PinkMelody

If your husband make more than 125% of poverty line, I'm pretty sure you missed tax transcript or tax return or stuff like that. Some kind of solid evidence of income proof. Read the letter carefully or post what the letter says.

Some people wait as long as couple of months. It will help us to at least guess if you share your interview experience. But don't worry so much.

I brought the exactly same paperwork that we mailed and added recent tax filings and more pay stubs. For the new documents we made extra copy for them to keep. When the IO asked us if he can keep them he also asked whether he needs to make copy or not for us to keep them in records as well. Since we already made copies for them he just kept them.

So I don't think it doesn't really matter how many copies you bring. If you only have originals they would just make copies for themselves.

I thought once you changed your name due to marriage, only your married name is legal name. They usually reapply drivers license, social security card with their new married name.

It's not like you can use your maiden name here and use your married name there.

The thing you are calling "original" is a certified copy. The original one, the one you and your husband signed by hand, is on file at the place where marriage records are kept for your state.

Bring the one you have

Not necessarily true. This varies from state to state. I think only a few states give out a "decoration" certificate (NV comes to mind).

Hi, Harpa Timsah.

If we move to different state, do they send my 'original' marriage certificate they keep to other state?

@fiarandfoul

Thank you so much for your answers!

I will def look through all the instructions before I send them in. It will be at least year and 9 months later since our interview was this month. You know, the visa journey makes people paranoid, worried about every little stuff. Questions just came up during we plan to move back to Washington.

@fiarandfoul

Thanks for the reply. But what about his income? Is moving to a different state without a job offer will be jeopardizing our situation?,125% over poverty line, income limit, not being public charge, removing condition etc(not financially)

Hi. I recently became a permenant resident. Me and my husband want to move back to Washington state where his family lives. We used to live there but he had better job opportunity so we moved here in Texas but now it's time to renew the contract but he's had so much stress from work and we like Washington better than over here and such so we're planning to move back.

After 2 years later, when we file for removing condition, except the form, do we have to send in another I-864 for income and such? We don't have any job offers for now and hope for best. We will try to settle down there but since no job guarantee, would it be a problem later? Since he was my sponsor on I-864, does he need to continuesly make over 125% of poverty line?

Thank you so much in advance!

In my case, IO approved I-485 on the spot and I got the stamp even without asking for it. Later that day, update on I-485 and then my I-130 and I-485 got updated seperately on different day.

If I had to wait five months after the interview, I would had heart burn every night!

Congratulations to you :^D

It's just letter size blank paper and you attached with the form explaining stuff.

Oh! I only can imagine how worried you are. But since IO said you are approved the best thing you can do is call them and ask what is going on.

except the summer time, do you guys have any plan to live together permanently any time soon?

Lying and just changing address on the form would not help anything I think. Being honest is the best. I saw some couples on here on VJ that do not live together and they put the seperate address and attached the explanation I believe.

@marc anthony

Hi. Did the IO take away your I-94 and EAD card?

Hi. I received email/text yesterday that USPS picked up my green card from USCIS and I had welcome letter today in my mail box.

I haven't met my family in 6 years and I'm so excited now that I can visit them finally with my husband. Somebody told me that once I have my green card there's some kind of waiting period to go overseas. Is that true? If so, how long do I have to wait?

Thanks.

I used my new passport. Mine that one with expired visa is also expired so I just brought the new one with no visa in there. They didn't even ask for visa. I don't think they have any right to ask for valid visa for immigration medical exam.

Is your 'out of town for long weekend' a vacation for two of you guys? or is it like a family emergency?

I can't say you have to go to the interview instead of the trip but during the whole procedure our priority was the interview. You can enjoy more your vacation when everything is settled.

It seems like some poeple get rescheduled their interviews and get another date within 1~6 months.

It is totally your business what to do but I'm just saying...

Your case looks pretty simple and straight forward. You're still here legally and doing AOS so I think there's nothing to worry about to send the paper works without lawyer but if you feel comfortable with lawyer it's really up to you. But as long as you follow all the guide lines to fill out paper work and didn't miss anything. I say go for it!

I thought you have to list every single forms and attachments that you submit with your I-130 and I-485. At least that's what I did.

LOL and WTH @genital exam.

I didn't do it, either. They drew blood though. Isn't it enough? lol

Our interview was 8:30am this morning. We live in Austin so we left our place at 6:30am. With almost no traffice we arrived there at 7:45am so we went ahead to the building.

Passed the security within a minute. Handed out the appointment letter and signed the book and set down. With infopass and all the other stuff, waiting area was almost packed.

