47 minutes ago, AstroCanada said:

Maybe see if you can download new online statements.  That will take care of any pesky notes written on the physical copies you have.  But in any case, definitely don't recommend redacting anything.

unfortunately, both will show the notes. I might just omit those statements with any inappropriate words.

I might just include everything for a peace of mind,

I was responsible for managing the bills and my spouse used to transfer me money during the month for our expenses (That is basically why we opened a joint account). Sometimes when she transfer money, she would write me a note. Those notes could be sometime a little inappropriate. We both had dirty sense of humor, we never really assumed anyone will take a look at the statements, so I am wondering is it okay to just conceal those notes with the sharpie like the president? I will not touch the amount or the transaction info tho.

Also, I am not keen that the USCIS IO keen of Zelle and such money transfer, do I need to explain to them how Zelle works? I can ask my soon to be ex wife for a bank statement to prove that she is the one transferred the money; other than that, the statement usually shows her first and last name, bank name and #, and amount

3 hours ago, Ed&Midori1031 said:

Is divorce something you both agreed upon?  Meaning, you both verbally agreed to it? 

As of now, yes. My wife wants the divorce, and I can't force her to stay married. 

3 hours ago, designguy said:

Are you planning to file with a divorce waiver?

Yes, I don't feel comfortable sending joint form if we filling for divorce around the same time. it loses the value of the word joint

The past few weeks been so eventful. I posted before below about my marriage and the struggles we been going through. After attempting counseling twice, my wife declared that she don't want to be married anymore, and that she loves me so much, and she doesn't mind us working on our relationship in the future, but she just don't want to be married to anyone, period. She want to be independent, and the marriage counseling ended up revealing a lot about her feelings. We love each others, but in different ways at this point. The decision of divorce been so hard that the past 6 months we talked and re-talked about it like 20 times. At this point, it is 100% clear that divorce is happening no matter what I do.

I need to file I-751 within the next 10 weeks, and divorce once filed, will take 2.5 to 4 months to finalize. Despite our great relationship, I am not comfortable with filing together as we are clearly getting divorced (despite it being a legal option), so I am taking my chances here. we just need to sort of some joint finances before we file, and hopefully I will have the decree within 3 months of sending the forms

Now, I don't want to give up on my wife even after the divorce, and I want to keep trying to fix our relationship, maybe starting over down the road; however, I am scared that will look bad for USCIS?

I understand that people usually don't get divorced to date each others again, but I don't want to give up on the love of my life, and I want to keep trying to win her back even after the divorce as she is open for us trying to fix our relationship outside the marriage.  I honestly not sure what to do at this point. Outside being married couple, we are best friends, and I don't want to give all up and pretend we never happened, but I also understand that is not traditional to keep talking to your ex wife and be close after divorce?   I thought divorce is easy, but it turned out to be more complicated than our marriage... Our divorce is not due to lack of commitment, or lack of love, or communication. It just we can never live together, and we can't live without each others. We can't deal with our strong differences, but we can't stop being together. 

I'd appreciate any advice really 

On 9/25/2019 at 9:09 AM, masakomaya said:

Waking up to the 'New Card is Being Produced' alert on my phone this morning! Thank god, no rfe or interviews. Feeling so relieved 😃 Best luck to everyone and thanks for all your help!

could you share what you sent up with the application for evidence? and how long was the long distance pre filling if you don't mind me asking since i am in similar situation and i will file soon

On 8/22/2019 at 4:12 PM, Charlene/Neale said:

I'm in the same situation and have heard the same thing - though my immigration attorney informed me that while filing late via divorce waiver may not negatively affect residency status, it does affect work eligibility. According to her, if your Green Card lapses, then you aren't eligible to continue working in the US until the ROC is filed and you've received the NOA.

Does anyone else have feedback on work eligibility in relation to the ROC process?

you attorney is wrong. If you are already employed, your current employer should NOT need to reverify you per the DHS's E-verify communications. Conditional Green Cards don't need to be reverified after their expiration date once they are verified. However, if you are applying for a new job, then you do need a stamp or extension later with your CGC to be verified (unless you have unconditional SSN with Active ID).

I'd attach you a link for the E-verify roles for CGC holders, but I can't find the link.

Long story short, you are fine, you can keep your job. Just try to apply on time, and consider the insane processing time for I-751, you should be able to submit your decree by the time you get the RFE

On 8/23/2019 at 8:39 PM, AbrilJoy said:

 

Because I am a divorce waiver, interview is normal.  No RFE.

My research and docs are impeccable, thanks to Visa Journey.

 

Would you mind sharing the evidence you submitted?

