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called DOS today and finally got the case # ... thank GOD .. what next ..?

Just called NVC they say they have the file but no case number yet any one knows how long to wait for the case number .. ?

i just recieved the same message but my case was approved and i even have a hardcopy of the NOA2 ..???

Ok NLR I get your point, I feel like you're attacking me, I am just relaying to people in the forum what I was told today in the info pass appointment, as I said I was not told this is a sneaky hush hush way it was said very matter of fact by a couple people there. I guess because my intent in being here is not bc I intend to stay its because I'm visiting my husband and she knows that. We worked for airlines int he past and get cheap tickets and so I'm here until I have to leave again which is in a couple weeks in which I will be going for a job in dubai for a couple weeks (I am a stylist in dubai) and then I will be back where to spend christmas and new years with my husband before going back to Oz to wait it out. I think perhaps she may have mentioned this as an option because I am currently here with my husband in the US and he asked her if I had to do my interview in sydney when the time came or if I could transfer to have it done here, thats when she came through with this information.

I don't think she is trying to commit fraud (I don't see any reason for her to advise this seeing as she is an immigration officer) and I am certainly not, i just wanted to hear if anyone else had heard this 'advice' or it being done before. Thanks though for the reply I appreciate your concern.

Hi i was brought up in dubai .. and have bein here in U.S for a while what the lady told you is correct there is no fraud .. like you said she works for the USCIS i think she would know better that to give wrong advice if you go again another officer would tell you the same ....

I'll give you one more crazy thing, that that crazy lady didn't tell you,

but you should know.

Since yer here, take a copy of the I-130 receipt notice, and send in a complete AOS set to USCIS, with the fees and medical exam.

Then you can wait it out, legally, inside the USA. No Consulate visit, just an adjustment of status, with a green card at the end.

Crazy, right? But Oh So Do-able !

Why dosent any one accept this its true .. it been done here in US all the time .

Yeah thats what I find weird about this whole advice thing. The thing is why would she even suggest that? Especially seeing she works at the department of immigration? She didn't say it in a sneaky weird way she said it matter of factly and when I asked questions asking her to explain in layman terms she made out like it was no big deal. Just a 'if you're in the US when your husband receives the approval letter, you can apply for adjust of status to stay permanently' she even sent me downstairs to get the pack which is the i-485 fromt he front office and we asked them for it with that intent explaining why we need the pack and he said ' yep sure this is what you need'…. I think from what i've researched its fraud if you come in the country with one type of visa and marry someone straight after you get here and then apply for an adjustment of status.

She said that we have been married a year and being Australian it was not a big deal… so i wanted to check this info out. I think i may contact an immigration lawyer and ask their advice. I have looked up infer for adjustment of status also and basically it says that if you enter the US legally (such as an australian on a visa waiver) and have not overstayed that you qualify for an adjustment of status..

She also only suggested it when my husband asked if I HAD to do my interview in Sydney, if I could get it changed to do ti here..thats when she suggested the adjustment of status..

All i have to say is that the lady is right .. i have bein in us long enough to know that .. i dont know why every one keps telling that its not ..if you are here and marry a us citizen you can be on any visa and do an adjustment of status .. but o well

6033340700 nvc

2024857600 dos

any new case numbers ..???

hi .. u got me worried now .. can u give some more details pl .... i have jus filed for K-1 too ..

its true about csc ti bein 5 weeks and no number yet ...

Unfortunatly from if it went to the csc they dont send a notice but i have red on other VJS that they have got a email .. but no oe from csc .. sorry ..but TSC sends the file fast mabe in a week or 2 i have read .. good luck ..hope you get yours soon

its strange other service centers are getting their case number faster than csc .. i called today and they said no record still its the 4th week that gos for NVC ..lol

yes ur right but if they are in US on another visa they can very well get maried and do change of status .. what the point of filing for a K - 1 .... as OP mentioned they do want to get married but .. well .. so i guess its not ... ""moot """

yes ur right about the NOA1 and NOA2 thats true , yes they are bound but there is a change of status ..if u consult a lawyer he would advice you the same and that its better to do a status change than to file the papers out of U.S.A..from scratch ...

yes ur right but when i had a word with the immigration office they said as long as your application is in progress ur not out of status ..for eg .. if you file a status change for a K-1 its going to take more than the 90 day visa that was issued on PoE ... but the person still has a status just cos their in the process .. i mabe wrong ..

if you file your papers befor the visa gets expired it wont be a over stay .. well thats what i was told before

Dont give up some people have waited a lot more time and mabe bein through a lot more ..God know when will be the best time ..have faith

you are right cat lover it is a K1 dont know what hapen sorry

Thanks all for the update ...i really apreciate every ones efforts to keep us all informed ... Thanks ..

i did call the DOS and the lady said it wasent there yet try a week later so i hope things move ..

Good Luck to every one waiting .

Hi all i Recieved NOA2 almost a month ago no luck with NVC yet any oct vjs have recieved the case number ..CSC i guess the snail mail process ...

Hi all we got our NOA2 on Oct 8 .hoping to here from NVC soon .. Called DOS and was told that it wasent uploded at NVC yet to call and check in a week .. so i guess its a good thing i hope ..