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Ok, I need help. I have been trying to get a copy of the welcome letter that is sent after the I-130 is approved. The one they did send has been misplaced. I have tried on 6 separate occasions through the inquiry portal with no help. All I get is a computer generated email stating that a copy will be sent to my email within 2 business days, same exact email just with a different name. They did attempt to call me twice about the delay and the lack of progress on our case. Unfortunately, when they did call I was at a Dr's appointment with my phone turned off and I missed them. This welcome letter is the only document stopping my wife from getting her police certificate from the Hong Kong police (she works in Hong Kong) to continue on to get her interview scheduled. Other than the inquiry portal on their website, there isn't any other way to contact them which is completely ridiculous. I don't know where else to turn to for help. It's so very frustrating.

My brother (35) has a green card interview in Jakarta in a few weeks. He was in the US with a student visa but he graduated and his visa expired. He stayed in the US out of status for 2 years while waiting for the interview appointment. Now that he has received his appointment date, he has flown back to Jakarta to prepare for his interview. Is this a concern for the interview that he was out of status? He s now in Jakarta for the interview in a few weeks. He has taken the medical exam there. In the US, he lives with our mom by themselves. My mom is 72, just had knee replacements. She was a PR when she filed the application to sponsor him in 2016 but now is a citizen since 3 years ago. Any advice for a successful interview? Application submitted in 2016 when he was 26. He s not married

Hi all,

I moved back into the country about 4 months ago and my K-1 fiancee (now wife) arrived in late May. When submitting all of our I-129F documents and all other things, like her SSN application, we used my parents' address as I was still living in an AIrbnb at the time and that address was still my legal address on my ID.

In June, she and I moved into a new apartment where we are both on the lease. I haven't yet changed my ID address yet, but will soon. Both addresses are in the same city.

We are now filling out the i-485, 864, 765 to submit for her AoS. Some questions/options on it:

1) Would it be better to continue using the previous address at my parents' home for these forms to avoid any confusion or should we use our new address where we are currently living? Both she and I have no problem receiving mail at the 1st address.
2) Should we use only 1 address on all the forms or is it best to include both?

3) If we use both, would we use the parents' address as Mailing Address and our apartment as Physical Address? is there any certain implication about each of these beyond receiving mail?

Thanks

Hi,

Our K1 application was marked as Ready within the CEAC system and received by the CDJ consultate on June 18, 2025 (5 weeks ago). We received our K1-FTP letter but it did not have any instructions on how to schedule an interview. We have not heard anything back since that point and don't know what to do from here. We created an account in the AIS system, and completed the DS-160 form and it says that our case is not ready for an interview yet but we are unsure what else to do. Can anyone provide some insight as to what the next step is? Will we receive an email from the CDJ consulate with interview appointment instructions? How long does that take?

Thanks so much for your help!

Interview Account

Sorry for the delay on this but Jaycel and I went out to celebrate getting past this part of the process last night

Our interview was scheduled for 11:05am yesterday (July 23rd). There is covered, on-site parking for anyone going to this office. (Very fancy LOL) We walked into the building at 10:25am and went through security which is pretty much the same as TSA security with belt and shoes and all belongings going in the bin to be scanned and you walk through a metal detector. All in all we were through security in about 3 minutes. No line to get in the building at all. After security, you go to the reception window to the left while still on the first floor to check in. The receptionist will scan the barcodes on your interview notice to check you in and then direct you to go back behind the security station to the elevator and go to the 2nd floor waiting room. There are 3 doors (A, B & C) that we saw officers coming out into the waiting room on the 2nd floor to escort applicants out and call people in for their interview. We got to the waiting room right about 10:35. There were about 30 people waiting in there to include what we assume were applicants, petitioners and some who were obviously attorneys. Our officer called us at about 11:20am and she came out of the elevator to get us and took us up to the 3rd floor. She greeted us with a warm genuine smile and said, "Good morning Jaycel & Ed I'm happy to meet you!" She immediately put us at ease and joked with us that we're special because we were going to the "Management Floor" where her office is. She was kind, professional and you could tell that she was very experienced. I would even go so far as to venture a guess that she even may have been a supervisor? I don't know if they do interviews themselves ever? Maybe since everyone is getting interviews now (which she confirmed with us is absolutely the new policy) the supervisors are chipping in? If she wasn't a supervisor, I would definitely say she was one of the more senior officers at this FO. We got to her office and she asked us to remain standing so that she could swear us in. After that she asked me for my Driver License and asked Jaycel for her passport that she entered the US on, any other passports that she had (which she doesn't), her EAD card, her SS Card and her Driver License. Once we handed her our IDs, I noticed her take our licenses and put them side by side and compare the addresses to verify they were the same. She then did Jaycel s biometrics (fingerprints of each index finger and photo). She mentioned that sometimes she would be typing while we were answering questions and not to feel like there was anything wrong, she was just recording our answers for the record. She also mentioned how slow their system is so that could cause some delays. She saw that I had taken out the sealed envelope from the civil surgeon and asked what it was I had to give her. I told her that we had the vaccine assessment part of the I-693 done by a civil surgeon because Jaycel was missing the polio vaccine from her overseas medical she had done for the K-1 visa. She said, Thank you for getting that done! She then said, Ok, I love a good love story so tell me yours! We asked her who she wanted to answer so Jaycel, who loves to tell our story, started. She listened very intently, asked some questions along the way to both of us and was typing at the same time. She then asked the following questions:

Has either of you been married before?

Do either of you have any children anywhere in the world?

To me (the USC) are your parents still alive? Do you have siblings?

To Jaycel - Have you met any of his siblings?

Confirmed our wedding date and asked where we had our ceremony and who attended

Did you have a celebration afterwards? Where was it? (Turns out she knows the exact place we had our celebratory dinner, as she had eaten there a few times)

To Jaycel - Where do you live? Who lives there with you? Asked questions about our dog, in friendly way as you could tell she is a dog person

Then she asked about 20 of the Yes/No questions from the I-485

She then said she was thankful for all of the uploaded evidence as it made her job easier. She asked if we had anything else to give her that we hadn t already uploaded. She had the sealed medical and we gave her some proof that we were each other s emergency contacts at our jobs, me as beneficiary on Jaycel s insurance at her new job, a printout of our Amazon Family page with us both listed and some mail Jaycel had received in her name at our house.

She then printed off the paper shown below - She said basically that s just our proof that we attended the interview and that her plan was that afternoon to upload what we brought her and would approve our case.

Hope this helps anyone awaiting an interview and feel free to reach out if you have any questions!