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My mom needs to renew her Green Card. I am filling out for her and I have a question.

My older brother applied for an immigrant visa for her in USA, but USCIS sent the petition to the embassy in our country, since my mom was there.

There is a question in the form that says: Location where you applied for an immigrant visa or adjustment of status.

I don't what to answer if here in USA or in our country, and the one who sent the application was my brother.

Thank you in advance for your help with this question.

Congrats on your oath date!

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Hi, I am going to file N-400 based on marriage, do we need to write a cover letter as we did for the removal of conditions for the green card?

Thank you for your help

Hi, I am going to be eligible to file for citizenship on June/2014, and I would like to know which evidence should I sent with in my package besides the pictures, irs transcripts, divorce decrees, green card and passport copies, marriage certificate, my husband's birth certificate.

We sent many information when I removed conditions on my green card. Should I send the same but after I filled the I-751?

How about deed certificates and pictures and affidavits and mail received at the address.

We would like to start preparing all this documentation so I can gather everything on time to send on June.

Thank you

Sorry I cannot add my name to the list, so if somebody could do it for me, my information is:

Vermont Service Center

Sent our package: 08/23/2013

Letter extending my conditional status: 08/26/2013

Letter app for biometrics: 09/04/2013

Biometrics: 10/01/2013

Notice that my case had been transferred to The USCIS office at Sterling VA (not local office I filled in Tampa,FL): 10/04/2013

Letter with congratulations for the approval: 11/21/2013

Green card sent on: 11/25/2013

Process time : 3 months

Our next journey will begin next year on June when I will apply for citizenship.

Thank you to everyone for your posts and advice, sometimes I felt too lost and I believe was God who sent me help through this web site and the members. God bless you and never loose hope, God is good all the time, always expect good thing from Him.

Hi everyone:

Today I did received my green card and it was mailed on 11/25/2013. My case was transferred from VSC to office in Sterling, VA. I did not know why and I suppose that I will have an RFE and maybe and interview but tanks God nothing. I sent my initial package on 08/29/2013 and by 11/25/2013 my GC was sent.

Sorry for not answer earlier. I check my case online and it is still on initial review. I don't know about the interview because if I suppose to have the interview at my local office but I have been transferred to VA, and we live in Florida (Tampa), I checked on one of the members of VJ and he was transferred to VA either and he filled also in august/2013 but earlier than me and he received the news that his card has been ordered.

As Navyk says,maybe they are really overwhelmed with applications at Vermont Center that they are sending the apps wherever center is available to receive them or maybe the less complicated I don't really know.

Hi, I just received a Notice of Action that says Case Type: CRI89 Approved Removal of Conditions (I89). Notice Type: Transferred Notice.

And it says: This is to notify you that we have transferred the above application of petition to the USCIS Office at:

22685 Holiday Park Drive, VA 20041

We transferred this case because the record indicates that office has jurisdiction over the case. That office will notify you of subsequent action taken on this case.

I thought the cases would be transferred to a local office or to a California. Does somebody had received this kind of NOA? I just wondering why they sent us to VA

Thank you in advance for your replies.

Did you have together any bank account, checking acc, savings acc. Joint credit cards, something that shows that you had finances and economical responsibilities together.

Hi everybody! we are ready to send the package to the Vermont Center, the list of the documents is this:

• Form I - 751
• Copy of Green Card (immigrant spouse)
• Copy of Social Security Card (immigrant spouse)
• Copy of Driver’s Licenses + emergency contact sheets
• 2011, 2012 IRS Tax Transcripts
• Copy of 1040 Form and W2 forms
• Application for Ad Valorem Property Tax Exemption for Homestead exemption (this shows the names of the owner of the house and his wife)
• Joint Checking Accounts (two checking accounts, I added him to mine and he added me to his when we married) statements for 24 months
• 2 Credit cards (one I am the titular and my husband is co-borrower and in the other he is authorized user) statements for 11 months
• 1 CD at my name and my husband as in trust of
• 2 policies for car insurance. Both with our names, one is for his car and the other for my car. We are authorized user in both policies.
• Letter for my husband’s job stating that I am beneficiary of his Term Life Insurance policy and I am his dependent on his insurance plans
• Copy of the medical and dental identification cards
• Copy from different doctors showing us as emergency contacts and those they can disclosure any medical information to us.
• Copy of Sam’s Club cards (join account)
• 2012 Bush Gardens and Sea World Fun Card (Annual passes)
• Documentation for our dog. When he was he owner, when he gave her to me, and our joint ownership.
• Other documentation I received at our address (stores’ credit card, from church)
• Receipts from household purchases with our joint checking accounts.
• 6 Affidavits from his sister, her fiancé who are also our neighbors, his younger sister who was also a neighbor, his parents, my mother and a neighbor.
• Family cards
• Pictures from 2007.

