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As many cases I have seen on VJ, if you married her then you can't choose K- visa route. Whether it is a civil wedding or religious one, the U.S. government still recognized it as a legal marriage.
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"Scott and Vina", If I understand it right, you're going in for a interview with an I-134?
I think you really need a bank statement when filing the I-864 when you're filing for adjustment. If anyone has another opinion?
As for the naturalization proof, if the I-129F is already approved, then naturalization proof may not be too important to present at the interview.
Hope this helps,
I don't think you guys have ANYTHING to worry about. Good luck!
I did not provide my husband's bank statement at all when I filed my AoS. People usually provide it when they go for the interview for AoS. I did I not have the interview because I got NPIW letter.
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Hehe
I'm not a native speaker and do not have a perfect English in the world. I am just speaking the logic of words and I believe this is apply to most of languages if not all. Sounds to me someone has made mistake but doesn't want to admit it. What if another posters did not reply at all after this poster? The OP would believe what it's been said.
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Ok i will thank you. Should he make a letter intend to marry and sign it also? I made when we start for K1. Should i bring that also?
Just bring everything you think will needed. I brought mine but the embassy did not ask.
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Thank you now i know exactly what documents original vs copy should i bring. Yes i have birth certificate english version.
You're welcome. If you have the English version then just get a copy because they will take it. Bring it with the original.
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I got denied B-2 visa back in 2010 because I said wanted to visit my boyfriend ( my now husband). Having said that you'll quit your job makes the chance is more slim. They already have all the info and they will ask you the same question again. Denied B-2 visa and ESTA has been revoked is a very tough for an approval.
What other evidence you will bring in?
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So the original documents i should bring to the interview I-134 & my birth certificate? and the other documents are copy?
You will received Packet 3 via email contains information what kind documents you should bring to the interview. For me, they only asked I-134 form signed and dated ( original), W-2 ( copy) and tax return (copy) even though I brought my husband's bank statements, his investment papers and insurance policy. They did not even ask. Don't forget birth certificate in English translation if you have the old version.
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Thank you for reply. He make 165k/ year but his bank statement very bad only 2k for now. We worried about that. And we already get NOA2 and our case ready so do i need to bring his original pasport to my interview
No, you don't have to. K-1 stage is more for the beneficiary. He's already proven himself as USC since the petition is approved. As long as he makes above the poverty line you both should be just fine. U.S. Embassy in Jakarta doesn't look at bank account as long as I-134 is above the poverty line.
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If you come with your U.S.C fiancé(e) then you can go through U.S. Citizen/resident line. I came with my fiancé and the officer asked us to go through U.S. Citizen/resident line. It was much shorter and quick.
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https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processTimesDisplayInit.do
Newark is processing cases from Nov 2014. As a comparison, my field office is processing from Sept 2014. I think there's a pretty good chance you'll get a letter too. Who knows how accurate their site is though. You won't know til the letter pops up in the mailbox, sadly.
If you got NPIW, highly chance that your local office is not processing your application. I completed my biometric in Kendall, Florida and they sent me an RFE for I-693 from Fairfax, Virginia, 11 months later after I filed my AoS.
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nitsirk7562 - Thank you for your reply! I would never withhold anything they asked for. As for financial etc Im giving them much more than they ask. I mean not including pictures, plane tickets, etc, like some other people do with this filing. Just keeping it to only what is asked for and way too much documentation for that alone. Im only asking about skipping the extra relationship proof that some people include ahead of time to try to trigger a waiver.
There is not such thing called "trigger a waiver" - or I might misunderstood your words-. People got NPIW just probably because the local office is one of the busiest ones. If you have noticed that there are some applicants from some certain cities are always get interview for instance Detroit. Most of people I have known or read on VJ that local office in Detroit get interview. Applicants that their applications processing for instance at USCIS office in Kendall like mine got NPIW. I knew two of them.
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Thank you again, Girl from Celebes ! I had finally found the same link but I am appreciate your posts !
