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On 8/5/2023 at 5:24 PM, OldUser said:

Path of least resistance is joint sponsor. If you don't get it right your case may get denied and you'll have to start over.

Yes, that’s what they’re doing right now, just to be safe.
 

The US citizen parents will both be sponsors.

4 hours ago, mytruelove18 said:

Just send a new i-864 with the missing sum onbpart 6 and sll documents from the petitioner. You dont need send documentsof the beneficiary. Beneficiary doesnt count as sponsor. That may confuse them thinking you are sending documrnts of a joint sponsor

Actually I just googled it again and found this regarding the use of the intending immigrants income:
Use of Intending Immigrant’s Income. If the sponsor does not meet the income requirement on the basis of his or her own income and/or assets, the sponsor may also count the intending immigrant’s income if (1)(a) the intending immigrant is either the sponsor’s spouse or (b) has the same principal residence as the sponsor, and (2) the preponderance of the evidence shows that the intending immigrant’s income results from the intending immigrant’s lawful employment in the United States or from some other lawful source that will continue to be available to the intending immigrant after he or she acquires permanent resident status. The prospect of employment in the United States that has not yet actually begun does not count toward meeting this requirement.

So, this makes me think whether the RFE is simply just for the missing sum in the box?! But then why are they asking for a sponsor?!

4 hours ago, mytruelove18 said:

Just send a new i-864 with the missing sum onbpart 6 and sll documents from the petitioner. You dont need send documentsof the beneficiary. Beneficiary doesnt count as sponsor. That may confuse them thinking you are sending documrnts of a joint sponsor

I was wondering that too but then why are they even asking for that in part 6 No. 8?

Do you really think it's just the sum that made them send the RFE requesting a sponsor? From the other RFEs for I-864 that I saw here on VJ who were just missing supporting documents or missed a field, they never asked for a sponsor in the RFE. I wonder whether USCIS thinks that his VA Disability is too close to the poverty guidelines. $24,650 poverty guideline vs $28k in VA Disability (sorry, I wrote 26k before, it is $28k). 

If we respond to the RFE and it is wrong again, are we risking a NOID?

Hello,

I helped a friend file her AOS papers adjusting from a Student Visa (F1). She received an RFE for their I-864 and we are struggling to figure out A) what was wrong and B) have questions on how to respond. I attached the RFE. Any help/insight is greatly appreciated! 

About the situation:

- Petitioner (US Citizen) is a military veteran looking for a job. He receives 26k/year for disability. Since these are tax-exempt, they do not show on his tax return. So we had to put a reported annual federal income of just $5k down, that showed on his tax returns (previous years are similar). Because of this considerable discrepancy, we added a letter of explanation that talked about where his money is coming from and why it is not showing on his tax returns

- Beneficiary (Immigrant) is on OPT and makes $44k a year, so also well above the 125% poverty guidelines. 

These are the documents we provided:

• Letter of Explanation for I-864

• Copy of U.S citizen birth certificate

• Transcript of federal income tax return of most recent year

• Petitioner VA Letter of disability

• Petitioner Copy of GI bill pay stubs from the past year

• DD-214

• Past 12 months of Bank Statements from the Account that receives the Direct Deposits

• VA ID Card

• Beneficiary employment letter 

• Beneficiary Copy of most recent pay stubs

Now they received an RFE and we are not sure what is wrong. We did notice that we forgot to enter a sum in Part 6.

Do they want them to get a sponsor? Or is just the sum that is missing and that is what the RFE is for? 

Thank you!

On 6/21/2023 at 10:58 AM, Crazy Cat said:

The package will, likely, be rejected for incorrect payment.  An I-797 receipt could take 2-4 weeks.

Thank you! I realized the check was in the correct amount. Just had a slight heart attack when I saw the amount of the first post in this forum but I think that was adjusting from a K1. She’s adjusting from an F1-Student Visa so she had to pay for both I-130 and I-485 so her check was $1760 🙂

2 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

G-1145 is not important.  She needs a hard copy I-797 receipt.  

How long is that currently taking to get that? And what happens if the check has the wrong amount of money? 

Hey joining this forum for my friend who I helped with the AOS from an F1.

We send off her application and it was received yesterday according to the tracking. How fast should she get a text notification from her G-1145? 

My case was transferred beginning of December from WAC to NBC. Never had biometrics and I just got my 10 year greencard approval letter in the mail. 
 