My husband bought the house where we live before we got married, so the mortgage and home insurance is in his name as all the utility bills. He bought on march a car, but because of my credit he had to make it alone.

Thank you for taking a look on my post, and any commentary or suggestion is very welcome

When you attack pictures in your I-751 package, I did write the occasion or the place where they were taken under them, but do I have to name each person that is in the pictures? Sorry if this looks like a silly question.

I have a friend who was a conditional green card holder; she sent her i-751 package the last week of june/13. After one week, she received the first NOA, and after 30 days, she received the letter saying that her case was approved and in 60 days she’ll receive her 10 years green card. She received yesterday the card. The process was 1 month and 2 weeks. No biometrics.

She married her husband in Guatemala in 2009, wait for the visa in her country and came to USA in 2011 with the visa approved. And once in USA she received a conditional green card.

My question is if anybody knows if the process is different (and also the processing time) for a person who comes with an approved visa and another who comes in K1 or somebody who overstays the visa or adjust status from any other nonimmigrant visa.

My husband is 12 years older than me. He did not bring me with K-1, I was already living in USA when we met in 2007 (his dad is my brother's coworker and they realized that they have a single sister and a single son). We date until 2011, then we got married.

Do you believe this difference in age could be a red flag?

There are two ways to open credit cards as a co-borrower (both names in the statement) and as an authorizer user (Only the principal borrower's name). Most part of the banks will allow you to open a joint account as a co-borrower, and of course they will run the credit of both spouses to approve it or not, if you came with a K-1 visa I think is kind of difficult to be a co-borrower because you don't have any credit history, so the husband or wife must be the principal borrower and you the authorizer user. Later when you will built your credit you can step forward and be a co-borrower. In this case the statements have both names.

In my case I had my bank account since 2007, so when I got married in 2011 I had some bank history, so they gave us a joint credit card.

Hi everyone, I am preparing my evidence to remove conditions, and I am preparing my documents and I am including a summary of documents in my cover letter, to make easy the review. I am wondering if this a good place to write some explanation about documents, for example we don't have a joint mortgage because my husband bought the house, where we live, before we got married, so all the utility bills are only in his name. After 4 years dating that was an issue for him to get married, he wanted to make me feel safe and not to have to move of place every time something happened, so one day he told me I am going you pick you up and he started driving toward the community where his two sisters live, but he parked in a different unit, I said so what is going on, and he gave me the key and said open the door, I did, and he asked me do you like? I said yes because is a beautiful place. And he said well this is going to be our home. and 15 days after we got married. But when we went to file for the property tax exception, we filed as married with both names in it.

We have 2 cars, I own mine for years and is paid off. My husband just bought his, but I am not in the loan because my credit score is low, (I had a social security for about 1 1/2 years) so that made a big difference in the interest rate, and of course in the monthly payment. In the insurance policies we have 2 different policies. But in both policies we figure as married and both names appear in the name of both policies and we are authorized drivers.

And I don't know if it is relevant or not but I am also adding the animal services registration for the dog. At the beginning she belonged to my husband and then he gave to me because of his work trips out of state but now she became "our" doggie and she is registered under both names (first was only under his name, the only my name and now both names)

The first semester for the year my husband became ill, and I got a stamped copy of the information page, where he names me as his emergency contact as his wife, from every doctor.

I don't have any trip document, but I have the annual passes for parks in Florida.