You're welcome.
Card Was Mailed To MeOn August 11, 2015, we mailed your new card for Receipt Number MSCXXXXXXXXXX, to the address you gave us. If you do not receive your card by September 10, 2015, please go to www.uscis.gov/e-request to request that we send your new card to you. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
The card is on it's way. Filed AOS April 1, 2014. 16 months 10 days.
Yay, congrats!
:joy: .Finally the end of a dark tunnel.
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Congrats for all approvals.
Don't worried about ADIT. This is the meaning of it.
http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/adit-processing.html
Most of people don't have to do that especially those who adjust from K-1 visa.
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So, I updated my address this friday (7th august) since we moved in our new house. I took the opportunity to send too an other inquiry since it has been 3 months passed from the last one:
- 1H after the update and the new inquiry, I received an email from "myUscis" telling me that my working card has been order the 5th, 1 month after they approved it (I thought it was bizarre but why not, it can be a coincidence).
- 6h after, I received an other email from "myUscis" telling me that my green card has been ordrer the 7th (more and more bizarre).
And then, with this second email, I became suspicious... Since I didn't received any other update Ûfor my green card (beside the potential interview waiver letter, it goes from "we received..." to "new card is been produced" without no other post decision activity ?) I am wondering if it's not a mistake because I update my address... as you can read, after 16 months, I am very suspicious. But if it is not a mistake, I will thanks the one who update my case and make a party, for sure ! ^^
I did not have "post decision activity" status as well. So, don't worried about that.
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"I called them first but the USCIS Tier-1 said that she can't do anything about that since I've already been approved and when I asked to transfer my call to Tier-2 she then refused by saying that it's only for people that their application still in processing." - Girl from Celebes
The funny thing was when I had to do the same thing for my EAD renewal after its approval, Tier 1 tried to say that to me too, but I insisted no less than 4 times to speak with Tier 2 to get a more accurate update and he very unwillingly transferred me "since I continued to insist", so there you have it, continue to insist till Tier 1 transfers you. By the time I called, it was about 15 days after approval. I will also add that both Tier 1 and Tier 2 did eventually give me the "We have up to 30 days to get your card printed". Now I don't know if there is a difference for GC or if your welcome letter gives a longer time frame.
I think that's probably different though. To be honest I have no idea. Because I insisted but she refused to transfer me anyway.
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I waited about 3 weeks and finally I got my green card after I wrote an article on my blog and put it on Twitter and Facebook to DHS, USCIS, White House and Barack Obama. I did call first but they said that USCIS can't do anything about it since I've already been approved.
My status was changed to "Card Was Mailed" though I did not get any tracking number and just some code on my email. And I finally got my tracking number 3 hours AFTER I received my green card. It's a priority 3-day mail.
Our weekend was JUST MADE!!! They received our RFE forms on Monday and look at what happened today!!!!
New Card Is Being ProducedOn August 7, 2015, we ordered your new card for Receipt Number MSCXXXXXXXXXX, and will mail it to the address you gave us. If you move, go towww.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
What is this welcome letter people are talking about? Is that before or after "card being produced"? Is there another update after this?
The Welcome letter is mailed to you.
hey Movinon, I think you have to call uscis. I read somewhere in this thread after waiting for a while they called and then after that uscis send their card and gave them tracking number. do you have tracking number? if not, you have to call. it sounds like they forget to send the card after approving the case these days so you have to stay on top of them to send you the card.
I called them first but the USCIS Tier-1 said that she can't do anything about that since I've already been approved and when I asked to transfer my call to Tier-2 she then refused by saying that it's only for people that their application still in processing.
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Got a letter from our senator today. They did an inquiry and uscis says we will have an interview! Just great!! After all this ###### time. They better give us a 10 yr greencard
What the heck is that? Interview? That's totally unfair after waiting more than a year!
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Wow! The chances of her getting her daughter back are slim if he doesn't return back to the U.S. with the daughter. This is quite unfortunate and happens a lot.
