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    N-400 October 2016 Filers

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Hello!

    I have been so busy since I left on my trip to France the day after the interview so I'm sorry I didn't update. 

     

    Interview was at 2:30pm on March 28th in San Diego. The paperwork I brought included: letter, passports (mine, spouse's, son's), green card, birth certificates for all 3, last 3 year of tax returns. I didn't bring any photos or bank statements or anything else. I had sent so much paperwork and proofs with the application. 

     

    I got to the waiting room at 2:15pm. I barely had time to sit down and fill up the form that the lady called me. I didn't hear my name at first. It was 2:20pm. 

     

    She brought me to her office and had me sit. She had my entire paperwork I sent since the beginning of the process (green card) so about 1000 pages! in front of her. It was impressive to see it all together. 

     

    She started with the test, the written sentence and then she asked me the civic questions. They were easy and I passed them all. One was "what is an amendment?", "what is the supreme law of the land?", "what do we call the first 10 amendments?", "who is in charge of the executive branch?", "what is the capital of your state?", and "what do we show loyalty to when we say the pledge of allegiance?" (She required both answers,  flag and united states, for that one). 

     

    She then asked me a few questions about my marriage (mainly like are you still living together? does the child live with you?)  the clearance questions and that was it! She didn't ask to see any of my paperwork except for my green card and drivers license. 

     

    She told me I should get a letter for my oath ceremony 4 to 6 weeks later. 

     

    It lasted about 15 mins. 

    Time between interview notice and interview?

    in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by Frannyglass

    Hello

     

    Could you give me your time between the interview online notice that interview has been scheduled, and the interview date? Am I right to believe it's usually 5 weeks, or between 4 and 5 weeks?

     

    My notice is Feb 17 and I'm flying out of the country March 28. I'm thinking interview is scheduled for a day the week of March 20-24.

    Covered California for new permanent residents?

    in General Immigration-Related Discussion

    Posted

    However I just talked to customer service and when I changed something on the application (wrote that my wife doesnt need health insurance), it changed my enrollment status and put me as "eligible for medi-cal" but not for the others anymore. I told her that and she said "Starting Jan 1, you will be eligible for medi-cal even if you've been a permanent resident for less than 5 years. Starting that date the new extended medi-cal program will accept you and you will be covered".but I am not believing her, I think she is incorrect.

    Covered California for new permanent residents?

    in General Immigration-Related Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Frannyglass

    Hello!

    I have an important question: I have just had my green card approved. I know that one of the conditions for the green card is that I am not eligible for government benefits such as medicaid, disability, etc. However am I eligible for the Advance Payment of Premium tax credit? I enrolled on the website (putting my EAD number since at the time I didn't have my green card number) and it said I was "conditionally eligible" for it. It told me to choose a health plan, and said I would only have to pay $2 out of the $260 the plan costs (because of low income). When I filled it, I put my household as two, and my income as $300 which is what I am earning right now after expenses (self employed massage therapist). My wife is disabled and receives SSI which cannot be counted in tax returns or as income in covered california. She is already covered by Medicaid/medi-cal. I would definitely not be eligible for medicaid/medi-cal because of my status (less than 5 years permanent resident), but I really hope I am for the APTC. We are planning on getting pregnant next month and I need to be properly covered.

    When reading the rules for the ACA in California, my household income is considered too low for Advance payment of premium tax credit, and eligible for Medi-cal. However after filing my application and stating that I am a new permanent resident (or not even since at the time it was just my 1 year work permit info) it said I am eligible for premium payment but not for Medi-cal, which makes me think I am doing things right and I truly am eligible for it? (that they gave me that option knowing that I cannot get medi-cal).

    I don't want to mess anything up (with our joint sponsor who is a friend) but things aren't so clear!

    Here is what I found:

    Immigrants who are “lawfully present” in the U.S.can:
    1) Buy health insurance in the state exchange with their own funds -> eligible
    2) Apply for tax credits for premiums and co-payments through the state exchange: 400% FPL and below if here less than five years; 138-400% FPL if here more than five years -> that would apply to me (and I believe that is why they said I was eligible: it clearly states "400% FPL and below", without any limit since I can't get medicaid, but for more than 5 years, there is a limit and anyone here over 5 years and under 138% FPL is eligible for medicaid)
    3) Eligible for Medicaid coverage expansion (0-138% of FPL) if here five or more years -> I am not eligible
    4) Eligible for Pre Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) -> I would be eligible if needed
    5) Are subject to the individual mandate Five-year bar on federal Medicaid (Medi-Cal) -> I am not eligible
    It would mean that I am fine and am eligible to receive tax credits for premiums which is great news! But I wanted to know if others here were in the same situation?

    September 2013 Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted · Edited by Frannyglass

    Interview on the 20th. starting to get nervous. need some tips guys. how do I prepare? where do I start?

