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No word since biometrics still - though, we're patient, and will just keep going with our already wonderful lives. That aside, my state and federal tax refunds worked splendidly. I followed the advice from folks on this forum, and both returns were accepted filing married + jointly with a declaration of being treated as a resident for the 2015 tax year.
State taxes were less straight forward, as there was no special letter to write and I was told by the tax board to 'file the same as you do with the IRS.' I pressed them further about residency and they reassured me the requirements. I sent a copy of the IRS letter and instructions just in case.
All is well, and I thank all those who contribute good information on this forum.

Hello
Joining everyone here in the December filer post. We filed ours on Dec 14 and are eagerly awaiting our NOA1.

Hello
Joining everyone here in the December filer post. We filed ours on Dec 14 and are eagerly awaiting our NOA1.

We did it! POE cleared. Target shopped at. Months of work (not over yet), but from now on we'll be doing it together.
The embassy misplaced my fiancee's birth certificate, but luckily she had originals and copies of EVERYTHING and was able to hand it over to the officer to complete his check off.

My head was spinning too when I went through all of this. Be sure to read the steps from the embassy fully. Go into each of the links and see what each entails. For example, the medical will want you to have your Police Certificate. So yes, you can book your medical sooner than later, but you'll want to ensure you have your police certificate first. And your police certificate will want a number of documents as well... I think you see where this is going. It's overwhelming. I made a preliminary list from what you learn from the embassy, then list all the required documents for each of those items, then all the required documents for those.

My head was spinning too when I went through all of this. Be sure to read the steps from the embassy fully. Go into each of the links and see what each entails. For example, the medical will want you to have your Police Certificate. So yes, you can book your medical sooner than later, but you'll want to ensure you have your police certificate first. And your police certificate will want a number of documents as well... I think you see where this is going. It's overwhelming. I made a preliminary list from what you learn from the embassy, then list all the required documents for each of those items, then all the required documents for those.

Either the petitioner or beneficiary can call and ask. They'll want the case number, birth date and name of the beneficiary.

For Skype call history, on a Mac at least, there is a way to show pretty much the last years worth of information. This includes all images, calls, failed calls, text messages, etc etc. I think you can get this by clicking on the V looking icon and choosing something about backwards. From this, you can copy ALL this information to a file. This file may be massive and include a ton of information that isn't relevant. I opened a mac terminal and did a 'cat reallylongfile.txt | grep ....' and searched for anything that was like 'Call ' and contained the words seconds... it filtered out everything.
(You can be really fun and get the hours and minutes from this and put them into a spreadsheet program to see how much you've called.. )
As for messages, I'd just use a few loving messages from various points.