American exs aren't the only ones that do it. The foreign exs do it as well.
It is sad that her former husband took all her belongings including money and the cellphone. It is beyond cruel to make her stranded in a stranger country.
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Congrats for everyone who's been approved for their GC. I'm so happy to hear that. My husband and I are not worried anymore and we have started packing and ready to move to AZ later this month.
Again, congrats to everyone and see you guys for RoC.
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Good morning! We're back from our vacation, and as predicted, Johan had his green card approved while we were out of the country. haha The actual approval happened on July 28th, our 1st wedding anniversary. <3 We got both emails and texts about the welcome notice, then the card being ordered. He jumped online, and the case is updated on their site as well.
Yesterday, we went through border control at LAX, and while they didn't tell him his green card was approved or anything that was in their database, they didn't have a problem with him not having it either. They took both him and my stepson to "Secondary" to process them while I stayed behind to get our bags. All they were asked was (to Johan) "what's your father's name?" That's it.
Our first anniversary date for filing would have been August 2nd. I was 4 days off on my predicted date (which is just a little game we NPIW members played a few months ago) of August 1st, 2015. Today I went and collected our mail and their welcome notices were there, postmarked July 29th. At least they moved fast in ONE area of this process. haha Timeline below in my signature will tell you all the details of our AOS process.
Yay, congrats!
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Ela Herawati, 35, arrived in Ho Chi Minh City in the early morning hours of July 11th and found her ex-husband in poor health.“I was shocked to see his condition,” she said.Once stout and sprightly Karl Werner, 37, moved slowly and favored a cane.The pair climbed into a taxi with their chubby-cheeked five-year old daughter and rode to the Oscar hotel on Nguyen Hue Street in District 1.Herawati, a slender, raven-haired Indonesian in Saigon for the first time remembers being glad to have the stout Mid-Westerner in tow.Don't trust these people, she recalled him saying. Don't play with your phone on the street, don't leave it on the table.The next morning, the estranged family visited Werner's sparsely furnished apartment in District 1. Herawati recalls Werner saying he'd put most of his things into storage and would head to Hanoi to begin chemotherapy as soon as they left.For the next few days, Herawati says she brought her daughter to visit her estranged father every morning and picked her up every night.Occasionally, she would tidy the apartment for her sickly ex-husband, whom she hadn't since their messy divorce in 2014.On July 22 of that year, an Indonesian court issued a decision awarding Herawati full-custody of their child and ordered Werner to pay $500 a month in child support.Herawati claims she received the favorable ruling after producing evidence that Werner had cheated on her. Herawati and her attorney say he never paid a cent of child support.Werner never responded to text messages and a list of emailed questions. An official at the US Consulate likewise said they've been unable to get a hold of him.“Creative, enthusiastic, dedicated”Karl Werner began playing the piano at age five and took up the trumpet and violin in middle school, according to a cover letter he posted online in which he described himself as a “creative, enthusiastic and dedicated instrumental music teacher.”As a student, Werner played violin in several regional orchestras. He first studied abroad in Cork, Ireland and took his first international teaching job at the North Jakarta International School in 2004.He and Herawati married in 2008 and had their daughter in Turkey in 2010 where things quickly soured.In July of 2014, long after his divorce ruling, Werner called the FBI and claimed that his wife had abducted their daughter two months prior.“If possible, I would like [Herawati] and my daughter stopped at any border crossing while attempting to use my daughter's passport,” he wrote in an email. “I will then travel to collect my daughter […] My family and I are very distraught.”
A file photo shows Karl Werner and the daughter. Photo credit: VietNamNetWerner's parents didn't respond to several messages left at their home in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin.
