handsofholes

@Unlockable

I am seeing it rationally, but at the moment of my second reply I was just reacting emotionally. If there's nothing else we can do, then I suppose we will just have to make due with tourist visas to see each other as much as possible.

One is over 21 and the other would likely be 21 by the time all of the paperwork is processed. Basically, there is no option for us? That is pretty messed up that they would not make a way to keep people together by at least putting parents and siblings on the same processing time frames. As it is, if we applied for the parents and they got approved... their visa would expire due to them waiting for the brothers petitions to become approved. It's highly unlikely that they would be approved in a similar time frame.

My wife and I would like to know how we could petition for her parents and two brothers in a way that they are all approved and able to move here at the same time? Her two brothers are over 18 years old, but they still live with their parents and are dependent on them. So, it is basically a situation where they all move here at once together or none of them move at all. My wife and I are both U.S. citizens, so we were looking into the i-130, but the processing times for parents and siblings of U.S. citizens are different so we wanted to know what our options were to keep them together as a family unit throughout the immigration process.

Do we have any options we can pursue? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

My wife and I are wanting to travel with our son to her home country, but we are unsure if we are even able to.

My wife came to America with her passport in her maiden name (as most do) and then changed her last name to match mine.

Then we moved to another state where changing your last name is a far simpler process than it was in my former state. So I changed my last name (as I have been wanting to for a very long time, even prior to getting married).

So now:

My wife's passport is in her maiden name

Her green card is in my OLD last name (because USCIS screwed up and didn't fix it as they were supposed to before mailing her green card, and now we are waiting over a year for a replacement card... literally over a year).

Her driver's license is in our new, shared last name.

Our marriage certificate has my old name and her maiden name.

My passport is in my old last name.

My driver's license/social security is in my new last name.

Our son will be getting his passport in our new, shared last name.

Obviously our hope was that USCIS would send us a replacement green card QUICKLY so that we could simply apply for her passport to be in the new name... so that her passport and green card match names and match my name. But as I said, it's been over a year... so we can't wait any longer. One of her relatives passed away during us waiting for this to update and they never even got to meet our son. We don't want that to happen again while continuing to wait.

We've called USCIS so many times and they are so incompetent. They even sent us an email saying that our case is way outside of processing times but there is no information they can give us and to basically just get over it and wait without any idea of what is going on.

Is there any options we can pursue?

It's the fault of USCIS because they told me to inform the interviewer of the name change and I never got to attend an interview? They didn't give me any other options.

And I'm not sure where you got the idea that we could have changed our name at an 'earlier point for no charge'.

As for the typographical error... this is what another USCIS customer representative told me to do after I realized my case had been approved without an interview and was trying to resolve it quickly. He told me to do that and file it under 'other reason' and then explain it in writing. Which is exactly what I did.

My wife filed her Adjustment of Status under our old last name. But I had been meaning to change my last name for a long time (long story). We finally moved to a county where changing your name is a simple process, so we did.

After this, I called USCIS customer service to ask them what should we do now that her legal name has been changed and I was told to wait until the interview to notify the officer of the change and it would be updated for us.

However, our interview was apparently waived and her case was approved. So I quickly submitted an e-request online stating that there is a typographical error of the name, so that they would hopefully change it before they made and mailed the green card.

But it was too late and she received her card with the old name on it. Then today USCIS replied to our e-request and only stated that we have to fill a form and pay $450 freaking dollars.

I called USCIS and requested to speak with an officer and explained this whole situation... and she only said I had to fill the form and pay the fee. For their mistake!

So USCIS told me to wait for the interview, which we never got... and they are telling us to pay $450 because of this.

Is there anything that can be done?

No, it hasn't expired.

She did a medical appointment in her home country prior to the interview for her K-1 visa. Yet now USCIS is telling us that she has to do the entire same medical all over again here in the United States. Which I don't even understand why they didn't just make the one in her home country valid to begin with.

It hasn't anything to do with the embassies/consulates anymore. She has already immigrated here to America and she is awaiting her AOS approval. Does this make any difference?

I don't even want a very small risk, when there should be steps in place to avoid it entirely.

Hello everyone,

I recently received an RFE stating that my wife must attend a medical appointment with a civil surgeon. She just recently became pregnant and we are NOT wanting the doctor to be pumping her up with all sorts of shots and x-rays when they would be otherwise unnecessary if not for USCIS-purposes.

We asked the receptionists if we could get waivers on many things in this case, but they only said we'd have to speak with the doctor.

Has anyone been in this situation before or know of any advice I should know for such circumstances?

