GioRod

Interview completed! Adjusting from K-1 visa, we had our AOS interview yesterday morning at 8:15 AM at the local USCIS office here in Des Moines.  
Then yesterday at 4:15 PM, I got text/email notifications that my case has been updated, and when I checked My Case Status, it has changed to "My New Card Is Being Produced"...!
 
does that mean I'm approved and the next step will be receiving a GC in the mail? will there be any more case status updates?

Received this i-797 approval today. And just got a notification saying that my green card has been mailed today. Super relieved. 

Good luck

Well, I finally had my interview today at Columbus field office. The officer walked out and looked at us, he came to say hi to us then said he only needed me into the interview and told my husband to wait outside. Below are the questions of my interview: 
 
- What is my birthday ? Address that I am staying now ?
- Yes no questions in the form I-485
- How did we meet ? 
(We did not have much evidences when we filed AOS, only my name on his health insurance and my name on his investment report. We also had very few pictures with his family in US because they live very far to the state)
 
- Then he said everything looked good but he couldn't give us an approval now. I myself offered him my husband newest tax but the officer said he didn't need it, everything fine.
- I asked the officer if he needed to interview my husband or not so I could go out and let him in but he said no.
- I also asked him about my status online, my case was actually family-based but the status online said Employment-based. He checked for me and he said no problem, I did everything good. Then he walked me out and wished me a great day, I wished the same to him. 
 
My status is now still showing Employment based interview...not change yet. I hope I could get approval soon. 
 
 
 

Just received our notice for the interview!! It's on May 29th in NYC

Yayyy! I just got an email that my case has been approved and my status has been updated to Card/Document production.

Hey y'all. I finally spoke to T2 abt the user defined error and was told that on march 19th my case was updated to "Ready to be scheduled for interview"  I was a bit disappointed but At least I'm not in the dark anymore. Now I can stop stalking the mail man and stop Looking out for informed delivery updates in the mornings since she made sure  reiterated nothing was mailed out to me yet! So now I'll focus my attention on other things like losing all this weight I gained from sitting at home doing nothing. Have a blessed day y'all

Then let's cross our fingers and toes so that the letter arrives any day this week  And interview by the end of May or early June

Thank u soo much i hope soo as well cuz home is killing me . I wish  the best for u too in ur interview its almost done for you now so hold on there girl .😊

I chose legal alien allowed to work and i got it after 2wks.. it will state  that you need to present  your immigration status  with it before you can work tho.

Hello house,
 
Got my interview notice today scheduled for the 15th of May.
 
Pd Jan 3rd 2018 
 
Ead & SSN Apr 5th 2018.
 
Hopeful to God this final stage goes well..
 
 
 
 
 
 

got that same letter to other night nice

I liked. Great suggestion and I actually do that on a regular bases (FaceTime).

My friend, dont get me wrong, but before coming to US, I assume that your desire was to stay with your spouse right? So, now you have her to support you and help you going through this difficult moment that everyone goes through. There is no shortcuts no other paths.
 
Unless you have your advance perole before receiving the GC, you cant leave US. Get used to it, enjoy your new life.

Agreed.

We received the same letter the other day. It was the "thank you for signing up for informed delivery" one.

USCIS would NEVER write "or current resident" on a letter. Only advertisement and USPS do that.

 

It's not luck at all. Anyway, just read back so the same questions don't get asked multiple times. You have been having this issue and a few people have told you to call but you didn't do that til recently. 
 
If you read her posts, it's always the same question, just hoping for a different answer I guess. We told her to call a week or two ago but she didn't til recently.
 
It is annoying (the not knowing part), of course it is. I am the first one to report this issue here on the January 2018 AOS thread so I know how much it sucks to not be able to know your case status. But the point is, answers have been given many times. The only way to know what's up is to call. If at first you don't get a callback, call again. Sometimes, to get what you want, you gotta demand it.
 
Btw, they still give you a timeframe. I called yesterday. Anyway, good luck to ya'll.

I feel ya. I don't know how many times I've explained this user-defined error but I come back here and still see the same question get asked over and over again. I always do some backreading before I ask something because most of the time, my questions have been asked by someone else before.

I'm pretty sure this has been said here a million times, but again, this error will NOT be fixed as it is a glitch on their site that happens when a case (usually AOS) gets updated (usually when interview letter is sent). They could not fix it so they made a new site, which is the dhs one. People who got the validation error from the old page won't see an updated status on the dhs site, unfortunately. Mine only changed after the interview (approval).
 