At first, me and my husband was so nervous we were shivering for like 5 minutes lol but then as time goes by we got calm down. Around 8:40, IO walked toward us, stood right in front of us, said 'Hello' in Korean

We rode an elevator together chatting to his office. He swore us in and started conversation with asking us if we watched movie called 'Proposal' however we both didn't watch it and he told us it was something about marrying USC for green card and stuff.

Then he asked me my full name.

where I was born.

My birthdate.

What city did I first come in to the States. (Austin was my answer and he asked why did I pick Austin)

How and when did we meet. (He was surprised that we've been together for 6 years!)

If my family lives in the States.

Who came to our wedding.

Have we been to Korea to visit my parents (I told him I couldn't because of my status and he said it wasn't a trick question and he wasn't thinking)

He asked my USC husband his full name.

birthdate.

Where do his parent live.

What immigrations status are the parents.

Between the question we had all these small talks about Korean food, Korean people, his military year in Korea. We had quite a fun interview. We spent almost an hour chatting.

After that he took my EAD card and expired I-94. Then he said he's gonna put a stamp on my passport so meanwhile I wait my green card, I can travel outside of US and can get a job. He even made the stamp valid for one year just in case I would have any troble getting my conditinal green card. Right then he was like 'Oh let me stamp this first' and took out APPROVED stamp and put it on my applications.

He explained Removing condition after one year and 9 months. We can send in as much as evidences so we wouldn't have another interview later and added a child is a rock solid evidence for that if we're planning. If we don't send in lots of evidence USCIS might want to do another interview but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

We did hank shakes and did another small talk in the elevator down to the door.

And tada~ I'm a permenant resident as of today

All other applicants who wait for interview, I wish you all the best!

Our interview was 8:30am this morning. We live in Austin so we left our place at 6:30am. With almost no traffice we arrived there at 7:45am so we went ahead to the building.

Passed the security within a minute. Handed out the appointment letter and signed the book and set down. With infopass and all the other stuff, waiting area was almost packed.

At first, me and my husband was so nervous we were shivering for like 5 minutes lol but then as time goes by we got calm down. Around 8:40, IO walked toward us, stood right in front of us, said 'Hello' in Korean

We rode an elevator together chatting to his office. He swore us in and started conversation with asking us if we watched movie called 'Proposal' however we both didn't watch it and he told us it was something about marrying USC for green card and stuff.

Then he asked me my full name.

where I was born.

My birthdate.

What city did I first come in to the States. (Austin was my answer and he asked why did I pick Austin)

How and when did we meet. (He was surprised that we've been together for 6 years!)

If my family lives in the States.

Who came to our wedding.

Have we been to Korea to visit my parents (I told him I couldn't because of my status and he said it wasn't a trick question and he wasn't thinking)

He asked my USC husband his full name.

birthdate.

Where do his parent live.

What immigrations status are the parents.

Between the question we had all these small talks about Korean food, Korean people, his military year in Korea. We had quite a fun interview. We spent almost an hour chatting.

After that he took my EAD card and expired I-94. Then he said he's gonna put a stamp on my passport so meanwhile I wait for my green card, I can travel outside of US and can get a job. He even made the stamp valid for one year just in case I would have any troble getting my conditinal green card. Right then he was like 'Oh let me stamp this first' and took out APPROVED stamp and put it on my applications.

He explained Removing condition after one year and 9 months. We can send in as much as evidences so we wouldn't have another interview later and added a child is a rock solid evidence for that if we're planning. If we don't send in lots of evidence USCIS might want to do another interview but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

We did hank shakes and did another small talk in the elevator down to the door.

And tada~ I'm a permenant resident as of today

Thank you so much to all the members in VJ. You guys literally saved us almost $2000 lawyer fee and helped mentally so much!

All other applicants who wait for interview, I wish you all the best!

I know you used USPS but you also mentioned that you sent it express. So just making sure which address did you put on it.

PO BOX 804623 Chicago, IL or 131 South Dearborn-3rd Fl.

Because I was little confused about this, too. but USPS officer(?) explained it to me. Even though you send it express, you should send it to PO BOX when you us USPS. South Dearborn is for other express carriers such as FedEx or UPS. If you sent it to PO BOX 804623, you shouldn't have any problems.

I'm slightly confused about what you mean by "original". Only the court has the original document, and then they issue certified copies. You probably have another certified copy.

I meant 'original' by the one that was mailed to us in the mail box with gold seal on it. When we asked for 'certified copy' they made a copy of this 'original' certificate and put big square stamp on it. And charged us around $10 bucks

The 'original' that we have is signed by 2 county clerks with colored pen(blue).

Thank you so much you guys. I feel so much better