JParce

Thanks to those of you who helped me with my tax transcript panic. As it turned out, I didn't have to show any documents at all (just my green card, passport, and driver's licence).
 
I aced the civics test. The officer was more concerned with the unusual situation of how I still work in Canada. They seemed pretty concerned with the possibility that I still maintain a residence over there (which I do not) or perhaps if I stay there for more than 6 months during the year (which I also don't). All in all, it was pretty easy experience, albeit a little stressful from all the questioning about my life (which I probably should have expected). The officer was nice, I liked him.
 
My interview was at 10:40am, and at 4:30pm exactly, I got the email saying the oath ceremony was scheduled. I called this morning to find out when it is, and the big day is November 20th. I'm surprised it's only 11 days after my interview; that seems pretty quick compared to a lot of timelines I've seen! I'm not complaining, though. Again, you cannot leave the USA for 2 weeks beforehand and they do check (the officer told me as much). 
 
I guess this means I'll get to celebrate American Thanksgiving as an American (dual!) citizen. Cool!

Hello All VJ followers!
 
I wanted to give you all an update and share my interview experience today! First of all, I passed the interview and now waiting for the final paperwork to get my certification
 
I had my interview today at the USCIS in Tampa. I was called in few minutes after getting there for my interview. The  officer took me to his office and then the interview started. These were the questions: 
 
- Name the US war between the North and South?
- The idea of self-goverment is in the first three words of the constitution. What are these words?
- We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?
- Name one state that borders Canada?
- Who is the father of our country?
- What is the name of the president if the United States now?
 
I answered all six of them correctly and he moved on to the reading section. I had to read from the iPad "We elect congress" and then I was asked to write on the iPad "The people elect congress"
 
After answering all the questions, he asked me several yes or no questions. Those are the same questions that I had to answer on my N-400 form.. like have I been to prison, etc.. He then confirmed some information and I ultimately signed the Oath. I assume I am a U.S. citizen now? I just don't have my certificate? Any ways, he mentioned that I have to come back to pick up my certification and gave me a paper congratulating me for answering all the questions and because I was eligible for naturalization.  
 
I am happy to be almost over with this process and hopefully get an update in the next few days about my next appointment for the "ceremony".
 
Good luck to everyone taking their interview this month and feel free to ask me anything if you have any questions.
 
 

Hello All VJ followers!
 
I wanted to give you all an update and share my interview experience today! First of all, I passed the interview and now waiting for the final paperwork to get my certification
 
I had my interview today at the USCIS in Tampa. I was called in few minutes after getting there for my interview. The  officer took me to his office and then the interview started. These were the questions: 
 
- Name the US war between the North and South?
- The idea of self-goverment is in the first three words of the constitution. What are these words?
- We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?
- Name one state that borders Canada?
- Who is the father of our country?
- What is the name of the president if the United States now?
 
I answered all six of them correctly and he moved on to the reading section. I had to read from the iPad "We elect congress" and then I was asked to write on the iPad "The people elect congress"
 
After answering all the questions, he asked me several yes or no questions. Those are the same questions that I had to answer on my N-400 form.. like have I been to prison, etc.. He then confirmed some information and I ultimately signed the Oath. I assume I am a U.S. citizen now? I just don't have my certificate? Any ways, he mentioned that I have to come back to pick up my certification and gave me a paper congratulating me for answering all the questions and because I was eligible for naturalization.  
 
I am happy to be almost over with this process and hopefully get an update in the next few days about my next appointment for the "ceremony".
 
Good luck to everyone taking their interview this month and feel free to ask me anything if you have any questions.
 
 

Hello All VJ followers!
 
I wanted to give you all an update and share my interview experience today! First of all, I passed the interview and now waiting for the final paperwork to get my certification
 
I had my interview today at the USCIS in Tampa. I was called in few minutes after getting there for my interview. The  officer took me to his office and then the interview started. These were the questions: 
 
- Name the US war between the North and South?
- The idea of self-goverment is in the first three words of the constitution. What are these words?
- We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?
- Name one state that borders Canada?
- Who is the father of our country?
- What is the name of the president if the United States now?
 
