kumakun

Finally!!!!! Got the email notification this morning. 😀 No new biometrics, no RFEs, no interview. Whew!!!
 

Just got this 5 mins ago. They must have started producing cards. My timeline is very similar to @kumakun.

Thank you! My case was transferred to NBC as well. Yes. Be patient, and good news will come soon.

The "new" site still shows our case was received (in August 2019). The old site shows biometrics have been completed. I don't trust the new site is 100% accurate.

I called the 800 number. If you can't call toll free from overseas I would have someone in the US call them and connect you in a 3 way call 

No update. I'm not sure if there is a doc, yet. I did start following some that were assigned WAC from different recent months. Tagging some and adding a WAC document, maybe people can share with their forums too.
 
February 2019
@Yalda
@Ideaux
 
March 2019
@Shao
@Mr & Mrs Umer
@rasaco
@Tina-angel
@Sim.Arnold
 
April 2019
@kranthi143
@Scandi
@RandB
@fromthewater [CR6]
@kittyK
@WOODHIKER
@Gatsby9
 
May 2019
@Stelare
@lala52 [CR6]
@mothhonda
@gaby9
 
June 2019
@miya881123
 
August 2019
@Ugne
@kumakun
 
 
 
 
 

...and our 5 lb 9 oz baby (aka I-751 Petition) left Hawai‘i this morning for Phoenix, expected to arrive on Wednesday 08/28/2019. Think we may have gone a little overboard with the evidence. 😂

First of all, if you have not filed yet, you are not an August 2019 filer. You are a September 2019 (or later) filer. Here is the link to the I-751 September 2019 Filer thread:
 
PLEASE do not flood this thread asking the same question over and over and over again.
 
You can find answers to your question here: https://www.visajourney.com/content/751guide/
and here:
There are also plenty of us who have posted our lists of evidence in this and other I-751 filer threads. So before you ask the same question over and over and over again, please make the effort to do some research first.
 
Thanks and best of luck in your I-751 filing.

You are not alone. Mine was 7lbs with 37 different kinds of proofs. It's everything we've got.

It seems that you are actually dealing with two problems. One, as you promptly identified, is the situation of the K1 visa once the arrest is disclosed. Let's assume, however, that the visa gets approved and your fiance is able to move to the US. Does he have a strong support network in the place where you are both planning to live? Friends, family? Are you both prepared for him to be unable to work, or to travel, or to gain a relative level of independence from you for several months? 
 
The whole immigration process will go far beyond the K1 interview so it would be wise of you to have a serious conversation with your fiance when you feel less frustrated and disappointed. The AoS phase is not an easy one, and the challenges of adapting to a new culture and a new routine are tough even for those that do not have a problem with substance abuse. The fact that he turns violent when he overdrinks might pose a threat to your own wellbeing, so please don't overlook it. We tend to let emotions cloud our judgement because we are so anxious to have our beloved ones close to us, but in immigration we need to use reason. It's a long, tiring, expensive process, so make sure to consult with a specialist if you feel overwhelmed, and plan ahead (financially and emotionally) to avoid bad surprises in the future.

Aloha! We are filing our I-751 this month as well. My husband's conditional GC expires in early November. Since we're in Hawai‘i we will be sending our petition to Phoenix. Although we could technically file this week, we will be waiting until the end of August, as my husband is traveling home for a visit the second half of September and we are concerned his biometrics appointment could be scheduled during that time.
 
Anyway here is our Table of Contents!
 