I don't really know if the mortgage, car insurance and utility bills are going to be an issue, please I need and advice.

Tky

With my husband, we have two shared checking accounts. He added me in his checking account when we got married and I added him to mine. I am gathering all the bank statements aprox. for 24 months and I realize that I have all of them for the first checking account but for the second I only have two! My question is what is better for my evidence: To ask the bank to print the last 24 monthly statements (the printing is just one long list of transactions) and stamp for the officer at the bank or print from my computer I can have the same format as the received in the mail, but how the immigration officer would know that are real and no fake? should I go to the bank and make them stamp?

Hi, I have to file my I-751 on june, I am already gathering all my documentation (thank you for the posts listing the documents) eventhougth i did not receive yet the letter from USCIS, but I am concerned about three point, hope somebody can help me.

- I was looking at the processing times and now they are processing the applications of july/2012, if I have to wait one year to receive my 10 years green card,(my conditional green card will expire on september) which is going to be my situation?

- And if I have to wait one year for my new green card, by june 2014 I will be married for 3 years with my husband who is american citizen, is any way that I can get my citizenship before the 10 years green card? or at least begin the process?

Thank you for take time to read my post, I appreciate your answers.

What we send was a letter from my husband's employer saying that he works in this place for this time .... and this salary per hour is this ...... and he is a full time employee and this is a permanent full time job, and of course some qualities of my husband at his job.

And signing was the Human Resources chief and she included also phones numbers, email address and mail address where she can be contacted to certified this information.

I took pay stubs probably for the last four months to the interview.

Darnell, Bigdog and Vannesa are giving you good advice, we understood your question, you want to know the level of success that your wife can have filing for ROC if you divorce her and she files by herself.

People have many ways to ensure to remove conditions in the GC and to have success, and one of them is filing for VAWA. By fact I know personally of a case where the husband accused the wife (petitioner) to bit him, showed faked photos and one day the police just showed up at the couple’s residence and put the wife in jail. So in this way he could file for VAWA , have a successful ROC and of course getting rid of the wife. This is just an example of ways to make sure a person will get the permanent GC.

And watch more if you said that her friends are giving her bad advice. Hope this helps.

We had the interview on september/2011 and the IO asked us what do you have as evidence of your marriage? so we handed him insurance, DL, etc. but he paid special attention to the bank statements so both names could be on them. What we did was I added him in my checking account and he added me in his checking account where he has direct deposit from his job. I think is a good sign of a bonafide marriage when you trust your money to your spouse.

In the car insurance thats right the spouse can be added as an excluded driver if she doesn't have DL.

you can call FEDEX and make a quote by phone. I did it before, but you need to know the size of the package and the aprox. weigth.

It shouldn't be a issue, because when my mom received her immigrant Visa, at the time to buy the air ticket, if you buy by an agency they ask you to show your visa in your passport to sell you the ticket. K1 Visa is not an immigrant visa, but of course he can adjust his status once married in USA. The price was something as $ 600, and the round trip was $800.

When I came back from Bolivia in AA, before even the luggage checking, they ask for documents that allows you to enter in USA, even they take copies of them. My passport is in my maiden name and my GC has my married name, so they asked me my Original marriage certificate, and a second identification with my married name, when I showed every thing I was allowed to check my luggage.

And when my husband an me had the appointment in the Immigration Office in Tampa, to verify that all my documents were in order to travel abroad, the IO told us to take all my original documents and the the original marriage certificate to check the difference between my maiden and married name.

So the LAN agents in Sao Paolo must ask and verify the documents to let her board an international fligth wich the final destination is USA (of course they knew the itinerary of the air ticket), as the agents of AA did in Bolivia.

When we had our interview on september 7, 2011, I asked the IO for the stamp in my passport, but he told me that they stopped doing this because the GC where being delivered in a short period as two weeks. And that was true, I received my GC in less than two weeks.

And they also gave me a letter saying that if I needed a temporary evidence of my status (LPR) I could make an appointment with the infopass and they could provide me the proof (need to bring the letter, photo identification and a valid passport of the country of citizenship).