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I mean that you will submit the medical report before 3/15/2015. My question is if you just mail the medical forms how the medical forms will combine with your case?

I mean, it's probably not that different from mailing in an RFE. They have your full name, A# etc.

Whole medical.

Exact phrasing: 'Submit a completed medical examination , form I 693. The exam must be in a sealed envelope and have the medical office stamp or doctor's signature across the sealed portion of the envelope. Unsealed medical reports will not be accepted'

Looking at the USCIS site it seems it's not supposed to expire until a year after submitting it to USCIS. So if my original medical isn't supposed to expire until February 2015... It seems they might have lost my original one and that's why I need a new one? It's a pain anyway because there are no civil surgeons in our practice so I have to go through the 'new patient intake' at the one that does and that tends to take a month or two. Which is not helping if this form needs to be in by March 15.

Ugh. What a drag.

I think the date of submission to USCIS might be the date of POE, as that's when you hand over your initial sealed medical.

Was asked to post this here:

We are Feb filers, and received the Interview Waiver letter on June 5.

Today I get a letter saying they need a new I 693 from me (expired or lost? Who knows?) and to send it in before March 15.

My timeline doesn't work so:

Original medical: August 6 2013

Entered US: October 15 2013

Married: December 12 2013

Filed AOS: Feb 21 2014

NOA1: Feb 28 2014

EAD/AP received: April

Interview Waiver letter: June 5

Request for new I-693: December 15

The whole medical, or just the vaccination part?

Do you guys understand the significance of that date (11/21/14)? That's the day after the President announced his executive action on deferred action of deportation with work authorizations. And you know what that means? 5 million people just jumped the line in front of us. It will take many man hours to process all of those and he just gave them priority...I may be wrong but I think we've been put on the back burner on a slow (very slow) simmer...and even though my Senators office just got information from USCIS (12/15/14) that our file will be processed by 9-12 months after receipt, I'd be willing to bet we get this letter soon as well...(PWI letter 6/27/14)

It doesn't mean anything of the sort. It may be related, but please don't post your speculation as if it's fact.

There have been many, many approvals of waiver cases since 11/21. There is one case that we know of that's received a further 6 month delay, and we don't know anything about the specifics of that case or why it might be delayed.

One example does not make a trend.

Hi Giuseppe I don't know, I just have the message that the welcome letter it's going to arrive and the green card it's gonna be on February. In the card says if it's two or ten?

It depends on how long you've been married. I just looked your timeline, and it'll be the 2 year green card because you've been married less than 2 years.

Your NOA was in March, so it looks like things are advancing! Could you please update your timeline with your approval?

I Have a question if anyone can help me. We get permanent residence or permanent. What's next?

Congratulations! Did you get a 2-year or a 10-year green card?

If the former, read the guidelines for removal of conditions here

Yeah, "Platinum" seems to basically mean the exact opposite; it's almost everyone's entry-level card, if they have no other name for it.

I'm guessing the UK is similar to NZ in this regard. Back home, platinum denotes a premium card with higher status than gold!

I applied to Capital One and a couple of others for their basic card when I was starting out, but was rejected. I had to obtain a secured credit card (in my case from Merrick Bank), and after about six months of that I started to receive pre-approvals in the mail, ironically one of them being from Capital One who then turned around and gave me a Platinum card without any hassle.

I discovered that platinum doesn't mean here what it does elsewhere. My secured $500 (was $250 when I got it) Cap One card is a "Platinum" too. It seems it's just a name, rather than any sort of status.

I got a Capital One secured MasterCard at around the 3 month mark, $250 credit limit based on a $49 deposit.

As soon I was able to generate a FICO score (which is 6 months after your first card first reports) I applied for a JetBlue AmEx and was approved instantly for $1k unsecured. A couple weeks later I randomly noticed that Capital One had doubled my credit line to $500.

About a month after I received the AmEx, my cat had to have an expensive operation so I applied for Care Credit and was instantly approved for $3.5k.

Say what you will about Capital One, but without that initial secured MasterCard I wouldn't be sitting here with $5k in credit just 10 months after moving here.

It pays to read up on the best ways to manage your credit score. For example: always pay your balance in full, and keep your utilization below 30%. I put almost everything on my AmEx but I make sure to pay it down to below $300 before the statement date, so that they don't report high utilization.

No, I didn't move. I guess I will have to contact them next week...at the end of this month it's gonna be 3 months since we sent the application in. Thanks ya'll

Call them ASAP. Not attending your biometrics appointment can result in your case being considered abandoned.

Thank you, I tried doing what you said.. and we were supposed to get notice before September 19 that was long time ago, and we never heard from them We are really getting worried now.

What does your status show as? If you're waiting on a notice that was supposed to come in September, you should call USCIS as soon as you can.

My interview waiver letter was received in June dated by June the 5th. I submitted the service request couple of days ago

I was able to sign up thanks and I see my case history in my account.

I submitted the service request and it says it's not assigned for processing

so if the card is under production it will show that under the History in my account?

If your case is approved/card is under production you'll see the status at the top change (the heading in blue). The old case status checker was much more intuitive in this regard. It showed a full timeline from acceptance to approval/denial, with where you were currently at highlighted in a different blue.

I received my biometrics appointment letter less than 2 weeks following NOA1. You might want to follow up with USCIS.

But this is for Employment Authorization

It's normal.

Here! June 5th NPIW with March 5th Fingerprint Fee received.

My lawyer put a Service Request on 11/28, but I was too busy with work that I couldn't update you guys. Mine is different from yours GiuseppeG. It says that according to USCIS, it is still pending, and that they anticipate I should receive a decision or other notice from USCIS within 60-90 days of this notice.

