vivian2014

I managed to put together my RFE packet Fridy/Saturday and pop it in the mail, express postage, for Monday delivery but checking the status now it's being returned to me "Undeliverable as addressed".

Do they not like express mail or something? I even waived the signature need.

I dont know ,I used the next day delivery ,and they received it and signed .

For all who need reply to RFE notice ,put the RFE notice on the first page is going to save from further delay ,they can easily scan the bar on the RFE notice and attach it to our file.

YAY! That's great news and lets hope it significantly diminishes the chance of you getting a costly RFE for a medical.

YAY AT LAST! CONGRATULATIONS!

Thank you

Morning,friends ,My status changed today ,they ordered the new card for me ,I am approved finally ,I am so relieved now ,never stopped worrying after the last dreaded RFE.Thanks for all your help ,advice and share .Wish everyone get approved soon !I am going to write down the whole process of mine again.

I arrived in December 2014

Married in March 2014

Filed for AOS in late May 2014

NOA date JUNE 5th 2014

1st RFE Notice AUGUST 2014

2st RFE Notice October 2014

Notice of waiver of interview November 2014

3rd RFE notice May 1st 2015

submitted to RFE notice May 15th 2015

new card ordered May 29th 2015

If they received it means they are started reviewing it. Cross finger for you, girl!

I tracked the delivery information online ,it shows they received on 15th ,But uscis didn't hit the button to change the online status to show they received it and reviewed it at all .The status stays RFE sent on May 1st. I just begin to worry if they lost my response and it didn't get to attached to my file at all .I read similar cases online ,their status ususally changed to 'Response review ' shortly after USCIS received the RFE response .So sick of the whole deal

morning ,congrats to all approvals. My RFE was received by USCIS on 15th,still no update ,no response review ,I hope they didn't lose my response as it was very hard to get it

Oh I forgot to ask you or probably you have already mentioned before but I did not see it. Did you have an I-693 included in your AOS package or you just sent DS3025?

Congrats!

Yes.I did include I-693when I applied in JUNE .This is the third time I do medical for immagration,including one in China I did to get k1 visa ,then did twice in USA to get greencard .

Congrats to all of approvals though I am still waiting after I sumbitted to RFE notice .

hope they don't make it as a problem to give the green card because of the medical positive TB or any other disease test. I don't have any info on how they deal with this kind of situations so it will be great if anybody know and can share how they deal with that I don't think we ever stop worrying until we get the 10 yr card

they probably would approve my case ,it is just a matter of time .It took so long and I never stopped worrying

hope they don't make it as a problem to give the green card because of the medical positive TB or any other disease test. I don't have any info on how they deal with this kind of situations so it will be great if anybody know and can share how they deal with that I don't think we ever stop worrying until we get the 10 yr card

they probably would approve my case ,it is just a matter of time .It took so long and I never stopped worrying

Hi Vivian! You told you had Tb gold something.. Was it done through blood from vein or it was a vaccine in your arm?? I had my medicine done today, and I had td gold too.. But it was through blood test from vein and the results will be on Tuesday only.

yes,I had gold test .I think they stick a needle in my vein and took away some of my blood .Then they analysed my blood and told me the result .

another May 2014 filer got approval yesterday!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/494165-may-2014-aos-filers/page-142#entry7628260

seems like i am the last may 2014 filer in this group to get approval

I am a late MAY filer too ,waiting to be approved .My NOA date is very early JUNE

With all these unusual things going on ,I am losing patience again . I tracked my package it was received by USCIS 3 days ago . I haven't see any change yet ,I am very worried about my TB positive result and that wired" court record request" from them ,I want to know what they think about my response to the RFE as soon as possible .Today I tried to open a service request online ,it don't allow me to do that anymore ,dont know why .I called uscis ,they told me give them 60 days to expect a update on my case .How can they do things so slowly ? When they come to ask for more evidence ,we are only given 30 days to complete.After so much trouble and stress ,I will never try to immigrate to another country again

I think that's more likely. The bits of the USCIS computer system the public can see are fairly useless. I'm guessing the back-end stuff is worse. I bet the last three digits are generated off the zip code. Was that correct on the email you got?