About a month before my CGC approved (Two months after Interview), my wife and I had some problems due to our strong personalities, and we did split for about 1.5 months (We didn't get separated or anything), it is just my wife went back to school out of the state and we were talking everyday, it is just we were not sure about our future. During her 5 months enrollment, we were able to amend our relationship, but never discussed our problems.

After her graduation, she received a great job opportunity (her dream job), and we therefore decided to have two apartments and do long distance since our marriage never better while my wife come back home every 5-6 weeks for a week. Distance just helped us sweep all our problem under the rug, and it worked for a year, up until early this year where we had a serious conversations about our future. Our first conversation ended up with talking divorce, but since we love each others, and we are more or less like best friends and soulmates, before lovers, we decided to start marriage counseling first, and I pledged to make some changes to make sure our marriage work.

As a result, we are now on our way to make a move to my wife's work state, so she can keep her job, and at this point, I'll be working remotely from home to support her fulfill her dreams. We plan to make the move in the next two months since we have to make some arrangements first.

Now, I am wondering what is the best way to address our situation in the cover letter? I know it doesn't look good, but it is what it is, we lived apart most of time after CGC was approved due to school then employment. Marriage is REALLY hard in early 20s and I think we struggled a lot to adjust to each others, and that is why distance helped us to keep our marriage going until we had to admit that we need a professional help, which I know is is not ideal for USCIS

As far as evidence goes: 

We have 3 joints leases (but were living apart most of them)

2 Joint State and Federal Taxes W/ W2s at the same address

Bills with both names

ID with same address

Multiple Credit Cards since engagement

Joint checking and savings since engagement (They are active, but we are so financially independent so we use checking account for my wife to transfer money to me to pay the credit card and insurance bills)

Multiple trips w/ photos 

Healthcare, dental, life, vision, and 401k with my wife as beneficiary 

Joint Brokerage 

Phone records for daily interaction past 18 months 

Receipts for gifts we sent each others for anniversary

Recent flight boarding passes to see my wife 

I am honestly so stressed out, and I have a bad feelings about the whole process since I am so skeptical and cynical by nature. 2019 wasn't really nice between the martial problems to the immigration process now, and I am starting to lose my mind, and I am not sure if the evidence are enough, and I am pretty that living apart for year and half will raise FLAGS

GC Received in the mail today. PD: May, 02 - Approval, December, 09. 

Fun Fact, my application status is still RFE was sent, since September 27, 2017, but who cares. 

On 12/7/2017 at 2:31 PM, Moonchan93 said:

No,  https://gyazo.com/4ba6040f41b0d0031826af181810ffaa  this is just the  picture of it   there is no update on the website

On 12/7/2017 at 3:19 PM, Blondie26 said:

Okay so I'm right on track.  I have not had time to rejoice over my approval. Yesterday was exactly 1 year I submitted my AOS.  Congratulations to us both

Did any of you guys receive the card yet? I got the same letter on the 12th, and It was dated the 8th. No update on the website yet. Not sure how long does it take to get the actual card. 

19 hours ago, Apfel said:

What were your RFE's for? Congrats!

1) for move evidence that we are married - We didn't have much because I was just started a job, so by the time we send the rfe we had joint insurance and more evidence. 

2) I-864 - They just needed a new job letter from my wife. 

FYI, I had one of the toughest interviews. We interviewed with the director, who wasn't very pleasant. literally 40 min of fear. She mostly drilled my wife with questions. 

Got my Case Approved today:

PD May 02, 2017

Biometrics May 18, 2017

EAD: August 20, 2017

Interview: September 24, 2017 - Got two RFEs in the interview

RFE Received November 1, 2017

Case Approved: December 14, 2017

FYI for those who got, might get, RFE, they didn't even change the status of case online after their received my response. As of today, My case is still pending, which is crazy! 

Got my Case Approved today:

PD May 02, 2017

Biometrics May 18, 2017

EAD: August 20, 2017

Interview: September 24, 2017 - Got two RFEs in the interview

RFE Received November 1st

Case Approved: December 14, 2017

FYI for those got, might get RFE, they didn't even change the status of case online after their received my response. As of today, My case is still pending.  

Hi, 

During the AOS interview, the officer said my wife's income isn't enough and the assets she used isn't valid. I am currently working full-time using my EAD, and I was wondering if we can re-submit the form with both our incomes? We got married in March and just recently got our own place.

Also, during the interview I asked the officer the same question, and she said I can't because I am the beneficiary; however, I read the form instruction's like 100 times and it mentions that we can add our income, so I am not sure if I wasn't clear enough with my question or if the officer is wrong.

