JosephRose

Hi.. how’s your interview? My oath taking ceremony will be on February 16, 2023 at Saint Paul River Center. 

No support affidavit required for ROC
That should have been filed with AOS
Your post is confusing.  What exactly are you filing here.

No.  For AOS, not ROC

No.

Hello there.. I am a filipina living now in the us.. I had same experienced with you.. I was also sputum on Feb 7 to 9 this year but thankfully results revealed negative on April 16 2018(despite not knowing the result yet, I rescheduled my medical and interview appointment in advance. April 12 was supposed to be the day I will come back to St. Luke’s for the culture results and vaccine but I didn’t go. But of course I emailed St. Luke’s informing them I couldn’t go on that day and they replied to me that I can go there any day I can if I can.).. Anyway, I was very confident I’m negative and after hearing from St. Luke’s my confidence go higher and with it my fiancé rescheduled my interview right away and got the April 17 (6:40 am) spot.. So I walked in to St. Luke’s April 16 in the morning to get vaccine.. It was successful, during the release of my vaccine.., they didn’t give me the brown sealed envelope which is normal for all sputumed applicants, they send it directly to usembassy, they just gave me only a printed copy of my vaccine...SLEC releasing officer told me I made the right and wise move to reschedule interview ahead of time despite not knowing my culture results yet because my medical is only valid until July 06 2018 which means I must be out of the country before that day. Or else I will have to redo sputum test in the US again. Cause all applicants who got sputum will have shortened validity of their medical. I flew here in the US, on May 16, 2018.., applied for SSN, got married at court on June 5, waited for ssn to arrive in the mail before sending our (AOS,EAD,AP) packet and it arrived around 3rd week of June, originally submitted (AOS,EAD,AP) packet on June 25 but got rejected because our I-485 was old version (our packet was returned to us but it was arranged in their way)... followed their instructions, corrected the mistake without touching other stuff.. after correcting, resubmitted it right away..., a week later around 2nd week of July, finally received 3 noas for AOS, EAD, AP.. few days later, received another noa that contains my biometric schedule.. I did my biometrics on July 30... I was really worried that due to our case got rejected, they might rfe us for new medical or ask me to do sputum again but so far, they didn’t.. Checked our status online and saw that as of August 06, our case ready to be scheduled for an interview.. as of now we’re still waiting for the schedule and instruction that they saying they’re sending in the mail..
 
Regarding your case, I think they’re asking you to do sputum again because your medical is no longer valid.. you say you did your sputum on Feb which is the same month I did mine.. So most likely , we have the same validity as well.. If I had applied for AOS after July 06, I would’ve do sputum again... anyway..., just sharing my story to help you get some perspective.. Who knows in the future they still might ask me to do sputum again before I could do my interview..
 
Cheer up friend.. everything’s gonna be alright..

By the way, here our the evidence of our relationship we brought on interview..
 
*Joint Filed Income Tax Return
*My Fidelity 401K account that shows I’m married to my husband and listed him and our son as beneficiaries 
*Monthly lease for the apartment we live in that has both our names and signatures 
*Amazon Prime Household Account that has both our names.
*Copy of our Report of Marriage 
*Photocopy of my new Passport Bio Page that is already under my married name
*Photo Album (I would suggest you print big photos, mine was all minis that’s why IO did not add them to the file but just took a very close look of them.)
 
I was worried because we did not have joint bank account, and health insurance but it all turned well. Now anxiously waiting for my GC to arrive in the mail, I keep checking the mail. How long do you think it will arrive from the day of approval?

By the way, here our the evidence of our relationship we brought on interview..
 
*Joint Filed Income Tax Return
*My Fidelity 401K account that shows I’m married to my husband and listed him and our son as beneficiaries 
*Monthly lease for the apartment we live in that has both our names and signatures 
*Amazon Prime Household Account that has both our names.
*Copy of our Report of Marriage 
*Photocopy of my new Passport Bio Page that is already under my married name
*Photo Album (I would suggest you print big photos, mine was all minis that’s why IO did not add them to the file but just took a very close look of them.)
 
I was worried because we did not have joint bank account, and health insurance but it all turned well. Now anxiously waiting for my GC to arrive in the mail, I keep checking the mail. How long do you think it will arrive from the day of approval?

Hello everyone, so I finally got my interview scheduled and it’s on July 11, 2019. My priority date was July 12, 2018.. I have a question about medical.., I had my medical in St. Luke’s on January 29, 2018.. I filed for AOS with my vaccine records from st. Luke’s attached in it.. I was wondering if I need to do another medical to bring on interview? Any replies will be much appreciated. Thank you..
 
State: Minnesota 
Notice date: July 12, 2018
biometric: July 30, 2018
interview date: July 11, 2019

Very excited for you. Look forward to hearing how it all goes - best of luck!
 
And congrats to you as well! Interviews on the same date - that's pretty cool. Good luck to all of you!

Wow.. congratulations to you..

She has to send her passport too along with the asked docs so when they approved her they can process her visa right away.

