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6 hours ago, brentjbeaver said:

So my wife’s long journey comes to an end foday

 

She passed her citizenship and I-751 was approved. We asked for same day oath and they have one today! Going back at 1130 to take the oath

Congrats!

DH's interview is next week. I can't go with him, so I don't think he'll do the oath the same day. Hopefully in August.

On 7/5/2022 at 12:35 PM, Richybrainy said:

Good Morning, 

I’m scheduled for N400 interview August 15th. I didn’t get a notification via text or email. I found out when I refresh my USCIS case tracker app this morning. 

Please I would really appreciate if you guys can tell me how to prepare, what version of USCIS Civic test should I use and what platform I can use to learn the US History, Constitution ETC. 

Thank you.

Here's the official question list:

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions-and-answers/100q.pdf 

Noticed that they updated our case tonight - it now says our case is being actively reviewed by USCIS and the updated wait time is 13 months!

Finally submitted the application today. Got automatic notice of biometrics being reused. Projected 19 month wait Cheers! 

23 hours ago, FLM said:

Hi there! I would like some advice on applying online

 

Background:

1. Enter base on marriage. GC 2 years issued: April 18 2019
2. File i751 Feb 2021 (status pending) 

 

Questions:-

A. From what I gather in the forum, most apply online? Just to make sure I don’t mess the submission timeline, I want to ask, Can I create the online account now and prepare a “draft - upload docs” then click submit on the 18th OR is it only possible to create the account on/after the 18th?

B. Any advice on what documents require for online submission. 

C. Is there anywhere in the form we need to declare that i751 is pending. Just want to make sure it’s properly reported if required. 

D. Any other advice is appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance! 

Fong

 

 

Hi Fong! 

I've been working on my husband's this week and it's basically the same as the i751 questions and same required documents. Marriage/birth certificates, copy of green card, evidence of actual marriage, etc. You may need to add the newest tax return transcript. I didn't see anything about acknowledging pending cases. It seems to me that if they have your A number and can access your application, then it stands to reason they would be able to see your other pending case. From what I understand, lots of people file concurrently and it's not an issue. 

The website also lets you complete a page at a time and saves each page as you go forward. That's really been a great feature for me because I don't have much time right now to do a ton of paper work all at once! We'll probably submit next week or the week after depending. 

Filing online is such a boon! I am so glad that this is the last "paperwork" I'll ever have to do for USCIS! 

Hi all! We'll be filling this month, I think. I'm not sure the earliest date we can file? We applied for removal of conditions Jan 4 and got approved in April. Can we apply now or do we have to wait for April? 

5 minutes ago, MoreMoolahMoreMoi said:

Congratulations!!! May I know which service center you’re with? Thx

Texas Service Center 

Hi all - just wanted to let you know that we received the ten year green card in the mail. Biometrics and interview were waived. We had no idea until I saw the notice in the informed delivery. This is the fastest USCIS has ever been for us! 

6 hours ago, classicme11 said:

Anyone has a receipt number that starts with letters other than MSC? If so with what letters?

We got Texas Service Center! Is there a significance to where they send you or is it just random? 

Got my text message today that our package was received! Wooohooo! Only took a month 😅

15 hours ago, shmalex said:

Hi eveyone, I am new to this forum. I will file my papers this month. I have collected all documents, and i have huge pack - 450 pages.

180 pages of bank statements! I was following the instruction Evidence of the Relationship - "Submit copies of as many documents as you can to establish this fact,...".

 

Not sure how to mail this pack? Do you guys send every month statements?

Bine ati venit, Alex! Visa Journey has been a huge help to me over the past few years. We only sent the past six months of bank statements. If they want more, they can just send me an RFE 😅 

Seriously though, I just did June 2020-December 2020. I don't have much "evidence" of the relationship from that time period just because of stupid CV19. I tried to make sure that I had at least some evidence for each part of our relationship timeline. We have a lot for the mid-end of 2019 and then for 2020, not so much because quarantine. 

Sent mine off today. Super relieved! 

Here was our list of evidence (I changed the wording a bit to protect some details):

A.  Family

ADDRESS REDACTED, ******, GA ***** (April 2018 – Present)

1)    Driver’s License for me (showing our same address)

2)    Driver’s License for husband (showing our same address)

3)    Birth Certificate for our son (with our current address showing)

4)   Social Security card for our son 

B.   Financial

1.    IRS joint tax transcripts for 2018 and 2019

2.    Joint account bank statements from Bank Savings Account (6 months)

3.    Car Title in both of our names

4.   Beneficiary Summary for my Roth IRA showing 

my husband as the beneficiary

C.    Insurance

1.    Policy name - Joint Health Insurance 

a)    Insurance cards showing all family members on the same policy

D.   Pictures

1.    December 2019 -  Trip to visit family 

2.    June 2020 - Birthday Party

3.    September 2020 - Family Vacation 

4.    November 2020 - Thanksgiving Holidays 

E.   Misc.

1. Plane Ticket Reservations for family trip in December 2019

Hello all!

