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But what does one do if they aren't in the system? That's the point. If one isn't, they are screwed because you can't just say "Stop my application" and walk out. You've already applied. Why would you risk not waiting? Why wouldn't you just play it safe? What happened for others doesn't have to happen for us. There are PLENTY of ppl who it took 14 days for and that's as of current when I was going through all of this 5 years ago AND for those I've been helping since. It's not uncommon to go too soon and be SOL without an SSN until EAD or GC, because some SSN agent dropped the ball and didn't keep checking. That's common as of NOW. I hear it all the time.

You can try however the issue is this: If you aren't in the system, they will tell you you aren't. Then they promise you they'll keep checking and process your application when you ARE in the system but that never happens. Your application sits on their desk and dies as they work on applications who WERE in the system from the start. You'll get a notice weeks later saying after the cut off window that you can't apply any more. There is no way to prevent that because what are you going to do when you go in and they say you aren't in the system? Tell them to stop your application? That won't help and they won't. It's been as recent as 2 years ago that it took days for DHS to record your entry. SAVE has nothing to do with that. Waiting until you are in the system is best. Giving them 10 grace is adequate.

Topic moved from: Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from K1 and K3 Family Based Visas To more appropriately: IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures If anyone can decide a better caregory where it should go, please move.

Fill out your timeline!!!!!

That's incorrect. That's correct. You won't know until you receive the card. Nothing you can do but wait. It will likely be a 10 year card and when he applies for citizenship he will be required to relinquish all immigrationdocuments at interview. Following instructions is very important.

Pardon me? You'd post your RFE redacted as asked because that would help us better to help you. It is very hard to UNDERSTAND why they would ask for a document that a visa holder would never ever ever have a copy of. USCIS knows that you'd never have a copy nevermind SEEN it because it was sealed IN YOUR visa packet and handed off SEALED. Your RFE redacted will help us to understand the CONTEXT. Your defensiveness is unappreciated.

8What's with all of these consecutive posts? Noa1 can take up to 30 days to come IN THE MAIL from when the shipment was received, NOT sent before you are eligible to place an EMAIL (NOT phone) enquiry to the Lockbox. There Is no timeline for any steps inbetween for text, email, check cashing etc. Directly from the USCIS "Contact US" webpage under "Inquiries based on Filing Location". https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/contact-us "Lockbox If you have a question about a filing mailed to the Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, or Elgin Lockbox you may email us at lockboxsupport@uscis.dhs.gov and we will answer your email as soon as possible. Please include the form number, receipt number, petitioner and/or applicant name, and mailing address. Do not include Social Security numbers in emails. Examples of Lockbox questions include: The reason your submission was rejected; How or where to submit an application or petition that should be filed at one of the four Lockbox locations; and Filing more than 30 days ago and not yet receiving a receipt notice." You must wait 30 days from shipment received to contact. Please be patient.

As the I864 instructions state, one may prove CURRENT income with an employment verification letter and supported by 6 months of current paystubs. If you have that, you can use it. If you don't, you'll need a new Joint sponsor or another Co-Sponsor. A Co-Sponsor is a Parent, Sibling or Child of the original sponsor and they must live with the original sponsor in the same home.

DS3025 Vaccination Record??? You would never have a received a copy of your actual complete medical exam as it was IN your sealed visa packet and you were never eligible to receive a personal computer of anything but your DS3025 Vaccination Record and your Xray CD. How would they be asking you for that? Please confirm the actual RFE request. Post redacted if you can.

