37shells

Yes you did sandranj!!! I can't even thank you enough!

Today I received an email notification saying my green card has been ordered!!!!! Of course I cried lol! Thank you everybody for your support and sandranj for your time and knowledge. This forum has been such a blessing!

No Cielo, no email, just a letter in the mail. Your case status wont even update to show interview you just have to wait on the letter.

Dominique, I dont know why it was brought up either and it happened in a different county. I found the record of it online but it says it cant be displayed on the web. I am trying to find out how to order a copy of it. I have read that some people left AOS interview with an RFE in hand, but she did not give me anything. Just that she will talk to her supervisor. Hopefully her supervisor will know that his prior divorce makes no difference in my case. I guess if her supervisor does decide that it is needed maybe i'll receive an RFE, I just have to pray and hope that everything goes smoothly and quickly.

Thank you Dominique - and congratulations to you! I did not have a lawyer - that was the first question she asked me when i went in. I did not feel as though I needed one because it was a straightforward case with no issues and I had made it this far without one. I will keep everyone updated as and when I hear anything from them.

Congratulations to you too donehere!

My divorce attorney asked the court to include in the final order authorization for me to travel out of the country with the children. There dad has objected to that final order - I don't know what he has written in his objection because I havent seen it but all his prior objections are just to do with objecting to the divorce itself. But he has shown the court time and time again that he is unfit to be a parent - at the last hearing he walked in an hour late wearing sunglasses with a lollipop in his mouth and told the Magistrate that he was high on narcotics and living homeless in his van. The supervised visitation center where he was allowed to see the children have refused to let him in there any more because he couldnt follow their rules and they had to have extra police there any time he went. The restraining order is on behalf of the children too, and he has refused to take the batterer's intervention class that the court ordered him to take, and he has not completed the parenting class either. When the Magistrate asked him at the last hearing if he had any proposed parenting plan he just started laughing and made racist comments about the Magistrate. So i do believe that they can see for themselves why giving me that authorization would be a good thing for the children but i still have one more court date to go to. You will love London! There is so much to see and do there!

Thank you sandranj that is reassuring to know. So it appears that biometrics expire after 15 months and it is 16 since I did mine. Will I receive a new appointment notice in the mail to go and get new ones done? She didn't tell me what to do about that, all she said was good luck regarding her supervisor and the divorce decree issue when she showed me out. She had tried to call someone earlier in the interview to see if someone was available to do fingerprinting that day but her calls weren't answered and she didn't mention it again or if there was something I should do.

So if my AOS gets denied because I couldn't provide divorce decree from his previous marriage that would be an error? Because even spouses of bigamists qualify under VAWA (I know the divorce did take place, but even if it didn't, and he was still married when he married me) so therefore a divorce decree should not have been necessary for my case anyway?

Thank you so much for your encouragement. When I arrived there I was already very shaken because my abusive (soon to be ex) spouse's mother lives five minutes away and I had to slam my brakes one time and reverse back up the road because I had spotted him on the same road where I was headed and I just prayed that he didnt see me and follow me to the place. So I was already somewhat traumatized when I arrived. After reading about everyone elses interviews I did expect it to be straightforward and I just wanted to get in and get out and leave the city (i live two hours away from there) knowing that he was in the area. The questions were not directly related to the abuse, or specific to my case, although they were general questions, ie "why didn't your husband file anything for you?" the answers would have required me to go into detail about the abuse, in my case my spouse used to threaten to call the police and have me deported as a threat to get anything he wanted - and he has carried out these threats after I left him but I already had prima facie notice by then so when the police came knocking on my door on xmas day I told them that. He tells the judge in court during divorce hearings that i am illegal and they need to arrest me, he doesnt know that i am not because I have never told him but he uses it every opportunity he gets, and obviously that is a weapon he uses against me. So to properly answer that question, this is what I would have to state, and thats going into detail about the abuse, right? Why a human being would do that to another human being i do not know, but I have waited 14 years for the threats to end and they still go on in the courtroom despite me having a restraining order for the other things he has done to me. Of course, i felt not only uncomfortable trying to answer because I know we're not supposed to be speaking about the abuse during the green card interview, but to be having to think in depth about answering the questions had my nerves going completely crazy by the time i left. It's been an awful day, I thought today this would all end and I'd be able to look forward to visiting my family back in the UK and introducing them to my children. I guess that wont be happening for a while longer. By the time I left I just felt like i should be grateful for not being detained there and then. I'm trying to think of some of the other questions, there were more.

So I just got home from my GC interview. I waited for about 30 minutes before I was called in and I was asked all the questions on the i-485. She also asked me when i last had fingerprints done, i said Dec 2012. She said I would need to have them done again. I was asked for marriage cert, birth cert, childrens birth cert, passport and drivers license. She went and took copies of my passport but did not ask me for my i-94. She asked me how many times i'd been married and i said once and that the divorce is still going through the court. She asked me how many times my husband had been married and i said twice. She then asked me for the divorce decree from his previous marriage. I did not have it and I can't get it either. In fact he never told me he was married before until i found out through some online court document that gave his and his ex wife's divorce date and that was how i found out he was married before. I explained this to her and she told me she couldn't do the application without the document. Then she asked me for his ex-wife's name which I was able to give to her and she wrote it down, but she also asked for her d/o/b which i do not know. She told me that she would have to see what her supervisor said about it. There were a couple of questions also that made me uncomfortable because it was related to the abuse. She asked me if my husband had ever filed anything for me and I said no. Then she asked why. Well rather than say "because he's a psychopath who used my status as a weapon to trap me for over a decade" I simply said "I don't know", and that's the truth - i don't know why someone would do that, thats a question only they can answer. She asked me how I managed and I just said that it has been very hard, and it is still very hard because it is ongoing through the court now in the divorce process. Afterwards she told me that she was going to see what her supervisor says and mail me if there is anything else she needs and she wished me good luck. So I am a little down about it to say the least. I hope things work out, I guess that is all I can do.