I was sent BOTH the applicant as well as the attorney copy at my residential address. The only weird thing is that it came from my local USCIS office.

Here is how the case history is displayed on my USCIS account:

On November 28, 2014, your inquiry about why your case is taking longer than our processing time, referral number T1DXXXXXXXXXXXXX, was assigned to an officer for response.

On December 1, 2014, we sent a response to your inquiry about why your case is taking longer than our processing time, referral number T1DXXXXXXXXXXXXX.

On December 1, 2014, your inquiry about why your case is taking longer than our processing time, referral number T1DXXXXXXXXXXXXX, was completed.

What's the last 3 letters on your service request #? Mine were NYC, I guess based on my address, and it was answered by the NYC field office.

I'm almost positive that mine is a generic response and wouldn't have mentioned the interview part if it had been answered by NBC. But we'll see, I guess.

So Giuseppe, how did you inquire, was it an online service request based on being past processing time or did you call USCIS? We want to make an inquiry also based on the NYC processing dates that just came out. Someone else had said that the cases still at NBC (ours) don't go by the local office processing times? I do not know!

Yeah, they don't. There's no processing times published for the NBC. But I sort of figured that the reason for the enquiry didn't need to be exact, I was just curious to see what they responded with.

Here's the link: https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/displayONPTForm.do?sroPageType=onpt

Finger print fee received blah blah..

Hmm, maybe my case is at the field office and I am getting an interview then. Who knows!

That's what it sounds like - a standard response. Here's hoping!

Actually - good point! The robot tells me that mine is still in MO - but the agent told me it was transferred, but she wouldn't say to where. Hmmmm..

Oh! What does your online status say?

I'd rather have an interview; you'll get your GC a lot faster. If everything is fine with your marriage and you have joint accounts, you will be fine. Our experience is that even with a questionable marriage (see earlier post) the interview is not bad (though I hear wait until ROC, that's worse). You'll rot out there in the NPIW list well past the new year...Take the interview and while you're at it can you get us one too...

I know, I would rather have it too. But I doubt that's accurate. If I was going to have an interview, surely something would have moved within the last 8 months!

If you do have an interview that will be all sorts of frustrating. You could have had the gc already if it weren't for that damned letter.

I know, that's what I thought! I'm fairly certain it's just a standard response. It came from the field office, so they're probably not that well verser in interview waiver letters. Besides, my case is still in 'Acceptance' and when I call to check the status the robot tells me my case is in Lee's Summit, MO

I enquired on my case status today just to see what they said, and I got the following response from the New York City field office only 2 hours later:

On 12/9/2014, you or your representative contacted USCIS concerning your I-485 to notify us that you believe your case is outside of our normal processing time. Below is a summary of what we found and how the issue has been or may be resolved.

Our records show that your I-485 is currently pending adjudication. You will be scheduled for an interview. Please wait to receive this notice which will be sent to the most recent address we have on file. We regret that we are unable to provide you with an interview date at this time. We apologize for the delay.

Weird, as I received the NPIW letter on 7/29. I wonder if they know something I don't, or if this is just a stock standard response not taking into account the NPIW letter.

Hello VJ's,

I am wondering if someone could give me an input here, my AED is being mailed to me and I might get it this week, I will be starting a job next Monday, and I am still waiting for my AED, can the e-verify will prove my status as authorized for employment even though my card still in the mail? I am just worried that my new employer will not allow me to start without my AED card.

Thanks!

Regardless of E-Verify, you need to submit an I-9. For that, you must present your documents (in this case your EAD card) within 3 days of your first day of employment.

For the record, my EAD was in my mailbox 4 days after it was approved, so you should be fine!

Why people have always talking about feminism when comes about women's right? There are many cultures where the women working as well. Many women were scientists, writers, and pioneers back in ancient times. In Bali, women had worked to support their family. These women never cried about the equal rights toward men. Women and men have same rights and it is nothing to do with feminism.

The first half of your last sentence is pretty much literally the dictionary definition of feminism.

you asked your first wife to attend the interview 2 years after you were separated and didn't tell USCIS you were no longer living together as husband and wife. No matter how you spin it, you committed fraud, plain and simple. Your second marriage isn't the issue, the first marriage is. Just because you are remarried doesn;t discount the fact that you lied in order to obtain a visa.

The OP hasn't confirmed whether they actually lied at the second interview and presented themselves as still living together. I think this is probably what happened, but we don't know enough of the facts to call them a liar.

Either way, fraud only comes into play if the immigration benefit was eventually granted. This is willful misrepresentation, not fraud.

"We were separated for about two years until we were called for the second interview. At that time I was already seeing my current wife. I contacted my former spouse and asked her if she could go with me."

Do you realize you misrepresented yourself by just going to the interview. Attending you are saying you are in a bonafide ongoing marriage. And here you were working on marriage #2. You two weren't even living together. Not cool at all. Does your lawyer really know all this happened.

It's only misrepresentation if they were pretending to still be living together as a legitimate couple. The OP doesn't make clear whether or not they did this at the second interview.

Separation alone is not necessarily grounds for an AoS denial, as long as the marriage was entered into in good faith (from my understanding). But if they did indeed misrepresent themselves, that's probably the worst situation to be in. Especially as USCIS will know from the dates on the second application that the OP met their spouse #2 before the second interview with spouse #1.

So, basically:

1) the OP didn't pretend to still be living in a legitimate marriage with spouse #1 at their second interview, in which case the extra scrutiny makes sense, but they will still be eligible to adjust status based on marriage to spouse #2 providing that relationship is genuine.

OR

2) the OP went to the second interview with spouse #1 and represented themselves as a still happily married couple. In this instance, assuming USCIS connects the dots, OP is likely up for deportation with a lifetime ban.