US Immigration from Brazil

Hello All,

I'm sure all of us who are "in-waiting" pay attention to the estimated times for acceptances, biometrics, interviews and the like. I know those are based on the most extreme case averages mostly. I'm not certain this would be any metric for anything, but my wife and I filed in early January of 2025, and we just got an update to both our I-485 and I-130 cases. Both elements have now had an interview scheduled for early July. We're excited that it seems the progress is much quicker than expected given we were originally told 15-18 months to even get an interview or potentially receive the GC. We understand that it could be some time after the interview before the GC is mailed, but we're thrilled this seems to be moving along rather reasonably. Is this time frame aligning with others in our same situation?

My wife already has her EAD, so that was adjudicated prior. The disappointment was that we filed an I-131 for Advanced Parole, and now it appears we may get the GC before the Advanced Parole is even approved. Only reason we did that was because we were told the Advanced Parole would most likely come before the GC. The downside there is the money spent for the form, to not even get the cost out of expenditure. All that matters to us is that we get some of this process behind us and can happily continue forward!!

I m currently filing my wife's N-400 online and gathering the documents to apply based on the 5-year rule. She has been a permanent resident since October 2017 and has only traveled outside the U.S. once, for two weeks. However, I noticed that her passport does not have a re-entry stamp showing her return to the U.S. What should I do in this case?

HI. My Husband filed my petition online (I-130) in hopes of getting the Receipt notice immediately, and save papers when mailing the I-485 (AOS) concurrently. However, it has been 40 days and no mail of the receipt notice received, and no PDF file of the receipt notice available for printing on his online USCIS account. We only have the receipt number as provided on the online status ("Case Received and notice of receipt has been sent"). My husband is a US. I am from Brazil. This is my second time to visit US and decided to stay for good. my I-94 recent travel has stay validity until July 2025 though. We are very anxious on how long can be a concurrent filing be accepted since we cant mail the I-485 without the actual copy of the receipt notice. We now regret this move and should've just filed I-130 by paper together with I-485 as concurrent.

We are wondering if a receipt number is enough, and writing a statement to explain why there's no notice of receipt received to be attached on the concurrent filing, and provide the payment receipt of the online I130 and the page copy of the online USCIS account of my husband that details the status, history, and receipt number of the online I130 filed. Reddit and Youtube are not helpful either.

If someone had a similar situation, I would greatly appreciate if you share your experience, and provide the steps you took with this situation.

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Hello, dear members. I hope you're all doing well.

My fianc and I are currently putting together our K-1 visa package, and so far, this is what we ve included. I d really appreciate any feedback, especially from those who have experience with this process.

I wanted to explain that we re unable to take screenshots of all our conversations from the beginning of our relationship because both of us changed phones. However, we do have the backup of our chats, and I ve already included a written statement explaining this in our cover letter. Do you think including a screenshot of the WhatsApp backup could be helpful, or would it be seen negatively?

We also included the invitation letter my fianc wrote when I applied for a tourist visa in January 2025, as well as proof of the reimbursement he sent me for the visa expenses, even though that visa was denied.

Do you think any of these things could hurt our case? I really hope not I m feeling very anxious about all of this.

Thank you so much in advance for any insights or advice.