murasame

Thanks all. I already have it filled and with all back ups. I will be sending it first thing tomorrow morning.

Although, i have no idea how to address the lateness. The exact reason is because time just went too fast and we noticed it a day before it expired!

Hello All,

First of all thanks for all your help during the past years as we have gone through the visa process with only visa journey's help. You are all a great team.

I will need your help once again as i am confused on what form to use to lift the two year "conditional" permanent residence. My wife came in with a k-1 (i-129f). The guide doesnt have a link or specify how to do this last part (or atleast i didnt see it)

There's a post which details the 4 required step but doesnt give a link either:

"4. Lifting the Conditions of Residence Stage (required)

- "Permanent Resident" and USC file jointly to remove the conditions of residence within 90 days of the two year anniversary date on the Green Card. Condition of residence is removed. "Permanent Resident" receives a new Green Card [RENEWABLE ten year expiration]. Status remains "Permanent Resident."

I searched the forms on uscis.gov website and the one that relates the most to it is i-751. Is that the form we need to file?

We are in a desperate situation here as her residence expired 8/17/14 and today is 8/18/14. I am aware that the penalty of not filing within the 90 days before residence expiring is deportation.

Please help.

Hello VJ,

Thanks for all your help. I brought my wife thru fiance and then adjusted her status with your help. We just had a beautiful girl which have made us very happy.

I am writing because i need help filing out my father's petition. He is a naturalized American citizen, and has a 45~ yo son who is currently divorced. I was looking through the website and found out that he only needs to fill out an I-130. I thought a bio form needed to be filed as well, would you guys please clarify this for me? thanks

Here is what i found on the site, which only mentions I-130

"If you are a U.S. citizen and the father or stepparent of the child or son or daughter, you must file the following with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services:

Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative

A copy of your birth certificate or U.S. passport

If you were not born in the U.S., a copy of either:

your Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship or

your U.S. passport

A copy of the child's birth certificate showing the child's name and the names of both parents

A copy of civil marriage certificate showing the names of both parents, or proof that a parent/child relationship exists or existed (if you are petitioning for a stepchild, your marriage to the child's parent must take place before the stepchild's 18th birthday)

A copy of any divorce decrees, death certificates, or annulment decrees that establish the termination of any previous marriages entered into by you or your spouse

Fathers petitioning for a child born out of wedlock must provide evidence that a parent/child relationship exists or existed. For example, the child's birth certificate displaying the father's name, evidence showing that the father and child at some point lived together, or that the father held out the child as his own, or that he has made financial contributions in support of the child, or that in general his behavior evidenced genuine concern for and interest in the child. A blood test proving paternity may also be necessary.

If anyone's name has been legally changed (if it differs from the name on his or her birth certificate), evidence of the name change must be submitted."

Thanks, let me know please

Raul

approved. timeline updated

I have not gotten an email or text yet but i just checked uscis and it says card in production! whoo hoo

Wait so you got noa1 in 2010?

congrats

December 2011. transfered to csc mid january, and still waiting.

8 months and still 92187398217 years to go.

I contacted my senator today. Let's see if there's improvement.

After i am done with this, i hope i will never have to hear from uscis/csc in my whole life ever again.

It's going to be 7 month since transfer, and what pisses me off is that k1 also took over 300 days for me. Its like i have the worst luck ever.

still waiting

mine was transferred 6 months ago and i am expecting 3 more for it to get approved.

csc sucks!!!

Thanks.

I updated my timeline thanks for the reminder. Gah i guess we'll have to wait more and more, which is getting tiresome. I wish i knew about having been able to get SS with her fiance visa.

When i call uscis, they tell me to wait 6 months before calling, and that's going to be on June 27th. I am going to call everyday non stop from that day on.

Hello VJ,

Let me repeat my story again so i can be able to plant my question.