I answered all six of them correctly and he moved on to the reading section. I had to read from the iPad "We elect congress" and then I was asked to write on the iPad "The people elect congress"
 
After answering all the questions, he asked me several yes or no questions. Those are the same questions that I had to answer on my N-400 form.. like have I been to prison, etc.. He then confirmed some information and I ultimately signed the Oath. I assume I am a U.S. citizen now? I just don't have my certificate? Any ways, he mentioned that I have to come back to pick up my certification and gave me a paper congratulating me for answering all the questions and because I was eligible for naturalization.  
 
I am happy to be almost over with this process and hopefully get an update in the next few days about my next appointment for the "ceremony".
 
Good luck to everyone taking their interview this month and feel free to ask me anything if you have any questions.
 
 

Hello All VJ followers!
 
I wanted to give you all an update and share my interview experience today! First of all, I passed the interview and now waiting for the final paperwork to get my certification
 
I had my interview today at the USCIS in Tampa. I was called in few minutes after getting there for my interview. The  officer took me to his office and then the interview started. These were the questions: 
 
- Name the US war between the North and South?
- The idea of self-goverment is in the first three words of the constitution. What are these words?
- We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?
- Name one state that borders Canada?
- Who is the father of our country?
- What is the name of the president if the United States now?
 
I answered all six of them correctly and he moved on to the reading section. I had to read from the iPad "We elect congress" and then I was asked to write on the iPad "The people elect congress"
 
After answering all the questions, he asked me several yes or no questions. Those are the same questions that I had to answer on my N-400 form.. like have I been to prison, etc.. He then confirmed some information and I ultimately signed the Oath. I assume I am a U.S. citizen now? I just don't have my certificate? Any ways, he mentioned that I have to come back to pick up my certification and gave me a paper congratulating me for answering all the questions and because I was eligible for naturalization.  
 
I am happy to be almost over with this process and hopefully get an update in the next few days about my next appointment for the "ceremony".
 
Good luck to everyone taking their interview this month and feel free to ask me anything if you have any questions.
 
 

Congrats! Almost there! Only 13 days now
 
I have my interview on November 2nd so I still have a few weeks to go before the finish line. I am glad to see that oath ceremonies aren't too far away.
 

I am so happy and excited for you. You are finally over with this whole process and soon to become a US citizen! I am sorry that you had to go through a rough final experience, definitely uncalled for.
 
I also divorced my spouse after I realized that she wasn't faithful about 4 years ago. My GC was approved without an interview (very exiting day, after going through all the worst case scenarios) (I wrote an affidavit when I submitted the removal of conditions giving them every single detail of our relationship. I ended up writing over 70 pages and that whole process was painful as I had to remember everything and then write it down). I have a copy of the affidavit and I have tried to read it but I get anxious re-living that experience again. And so when I read how rude the officer was to you, I fear to have a similar experience and that they will try to ask me every detail that I wrote to confirm if my relationship was real or not even though I am submitting my citizenship request on the 5 year basis instead of marriage. I also have proof that our relationship and marriage was real but I don't want to feel like I have to proof with my answers whether I entered that relationship for my own benefit and to fear that my application could be denied if the officer doesn't believe what I am saying. I already went through that I was hoping that that feeling was over.
 
I truly hope that that's not the case during my interview and that the officer can see through everything that I have submitted and done to proof that. Anyways, I will definitely share my experience to others with similar experiences on what to expect during this process. 
 
Good luck to everyone with upcoming interviews!  

