Yayy! Received text message tonight as everyone else stated at 11:53 pm. I’m starting to see a trend here for the most part. It seems like once you get the deliver confirmation from the company you sent with, it takes about 7 business days for you to receive text & 12 business days to receive Hard copies. I think these items roll out on Tuesday’s so if this method is correct, I should be receiving my husbands hard copies by the 30th. 🤞🏽 Let’s get this show on the road 😺
Excited! Just got our text/email notification for NOA1! They received our package last week on January 16th. Now waiting for the hardcopy to come in the mail!
hello everybody!!!
i am so happy , today I just got the EAD combo card
i see a lot of progress as well with everyone getting married and applying for AOS, best of luck , the wait is terrible but we've been thru' worst waiting for the NOA2 - i129f . I applied on the 3rd of November, Biometrics on the 5th of December and the approval for the work permit was updated on the 11th of January.
can't wait to see the good news for everyone in the March filers group!!
Thank you so much, Olechka!
How are you doing? Did you receive NOA1?
Yesterday we had a meeting with our attorney on the next steps with AOS process and she confirmed that I do not need to complete vaccination and submit form with AOS application. So I'll proceed with this later and either send it to them separately (by request) or bring it with me at interview.
After a month of procrastination, we finally sent our dead tree AOS papers yesterday! Yay!
The FedEx guy said he'd never seen such a big AOS file before, and apparently they deal with them quite a lot
Hi! First of all, my congratulations! You look so happy on your wedding photo
As for the vaccination info, I decided to start without it. The instruction says that you don't have to submit that form with your AOS application, you can do it later, before or even at your interview. I hope to finally send everything this week.
Hi, everyone! We finally got married last January 13th We got married in Redlands, CA. I just want to ask if it’s okay if the signatures of the witnesses went out of the box? Is it okay? Are they going to accept it yet? :)) I am just nervous coz the lady at the county clerk said we should make sure it won’t go out of the box 😂 Thank you guys! And I wanted to post phot but I couldn’t find a way to upload it here :))
My fiance's visa has been issued and is ready for pick-up at the embassy! He's going first thing in the morning. He gets here in 2 1/2 weeks...I have no idea how to focus or contain my excitement! I can't believe this process is finally coming to an end and we will be married soon.
Sigh.. I know this is not exactly K1 visa related but I just need to rant and get things off my chest and I honestly had no better idea where to go with my problems. Just need some advice how to stay positive when everything seems to suck.
I knew moving to the US and start a new life here would never be easy. Giving up my old life, job, family and friends and kinda starting from scratch, not being allowed to work and relying on my husband financially. But I guess our case is a bit more complicated than average I guess. And some days I honestly really struggle... And my husband does too. I don't struggle being with him at all, we love each other very much, but our circumstances are very depressing sometimes.
My husband went through a very rough divorce right around when we got to know each other and also filed bankruptcy less than two years ago with his ex wife. He lost his job shortly before I came to visit him for the first time and he decided a few months later to move back from the south to his home state to start over and try to find a job. So he had to move in with his father and stepmom and he started a year long job training program last September to change careers and he loves it. And I am really glad since he was miserable at his old job. I came here in September and we are staying with his parents since then until we are able to find our own place to live. I have no income of course since my EAD is still processing, my husband doesn't get paid for his training, only a housing stipend and he also gets a military disability since he is a disabled veteran, but his ex wife takes most of the money since he has to pay her alimony and child support.. And I am probably just gonna make 10-15$ an hour where we live with my education. I used to make over 30$ an hour at my old job, so coming here sometimes seem like a huge step down in quality of life. So it seems like we are not gonna be able to afford our own place any time soon.. We also need everything, we only own a bed that we bought when I got here, we need to purchase furniture etc and saving up money so far has not been successful since everything goes into bills, bankruptcy payments, child support, gas and fixing up the car we bought.
But we are very grateful for being able to live with my husband's parents for now.. But sometimes we struggle. His little teenage sister is a spoiled brat who manipulates her parents and most nights we get to listen to them fight and yell but she always gets her way in the end. And her parents wonder why she is such a brat when they tell her no but give in to her eventually. And that drama stresses us out. When I was a kid, we would never scream and fight with our parents. Me and my brothers fought between us like all siblings do but that was it. So I am not used to fighting like this. And my father in law is a difficult person. He is an angry miserable man who hates his life and is just angry at everything and seems to pick a fight with his teen daughter the rare moments when she is just minding her own buisness. He will complain about everything. He complains that me and my husband cost him money living with them and when we try to give him money to cover our electric expenses etc(which I think is totally fair of course, and I do housework around the house and cook dinner occasionally, but we can't really afford to feed 5 people all the time) he won't accept the money. He complains we eat food they prepare for everyone and he also complains when we make our own food. So there is no way pleasing him. And everything my husband does he does wrong in his eyes. My husband tells me he has treated him like that his whole life. And I hate it. Last night got extremely bad when my father in law had one of his hissy fits because my husband's sister made the comment that they always have the same stuff for dinner(she is a vegetarian so she limits her options a lot since they like meat and usually have sides of potatoes and beans, carrots or cabbage) and he just lost it and started yelling that nobody in this house appreciates anything he does, that she complains about the food, that me and my husband complain about the food(which we have never done BTW) and he just wishes everyone would vanish and everyone should off etc. He and his wife constantly get into fights about their daughter and they have talked about divorce. I honestly think she should leave him because she deserves better than that.
