Kamam

On 5/29/2020 at 12:22 PM, Kamam said:

Oath ceremony scheduled for next month. I can’t believe it’s coming to an end - almost 5 years from K1 visa to N400. 

I became a citizen today. 

On 3/26/2020 at 8:03 AM, Kamam said:

in feb 2020, they sent me Request for evidence, I replied back with all the documents towards end of feb and they approved my citizenship application along with i751 today. I now have to wait for letter to attend naturalization ceremony. Finally this journey is coming on an end! 

Oath ceremony scheduled for next month. I can’t believe it’s coming to an end - almost 5 years from K1 visa to N400. 

On 1/15/2020 at 7:31 PM, Kamam said:

Hi guys, I had my n400 interview today with i751 still pending. I didn’t go with my spouse, they are traveling right now and advised me to go ahead with the interview. 
 

I waited 3.5 hours for my interview in Down town Los Angeles field office. I was one of the few people who wasn’t seen earlier by an officer for an interview and most folks waited not more than 1.5 hr. 
 

there was so much confusion and they kept moving us from waiting room after another, finally I talked to somebody and they said an officer will be with me shortly. 
 

the officer A took me into another officer’s B office and apparently officer B was  training  officer A. 
 

he asked me to take an oath, then he asked me 5 civics questions, read a line in English and write a line. He asked me how my day was and I made a comment of waiting 3.5 hours for the interview. The as$h0l3 didn’t even apologize or ask details. I don’t think he was expecting me to comment on how most people were seen in smaller time frame but I had to sit there without having lunch or toilet break for them to call me. 

Then he went through the tedious list of yes and no questions that you answer in your n-400 application. 
 

at the end they said he could not approve my n-400 but gave me some bullshit about if you send in these documents we can ask the officers looking at your conditions of removal to approve your application without an interview. 
 

NO DECISION MADE ON N-400 was marked on my sheet, yes I passed the civics and English test. 

 

 

so I will send the REquest for documentation when they generate the request in the mail and send it to me but if I still get called with spouse for the conditions of removal interview - I won’t be surprised. May need to request interview date to be as close to 8am and have the officer see me early rather than waste my time. Such a bad experience - I wish they were not this unprofessional and incompetent!!

 

in feb 2020, they sent me Request for evidence, I replied back with all the documents towards end of feb and they approved my citizenship application along with i751 today. I now have to wait for letter to attend naturalization ceremony. Finally this journey is coming on an end! 

Following this 

3 hours ago, jamrep said:

Sorry about your experience  but your N400 cannot be approved until your removal of condition is.Hopefully they will adjudicate both soon.

Thank you for your kind wishes. No one should have an unpleasant interview experience! Most of us invest significant time and energy not just filling the paperwork but also giving up a vacation day for their interview trip. The officers had no semblance of empathy. 

Hi guys, I had my n400 interview today with i751 still pending. I didn’t go with my spouse, they are traveling right now and advised me to go ahead with the interview. 
 

I waited 3.5 hours for my interview in Down town Los Angeles field office. I was one of the few people who wasn’t seen earlier by an officer for an interview and most folks waited not more than 1.5 hr. 
 

there was so much confusion and they kept moving us from waiting room after another, finally I talked to somebody and they said an officer will be with me shortly. 
 

the officer A took me into another officer’s B office and apparently officer B was  training  officer A. 
 

he asked me to take an oath, then he asked me 5 civics questions, read a line in English and write a line. He asked me how my day was and I made a comment of waiting 3.5 hours for the interview. The as$h0l3 didn’t even apologize or ask details. I don’t think he was expecting me to comment on how most people were seen in smaller time frame but I had to sit there without having lunch or toilet break for them to call me. 

Then he went through the tedious list of yes and no questions that you answer in your n-400 application. 
 

at the end they said he could not approve my n-400 but gave me some bullshit about if you send in these documents we can ask the officers looking at your conditions of removal to approve your application without an interview. 
 

NO DECISION MADE ON N-400 was marked on my sheet, yes I passed the civics and English test. 

so I will send the REquest for documentation when they generate the request in the mail and send it to me but if I still get called with spouse for the conditions of removal interview - I won’t be surprised. May need to request interview date to be as close to 8am and have the officer see me early rather than waste my time. Such a bad experience - I wish they were not this unprofessional and incompetent!!

