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Posts posted by arentol
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Sorry to hear about your situation. Sounds like a solution is on the horizon, though it may take some time to sort it all out.
If it makes you feel any better, I recently read about a K1 couple who filed their I-129F petition and then, a couple months later, got married...
...and continued waiting all the way up to the Embassy interview, at which point the CO advised them of their error. I suppose that, somehow, the term "fiancée" escaped their notice. 
So the couple is looking at up-to an additional year of waiting whilst the sponsor initiates a marriage-based visa petition (need to start from Square One).
In any case, my condolences and I hope that your situation is resolved quickly.
Brian & Agnes -
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Las Vegas:
$50 TD shot
$20 Fee for I-693A Vaccination Supplement
As others mentioned, just contact the USCIS-approved Civil Surgeons in your area and shop around. From what I understand, many doctor offices are not fully competent/aware of immigration law and will try to charge for an entire medical exam. Since you've already completed the exam at Manila SLEC, you only need the TD shot and the supplement form filled out.
Best of luck!
Brian & Agnes -
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Hi guys,
Good news, we just had our case transferred to the California Service Center! Hopefully that means no interview! Here are our dates:
MEMBER NAME --- DO---TRANSFER DATE--NOA DATE--BIOMETRICS DATES----what happened next
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Arentol---------Las Vegas---07/03/06--------03/28/06------06/09/06--------------------Waiting
Thanks and best of luck to everyone!
Brian & Agnes -
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Mindy & Roy,
We're in the same boat. Our AOS paperwork was received on March 28th and we have not yet received a biometrics appointment (Local office: Las Vegas).
I was thinking the same thing as you: I noticed that many couples have been scheduled for biometrics within 2 weeks of AOS receipt. Looks like more waiting for us
Take care and best of luck,
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Believe me....I went through Nebraska last summer and saw lots of people get approved before me...Seriously, I am not complaining -- I am just wondering....Is there anyone else out there who sent in their paperwork around my date (3/22/06) and HAS NOT gotten a letter about their Biometrics yet?
It just seems like all the timelines I see sent in their paperwork after me and have already gotten the Biometrics taken or received the letter with the date.
Approval w/o Interview??? What is the criteria???
in Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from K1 and K3 Family Based Visas
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ML,
Awesome post and you nailed it with the $1 million question: what is the criteria?
That's what everybody wants to know. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason but, then again, no true analysis has been done. If we had a nice big database full of some good immigration-related metrics, then we could arrive at some conclusions. Unfortunately, there isn't one.
So, in the interim, we have a lot of guesswork accompanied by equal measures of caveats. I do think we can make some sort of educated guesses:
- If USCIS is not interviewing, then the case must be fairly straightforward. Would they give a pass to someone with a complex case? I doubt it.
- So what defines a straightforward case? Who the heck knows. My guesses: no children involved, no red flags, first-time applicants, no income-related issues for sponsor, filed everything on-time. Plain-vanilla stuff.
- Having said that, everyone feels the need to throw out their caveats... so here's mine: divorced couples, couples with children, and those with co-sponsors get approved without interviews. So there are no hard-and-fast rules here... and there's the rub.
I can only attest to my own experience. For me, our AOS case is plain-vanilla and it was transferred to CSC 6 days ago.
Best of luck pal!
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