Sameh'sHabibi

Approved on the spot! I was really worried it would be horrible because I have been married before (my girls's dad & my son's dad) and I sponsored my ex-husband's green card 8 years ago. But they never even asked about it! Will post a full recap when we get the rest of the way home!

I am on bedrest, so maybe they'll keep it short. I am 25 weeks 1 day.

Congrats! Hope we have good news to share after tomorrow. Gotta leave bright & early, 0630..... ugh! Coffee will be my friend......

Yay newest GC Frenchican!

Good luck tomorrow Mayrads.

We go on Thursday..... hubby & I are both super excited & super nervous! I hope USCIS appreciates that even though I was put on bedrest starting Friday morning, I am still making the nearly 3 hour drive each way for this interview!! But I don't dare rock the boat by asking to put it off or do it over the phone! Don't want to give anyone any excuses for stupidness.

Congrats on everyone's updates!

Thanks everyone!! We are good. Gesi is in Florida and wasnt effected being on the western side of the state. I was called into work Monday morning and left this morning at 7am, to be on standby but work was slow (thank goodness). People took the warnings seriously and wasn't out on the roads. We received almost 8inches of rain but faired well with the winds. Just little damage in all. Other areas were not as lucky. But all in all, I think we came out lucky!!

And Gesi's GC came in the mail today!!! I put my notice in and my boss flipped! I offered a 30 day notice and she said she is not accepting it yet. She said give her a week and we will talk again, lol not sure what that is about but she clearly does not want me to leave. She asked if Gesi can't find a job in this area. lol I guess we'll see what she says in a week or so.

And congrats for all the movement to everyone!!! Things are moving for sure!!!

Nursing shortage = job security!! Yay nurses! Glad y'all are safe.

USPS took 2 days to deliver our EAD card, so hopefully those with EAD coming get them soon!

Congrats! We have EAD in hand, waititng for next week's interview!

If you look in our August filers topic, every one of us has had an interview, but the process seems to be going relatively quickly. Some of our early August filers already have GC in hand, and most of the rest of us have early to mid Nov interviews scheduled. All of us had our papers routed to somewhere in Mo instead of "the big 4" though. Seems like it's going direct to our local field office where we interview from there. Big difference seems to be Ca folks. Some of them are seeing very little progress.

Congrats on all the EAD movement! I wish everyone the best of luck in finding jobs! I know my hubby is thrilled to be on that hunt himself. I teased him the other day that he's happier to get EAD than he will be GC.

On a side note, been watching the news. Kim & all on the east coast, stay safe & try to stay warm & dry. Prayers & thoughts are with you.

Congrats everyone!!!

Did you got a notification about EAD mailed or something??

Nope. Had seen on the USCIS website last week where it had changed to "card production ordered", but never got a text, letter, nothing. Just got the actual EAD card in today's mail. On countdown.... 12 days til interview!!

Hubby's EAD card was sitting in the mail today! He is so happy to have that small piece of plastic in his hands!

Yay for a day of wonderful good news!!!!! So happy for everyone!!!

SMS from USCIS at 6pm regarding my EAD:

'Card/ Document Production

On October 24, 2012, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.'

Chuffed to bits

Yay!!!!!! Movement!!!

We checked the mail everyday as well for our EAD after our production email on Oct 6th but then we got more texts our case was updated then the last text Oct 12th that is has been mailed so no need to check mail everyday until you know it's been mailed. We received ours Oct 15th, interview was Oct 16th so we had NO time to do anything. We left Baltimore after the interview and stopped by the SS Admin and got his card ordered.

OH and BTW we have never received any text updates on our decision..... I had just happen to go online and check. I wonder why??

We have never gotten a text notification for anything since NOA1. Everything we have "found out" since has been online or snail mail. Go figure.

Congrats for our 2 new PR's!!!! So happy for you!!! And, I agree.... Kim, enquiring minds want to know....

Hubby's EAD changed to "in production" on October 19! Yay! Progress!!

USCIS motto seems to be "guilty until proven innocent". Don't let it get you down, like someone else said... if they were going to flat out deny you, they would have done it to your face. Some IOs are just hard@sses who want to be difficult. It'll all work out. And Gesi is right - in the end, it is all about the two of you & your love for each other, and no government agency in the world can change or define that!

Yea for green card!!! Congrats!! And good luck for all the interviews happening this week! So much is happening for our little VJ family!

I called the noninformation hotline once. Needless to say, their "help" doesn't help. At least they are polite about it, though, bless their little hearts! Hopefully you'll hear something soon.

Congrats to those with new dates, news, & forward progress!