1 minute ago, EA & AM said:

 

Thank you for your answer, Kaman.

 

The reason I asked you is because I've noticed that when the I-751 is pending and one files N-400, the I-751 is transferred to NBC. That seems to indicate that the N-400 interview will be a combo interview.

 

When I got my instructions for the N-400 interview, there was no mention of a combo interview. I still went prepared in case it was, and it was indeed a combo interview, so I'd be prepared for it if I were you.

 

I hope this answers your question 😉

I definitely will take ur advice and bring my spouse. Thank you kindly   

8 minutes ago, EA & AM said:

 

Congratulations!

 

I have a question for you: Was your I-751 case transferred to NBC?

I got a hard copy of it being transferred to NBC but a week after I called  the phone # and the automated system told me it was transferred to CSC in laguna Nigel. So I believe it’s with CSC right

4 minutes ago, EA & AM said:

 

For my case, I believe it took between 24 and 48 hours for the letter to show up.

Hi EA &AM,  it was within 24 hours for me

Hi guys, 

I am a mid April 2019 filer from Los Angeles County, my interview has been scheduled for next month. But I also have my conditions to remove on GC pending whilst I applied for N-400. How can I request the upcoming N-400 interview to be combo interview? Any tips would be handful. I also believe some folks reported that it takes 3 months from combo interview to get both Conditions lifted and GC to be permanent and get the approval for the oath. Pls let me know if this is correct. Thanks 😊 

Went to Infopass appointment today in Los Angeles. Met couple of ‘future citizens’ here for their test and they said it took them 9 months to get to this stage. All my LA people, it looks like for April 2019 filers, the wait is roughly 4 more months. Keep calm and carry on! 

1 hour ago, weiwei1902 said:

So i did my interview today.

I filed my N-400 while I-751 is still pending. My husband and I don’t live together due to he moved a lot with the Navy.

Today we went there with our lawyer who also a Navy spouse like me and was very responsible.

 

My interview time is 12:30pm in Downtown San Diego.

Husband and I got there at 11:15am, waiting outside until the lawyer there at 11:45am and we all in together. 

 

After check in, the security guy advised us go to 4th floor for Front Desk. We hanged the appointment letter to the Front Desk and I saw he took out the 2 big documents for my case we I realized those are all the documents I sent since the beginning of my Temporary Greencard.

 

We were waiting (not a lot of people). I review the civil questions.

 

12:30pm, my name was called. The lawyer and I got in first. She asked if my husband could come with me, the lady she No, just me first. 

My husband and I kissed in front of her for my a good luck before I got in. 

 

I stood up and do an Oath to said I will the Truth. 

 

Then she asked my driver license. I asked if I can give my passport or military ID instead as I took Uber and forgot driver license home. She accepted my passport. Then she said she would do the test first.

 

I passed straight 6 questions:

1. Name one Indian tribe: Cherokee

2. Who is the speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi

3. Who is the first President: George Washington

4. Which state is Us Capital: Washington DC

5. Who did we fight in WW2: Japan, Germany, Italy

6. What is one right of US citizen: vote for the Federal election

(this one, at first I said voting; then she didn’t continue, so I thought she wanted more, I said beside voting they also can join a political party, then she give me hint and said, voting for what, I said voting for the federal government, then she said “did you mean the election?”, then i said Yes”. Then she let me pass this question).

 

After civil test, she asked me look at the Tablet’s screen and read: “How many US Senators do we have?”

Then write down on the screen: “The Congress have one-hundred US Senators.” (With 100 spelled out “one-hundred”).

 

Then she said I passed the test and asked me some questions about my background, my jobs, my schools, my husband name, how long we married, any trips I had outside the country, I forgot to report 2 trips so I told her about it. She updated it and let me check and sign if they are correct. 

 

Then she hanged me a letter and said I passed the N-400 test. However a decision cannot be made due to my I-751 has not been approved and I need another separate interview for that one. Since my husband will leave back to his station in Florida tomorrow night so i afraid he cannot attend another day. I asked her when will be that interview, she told me it would be right now, but my lawyer cannot be inside with us due to she doesn’t have a paper from my husband for this interview, she only has the paper for my n-400. So she escorted my lawyer to the waiting room and brought my husband in. 

