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The closest office is about 90 minutes away, though I'll give it a try. I'm not sure how you're supposed to ever get an I-551 if you can't schedule an appointment for it in InfoPass. Hopefully the guards are understanding.

I very stupidly forgot my purse on top of the truck today and drove off.

It flew off the side of the road. I noticed a few moments later and someone had grabbed it and was driving away. Awesome.

Now I have no green card, no driver's license, no credit/debit cards, no ID. Thankfully I have my passport, my american social security card and the last letter from the USCIS dated 11/2014 saying Welcome to the USA!

I'm trying to make an appointment through Infopass to go get my passport stamped with a temporary I-551 while the I-90 for replacement goes through. However, the system is not letting me make an appointment for anything but an order from immigration court, case processing appointment, EAD inquiry over 90 days and F/U appointments.

How does one get an I-551?! Thank you.

Had interview today in Tucson, AZ - approved on the spot and status updated on USCIS website. w00t! Welcome to 'Merica, me!

Heh, I did end up telling the Immigration Officer that I got married because of the baby. I'm 29, husband is 30 - it's not a tragic teen pregnancy, I didn't even think I could have children after some reproductive health issues in my teens.

If it wasn't for the surprise pregnancy, we would have gone the K1 route. It's a second marriage for us both (first kid), and we were happy just taking it slow and visiting every month. I have no regrets and I love our son, love our family and love our life BUT - it wasn't the plan!

She asked a couple of questions, joked around with us and told us she'll approve our petition, should get the card within the month.

The whole thing took less than 10 minutes!

Hi everyone,

We have our AOS interview at 0800 tomorrow morning and I'm slightly stressed out. It's a long drive with an 11 week-old baby and it is so early in the morning.

I'm bringing :

- A baby. Our son is the main reason for me marrying my husband and remaining in the US. Also, no daycare and babies are cute.

- All originals of the documents I sent in.

- Copies of the originals.

- Evidence of a bona fide marriage : joint bank account, joint lease, joint car insurance, child birth certificate, baby book

- Evidence of intent to return to Canada this summer : unused return plane ticket, medical travel insurance policy, evidence of me cancelling my internships

Anything missing?

Hi everyone, I'm Eff and I'm in love.

B and I met in February 2010 through a Star Wars RPG game we both play. We were friends for quite some time and eventually grew closer. I should say right now that he was deployed to Iraq during that time and he flew me in to Texas to meet him straight off the plane when he returned home.

He came home November 2010 to El Paso, TX (Ft. Bliss). Our little "this is incredible... but we'll wait till we see each other to go nuts" evolved into full blown nuttiness. Since then, he's gotten orders for Ft. Huachuca, AZ and has just recently gotten situated at home. We visited each other a lot. He came to Montreal twice, I visited him another 3 times.

I have the "free time" that allows me to do this because I'm a nursing student. It also allows me to move down to be with him on a F1 visa next semester (September 2011). I'd have 2 more semesters to do in Arizona before graduating.

- I've already contacted the community college there and they're willing to talk with me for a full transfer of credits earned.

- I can get financial help (student loans) from the Gov't of Quebec even if I study abroad.

- We obviously plan on getting married at some point.

- I can then get a military dependent status that would get me medical insurance and waive the international student tuition. Unfortunately my soldier is a little too high-ranking for us to fall under the GI bill, but I'll consider myself extremely lucky to be able to just save the 10k/yr student tuition.

Alright, so that's the background story. I've read extensively about K1/IR-1 visas as I figured it might be easier to go the other way (enter as fiancee/wife then apply for college) but it seems the timeline is horrid... 10-12mo from application to entry is very discouraging.

My question is this : What do I tell the Officer at the student visa interview? Do I tell the truth? He'll be sponsoring me financially as the student loans come into installments and they want to know I have the total funds readily available (15k). I'm really unsure of how to go about this as I cannot bear to think of having it denied.

Thank you for your time,

Eff