JimmyJane

Holy moly, someone got an interview a month after filing?! But then pending approval still! It really feels like they just like to make ya sweat!

3 minutes ago, Coco&Kitten said:

I think they still do, as I saw a recent case (last week or two).  I did my interview on April, still waiting for a decision to be made.  Sometimes they are fast, sometimes they are not, so not sure what to tell you there.  Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Thanks so much for this info! Sounds like I'll have to try to force myself to go with the flow  And I appreciate the fair warning/reminder that it might not be as quick and straightforward as we'd all hope- crossing my fingers you get a thumbs up and oath ceremony SOON!

Just bumping! At this point, just would love any info on whether the Centennial office will do same-day oath ceremonies??

Hi all! I have my interview scheduled for Sept 18 (a Saturday!) at 7.30am at the USCIS field office in Centennial. 
 

We will be between apartment leases at that time (Murphy’s law!) and had been figuring on staying with family out of state for the few weeks interim… 

- Is there the ability to reschedule interview appointments?! Obviously I will make it as scheduled if needed/alternate is a long wait, but can’t find much info on it beyond for COVID reasons.

- Does anyone know if this office does same-day oath ceremonies? That would be a huge relief to get it all done at once and not have to refigure all plans on the fly again!

Many thanks for any help!

I started my N400 application online yesterday on my Mac, using Chrome. All went well until the LAST piece of evidence I tried uploading just sat spinning and not completing....and it's been downhill ever since.  I have tried using Chrome, Internet Explorer, Edge, Safari, two different computers, had to delete the original application after it told me it could not retrieve it, have started a dozen times over (deleting the previous stalled attempts to "start fresh") and get to different points in the form (all fairly early on) and it will tell me it couldn't save or could not retrieve it or just shows a blank page instead of form questions...I'm losing my mind!!

Is anyone else trying to apply online and experiencing this hell? I have to assume it's an issue on the USCIS site, but I feel like my whole account is just glitch-riddled now and simply logging in means setting myself up for failure!  If anyone has any ideas on how I might outsmart the glitches, I'm all ears!  *Please please please don't make me go back to doing a paper application!!*

Congrats to y'all who have gotten that New Card update! I hate you! Just kidding!

I have a LIN number and my case status is from July 15, 2020 and says fingerprints were applied....🤦‍♀️ Not quite as exciting.

Here's hoping things are moving along in Nebraska too, as I would LOVE to get that 10 year card and get to work on updating my driver's license which has a Not for Federal ID black box, and my darn SSC which is from a camp counselor stint decades ago and still has the condition of For Work Only which I haven't bothered updating yet. I can do these with my current conditional card and my extension letter, but the full GC seems soooo much easier and requires less explanation!

Hey guys! So I got my NOA extension letter early July (dated July 1), then received the biometrics waiver notice about a week later... then another NOA turned up in the mail on the weekend- exactly the same as the first, but dated July 21...?!?

Has anyone else received 2 NOAs?? I guess it buys me a few more weeks if I need it!

FINALLY got the Informed Delivery today that shows the Homeland Security envelope, a week after it was sent...hoping it is what it looks like it is!!

6 hours ago, RJandHamid said:

Called USCIS this morning and was told that our NOA was mailed out on July 6. I'm hoping that is accurate and that the letter will arrive in the mail sometime early next week. Our case is at the Nebraska service center, received June 1, 2020.

Me too! I called USCIS yesterday and was told it was mailed July 6...the lady was very nice but I’m hoping she wasn’t so nice and zen because she’s figured out that it’s easier to just tell everyone who calls their notice was mailed out July 6...😆
 

Hey there, just wondering if you had any update on your case? I filed June 2 and had credit card charged and the text but nothing since- and the USCIS phone number just hangs up repeatedly after it says it's going to connect you to a person!

Just an update of no update 😖

TIMELINE

-Received by USCIS June 3

-Text with LIN receipt number June 5

-Credit card charged June 8

-Nada

-Zip

-Diddly-squat 

-Sent email “yo, wassup!?!” request to USCIS July 8 (can’t recall what the official term is for it!)

- automated note says expect response by July 30

Sigh! Anyone had any luck talking to a human about where their case is at? If so, HOW??!!🧐😊

On 6/30/2020 at 9:02 AM, doggieandsam said:

that means if you have not received your NOA (paper notice) by July 2, you can submit a non-delivery request online.

Thanks! Looks like I'll be doing that tomorrow...

57 minutes ago, Nafisa & Bryce said:

Oh no- what makes you say Nebraska seems to be a black hole? 
 

We are LIN too; just got our “received” text last week, so I don’t expect the biometrics update quite yet, but I’ll post on here if/when we do 🙂 

Yay, a fellow LIN filer! I only call it a black hole as the processing times according to USCIS seems to be one of the longer ones, and those with other offices seem to have had more case updates...but who really knows!! Looking forward to the updates from everyone!

Has anyone whose case is with the LIN/Nebraska office (which seems to be a black hole, sob!) received the fingerprint/biometrics notice that they're using the ones already on file??  Just been reading a bunch of y'all's posts about getting this and wishing/hoping/wondering if it'll happen for me....but it's been since June 2 that my case was received, June 8 was my text with my case number, so it's been a while and maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up!