Now she start asked more questions about our relationship like the beginning like how we met, how long we date before married, who proposed first, who bought the ring, show her my ring (my husband took my hand up to show her as her request), who attended the wedding, what did you do after ceremony, our cellphone numbers, have we ever lived together, etc.

 

Because we honestly said we don’t live together, so all the questions afterward were around the reasons why we didn’t live together, why I didn’t move in with him, my husband said i have my jobs and business here and i have my team and customer bases and do a lot of training so I cannot leave. And due to he moved a lot and some training schools I cannot stay on base with him so I will have no where to stay if I move with him. And he tries to move back San Diego after he get out Navy. 

Then she asked if his family know we got married. He said only his sister but not his parents because he didn’t contact them for years. 

Then I said we Skype with my parents and my husband stay in my aunt and uncle house when he here.

There were actually only 5-6 questions about our relationship but she kept repeating the same question over and over again like 3-4 times and she said she just tried to understand and take carefully notes for review the reason we cannot stay together. 

(i guess one of the reason she repeated many times so see if we messed up our answers because if we lie, we will messed up, but lol, we have nothing to hide, at that time in the room with all her asking fast, I don’t think you even have time to think about the lie to tell... and all we can think of were what truly happened to me and my husband. Even she asked hundred times, we still only can give her those same answers.)

 

Finally she gave up asking us question, lol. I didn’t want just to leave like that, to be honest. So I asked her how long I can have a decision. She said about 2 months, they will let me know whether or not they need more information. We prepared many documents and my husband carry a big bag with many folder inside so i didn’t want them to be wasted. I told her incase she may need more info, I have them here, I want to give to her. She told me she should have a lot of mine before, I said I have more than that, like pictures, she said yes she need pics, give her pics then i said Joint bank, she say yes, then Phone call and text, then my life insurance from my company, my friend’s letter about my relationship, my husband’s letter invite my parents come visit, a receipt he sent cash to my parents, etc. i tried giving her all, but she tried to stop me and said it should be enough. Lol.🤣 seem like she tired of me and wanted to kick us out. Finally she said my decision should not take 2 months, should be less than 2 months. Lol. She just cannot approve now and must have her supervisor review. 

I thanked her before leaving and she started to smile to me. 

We went out. My lawyer was waiting outside for her and suddenly ran back to her room. 

 

Later on we went out of the building. The lawyer told me she forgot her purse inside the room so she went back and had a chance to talk with the lady about my case. My lawyer said the lady seems really like me but she just really cannot approved without her supervisor review the case which is really common nowadays due to the I-751 has been delay for so long and lot of people tried to do combo interview like this together. 

 

Now we are in a waiting game. I got a little frustrated but tried to take it easy as much as I can and I feel proud of my husband because he was so stressful but still comfort me afterward. Lol, he even gave me a back massage right in front of the lady during the interview because he afraid I was so nervous. But even if they ask more evidences later, I really cannot think of what else we can give to them because we gave them all what we have. 

 

So, like my friend always tells me:

”Do your best, trust God for the rest.”

 

Good Luck to everyone.

your experience helped me a lot for this interview. Thank you so much. 🙏🏻 

Do you know why they are moving away from combo interview?

I m April 2019 filer, not heard anything after biometrics. Just posting here to follow this topic. Thanks 

Conditional GC approved!

I have an appointment for conditional GC

I receivedd the i765 and i131 travel document a week after the post from me above. Two days later an email for interview for i-485. Wow! soon after receiving i-485 i applied for SS#, i now have a SS # and soon a DL.

I sent in 8th service request two weeks ago and today, i received an e-mail stating ''we ordered your new card for receipt number msc************** and will mail it the address you gave us."

This is for i-765 but there was no mention about i-131, so I raised a service request for that today.

I am not really bothered with i-485 truth be told but i would very much like to leave the country and enter without restrictions hence the need for i-131.

Just wanted to thank all you lovely people with your suggestions and helpful comments. Also wanted to be a post for those people out there still waiting - it takes a horrendous amount of time and effort but who knew raising service requests did more for me that senators or cis omnibudsman.