The appointment is in one week, so please help me with this.

Since I received the interview waiver about a month and a half ago, would it be realistic to expect our approval in five months? I know you said it takes 6+, but is 6 the most common?

Well, that is depressing.

Why did they even open our case? This is the second time they have sent us an RFE (one when they first received our case) and now five months later. I don't see why they don't send me one, complete RFE list so I can just get it all over with. Now I am thinking they will send me a third RFE randomly in another five months since it is apparently at random.

And yeah.. we received a letter saying we may be eligible for an interview waiver. What does this mean and why does it slow the case down? It seems like something of that nature should speed the case up, if anything.

It has been nearly six months since we submitted our Adjustment of Status application and now we have received an RFE. Does this mean that our case should be completed after we submit the required RFE materials?

I am the only one with a full-time job. But my wife is currently working on a freelance job and she plans to work on more (if she can find more work). So will this change anything?

What can I legally do to ensure that I receive the most money from each pay-check? I am married with no children yet. So do I put one allowance/exemption (forgot what it is called) because of my wife?

I am married and working full-time, but on my W-4 form it said that if my spouse is a non-resident then I have to file as single. My wife is here on a K-1 visa awaiting her approval for residency. So what is the best way to handle this situation? Do I file as single and then make one exemption/allowance?

Any help would be appreciated.

But why does the processing time pages say that many centers are processing the AOS?

And do you mean I should get the interview for the green card in five months from the day they received my case? Because if that is the situation, then I've already waited for three months so that would only leave around two months remaining.

My receipt number has MSC as the first three letters, which I read means it is the Missouri Service Center which is also called the NBC (National Benefits Center).

I checked the processing times on the NBC's USCIS page and it doesn't say anywhere that they even process Applications for Permanent Residence.

And on VisaJourney's processing time page, it says they are going the slowest... while every other center is processing ones from 2015 -- the NBC is still stuck in November of last year.

Now I am worried because not only did my fiancee visa take OVER a year for us to receive after we applied (which is already way over the standard waiting times)... but now we got stuck with the most incompetent service center for our Applications for Permanent Residence as well.

Can someone with more insight into this matter explain to me about this service center and its processing times? Or where I might find out further information?

Thanks for your replies everyone. This rests my concerns.

My wife received an employment authorization card that says at the bottom that it also serves as an Advance Parole document. But on the USCIS case status page, it only says her employment authorization was passed, but not her advance parole (it still says the case has been received and to wait for the next step).

Has anyone else gotten this?

***** Case number removed. Please never post publicly identifying info such as full names, case and phone numbers, email and postal addresses etc for your own privacy and safety. ******

Thanks for your concern, Penguin. But it wasn't my actual case number. It would have been pretty impressive if my case number was 1234567890, though.

I received an RFE from the USCIS. After I mailed the document they needed, they updated my case status online saying this:

"On May 8, 2015, we received your response to our Request for Evidence for your Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status, Receipt Number MSCXXXXXXXX. Our National Benefits Center office will begin working on your case again. We will mail you a decision or notify you if we need something from you. You should receive a decision or case update by July 7, 2015, unless fingerprinting or an interview are needed. If you move, go towww.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address."

Should my case be approved by July 7th or am I misinterpreting this?

That's a shame. I had a glimmer of hope. Haha.

Thanks for the answer, though.

I did submit a copy of the marriage certificate (certified and official) with our AOS application. But I am pretty sure that the marriage certificate said her maiden name on it. Is this still okay? Or will it not work as a result? Doesn't everyone's marriage certificate say their maiden name since at that given time, they haven't yet changed their name?

I received an RFE (by the online case status, not by mail yet so I don't know exactly what I need to send in). It made me wonder if this means my case will be approved after I submit the RFE material. It's only been one month since I submitted my AOS application.. so I'm a bit skeptical to believe this, but hopeful at the same time. I was always under the impression that it took a year for AOS to process.

My wife and I got married, changed her last name through Social Security, and then submitted the Adjustment of Status application (along with work permit application and advanced parole application) under her new, married last name. But at the biometrics appointment, they always turned us away when we showed them her social security card for her new last name and said that it wasn't accepted.

Also, I called USCIS and asked if we were supposed to submit the AOS application under her name on her old passport or her new, married name... and I was told to submit it under the name on her passport. So now I am worried.

What was I supposed to do? My wife and I are kind of feeling like we don't even know what her name is right now!

Any advice would help. I've asked a few questions on this website already about name change, but now I'm asking with new info on my case.