I am sorry to hear about your response, I understand how you may feel. We decided to call one more time today USCIS and talk to someone else and see what they would say this time.
So the first lady that we spoke was confirming what we already know about our case. it is outside the processing time. really???? so since we already filed a service request in November 3rd, she asked us to file it one more time since we didn't received anything in the mail and wait to 30 days, but 2 days ago I called and another associate said that if we filed for another service request we would delay our response even more by creating more tickets, but today she said that if we would create another case it would go to our case number an another officer will be assign and we should have someone working on it.
Since every time that we have talked to USCIS we get a different story we asked for a supervisor, she transferred the call and her supervisor was giving us the same details but she told us that our case is still at the benefit center but it should go to a local office first for us to get our interview and then approved or denied our case, she said that she couldn't give us anymore details about our case but she offered the option to transfer us to tier 3 which I thought there was only tier 2 but anyway we were placed on Hold for about an hour and we finally got this officer that to begin with, He was rude, he asked me for my first name which I misunderstood his question and gave him my last name then he said very loud "I ASKED FOR YOUR FIRST NAME", then after I gave him my first name I decided to spell in case he didn't understood which he replied with, "I didn't know asked you to spell, I can see your name, just give me your information." so then we explained our case and then he said, "an Officer was assigned to your case and he is working on it, you should have a resolution worst case scenario 60 days otherwise give us a call back" which we replied by asking for the location of our case and then we asked him just to briefly confirm what he said to check that we didn't misunderstood since he had an accent and we had a little bit of trouble understanding. He said " I have not time to go through this again and I have customers waiting on the phone" then he hang up.
this is unbelievable and very disrespectful, I guess we have no other choice than wait 60 days and then give them a call, liked you said just sit and wait.
We haven't ask to our congresswoman for help because all I've read in other comments are that they are as helpful as USCIS, but I guess she will be our last resort.
Keep me update it with your case and I hope you can hear good new soon!

I'm attaching a pic of what it looks like when it is in production in the new system. I will say this, the update to the website is nice on this page in that it allows you to see all of the recent updates to your case on the left hand side.

Hey Parceritos!
From my USCIS web page, it is in the "Case History" section when you scroll down the page.

My husband got his welcome letter yesterday and the greencard was mailed yesterday. We filed in February and got the Interview waiver letter in May. Here's hoping they're working on these, and everyone starts getting approvals!

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..

I received my interview waiver just after you guys, on June 10. Here's hoping we get good news soon. It has been a long wait.

Been watching this thread for many months now. This is our first forey in to the muck and mire of this topic here. We sped throught the K-1 process in 3-1/2 months. Bombed them with a ton of documentation -- big mistake...My wife arrived from Uzbekistan 0n 2/1/14. We were married on 2/12/14. We filed our AOS through our immigration attorney, who because his legal secretary was on vacation, the I-485 package was delayed untill late March. NOA 4/2/14. Like everyone else, biometric and EAD/AP without a hitch. Our Notice of Potential Waiver of Interview arrived on 6/27/14.
My wife met another woman at the Tashkent embassy while processing her K-1. This woman had a questionable relationship (knew the guy two months before petioning and her ex-husband is already in US). She arrived a week after my wife and filed her AOS a week later than ours. She was given an interview request in early June. Was interviewed in early July at the NYC Federal Building and had a green card mid month. Her file was questionable and she was culled for further review. Hence my saying it was a mistake to bomb the embassy with more information than they really need. Maybe just enough to get a K-1, but not enough to get an AOS without interview...Oh well...
Made inquiries to NBC in Sept, impatient as is everyone else. A hick-sounding, slow Midwest drawling gentleman at USCIS told us to be patient and wait. He said he wondered how the woman I just discussed got her GC so fast -- he said she was unusual and we were not...maddening...but you all know that...
My lawyer made inquiry at the same time...no response fron USCIS...
Contacted my Congresswoman as well in Sept. They got a response that a NPWI was pending from Jun 27th, so tell your constiuents to cool their jets and wait...
My Sentators office wouldn't even talk to me because we were still "in Processing Time"...
So we waited...The rollercoaster was just as bad as everyone else writing here...TIme ticked down to 12/27/14...Kept an eye on the USCIS processing time.
When the recent update to the Processing Times for I-485 for the NYC office were posted last week for 10/31/14; we now landed outside the Processing window. I was ticked. So as others here have done, I called NBC and filed a service request (12/4/14). I was assured that our file was in the NYC office (ha! I believed that like I believe in the toothfairy). So we stared waiting the requesite 15 days for a response (with a ticket # ending in NYC).
Then this weekend happened. On Sunday our modern day equivalent to Pearl Harbor occurred. At 11:10 am we got not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, we got five texts saying we had a change in status. We were first excited, but then I noticed the case identifier number was wrong; it started with EAC not MSC...and lo and behold it was an update on our long ago approved I-129F and not only that it said our file was transferred for further review from 8/13 and not approved as it was in 9/13...Needless to say I was very hot...a very cruel, sick joke
Yesterday we got 2 more early morning texts for the same file, before I could even call USCIS...this time the status site congratulated me on approval of my petition - gee thanks.
So I called USCIS and asked what the heck was going on. Was this a reponse to our service request? The flunky in Tier 1 said that it was probably due to site maintanance. I said put me through to Tier 2. When Tier 2 got back to me two hours later, the guy said it was a result of the new web page and they were re-inputing data. He admitted 7 SMS's were excessive (ya think...). While I was on the phone, I had him give me more info on our AOS. And as expected, he told me our file was NOT in the NYC office, it was still [rotting, my word] in NBC. Big surprise...He said we should be hearing on the service request this week. Gee thanks...
I called my lawyer and he had already put in a call to the NYC office and was waiting for a supervisor to call (as of today, the supervisor has not responded). He has submitted a service request as well...He told me that a service request goes directly to the processing officer who has the file, not to the Local Office if it is not there and that the NYC at the end of the service request ticket we got was only an indicator of our location and not a request directly to the NYC office...He knows better than me (I guess), that's why I hired him...
My Congresswoman's office is now filing another inquire; much good that'll do...
My useless Senator (the one that is minimally helpful - the other is a pompous good for nothing,,,but I digress) has yet to return my call...big surprise...
So like everyone else we wait...We are happy to see that late April and June 5th NPIW letter dates are now getting action and GC's; congratulations guys.
I have one thing to get off my back - this 2 tier (maybe 3 if you consider "dreamers" into the mix) system stinks. If your marriage is of questionable nature, you get an interview and a quick GC. And if you are open, honest and play by the rules you rot. Why don't they reinsert the interviewed files back with all the rest of us to process GC's? It is totally unfair. But that doesn't matter to an agency that is beholding to no one because they work for fees, not tax dollars. I spent 23 years in the USAF and this is the thanks I get...

