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The parts that are most concerning (and your answers border on this) to me are that 1.) I never received the return receipt which, I thought, is returned right after it is delivered regardless if they reviewed anything yet, and 2.) that they never cashed any check yet, which would be acceptable proof to show USCIS in the future that I sent the package on time.

Without either of these, I can say that I have everything on time, but there is no proof.

Hi all,

I have been using this site for a while, but I rarely have a question that can't be answered by using the search function. Now, though, I do have one that I cannot find on the forum:

I filed the I-751 for my wife on August 30th, sending her package to the Vermont Service Center in St. Albans. According to USPS tracking, it was delivered on September 3rd. For my wife's original green card filing (I-485, etc) USCIS cashed the check and sent us an e-mail within a week of sending the package. This time, though, we are coming up on two weeks and the check has not been cashed, the return receipt has not been sent back to our mailbox, and we obviously have not received our NOA yet.

If I had sent it three months before my wife's green card expired, I would be fine. But my wife's green card expires on September 22nd. Is this kind of thing normal or is it time for us to re-send the package before her card expires? I am just concerned that if they didn't receive the package, that it will be too late to re-send it after my wife's card expires. What happens in cases like that?

Are they just too backed up around Labor Day?

Thanks in advance for any help,

D

Hello - I have an advanced parole which expires end of August this year. I already applied for another advanced parole 2 months ago but havent received it yet. The thing is I need to travel begining of September. By then, my current AP will be expired and probably I wont have my new one.

The thing is I am planning on staying abroad for few months and asked my friend to bring me my Advanced Parole once issued.

What are the risks here?

I am just waiting on my adjustment of status (green card) from work.

Thank You,

Your application will be considered abandoned, and the person immigrating will not be approved. You must be approved for the second AP before leaving the country in September.

Okay, so then the IO just needs to check the laws and make sure that your wife was actually approved for her extension and was eligible for said extension. If there is a problem with that, she would have a 3-year ban and shouldn't have been let back in with the AP. If there is no problem with that, then it is fine. You'll just have to let the IO do their work and make sure everything checks out. Sorry, it must be stressful. But if you know you did everything correctly, you shouldn't worry. Good luck.

Thank you. The IO's last words were "I just have to check that one thing, but it should be fine." That was two seconds after she told us we could potentially be denied. She was so incredibly confused by the J-1 extension that we didn't know what to think. We were so blown away by it being a problem because we thought, if anywhere, we would have a problem at the border, which we didn't.

Additionally, we showed the IO our visa extension acceptance, which she lost in the pile of papers that she was holding for a few seconds. Without that paper, my wife will be denied. We are both anxious people naturally, but they didn't invoke confidence in us by the way they were handling everyone's papers. I asked if she could call me if there was a problem, to which she agreed, but again, I don't have much confidence in the system. I believe they are just too overloaded with work to look at the details of all our papers. Here's praying that I'm wrong...

How did you take a trip in July? On Advance Parole?

Yes, sorry forgot that. She was approved for AP and was successfully paroled into the country two days ago. No problems whatsoever. We didn't think it was risky because she was never out of status.

My wife and I just returned from our interview adjusting her status from her J-1 (no 2 year requirement), in NYC. Here's the deal: She came into the country on a J-1, which expired October 2010. Just before it expired, she legally left the country and returned, no problems. Her I-94, upon returning, said that she was allowed to stay until the middle of October 2010 - the end of her original J-1. Then, while still in status, she extended her J-1 6 extra months, now with a valid J-1 until April 12th 2011. This extension was never stamped into her passport like the original J-1. In March 2011 we married and we filed for her AOS, which was received on April 18, 2011, more than 180 days after the I-94 says she was not to have been allowed in the country, even though her J-1 was still valid.

In case you're confused, she did not spend even 1 day illegally in the country before AOS. Then, July 2011 we left the country and returned. The woman at the interview said that because the original I-94 had been out of status for more than 6 months, and since the J-1 stamp in passport also was invalid over 6 months, that my wife may be denied?!? I don't understand this. Was she confused because of the extension? She had never been out of status. We were so confused, as was the interviewer. She said that she needed to talk to some other people before knowing officially the law.

Can anyone help? We are nervous!

You go to the Civil Surgeon BEFORE, get a medical exam, and the Civil Surgeon will fill out I-693. They will seal it in an envelope and give it to you. You will send in the sealed envelope with your whole I-130/I-485 package- don't open the envelope! You can find civil surgeons on the USCIS website. Good luck.

Wow. Thank you for letting us know. We thought we were ready to send in our application, but she still needs to be examined.

Adjusting status for my wife from a J-1 (no two-year requirement). As I am reading the I-693, I'm growing confused. Are we supposed to schedule a medical appointment and have the civil surgeon fill out the form BEFORE we submit the I-130/485 and then attach what the surgeon's done with the package? Or are we supposed to only fill out Part 1 of the I-693, and then mail it with the I-130/485 in order to do the medical evaluation later? As in, they will tell us later when to make a medical appointment?

Your help is appreciated!

Can you give some background such as where is your wife and what visa is she adjusting from, if any.

She is adjusting from a J-1. We are currently living together in NYC and have been in this apartment for about 6 months now. We are both in our 20s and fresh out of graduate school, so we have done a lot of hopping around in the last few years. I didn't know what addresses to put in our respective places, so I used my original address and her original, since they ask for our residence later in the form, anyhow.

I am using the example downloads on this website to fill out my wife's i-130. The only issue, though, for the two addresses at the top, is that this example form is for a spouse that is out of the country, so it makes sense to fill out two different addresses. Originally I put my American parents address(its my permanent address even though I dont live there anymore) on my side and my wifes parents address on her side, although we live together at another location mentioned later in the form. Should we put the address where we currently live on both her and my side at the top or leave it as be?

Sorry if this is difficult to understand. Having trouble writing with her French keyboard.

My wife's current J-1 visa states that she is "not subject to 2 year rule". This may be a silly question, but will she still require a waiver to adjust status visa via I-130/485? Additionally, will a photocopy of the actual visa showing this be all that's required to prove this to be the case?