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Our case is 90 days in AP and I'm going to speak with a consular officer next week.  Any advice or comment from people who has gone through this is greatly appreciate it.

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Taiwan
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What are you trying to accomplish?

"The US immigration process requires a great deal of knowledge, planning, time, patience, and a significant amount of money.  It is quite a journey!"

- Some old child of the 50's & 60's on his laptop 

 

Senior Master Sergeant, US Air Force- Retired (after 20+ years)- Missile Systems Maintenance & Titan 2 ICBM Launch Crew Duty (200+ Alert tours)

Registered Nurse- Retired- I practiced in the areas of Labor & Delivery, Home Health, Adolescent Psych, & Adult Psych.

IT Professional- Retired- Web Site Design, Hardware Maintenance, Compound Pharmacy Software Trainer, On-site go live support, Database Manager, App Designer.

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August 7, 2022: Wife filed N-400 Online under 5 year rule.

November 10, 2022: Received "Interview is scheduled" letter.

December 12, 2022:  Received email from Dallas office informing me (spouse) to be there for combo interview.

December 14, 2022: Combo Interview for I-751 and N-400 Conducted.

January 26, 2023: Wife's Oath Ceremony completed at the Plano Event Center, Plano, Texas!!!😁

February 6, 2023: Wife's Passport Application submitted in Dallas, Texas.

March 21, 2023:   Wife's Passport Delivered!!!!

May 15, 2023 (about):  Naturalization Certificate returned from Passport agency!!

 

In summary, it took 13 months for approval of the CR-1.  It took 44 months for approval of the I-751.  It took 4 months for approval of the N-400.   It took 172 days from N-400 application to Oath Ceremony.   It took 6 weeks for Passport, then 7 additional weeks for return of wife's Naturalization Certificate.. 
 

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2 hours ago, missileman said:

What are you trying to accomplish?

Hoping to speed up the process.  90 days in AP without an update is very stressful.  I'll bring additional evidence, including 3 years worth of call/chat logs, financial support and photos. 

I'm thinking if nothing CO can do while cases are under AP then they wouldn't have people come in the embassy to waste their time.  I'm there anyway so why not try....

Thanks for response to my post....

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29 minutes ago, GMvietnam said:

Hoping to speed up the process.  90 days in AP without an update is very stressful.  I'll bring additional evidence, including 3 years worth of call/chat logs, financial support and photos. 

I'm thinking if nothing CO can do while cases are under AP then they wouldn't have people come in the embassy to waste their time.  I'm there anyway so why not try....

Thanks for response to my post....

Good luck.....let us know what you find out.....

"The US immigration process requires a great deal of knowledge, planning, time, patience, and a significant amount of money.  It is quite a journey!"

- Some old child of the 50's & 60's on his laptop 

 

Senior Master Sergeant, US Air Force- Retired (after 20+ years)- Missile Systems Maintenance & Titan 2 ICBM Launch Crew Duty (200+ Alert tours)

Registered Nurse- Retired- I practiced in the areas of Labor & Delivery, Home Health, Adolescent Psych, & Adult Psych.

IT Professional- Retired- Web Site Design, Hardware Maintenance, Compound Pharmacy Software Trainer, On-site go live support, Database Manager, App Designer.

______________________________________

August 7, 2022: Wife filed N-400 Online under 5 year rule.

November 10, 2022: Received "Interview is scheduled" letter.

December 12, 2022:  Received email from Dallas office informing me (spouse) to be there for combo interview.

December 14, 2022: Combo Interview for I-751 and N-400 Conducted.

January 26, 2023: Wife's Oath Ceremony completed at the Plano Event Center, Plano, Texas!!!😁

February 6, 2023: Wife's Passport Application submitted in Dallas, Texas.

March 21, 2023:   Wife's Passport Delivered!!!!

May 15, 2023 (about):  Naturalization Certificate returned from Passport agency!!