Our timeline is identical. Let's keep each other posted

Welcome to this thread! Two February filers who got their NPIW letters in May were approved last week. Apart from that you have to go back to the end of August to find another approval. This is definitely the slow train ...
Keep us updated please!

As I mentioned already I personally wouldn't trust her.this situation honestly makes me think if she used the husband to come here, and maybe he doesn't even know she wants to get divorce and is seeing you secretly and then comes back home and has a "happy" marriage. While she is looking for someone else out the house.
Also if she came here and got married the husband had to file for AOS it takes a few months and they pass an interview etc, she is granted a green card that 1 years and 9 months later she must do ROC ( removal of conditions ) for that she needs to go again with her husband to an interview and proof their marriage has been real.
By the timing you mention around 2 years she came here it's like she is about to do that, and if she has been seeing you for over a year... That mean her green card would be in trouble so I belive when the husband said he didn't know about you. Of course not she is being nice to him to get the green card on ROC. And she got mad you ruined her plan and probably said to the husband she won't see you again or who knows and that's why she doesn't talk to you for now. Maybe when she has the green card she will contact you again.
It all looks very sketchy to me and would you trust someone who dates you while married?? The same can be happening to you.
I don't know what exact help you are asking here, but as a woman that's my opinion on her and how she is acting.

I was a single mother of 3 children... I was never scared of doing it all by myself, I was never on public assistance and my kids turned out to be 3 very loving and caring people. They all do well in school and I can honestly say... They were the best things that EVER happened to me. Hands down. You can do anything you put your mind to. Don't let any man tell you what to do or how to live your life.... If you want that child..... then have that baby in Canada. Things always work out . Some of the best kids come from single parent homes.

If she didnt want peoples' thoughts on her situation she wouldnt be posting it on a public forum.
It'd be different if people were being distasteful in replying saying "you're this or that if you have an abortion" or "you're selfish if you decide to keep the baby", as long as the replies are constructive and her wellbeing is considered in peoples' answers then no one is stepping out of line.

Im not in your situation but I ask you please dont end the life of your baby. Your baby was conceived for a purpose. You may have the future president in your stomach, or the scientist that finds a cure for cancer. Who knows! What a wonderful gift you have to be carrying a baby

If he gave up on the relationship, don't give up on your baby in your tummy. God never give up on you. Please don't do the abortion. Spend time with people who lift you up (family & friends).

