US Immigration from Netherlands

Hey everybody,

after a joyful wedding we are now preparing our aos packet. As we all know the marvelous decision has been made to require all i-485 forms to have an I-693. Woohoo

Anyhow. I am trying to find a civil surgeon who a) does not try to scam me into a full medical and b) doesn t ask for 300-500 dollars for a bit of paperwork.

My question to everyone is: is this amount of money normal for this bit of paperwork? And: if it isn t, does anybody know a civil surgeon in the Orlando area who doesn t try to get you to do a full medical exam and/or make you pay full price?

don t get me wrong, if this is a normal price I m a-ok with it. I just want to make sure I m not getting conned

Hi hello!

So me and my fiance are filing for a K1 visa and to start with we'd be gathering all the documents required to send along with the I-129F. She's from the Netherlands whereas I am the U.S citizen. I was wondering if a birth certificate alone is enough proof that I am a U.S citizen or am I required to provide my passport aswell alongside my fiance's passport?

As of right now I don't have a passport, that's why we're worried. I requested it about 5 months, it got sent to the wrong address, now they're saying they don't even have my passport application so we're frustrated and worried taken re-requesting a passport would take even longer and post-pone our entire plans/schedule. Any help/answers are appreciated! Thanks.

Hi friends!

When I was researching before entering the US, I saw someone made a beautiful checklist on what to have in the i-485 etc. But now I can't seem to find it. Does anyone have it or anything similair? It was an actual list with checkboxes, I know there's the guide but I preferred the one I looked at haha.

Hi dear friends!!

We went to the SSA office last friday, it was a BREEZE, made an appointment online (10000% recommend doing this, I hear some people call and wait for a long time, I scheduled mine in 5min), she said that it can take upto 4 weeks because they have to check with immigration, but I always read about 2 weeks, is this an updated wait time? Or do they say 4 weeks and it's usually around 2 weeks?

Not that it really matters, because all I can do is wait anyway, but our desired wedding date was Dec 12th, and we seem to need a SSN to get a marriage license, so if it's 4 weeks, it's going to be tight haha.

Hi dear VisaJourney community,
I am currently preparing my AOS documentation so that when we are ready, we can file them as quickly as possible. One of the requirements for Form I-485 is to provide my I-94. I have an extensive I-94 as I've been hopping back and forth between NL and the US every few months. I provided it during my K1 application.

However, when I tried to pull up my I-94 today...the website said there was no record of my travels. Which is very odd. Is this normal after a status change (from VWP to K1)? Should I send a message to the CBP?

(I checked if I had filled in my details correctly...five times)