Leasel7

Congratulations! Your new baby girl is just gorgeous.

My Wife is due The first week in Jan find out tomarrow if its a boy or a girl goo luck to everyone else with babys on the way

Congratulations....please come back and post the good news! Hopefully baby cooperates during the ultrasound!

I had a doctor's appointment today... everything was fine and I got to hear my baby's heartbeat... the nurse said you could hear the venterticals opening and closing.. they were making a kind of clicking noise....

I had some blood drawn a few weeks back to check for abnormalities with the baby and they all came back good

I have another appointment in 4 weeks.... still no word on my next ultrasound .... I would like to find out what sex the baby is soon... relatives keep asking me if the baby is going to be a girl or a boy...... I also need to know what to register for soon....

Lately I have been having this feeling that we are going to have a girl....

I had the girl feeling too, and in my case it proved to be correct! How far along are you? Seems like it is most common for OBs to do the "big ultrasound" where you get to see whether it's a boy or a girl at about 20 weeks. I had a level II ultrasound at about 16 weeks only because it was part of the genetic screening process.

As for us, we still don't know the gender of the baby.. I will have my next ultrasound end of September and I hope the baby will cooperate this time!

Open leg vibes to you for that next ultrasound! I just had a level II ultrasound on Tuesday, and at 16 weeks two days, we could see that we are having a girl! I am thrilled, hubby is adjusting because he had his heart set on a boy.

It's been a while since I've visited, but add me to the list.....due date Feb 15th. Everything seems to be going well TG, have an appointment later today.

Congratulations! Your due date is close to mine....my baby is due Feb 18th.

Hey Y'all....look at the pattern of touches in my timeline (in signature line) -- I had 4 or 5 consecutive touches, then a lapse of a few days, and then the approval. Sounds like several of you are seeing the same thing, so hopefully we'll be seeing a whole bunch of CSC approvals soon!

Congratulations, I hope your approval comes through soon!

Congratulations on your marriage! Yes, you need to apply for Adjustment of Status, and if your wife wants to work before her green card arrives, you should also apply for the EAD (I-765) at the same time. Your wife should brace herself, however -- as I understand it EAD usually takes about three months to process once you send in the paperwork, so she will not be able to work immediately. (In our case we applied for EAD but it never got processed because the green card came so quickly, within about two months. But we are not the norm, we were very lucky!) Applying for the I-131 (Advanced Parole) is optional; you won't need it unless your wife plans to leave the US before receiving her green card. Of course, you never know how long AOS will take, but on the other hand it is a substantial fee.

Speaking of fees, here's what you're looking at, per the USCIS website:

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/forms/index.htm

I-485 -- $325 plus $70 for biometrics (total = $395)

I-765 -- $180

I-131 -- $170

Very good advice from mdyoung about getting your wife's new social security card in her married name...this will help with getting a joint bank account (evidence of your life together for the AOS interview) and probably her North Carolina driver's license as well.

One more thing -- the I-485 requires you to submit a vaccination supplement (I-693A), which must be filled out by a civil surgeon. You can take the vaccination worksheet (DS-3025) from her K-1 medical exam to the civil surgeon to have I-693A filled out. USCIS website has a civil surgeon locator so you can find one in your area. If your wife is missing any vaccinations, the civil surgeon can provide them, or you can have them done elsewhere prior to seeing the civil surgeon, just keep the proof.

Some folks opt to just send in DS-3025 in lieu of I-693A if DS-3025 shows all vaccinations completed, and many have been approved with no problems. However, others have received RFEs for not sending in I-693A, so the choice is yours to make. Bottom line, hopefully your wife received a copy of her vaccination worksheet following her K-1 medical exam, or barring that, has other records of her vaccinations....in English!

That's all I can think of at the moment. Good luck, and I hope you both feel better soon.

By the way, I am looking at form I-131, Part 1, #1 and what is "A#" supposed to be?

The A# is the alien number assigned by USCIS. It should be on your K-1 NOAs just above her name. It starts with an "A". When my husband entered the US with his K-1 visa, they also wrote his A number on back of the I-94, but I don't know if that is standard.

Congratulations!

Congrats on getting transferred! I know there's a lot of variation, but my husband's AOS was approved about two weeks after the transfer.

This thread has got me wondering.. I just sent my vaccination supplement with my AOS package and didn't get an RFE. My interview is Sept 25th, is there a chance they'll ask for the I-693A?

The interview letter says "a completed medical examination (form I-693) and vaccination supplement in a sealed envelope (unless already submitted)"

Would I be right in thinking they would already have the medical examination in the mysterious brown envelope? Or do I still need the I-693A? There's no mention of the I-693A on the interview letter.

Any help would be great.

Helen

While I personally am an advocate for sticking with the letter of the law and sending the I-693A with your AOS application, there are plenty of folks here who sent a copy of DS-3025 instead -- showing all vaccinations completed -- and were approved with no problem. The immigration officer who will be interviewing you should have your medical examination paperwork from the mysterious brown envelope. So chances are if you haven't received an RFE by this point, you'll be fine. However, one poster here (Debby) did receive an RFE at her AOS interview for the I-693A, even though she had sent the DS-3025 from her K1 medical examination in with her AOS application, and it showed that all her vaccinations were complete. She had to go to a civil surgeon to get I-693A filled out, and last I heard is still waiting for her AOS approval.

I was shocked to see that my case has been approved.. I was getting ready for a battle. That is, if I got further grief from the officer.

Congratulations!

There is no deadline for applying foe AOS after you were married within the 90 days.... you do not need a lawyer all you need to do is file when you can... some people have waited 2 years or more befor they file and have had no problems.... Just make sure you do not leave the US until you have AP or a Greencard....