So hopefully everyone who have had the same case move happen to them will be approved soon. 😊

2 hours ago, mushroomspore said:

While I feel the same way as you on the bolded point, our feelings as applicants don't matter to USCIS. They have their rules and that's what they go by. They stipulate that they ONLY waive fees for any errors made on THEIR end in regards to the physical green card. It's also fairly well-known that it's nearly impossible to get USCIS' attention during a pending application to notify them of changes or edits. And with COVID, it's probably gotten even more impossible. Best bet is to wait for RoC to be approved and file an I-90 for a name change (which you'll have to pay for). Or more likely, RoC will take so long that you can just file N400 and put your correct name on the N400 application.

Bummer.
 

I’m not filing for N400, unfortunately, because I would lose my German citizenship if I gain another citizenship. You can apply to be allowed to keep your German citizenship but it is only granted in extraordinary circumstances and according to my research it is very unlikely that I fall under those. Besides that it currently takes 18 months to get that permit (if approved) by the German foreign ministry and with everything being closed due to Covid I feel like it would probably be more like 2 years to get it so I would probably have my naturalization with name change in like 4 years 😂

Thank you everyone for your help! 

33 minutes ago, Timona said:

Well, it's not a USCIS error. So I guess they'll rightfully charge you for it. 

If your ROC is approved before change, you'll be back to dealing with USCIS again. I don't know if it's possible to address it before ROC is complete. If it is, I'd do it and kill 2 birds 🐦 with the same stone. 

The charging would make sense to me if they would have to pick up my application again and process a new card. If they are working on my ROC anyways and see a name change as part of the application I feel like it should be different.
I wouldn’t be charged for the name change on top of my ROC if I had submitted these documents with my ROC application so I am hoping someone knows how to add my documents to the current application that is being processed. 
 

Hi everyone,

I changed my name back to my maiden name a little while back (so not fun during Covid) but am now struggling to figure out what to do about my greencard that I don’t physically have yet. 
Whenever I use that stupid automated USCIS phone system it tells me that I have to use the I-90 form to change the name on my greencard. That costs over $500 and I don’t even have my greencard yet so I was hoping I wouldn’t have to pay for it. Does anyone know what to do or has done this before? My case was just moved from the CA processing center back to Nebraska bc of the volume of applications. 
I’m guessing I can’t just a copy of my name change court records together with a copy of my extension letter (NOA) to the Nebraska center and have them put it to my current application?! That would be too easy😂

Edit: I didn’t get a divorce, just decided for a couple reasons both personal as well as bureaucratic issues back in Germany that I prefer my maiden name. 

On 10/28/2020 at 4:38 PM, katcastillo95 said:

Has anyones case been transferred to National Benefits center? I received notice few days ago that it wa transferred due to them being backed up. we currently have the extension for is GC but we have 6 months left and i dont know if we will receive his new card in time we havent even been scheduled a biometrics appt. husband is currently working under that extension letter we are wondering if we should file another extension just to make sure.

Same. My case was also transferred to the National benefits Center “as part of standard processing”. I currently have the extension too with 3 months left and was told that if I haven’t received a new extension letter a month before my current one expires that I should give USCIS a call. 🤷🏻‍♀️

On 8/25/2020 at 8:51 AM, Pat&Vince said:

 

Ha! Interesting, what is your service center?

My timeline is very similar to yours, status changed to "ready to be scheduled" mid-May, and since then... crickets.

 

This is the result I got the past two Sundays (after it went from spring 2021, to November/Dec 2020 for a while)

 

 

 

 

How are you getting that estimate?

On 10/6/2020 at 8:12 AM, Natelopez said:

Hi, 
I need really an advice I have filed for ROC to California Service Center in NOV 2019 case starts with WAC I have not received neither biometrics or even waived biometrics, or used biometrics previously or decision on the case what can I do here ? 
It has been a rough ride any advice please ?

I filed early Oct 2019 and just received that letter about biometrics being waived recently. I heard they sometimes don’t even send it at all. 

On 6/21/2020 at 11:45 PM, Phoenix777 said:

I filled 11 months ago and no news about biometrics still) so you are lucky from my point of view) What is your service center please?

WAC (California). They also wrote in that letter that the biometrics fee won’t be refunded even if they didn’t take new biometrics. I didn’t expect them anyways to refund it but I still think it doesn’t make sense that we had to pay for it.