Noa1 can take up to 30 days from when the shipment was received not sent, before you are eligible to place an enquiry to the Lockbox. Not sure if your shipment was received on 3/15 as your post doesn't indicate what kind of notice you received. If it's been less than 30 days since the shipment was received according to your shipping receipt, (as that's what you should go by) you aren't eligible to enquire quite yet. In any case, directly from the USCIS "Contact US" under "Inquires based on filing location": https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/contact-us "Lockbox If you have a question about a filing mailed to the Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, or Elgin Lockbox you may email us at lockboxsupport@uscis.dhs.gov and we will answer your email as soon as possible. Please include the form number, receipt number, petitioner and/or applicant name, and mailing address. Do not include Social Security numbers in emails. Examples of Lockbox questions include: The reason your submission was rejected; How or where to submit an application or petition that should be filed at one of the four Lockbox locations; and Filing more than 30 days ago and not yet receiving a receipt notice." From time to time, it takes longer than 30 days however you are still elligble to email once you pass 30 days. The top reasons for your issue are: 1. Moving near filing USCIS applications (not recommended). 2. Not ensuring all the names of the household are listed at your address with USPS. Your local PO can confirm or sometimes a little note in the mail box with all of the names of residents works too. 3. USCIS Noa1 delays across the board. Email them when elligble. They'll tell you what is up. PS. Noa1 is the received date your Noa1. Noa1 comes in the mail. Your Noa1 date does not come from an email or text. Your timeline states a date that you would not know yet because you have not received Noa1.

Yes. You'll receive a new RECEIPT number (case number is for VISAS) for each of the AOS forms you filed (I485, I765 and I131). If you filed a G1145 ontop of your AOS packet, you'll receive a text and/or email for each application with your corresponding RECEIPT number. If you did not file a G1145 with your packet, you won't receive your RECEIPT numbers until your ...'s come in the mail for each application. Noa1 can take up to 30 days from when the shipment was received not sent before you are eligible to place an enquiry to the Lockbox. There is no timeline for any steps inbetween. You check your status when Noa1 comes in the mail anyways. Receiving the text or email does not enable that eligibility. If you DID file G1145 AND received the email, it will remind you that you need to wait for Noa1 to check your status online.

K1 SSN should be applied for in person after day 10 of arrival in the US to allow for the entry to be recorded with DHS and in their maiden name. After day 75, chances of getting it are extremely low. Please see the VJ SSN guides for plenty of info. DLs procedures are state dependent. You'll need an SSN to get one more than likely though. You can Google "(your state) Driver's license non-US citizen" for your state's requirements. Point blank: A K1 is not a visitor to the US. Foriegn DLs are for use by visitors to the US. A K1 cannot legally drive in the majority of US states with a foreign DL. Whether the LEO that pulls you over knows the state law or not is not something you should not risk. Trust me, if one is pulled over with a foreign DL, they will confirm with your passport that you have a visitor's stamp. An MC is issued after you are legally married as proof that you legally are. You buy a marriage LICENCE TO GET married just like you buy one to fish and hunt. ML rules vary by COUNTY. Some have a waiting period to get married after buying the license, some do not. You'll want to know how long it will take in your county to get your MC back too as you cannot file AOS without your MC. The county clerks office in the jurisdiction of where you are planning to marry will have all of the details. One what? SSN in maiden name first. DL/State ID. ML. MC. AOS. You want to file AOS to be SAFE, before the 90 day period closes. Again, you are confusing a ML with a MC. MC comes AFTER marriage. "Usually" a couple of weeks later. County clerk can tell you. You cannot file I485 before you a. Are married AND b. Have your OG/certified MC on hand. (or less if applicant underwent sputum testing for TB) from the date of the medical exam. The RULE is as long as a K1 FILES I485 within one year of their overseas medical exam AND their DS3025 is both MARKED complete and IS complete, they do not have to redo their medical in the US. Whether the IO that ends up with your file knows that rule or cares to follow it, is up to them. You CAN try to explain at your interview IF you get one if they argue and provide proof in the USCIS policy manual but what they say goes in the end. Of course, if you don't get an interview and they request an I693 in the form of an RFE (NOT a courtesy letter, that's different), you'll have to comply anyways because you'll be required to respond to the RFE. The K1 'exemption' policy is in the manual and also on the I693 instructions for your review.

Stepping out one's door is a risk. But we take it. Because, well...life.

Post marked date matters however that is irrelevant to your situation. All the details you've explained are unnecessary. You FILED before day 90. Your shipping receipt proves it. Submitting K1 AOS paperwork after day 90 isn't a huge deal unless you run into ICE/LEO and don't have proof you've filed. Your shipping receipt is all you've got. What's your concern EXACTLY?