Wow. See what happens when I don't get online for a few days??!!?? I agree, it is quite presumptuous to assume that someone is doing something wrong or illegal just because they don't want to fall in line with the status quo everyone else finds to be "normal". (Rant warning) It also shows that the poster hasn't followed our entire thread very closely, because it was stated before that 1. I am a US citizen (FYI, my family homesteaded this area before it was even recognized as a state of the Union, and there are 2 US presidents - James K. Polk & George Washington - in my family's tree) and 2. I hold a legitimate line of employment, as a registered nurse. I have a legitimate REASON for not choosing to have lines of credit, so please don't make blanket assumptions about people. When I was a very young girl, I saw my parents get caught up in living beyond their means with credit. They lost everything, and spent the next 20 years pinching pennies and scratching to get by. I learned to be self sufficient, and to accept the fact that if I cannot pay cash for something, then I don't really need it after all. When I have a "want" (new TV, expensive pair of shoes, whatever) then I save up for it and get it. I have funds set aside for emergency use for the "needs". I have a stable work history (1 year with my current hospital, 9 years with my previous hospital) and a strong credit rating which I have built through financing vehicles & mortgage (necessary evils in our society). I put myself through LPN school 9 years ago, then worked as a LPN for 8 years and saving money (as a single mom of 4 btw) until I had enough to send myself to RN school. It IS possible to have legal reasons (such as not wanting to take the risk of overextending yourself or the desire to be self sufficient) to not want to be tied up in banks and lines of credit. I enjoy my reloadable prepaid card. It saves me the risk of carrying cash, which has become dangerous in our society, and allows me the benefit of being able to shop or pay bills online. It also is insured by the issuer for the amount I load in case of loss or theft. For me, the best part is that I am spending my own money and not some nebulous line of credit with strings like interest rates and late fees attached. If I load $2500, then that is how much I have to spend. It doesn't spoil, rot, or disappear, but I also cannot spend $3000 on a vacation or some shiny something at the mall that I really don't need anyways and cannot afford. Helps me keep myself on track and on budget. I will step off my soapbox now, don't think there is anything left for me to say. Sorry about the rant, but it irritates me to have people assume things, and I hope my explanation will serve to be educational & to open people to the fact that sometimes the actions of others really are as simple as they seem on the surface... preference. No ulterior motives.

Great news today on our AOS journey! Have been checking online every day. Still listed as "RFE response review", but we got a paper notice for my husband's interview date!!!! November 8 at 10 am!!!! Very excited, it was so completely unexpected!! Saw the USCIS envelope, and really figured (with the online status unchanged) that it was yet another RFE, so boy was I surprised! Yea!!!!!!!

Iaia! Progress! Woohoo! I know how frustrating it is doing the paperwork ourselves & waiting, so I can imagine waiting for someone else to take care of stuff so you can move forward is twice as frustrating. Hopefully things will speed forward for you now.

I never really thought that much about the bank account thing. I am the US citizen, and I don't even have my own bank account. I do everything via cash or reloadable pre-paid credit card. I had a bank account until about 2 years ago when I had a very bad experience with my credit union, which happened to be owned by my employer. By the time their "accounting error" was setteled, it ended up costing ME over $500!! I closed my account and have been just fine ever since. Hopefully it won't be an issue for AOS for my husband, surely I'm not the only American who chooses not to use a bank!

Every time I hear about one of you getting EAD or interview notices I get so excited! It's like I know it makes us one step closer to ours! Loving seeing all the progress!

Eeeew.....ER night shifts can be sooooo long! I finally moved from nights to days in Jan. I do ICU and ER here in Arkansas.

Congrats to those with new news! Trying to be patient here. :

On a side note, we got some unrelated news... it's a girl!! We're gonna name her Amira.

Sounds like my Sameh.... lol. He is from Egypt and starts telling me he's cold anytime it gets below 75. Makes for snuggly evenings with warm blankets & a good movie on lazy winter afternoons though, so I don't mind!

Correct, but I can start getting whatever they are asking for if I don't have it already. Time varies, tho.

I guess it does vary, ours says 87 days (random number, I thought, but that's what we got!). They wanted an official IRS transcript from taxes (not the copies of stuff from the tax-in-a-box place I filed with) & they wanted Egyptian govt stamps from the Interior Ministry on the English translation of his birth certificate, so maybe they figured it was gonna take a while. And you do have to include the letter with the returned evidence.

Took 20 days, but we finally got the birth cert from Egypt.... that's the only thing we've been waiting for.... but there's a TYPO ERROR on the English translation!!!!!!!! Called USCIS & explained what happened & asked should we submit what we got with a letter of explanation & send the corrected copy when we get it (I can only assume in about 20 days) or what do we need to do. It's a minor error, lists his mother's religion as "Christian" instead of "Muslim", as if it matters either way. But they said we have to correct it first, and his EAD processing cannot begin until I-485 is in processing, which won't happen until they get RFE material.... and in the meantime I am on bedrest AGAIN, so hubby needs to be working!!! ARGH!!! Sigh. Based on when interviews are coming, etc, I really don't wanna push this back another 3 weeks where we risk having an interview a 2 hour drive away from home when I am at term. Wonder would it help us get our green card approval if I go into labor during the interview??!!?? Lol, don't EVEN wanna think about it!!! Wonder who would panic more, my husband or the USCIS agent???? Anyways, keep telling myself what someone said earlier in this process... "It's a RFE, not a denial!!"