I'm still hoping this is a sign of good news though.

all the service request I made always ended with 3 letters stands for my local field office ,always .But my case is not there ,it is in BOISE

Who's still waiting for theirs from June 2014 besides me? And can you please post when you got the interview waiver?

Mine was from October 15.

It seems who got the waiver earlier gets the green card earlier.

I dont think it has anything to do with the waiver letter ,just my opinion ,it can be wrong .But my waiver letter comes late in November ,later than most of you here .And my NOA date is JUNE 5th .My case went to a local field office now and just redid the new medical ,waiting to be approved at any time if there isnt any new problems

Yup it is, I think it is a racket, a ploy for more money for some. The attorney sent an email to me because uscis sent him notification of the RFE. He seems think we will still get any interview after the medical because it was sent to our local field office. Wouldn't that just be peachy? Jezzz!

I have no idea, I have wondered that myself. Maybe because it seems that each field office have their own procedures?

probably

Got the RFE it is for a new medical and it came from the SFV office. Things have come up and we will have to wait until June to have the medical done. It gives us 87 days to complete from May 8th and return to them. I am very tired of this process.

I don't understand this ,how come some people has to submit the new one within 30 days ,some to submit within 87 days ?

Yea, already made for this Friday! Quick question you did ppd skin test, syphilis and vaccination record, right?

I did a gold test instead of ppd skin test coz that way I didnt have to return there to read my skin .I didn't get any more shots ,I showed the vaccination record of last year's and doctor filled out a new vacciantion record form for me .Not sure about syphilis ,I remembered they tested my urine.I did a x -ray too because my RFE mentioned that .My letter is totally different from yours .

I may be able to explain this, as I recently had a medical for work which gave me the same results.

You are testing positive for TB because of a vaccine called the "BCG Vaccine'. This works via exposing you to the TB virus and thus making you immune, but unfortunately, the common practice of TB testing done in the USA makes you test positive for the virus a lot of the time for simply having had the BCG vaccine. This test is used in the USA because BCG isn't routinely used and thus it's not generally an issue. I know the UK uses BCG, which is why I tested positive, and a quick google informs me 99.5% of China also uses it.

The nurse who did my medical had worked a lot overseas and explained this to me, and said the workaround was a quick blood test which came up as me being all healthy and TB-free. If you explain this to whoever did your medical, they'll most likely understand the situation.

I read something like this too .Because we asians got those BCG in childhood ,but if I didn't read wrong ,the so called "gold test"they performed on me is not affected by BCG ,only by active and latent TB .

I kinda know a bit about medicine...Yeah a positive TB skin test (PPD) can be spurious and a second test soon after the first can be done. Be aware a true positive 1st test will make a quick 2nd test reaction even more obvious...

As for not going anywhere, TB is on the rise again with the increased number of immunosuppressed individuals (either HIV or from medications). You can get it from a ride on a NYC subway or from droplets from an unknowingly infected person sneezing in your local market....

The TB bacterium is a slow growing, persistent little #######. When it gets it'll the body usually through the lung it find as a place to lurk...even in small numbers it indigestion a body immune reaction which gives the positive reaction to the skin test. The goal in early treatment is to keep it from form a larger "rest" lesion in the lung which is the body forming a wall around a growing mass of these "red snappers" which they are affectionately call if seen under the microscope with special stains in lung samples in infectious patients.

Isoniazide is the treatment of choice to do this (sometimes with a second or even third drug) taken daily for 6 - 12 months. Not my favorite drug.. A patient who takes must be monitored for sir effects, generally liver...

If you are positive, you will need to find a doctor for all this. If you like this doc and he agrees to take you as a patient, he or she could do it. I would recommend going to a local multi-specialty clinic that has all the services you might need...

Contrary to popular belief, TB is never "cured"...Once you got the bug, it's always there. But if you drive it into deep hiding in small numbers walled off by the body most people with it never get the advanced symptoms...people are monitored with annual chest x-rays...