Also- when I check my case on USCIS site, I just see that my case was received and that if I don't get the receipt notice by July 2, I should call/email- does that mean the NOA or just that lil ol' text with my case number? I have seen nada from USCIS in my mail thus far... My online account with USCIS has been acting up too- told me a couple of times that my account was locked due to too many attempts to login (hadn't been trying, or even logged in since AOS back in 2018...?!) and have had to get a new password a couple of times now- anyone else had an issue with this?

1 hour ago, Ben & Katy said:

Does it have to be a credit card?  Or can you put your Credit Union bank visa debit card on the form too?

 

Thanks!

I’m not sure on this- check the link below and see what you can make of it, and maybe someone here has personal experience of paying this way? 
 

I’d probably err on the side of paying with only credit card (or check/money order) as the risk is that if they don’t accept debit, your application gets rejected for not including the fee, which would be no fun at all!

https://www.uscis.gov/forms/pay-a-credit-card

9 minutes ago, cami2020 said:

Congratulations! I submitted mine June 1 and it says June 4th it’s been picked up from PO BOX. I check everyday since then if my check has been deposited. I am just curious how did you get it charge on the credit card? 

There’s a form you can submit authorizing credit card charge instead of using a check- G1450- you just include it at the top of your paperwork👍

Hi all!

I sent my package off May 29 from Denver via USPS priority- then watched on tracking as it went to Portland for a couple of days visit before making its way down to the Arizona box, delivered on June 2, which makes me a June filer

My credit card was charged June 5 (giving my husband a helluva shock, thanks to his short term memory being on par with that of Dory), and I just now received the text from USCIS with a LIN receipt number...hello Nebraska office!

Fingers crossed for the NOA now!!

Hey all!  It's been a while since I "had to" check in here (sooooo grateful for this place, would've abandoned my sanity and/or green card quest LONG ago if not for this site!)

Just spent the past week digging up all the documentation that I should've been neatly filing away every month since getting married...sigh, one day I'm sure I'll be organized...yeahhhhhh, prob not!  I now have a two inch thick bundle- do NOT sign five leases in three years if you can help it, that paperwork really adds up!  I've been sweating over all the details of my "evidence" and in the end I'm going with quarterly statements for bank and credit cards and crossing my fingers that doesn't bite me in the ### with a RFE, because at some point I have to call it good and move on from the joys of evidence collecting- not to mention the trees that were sacrificed to make this pile!

I'll be shipping this sucker off tomorrow to the Arizona box via USPS in the medium flat rate box- because no envelope can contain this much mind-numbing awesome, HA! And then I'll be waiting and hoping and drinking... Good luck to all of us in getting a speedy thumbs up!!

19 hours ago, kwoodruff said:

My husband is in the same situation (worked for three summers in 2013, 2014 and 2015) for 4 months at a time on a J1 visa at a summer camp in New York teaching martial arts. He's now applying for an adjustment of status/green card from a K1 visa.

 

Did you have any issues with this? Any recommendations for what "proof" to show? Does he just need to show the copies of the visas from those years?

Hey there!  Nope, I did the AOS from K1 and the J1 never came up as an issue- just supply all the documents/copies that the AOS requires ( I can't recall exactly what it calls for, but I likely included photocopies of the visa pages- always good to include more than less!).  Good luck, you should be totally fine on this front!

Oh thank you for sharing that- my fiance will be reassured that I'm not the only crier   He- and I too- thought the transition would be a cinch as I had worked US summer camps and traveled to the States for fun for fifteen years and felt totally at home here... But actually properly living here has proven entirely different to roadtripping and hitting concerts and camping by lakes (strangely enough, ha!)

2 minutes ago, austex said:

Don't be afraid of the US medical system.  Yes sometimes the cost sucks but once you get a job it will be subsidized by your work.  It freaked me out for the first year and now I work for the medical industry and it is okay.  Life here in America is pretty good, doesn't mean I don't miss home and "our" way of life there but it is good.  I have been here 5 years now.

 

Getting to your travel insurance while you are on your honeymoon.  Take out travel insurance from here, your fiancé and you can get it because you will be on your honeymoon.  There are quite a few companies out there that will do it.

 

Enjoy life in America.

 

M.

Thank you for the kind words and reassurance it gets better!  I'm in dire need of that right now, as I have this sinking sensation that I'm getting this new American life all kinds of wrong.

40 minutes ago, Boiler said:

So if you have a major medical you will move to Australia?

And I guess in my situation, if I had a major medical emergency while traveling, I'd be more than happy to be repatriated/move back to Australia for medical care rather than the US without insurance!  Sorry folks, I'm just frankly a wee bit terrified of and horrified by the US medical insurance system after what I was used to in Australia, and somehow it has become a big part in making me feel really uncomfortable/stressed about life in America so far. Better the devil you know has never felt more true than with medical cover and taxes!

Thanks for the advice- I totally understand at this point that I have wasted my money on the travel insurance from home, and for getting medical insurance for life in the US, I currently have to look into other options as I can't join my partner's plan at the moment (outside the enrollment window which was either Jan 1 or last July when we got married).

However, my actual question was just for travel insurance just for our honeymoon- would US travel insurance cover me for that week?  Is my status of post-K1, current AOS, pre-green card eligible for coverage by a US travel insurer? 

Cheers