Thank you! I will update once its over!

I will let you know how it goes! Its in Florida.

Stayingstrong - my situation is similar to yours, my timeline is below, hope it helps, i just received my AOS interview letter. Online it still says 'response to rfe review'. I never got a notice saying it had been transferred to a local office. I did call my congressman a couple of weeks ago to enquire about my case because it had been so long, and immediately after my enquiry i received the interview notice. By the looks of things you may still have a while longer to wait!

Hi everyone, been a while since i posted. Congratulations to all approvals and all new GC holders! I finally have received a letter for my GC interview - I contacted my congressman to enquire as it had been transferred to NBC in June and not updated since i sent in my medical RFE in October and immediately after the enquiry the letter was sent to me. My interview is this week, i'm just making sure i have all the documents I need to take now!

thanks faithkeeper , I m trying to stay strong and positive about it. Sometimes is hard but God keep us strong.

Looking forward for some good news soon.

Your going to get it soon PanamaGuy hang in there.... any day now. I KNOW what you are going through - I had to file behind my abuser's back too because I was unable to do anything. It took me months just to prepare the package - i had to print one page at a time each time he went outside to smoke a cigarette - after 50 cigarettes I had printed an affidavit! That was a year ago.... today, I am free and I'm so overwhelmed that I still dont know where to start after all these years - but I made it and its my life now. PanamaGuy - a day can change EVERYTHING! Keep looking forward!

Good Luck Panamaguy, we are here for you!

I very much agree with Panama Guy i was going to say something too earlier but I did not, maybe I should have but SingleDad you are beind very negative and not encouraging and at the same time I think you are just wrong on a lot of things, the only person should be giving that kind of advice is sandranj - the only one here with multiple approved cases. The rest of us have just one approved case - and singledad I dont know if you got your yet but i hope yours will also be approved if not. PanamaGuy, your case is very similar to mine I relied heavily on my own affidavit which was actually 50 pages. I had NO psychological report from a professional. I did not take photos of bruises or swollen bloody face or any of the other 'typical' things that singledad seems to think are the ONLY things that count. Please singledad, you are going overboard I would love to be able to help panamaguy but I am too overwhelmed by your posts that it deters me from doing so. I beleive Panamaguy will be successful and trust me I have been there too and the very last thing that would have helped me when I first came here would be to get one of your responses on my case - i would still be where i was if that happened. I dont mean to sound harsh but its getting a little scary to read it all.

Oh and panamaguy - unless there is a court order to say you CANT take your child, then there is no court order to enforce.

Congrats girl I'm so happy happy happy...... I always used u as my marker cause u filed a month before me

Thank you Nardah1 I thought of you as soon as I got the approval actually I knew you would be getting excited yours is here in a matter of days I'm sure and i'll happy dance with you lol!

Congratulations 37shells !!!!!!!

I knew you would be next !!

Thank you somone! You will no doubt get yours within a matter of days, I will be so excited for you

congtas!!! may i know when did you file Vawa? I am happy to hear that many people got their approvals! God bless

Bless_me I filed April 24 2012, my timeline is in my signature below... and thank you you will get yours soon too!

So does anyone know for fact that timeline seems to have moved to 12 months OR was 37shells expedited?

It was not expedited. However, I did send additional documents last week so I think it may be possible that maybe they pulled my file to put in the documents and just adjudicated at that time? I don't know.

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rkina i am sure you will be fine if you sent in what they asked you for - please dont worry though, i did enough of that for the past 12 months lol i was preparing for the worst, and today i am just overwhelmed! You will hear back very soon and your good news will arrive

Thank you!!!!! I would never have been able to get through it all without all you guys here - sandranj thank you sooooooooo much!!!! God is great!!!!!

OMG OMG OMG I JUST GOT AN EMAIL SAYING MY i360 is APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am shaking lol

Ssisi1026 Congratulations!!!!!!!!!! When you take a break from all the celebrating lol can you please share your experience of the interview? What did they ask you for? It would be very helpful to us. I am so happy for you!

Czzr - that is great that you overcame that. Well done and I wish the best for you. Congratulations on your prima facie too!

Just to add my two cents here - if sandranj is wrong then all of us who have acted upon her direction or advice must have filed wrong... we all must be denied then? You can see that yes there many people in the VAWA 3 forum with approved cases and you can of course ask them about what they filed and most will be happy to let you know what they did - mine is all in my signature below. There is no need to be defensive and feel as though you are being criticized but sandranj has helped many of us over the years and I believe that you can learn a lot about VAWA cases from her and also from those of us who are doing this by ourselves. We are not here to criticize each others filings we are here to give each other knowledge and support and I hope that you will stick around and contribute because we sure as heck need it, and hopefully you might sometimes allow some of us to contribute to your learning experiences too.