Files early October and was never invited to do biometrics. Finally received a letter today to inform me that they will be reusing my previously captured fingerprints and other biometrics. Super bummed that it took them 9 months just to let me know about something that should’ve happened 7 months ago... that makes me think I will have to wait a good amount of time for them to actually look at my case now if they just now checked for biometrics 😭

50 minutes ago, Phoenix777 said:

Which service center? I am at SRC and 10 months and no biometrics. It’s also depends if you had any kind of other background check like for a job or for Global Entry maybe in the past 12 months. In this case your fingerprints may be “fresh” and this is why you won’t need them. But it’s just my opinion...

WRC and it’s been 8 months for me. 
No background check for my job, there was one for my lease but they didn’t take fingerprints or anything, just the simple check. No global entry application or anything besides that. 🙄

My case was received beginning of October. I was never even asked to come in for biometrics so I haven’t heard from them since submitting my documents and receiving the extension letter. I know I likely won’t be asked for biometrics at all anymore since this happens to a few cases just don’t understand why they made me pay for biometrics it they never even take mine.

Just crossing my fingers that everything is okay because I feel like I belong to the very few who haven’t had biometrics.  

On 1/22/2020 at 6:35 PM, sausa said:

The RFE was just for biometrics. Did a walk in and sent it back. Card in production yesterday . Good luck everyone!🙃

Congrats!
I saw your location is Los Angeles?! Is your service center CSC then? 

I’m also CSC and about to hit 4 months of wait time and haven’t even heard anything about my biometrics yet. 🤔

On 11/11/2019 at 9:08 AM, Kbgbon said:

 

I got my extension with WAC receipt, does that mean I won’t have to go for an interview? 

Can anyone tell me. Since MSC prepares the ones that needs interview. 

Thanks

Nah, MSC is a service center just like the others. Has nothing to do with getting an interview or not. If you are adjusting from a K1 or CR1 and had a greencard Interview before it seems like ROC interview is less likely. All service center have the same chances of getting an interview though so WAC doesn’t automatically mean you won’t have one. 

10 hours ago, DelilahBrz said:

My husband and I filed 10/14

we we’re going schedule a trip the week of thanksgiving, but decided against it, in case our biometrics is that week.

 

what. A. Bummer. 

Honestly, I wouldn’t postpone any plans for a potential biometrics appointment. From what I’ve seen now in the other threads you can have your biometrics appointment anywhere from a month after you submitted your documents to 3 or 4 months after. You can’t just keep on surrounding your life around unreliable USCIS again. Also if you’ve had biometrics for AOS there seems to be a 50/50 chance you will never have another biometrics appointment. 
You can always reschedule your biometrics and it won’t affect your timeline much anyways if at all. I wouldn’t stress about it. 

2 hours ago, JessieABC said:

Not sure if it might be because we’re CR1 instead of AOS. @IkaStuart Are you also CR1?

 

@Elethiomel you might want to also download the “case tracker for uscis” if you have an iPhone. Just add your cases and it shows status. Also provides links for I-94, uscis Office locators, aos filing charts etc. Makes life a lot simpler than logging into MyUscis every time

Oh that makes sense! CR1 all have to have biometrics because you haven’t had one in the U.S. yet. If I don’t get a letter about one being scheduled within the next 2 weeks I will just assume I won’t have a biometrics appointment. 

1 hour ago, JessieABC said:

My status didn’t change, I wonder if it’s supposed to. I’ve been checking every day with that same question in mind.

Oh wow, that’s interesting. I think it changed when I was going through AOS... I’m also surprised how little notice they are giving you. I think my biometrics for AOS was at least like 3 weeks in advance scheduled. 

21 hours ago, IkaStuart said:

Wow. So interesting that we have such a similar timeline. What service center is working on your application? I didn't get biometric appointment yet ( although, here in Hawaii, we get everything later)

I was wondering when the first ones on here are getting their biometrics appointments. My NOA date is a week before yours and I haven’t received a biometrics letter yet. Did your status online change to biometrics appointment scheduled? 

8 hours ago, Arnel villarreal said:

How long did it take to receive your extension letter? I’m on the process of removal of condition and my green card expires by Dec 6. I need the extension letter before it. Do you think I’ll receive it before that day? Thanks. 

It took like a week after they received my package. But it depends where you file and when you file. This literally varies almost by week according to past threads and obviously also by address where you live and where you file. 
 

I can’t tell you whether you will receive yours on time without knowing your ROC filing office and most importantly when you send your package. If you send your package next week you’d be fine. If you send your package end of November or beginning December then it would be a complete different story 🤷🏻‍♀️