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I don't know if I would want to hired an expired immigration lawyer.

In amongst all the mayhem some people seem to have gone through I have to say I have found the whole process pretty straightforward.
in the K1 process everything happened like it was supposed to. Yes it took a long time, about 10 months from first sending the petition to getting visa in hand but so what. We just got on with our lives and then it happened, like we thought it would. (no RFE's)
Again with AoS/EAD/AP, I filled out the forms and did what they told me to do, with a lot of reading of the guides and forums on here as well. They said EAD/AP would be 60-90 days and guess, what, it was 72 I think.
Then interview waiver letter in Feb and they said it may be 6 months, and it was, GC came today. (No RFE's)
So for all those who read about folks misfortunes, and I accept there are some, I suspect most just happen like they should.
So don't worry, read the guides, browse the forums, ask questions, read the instructions for the forms, do not use an attorney unless you have to and be patient.
Good luck and see you in the ROC forums.

In amongst all the mayhem some people seem to have gone through I have to say I have found the whole process pretty straightforward.
in the K1 process everything happened like it was supposed to. Yes it took a long time, about 10 months from first sending the petition to getting visa in hand but so what. We just got on with our lives and then it happened, like we thought it would. (no RFE's)
Again with AoS/EAD/AP, I filled out the forms and did what they told me to do, with a lot of reading of the guides and forums on here as well. They said EAD/AP would be 60-90 days and guess, what, it was 72 I think.
Then interview waiver letter in Feb and they said it may be 6 months, and it was, GC came today. (No RFE's)
So for all those who read about folks misfortunes, and I accept there are some, I suspect most just happen like they should.
So don't worry, read the guides, browse the forums, ask questions, read the instructions for the forms, do not use an attorney unless you have to and be patient.
Good luck and see you in the ROC forums.

She can withdraw the affadavit not the petition, the petition is his.
Does sound like he had had enough for whatever reason so went back home. If anything happened between me and my wife I would not stay here, I would be straight back to the UK as soon as possible.

She can withdraw the affadavit not the petition, the petition is his.
Does sound like he had had enough for whatever reason so went back home. If anything happened between me and my wife I would not stay here, I would be straight back to the UK as soon as possible.

Got married 3 weeks after arrival
Did two weddings, first one in a park with a few of her family, did that for the AoS process, then did bigger family and friends one 6 months later.
AoS has taken 9 months.
I work abroad mostly in Europe so getting EAD/AP was important to me.
I wish people had told me how expensive stuff was in the US compared to UK, housing, medical, bread, cheese, beer.

She can withdraw the affadavit not the petition, the petition is his.
Does sound like he had had enough for whatever reason so went back home. If anything happened between me and my wife I would not stay here, I would be straight back to the UK as soon as possible.

Wrong, you can use AP for vacations when you are filing AoS from a K1 visa. You need not say why you want it or when you are travelling.

Good luck with whatever you decide.
Personally I can't think of anything worse than having some pretentious 'celebs' trying to upstage myself or my love on our special day.

I have been here six years and it does not feel like my true home.
That's not to say I don't like it here. I am comfortable with how everything works now and am happy here with my family. There are lots of things I think are done better here than in the UK and I've made some really wonderful friends.
It took me about five months to feel comfortable and about a year to feel really happy here.
But.... I still feel a lightness and happiness appear when I go back to the UK and a feeling of being home. I don't know if I will ever stop hoping we can all go back to live there for good one day.

I have used my AP 3 times since March for business trips, nothing to do with emergencies.

I've been here since 2012 & I don't think I will ever truly feel at home or call America "home" . I've gotten better at accepting and enjoying some things for what they are here, rather than comparing it to what i'm used to. I always tell people who ask me how I like it that I find the quantity of life, and abundance of resources better than my home country .. but the quality .. I find no real quality to American living.

You dont get another I 94, you just get stamped in until your current immigration runs out which is the expiry of the combo card.

Are you sure everything is on hold, I'm not, why would an RFE for AoS affect EAD/AP especially as they were filed separately and I believe these things are processed separately as well.

Thanks for the well wishes!
As for the cost of vaccinations, once you determine which vaccinations you need, please check with your state health department before getting them done by the civil surgeon. The health department is usually a lot cheaper. I find the $500 a bit ridiculous that the civil surgeon wants to charge you.
I needed to have a couple of immunizations done, and I went the to the NY Health Department and I paid $40 for both of them. I just provided the civil surgeon with a record of the shots the NY health dept. gave me and he noted it on the I-693.

If you have an interview it will do no harm to bring along what you have. They cannot expect too much if you have only lived together a few months.
Keep evidence for ROC though, so make a folder or whatever and start now by every now and again putting something aside such as joint bank statements, flights together, anything with both names on it. This will show you have had these in place for a while and not just 2 weeks before you file for ROC. A long way off i know but thats what I have. Joint house ownership from before we got married, ditto bank account. City taxes etc in both names, gas and elec bill in both names and so on. Every 6 months or so I will make a copy and stash them away for ROC.

My interview was about 6 weeks after my medical. This was last year but I think the wait is about the same. I had medical and submitted all my forms on the same day, waited about 2 weeks and got appt letter for 4 weeks time for interview.
Someone more current may answer but I reckon it would be unusual for anyone to get an interview within 3 weeks.

You dont book an interview, London will schedule it and let you know by letter. Might be a couple of weeks before you hear of an appt and that will probably be about 4 weeks ahead. Hopefully someone more current than me will give you n idea how long people are waiting at the moment.

You dont book an interview, London will schedule it and let you know by letter. Might be a couple of weeks before you hear of an appt and that will probably be about 4 weeks ahead. Hopefully someone more current than me will give you n idea how long people are waiting at the moment.

Sold my house, car and motorbike (sob), had a garage sale and made £550 selling loads of ####### like 1/2 tin of WD40, people will buy any junk so well worth doing.
Brought my bed, rowing machine, clothes DVDs etc.
One thing to bear in mind if you have DVD's is that most laptops have a disc drive and you can still play them on that and use an HDMI lead to play through the telly so think before you ditch them or give them away.

I expect they would reject them. She wants to marry a guy she has never met....words fail me. Well they dont but I better not write them here.

Yes you are right, make a couple of copies yourself. At interview they need sight of the original but will only keep a copy so make sure you take one. At medical they only need a copy.

Do it yourself, there is absolutely no need for a lawyer, not for K1 either but sounds like it's too late for that.
Read the guides and treat each form for AoS, AP and EAD as separate items even though you send the whole lot off in one package
Make sure you do AP and EAD as well as they fees are waived when sending them in with an AoS package.

The price of bread is horrendous, here anyway, a decent loaf will set me back $4 to $5. How I long for my Hovis granery for 89 pence.

It's American bread; you don't need to add anymore sugar.