US Immigration from Chile

Hi, I wanted to share my recent experience when filing my I-485 to adjust status from K-1.

My (now) wife and I were living in Chile just before Covid happened. We were forced to be separated due to goverment lockdowns and general tyranny.

After obtaining my K-1, we got married in August 2021 and filed my I-485 in September 2021. We were very thorough with our Affidavit of Support, as my wife's 2020 tax returns were below the poverty line from having worked only half of the year in the US. We provided recent pay stubs, a signed official letter from her employer, showing that her income was about +40k/year.

In November 2021 I received a RFE, they rejected her as a sponsor for earning below the poverty line.

Following many issues, we failed to get a joint sponsor for many months. Finally, we found a very generous new friend who volunteered and agreed to sponsor us. We sent our paperwork at the end of March 2022.

Four days after submitting our RFE response with a joint sponsor, I saw the following message in my USCIS online account: "We have cancelled the request for additional evidence for your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status." Shortly after, our interview was scheduled.

During the interview, which went very well, the officer approved us on the spot. I seized the opportunity and showed him the online account screenshot, and he went ahead and checked our case through their internal system.

He confirmed my suspicions: The RFE was entirely disregarded, our original I-864 Affidavit of support, filed with the I485 package, was the one that was approved. I know this because he read: "Affidavit was approved from paystubs". We did not submit pay stubs from our joint sponsor as he is a business owner and did not have any.

There you go, the rusty gears of government bureaucrats are very... interesting. Attached is my case history from USCIS online.

Hi,

I have been reading on USCIS and this website but can't find info. I'm confused and hope someone can clarify it.

I'm a US citizen and would like to bring my brother. He has a wife and they have 2 kids (15 and 19 years old).

It's my understanding that I can submit a I-130 for my brother and it's including his wife and kids.

Do the kids need to be less than 21 years old and unmarried at the moment of the I-130 is submitted or at the moment they are elegible to get the GC (around 15 years later) ?

Hello, today with my husband we had our adjustment of status interview. The whole experience was a little bit odd and I would like to know if anyone has passed through the same experience.

We had an appointment at 11:00 am and we arrived 15 minutes before. We went to the second floor and it was a little bit full but nothing too terrible. After 1 hour and 20 minutes everyone else has been called and left except us and a few new people that arrived later. We got called and after getting in and swearing in the interview started. She asked how we met and after we said it was in a game she asked us to show our faces, then she proceeded to tell me a story about a chilean that works for her ( I'm chilean too) and how he has dark skin while I don't and if we have a lot of mixture in Chile. This topic took half time of the interview. She asked about my dad date of birth, when was my medical done and if I give the envelope at the POE and if I had a copy (I said yes to both), the date of my entry to the states, plus a few questions same as the form (like if you have kill someone, bring drugs, etc.) and then said we are done and that we need to leave because she was under schedule since the last person needed a sign language interpreter and was very long.

We asked if we need to show her the documents we bring, plus more evidence as pictures. She said no, if we need something you can mail it. And that was it, she did not say if it was good or not. Honestly, it was really odd, specially all the skin tone conversation. We are a real couple who dated 6 years before getting married and we went there really confident our case was strong. So far everything has been quick and we have a solid case. I just needed to vent and honestly ask if anyone have had an experience like this, if so what happened afterward. How long should we wait before we take action to call or get a lawyer? Also, has anybody had an interview where the officer didn't request any documents (beside showing the passport to prove name)?

Thank you so much for reading.

Hello everybody!

Hope this post finds you all well .

My wife and I are trying to submit an inquiry about our case, since it's out of regular processing time, according to the website: https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ .

So, our data is:

- Receipt date: 06/01/2021.

- Form: I-130, US Citizen filing for a spouse.

- Service Center: Nebraska (according to our receipt notice, bottom left of the document).

- Current receipt date for a case inquiry at the moment of this post is: June 12th 2021. (range is: 4 to 7 months)

Everytime we try to submit the inquiry we get the "Your application or petition is currently within the posted processing times. An inquiry may not be created at this time."

Our receipt date is before the current receipt date for a case inquiry posted, we should be able to submit it (it's been over 7 months already).

We're very confused. We even called the USCIS customer service (1-800-375-5283), and the automated phone system is really a nightmare (confuses numbers when you say your receipt number or doesn't do anything if you dial it), then tells you to check the website.

So we're wonderign: has anyone had this issue?, what might be the problem?, if you had this issue, how did you solve it?

Post data: https://my.uscis.gov/ is down right now.

Thanks!!!!!

So we have our green card interview scheduled and just got the NOA with the date in the mail today - scheduled for Jan 15! Way sooner than expected. It says on the notice that we must bring the spouse s birth certificate in addition to the proof of US citizenship. I am the US citizen and when we applied, I only sent in copies of my US passport because I actually lost my birth certificate years ago, and for the application it said I could use either/or as proof of US citizenship. I should have probably requested a new copy of my birth certificate ages ago but I thought my US passport would suffice and wasn t thinking that much about it. I just ordered a new birth certificate today and it says it will take 8-12 weeks to process.. I know I messed up big time. My question is, should I try to reschedule the interview or show up with just my passport ? Is there a faster way to get a birth certificate ? I see some websites online but I don t know if they re credible ...