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Thank you Newbie608 and blankmedia for the advice. This morning my wife called the company and they were (thankfully!!) understanding enough to reschedule her recruitment visit. So we're set for our original AOS interview date in just over a month.

Wish us luck!!

Hi everyone,

Today I received text/email notifications with my AOS interview date (my wife is the USC, I'm adjusting from F-1). However, the interview date is during an out-of-town week-long job recruitment event that my wife absolutely has to attend. She is graduating with her PhD degree this May and has been job hunting since August last year (interviewed with >10 companies). It is very important for her to go to this recruitment event as she has a very good chance of getting a job offer.

My question is: should we even try to reschedule our AOS interview appointment with USCIS? I've read horror stories here on VJ about rescheduling attempts and applications getting denied because the rescheduling requests didn't make it to local USCIS offices. The next actions that we plan to take are these (tentatively):

(1) Send the interview letter (once we get it by mail tomorrow or the day after) with supporting documentation (e.g., my wife's invitation to the recruitment event, email exchanges she had with the company's lead recruiter, plane ticket itinerary that the company bought for her to fly to the recruitment event, etc.), and a letter from the both of us explaining the situation (been job hunting since last year, this is our livelihood, whatever it is to show USCIS that our rescheduling request is for a serious reason).

(2) Schedule an InfoPass with our local office (the soonest I can get one is in 10 days) and go there with my wife to ask about our options. Is it even possible to reschedule it from there??

(3) Go to our appointment on the original interview date anyway by myself (while my wife is out of town). I know that the interview requires both of us to be present, but this way if the rescheduling request didn't make it to our local office, I can at least try to explain to the IO our situation in person and maybe have the interview rescheduled... Or am I being too hopeful here...?

Any thoughts/suggestions/past experiences are much appreciated.

Thank you!!!

Thank you chitown and hmh33 for your responses/clarifications.

What made me think that we had to pay this fee was the I-864 FAQ page on the Department of State website. Sorry I can't post the link here because I'm new to VJ, but a Google search of "I-864 Affidavit of Support (FAQs)" will take you to the page I'm talking about.

Thankfully the fee doesn't apply to us.

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

I have a question about the $88.00 fee for Form I-864 that has been filed from within the U.S.A. How much longer after submitting the AOS packet to USCIS should I expect to receive the invoice from the U.S. Department of State for this fee?

Thanks!

Either is fine -- however you can best lay hands on anything that might be asked for.

*** Thread moved from K-1 Process forum to main AOS/Family-Based forum -- OP is at that stage. ***

Thank you TBoneTX!

Hi everyone,

My wife and I are getting ready for our AOS interview and we have all of our original documents put together. Does anyone know what is the best way to carry everything to the interview? I know that we won't be able to take our cell phones inside (they are camera phones) or any weapons (duh). I was thinking of taking a portable hanging file box to carry our original documents. Does anyone think that will be a problem? Or should we carry everything in a clear plastic box?

Thank you all!