No reply received by the USCIS. Wow!

Received the following today : "On ??/??/2016 you, or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case. Some of the key information given to us at that time was the following:

Caller indicated they are:

-- Applicant or Petitioner

Attorney Name:

-- Information not available

Case type:

-- I765

Filing date:

--

Receipt #:

--

Referral ID:

Beneficiary (if you filed for someone else):

-- Information not available

Your USCIS Account Number (A-number):

--

Type of service requested:

-- Beyond Regulatory Time Frame

The status of this service request is:

Your case is currently under review. You should receive a decision or notice of other action shortly.

Yes, I did submit a privacy release statement however I struggled finding a human immigration liasion, which a simple phone call should help. Thank you for slapping some sense into me, i would indeed need to follow up with them. If it leads to no where, I could still do something about it

For anyone in my position, I called their Oakland office and was told that my application has not had a case worker assigned yet, so its been lying in their office for two weeks now. I inquired how much further time would require to review my case, it would possibly take 2 more weeks.

re: Boxer's office -

Boxer has an immigration liason human there - you have to use a telephone and call in and find that human. once you get that human, get their email address.

then send over a signed privacy release statement found on boxer's website, as an email attachment, along with your inquiry. then follow up using a telephone 2 days later - view it as a first contact about your problem.

Just 'emailing' without doing the above gets you absolutely nowhere.

Yes, I did submit a privacy release statement however I struggled finding a human immigration liasion, which a simple phone call should help. Thank you for slapping some sense into me, i would indeed need to follow up with them. If it leads to no where, I could still do something about it

I applied for EAD/GC/Travel Parole at the same time. When I went on the DMV cali website they said they need a SS number or they will not process my application. I am on my husband's health insurance via my I-94 number which is assigned to K-1 applicants, so I am sorted there! I can't have a bank account anywhere in CA or enter a college without a SSN. The bank managers have told me so and colleges as well.

Yes, two SR have been raised, as I earlier iterated one was 70-75 aged, other over 90 days, no responses yet for second SR. NO RFEs.

Pretty confused here

It sounds like everything revolves around the EAD. Other Cali petitioners have said they can't get a CA DL as K-1, and we haven't come across any wall with my husband having no SSN. (Although we wanted to have one when he got here.) I was able to add him to my health insurance, bank account and he's attending college.

When did you apply for your AOS? Did you submit you EAD/AP at the same time? Did you get any RFE's? Have you tried calling the mis-information line after the 90 days has passed? What did they say?

Many people have been getting their EAD's within 90 days in October, November and even a few December people have been approved. Whatever delay there may have been, it could have passed by now?

Aliya, Here I am upset that my EAD and GC is taking ages to process. I should be grateful that at least I am with my husband right now. I am sorry that you are not with him right now. I hope you hear back from Islamabad consulate very soon.

I came on a K-1 visa with the intention of marrying then my fiance. We married on the second day of my arrival in the country primarily because its not in our culture or religion to live with the fiance unmarried. Waited 6 weeks for marriage certificate so that I could apply for adjustment of status. In all of this hullabaloo, I did not apply for a social security. When I went in 2 weeks after I had gotten married to my local SS office, I was told that my K-1 visa was no longer valid as I had married my fiance. And that I needed to wait until EAD until I could get one. *I wish somebody had told me about this!*

Long story short, my EAD application has aged more than 90 days and I have raised a SR on two occasions. The first one was when the EAD matured 70-75 days and received a letter from USCIS acknowledging that they had received my SR and that due to work load factors unrelated to my case, USCIS anticipates a delay in completing my case. No time line was mentioned at all. The second SR was raised with no receipt of a response from USCIS (i went on online forums and read that if you call in earlier than a month, they say you need to wait until 30 days after SR.

its been 4.5 months and counting and i have no SS, drivers license, bank account, Green card, EAD. Thank you USCIS for making immigration even harder than it is!

I have written a letter to my Senator Barbara Boxer 2 weeks ago and haven't heard back. My local Congressman of the district i belong to does not deal with immigration problems.

This is really ridiculous! Anybody else in my boat? Any suggestions, recommendations would help! Thank you