I sent the fiance petition on september 2010, went through noa 1 & 2, medical, the appointment, and my girlfriend finally got approved at the end of July, and landed to the U.S July 31st (i-129f took 11 months).

We got married two months later, and on December sent i-485 for adjustment of status. She went for fingerprinting on December 27.

Now, it's going to be 5 months since the finger printing and it's driving us crazy. Our process is already over 2 years and she still haven't gotten her social and green card.

Did i file the wrong form? were we entitled to file other than i485 form for her to get her papers faster? because this means we are doing double the time, if i knew this then i would have gotten married over sea and just file i130. If this is supposed to work like this, then i129 is a waste of time and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone! wth.

Thanks,

No she didn't =\

Waiting for 2.5 month after sending that would be pointless by now, since that will be 5+ months since Aos was sent and probably will get approve by then.

Thanks anyways

Hmm ok thanks. We'll just have to wait then, so the 27th of march will be three month since finger print.

Hello VJ,

First of all, thanks everyone for helping so many people go through their tough moments and being so helpful.

Some might remember my user. I and now my wife, filed for k-1 visa and it was approved last year on July. She came the same month, and got married in September, but we sent i-485 on December(her Visa expired January 16th). She had her finger printing done December 27, and on mid January we got a letter from NVC saying they were re-allocating our documents to California for a fastest process. Since then, we have been waiting for the interview or green card. Although, it got to a time where we definitely need her to get a Social Security so can work and get a driver license etc.

I am aware that after finger printing the AoS takes anything from 2 to 8+ months and there's no way to expedite it. So my question, is there a way for her to get a SS so she can start working, driver license, school, etc ? And if so, what is the process and how long it takes.

Thank You!

Raul&Ginelly

Does AOS normally takes 8 month for interview?!?!?! we sent ours december 27th and i actually thought it was just 2-3 months??

Great help thanks!

So, there's I-485, I-765, & I-131 to fill out. by order they are green card, employment, and travel. If my wife only needs green card(since she wont be working unil then, and wont travel as well) does that mean i only have to fill and send out I-765?

thank you for your help.

Hello,

I would like to ask for help on our next step for my now wife green card. We started our case here at VJ from scratch. I petitioned my GF back in September 2010, and she was approved in July/11. We then got married on September/11 and now I am wondering what is the next step we should take for her to have a green card. I am only aware that it cost about 900~ for the card and 100~ for medicals, but don't know any detail on the forms.

I would like to add that back when she took the medical examination, she also took the optional vaccines, so i'm not sure if that would affect the amount of money i would have to send.

Help is greatly appreciated, and I already know this community's website is excellent since it's always so much help.

Thank you

Raul.

Thanks, and yes she entered on K-1. I told DOMEX(mail express) to send it to their(domex) location in santiago since thats near her place, and picked it up on the 28th. If I havent told them so, they would take ages to deliver to her home, or even never get there! since she never received packet 4 as well cause mailing system sucks in DR.

Ok, so get married and then apply for AOS. We have to get married before the 18th of october. If we get married before then, can we apply after that date though?

thanks

My gf's visa has been approved July 21st and given an expiration date january 2012, although she is already in the US with me. Whats the next step so she can get permanent residence status?

THANK YOU ALL! I will look up their email and request it instead of calling them up to request it. Also i didn't know my finacee could get the police certificate without packet 4, and the 30 days valid period. So she basically has to go to a policia municipal from her town and ask for it?

If you never get the packet you can call and they schedule a date for you to pick up a duplicate a week before your interview.

thats the problem. SDO is almost 3 hours away for my fiancee so she has to

1. get the package a week before

2. do the medical

3. return for the result

4. go to the interview

going 4 times in a week to SDO will be a pain in the ####. besides there is also the police certificate, doesn't she needs packets 4 to get that report?

It got to my attention that DOM REP mailing system is f***ed up. Is there a way to ask for packet 4 to be sent through E-mail? have anyone heard of this?