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You can if your total income meets provety guideline http://www.uscis.gov/i-864p

Having a master's degree is nothing to do with immigration. At the matter of fact, I have one too. Master's degree will help you a long way when you do a lot of reading and research yourself, I believe.

When we filed to AOS for me, we only use my husband's income. We showed USCIS the sponsor (my husband)' s pays stubs, employment letter, and last 3 years income tax transcript (the income is well over 125% of HHS Provety guideline.) I believe your scholarship probably covers only tuitions, books, and some living expenses. How can you use that to prove you can support to support yourself in a long run? I don't think your scholarship would offer life long support.

Please wait for GC in order to update your information even though your social security numbers are the same.

With your EAD card, you will get the same one that shows "VALID FOR WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION."

After you got a green card, and bring it to your local social office then they are going to remove the phrase and send it to your mailing address.

Thank you. That's what I thought.

Hope everyone else get their EAD soon.

Question: I have SSN 10 years ago but with red stamp with work authorization only. Should I wait for GC to get rid of that stamp or just use my EAD? I heard they still stamp if I present only EAD. Is that true?

Then you have to postpone the school starting date. You can inform the school prior to admission or simply don't pay tuition depending your institute.

100k is more than enough. spend about 500-600 dollars a month per rent. spend 5k on a car. 800 dollars a month on food. 40 bucks a month on cell phone. 100 bucks a month on car insurance.

$500 -600 on rent in my state or in area where I live, you will get only one very small bedroom apartment without in unit laundry. My friends live I'm NY, NY, they paid $500 to rent just on bedroom with shared bathroom and kitchen (and it is not a good idea for someone with baby.) It is totally a pain living with roommates itself.

40 bucks on cell phone - He probably can do with metro PCS which the worst services. If OP wants a smart phone for him and his wife, he is looking to spend at least $120 a month on a reliable service that cover most areas, even in a hidden room in his office. Worst cell phone services will drop calls so frequently and no signal even inside a restaurant bathroom.

Insurance for car and health varies by states, cities, age of application, for car (credit score, type of car, age when starts driving car in the U.S., and other factors). Having a baby is expensive if he needs a good health insurance for both mom and baby. OP may need to have at least $200 a month to spend only on insurances to cover the whole family.

With a baby, spending will be on diapers, baby formula, etc which can be expensive.

OP might want to think where he wants to settle first. As far as business, there are import/export all over the states. If you want to do that, you will have to find where are people from your country live most. Because if you depends your Pakistanish business on American residents, you business will not grow. Like in Chicago, have China town, most people who go there are Asian and Chinese. Of course, there are some American but probably less than 20% of the customers.

Good luck.

Get a joint sponsor who is USC or LPR.

Just got a text updated, my interview is scheduled on Aug 5th.

problem #1 there is so many forms and many of them look similar so i do not know which one to print or file.

Find a legit one. Or go to USCIS.org There are instructions.

problem #2 paper work email in or mailed

Don't quite understand question. Do you mean can you email to USCIS instead of snail mail? Some forms you can file online but most of them you have to send in paperwork.

problem #3 with residency paper work do i need to file to be able to work as well

If you adjust from marriage to USC and file I 765 concurrent with I 485. You will get a work permit which is called Employment Authorization Document (EAD). Then you can work here legally. (If you don't have other type of work authorization already.

problem #4 is there different forms for temporary residency and permanent residency.

I have never heard of temporary residency. I only heard of a 2 years condition green card (permanent resident.) You may file to remove a condition 2 months prior to the expiration date of the condition card. In your case, you might get 10 years green card because by the time they approved your green card, you would have been married over 2 years. But depending who you are married to USC or a permanent resident.

I sent all my paper work on 21st of April 2014. My finger prints were done on may 27 2014. No change in status and no new on my EAD as of yet

Wait 75 days from your priority date to call USCIS for service request if you haven't received your EAD card yet.most of us did that.

Good news all around. Still waiting for interview date patiently.

and don't forget to carry marriage license (just in case)

In my country, we will have to get married again or bring document from the consular here in the U.S. in order to get a new passport in married name. However, the down side of doing that, I will lost all the rights as a Thai citizen (can't buy land, etc). So I rather carry my marriage license than giving up my rights.

You have to use the new passport but attach the old one with your VISA when traveling.

I was in the same situation. My visa was on my old passport but I had to renew my passport. So I just used a rubber band and put two passports together.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/489107-april-2014-aos-filers/

Please follow this thread. All of us are on the same boat!

Most colleges at least in MI, in order to pay in state tuition, you have to be USC OR LPR who lives in the county where is school located. I am recently married to my USC husband. I am still holding F1 with pending LPR status. My husband put me on house deed. So at my school, regardless of my immigration status if I own a property in Oakland county, mi. My tuition is considered in state. So I have been paying in state tuition since this past summer semester with my F1 pending LPR status.

You can call a prospective school directly or look at their website about tuition fee eligibility. I found out that way.

Good luck.

EAD AND AP APPROVED! JUST GOT THE NOTIFICATIONS!

Congratulations all. Now time to wait for an interview! Hope it will be soon. I need a peaceful summer break and honey moon sometimes in Mexico inclusive resort.

Yes. They sent me a text update after usps picked up the mail. So when you check again, it will show tracking number.

Thanks guys. Hope you all get it soon.

I got it finally.

Don't worry about it..

Just bring document of BON FIDE MARRIAGE between you too. Overstay is normally forgiven when married to USC.

Amen to that hope u get it this time

Thank you. I will let you know for sure. This process has been frustrating!

I see your city is Novi, Michigan. I went to High School there. A little trivia for you. Do you know why it's called Novi? There used to be a train station there for the train line that ran from Detroit to Lansing. That station was station Number 6. In roman numerals it is No. VI (Number 6) Novi

Yes I heard about it way before I moved to Novi. I have lived all over the place in Mi for the last decade.

No some people get EAD card first, some get it after the interview. It depends and varies by person.

Update: the post office supervisor called my husband and said they found it. The posy lady scanned it but can't put in our parcel box because it was in use. So she took it back. Dang it! Make me so upset. So they will re delivery again today. Hopefully, it will be safe in our mailbox.

Wow that was fast I got duplicate email this morning . I hope it gets ship tomorrow. USPS better not lost your EAD card

Hope thing goes well for you. I will get a hold of whoever handle my mail. I will get into the bottom of it. I refuse to pay for it again for what I didn't do. I contacted everyone from USPS, local post office, USCIS online undelivered card and a congressman. Wish me luck.

Thank you. I had to call a local post office and customer service. I will have to talk to the delivery man if I can.