    We thought we had to prepare and we ended up too busy to really do anything! However a week before, we gathered all the paperwork (with letters and photos) we wanted to bring as evidence as well as the official papers and copy of our application. We went over them a few times to make sure we weren't forgetting anything. We kept everything neat and ready in a bag.

    All we did was go over our relationship timeline a few times to make sure we remembered all the dates and details. Then the night before, we went over the trivia questions we found online just in case, even though we knew it was unlikely they would ask us any of those.

    BINATIONAL SAME SEX COUPLES !! Show up!

    in General Immigration-Related Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Frannyglass

    We had our AOS interview yesterday and got approved on the spot! We received confirmation of the approval today, green card is in production! So happy! We can finally breathe!

    The IO was a lady in her late 20s, she was very friendly and nice. She did ask for details on how we went from friendship to a romantic relationship, how many times we met before we started dating, who proposed, how and when, and details about the wedding. She didn't treat us any differently, the only mention of us being a same sex couple was when she asked why my wife's parents and sister didn't fly to New York (we live in California) with us for the wedding, we explained that my wife's grandmother was sick and at the hospital and that her aunt and uncle didn't know about us being together at the time, so if they (parents and sister) had come along, it would have seemed weird for them to "take a vacation" while the grandmother was sick,.since they were hiding our wedding from the rest of the family (at the time they didn't even know we were in NY, the grandmother just thought we stayed home and didn't want to visit her for 4 days while everyone else came daily...). That we didn't tell them then because they had a yes on prop 8 and "one mom, one dad makes a family" bumper stickers on their cars. The IO agreed that it really sucked. Since then, we did tell them about our marriage (a couple of months ago) and they are surprisingly totally fine with it. Anyway, that was it smile.png (I wrote a detailed review in another topic)

    September 2013 Filers

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    A review of our AOS interview:

    San Diego, CA

    Appointment at 8:35am

    December 10, 2013

    So we left our house at 6:30 to make sure we would get there on time because of morning traffic. We ended up in the area at 7:45 and parked half a mile from the building (we weren't familiar with the area and weren't sure we would find closer or cheaper parking. Turns out there were some closer, cheaper public parking but nevermind). Had coffee and then went to the building. We got there at 8:15. Went through security and then to the waiting room. There were a few people there, also waiting. We checked in and took a seat.

    At 8:40am a lady (she was in her late 20s, and looked very friendly) called my name. We weren't sure my wife was supposed to come along but the lady waved for her to follow me. We went in together and to her cubicle.

    She swore us in and we sat down. She checked our ids, passports, birth certificates and marriage certificate. She had our entire application in front of her and was checking to make sure our original documents matched what she had. She took my I-94. She stated that this was my adjustment of status interview and that she had already reviewed and approved he I-130. She asked me to verify my name, date of birth, address, my wife's name and date of birth, and asked all the security questions on the I-485. She asked me if I was still a student (with my F1) and if I was planning on pursuing my education after this. Also if I was working and I told her he truth, hat I recently found a job. She asked for the name of the place that hired me.

    Then she asked us how we met and she wanted a lot of details, about how the relationship went from friendship to a romantic one, how many times I flew to meet her, where I stayed, which hotel! and when exactly it became romantic. It was more detailed than we expected but we knew all the answers. She asked it the marriage proposal happened at the beginning of our relationship (we started dating January 2011), I said we waited a while, until June 2012. She asked us who proposed and how, we told her the story and she loved it. She asked about our wedding, if we had any guests, where exactly we stayed and for how long, why our families couldn't make it, and if we went on a honeymoon. She also asked about trips we took together.

    She then asked if we had brought more evidence proving that we live together. We didn't have anything apart from more recent bank statements, so she asked to see our cellphones to check our photos and text messages. She seemed happy about those. She wanted to see how far our text message conversations went, but we both had gotten new phones recently. She was satisfied anyway.

    Lastly, she saw the cute box we had brought along that contained all the letters we sent each other over the years and our photos. She looked through it and told us she loved it that we still wrote each other letters in this era of technology. She then told us we were approved and explained the ROC process.

    It took about 30 minutes. She was really nice, we felt very comfortable with her.

    August 2013 Filers for AOS

    in Adjustment of Status Case Filing and Progress Reports

    Posted

    Hi I need some help.

    My interview was on Nov 19th. Still no news. I was trying to make an info pass but I wasn't able - it says that there are no appointments available.

    Anyone has any ideas? I am basically trying to find out if my security check was cleared. Today i went to the county office to see if my record is clean and i only got one traffic ticket that i've paid and did school. Also got a DMV record showing pretty much nothing on my record. So i am getting kind of frustrated.

    They've already messed up our plans for the holiday but it is very stressfull to wait.

    Thanks;)

    Could you get an info pass at the Chula Vista office? When I was looking at appointments a while ago, Chula Vista was pretty open but san diego wasn't.

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