The title of this thread asks for examples of "strong evidence" but the initial post only talks about FB. WHAT??? I certainly hope there is a lot more to your relationship than online chat.
If you have time, write actual paper letters to each other. Since this immigration process takes many, many weeks, there is plenty of time for postage delivery. It is cheap and this is one thing that was looked at in the interview for my fiance. (Plus it is very sweet and romantic to send the love of your life something that you actually touched with your hands.) My fiance took with him almost all the cards, postcards, and letters that I'd sent him along with the birthday cards I'd sent to his parents (for good measure). Seeing the notebook with the well-organized documents, photos, and letters, the interviewer didn't bother to check much else. I'd bet that it was clear that we weren't out to waste his time with stacks of repetitive ####### and had everything super easy for him to find. Keeping things simple and easy for the person who has so many people to "process" is probably going to make them feel better about you in general and can work in your favor.
A tip that I read on here that has seems to help tip the scales in the favor of the foreign fiance is to be sure the USC is there and for the foreign fiance to take the passport of the USC with him/her to the interview (if the fiance is not allowed to attend). This is some very distinct evidence of relationship to travel to the country of the loved one and to entrust one's documents with that person.
Good luck.

Hi everyone! I posted a question the other day, and thought I should introduce myself.
I'm an American citizen in a relationship with a Costa Rican. We met in 2009 in a salsa club (can you believe it??! ) and in Feb 2011 he moved in with me in the States. We lived together for his full 6 month tourist visa. Now I've moved down to Costa Rica and am applying for temporary residency so I can work in the upcoming year.
For a while, my boyfriend wanted to never leave CR again. But he eventually changed his mind and our plans are to go to the USA to live out our lives. We plan to stay in Costa Rica for the next 2 or 3 years, as my boyfriend finishes up his degree and I work at a school. We're not engaged, but we plan on doing so in the next year, if things continue to stay good for us. After looking around I think we'll probably apply for a CR-1 visa.
So although I'm not going through the process yet, I wanted to start looking up information to be prepared!
Thanks for all the help everyone has already given me! I hope to see you soon with news of engagement

Good Luck in the interview!! I know you and your fiance will be fine!!!

Ok here are tips I gethered after gone back and forth on almost all forums and websites dealing with K1 visa. I may have missed something so if you don't mind, share with us your tips and let's make the list even bigger.



Before the interview:



- Be always organized : make a checklist



- Know Each and Every document you will bring to your interview



- Practice with your Fiance commonly asked questions.



- Whenever you have doubts about something ASK ABOUT IT : no one was born Mister- know -it -all



- Look for posts of people whose visa was denied. Why was it denied?



- Look for posts of people whose visa was approved. Is there a secret to there approval?



- It's better to give them more evidences of a genuine relationship then not enough, just don't over do it: 1000 printed chat logs will just look weird



- Keep one think in mind ----> "One mistake and I'm scr*wd" : This will make you more vigilent while preparing your petition. A missing document, an empty tab, .....Nope! Non o' this is permitted my dear!!!







During the Interview :





- Make sure you psychologically prepare yourself beforehand for the big day



- Again be organized with your documents: Have a quick view on the whole thing before you go to sleep.



- Prepare what you're gonna wear for the interview beforhand: Another Ugly Truth on the district BUT Looks matter (sometimes...)

Also the famous: "oh! where is my black belt", "which one should I wear, the blue one or the white one???" ........ you won't waste your time in such time- consuming shallow details if you get rid of them the night before the interview.



- Read posts of people who were approved before you go to your interview and think: if they did it, we are doing it too! The future of your relationship lies in this very day SO MOVE YOUR A** AND DO IT!!!!



- Try to calm yourself down. Fear is not to be welcomed. Beside , don't worry , I've made my researches and found out that CO don't eat people, they hold our future beneath their hands no wonder, but they are just humans.... Do what they ask you to do, be prepared and everything is just gonna be OK





You are going to find some post telling you that not getting a lawyer to fill your petition is a big mistake. Funny stuff is : they are lawyers themselves! so they are interested in your pocket ...Oups! I mean in guiding you ....







GOOD FATE