I can't believe it's almost time to send off these packets. I am going to send ours tomorrow 1/4/21 which is the earliest date they'll accept.

We don't have as much evidence as other people just because we live with my parents, so no lease or utilities...but we do have a kid and we file taxes together, so hopefully that will be enough? 

34 minutes ago, Tomalley said:

I hope it is safe. Because I want to travel. 

 

Well, I know a couple in my office is having a interview next month but her PD is 4 months earlier than me. So I still have to wait.. wait ...

 

did you file your 2018 tax returns? What materials did you bring ?

Yes, we filed taxes this year married & jointly. I brought the federal tax return to the interview, but I gave it to her as proof of our residence and not part of the financial support. I brought our copy of the AoS packet with all forms updated to reflect current financials and they didn't ask for any of it! I think I had about 8-10 photos of us and my family - from the wedding and holidays. I wrote all the info/dates on the back and she looked through them.  

9 minutes ago, Tomalley said:

Did you ever use AP ? 

 

Congratulations! I have waited 11 months now, still nothing....

 

No, we didn't, although we planned to use it (our December trip was cancelled). But that was the whole reason we applied for it, was to use it. If you search the forums here, there are lots of people who use it successfully. Some people bring a lot of evidence of their ongoing petition and marriage certificates, etc. 

I am sorry that you are still waiting. I really did not expect getting noticed for our interview. I expected the ATL office to take much longer, so maybe yours will be right around the corner? 

Hi all - we had our interview yesterday (11 months after filing for AoS) and we were approved. I think we were in there for less than ten minutes. Our interviewer wanted to know if we had met each others' parents, and she asked my husband to clarify his military service and weapons training, and if we had any evidence of ongoing relationship and that was it! She was very nice and professional. Right after we left, we got the notification that our card was being produced.

Now I've got RoC on my mind... 

On 3/28/2019 at 9:10 PM, Tomalley said:

Is it safe to travel with AP ? I still don’t feel good about go out of the U.S with my AP..

Yes, it is - that's the whole reason you have it! You might have to go through some secondary processing at the border, and I would bring some evidence that you have an ongoing AoS, but it should be fine.

For anyone who wanted an update:

In November, after our date had passed on the website, we filed an inquiry. According to the website, it was never assigned to anyone. Once the date for the inquiry response passed in December, we filed an expedited inquiry through the Tier 2 customer support. It was answered on December 8th. On Friday, December 14th, our case status online changed to approved for both the EAD and AP cases. Friday night, it changed to "Your card has been mailed" with a tracking number that says my husband's documents will arrive by Monday. I am very glad our case was finally resolved after so long waiting. 

I will say that there was one thing that was weird - at one point they texted that "My Card Had Been Mailed to Me" but the date was in October. I am sure they just put the date in wrong, or someone pushed the wrong button, but what if we were actually approved in October and they just never finished the final steps to send our card? I feel like USCIS needs to be more transparent about who is working on our case and what they're actually doing with it. Transparency would make them more accountable. At any rate, information should be more available. I already mentioned in previous posts the lies they tried to tell us at Tier 1 support about our case. They also tried to lie to DH as well for Tier 2 when he called, but thankfully he called them out on it and got them to commit to the expedited inquiry.

Now we wait for the green card interview  Best of luck to all.

I am so disappointed. We filed in May for AOS and when the processing times went past our received date we filed an inquiry into why our case is taking so long. I check the USCIS website every day to see if anything new was going on and every day it says "Your inquiry has not been assigned to anyone". Today is the last day they have to respond to our inquiry and STILL, no one has been assigned to our inquiry. WTH is going on with these people? 

On 11/7/2018 at 9:14 PM, Kat&Joel said:

They are full of it. This process is taking a huge toll on myself and especially my husband. I don't know what to do anymore.  I don't know what they expect people to do when they have to wait 6 months to be treated like a human being.

Oh, she was straight up lying to me. I was able to file an inquiry yesterday online (for some reason it worked this time??) and I didn't have to wait "the full six months" like she said. 

Well, just for informational purposes for anyone who needs it...

I got escalated to Tier 2 because I couldn't file a case inquiry even though we're outside of the normal processing times.

The Tier 2 rep tells me that even though it says "receipt date required for inquiry is May 21st" because it ALSO says 4.5-6 months, we can't make an inquiry until SIX COMPLETE months. smh.

Anyway, she said that we have to wait until 6 months after our NOA1 date to make an inquiry. So I will be calling back next week. 

Anyone else think they are full of it??

5 hours ago, MaSi said:

Day 167 and still no EAD or AP... AOS shows case is ready to be scheduled for an interview since 113 days.

Patience is the magic word.

I'm currently on hold for USCIS. We are now officially outside the normal processing times and it won't let me file an inquiry online! 

I really don't understand. Did they skip us? Did they forget us? How are people in July getting their EAD approval and we haven't gotten anything?

So, I am so confused about the EAD - I thought they went in order? I'm seeing some of you approved for your EAD but you have a later NOA1 than me  Did I get forgotten?