onehappycouple

Very similar situation here.

I put both addresses on the sheet and wrote presenet in the second one since the first row alsready spelled out present.

I put the address where I receive mail as the main one.

As a USC, where do you get most of your mail? Where are you registered to vote? That's your primary residence.

Our inverview is in a month, so I will let you know if they question that.

Finally, the status of my i485 has changed from acceptance to testing and interview. Hoping for an interview date in the last week of October.

Submitted on 8/12, last update on 9/18.

Looking at the trackitt /usa-immigration-trackers/i130-i485 - most of results for August are same-sex couples. It's exciting to see their progress. Does anyone use it as well?

I did the walk in biometrics today. The place was empty, took 10 minutes. They did insist to next time come when sheduled or call the number on the notice to reschedule.

btw, does anyone use trackitt or ***removed***/tracker/i-485-tracker?

edit: looks like the other forum is blacklisted?

The 131,485,765 notices have a different A number than the one I already had and put into each form / evidnece when we sent in the package.

Got the 4 hard copy confirmation letters, but no biometrics appointment yet.

I'm surprised that my alien number got changed though, has anyone noticed that on your notices?

We ended up sending the docs just the way they were, with no additional explanation.

The federal law at the time was basicly if its same-sex, then its not a marriage for any federal purpose or benefit. It's not like we filed 1040 as single and immediately amended them with 1040x claiming married and explaining the DOMA predicament. So, we feel like we're just being consistent with the law at the time. Will see what happens and if they even bother to ask about that.

Another same-sex binational couple to file in August.

We did it all paperwork by ourselves, with the undeniably huge help of visajourney.com and all people posting here. For that we say Thank you guys.

As you can imagine, past month has been a stressfull one, trying to get all the needed paperwork in order. Now the wait begins...

Will keep you posted.

WOW, 5 years? congrats. That's a lot of evidence to show to immi.

good luck!

Binationalcouple, thanks, that is our understanding. We're just curious how other copuples / guys dealt with in this situation.

I'm not a hater, but this topic is for same-sex couples due to our peculiar circumstances. Yes, we are all equal and so on, but there is hardly any infromation on how technicalities of immigration work out during this transition time.

Hello.

We are ready to file, the envelope is ready to be sent out on Monday. However, before we do, we'd like to ask you for your experiences if your spouse was here on an F-1 visa and had filed any form with immigration prior to 5/25/13 as "SINGLE", while they had been already married in a same-sex marriage, ie. F-1 spouse filed for CPT or OPT I765 as single while actually under state law being married.

Did you attach a letter explaining that you complied with the DOMA at that time or just did not mention it at all? If you did not, did you get any RFE about that?

What type of evidence of bona fides did you attach? Approx. how many pages did you send? Did you have any affidavits or just relied on your own pics and whatnot.

We got pics from different trips, print outs of our facebook accounts, joint checking, insurance policies, etc. along with old phone records. It seems like it all came out to about 40 pages of printed copies.

Also, has anyone of you gotten through an interview yet?

Good luck.

P&D