March 2021 - AOS filers

[green_rabbit 69]

No thread yet?

 

I am hoping to submit early next week and am looking forward to doing so without the i-944. 

[mmcgee 5]

We married on 2-19-21 and are just now getting to filing this.

Does anyone have any suggestion or a thread they can point me to regarding the order in which we should do it when considering a name change, as well?

Do we change the legal surname first?

Do it after?

If anyone has experience with this please share it.  

Thank you!

Edited March 12, 2021 by mmcgee

[green_rabbit 69]

28 minutes ago, mmcgee said:

Does anyone have any suggestion or a thread they can point me to regarding the order in which we should do it when considering a name change, as well?

Weird that it's not in the guides (that I could see) and I didn't find a thread after a quick search. Seems worth posting your own thread about it so more people will see it.

[klam133 4]

I just finished mine today and i am worried that i might do something wrong. I am double, triple and quadruple checking everything. Let hope we can support each other one this. 

[green_rabbit 69]

53 minutes ago, klam133 said:

I just finished mine today and i am worried that i might do something wrong. I am double, triple and quadruple checking everything. Let hope we can support each other one this. 

Yes, same. It seems like a lot of people get their AOS packages rejected and I don't want that. The guide at the beginning of the Feb filers seems good for double checking supporting documents and all that, but I didn't want to outright steal it and post it here. 😊

[klam133 4]

10 minutes ago, green_rabbit said:

Yes, same. It seems like a lot of people get their AOS packages rejected and I don't want that. The guide at the beginning of the Feb filers seems good for double checking supporting documents and all that, but I didn't want to outright steal it and post it here. 😊

You know what is sad? I just founf out the I944 is no longer needed. I already packed everything up. Not sure if i should take out the i944

[green_rabbit 69]

6 minutes ago, klam133 said:

You know what is sad? I just founf out the I944 is no longer needed. I already packed everything up. Not sure if i should take out the i944

I'd take it out. They say they don't want it anymore after the 9th. I filled ours out, but I'm not sending it. (It was mostly just explanations of why various records are unavailable, and he would've had some negative marks so I'm super glad it's gone.)

 

Or I guess if taking it out would mean you'd need a new envelope, I'd probably just let them throw it out, personally.

Edited March 14, 2021 by green_rabbit

[green_rabbit 69]

Mailed it off today, so hopefully all will go well. I'm happy to not think about it for a while.

[justinedr 27]

so i-944's off the list. yayyy!

we're about to send our package tomorrow, but just wanna be 100% sure -- proof of relationship, cohabitation, and co-mingling of finances aren't needed as initial evidence, right? they're just for the interview stage or if asked

[green_rabbit 69]

6 hours ago, justinedr said:

so i-944's off the list. yayyy!

we're about to send our package tomorrow, but just wanna be 100% sure -- proof of relationship, cohabitation, and co-mingling of finances aren't needed as initial evidence, right? they're just for the interview stage or if asked

That's my understanding. 

[green_rabbit 69]

My package should have arrived at the Chicago lockbox Friday (USPS priority) but tracking says:

 

Your item was forwarded to a different address at 12:52 pm on March 19, 2021 in CHICAGO, IL. This was because of forwarding instructions or because the address or ZIP Code on the label was incorrect.

 

 

 

[mitanyag 7]

Hello fellow March filers!

Just sent our AOS file yesterday via USPS and got delivered to Chicago lockbox today @ 1PM.

However, we're a bit frustrated when we reviewed our I-864 from joint sponsor because we overlooked and put the wrong total value of asset in part 7 question 10. 

Anyway, we cannot do anything about it and accepted the fact that there's a high change of getting RFE in the future.  Just praying for the best possible outcome

 

Also, we used the I-485 form with edition date 10/15/19.... not knowing that there is a new edition which came out recently.

As per USCIS website, they mentioned that they will still accept the old version before April 19, 2021... so we hope to receive the NOA1 ASAP.  

 

Goodluck to all

[noname_no 38]

On 3/20/2021 at 3:12 PM, mitanyag said:

Hello fellow March filers!

Just sent our AOS file yesterday via USPS and got delivered to Chicago lockbox today @ 1PM.

However, we're a bit frustrated when we reviewed our I-864 from joint sponsor because we overlooked and put the wrong total value of asset in part 7 question 10. 

Anyway, we cannot do anything about it and accepted the fact that there's a high change of getting RFE in the future.  Just praying for the best possible outcome

 

Also, we used the I-485 form with edition date 10/15/19.... not knowing that there is a new edition which came out recently.

As per USCIS website, they mentioned that they will still accept the old version before April 19, 2021... so we hope to receive the NOA1 ASAP.  

 

Goodluck to all

I filed in Jan and had it returned back to me due to the same reason as you - an older (previous) edition date of I-485 despite expiry date is still valid. Resubmitted everything as original submission and they received it on Mar 5 (Fri). It is almost three weeks now. Let's see how that pans out.

 

[Mike&Heidi 10]

Hi guys,

 

My wife and I mailed our packet in on 12-MAR-21 and are now awaiting NOA1. We definitely felt the pressure getting our packet out and going for zero mistakes, but time will tell.

 

Our packet did have I-944... I need to do some reading now I guess, because I thought that it was required.

 

-Mike (USC)

[Mike&Heidi 10]

Well there it is on USCIS. Big as life.