Alysia&Luis

What a trip it has been! Married as of Saturday!
 
 

We just included the DS-3025 that my fiance got when he picked up his medical report. From my understanding and what I have read here on VJ the I-693 is not needed for K-1 filers

Hellooooooooooo to my dear March Whiners - from Virginia!

So now I finally came back and found our thread closed! We made the server kneel - heck yeah, that rocks!

Sooooo I noticed I got searched - here I am!

I had to manage the clearing of my place and had sold my iMac beginning September, so I wasn't really online anymore, since I hate doing stuff like this here on the iPhone.

Long story short - I made it!

The goodbyes at home were harder than expected, many tears with my (former) coworkers, my mom and my closest friends. I"ve spent my last nights in Germany in my favorite city on this planet - beloved Hamburg - and flew out from there. My POE was last Friday at Boston Logan Airport.

The Immigration in Boston was a little awkward. Seems like the IO are all more grumpy the later it gets. I had to wait long at the Immi, then got escorted to the obligatory Secondary and sat there waiting again for a felt eternity. It was just weird. I wasn't nervous, but it just felt awkward to sit and wait so long (felt long at least).
But in the end it turned out good, and after about an hour I could collect my luggage and leave with my passport.

It kind of irritated me that the officer just doodled with a ball pen on this sticker we all have worked and waited for sooooo long and now it's useless

Yeah, well! As you can tell:
Scott has really came to Richmond/VA to pick me up, haha! The iron rake from Germany has arrived and is very happy to be united with my perfect match. 
Daily routine has already caught up. He had to work again on Monday already, works 15pm to 1am, so I'm home with the cats and trying to make a home out of this bachelors household.
To be honest - I haven't left the house without him yet. Everything is so far away; no walking distances, and I don't have a car yet. But that's fine for now. The crazy man got me a very new and shiny MacBook for my birthday, so I'm back online trying to catch up!

For the "formal" part: We'll go for my SSN tomorrow, he added me to his cell phone plan today, so I got my US simcard. His leave got confirmed for the last week of October/first week of November, so we will probably head out to his family in Utah in the middle of that time and make a road trip to Vegas to get married!

And last but not least:
Not a crazy POE pic, but a selfie right after we hugged hello! I'll keep this pic forever, because it's not only a selfie - it's the arrival after the biggest journey of my life so far! <3

To all on here that still know me, to those who don't: Good luck for all of you, congratulations to all approvals and progresses! It's so great to have the back of this community - and of course especially the Anonymous March Whiners, which I'm a proud part of!

Been busy for last 5 days, finally got one day off work - trying to catch up.  Since we got evicted, and I didn't get to tell @Alysia&Luis thanks for her reply about AOS......  Thanx!  The medical part had me confused, but it makes sense after you answered it.
 
@Ste&Sel I'm following you and really got excited the other day when you did an update on your timeline...... I was so happy then it was gone when I saw it was just housekeeping.  I can't imagine your strength - Stay strong neighbor.  Some day soon we will be able to congratulate you.

Preparing AOS is one of the things that helped me pass the time when we were waiting for our NOA2   Then they went and changed the I485 form!! For the new I-485 form the G-1145 is no longer needed.  For K01 filers just need to include the DS-3025 vaccine report and the I-693 in not required.  For the I-864, I basically did the same documents over that I had for the I-134 - taxes, pay stubs and letter of employment.  I also included a copy of the NOA2 from our I-129F and a few pictures from our wedding. 
 
I am so glad to see a lot of March folks getting closer and closer to the final steps!! 

Preparing AOS is one of the things that helped me pass the time when we were waiting for our NOA2   Then they went and changed the I485 form!! For the new I-485 form the G-1145 is no longer needed.  For K01 filers just need to include the DS-3025 vaccine report and the I-693 in not required.  For the I-864, I basically did the same documents over that I had for the I-134 - taxes, pay stubs and letter of employment.  I also included a copy of the NOA2 from our I-129F and a few pictures from our wedding. 
 
I am so glad to see a lot of March folks getting closer and closer to the final steps!! 

Hey Whiners! I'm happy to announce that our visa is APPROVED!  
But before that, there were a few bumps in the road especially during my medical appt - (1) I had a personal evaluation with a psychiatrist w/c was scheduled 2wks after my medical due to self inflicted injury (2) The psychiatrist referred me to a psychologist in w/c I had to take a series of tests that took me 7hrs to finish (includes 850 items of written exam, 4 pictures that I have to describe and make a dramatic story, 1-on-1 interview with the psychologist and showed me a rorschach images that I have to describe to her).
Good thing everything went well and got my visa approval at the interview. 
I also want to congratulate my fellow Whiners for the NOA2, visa approvals, POE. Let's all see each other again in the AOS! 

I just arrived in the Dominican Republic this morning so that I can be with my fiancé for the flight and PoE this afternoon.  It feels very strange flying to another country with no bags and only staying a few hours! I'm so excited ... Many months of waiting and it's finally here!