We haven't filled tax together yet, but we do live together (share rent), and have a insurance (life and health together) and my wife is my dependent. 

21 hours ago, tamaara said:

I'm sorry! Don't get discouraged, did the officer give you a list of things to submit? Our officer was the happiest when we gave her life and health insurance documents, car title with both our names, car insurance. She didn't bother much with pictures. I think legal stuff outweighs all other proof for them.

 

Good luck!

Yes, the problem is she is the director! She was so tough. We have rent agreement, utility bills, renter insurance, dozens of pictures, proof of contact (phone bills), joint savings, and joint credit card. The only thing we couldn't bring is the health and life insurance because I recently got them. We

5 minutes ago, H-I said:

Maybe the fact that you lived separately was the reason for this kind of interview.

Sorry for this interview experience  

I mean she didn't even ask about that. Both had separate leases since I was in school, and It was difficult of us to move in together until I got a job. 

5 minutes ago, Pritzz said:

I’m sorry to hear that ☹️ sometimes is hard to guess what the IO is thinking, maybe she was in a bad mood? And definitely should not be a surprise a couple getting married after 9 months dating! Just isn’t clear why she gave you guys a RFE if you submitted the document back in May, did you bring that to the interview?

One of the RFE was regarding the income, which was weird considering its an interview. My wife submitted a joint saving account with her parents + her salary to meet the guideline. I have a job now, and my income alone is sufficient, but she didn't want that either. 

The second one was for additional evidence to prove marriage. We just got an apartment together so apparently new lease, and bills besides savings isn't good for her. She didn't even ask any personal questions besides when did you meet.

Interview update:

Probably had the worst interview experience. The officer was super mean and rude. She didn't believe in our marriage from the start because we got married after 9 months of dating. She gave us a RFE for the support because my wife income is lower than the min even tho I submitted the documents back in May, and RFE because she think our marriage is not bonafide even tho we had rent agreement, couple of bills, joint saving account, and dozens of pictures.

The officer even called me a liar at some point, which is bizarre. 

She gave us until last day of Oct to send everything. It is really depressing. 

Interview update:

Probably had the worst interview experience. The officer was super mean and rude. She didn't believe in our marriage from the start because we got married after 9 months of dating. She gave us a RFE for the support because my wife income is lower than the min even tho I submitted the documents back in May, and RFE because she think our marriage is not bonafide even tho we had rent agreement, couple of bills, joint saving account, and dozens of pictures.

She gave us until last day of Oct to send everything. It is really depressing. 

Hello folks,

I was wondering if anyone got tips to prepare for the interview besides the basic “bring documents and relationship proof”? 

My my interview is next week

1 hour ago, sarahandyunus said:

New Card Is Being Produced

On August 28, 2017, we ordered your new card for Receipt Number MSC1791253373, and will mail it to the address you gave us.

 

FINALLYYYYYY!!!! Any estimates of how long it will take the card to get to us? Husband wants to send a start date to his future employer..

7 days

4 to produce

2-3 day shipping

6 hours ago, cool_beans said:

Did you ever receive a case status updated that read:

"On MM DD, 2017, we mailed your new card for Receipt Number MSCxxxxxxx, to the address you gave us."

 

Did they ever give you a tracking number or a case status update after that? Our case status was updated on August 23rd. Do you know when the card itself might arrive?

 No tracking, and your card will arrive in 2 days from that update. Max 3 days. If you didn't receive it by 3 days call them and ask for tracking 

Received combo card in the mail today.

3 hours ago, TheSkywalkers said:

Congrats! 

 

Your SSN should be there within a week.

For DLs, yes you will still need your SSN.

3 hours ago, Omoba said:

So finally, I have my EAD in hand. I went straight to the social security administration office yesterday to apply for my ssn. Anyone has an idea of how long I need to  wait to get it in mail? 14days seems like forever right now lol.

 

I also want to apply for my drivers license, does anyone know if I need my ssn before I can apply .

All governments IDs, Licenses, docs, or passports takes 2 weeks from production to arrival. I highly doubt you get your license or SSN in a week.

You don't need SSN for license, just visa, passport, and EAD. Once you complete the exam, they will give you a temporary paper license until you get the rea one

7 hours ago, millrbrit said:

So I finally got my response back from my service request and it says my case is under review. So disappointing!

 

is there anyone here who has had that response and since had some action in their case, like an approved EAD?

I got my EAD approved after 2 SR, and 20 days from the my first SR. They usually won't send an actual mail unless they approve you. Note, my PD is May 02, and the actual processing time for EAD is within 120 days NOT 3 months like some people think. So unless you go over the 4 months peak, you shouldn't be worried really.