By the time Werner was petitioning the FBI for help, he had already moved to Ho Chi Minh City to take a job at the American International School in Nha Be District.(The school did not respond to a phone call seeking comment, but has since taken Werner's profile down from its website).The FBI declined to open an investigation and requested a custody order, according to correspondence provided by Herawati's lawyer. Herawati says she met with US Embassy officials in Jakarta and they decided Werner's claims were without merit.Moving onAfter her divorce, Herawati moved to Manila to start a new life with her boyfriend, a French father of two.In the Philippines, she took a job doing marketing work for an Indonesian restaurant chain and things began to look up. She even began to reconnect with Werner on WhatsApp — a messaging application.Soon she began to imagine a future where they would raise their daughter as friends.“Like a team,” she said.Then things got rather dramatic.When a Vietnamese woman contacted Herawati offering $9,000 for her daughter’s participation in a photo shoot, Herawati says she contacted Werner who denied knowing anything about it.Soon after the incident, Werner announced he'd been diagnosed with bone cancer and feared for the worst.“I want to make it right before I meet God,” he wrote in a screen-captured chat Herawati sent to a friend.Eventually, Herawati agreed to bring their daughter to visit him in Ho Chi Minh City.“If he dies and doesn't get to see her,” she remembers thinking. “I'll hate myself forever.”On their first day together, Herawati and Werner went to the US consulate to apply for their daughter's US passport. Herawati says she agreed to do so because Werner might soon die.At one point, she says, Werner tried to get her to sign some sort of will, but she refused.The mother's future looked bright.Soon, she and the girl would spend Ramadan with her family back in Indonesia. Herawati had brought $4,000 and 500 Euros in cash savings she planned to deposit in an account for her daughter.On July 15, Werner hired a car to take them all to Vung Tau where he'd rented them rooms at the Lan Rung Resort.They arrived at around 1PM.That afternoon, Herawati says Werner handed her a spa voucher and tip money. When she tried to return to her room, she found it locked.When she finally had the hotel staff open it, she found it empty with the exception of her husband's cane.At that point, she began to suspect everything she had been told was a lie.An abductionHerawati says it took some time for her to realize and explain to the resort's staff that she had been robbed and her daughter had been taken without her consent.CCTV cameras showed Werner leaving the resort with his ex-wife's luggage in the company of a Vietnamese woman.Her attorney later discovered that the woman who assisted Werner had checked in on a false passport. Werner accompanied her, paid for Herawati's room in cash and left a note.The driver that brought them to the hotel would return to pick Herawati up at around 5AM and take her to the airport.
A still image from CCTV cameras shows Karl Werner leaving the Lan Rung Resort in Vung Tau with the daughter. Photo credit: CongAn Online
Speaking no Vietnamese and having been robbed of everything but VND200,000 and her passport, Herawati called the police and engaged in a series of frantic translated telephone exchanges with the driver who finally arrived at 3AM with her luggage.Herawati claims someone had taken her telephone, cash and jewelry.Werner would later tell her attorney that no one took anything from his ex-wife.Herawati claims the driver spent the next five hours circling Ho Chi Minh City before dumping her at the airport and telling her to leave the country.Instead, she grabbed his cell phone and wrote down the last three numbers he'd dialed.Eventually airport security detained her and told her to leave the airport.The numbers she'd written down would prove her only link back to Werner and the mysterious Vietnamese woman assisting him.A turtle's paceThe response in Ho Chi Minh City to this child's apparent abduction has proven nothing short of galling.Herawati claims she used her last bank not to take a taxi to the Indonesian Consulate.A local attorney named Nguyen Thi Diem Phuong who heard about Herawati's predicament while staying at the Lan Rung Resort found Herawati through an Indonesian client and offered to represent her pro bono.Seeking to settle the matter without involving the police, Phuong dialed the numbers Herawati had copied out of the driver's phone.Eventually she got in touch with a woman who identified as Nguyen Phuc Quynh and claimed to be the wife of Werner's best friend.Phuong says a review of police mugshots never matched her purported names. Friends who contacted Phuong through Facebook say the woman's actual name is An.After some negotiation the woman summoned Werner to the coffee shop.When he arrived, Phuong says she offered to draft a custody-sharing agreement on the condition that he call his ex-wife and let her know their daughter is safe.Werner allegedly left the meeting saying he'd consider the offer.Instead he called the attorney the following day and broke down sobbing.According to a recording of their conversation, Werner said Herawati and her boyfriend had left him unable to return his daughter.