We just really want to have our own home, without all this stress and negative energy all around us. I hate not having a job. I do not function well without a routine. We live right outside a small town, not much to do here. And I don't have my own car yet, I don't like using the extra truck they have because my father in law will at some point about that. So I am pretty much stuck at the house doing nothing. I used to work about 200 hours a month and go to crossfit 5-6 times a week. I gave up crossfit shortly after we filed for my visa last year to save some money. And I loved doing it, finally found some kind of exercise that I didn't give up on and I lost a lot of weight, felt better, got stronger and more confident. I think about it every day how much I miss it. And I've been gaining weight for the last months since I turn to food when I am stressed out and feel down. I don't wanna go back to hating myself and be disgusted when I look in the mirror. Hopefully we will live somewhere near a crossfit gym. But we kinda live in middle of nowhere and my husband hates cities so we will never live in a city.
And my husband needs a back surgery, one of his discs is blown out and he started feeling pain last summer. His whole lower back is fused together due to a injury he got in the military. And a fusion will destroy the healthy discs remaining slowly over the years. He got a MRI in november and got a referral to a neurosurgeon who basically told him to off and that he is not gonna touch him and wouldn't meet him or even call him and nobody else bothered to call. He found out when he contacted the VA about a prescription refill. He got an appointment with pain management instead but I doubt they will do anything either, our state has a very strict narcotic policy. His appointment is at the end of the month, his pain gets worse by the day, we had to go to the ER two weeks ago because it got so bad. He need surgery and the ER doctor agreed and is gonna ask for a second opinion. But everything takes such a long time to process. And it's not gonna be a fun surgery. 8-12 weeks of healing and he won't be able to continue his program for that time and his monthly housing stipend is gonna disappear probably, limiting our income even more. I hate seeing him in so much pain and not being able to anything about it, I really wish I could.
And my husband's ex wife is a . They have two wonderful daughters together and she constantly uses them against him. They live 20 hours away since he moved back to his home state, she constantly makes up excuses why they can't talk on the phone and that Skype would not work on her phone etc. She is living with another man now and they bought a house together last summer, which is a good thing, he is actually a good man and seems nice, and we are glad she and the girls isn't living with her crazy parents anymore. But they are now calling their new stepfather daddy and it breaks my husband's heart of course. And she made it very clear to the girls they could NEVER call me mommy ever.. seriously. We are supposed to get the girls for the summer, that is the only time we get to see them since they are in school and get little time off and the travelling distance is so great. He only got them for 2 weeks last summer, they split the driving between them, but she said after she came to get them that they have to fly next time they come visit because they got so carsick(they were fine on the trip with my husband) and she won't allow a escort from an airline employee so her mother should fly with them. Yeah sorry we can't afford to fly a grown up person back and forth twice (unless she plans to stay with us for a few weeks LOL) and buy tickets for the kids.. So we have to figure out how to plan out the summer. And we want to have our own place by then because my husband's ex claims the girls have cat allergy and my inlaws have 3 cats(but they were fine staying in the house last summer). She just is a manipulative horrible person who only wants to suck money out of my husband(she doesn't work and never has, she always needs others to provide for her). And he just lets her walk all over him even though they are not married anymore. It sometimes makes me crazy..
So yeah.. pretty much my husband is the only positive thing in my life these days, and I am grateful to have him by my side. But he worries about me and says I don't smile very much and he worries I am just gonna give up and leave him. Which I never will, I know this will pass, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. It just sucks for now.
Anyone in similar shoes? Sorry for the long post, I just needed to vent.
Phew. I sent my AOS package just now through USPS priority mail. Its expected to delivered on Friday. I’m still nervous eventhough its 2nd time filing to USCIS.
Wish a smooth AOS journey to every Jan filers out there!
Feels strange joining a AOS thread, but yet here we are. We received the hardcopy NOA1s for AOS, AP and EAD dated 1/2/2018 yesterday. Sent the package in on 12/28.
My sweet husband (from the U.K) and I submitted his AOS application January 8th. He's adjusting from B-2 visitor after coming in July. We met in Dublin in May and I spent a week with him there, and after weeks of constant Facetiming and WhatsApp messaging, he came out to meet my family and get a more established relationship, so I'm not worried about any accusations of visa fraud or misrepresentation. However, he is 26 years older than me. So that's a tad concerning we might get a scopes interview, but our relationship is truly genuine and no one can ever recognize our age difference #perksofbeingAsian
Here's our timeline so far:
Met May 19th
Came to the US on B-2 visa (not VWP) July 19th
Proposed September 29th
Married November 2nd
Applied for AOS January 8th
Package signed off on January 9th
Now we're just waiting for our NOA1! Good luck to everyone!
Well I got two volunteer positions at the library. One to help out scanning and inputting items in their Amazon Store and the other sorting donations. Super excited. I start next Tuesday at 10am. I also finally got my Colorado Drivers License. Things are looking up.
My husband and I think it will be. It's just the waiting. lol For me its waiting for EAD. I am quite bored. lol I have picked up several new hobbies to go with my old ones. Least today I have an interview for a volunteer position at the library and before anyone gets up at me saying you might be in trouble its for the non profit organization Friends of the Pikes Peak Library so it is definitely a volunteer position never will be paid.
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