Ermin&Zijada

You only consider it a “good point” because its an immigrant choosing to travel outside the US for longer than a few weeks. But when a usc takes a 6 month vacation to “explore europe” its considered a cultural experience and even envied. 

Well he was the one that enacted the travel ban 😂 should be blame Hillary for that one too?

Because people have parents and siblings and family? There are are a billion reasons for why someone would want/need to go back home. Pretty insesitive to even question someone else’s motives. You can laugh all you want at the “current climate” opinion but the fact of the matter is that its unstable. Ive never seen such turmoil and confusion at airports as was witnessed by the first travel ban executive order. If it happened once it can happen again. 

received: 12/24
check cashed: 01/28 
 
Just glad to finally know it arrived and is in the right hands. 

No.  You won't evidence of your status....but your status does not expire when your Green card does.

Well he was the one that enacted the travel ban 😂 should be blame Hillary for that one too?

Because people have parents and siblings and family? There are are a billion reasons for why someone would want/need to go back home. Pretty insesitive to even question someone else’s motives. You can laugh all you want at the “current climate” opinion but the fact of the matter is that its unstable. Ive never seen such turmoil and confusion at airports as was witnessed by the first travel ban executive order. If it happened once it can happen again. 

My husband and I have made the decision not to travel with AP. Our fears are not because we heard stories about people being denied entry, but because of the uncertainty of the current immigration climate. It only takes one executive order before AP is useless. Not too long ago people were being detained even with a Green Card much less AP. 

You'd risk the k1, just to attend someone else's wedding? How important is your relationship to you?
 

Honestly our interview was rough. The woman was very serious and meant business. She did not ask anything about our relationship. I had handed her some proof (vet bills, concert tickets,etc.) She asked my husband what our dogs name is which he of course knew. And she asked when did we go to ny (for the concert) but he did not have that date memorized nor did she specify which ny trip she meant since we had been twice. I had attempted to answer for him, but she strictly told me not to tell him answers and I apologized and explained that we had been multiple times and that he did not know which time she was referring to. She then asked basic questions like where I was born and the date of my birthday. She told us at the end we were approved. I would reccommend knowing the information about all the documents you are bringing. 

Hi, we had our interview last month. We got the notice about 5 weeks before the interview date. We are from Richmond and had plenty of options to choose from in terms of doctors. The medical exam was between 200-300 dollars (cannot remember exactly). 

Bring all the law/legal history you want. Earlier this year for 24-48hrs, CBP was not allowing LPRs back into the USA. Because they simply follow the rules given by their bosses. Only till the white house itself changed the wording of the document given to those CBP officers did they allow those people back in. 
 
Not blaming trump for everything. But let’s be clear the current administration has made decisions overnight unilaterally that impacg immigration for a set amount of time. Not sure what other administration has done that before so again this is new territory. That said the issues were fixed very fast, it was not like those LPRs wwre banned forever. So again need to weigh the risk of the entire situation. But to totally fear using AP for everyone would be rather silly.

Because some people have been here for a while and miss their families? You are assuming only people applying for AOS have been the ones that have gone through the K-1 process. 

Everyone makes their own personal choice and we shouldn't judge others because we would have done it differently. Maybe you wouldn't think it was necessary to travel home if one of your parents died but others would. And like I said, the whole point of the AP is for us to be able to travel. 

So I get it that it's beyond you to understand why other people make different choices from you? Maybe for you it's not hard to be away from family, but for others it is. In my case, we like to travel internationally and one year without that is a missed opportunity. Nobody is blaming anyone or anything. You just said you don't understand why people want to travel soon after they arrive. It's pretty simple and easy to understand actually. Also, for many international couples, balancing between the two families is important and for many immigrants (like me) being in the US is a compromise in order to be with our loved ones and in order to make more money so that we can afford more international trips. 
 
And you're wrong about jobs not giving you time off, you just need to know how and when to ask. 

My husband and I have made the decision not to travel with AP. Our fears are not because we heard stories about people being denied entry, but because of the uncertainty of the current immigration climate. It only takes one executive order before AP is useless. Not too long ago people were being detained even with a Green Card much less AP. 

You should be able to reverse the denial. Looks like you’ve got your ducks in the row for attack plan to reverse it. Hang in there! 

Just an update on us. We received the letter that our interview is scheduled for February 20th! 

Their AoS only took eight months? That's pretty good, even with 3 RFE's.

For our initial 129F application I sent our entire skype log as proof of communication. Then for the interview I screenshotted a part of our conversation for every month of our relationship. It may have been overkill, but I felt better knowing my fiance had that with him and the interviewer did look through it. 

omg i am so sorry to hear! that's a terribly long wait. I hope you will hear something back soon - i don't understand why it takes so long to schedule an appointment !!!

Our status still reads “response to rfe received in October 2017.” We reached out to the senator who was able to find out that we are technically in line for an interview. Is anyone else still waiting for an interview at Norfolk? Or had an interview there recently? 
 
Our close family friends who applied a few months after us (at the same office) had their interview months ago so it is very agitating that we are still waiting. 
 
We are also curious about if we will need to bring a translator to the interview or if I can translate for me husband? Ive heard differimg answers. 

Yeah I agree the first person who replied to OP should apologize since their response was both rude and unhelpful. 

You only consider it a “good point” because its an immigrant choosing to travel outside the US for longer than a few weeks. But when a usc takes a 6 month vacation to “explore europe” its considered a cultural experience and even envied. 

I must have missed where OP asked for your opinion on the length of their visits.