum so you still have some more wait ahead. i filed mine in oct 2017 and my interview is just this month, aug.

[MrsChettouh 29]

Hey everyone - we just had our interview and it went really well.  The appointment was scheduled for 9:30 and we walked in around 9:15.  We left our cell phones in the car so I'm not sure what time they called us back for the interview but we got out of there at 10:15.  The lady doing our interview was Officer Nichols.  She was serious but nice.  Once we got inside her office she swore us in and then asked Lotfi all the questions on the I-485 form.  Once that was finished, she asked what other countries he's visited, how and when we met, if we know each other's families, how my family felt about him, where we got engaged, who proposed, when did we realize we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, etc.  Basically, if your relationship is real then you don't need to worry about any of the questions! 

 

We took with us A LOT of documents/evidence - better too have too much and not need it than need something and not have it!!

We brought all originals and copies of:

everything we received from the government

his EAD/AP combo card

both our social security cards

both our birth certificates (his with certified translation)

both driver's licenses

his insurance cards (he's on my insurance through work)

his medical bills

home/auto insurance with both our names

utility bills with both our names

marriage certificate

photo album which included his arrival to US, holidays and trips together, our legal wedding and our family/friends wedding and reception, photos with my family, ultrasound photos

anything and everything else... we literally had one of those accordion expandable folders, a plastic zipper file folder, and a huge photo album LOL

She kept copies of the items listed above and she even kept a few of our wedding/reception pictures.  At the end she said she needs to review all these documents and then she gave us a paper that said we are recommended for approval and that we will receive an official notice in the mail.

 

All in all it was a pleasant experience.  Good luck to all of you!!

 

 

 

 

[Itssimons 122]

7 minutes ago, MrsChettouh said:

Hey everyone - we just had our interview and it went really well.  The appointment was scheduled for 9:30 and we walked in around 9:15.  We left our cell phones in the car so I'm not sure what time they called us back for the interview but we got out of there at 10:15.  The lady doing our interview was Officer Nichols.  She was serious but nice.  Once we got inside her office she swore us in and then asked Lotfi all the questions on the I-485 form.  Once that was finished, she asked what other countries he's visited, how and when we met, if we know each other's families, how my family felt about him, where we got engaged, who proposed, when did we realize we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, etc.  Basically, if your relationship is real then you don't need to worry about any of the questions! 

 

We took with us A LOT of documents/evidence - better too have too much and not need it than need something and not have it!!

We brought all originals and copies of:

everything we received from the government

his EAD/AP combo card

both our social security cards

both our birth certificates (his with certified translation)

both driver's licenses

his insurance cards (he's on my insurance through work)

his medical bills

home/auto insurance with both our names

utility bills with both our names

marriage certificate

photo album which included his arrival to US, holidays and trips together, our legal wedding and our family/friends wedding and reception, photos with my family, ultrasound photos

anything and everything else... we literally had one of those accordion expandable folders, a plastic zipper file folder, and a huge photo album LOL

She kept copies of the items listed above and she even kept a few of our wedding/reception pictures.  At the end she said she needs to review all these documents and then she gave us a paper that said we are recommended for approval and that we will receive an official notice in the mail.

 

All in all it was a pleasant experience.  Good luck to all of you!!

 

 

 

 

Congratulations!