US Immigration from Canada

For the AOS (my husband and sister in law as a co sponsor)

do I bring their passports with me to the interview? Or just photocopies? Or notarized ones?

and for their tax transcripts etc do I just bring a printed copy or does it have to be certified?

Hi everyone,

if you don t have a copy of your immunization records and your dr doesn t either, can I just request to get them again at the medical? My dr books 3 months out, so I m wondering if I m better off doing it that way.

Different opinions have been given on this website as to rescheduling your interview. One couple had a trip to Central America planned for their anniversary, and their interview was scheduled right on their departure date. Many people had said, "Not a legitimate reason, don't even bother," since it was a leisure trip (albeit whose cancellation would have incurred heavy financial losses). But they were able to visit a USCIS office in person, and on the contrary, the agent told them it was a very legitimate reason, and the interview was rescheduled. That was back in 2009.

My question is the following: I've just found out that an interview has been scheduled for me (as of April 4) - extremely grateful for this, can't believe it's finally here! - and I've also some major upcoming dates for non-negotiable exams over the coming months (at least or three or four very inflexible dates that involve travel to different states and that are necessary for my career). Cancelling or postponing these could set me back six to twelve months. Though it's unlikely the AOS interview date should fall exactly on the same day as one of these exams, at the same time, if it did it'd be a very hard choice to make. But given that I already have an EAD that's valid for another two years, and I don't plan on leaving the U.S. anytime soon, I could afford to defer the AOS interview. That said, how easy is it to reach a USCIS agent these days? Should I even bother trying to reschedule if it came to that?

If it's impossible to reschedule the interview and it falls on a major, non-negotiable date, I'll go to the interview, of course, and take the hit - though it would be a major one. Just wondering what my options are and how much wiggle room I have, given the difficulty in reaching a live human being at USCIS who can help you outside the scheduled mailings and hard dates they give.

We recently used the USCIS.gov "Case Inquiry" option (Case outside normal processing time) regarding AOS. We filed for my AOS in May of 2020, had the biometrics appointment in February 2021, and nothing had happened since then. About a month or two after using the "Case Inquiry" option on USCIS, I checked my USCIS online profile and saw that my case was ready to be scheduled for an interview. A little over a week later, it said an interview had been scheduled (as of April 4) and they would be mailing me a notice.

I bring this up here because I realize now that I used the exact same "Case Inquiry" function to ask about my biometrics appointment back in late November 2020. From May to November 2020, I received no update on my case; shortly after making a formal inquiry, I was invited to the biometrics appointment (rescheduled twice for reasons too complicated to get into here). In any case, it seems now that the "Case Inquiry" is a gentle way to poke and prod about the status of your application, and in our case it seems to have worked.

Unless it's entirely a coincidence!

Some news from the UK, it seems that the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister), and Member of Parliament for 7 years admitted that he had LPR Status in the US. It looks like he had to give it up on his first trip to the US in an official capacity, my guessing that he was ineligible for A-1 diplomatic status while being an LPR...but I'm wondering, how the was he getting away with maintaining LPR status while obviously not living in the US, being an MP and also a member of the government for so long?

Apologies if this is in the wrong section.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-tax-wife-us-resident-green-card-b2053783.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61044847