No it will not stop your approval since you were negative before, have no lesion on x-ray and " got it" here in the US.

Hope this helps...

Thanks for your information . What I did was not a skin test ,it was a more accurate one called gold test ,and I asked the doctor to redo the test on MONDAY on me .They don't think it is necessary to redo the test ,but I have doubt .My immune system is bad ,always low .And you are right ,my TB test result was always negative except this new one .If this result is true ,I did got it here in the last year .The civil surgeon already took me as his patient and going to give me treatment before I asked for the second test . If the second one remains positive ,I will receive the treatment .

Ok. today I've got a request dated April 29 for new medical!! I need to submit one before May 29, but it doesn't say where I should mail it, and another thing it says I need to submit COMPLETE updated I 693, does it mean I need to do all full medical exam?! But when you look at the instruction for I 693, it says we don't need full exam, just vaccination records.. Confusing. Any thoughts, experience? Thanks

I don't know the exact answer for this ,but I try to offer a little help. I received a new medical request too ,and what I did was I took the RFE notice with me ,and my old medical result ,my vaccination records too ,My civil surgeon read all of those and he did what need to be done based on his understanding ,he called USCIS too .

Ok. today I've got a request dated April 29 for new medical!! I need to submit one before May 29, but it doesn't say where I should mail it, and another thing it says I need to submit COMPLETE updated I 693, does it mean I need to do all full medical exam?! But when you look at the instruction for I 693, it says we don't need full exam, just vaccination records.. Confusing. Any thoughts, experience? Thanks

It took time to set up an appointment ,and took a few days to get the result from doctor too ,you need hurry

On this occasion I am not happy that I was right, my only consolation is that it has been found, it its not a false positive result, so that you can the treatment that is needed and you're also in a country with up to date medicines I would definitely get it retaken, just to be 100 percent sure as from what I remember when I was nursing, the treatment is a long course of strong antibiotics, but that was 2007 so things might have changed since then.

Congratulations!! Nearly hit your anniversary, but now you can celebrate the new arrival instead!!! Happy for you both! Enjoy!

Yes . I want to be sure before I just start medicine too , I have the second test set up on next Monday. My stomach is very weak ,not sure how it react to those strong pills .I hope it will turn out to be false result .It freaked my husband ,he insist that I should take medicine right now .But any test can have false result sometimes

I remember reading some test actually resulted as a false. Just like when people eat poppy seeds and the test reading showing they have had use drugs. Probably that's how happened. I hope it is false results.

Thanks ,i hope that too .

They won't deported you because of that. All you need is take the medication I believe about 6 months continuously. TB is now curable.

yeah ,I hate medicine ,I will have to take those if my second test shows same

Oh sorry to hear that. I hope it won't delay the approval.

doctor think it won't ,because I am not infectious (if the result is true) ,but I am shocked when I heard that

Awww just done my first SR!! Obviously I sent them lots of kisses to make their day!!! I feel the love back USCIS, can''t wait for your loving reply!!!

shell,you are right .I am having very bad luck lately ,when I redo the medical ,my TB test shows positive for the first time in my life ,but my X-RAY is clear ,doctor think I was exposed in TB and carry latent TB,and want me to take nine months of medicine .He think it won't affect my case approval .I sent all those back to USCIS yesterday. I am not going to take any medicine until I redo the TB test to double check the result. I really doubt the result because last year It was negative ,and I didn't go to much place at all in the whole year

hi Guys, I just checked my online status today as usual and there is a message requesting for RFE! I'm May 2014 filer with NPIW letter in september. my medical expired in january 2015 so im hoping it is what they are asking for. I'm just thinking to have an appointment at one of the doctors listed on USCIS website and do the medical before i get the RFE. what do you recommend guys?

you can set up an appointment ahead ,it took 3 days for me to receive the RFE letter since the online status changed .the letter give you 30 days to get things done and submit it ,so as long as you set up an appointment ,you should be able to make it before deadline