Provided you filed an address change with USCIS as legally required by filing an AR11, you should be fine. Ensure that your addresses are different in every sense (physical AND mailing) and I see no problems with using the form numbers as listed for the sponsor types described. If your addresses are connected in any way, you'll likely have problems again and be told you've used the wrong forms for your sponsors. The AR11 that you filed changing all of your addresses will ensure there are no issues on that front.

Ask Pakistan Qs in the Pakistan portal where you will find Pakistanis? Not sure the need to specify though. What's the difference? Are you a male of young age wanting to marry an extremely older USC woman? Same sex? What's the difference or even What's the QUESTION? What are you going to ask them that you cant ask anyone else with experience in the K1 FIANCE Visa process?

Unfortunately not. Yes provided you both, applied for your I765 in your new married name and requested a replacement SSN on the I765 to be sent automatically after I765 approval. Explain what, at this time, is extremely important to have a document with your new name on it and possibly we can provide a work around or even just an explanation. The K1 process is well known to have its delays which is why the spousal visa is the far better route If you want arrive and start "life". By choosing K1, you accepted the SU&W mentality as way of life for the time being unfortunately.

Only. Your FIL is a JS. Your MIL is HIS Co-Sponsor. But this is wrong if you live together. If you live together in the same house at the same address that changes absolutely everything. If you do, you have ZERO joint sponsors and have misused the term JS in your post and comments. Please clarify. (Grrrr).

Delete. Answered quoted post again when separate threads were combined.

Correct. Correct. That assumes you are using the term JS correctly and your FIL and MIL do NOT live with you and your spouse. If they do live with you, that changes everything. Correct. If see above. Coolio. Read your FIL and MIL what I explained concerning proving separate income by using income statements. Considering that you don't have taxes where you may come from, they may understand what I explained better and you may be making this more complicated than it need be.

No. The AOS I864 documents for your financial sponsors that you filed prior is "wrong"/filled out incorrectly/will not be accepted. That's why you got an RFE in the first place. They are an I864 PACKAGE because you have more than one sponsor. Start your I864 package over from scratch. All new I864's and *I864a (*if you have to use an I864a because you cannot prove separate income for the JS and their spouse. If you CAN prove separate income never use the JS's spouse as a co-sponsor because the less sponsors the better due to less complications/ paperwork/ chance of confusion is always better. PS it's very easy to prove separate income for employed ppl with their income statements regardless if they filed joint taxes. The I864 instructions explain that. Ensure you've read them. #1 A married JS should always use income only never assets*) AND all new supporting financial documents with CURRENT info. The current tax year IS 2023 as of April 15th and you are responding to the RFE after April 15th. 2022 is not the current tax year. So while you used 2022 taxes before because it was the current tax year, your adjudicator may or may not choose to allow it now. It's up to you but I'd always follow the route with the less chance of getting it wrong considering we know what is current right now. You aren't going to confuse them if you produce a CORRECT and COMPLETE Financial Support package for all of your sponsors especially when you outline your new submission with the changes on your COVERLETTER. Spell out exactly what is different and that you are starting over with a whole new package to avoid confusion. Start over.

Will make no difference. G1145 offers a TEXT and/or EMAIL upon receipt. It has no connection to the status update website which is what you are asking about. AND G1145 is for applications not RFEs. Your shipment tracking is all you get that is a guarantee.

Joining your Monthly K1 AOS Filing thread is always recommended. You'll find your peers there and can ask the basics.

No Yes. And any other countries the applicant is a citizen of. "K1 Visa Holder" if filing within 90 days of arrival. "K1 Visa Holder (Out of Status)" if you fail to file within 90 days of arrival.

Status updates never have to occur. They too, are a gift and are not guaranteed. My I485 still says case received and I've had my GC for going on 5 years. You should submit a COMPLETE answer to the RFE by mail as if you've never responded yet. Ensure you know what your RFE is asking. Lots of posts on RFEs for I864 if you use the search bar.