EXHIBIT A : Payment of Fees, USCIS Forms, Copy of Permanent Resident Card
Personal check for $680.00 USCIS Form G-1145, “e-Notification of Application/Petition Acceptance” USCIS Form I-751, “Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence” Copy of Husband’s Permanent Resident Card (front and back) EXHIBIT B : Driver Licenses Showing Cohabitation
Copies of our Hawaii driver licenses with same physical address EXHIBIT C : Tax Returns
Explanation of documents in Exhibit C (explains first two items and why we filed MFS for tax year 2016) Email exchange between USC and CPA Cover and excerpt from Internal Revenue Service Publication 17 2016 IRS Tax Return Transcript and corresponding W-2 and 1099-G State of Hawaii Department of Taxation Form N-11 “Individual Tax Return–RESIDENT” for Calendar Year 2016 2017 IRS Tax Return Transcript and corresponding W-2, 1099-G, and 1099-MISC State of Hawaii Department of Taxation Form N-11 “Individual Tax Return–RESIDENT” for Calendar Year 2017 2018 IRS Tax Return Transcript and corresponding W-2s, 1099-G, and 1099-MISC State of Hawaii Department of Taxation Form N-11 “Individual Tax Return–RESIDENT” for Calendar Year 2018 EXHIBIT D : Financial Accounts and Household Accounting
Explanation of documents in Exhibit D (explains our rather unique way of managing our bank accounts and household finances) Explanation of absence of joint home mortgage or lease (explains that we did not wish to refinance home I owned before meeting my husband and that we hope to purchase a home together when housing market and interest rates are more favorable) “Verification of Account Information Notice” from Bank #1 Bank statements from Bank #1 checking account since February 2016 (joint account but primarily used by my husband) Copy of completed “Signature Card Amendment” form from Bank #2 (added my husband to be a co-account holder of my checking account in May 2019...oops shoulda done that sooner!) Bank statements from Bank #2 checking account: June and July 2019 Monthly household accounting spreadsheets since July 2016 EXHIBIT E : Vehicles
Copies of current automobile titles showing joint ownership/responsibility Copies of current automobile registrations showing joint ownership/responsibility  Copies of current and previous automobile insurance cards showing joint ownership/responsibility Copies of current and previous automobile policies showing joint ownership/responsibility, primary driver, and other household driver EXHIBIT F : Other Joint Accounts
Printout of Costco Account Details (generated on Costco.com; our local Costco could not provide us with a letter or statement) Copies of AAA Hawaii Premier Membership cards (2018 and 2019 renewal) Select monthly mobile phone statements showing both of our names (one per quarter) Select monthly electricity statements showing both of our names (one per quarter) Select monthly internet service statements showing both of our names (one per quarter) EXHIBIT G : Beneficiaries
Explanation of documents in Exhibit G Letter from director of human resources at my employer (explains medical/dental insurance history, 403(b) beneficiary status, emergency contact status Copy of signed Beneficiary Designation form Printout of personal profile from my employer’s employee management portal  Copies of old medical insurance cards Printout from Bank #2 showing beneficiary status for my life insurance and brokerage accounts Printout of personal profile from my husband's employer's employee management portal EXHIBIT H : Travel
Copy of flight itineraries to/from Kahului, Maui, Hawaii (January 2017, airline we flew does not issue boarding passes) Email correspondence between me and hotel on Maui Copy of flight itineraries to/from Tokyo-Haneda, Japan (May-June 2017) Passport stamps showing arrival to and departure from Tokyo, Japan (we can't find my husband's boarding passes from this trip, so we thought entry/exit stamps were next best thing to prove we traveled together) Email confirmations of reservations at hotel in Tokyo Copies of boarding passes to/from Osaka, Japan (October-November 2018) Email correspondences between me and Osaka hotel to arrange anniversary surprise for my husband Copies of boarding passes to/from Tokyo, Japan (April 2019) EXHIBIT I : Communications
Sample screenshots of some of my Facebook posts related to our marriage with reactions from friends (7 examples) Sample screenshots of text messages between the two of us since being married (16 examples) EXHIBIT J : Photographs
Images of us together on vacations and at social events with friends (28 images) EXHIBIT K : Cards
Copies of cards and envelopes to and between us (18 samples) EXHIBIT L : Affidavits
Included four affidavits: from my mother (husband's mother-in-law), our next-door neighbors, and two friends. Based on research on VJ and plenty of people stating their petitions were approved without notarized affidavits, we did not get them notarized but are including originals with wet signatures. Whew! Best wishes to all fellow August filers for no RFE's and speedy approvals.

Thanks @afrocraft! This is very helpful (and comforting). 😀 Yes I am an overthinker! 😂

Yay! Very cool feature and service! Congrats on a job well done. 

OK this makes me hopeful! We still have AOS pending and are hoping to hear about an interview or outright issuance of a 2-year GC soon. Our post office isn't always accurate with mail sorting, and we know USCIS' notification system isn't always reliable, so I am hoping this will give us another layer of information should a notice or RFE be headed our way in his name.

There are some rare instances where what you describe has happened, and it's always been due to ignorance on the part of CBP agents who don't understand the process. While the I-129F expires four months after issue (to give you enough time to get a medical exam, police certificates, schedule embassy interview, etc.), what matters for entry into the U.S. is when the K-1 VISA expires. You are entering the U.S. on the K-1 visa, not on the I-129F petition.
 
There are some threads from years ago on this forum about people who ran into CBP agents who didn't understand this and focused on the fact the I-129F was expired and did not allow entry (two were Canadian, I believe). In the unlikely event you encounter this problem, you should calmly and politely explain that your K-1 visa is still valid and that the I-129F petition was just a step toward securing your visa. If you encounter disagreement, you should (calmly and politely!) ask to speak to a supervisor.
 
My husband was in the exact same situation: his I-129F had expired before he entered the U.S. on a valid K-1 visa, and he didn't have any problems whatsoever. Most CBP agents understand it's the validity of the visa that matters, not the petition earlier in the process of obtaining the visa.
 
tl;dr – don't worry, you should be fine! 

Looks like they are cranking today! Our AP approval notification trickled in about 30 minutes after EAD this morning. Fingers crossed for others waiting; your time is coming!