 

In summary, it took 13 months for approval of the CR-1.  It took 44 months for approval of the I-751.  It took 4 months for approval of the N-400.   It took 172 days from N-400 application to Oath Ceremony.   It took 6 weeks for Passport, then 7 additional weeks for return of wife's Naturalization Certificate.. 
 

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Vietnam
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On 9/17/2019 at 5:38 PM, missileman said:

Good luck.....let us know what you find out.....

So here is my update:

Sept 23rd 2019 I went to the US embassy in HCMC, Vietman and handed them a bunch of additional documents (fb chat logs from 2017-current, moneygram receipts, photobook, etc) and said they'll add to our files. 

1 question was ask of me: Are you the petitioner?

I asked if there's anything else you need from us, and do you have any questions for me and he said No, so we left.

 

(Our case was never updated before I visited the embassy, since June 2019)

 

A month later: 

Sept. 23th 2019: Visited USEMVN (more evidence)

 

Oct. 29th 2019:  Case updated
Oct. 31st 2019: Case updated
Nov. 4th 2019: Case Updated 
Nov. 8th 2019: Case Updated
Nov. 12th 2019 Case Updated

 

Not sure if this is good or bad since we have not gotten a call/email or mail from them yet but at least they are looking at it.

 

 

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1 hour ago, GMvietnam said:

So here is my update:

Sept 23rd 2019 I went to the US embassy in HCMC, Vietman and handed them a bunch of additional documents (fb chat logs from 2017-current, moneygram receipts, photobook, etc) and said they'll add to our files. 

1 question was ask of me: Are you the petitioner?

I asked if there's anything else you need from us, and do you have any questions for me and he said No, so we left.

 

(Our case was never updated before I visited the embassy, since June 2019)

 

A month later: 

Sept. 23th 2019: Visited USEMVN (more evidence)

 

Oct. 29th 2019:  Case updated
Oct. 31st 2019: Case updated
Nov. 4th 2019: Case Updated 
Nov. 8th 2019: Case Updated
Nov. 12th 2019 Case Updated

 

Not sure if this is good or bad since we have not gotten a call/email or mail from them yet but at least they are looking at it.

 

 

Anytime you see "case updated" it means someone has "touched" your case. So I guess if it were me I think that would be a good sign since you went 90 days with nothing. 

Spoiler

Adjustment of Status

AOS March 5, 2014 Submitted AOS with EAD/AP package to Chicago USICS

Delivered March 8, 2014 AOS packaged delivered to USCIS drop box

Accepted March 19, 2014 Text message with receipt numbers

Biometrics April 16, 2014 Biometrics completed

EAD May 23, 2014 Employment Authorization Document approved and went to card production

TD May 23, 2014 Travel Document approved and went for card production

Receipt EAD/AP May 30, 2014 Received combo card EAD/AP

Green Card Approved July 11, 2014 Approved, no interview. Went to card production.

Green Card received July 17, 2014 GC received without interview

Removal of Conditions

Mailed I-751 Dec 16, 2015 Submitted ROC (removal of conditions)

Received Dec 18, 2015 USPS notification of successful delivery

Check Cashed Dec 21, 2015 Check was cashed

NOA-1 Issued Dec 21, 2015 NOA-1 for ROC issued

NOA-1 Issued Dec 26, 2015 NOA-1 Received

Biometrics Appt. Jan 29, 2016 Biometrics Appointment Scheduled [Completed]

 

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Vietnam
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15 minutes ago, Greenbaum said:

Anytime you see "case updated" it means someone has "touched" your case. So I guess if it were me I think that would be a good sign since you went 90 days with nothing. 

I hope its a good sign.  CO was wondering why so little chat logs at the interview (had 5 pages of screenshots).  When I visited them I gave them about 50 pages of text chats  I downloaded from FB (from 2016-2019).  I have about 5000 pages but I picked out some from each year.  This process is so dreaded.

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