Kezzie

yup!

Ditto. Just to cite my own case -- my hubby entered the US on a K1 visa December 27th and we were married on December 30th, but we waited until June to file for AOS, at which point his I-94 had been expired for over two months. Our AOS case was transferred to CSC for streamlined processing, and we were approved without an interview about two months after we filed. My husband received his green card a few weeks ago. So we got lucky with the CSC transfer, but my point is that filing late did not hurt us at all.

Congrats & speedy approval mojo to you!

Being transferred to CSC is usually a good thing. Most CSC transferrees are approved without an interview. My husband's AOS case was transferred to CSC, and we were approved in a little over two weeks after the transfer. So things can move very quickly once your application gets to CSC. (But not always...there are some CSC transferrees who have been waiting quite a while for their AOS approvals.)

Reportedly AOS cases are transferred to CSC in order to relieve the load at backlogged local district offices. The cases transferred are supposed to be straightforward and uncomplicated so they can be approved without an interview. Beyond that, nobody has a clue what the selection process is for CSC transfers.

Congratulations!

If your K1 medical examination was within the past year, you do not need another medical examination for AOS. However, you are required to submit the vaccination supplement (I-693A), which is filled out by a civil surgeon. You should be able to take a copy of the vaccination worksheet (DS-3025) from your K1 medical exam to a civil surgeon and have him/her transfer the information to an I-693A form for a minimal fee; some have paid as low as $30. However, if your vaccinations were not complete at the time of the K1 medical examination, then you will also have to have the missing shots. So, no test or x-ray required as long as you had your K1 medical exam within the past year; if a civil surgeon is telling you that, you need to call around and find one who is willing to just fill out I-693A for you.

Out of curiosity, what did you send in with your AOS package? If you sent a copy of your DS-3025 (vaccination worksheet from the K1 medical exam), and it shows that all vaccinations are complete, you may not need anything else. Many posters here were approved having only sent in DS-3025; others have received an RFE for I-693A.

We paid $180 for three shots and having the supplement filled out, so it sounds like you did pretty well!

Hello,

I just received an email notice (actually 3 email notices for I-485) saying that my application was sent to the California Service Center. I'm in NY state. Why would they send it there and not Vermont??? Just wondering!!

Take care

I understand your confusion, I was equally puzzled when I received notification that my husband's AOS application had been transferred to CSC. What I found out is that in order to relieve overloaded local district offices, certain "straightforward, uncomplicated" I-485 submittals are being transferred to CSC for streamlined processing. The good news is that most of the time CSC approves the I-485 without an interview and sends the green card! Some of us have been lucky enough to be approved in as little as two months, while others have had to wait much longer. Hopefully you will be one of the lucky ones

(BTW, I don't know what's up with the email notices, but I received three identical emails each time something changed with my husband's I-485!)

Office Max has them, that's where I got mine for the K1 petition...and again for AOS, after I lost the ones I bought previously!

Aidan, I'm so glad to hear you have your EAD and an interview date. I remember when you had the RFE and was wondering how things were going for you & your bride. Congratulations and happy job hunting!

EvilPenguin and Infidel, sorry to hear about your bad experience with the Norfolk District Office. I live in the Norfolk area, and had my case not been transferred to CSC, my very tanned husband from a third world country and I could very easily have been faced with the same nasty immigration officer. I shudder to think what that experience would have been like. We have a bit of an age difference too -- I'm sure she would've been all over that.

If the US is swamped by illegal immigrants from the third world, it's because the procedures and department that controls it is straight from the third world itself. and these people are resonsible for our national security, what a joke.

The US is being swamped by illegal immigrants from the third world largely because no meaningful attempt is being made to curb the flood of invaders crossing the Mexican border. Instead, the US government is currying favor with Mexican president Vicente Fox, seemingly oblivious that the Mexican government encourages its citizens to illegally enter the US and even issued a comic book showing intending illegals how to safely get accross the border. And on top of that there's talk of amnesty for the millions of illegals who are already here. As a US citizen it infuriates me that the government ignores this problem while focusing so much attention on UK citizens, Europeans, and Australians who are going through marriage-based adjustment of status. It just defies logic. Ironically my husband -- who IS from a third world country -- had his adjustment of status approved in two months and without an interview. The immigration system in this country needs to be revamped, big time.

Congratulations!

My husband is 29 and about to apply for his first ever driver's license. Also my Mom has a Scottish friend who didn't start driving until she was in her 40's. So yes, there are some folks out there getting off to a "late start" by American standards.

One more comment-everyone is talking about money they saved. Don't let that fool you into thinking that a courthouse wedding is free.

Ours was $50 + parking. I'm not including the price of a flight to Vegas since we'd have gone anyway.

That's nice, but everyone gets married different places. And depending on where that place is, the price can be considerably higher...

Or lower. Depending on location.

Bottom line, folks... do your research. Assume nothing.

Exactly. Ours cost $15, but they forgot to charge me, so essentially it was free.

We had a courthouse wedding three days after my fiance entered the US with the K1 visa. We wanted to get married quickly and with minimal expense, and this arrangement fit the bill perfectly. I did wear a long wedding dress (borrowed from a friend) and carried a bouquet; my husband wore a new suit (our biggest wedding expense). I had my family and closest friends there for the ceremony; all I had to do was notify the Clerk of Court's office that we would have a largish group there for the ceremony, and he arranged for us to use a room with chairs set up. Afterwards we had a reception at my brother's house. We were very pleased with the way it all turned out. At the time I had enough stress in my life getting my fiance through his interview (he had to travel to another country for it) and then arranging for his travel to the US once he got the visa, so it was such a blessing to have a quick, low maintenance wedding with minimal planning that still turned out very nicely.