Preparing AOS is one of the things that helped me pass the time when we were waiting for our NOA2   Then they went and changed the I485 form!! For the new I-485 form the G-1145 is no longer needed.  For K01 filers just need to include the DS-3025 vaccine report and the I-693 in not required.  For the I-864, I basically did the same documents over that I had for the I-134 - taxes, pay stubs and letter of employment.  I also included a copy of the NOA2 from our I-129F and a few pictures from our wedding. 
 
I am so glad to see a lot of March folks getting closer and closer to the final steps!! 

Preparing AOS is one of the things that helped me pass the time when we were waiting for our NOA2   Then they went and changed the I485 form!! For the new I-485 form the G-1145 is no longer needed.  For K01 filers just need to include the DS-3025 vaccine report and the I-693 in not required.  For the I-864, I basically did the same documents over that I had for the I-134 - taxes, pay stubs and letter of employment.  I also included a copy of the NOA2 from our I-129F and a few pictures from our wedding. 
 
I am so glad to see a lot of March folks getting closer and closer to the final steps!! 

Preparing AOS is one of the things that helped me pass the time when we were waiting for our NOA2   Then they went and changed the I485 form!! For the new I-485 form the G-1145 is no longer needed.  For K01 filers just need to include the DS-3025 vaccine report and the I-693 in not required.  For the I-864, I basically did the same documents over that I had for the I-134 - taxes, pay stubs and letter of employment.  I also included a copy of the NOA2 from our I-129F and a few pictures from our wedding. 
 
I am so glad to see a lot of March folks getting closer and closer to the final steps!! 

Preparing AOS is one of the things that helped me pass the time when we were waiting for our NOA2   Then they went and changed the I485 form!! For the new I-485 form the G-1145 is no longer needed.  For K01 filers just need to include the DS-3025 vaccine report and the I-693 in not required.  For the I-864, I basically did the same documents over that I had for the I-134 - taxes, pay stubs and letter of employment.  I also included a copy of the NOA2 from our I-129F and a few pictures from our wedding. 
 
I am so glad to see a lot of March folks getting closer and closer to the final steps!! 

Been reading up on AOS from K1.  Is it really as simple as the guide makes it sound?  I know @Alysia&Luis filed it promptly after, and I am sure @Estibaliz probably already has them filled out and printed  
 
From what I am reading, the evidence needed is just the Marriage License, 3 yrs of Taxes to show >125% of poverty, a NOA2, I-94, Birth Certificate, copy of whole passport, some passport pics, the vaccination record???, and the I forms 485, 864, 765, 131, 1145.  Kinda confused on the I-693 and the vaccinations part of this - but everything else looks like it is documents we already have because of doing the k1.....
 
Anyone else been looking this far ahead???

After a slight wedding reschedule due to a burst appendix I an happy to report we are finally married!!
Don't give up and try not to get discouraged. THIS IS WORTH IT!!!!

My Fiancee is coming to Toronto tonight and we are heading to Montreal tomorrow. Our interview is at 8 am on Wednesday! 
 
Wish us luck! Such a combination of nervousness and excitement.    

One of our Aprilites stuck at the NVC on Administrative Processing (we have a few) was finally cleared and their case sent to the Embassy after 4 weeks... That's a lot, but hopefully it won't be much longer now for you
 
I'm also taking the opportunity to tell all the Marchies, since I've been such a lurker during this process, that I was approved yesterday at the interview

APPROVED!

Hi to All,
 
Just a short update, we were approved on 21st August, received visa on 25th August and day later flown to Chicago. It want really quick on POE. 
We registered  my son to school. I applied for SSN last week and received one today in mail, my son did not receive one until he becomes a red card from immigration after we apply for AOS .
We got married yesterday in courthouse.
Next is getting drivers licence, hope this Saturday.
Did anyone filled for AOS from march or Feb fillers?
Regards
 

Well, now that I got to see the actual tickets over Skype, I can finally say - yes, we are flying to the States on October 27
And we picked the wedding date - November 25 (a mix of our birthdays)

Long time since I last visited that thread! I am thrilled to see all the approvals, wedding pictures and happy endings of all the processes! Its been a long road! Congratulations to all!
 
Talking about us... we got married!  it was beautifull day, we were sourrounded by family and friends, everybody had a good time  a lot of love  here some pictures: 
 

 

 

 

 
now time to think about AOS  

So having left my dog back home in Uk 🇬🇧 and missing him☹️ My fiancé and me decided to adopt a new little furbaby called Merlin 😂☺️😂

3 NOA1 texts/emails arrived this morning. 
 
Sent AOS packet: 9/8
Documents received: 9/12
NOA1: 9/16

I have my noa2 yessss approve thanks God

Finally our k-1 is approved, we got rfe on august 7th and approval on 13th of September.  It took 162 days total.  Next step is to get  nvc case number. How long did it take for you guys ? Two weeks or more ?

For those still here,  Grace was approved in late Aug and will ohisicalky be here next Saturday the 23 of Sept!!
 
Thanks everyone for their thoughts and prayers!  
 
We could have never ever done it, without this site, and everyone else leading the way with suggestions!!!