“I'll never see her again,” he said.Werner further claimed his daughter had drawn “terrible” pictures of Herawati's boyfriend with “fangs and things.”“Honestly, I don't really have anything in my life except [my daughter],” he said . “If I lose my job, if I go to jail if I lose my reputation, it's OK. Because, honestly, I don't really have anything.”At the conclusion of the call, he promised to call Herawati and never did, according to Phuong.21 days laterThe Indonesian consulate has thrice petitioned the US Consulate to take action on behalf of Herawati's daughter, an American citizen.A source speaking on background at the US consulate confirmed that they have been unable to reach Werner and so the office has petitioned the Department of External Relations to locate the child and confirm her well-being.“I believe the Vietnamese authorities are doing so,” she said.The US consulate has also checked with Vietnam's Immigration Department to ensure Werner hasn't left the country.They have no record of having left, though portions of Vietnam's land border are notoriously porous.In the meantime, Werner's cancer narrative appears to be unraveling.Werner had only rented his District 1 apartment a few days before Herawati's arrival.When she finally discovered Werner had been sharing an apartment in District 7 with a Vietnamese woman, she enlisted her father and the district police to accompany her to knock on the door. No one answered, but Phuong instantly received a texted photograph taken from outside the building and a message in broken English.
A supplied photo shows Ela Herawati and her daughter in a trip few months ago.“I know you guys are trying to find my place but believe me you are pushing [the child] in dangerous[sic],” the message read. “But you will see hows[sic] things will go.”
The landlord said Werner and the woman hadn't paid their July rent.Phuong claims that Werner has threatened to release prurient pictures of Herawati if she doesn't back off--a crime punishable in Vietnam by as much as a year in prison.Displeased by local newspaper coverage, the driver (identified only as Nhut) has insisted that Herawati and Phuong come to Vung Tau to clear up his role in the abduction.They declined, fearing for their safety.Meanwhile, police there have told Phuong they're only now elevating the case to the municipal department.Several concerned citizens have suggested Herawati and her attorney take a trip to Bac Lieu Province to speak to the parents of the woman variously identified as Quynh and An.All of this seems like the sort of thing one might do to recover a beloved bicycle, not a five year-old American citizen.Herawati hasn't seen her daughter in three weeks and purports not to know whether she is dead or alive.When asked what everyone should know about this case, she answered simply:“They should be embarrassed.”source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/
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Oops, okay, i don't know how to edit it though...
Ask admin to do for you.
Green card in hand
Thanx to everyone who has helped
"MovingOn" it's almost ur time good luck
Did you get it today?
If it's so then it. would be your mom birthday's present. Congrats again!
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Define "soon"
GirlfromCelebes got hers 3weeks after approval and I was approved 13days ago and it's still not shipped!Congrats though!
I think "soon" meaning has changed already.
It's mine lucky day too, 3 months and 1 week after NPIW, 7 months after NOA1 i got update from USCIS saying :
There has been a recent processing action taken on your case.
Receipt Number: MSCXXXXXXXX
Application Type: I485, APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS
Your Case Status: Decision
On July 31, 2015, we registered your permanent resident status and mailed you a Welcome Notice for Receipt Number MSC149xxxxxxx. Please follow the instructions in the notice. Your new permanent resident card should arrive by September 29, 2015, after this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
Congrats!
By the way, you forgot to removed your MSC number. I quoted yours and deleted it.
Notice of Potential Interview Waiver Case [Part III]
in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports
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You have to wait RFE sent to you because you won't probably get any RFE at all. Keep in mind that RFE could be anything. They could ask the certified marriage certificate even you already sent it, G-325A, proof of relationship, or anything. Just wait and see.