So yeah, no matter how many times you check, it will still show the error unless you use the new website to track your case. 
 

Good morning everyone
 
                                                   Update Just got off the phone a little while ago with a tier 2 officer . I called in regarding the User-Defined error she did confirm to me that its an ongoing issue they are work on and that the lasts update on the case was that they were requesting my wife for interview. So happy for the news this morning also she put me on a brief hold while she double checked and told me yup they are requesting for an interview. No date yet confirmed hope to see mail this week.

@Mr_Wait So glad to hear your approval came through!!! Hope you are celebrating! This is another victory.
 
@T_P Thanks for sharing your interview experience. So much detail! As much as I hate that I'm still waiting for my combo card, it's been helpful to read people's interview experiences in the meantime. It helps everyone to feel more prepared when their time comes.

I know it is a bit late and I apologize but had been busy with work and some other personal things......here is the review for my interview in Milwaukee Office and it is also in my timeline. If you guys have any questions, please let me know.
 
 
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AOS Interview - Feb 21

Suggestions
• Dress nice
• Get there at least 30 minutes early and research parking and have change if necessary beforehand (I forgot to have coins available for the street parking meters and had to literally run about 2 blocks away to get coins from a business)
• Cell phones allowed
• We had two open tote bags of evidence which had no issues in security 
• If possible try to not wear/bring metal 
• Ok to be nervous
• Ok to ask for clarification if needed

Our experience
We stood to give the vow.
Questions asked:
To the sponsor: Name? Where do you live? Where were you born and when?

To the spouse: Spouse: Full name? Where do you live? Where were you born and when? Parents names? Asked about last entry into the US, and then where did we go and for how long. Asked if he had ever been denied a visa in Brazil, and why. Asked when were we married. Then asked spouse all the questions about doing drugs, having been in jail. etc.

To both of us: Have you been married before? Do you have any kids? Then asked if we had any bills or anything for evidence. We gave him documents for our joint health insurance, joint home and car insurance, cell phone bills, and job offer letter for spouse. Also gave them our wedding album and another album of our recent trips, and some photos of us with friends and family. He looked at and made some friendly comments/questions on both albums (Was the weather nice on your wedding day? Did you like this place that you went on vacation? Etc.). He also looked through the pictures but didn’t take any. 

After confirming that he could take the documents we gave him, he said something like, “Everything looks good for you guys, you should get the green card in about a month, and you know that is only good for two years”. As we left I asked point blank, “We were approved then?” just to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, and he said yes.

We brought a lot of evidence, and didn’t need most of it. I think he could tell we were prepared because after I gave him a bunch of documents and asked if he wanted more he said, “No this is good”.

Also, we had two people in our room, it seemed like the second lady was a trainee probably. They both looked at all our information.
 
Appointment was for 8:45am, we were called in at 9:00am. The interview was pretty fast, probably got out around 9:10am.

Documents we brought:
• Our copy of K1 application
• Our copy AOS application
• Our copy EAD and AP application
• Original of both birth certificates and marriage license 

Documents for supporting evidence: 
• Copies of joint medical and dental insurance (interviewer took)
• Joint Home and car insurance (interviewer took)
• Cell phone bill with both our names (interviewer took)
• Current I-94 (interviewer took)
• Spouse job offer letter (interviewer took)
• Photo album of wedding and album showing from when we met to before we got married (interviewer reviewed)
• Recent pictures of us together (interviewer reviewed)
• Copies of plane tickets, 
• Passports for both of us 
• Cards we sent to each other
• Cards received at our wedding
 
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You dont need, not mandatory. Read my review (link below) had the interview with no joint account but instead took with me other proof. It worked great.

Congrats I have the same question about bank account and also thing for me I live in a rented apt/room but I'm unable to have utility's under my name or  my wife's name. Only thing I have is that my wife is on my health insurance and that she in my beneficiary  . Hope someone can answer for us  

Good Morning! 
 
 
I was reading Visa Journey yesterday and was so jealous reading some good news for those oustfilers who received their interview schedule from USCIS. 
 
Out of curiosity, I checked the USCIS website and was sad to see that there were no updates on my case since January 24. Went outside and checked our mailbox and saw a letter from USCIS. I was so skeptical to open it coz it might be an RFE. Luckily, it was my interview appointment scheduled next month 
 
Questions:
 
Do i really need to open a bank account (joint account)?
Add my name on the utility account (water & electricity)?
 
I just don't get the point of doing all of this where infact i don't have a job and income yet. 

Good advice was goin to say the same thing.