LCR stands for Local Civil Registry.. Your fiancée needs to go to her towns Municipal Hall to obtain LCR Birth Cert.. It’s the Philippines Original Birth Certificate Form way back before there was no such thing as NSO/PSA Birth Certificate.. Don’t lose faith! Goodluck.

LCR stands for Local Civil Registry.. Your fiancée needs to go to her towns Municipal Hall to obtain LCR Birth Cert.. It’s the Philippines Original Birth Certificate Form way back before there was no such thing as NSO/PSA Birth Certificate.. Don’t lose faith! Goodluck.

She has to send her passport too along with the asked docs so when they approved her they can process her visa right away.

Hehe.. yeah.. I should change it.. thanks for reminding me.. I was very confused of what my field office is before.. I put Kansas because that’s the address I saw in my NOAs.. I mean Lee Summit is in Kansas.. Best of luck to all of us.. 😄

Hello Everyone! Thanks God I found this thread. Filling from Minnesota, PD is July 12, 2018, EAD/AP received on Nov 15, 2018, I-485 has been ready to be scheduled for an interview since August 06, 2018.. at the moment, still waiting for interview schedule.

I was sputumed too and I canceled my interview by calling us embassy. My 2nd and final interview was the next day of the day I went back to St. Luke’s to get my Culture results and get vaccines. I was vaccined on April 16, 2018 and interviewed on April 17, 2018.. Here’s few tips for your fiancée.., she must come to st.luke’s early as possible like around 2:30 am.. during my time, I was number 100, 1, 2,.. after her sputum, and if her smear is negative, she have to wait few weeks(I think it was 8 weeks) for the culture results, she don’t need to call St. Luke’s to find out about the results, must pray st. Luke’s will not contact her cause it will means something has formed in her saliva.., if they don’t contact her, then no virus was born. Also on the 3rd day of the sputum, they will tell her to comeback on a specific day.. If she’s not from Manila like me, have to take flight, she can show her a copy of her etinerary ticket so they will move her evaluation on the same day instead of another day.. My sputum days were Feb 7-9 and they told me to comeback on Feb 14 for evaluation but after show them my flight ticket, they moved my schedule on same day.. I was supposed to return to St. Luke’s on April 12, 2018 for the scheduled date of the release of my culture but I emailed them asking if it’s okay to comeback another time if I can’t make it on the scheduled day and they said yes.. My petitioner who is my hubby now rescheduled my interview and we were lucky enough to get the April 17, 2018 slot at 6:40 am (Tuesday).. I showed up in St. Luke’s and got vaccine.. during the release of vaccine record, they did not give me the brown envelope. They said, they will send medical directly to us embassy for all sputum applicants. They just gave me a page copy that has my vaccine records. They also told me that I did the right decision rescheduling my interview ahead of time because it’s very hard to get interview date and medical for sputum is only valid for 6 months and I need to be out of the country by July 16.. by the way, if your fiancée has old X-ray films and med certificate from other doctor, she should bring it with her.. they acknowledge them but still they will do their own test.. Sorry this is very long but I hope this will give you guys some perspectives.. and I almost forgot, she can go take CFO seminar instead of going to the interview..

I got my Combo Card in 4 months this Nov

I got my Combo Card in 4 months this Nov

It was in the EAD form that I applied for new SSN.. It asked if I have SSN and I put in my SSN.. There’s a question if I want to give them authority to issue me new SSN and I clicked yes..

Don’t worry.. your wife will be fine.. yes in the AOS (from K1) we applied for our married name.. but there is also a part in the form they asked for other name used and that will be our maiden name.. so technically, we are kind of applying with both our new and old name in the line.. it’s connected..

I did the same thing.. I had a ssn in my single name and after married, I came back there to change my ssn name.. but they won’t let me.. same reason with yours.. luckily that was before we sent our AOS Application.. So I filed for new SSN through AOS or should I say, I checked YES in my EAD Application Form. I received my new SSN the same day I received my EAD and AP NOA2..

Hello.. I have the same worries too.. thankfully they are having consular outreach here in Minnesota this coming Nov 17-18.. I am doing my ROM and renew(change to my married name) my ph passport at the same time.. I looked online  for outreach schedules for your City and seems like they did it last August.. The closest City to you that is going to have consular outreach is in Miami Florida which will be on Nov 16-17... If you might be interested, you can check this link of the said outreach.. http://www.philippineembassy-usa.org/news/6473/589/ANNOUNCEMENT-Consular-Outreach-Mission-to-be-held-in-Miami-FL-on-16-17-November-2018/d,phildet/
 
 

Hello.. I have the same worries too.. thankfully they are having consular outreach here in Minnesota this coming Nov 17-18.. I am doing my ROM and renew(change to my married name) my ph passport at the same time.. I looked online  for outreach schedules for your City and seems like they did it last August.. The closest City to you that is going to have consular outreach is in Miami Florida which will be on Nov 16-17... If you might be interested, you can check this link of the said outreach.. http://www.philippineembassy-usa.org/news/6473/589/ANNOUNCEMENT-Consular-Outreach-Mission-to-be-held-in-Miami-FL-on-16-17-November-2018/d,phildet/
 
 

You should get new one to avoid possible problem to occur..