The best advice, and people forget often because it is such a stressful time and you wanna stay on top of everything, but: you will be moving across the world in a few months from now and spend every day together hopefully for the rest of your lives. You are leaving all your friends and family behind, also for the rest of your lives. Spend time with them!! Have fun with them!! because everyone is now saying they will keep in touch, but most people just won`t, everyone has a life of their own they have to walk through and they won`t keep checking in with you. And that`s fine, but why worry about things you cannot control when you can be spending that time having fun with the people you will have to leave behind soon?
My now husband and I talked a lot about the process too, don`t get me wrong, but we made a little schedule where we`d talk about it on certain days, let`s say on Sundays, cause we don`t wanna get worked up over the process after 12 hour shifts at work. Other days we found fun stuff to do together online, watching netflix together for example. We watched all episodes of dexter and all episodes of house just during that visa process. (except the last season of dexter cause we wanted to finish it together in person, we really should have kept the 7th season because the last one was awful).
Get to know your partner, the beauty of LDR`s is that when you are spending time there are no other distractions, it`s just you and them, and you have each other`s undivided attention. Learn things about each other, talk about the past, talk about the future, laugh together. Learn to communicate, in the long run it will benefit you because so many normal couples split up because they have no clue how to talk. That is our biggest advantage, all you have is Talk.
Stay positive. And honestly, sometimes if you really feel like crying it is really better to ball up in bed with a stuffed teddy and a box of kleenex, take a nice shower and get online with them with the biggest smile and not tell them anything about it, because it is rough for them too, and they don`t burden you with their stress either because they know you have it rough too. Don`t do that to him all the time it just isn`t fair. Put yourself in their shoes.
And think before you talk when you argue. If after counting to 10 your argument still makes sense, count till 20. If it still makes sense then, bring it up, if not, don`t mention it because it will probably escalate the fight even more.
We all got through this, but it will get worse before it gets better.
Like someone else said before, before the immigration process starts, stress is low., during the immigration process it gets quite high. Right after the move it will be really bad for a while, I broke down LOTS of times, but often times when he was at work. Cause I knew he felt guilty cause I was the one moving, and honestly I just really didn`t want to make him feel bad. Now it is much better, and it gets better with every day that goes by. The Adjustment of Status is stressful too but not on our relationship, cause we are together. To put the stress level in numbers like someone did earlier:
Before the immigration process: 3 (stress mainly after we had to say our goodbyes, it was awful and messy and I can`t ever say goodbye to him again)
During the immigration process: 7
First six months after moving: 9
Now: 2.
We don`t fight, we take a moment to calm down and then talk. We never go to bed angry, we always talk while looking each other in the eye, often even holding hands. We never put blame on each other, we always say sorry. And we always end every fight with I love you.
Don`t give up that easily. Good luck!

Not long ago, I was chatting with my fiancé on tango (video chat) and just lost it. I broke down completely. I told him the distance was killing me, me being a single mother was killing me, and me trying to keep a household up by myself was killing me. (4 kids) I will never forget it. I've always been the strong one in our relationship. Always holding it together for us. Telling him to remain Positive, to keep holding on. This was almost 2 and a half years of built up worry, and stress, and I let it all come out at once. I almost left him over it. At the time I was thinking, well I can fall in love with someone here, I can find someone here, and not have to wait or deal with any of this. Then reality sank in. The entire reason I've been with this man, and put up with all I have, is because I love him. It's because I fell in love with him, and even though he lives on the other side of the world, I will NEVER ever find anyone who compares to him. The stress of it all is so overwhelming at times, but I can't imagine not being with him. I could search this entire world over, and never truly find someone who will make me happy the way he does. And it's difficult. It doesn't really get any easier, but I know that we love one another, and that we will never be truly happy with anyone else. So we hold on, we wait it out, and we continue loving each other. Even if it is love from half way around the world, there's no other love I'd rather have. People search for their soulmate their entire lives, and some never find them. I got lucky, as did many of the other people here, to even find my soulmate, even if he does live far away. So that's how I hold on. I know there's no one else I'd rather be with. No one in this entire world.

My understanding is that once the case leaves USCIS that the petition status is no longer updated on USCIS's end. Our case status on USCIS still says "Case Approved" and that they will mail me NOA2. Only way to verify status with NVC seems to be to call. It's recommended to call 2-3 weeks after receiving NOA2, but if NVC doesn't have your case yet they'll tell you it could take 4-6 weeks (standard answer, apparently). I got text/email notification of NOA2 on May 4 and according to what rep at NVC told me this morning our case was forwarded to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on May 19...so 15 days total for us.

Holy smokes! Called NVC for the first time today at 12:30 p.m. EDT to check status of our case. Got a very nice rep within 5 minutes who told me our case was forwarded to the Embassy in Tokyo yesterday! Case # received! That moved much faster than expected!
Still bumming very hard for those who are still waiting on NOA2...we continue to send positive vibes to all of you waiting for good news...